When Architectural Digest hops on the Barbie train we’ve officially reached peak popularity. Interesting analysis

It’s 90 degrees in Houston at 9p and it finally feels…cool? How do ya’ll live in this heat?

My brain is full of furniture logistics. Swapping out original pieces to maximize for more storage in my small city home. So far, shipping 200lb armoires equals many broken pieces & hours on the phone with customer care. Some day I’ll have the storage I need…some day

I don’t promote my professional work often but pretty proud of this one that came out today on the Writers Strike. I edited it in a single day and yes, it was unscripted https://youtu.be/afxfeLJN0_E

New research shows that Gen Alpha believes that all shirt-wearing animals are just trying to sell them something (likely true)

Halfway through today I realized it’s a long weekend A) clearly need it because works been a scramble B) oddly lovely to find out you have extra time off and nothing planned

Related: After spending weeks wondering why the songs from ‘little Spiderman’ aka Spidey Team sound so damn familiar, I finally realize they are by the lead singer from Fallout Boy?!?!?

Toddler asks our Alexa speaker to play ‘big Spiderman’. It responds with the original Spiderman theme song. Me: Impressed Him: annoyed it didn’t play Post Malone

Singing Proud Mary ‘nice and easy’ and pouring one out for a music legend & fashion icon. Her voice, her style, her swagger *chef kiss* Tina Turner, the world is significantly less soulful without you in it

I’ve been diving for over 15 years and thought maybe as I got older I just wasn’t going to the ‘good’ dive spots because I combined dive trip with relaxing vacations. No where I go seems to have the colors and diversity I remember from when I first started diving. Reef death is real and widespread.

I’m assuming this is the housewarming pineapple Hammond brought you. It looked delicious! And I’m pretty sure I’d have done the exact same

Peridot gives me tamagotchi vibes making it completely uninteresting to me. Pokemon Go got people out into the world exploring and looking for rare items. Familiarity of Pokémon definitely fueled some popularity but the game was mobile-first in a way we hadn’t seen and deserves credit for innovation

This reminds me of where I first encountered ‘Taco’ in his meme-worthy internet single ‘every day normal guy’ via 2007 https://youtu.be/5PsnxDQvQpw

my uber driver just spent 20 minutes singing sea shanty songs to me first thing in the morning. I was undecided how I felt about it at the time, but landed on charming based solely on how passionate he was about it

Mother’s day hike with my best girl

@joabaldwin.bsky.social well frankly this is magical and if he didn’t replay to this, I would be offended on your behalf. Nick Offerman as Cats is amazing and totally made my day

my smartwatch knows a million little things about me and my movements on any given day, yet it still can not help me figure out if I fed my dog or not *gives dog what is likely her second breakfast today because hungry eyes*

Missed my train home from work because I was was to busy reading skeets.

when you find a cross-country flight for roughly the price you used to pay pre-pandemic, then instantly book it thinking it’s some sort of algorithmic glitch and you may never find this price again (likely true)

Wonder what happened to those delivery robots that you’d sometimes see running errand around the city? A engineer turned one into a Michelle Branch puppet + piano and recreated the icon ‘A Thousand Miles’ music video in SF. It’s the random little things like this that refuel my love of SF

TIL there’s a fancy old mansion hiding under the Bay Bridge on Treasure Island. Interesting read

My movie-loving mind just exploded. I have no words. Star Wars in the style of Wes Anderson

“For people outside the industry, the woes of TV writers can elicit a boo-hoo response: it is, after all, a more lucrative form of writing than most, right?” Recommended reading. Clear & helpful insight on the looming writers strike

Hey blueskies! have a book coming out & pre-orders are critical to a book’s success. Help me get the word out? OUT THERE: THE SCIENCE BEHIND SCI-FI FILM AND TV Black holes to aliens, this is a beautifully illustrated book. ✨And astronaut Mae Jemison wrote the Foreword!✨ https://amzn.to/3GA2HUz

I met many of my dearest friends through Twitter and am still close with several former employees who dedicated years of their life to building it. I think a bit of grief over a platform/app we’ve connected to & spent years of our lives using is a totally valid feeling

For half a century, “the Godfather of A.I.” nurtured the technology at the heart of chatbots like ChatGPT. Now, he worries it will cause serious harm and has quit his job at Google

Blue skies in Marin celebrating old friends getting older (with pizza and beers)

I’ve been asked by a mix of people why I work when the vast majority of my pay check goes to expensive city childcare. This article does a pretty good job of laying out the logic. But also in modern society, why is this a choice we even have to defend?

Inspired. I always imagined myself doing something like this. I used to take camper van trips with my grandparents as a kid. Turns out, when you’ve barely driven anywhere in any car-type vehicle most your life because you’ve lived in cities, having a home you drive around feels a little less likely

I will forever be rewearing my wedding bangles, regardless of how dated they look, because this is horrifying. I had no idea this is how they are made

My feed is full of art, photography, and snarky comments about the ridiculousness of tech. TIL I didn’t know what I was missing & now I’m obsessed (someone please take my phone away from me)

Baby Rhino Enjoys a Good Brushing With a Broom https://laughingsquid.com/baby-rhino-broom-scratch/

Not sure why I’ve never seen one of these IRL but definitely seems like a better way to spend the day than staring at the wall on a Peloton

Interesting. SF library is partnering with Amoeba to launch a free streaming service that showcases Bay area musicians

When you make up a recipe that’s delicious in your head and its immediately falls short of all expectations. And you spend far too long debating whether to eat it or just order take out