I've seen a lot of "subject matter experts" in industry who explain things in Byzantine ways, and once they start having to field questions it becomes clear that they don't understand the subject well enough to make it clear and concrete.

I forgot, i also know a fed project manager who quit to sell their paintings full time

I now know: -a state dept lawyer who quit to be a bartender -a special ed teacher who quit to stock shelves at a home decor store -a data scientist who quit to be a personal trainer All are THRILLED with their decision. Is that a bigger trend or just a fluke I noticed among some friends?

there is a cohort of men who resent the responsibilities and obligations of adulthood — of the fact that you owe things to other people. it is a fundamentally childish impulse that they have reconfigured as the height of masculinity, and i think it informs the parasocial attraction to platner.

Welp, nevermind.

Like how most ADA seating at music venues is significantly more expensive than general admission

Chat is it an ill omen if you get rear ended leaving your own wedding?

Think I started a 2nd project today, punk this time!

games have been huge success. thats why we're firing every one who makes games. also we are going to make it so players can no longer buy games

If you don’t think some asshole softball dad will humiliate a cisgender girl for hitting an oppo bomb off their daughter by challenging their gender you have never met a youth sports parent in your life.

I've nailed nails in fenceposts, I've carried sacks of horse feed, I've washed dishes, I've run a kitchen at a casual restaurant, I've worked night shift security. Every office job I've had was better in every possible way.

Fun: the hospital in my hometown no longer accepts my parents' Medicare supplemental insurance, so they have to drive to the next county for any medical treatment. My dad, 77, recently fell and thinks he has broken ribs. He hasn't gone to the doctor to check because it's an hour drive. Sigh.

I cannot impress upon people enough that being a teenage gay person now is unrecognizable to what it was like in the 90s and early 00s

I also love this series.

I stopped to try and help a turtle cross a road today and right as I was about to grab it, a truck ran it over. I made eye contact with the driver and signaled him to get over, and instead he swerved toward me to run it over.

Mr president this is the RNC chief I am advising you to keep posting this shit right here, right up to November, golden shit right here

Sung by Werner Hertzog

Queer Country is a short story anthology about a group of queer friends in 1880s Colorado trying to keep their homestead from being stolen from th in a crooked election. On the journey they encounter challenges both human... and decidedly inhuman. www.amazon.com/-/zh_TW/Lee-... #books #pride

Not now, darling, I'm dissociated thinking about Werner Hertzog singing Honkytonk Women

Rewatching Spawn on HBO and man, it doesn't stop ruling nearly 40 years later. It's a tossup of I've rewatched this or The Sopranos more. It's my favorite superhero media, hasn't been topped. Right down to McFarlane introducing each episode like he's Hitchcock. Kitchy and edgelordy brilliance.

I just don't know why you would choose to continue making more films after the ending of toy story 3. I don't know what human can see that ending and think that there's any way to improve upon or expand on that stor. just recognize when you've hit a home run and walk the bases.

There's this weird thing in Richmond, Kentucky over the past 10 years where local rich guys & larger capital firms have been buying up buildings that house live music venues and bookstores, and then shuttering those businesses and leaving the store fronts empty.

When this game drops I'm renting an Airbnb with my brother and we are going to recapture the magic of being 12.

It would be cool if some things were not all about gender sometimes.

The insane thing about SoA is the same insane thing as Vikings: horrible writing and dialogue from excellent actors, and then once every 25 episodes there would be a single 2 minute scene with some of the most brilliant writing and acting you ever saw... then right back to trash. Astounding.

Yes, of course it's never too late to start a new hobby or passion. For other people. For me? Hahahaha yea, those days are past, missed my shot, over the hill, downslope, etc.

another sad example of government failing to understand technology. Bluesky is a user-to-user platform whose purpose is to enable misunderstanding jokes.

We're a mess of contradictions and fail to live up to our ideals far too often, but we're also this. I genuinely love this country because of this.

Thinking about my brother who would've been 40 today, and who had maybe the worst music taste of anyone I ever met

Every so often I remember there's a Star Trek episode comparing him to Einstein in a throwaway line and just thousand foot oof

They're making em big these days

I got a war they can hammer

Here at Weyland-Yutani, we want employees if all races and genders and orientations to be exposed to the opportunity to host a xenomorph embryo via facehugger. Building better worlds. For freaks!

Converted our living room into a practice space for both our bands, but as we think about downsizing to an apartment in the future, we've been thinking about whether a storage unit or a retail space for her to use jointly as a teaching space might be feasible. loudwire.com/study-musici...

The Night They Drove Ol Dixie Down (Laudatory)

Had an interview woth an applicant today who turned out to be AI. Sigh. As bad as AI is hurting job seekers, its just as troublesome on the hiring side. Out of 500 applications, maybe 50 are real people.

Most popular I've ever been was when I shared a bag of homemade cookies with strangers on a train in Sydney. They would've helped me hide from the cops if I needed.

tbh I like the Russian thing where you take a full picnic and share it with the other people in your compartment

When I had students ask me why they should take US history in college when they took it in high school—“I got a 5 on the AP!”—I would tell them it was because now I could teach them things that they wouldn’t have been allowed to learn in high school because someone’s parents would’ve been mad.

Yes!! Why is every "new and fresh idea" I'm told to be open toward just shit my grandpa used to say about minorities when he was drunk? If I wanted to hear what grandpa thinks about trans issues, I'd dig his ass up!

Been thinking about fostering kids more

take long walks, talk to people face to face whenever possible, learn a skill for pleasure

Finally back home from London, famous birthplace of musician Phil Collins

2026 election news: Intelligence agencies are no longer providing the classified threat briefings that gave state election officials insight into foreign and domestic efforts to disrupt voting or influence results, along with guidance on how to counter them www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Someone will doubtless get mad at me for this (ironically) but I suspect that those Americans who claim they’re constantly treated poorly abroad merely for being American are actually just being treated poorly because they have Rancid Vibes

I've also found it rare to meet an America hater across the 6ish continents I've worked across. Most people are excited that you came to visit and are being polite and respectful (bonus points if you try to speak a couple local language greetings). They'll also generally br very curious about you!