why is cricket the sport called like cricket the animal, and why is their big important tournament called a normal non-sporty word like "ashes", it makes it very hard to mute-word this bizarre dollar tree baseball variant. 😤

i am once again begging all bands to put their music on bandcamp. i understand we are a dying breed but some of us still want to purchase music instead of just streaming it. please let me give you money! looking at you, deafheaven

"you're a man" ad hominem "you were born a boy" sunk cost fallacy "you're amab" false dichotomy "you have xy chromosomes" false equivalence "trans people are mentally ill" non sequitur "changing your sex isn't possible" skill issue

The TikTok algorithm is about to be handed to right-wing billionaires.

you know what gives me hope that the moral arc of the universe really does bend towards good? i just remembered - for i think the first time in more than a year - that jack harlow exists.

I'm in favor of books and against the banning of same, but the cutesy "nevertheless she persisted" totebagification of the cause with the canva font layouts and the clipart of pensive black girls drawn by someone who has never once looked at a black face in person makes me want to find a matchbook

do you know why i appreciate stephen king as a writer? not because all of his stuff is great, or even good. i'd like to forget i ever read "song of susannah". i appreciate him because tell me how many contemporary writers with his reach would write this:

HARD BOILED DETECTIVE: another cruel sunrise over the city of the damned. another corpse. another widow. another cup of black coffee to drag my sorry ass back to life- *sputtering* ME: do you like it? it's an ethiopian washed process single origin DETECTIVE: ME: are you getting apricot notes

random german idiom of the day: "auf Krawall gebürstet sein" example usage: "Er ist auf Krawall gebürstet." direct translation: "to be brushed towards a fight" actual meaning: to be spoiling for a fight, someone who is looking to get into an argument, someone who is looking for trouble

i may or may not have had this framed photograph of gödel overlooking my work area for years 😬

time for two more gödel anecdotes: his parents called him "little mister why" because he kept asking so many questions and alfred tarski referred to himself as "the greatest living SANE logician" because it was clear he couldn't compete with gödel but also gödel was obviously off his nut.

well time for my favorite gödel anecdote: like many other german-speaking intellectuals he ended up in the US due to the nazis, which meant he had to take a citizenship test. gödel, being the logician weirdo he was, prepared *dilligently*. albert einstein was one of his sponsors in this and

i've been sitting at my desk since 6 am today if you're wondering how that decision went.

this monday felt like it was two days long for some reason, and one of my classes is supposed to take a test tomorrow that i haven't written yet. so now we do The Dance: do i force myself to put in another hour of work tonight or do i get up an hour early tomorrow.

I think we need to let go of the idea that defaulting to a state of happiness or even contentment as the norm in the current timeline is something we should expect from ourselves and other people. Staying in the peace of the present moment is very difficult. understandable to struggle with it.

now feels like a test of whether those who say they’re just antizionist and not antisemitic actually demonstrate that

absolute love letter to late 80s / early 90s hiphop www.youtube.com/watch?v=PG9b...

i am currently roasting chestnuts in the oven for the first time ever, and all i've learned so far is that prepping chestnuts for roasting does a number on your knife. gonna have to break out the sharpening stones tomorrow if i can fit it in.

not a fan of the recent update that immediately hides posts you block. typically i only want to block a single person in the conversation but for some reason it nukes the entire thread from my feed. i also want to be able to block an account AND choose "show less like this" and now i can't.

On the outside chance anybody in PDX has an extra ticket for the sold out Antibalas show at The Get Down tonight. Please let me know.

five nights at freddy's - clipse edition

I want every man in a giant pickup to know this man is radiating all of the masculine appeal they're desperately chasing

i have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. i do not think that they will sing to me.

selecting text you wrote and hitting capslock should just switch lower / upper case on any device, computer touchers get on that

had some homemade chicken stock that needed to go, so i brunoise'd a bunch of vegetables that were also on the turn (bell peppers, zucchini, red onion, radishes) plus half of a persimmon, roasted them off in a pan with EVOO and dumped in the stock. let it reduce, added dairy in the form of a garlic

The numbers in here are hilarious. Do you use AI on the job? Execs: 87% Managers: 57% Workers: 27% Planned investment by 2030: $5T "Necessary" annual revenue to justify that spend: $650B Current annual revenue: $50B

fucked up biryani today. good news: i fucked it up in such a specific way that i'm pretty sure the next version will be a whole lot better! (problem was really mostly temperature control and some imperial-metric recipe amount shenanigans. also me not preheating my oven when i was supposed to.)

"'Does the Pope wear a funny hat.' Funny how? Funny like I'm a clown? Do I amuse you?"

All chess is 4D chess that's why they have that time clock thingy.

oh, youtube has autotranslate and it's registering for a post that's already in english? hm, let's see what we get as a translation!

Are you someone who claims to be a “trans ally”? Cool! Here’s your new test to see if you actually are a trans ally for real or just for “social media clout.” Stop playing Fortnite.

> someone posts about Doctorow > i ask if it's Cory or E.L. > OP doesn't understand > pull a copy of The Book of Daniel from my pocket and explain the differences > OP laughs and says it's a good Doctorow > click on the link it's Cory

Last Christmas I gave you my heart Not really my heart Just somebody's heart This year If the cops should appear Please tell them that you don't know me

BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling. 🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states. This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺

Count your blessings. @theonion.com

some of you guys are alright. don’t go to the marketplace of ideas tomorrow

made crispy skinned mid rare duck breast with broccolini, butter poached radishes and a roasted pumpkin mash with a weird pumpkin i don't remember the name of

people who say that violence is never the answer are just really bad at asking questions.

elementary school named ", dear Watson." send tweet

If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features." There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

imo it's everyone's humanitarian duty to loudly and often stigmatize A.I. bullshit

just going to throw out a recommendation for this channel: it's basically what if a theater kid did cooking videos, and lately he's been leaning more into the whole movie side of things, to great effect.

My new favorite kind of meme is "here are detailed instructions on how to turn off AI". 🔨

tip for the emoji displayname crew: if all the white women in your meeting get to be "she" but you refer to the one black woman as "they" you are not, in fact, charmingly gender-progressive. you are a filthy racist asshole.

“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas & city center in 2021.”

it's raining here in Los Angeles and you know what that means: I'm gonna post zero-contest shit I find in old books at the antique store

i fully expect the team-newsom-liberals to jump on the MTG train as well.

i think a good example of Propaganda Works is the number of you who think that the national Democratic Party spent the years 2013 to 2020 denouncing Americans for insufficient Tumblr-speak