The Thing is a film about cracking open a cold one with the boys

Thinking of starting a church of heat death. Like, of the universe. Not actively trying to bring it about, just hanging out and waiting for it in eager anticipation

Hi All, Will Trump attack Iran a second time? Well, it depends on a few things. The attack will have to be short, will have to seem big and dramatic, and he will have to be able to claim victory afterwards. It is the Trump Template For Military Operations. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

It's like when a pharmaceutical company gets acquired and carved up for scraps except you get to visually see it happening

Imagine you were about to appear at a writers' festival to talk about your first book... then the whole thing fell apart. I wanted to find debut authors who almost talked at Adelaide Writers' Week. These are 21 folks I've identified so far but *please* let me know who I've missed or mixed up.

First wear of Christmas present from @mostlysincere.bsky.social - vintage Soviet Raketa watch

The world is, no matter how we think it ought to be. You have to be with it. You have to let it be.

@laurenbeldi.bsky.social explores Rishiri Island. 📸 Canon A1 🎞️ Ilfocolor

The irony of this whole fashion thinkpiece is that Erika Kirk *is* still pursuing a high powered career. Literally a CEO telling other women not to become CEOs. The article ends with “she’s in this world, but not of it”, & yet continually proves the opposite. www.washingtonpost.com/style/fashio...

Dozens of protesters have been killed—including children—and at least two security forces have died in the Iranian protests so far. www.nbcnews.com/world/iran/i...

There is a tone on the Tokyo metro that sounds like the first two notes to Black Magic by Jarvis Cocker and it earworms me every time (not complaining I could happily have that song stuck in my head for the rest of my life)

aesthetically, the best clothing labels are very plain, like this

The geniuses at cafe de crié have done it folks. They’ve improved on perfection by taking an egg sandwich and putting a pizza on top.

I'm fond of the Hungarian expression, "takonygerincű" ("snot-spined")

Seppos need more exçoitement in their loives

Sadly not unexpected. Only 1 political prisoner (a former Junta minister of information 🙄 jailed for criticism in 2023) has been released. The Junta uses these amnesties as tools of propaganda. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar

i trust zeta’s words on the situation in venezuela more than most of the voices on this website so i suggest you also read what they said

Also hello from a volcano, I ate nearly an entire Atka mackerel last night after accidentally ordering it. Great mistake, would make again.

FINALLY giving this jumper the first wear. Weeks behind schedule, this is the tricksiest knit I think I have ever knitted! From the high-maintenance swatch instructions to the fact it FELTED when I blocked before the cuffs to the fact the collar is somehow SCRATCHY even though it’s ALPACA 🦙 ??

Sen Mike Lee with the first account I’ve seen of the Admin’s legal theory for the strikes. On the domestic law side — something like: Art II law enforcement power to capture Maduro (by invading his own country) combined with Art II power to protect those personnel executing the warrant.

Lot of people gonna be reading and talking about US v. Noriega, 117 F.3d 1206 (11th Cir 1997) this weekend. Some possibly competently.

The warning at the top of this slight hill makes it clear - take care when travelling down it or you will end up in the water, upsetting your car and inconveniencing at least one fish by rudely dropping into his home unannounced.

Absolutely rate Rishiri island even on new years when everything is closed and the bus isn’t running but they didn’t tell anyone so you walk around grumpy and take pictures of the playground and then everything works out okay and the onsen is open.

Stuck at the dock of an island off Hokkaido. Tsunami siren just rang out. Except it wasn’t a tsunami siren, IT APPEARS IT WAS JUST THE 12PM SMOKO BELL WHO DO I BLAME FOR THE HEART ATTACK I JUST HAD

He could not force himself to understand how banks functioned and so forth, because all the operations of capitalism were as meaningless to him as the rites of a primitive religion, as barbaric, as elaborate, and as unnecessary.

Shirogane waterfall, Hokkaido side quest.

"Houston's top prosecutor is disputing online rumors that a serial killer is to blame for bodies that have washed ashore in the city's waterways in recent weeks." There’s been over 30 bodies… www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Greetings from the Biei gliding club! What do you reckon our chances of a winch are?

Thrift store Canada Goose. Prepared for The North.

I need this as a shirt

The death of Brigitte Bardot necessitated the update of this marvelous chart. Only three people mentioned in Billy Joel's banger "We Didn't Start The Fire" are still alive. Source: buff.ly/cWkphRB

Christie's is auctioning off some things from Jimmy Carter's estate. Included are some things from his wardrobe (ties, peanut scarves, cowboy hat) and furniture he personally made. Auction starts in two weeks.

Reposted this yesterday but I’m doing it again because I feel so strongly. Video is much harder on women, who are expected to conform to much higher grooming standards, and also really on anyone who doesn’t look like a conventional white man, who can expect more nastiness bsky.app/profile/youn...

What a difference a day makes. Hakodate, last night vs this morning

I love NHK. You can put it on get an hour-by-hour update on the snow situation and then all of a sudden you’re watching a very thoughtful documentary about the history of gourds.

In addition to how deeply wrong I believe this to be, it makes clear how complex our fight for the future will be. We all need to REALLY understand why this is wrong and dangerous. And this is not only about people with dementia.

Food poisoning on Christmas in Kyotoooooo 😭😭😭😭

This is genuinely horrifying. Fact-free far-right agitprop given accolades by credible media across the political spectrum.

WTF SEAT 62K ON THE 787 WHERE IS MY WINDOW

On the way to Japan via Guangzhou wearing one of two of the Beldi Japan 25-26 Summer/Winter Knitwear capsule collection sweaters. (the second one is salvageable! The live stitches are still live!)

“Be sure to set me to ‘delicate,’ Alison. It’d be a shame to ruin that sweater, you know, in case it ever comes back in style.”

US seizes second oil vessel off Venezuela coast, officials say https://aje.io/lw6p6l

One of those midnight thoughts but: even the most effective SSRIs have not done nearly as much for my baseline mood as addressing my severe vitamin D deficiency has. I’m now back to a healthy level after a few months and it’s such a marked difference. Wish I’d considered the link earlier.

I once heard a cutting assessment of someone’s intellect in Argentinian Spanish that went jugas al tetris y giras el cuadradito. It means “you spin the square tile on Tetris.”

Finished the jumper I’ve been working on for months in the nick of time for my Japan trip, gently hand washed it to block it… FELTED. Sitting here with RSI and no jumper 😭😭😭

I have terrible news. In season 2, episode 3 of Severance, Lumon goes woke