My head canon: "Aughra" from "The Dark Crystal" and the "Junk Lady" from "Labyrinth" are related.

Hey, I don't think I know of anyone who really believes the Rapture will be over the next two days, but if I do since you won't be needing your cash anymore can you Venmo it to me? Just like all of it.

Summer fades.

President Johnson, in a November 9, 1968 letter to the Smothers Brothers: “It is part of the price of leadership of this great and free nation to be the target of clever satirists . . . May we never grow so somber or self-important that we fail to appreciate the humor in our lives.”

It’s deeply unfair to call today’s fascists “fascist” or “Nazis” just for doing bad things German Nazis did in the 1930s to advance their fascist project. And you better not say “fascism” or the fascists will come for you too!

I’m sticking with “assassination is bad” and add “if, as these charges suggest, you assassinated someone to fight hate, you absolutely condemned a bunch of other people to die as a natural consequence.”

IDK if we'll ever fully know the motivations behind the Kirk assassination. I doubt even the shooter himself fully knows. I think what we will find out is Robinson wasn't die-hard left OR right; likely he didn't have a consistent or even fully developed set of political beliefs.

Pythagorean Triple Square Day, as one man affectionately calls 9/16/25, is a day like no other this century.

I was listening to an old Casey Kasem American Top 40 (I find this soothing these days) from 1985 where he told the story of Wendy Carlos, who scored The Shining and Tron, and her journey to becoming trans. Casey got all the pronouns right and it was presented as a slice of life, feel good story

‘Booty’ and ‘butt’ are synonyms. ‘Call’ and ‘dial’ are synonyms. But, a ‘booty call’ and a ‘butt dial’ are VERY different things.

in retrospect, there’s probably never been a name as threatening as “America Online”

i realized right away this wasn't the real world. i screamed defiantly into the void that i knew the truth. i begged the system, powers that be, random people on the street. "tell me!" i'd scream, "tell me how i got here! how the way home is opened!" nothing until 1/4 #story #flashfiction

just like we learned in school

I don't think it's right to *want* someone to suffer, nor take joy in someone's death. No matter how foul and vile that person was. I won't extoll any "virtues" of murder, nor celebrate death. But don't expect me to mourn an awful person like Charlie Kirk, nor try to recall redeeming qualities.

Windows: Updates are ready to install! Me: Okay, update and shut down. Windows: No. I will update and restart. Every. Time.

somewhere there is an alternate universe where when they shortened the phrase "picture elements" instead of "pixels" they decided to go with "picels" and back over here we missed out on so many pickle jokes

You do not submit letters and drawings and collages and poems that are various degrees of rapey to a birthday book project unless you know that that won't freak the compiler, your fellow contributors, and the recipient out. Like this is "duty to report" territory.

Nepal is in chaos. Angry crowds are chasing ministers in the streets. Govt buildings, hotels, and officials' homes are burning. The spark? Deep corruption—ignited by a social media ban. PM has resigned. The govt has collapsed. Tourists are stranded. The airport is shut. Over 500 injured.

/4 Nevertheless a critical mass of people unwilling to accept barbarism can get rid of barbaric leaders. bsky.app/profile/free...

Go birds! #FlyEaglesFly

I claim this rock in the name of humanity! #EliteDangerous #Screenshot

Sooo many mistakes! But I finished it. Next one will be better maybe? #art #mandala #NoAI

Post a random picture or else everything will go bad in September

If Bryan Adams had released the song "Summer of '69" in 2025, with the same amount of time passage since the titular year, it would've been called "Summer of '09." You're welcome.

This one is only for Blueskyers of a certain age.

Ok then.

Ruin any book by adding "Tom Clancy's" to the title: Tom Clancy's The Fault in Our Stars

A jury of my peers? TWELVE murderers?!

I am SUPER curious about what happened here. Google maps screenshot is from just about three years ago (Oct 2022). The aerial shot is from an active Zillow listing. The side yard fence seems to have jumped way closer to the house, essentially losing most of the front yard for the gray house. 1/4

Found some frozen pretty space trees on an ice ball out in the black last night. #EliteDangerous

I have drawn a bird. Have I done this correctly? This is bird. #TWI #IYKYK

The Mother of all Solar Systems On the edge of the Temple region, this system features 25 stars in a single system, 23 of which are T-Tauri stars. At least 10 of them are visible from the entry point. Explorer Rating: 3.52 stars, 21 Votes #elitedangerous @frontierdev

164 years later, South Carolina finally occupies Washington.

He has kept among us in times of peace Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution & unacknowledged by our laws.

A judge ordered the sale of Alex Jones Infowars today, clearing the way for The Onion to renew its attempt to buy the notorious conspiracy-fueled empire. "We’re working on it," @bencollins.bsky.social tells @status.news www.status.news/p/washington...

All these alpha males are the biggest bunch of babies who ever walked the face of the planet.

Yet another example of awful people I never would have heard of if they had simply not filed a silly defamation lawsuit.

The demonic writhing mass of darkness emerges from the black portal and yells, "Cower in terror mortals! I shall dominate your realm and send forth my minions to oppress and--" Me: *rolls eyes, taps demon on shoulder, points at White House* Line starts over there, pal.

I thought for a second this was a @paulisci.bsky.social thread...

no, you do not need "10 business days" to take me off your email list you are lying to me

Just got home from the @alyankovic.bsky.social "Bigger and Weirder" tour concert in Casper, WY. Had an absolute blast! Possibly the greatest drum solo of all time. And I will forever be in awe that they memorized that last song in the encore.

Finally dragged myself to the post office. I hardly ever get "real" mail, so I only go once a week or so. But I'm glad I did, as this gem by @glennf.com was waiting for me to pick up!

Oh, the loveableness of a kniferest!

I grew up on these streets

okay so if i have ever learned ANYTHING from comic books...

...what

Ah, apparently the one I saw earlier was an aftershock & this was the main jolt ... they did feel this one. My sister says they even felt it up in Hesperia.