Not always but sometimes if you tell me story about your kid, I pretend you’re talking about a shirt so I can relate/sympathize.

“You’ve gotta let them be who they are,” I say, looking toward the horizon.

Mac OS 8 (1997)

Help, I'm trapped in the Microsoft Execution Container and the walls are closing in

It was another fairly steady month in podcasts!

BREAKING: Daisy Domergue has backed out of Freedom 250.

when I have to use a grocery store bathroom I always worry someone is meddling with my grocery cart. I know I haven’t technically bought it yet, but socially the food belongs to me

“In a 2020 interview with SiriusXM, Noel finally said what everyone already knew: The song is nonsense. Noel said that he'd sometimes ‘drift off’ while playing ‘Champagne Supernova’ live, wondering if it ever actually meant anything.” @tombreihan.bsky.social:

“I think they were surprised by how effective it was. They probably asked themselves why they didn’t do that before. So I think that we actually pushed them into this understanding that they had to play all their cards, which they did.”

living in a 24/7 d/s (damsel/snidely) relationship with a girl who keeps a pair of airpods in so she can listen to oncoming train asmr to stay in "trackspace"

“The sound of malevolent, mechanized almost-humanity never goes out of style, and Silent Shout still sounds like a future that we haven't been smart enough to avoid.” @tombreihan.bsky.social:

Ok this is a truly great tweet

Conducted some science this weekend; they’re very similar, and both are pleasing to my super refined palate (lol), but after much deliberation I’m giving first prize to the OG Blapple

Angela's travel to-do list from The Net (1995)

Razorbills have the slickest design in the animal kingdom. They look like they were made by Yves Saint Laurent

“It’s a great field to cover, because there are a lot of vindictive personalities, and they’re all constantly fighting with each other. Naturally many of the people involved in that story went to prison for various things.” @lukewinkie.bsky.social:

“Each is tested individually because each is engineered to order. A transformer ordered today, built over 2 years across 9 countries, and tested in a hall that another utility is also waiting to use, still has to cross a country whose infrastructure is older than the transformer it is replacing.”

Raspberries deserve the career strawberries have

every now and then i pop into threads. the meta algorithm is truly… one-of-a-kind

“While many construction tasks have resisted automation and mechanization, tunneling machinery has steadily gotten more automated, to the point where a modern TBM is akin to a mobile factory that burrows through the earth and constructs a tunnel behind it.”

DAMB - dashare.zone ADMIN

“In the worst worst-case scenario, the station could break apart across thousands of miles and multiple continents. As NASA puts it, ‘Calculating the probability of this penetration cascading into loss of deorbit capability has a very large range of variables, making predictions ineffective.’”

“The advantage of this alternative route is that oil and gas pipelines come with their own security perimeters, access roads, and maintenance corridors already built around them, allowing a telecom company to lay fiber without digging new trenches through difficult terrain.”

not unrecognizable but he does look like if Belgium had a dictator

at what point does an interchange qualify as a textile from a woven art perspective

me sleeping seven hours vs. me sleeping six hours and 42 minutes

"A week before Dallas, the Senate had cut $600 million from Kennedy’s NASA budget; a week later, it named the Florida launch complex after him and put the money back on the table. From then on, as one engineer said, ‘Apollo had only three sacred specifications — Man. Moon. Decade.’”

If you cry enough when placing your drive-thru order the server will sometimes hand feed you through your car window while making soothing noises and gently brushing your mane.

Allegedly, the X-Men cartoon theme was ripped off from Linda, a Hungarian show that ran from 1984 to 1991. The composer filed a lawsuit that was settled out of court. To me, the similarities sound a little too close to be a coincidence. Either way, this Linda intro absolutely rules.

My father’s cult leader* girlfriend, to whom I have hardly ever spoken, said to me, “Your father doesn’t know where his keys are. I did a quick psychic search through his brain & couldn’t find a memory.” & now I guess I live in a void with no gravity, lodestar, way home.

These beams are not actually low enough to collide with your head but it looks that way at first and I get a little jolt of panic every morning

Divorce, by occupations: flowingdata.com/2026/05/07/d... Actuaries, professional estimators of risk and very on brand, are the outlier with the lowest rate.

Finger hovering over the "Add to Cart" button for a $50 4K Blu-Ray release of a late-1980s Italian horror film with this Letterboxd curve... trying to stop... can't stop... somebody help me...

“Just like in 1984, Fn was used to make keys pretend they’re Home, End, PgUp, PgDn, plus a few more rare keys like Break or PrtSc. But nature abhors a vacuum, freeways generate traffic, and keys end up being given more work.” @aresluna.org:

MAMMAL BULLYING A REPTILE: Nice body temperature dude. Did the sun pick it out for you

“The S-curve is a reasonable approximation of technology development, but the improvement phase might last for a very long time. The modern blast furnace works in the same basic way that a medieval one did, but it’s been improving, in fits and starts, for centuries.”

"Too much shooting, and the people might rise up in crowds too numerous to shoot. Or the military or secret police might turn against you. Or you might alienate your allies, provoke international sanctions, crash your economy, or risk losing the FIFA Peace Prize."

It has been an extremely steady month in podcasts! Am I even awake?

ive watched this part like a dozen times now

regrettably, the sentence "She was as desirable as cream gravy" has appeared pushing on, in the spirit of the pioneers

“This isn’t a gradual shift. It’s a phase transition, like moving from hand-mined diamonds to industrial synthesis. I call this the post-Prohibition effect. When a scarce resource suddenly becomes abundant, the black market that grew around its scarcity doesn’t simply adjust. It convulses.”

The Oscars fixed the Best International Film category! Or at least, created a workaround that should leave most people happy.

Art by Darrell K. Sweet (1934 – 2011) who produced an incredible 3000+ images between 1975 and 2005 1/2

I was going to get mad that I never had the cute nickname Tab but then I remembered that a select group of Philadelphians called me Trotter for years & it’s the best nickname. You can call me it if you want. I’ll answer.

😈 some from Seville

North America has three bluebird species: Eastern (blue head, red neck and breast), Western (blue head and neck, red breast), and Mountain (all blue). Here, a Western bluebird (Sialia mexicana) brightens the palette of a half-parched pine in Oregon.