Keep praying. Let's see if we can juice Dolly up to the point where she goes super-Saiyan.

Current conspiracy theory: current moderation excesses are designed to drive people to stay on the protocol but leave Bluesky proper, thus "proving" the strength of the protocol and letting them wind this place down.

"What would your mother think?"

Feels like I'm up to my eyebrows in self-revulsion tonight.

Looks like the Skyline's having a normal one tonight.

My most controversial* opinion on Taylor Swift is that she has a nice voice but if she really wants my attention she should cut an album of vocal jazz standards. *also only

Accidentally saw what bluesky considers my "interests" and I've never been so insulted in my life.

Never thought I would look at a speech and say "wow, Patton's address to the 3rd Army was in comparison a polite and holistic view of logistics in warfare" but the bar is, apparently, that low.

nostalgia slop is just age regression for fascists

Change a movie by adding a word: When Dirty Harry Met Sally

Eric Adams is ending his campaign to spend more time with his true love: absurdist performance art.

I have to stress that these are the panel lines that came on the kit! It looks like it was chewed on.

Are we still stuck on "someone disliking something you like isn't a statement against you personally?" Does today end in Y? Fan culture was a mistake.

42 years ago a Soviet Lieutenant-Colonel named Stanislav Petrova possibly prevented a nuclear exchange when he disobeyed standing orders because he didn't trust what his computer system was telling him. We ought to sit with that and think about it a bit. Every year, but especially this one.

what if we kissed on the pretty freight machine

The only thing Mr Trump's shameful performance convinced me of is that he's not even remotely in charge of his administration.

@wolfester.bsky.social, please ask the question you asked about prog rock elsewhere here?

The Rapture isn't even biblical. It's fan-canon.

How is there any disagreement about not RSVPing for an anti-government protest? People are being fundamentally unserious. "Don't threaten our legal rights or we'll put on the best talent show this town's ever seen!"

"Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats." -- H. L. Mencken Happy International Talk Like a Pirate Day!

I will never cease to be amazed that people remember me after I leave a room.

who up strokin' they sword while lamenting the social realities

I don't know what I sat in on the bus but it was DAMP. Not sure I won't be burning these pants.

One way or another this darkness got to give.

I will cross the street long before I need to because some days the sun warms the pine litter and I can close my eyes and travel through happier memories on my way to the bus stop.

If ever there was a week that called for a batch of suffering bastards, this is it.

Let's go full dessert mode on Bluesky: Best pie: apple Best ice cream: sweet cream Best donut: whichever is freshest. All equal? Cider with cinnamon sugar. Best bar: candy or midwestern dessert? Butterfinger or seven-later, respectively Best cake: Dacquoise What, no cookie? (Snickerdoodle)

Greatly enjoyed Final Destination Bloodlines, as my sense of humor is antique enough that Rube Goldberg machines and bad penny gags always hit.

That was a truly fucked up dream last night. Could really have used some restful sleep too.

Got the Oreo Reese's (as opposed to the Reese's Oreos) and...it's a slightly crunchy Reese's cup. Good, but mostly coming from a good foundation.

Age verification? I learned to dial 911 on a rotary phone.

To Kill a Mockingbird is a good book for this moment. A book about the end of childhood and having the thin veneer of civil life peeled back to show, for good or ill, the full human complexity that lies beneath.

Part of growing older is the feeling that you're a traveller from a long-vanished country, adrift in a strange world.

Being too old to understand the Nazi kid's memes feels like victory.

Ayup, can confirm you probably don't want to watch that. I recommend avoiding that footage.

Wot a pity, wot a pity.

It Only Tuesday https://theonion.com/it-only-tuesday-1819569397/

Do I think the president could be that bad at drawing? Yes. Yes I do.

This is the Monogram 1957 Corvette kit. It is apparently a 1977 tooling, which I do not believe. Every single piece of this kit fought me, and needed reworking with a knife, files, a pin vise, or all of the above. You will not be seeing this build from any closer. Do not buy this kit.

I figured Alien: Earth was going to have a flashback episode after I saw episode 1, but that surpassed my expectations.

Kicked off my work week with a dream about every piece of clothing I put on becoming a hideous, ill-fitting monstrosity. So that was fun.

Saw the summer out with a bitter mai tai as a cool breeze blew past.

What's the time? Beastie Boys: IT'S TIME TO WISH ILL!!!

I was at game 5 of the 2001 World Series, Yankees vs Diamondbacks. And I remember the roar of that crowd, singing "New York, New York" so loud it was a collective scream of catharsis; the roar of a wounded city, a wounded nation. And as the throng of people poured out into the streets on that...

Who the heck plans an office bowling party for Thursday? Morale tomorrow is going to be at an all time low

Ruin a book by adding Tom Clancy's to the title. Or don't "Tom Clancy's Pride and Prejudice"

Thoughts on the new electric busses: The acceleration is great. Braking is more powerful than the drivers are used to. They're much quieter than the turbo-diesels, inside and out. The seats are less comfortable in all ways. Narrower, at a more awkward height, and with vinyl upholstery.

Rock Looked Way Cooler Wet

Self loathing running wild tonight and I can't quite fathom that I used to feel like this all of the time?

System Shock 2. Specifically, those dark cargo decks in the early game. Running around with low health, no currency, a pipe wrench, and a crappy pistol that's probably going to jam when you fire it...and then those monkeys start shrieking.