ES-CA FLOW-NE *gong* ES-CA FLOW-NE *bang world's largest drum* ES-CA FLOW-NE *causes 16-car pileup* ES-CA FLOW-NE *The president's daughter has been kidnapped! It's up to us!*

Got reminded of this today and it deserves a repost

CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors. ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart. ISILDUR: true

I think "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" exemplifies American culture more than any other art piece. Most cultures' folklore involves cautionary tales warning people not to tempt the devil. The American version has the challenger win because he is way cooler than the devil. Yea, that sums it up.

材として使用したのがこけしなのでこれ以上外には出せなかったんですよね…ごめんねシド・ミード🙏

btw purity ring just self-released their new album, which was inspired by nier:automata and ffx. amazing album and their first self release ever purityring.bandcamp.com/album/purity...

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

Hiking in the forest, stopped and had a mushroom photo shoot for #MacroMonday. #hiking #nature #photography #fungi #fungifriends #EastCoastKin #Ireland

"if you crit this attack I will watch your show" - me praying to the SRW gods

Gen Z protesters from Indonesia and Nepal to Madagascar and Morocco, are rallying behind an unexpected banner: a grinning skull in a straw hat.

People going "America was always fascist" or "it's been like this since the 1980s" or making related claims don't seem to realize it, but they're telling everyone that nothing different is happening, nothing worse than usual, so if you weren't up in arms about eg 2013, you shouldn't be now either.

Good morning and happy Suletta Sunday

Went to eat breakfast today and saw this, apparently Larian is in Dublin?

Let it be known that we were all correct in our pronunciation of the mutual nose-touching behavior description "Boops boops boops Boops boops," as proposed by fish research biologist Kate Richerson

Eating brunch at a cafe in Ireland and the family from India next to us asks "what's a pumpkin spice latte" The temptation to shoulder the waitress aside with an "excuse me, I'm an American, I got this one"...

On a form I have to fill out, Ireland asks "How long is your current job likely to last?" I dunno man, ask them, not me. But I have to fill in something, so why not the Unix epoch rollover, in 2038? No one reading the form will get that joke, but oh well.

"He'd explain the Bible to the Pope" is such an 1800s-ass insult, and yet also something relevant in the modern era

I don't know how to fix this, but it keeps happening.

there should be dessert trucks that just prowl the neighborhoods in the evening hours, playing light jazz and offering an array of pies and tiramisus for a reasonable price

Finally deleted my "take out the trash" reminder that's been firing every Tuesday at 7pm since 2004 or so. It's had a storied history - it got migrated from Calendar to Keep (I think?), back to Calendar, and finally to Tasks. In Europe I'm not finding it useful, but it's a bit sad to see it go.

REALLY feeling this one today.

every day I wake up and ask important questions like "how many floppies would it take for a watchable copy of a Star Trek episode?"

just guess

FOUND IT

[wipes tear] The Jewish tradition is beautiful and covers more than you can imagine.

a booze cruise? grow up. book me a snooze cruise, I am tired

The reason no one has ever made the "what's the deal with airplane food" joke about train bentos is that train bentos fucking rule

christ on tiny little crackers, climateworld, we've got to ask people to do good things that they can do, and which help them, rather than asking them to volunteer for an emotionally devastating existential-threat experience without exits into action

Wife brought her 100 year old film camera to that pirates game from a few weeks ago and she got this shot that's just perfect

"I AM BEYOND MORALITY!!" i scream as i ram my shitty ford bronco into a demigod

The "Irish unification of 2024" Star Trek episode was pulled in Britain and Ireland: m.independent.ie/irish-news/w...

Some amazing gay history. Listen up kids.

the Command & Conquer series is 30 years old today we so have an excuse to share this iconic moment with Tim Curry

So Air France plays French songs as mood music when you land in Paris, and like a lot of them are very French, but unexpected among the batch were Air's La femme d'argent and Daft Punk's Veridis Quo. Not unwelcome, by any means, just unexpected.

the political policy cure for “male loneliness” is - more time to hang with the fellas (4 day work week) - more money to spend with the fellas (higher wages) - more things to do with the fellas (taxing the rich and building 3rd spaces)

In the airport in SFO and of course the fellows next to me are in tech, and they're talking about their ride sharing business for "regular riders" who keep doing the same trips over and over. Yes. They, also, have invented the bus.

The point of funding deals is to secure money that helps people. If the administration plans to just illegally ignore any deal you make with them, what’s the point of making a deal? Don’t take it from me, take it from,,,,, Steve Womack, a senior GOP appropriator.

Love a good process thread (scroll up to the beginning)

One thing I forgot about the bay area is that everyone is just talking about tech. All. The. Time. Someone behind me on Caltrain is describing a guy he knows who is a "pre-idea Founder". "Very charismatic", he says.

“I’m an eleven, but continue.”

ah fuck

CHOTINER: So your son is 14, is that right? IKARI: It's complex, Isaac. If— CHOTINER: And the “robot” he pilots, that’s actually the child of an alien you keep crucified in the basement, which is possessed by the spirit of his dead mother? IKARI: Look, let me answer the question. CHOTINER: Sure.

[writing the constitution] Benjamin Franklin: Write down "no dumb fucks as president" Alexander Hamilton: Stop saying that Benjamin Franklin: I'm tellin' you. You're gonna regret not writing that down

Martian successor nadesico except instead of gekiganger 3, the jovians base their entire civilization off of hatsune miku