I would like a weeklong pause in the Christmas season so I can doze and watch movies on a laptop.

Sixty-nine people decided to log on and trash Jones Soda with me, who says we USED to be great

A partial list of murders Benoit Blanc solved, as described by others: +you saw the purple sleeping bag on the space station before the astronaut put it on the moon! +wait, from the donut sprinkle slayings? +wow I saw your TikTok about how it’s impossible for AI to reach out of the computer

Abolish all opinion columns

Genuine question: has Netflix put out a business case, creative case or anything substantial/non-fluff about why they wanted to buy a movie studio?

It’s nice that they based this on the well-known thing in soccer where everybody puts their hands on the ball at the same time.

This how a weirdly successful long-running series about humans coming to terms with their identities while birds build computers in the background.

…because it’s clearly the title of a Wodehouse story.

On the one hand, Star Wars discourse is out of control today, on the other hand I prefer to every other current events discourse because there are no actual stakes to it

Sets for Batman Returns were kept very cold for the comfort of the real-life penguins involved. This meant that cast/crew repeatedly got sick during filming. The real-life penguins though would often fall in love with their animatronic counterparts or feel so settled that they began mating.

Obviously a copy of Dune and then also obviously my misprinted edition of The Traitor Baru Coromont, which causes everyone to scream in shock when they first open it

oh hello there. i wasnt expecting you. you caught me reading two books at once

Guys, I don’t know if you’re aware but driving is boring.

They’re saying “Branson posts new comics at this website,” more and more these days

Dune, Dune Messiah, Children of Dune, God Emperor of Dune, Heretics of Dune and Chapterhouse: Dune

Something they don’t tell you about becoming a parent is that every general-interest science article can become a horror story

Gar is a kind of furl used in a flar.

Title suggestion: The Authority of Unmirrored Sensations

Tell me you got a Ph.D without telling me you got a Ph.D

Gang, Victor expert here. This isn’t funny. He drinks like 4 or 5 glasses of milk throughout the movie. Victors only do that when they’re distressed.

We are so back

Please stop posting your kids' candy hauls if they're depressing bullshit. I've seen so many Twizzlers, Mike & Ikes, Junior Mints, etc. that I'm about to start calling child services. Somebody posted a shot with multiple visible 100-calorie packs of Blue Diamond almonds. Have some self respect.

@semuhi.bsky.social and @sahibjafarov.bsky.social did much of the work on this dataset. over a quarter of all non-autocratic rulers 1989-2021 have been prosecuted, so it was a lot of work

In conclusion, ban baseball

*crying*

the democratic party’s basic problem is it has almost no control over how its message reaches the ears of voters, especially outside of presidential election years. but rather than devote serious time, attention and cash to that problem its consultants and pundits want to fight factional battles

Boy howdy people on this website should understand that a description of the facts does not imply approval of them

I renounce my teenage self (ages 0-26) entirely. I don’t know that guy

Watching the #mariners be like

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i'm not going to chide or scold anyone for only now leaving twitter. your private, unspoken acknowledgment that i'm your intellectual and moral superior is all i need

i was surprised to learn that bc most protein powders are considered dietary supplements, they basically fall into a regulatory grey area there's no federal limit on the amount of lead they can contain and neither manufacturers nor the FDA have to prove these products are safe before they're sold

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i will never learn what salesforce is or does

Melville had access to a time machine and while working as a writer for The Simpsons, wrote the first third of Moby Dick. He then went back in time after he realized the Poochie episode was about him.

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Refusing to apologize #goms

baseball is the best preparation for death because it does not come with a clock that tells you when your suffering will end one way or the other

BOOOOOOOOOOOO #boo

All attempts by the Japanese to establish embassies pre-Edo period

Classic Seattle sports experience

all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

What! This was my idea first !!! 2003, after seeing the Animatrix, patent pending)