I know everyone's upset about how Nolan cast Helen of Troy, but i think we need to look at the more serious problem: every single god & goddess will be portrayed by a mortal!

On top but frustrated, foolish but proud "I want to be brilliant!" I yelled out loud "I want to be what you only dream; I want you to see that i'm more than i seem. (1/2)

You know how Youtube sometimes gives you a survey question instead of an ad? It just gave me a pop quiz. "On which of these platforms can you stream ABC content . . ." I don't know, man. I didn't study for this. I just want to cry along to Lord Huron in peace

My wife and i had a long drive home today. We listened to The Last Dinner Party's two albums. They are just unbelievably good. They're coming to Columbus next month; if there are tickets left i may have to go, even tho i'll be the oldest person there by 20 years

Tombstone, Red Baron, and Tony's are better at 390° than the recommended 400°

Characteristically good, characteristically grim

If you see this post, quote with a bridge from your gallery. (I went with two: a reconstructed covered bridge in Pottersburg, OH, and a pedestrian bridge over a creek in Highbanks Park, Columbus, OH)

It is not possible to be interested—let alone excited—about the Ohio primary results. You can't make me.

LinkedIn, emailing me every single week to tell me how many searches i appeared in, as if that meant something

1. ICE has not paid for detainee medical care for 7 MONTHS The termination of payments to providers has coincided with a MASSIVE SPIKE in detainee deaths. This is a health crisis and a moral crisis. Follow along for details. 🧵

My youngest decided she wanted to watch the Star Wars prequels. So each of the last 3 nights we've watched one. I actually like them, while recognizing their problems; they were in theaters at a fun time in my life. In some ways i like the last one best, but in others—wow, is it work to get through

This whole little thread is lol

Slightly diminish a book. A Tale of a City

-unmute Stancil -feed immediately awash in Stancil-related drama -mute Stancil again

Snail. No reason. Just un escargot en detail.

Pizza night! First time in months. A daughter is home!

Name your top 15 TV shows ever, gut instincts only MST3K Mythbusters ST:TNG Babylon 5 MASH Leverage Burn Notice Murphy Brown Sherlock Death in Paradise West Wing CSI Miami Castle River Monsters Designing Women Prob forgot some. That was hard!

Listening to a few Billy Joel songs—An Innocent Man, Code of Silence, A Matter of Trust. I am aware this (A) demonstrates my age, and (B) calls my taste into question. I have learned to accept these things about myself.

STORY:

Things Have Changed. It was jaw-dropping to hear that come over the radio in 1999 or Y2K or whenever it was; to hear Bob Dylan, who i associated with the hippie '60s, singing this cynical song about how those sorts of ideals didn't work anymore.

It's 3 AM and i can't sleep because i feel like i ate sandpaper and glass (in fact, i ate roast vegetables. Won't make *that* mistake again)

Would do better on the floor of your closet, but bloom where you're planted, i guess

Discovered i like The Last Dinner Party (band), and then that one of my daughters does too! Rare, now i'm partially fossilized, to find a new (to me) group b4 my kids tell me about them :)

Angry day. Angry & painful Which crowds out the sad. I'll feel sorrow tomorrow. Today i'll be mad.

It's late to be putting seeds in the ground, but i just got cypress seeds planted & i'm very hopeful! It took **forever** for that cone to desiccate, but it finally did and the seeds popped out perfectly :) Here's hoping!!

Last thread is why Yertle the Turtle is one of my favorite Dr Seuss stories. Skewers that authoritarian mindset that power is about using and abusing the little people

Christ i hate business culture. We're in the eastern US. My wife manages some projects happening in Australia, which is 14 hours ahead of us. Routinely, the US side of the business will decide on Friday morning that a change needs to happen the following weekend, thinking 8 days' lead time is plenty

Did we? I'm a pretty senior X-er, and i did my earliest term papers in high school on my parents' Mac. It was primitive, but it was word processing. Sure, my 5th grade paper on gun control was typed, but not by *me*. Card catalogue, yes, in HS, but that wasn't hard.

Nostalgia music tonight. Unusual for me, but that's the mood.

My increasingly poetic weather app describes today as "Times of sun and clouds." So true, weather app. So true.

Media needs to stop with "critics say" and just quote the actual language of the bill. HB 249 creates a new category of "seminudity" which can be used to arrest women who aren't nude, but are wearing clothing — leggings, t-shirts without bras — that religious groups feel is too provocative.

As is usual for these contrarian AI cheerleaders, Kustov seems to feel that the great thing about the tech is it will lead to the elimination of a lot of his peers. They all think getting rid of people is great. The idea that most human academic output is "slop" is amazingly misanthropic.

the thing about our current moment is that yes, the anti-AI and anti-big tech people are getting very reactive nowadays - but have you seen what they’re *reacting* to?

We're going very heavy on the dystopia today, i see

the tech fascists think they are so clever and smart but their entire worldview is just a bunch of stale apologetics for race hatred and fascism

Time gnaws. Time grinds. Wears down spirit. Wears away lives. I've passed so much time, lived so long My memory now so heavy to carry And all that time has passed through me Its grit, the friction, stripping layers away Until i am just a shadow on stone The faint impression of a man who used to be.

The same post keeps wandering across my screen like Noah Segan in a Rian Johnson movie. From this i infer we're still experienceing some lurking technical difficulties

I love this thread

It's telling that the easiest way to mis-type "Week" is "Eeek"

Oh, why the hell not. D5W. Look, i spent half the day panicking about dandelions. I'm not in a Deep Thoughts place. Hot dog preference posts are what you're getting tonight.

Last year's indoor potted oak is leafing! I really wasn't sure it would

On the whole, i'm finding this more than a little disappointing.

Oh, wait. Communion wafers would make an excellent snack. Like whole wheat styrofoam crackers.

Thought i'd write a poem describing how i feel. I considered allegory, Straining my emotions through a sieve of make-believe; I might have told a story, thinly-veiled desires exploring, Recapitulating dreams. The more i worked to write it, though, The less i seemed to say. And now i think about it,

A lot of people berating others for not fighting the nazis, whose own contribution to fighting the nazis, in this moment, is posting. This is not helpful or productive.

Look, everyone: Yes, this is terrible. Yes, we must change this government, this society. But every effective action is long-term, requiring planning, leadership, and positive persuasion. Many are in fact underway. Near-term, the best you can do is organize a local demonstration. That's really it.

Holy cats, i'm tired.

I look out from my cave Into a blur, a whirl Sound and color Movement and time. It startles the senses, Crashes upon the mind Sky full of planes Seas full of slime. But i still hear, somehow Despite all the shouting The divine thought The echo sublime. Alone in the torrent. Alone, but alive.

I voluntarily drank this "iced coffee"—carmel, honey, ice, & cream w/a hint of coffee—and am now dead of sugar. Fun, though.

A lot of people *are* committed to quality education, but those people are not at the top levels of school administration.