do you guys hear that bell tolling? wonder who it’s for. it’s so loud lmao

i think that instead of all of us posting the same thing, sometimes there should be a big google doc where the 200 or so people on this website can iron out one joint statement with mutually agreed phrasing that is both pithy and timely

they should make a kind of email that’s just notifications of envelope icons but nobody bothering you or trying to sell you anything. I like those little pictures of envelopes

People posting AI slop videos of cats doing weird things makes no sense when there are millions of real cats out there doing weird shit every minute of the day

we’re in the vet’s office waiting room and they just called for Agamemnon. we all looked at the Great Dane but it turns out Agamemnon is an orange kitten in a backpack that makes him look like an astronaut cheese puff

Please read this whole, wonderful thread

❤️🧵

Feel like he’s breaking the 4th wall bc he realized this is kinda f’d up

Vigil/press conference featuring six city councilors ends with an “abolish ICE” chant and the Portland crows circling overhead.

boise idaho ICE protests

“I knew it was going to start here,” said a local resident, who gave the name Aaron D., fighting back tears. “This neighborhood is deeply integrated, it’s deeply diverse.” www.wweek.com/news/city/20...

A while back I was describing these events to someone a little younger than me who had never heard about them. One thing that’s striking to me is that there were Congressional hearings about this standoff. That federal law enforcement screwed up massively was a bipartisan position

You're not ready for the name of the energy transition specialist at Heat Pump Association UK

This is why it annoys me when people try to make it seem as if this is how things have always been. There was a time when greater literacy and reading as a part of everyday life for people of every class was a national mission. Then it changed drastically and now we’re here.

A lot of ritual self-abuse by Americans in response to this drivel, which completely erases the real international solidarity that has solved past authoritarian crises -- including, memorably, in Europe.

it’s beautiful to me to think that humans everywhere are capable of ruining pizza. not that we always will, but that we always can

I was in England for two weeks in September and yes, some of the food was meh but most of it was great. One thing I keep talking about is how good the convenience food was—places like train stations and all had to-go pasties and sandwiches that were actually good, unlike sad US gas station sandos

There is more variety of food options (including vegan/vegetarian food) than in any small town in America.

“raisins in things is Good, Actually” is one of my most controversial food takes. put them in cinnamon rolls! put them in soda bread! put walnuts in fudge and brownies while you’re at it! I’m not afraid of judgment

I feel like this situation has not improved in recent days

Was just flipping through the channels and stumbled on an episode of The Big Bang Theory where a character is obsessed with Siri (the chatbot) and asks it to call him sexy and I’m not sure I can think of anything more embarrassing than living in a future predicted by Chuck Lorre

Love this from Guillermo del Toro

Archie Comics

Boise? Lewiston? Is this just a listing of college towns for colleges the guy didn't get into

he sure did!

take the opportunity with this new year to familiarize yourself with the fact that grain engulfment can happen to anyone

it’s stupid to not use ai just because it can induce psychosis and generate child porn. it’s like saying you’re hungry when there’s a hot dog on the ground outside that induces psychosis and generates child porn

What amazes me is how quickly people are losing either the confidence or the willingness to complete basic human tasks.

why do you have to be sworn in on a book. could i be sworn in on a vhs of wayne’s world

he’s right and he should say it

The other day we were getting ready to go to the movies and I couldn’t remember the name of Marty Supreme and instead called it Timothée Excellent. And you know what? He is. He is excellent in the movie

Happy New Year! We love sharing these pro-book posters from the Works Projects Administration Poster Collection in the Library's Prints and Photographs Division. Of the 2,000 WPA posters known to exist, the Library of Congress's collection of more than 900 is the largest.

you have done it before, squared the smooth circle, navigated the hard corner, slipped through and lived to see another day

that’s great it starts with an earthquake, birds snakes and aeroplanes

I heard him give a (very brief, there was a 2 minute time limit, as per @me3dia.bsky.social) talk about this in early Jan, and it stayed with me all year. Give it a read.

"Caitlin Flanagan, Chris Cilizza—these are not people who produce investigative journalism. These are take-merchants and mouthpieces who publish what powerful people tell them over text and DM as if it's a transgressive secret and not a comms strategy."

My twelve-year-old daughter's Christmas haul included a cassette Walkman and a Discman, and music to play on both. Yes, part of it is STRANGER THINGS. But part of it is the seemingly inevitable swing towards throwback tech, coupled with the current longing to be LEFT ALONE TO LISTEN TO SHIT

I’ve begun evaluating license plates based on how funny they would be to be the last thing you see

One of the best to ever do it

It's Tuesday.

I will never pass up the opportunity to talk about the time I stood behind Sam Elliott at a grocery store in Portland and he was buying an ENORMOUS bouquet and told the checker it was for his neighbor who had just had hip surgery

I saw a lot of old movies on big screens in 2025.

in 2026 instead of lore-diving whatever giant franchise benefits from your engagement try doing it with any writer/director with a substantial body of work but no “fandom”. Marie Ndiaye. Maryse Conde. Samuel Fuller. See where it gets you. If you gotta have a static setting do Mervyn Peake

it does kind of feel like a lot of bluesky users spent four days around their extended family and immediately got on here to be like "the pizza you ate as a child sucks. the twin cities are overrated. what else. pencils should be illegal" you all are disregulated and you need to settle down!!

the worst is people screen capping takes from other websites to dunk on them here. if I want to dig through the trash I’ll dif through the trash

not gonna evangelize about it but tbh coming to understand the value of cardio is one of the biggest positive changes I've made of any kind to my adult life, for whatever that's worth

90% of bluesky posts, to me