MULDER [slapping down plane tix]: Hope you packed your rain coat, Scully. SCULLY: Seattle? Mulder it's the weekend, what- MULDER [handing her a file] Confirmed sightings, Scully. This is big SCULLY [eyes wide]: My God Mulder, what am I looking at here? MULDER: The locals are calling it.. JIMOTHY

If you're in a wildfire affected area, change your air filters.

these photos from the east coast of the terrible air conditions are bringing back memories of the orange sky days in the bay area six years ago

here’s how i approach dealing with terrible air quality, from the inland nw where we have this about once a year:

"Hundreds of federal food-safety staff have been cut, and last July the CDC narrowed FoodNet — the sentinel network that provides early warnings of foodborne illness — from eight pathogens to two, dropping cyclospora altogether."

hello i am here to tell you actually probably don't need to be panicking about the explosive diarrhea parasite a thread: www.consumerreports.org/health/food-...

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working with artists is one of the most fun parts of making stuff, even when you're just starting out and on a very tight budget! wouldn't trade the experiences I've had working with cover artists for anything

RIP to an icon

We found three lakes within an hour’s drive of Portland—and one in the city proper—where you can get in your laps.

the writers’ room really just zigged when we thought they were gonna zag, huh

I enjoyed Hacks but one of my nagging takeaways is I would like to see Jean Smart and J. Smith Cameron together again in a different show. Ideally one where they solve mysteries

I had replied to the below: Paper maps are great. Never run out of juice, let you see the close-up detail and the big picture at the same time (because they're three feet wide, unlike your phone), and the more you use them the more you learn your way around without them, unlike obeying a machine.

They're headed to the future.

Years ago I visited the cemetery where many members of my family are buried and then dropped in on my grandma, who asked me which route I took, then said “oh you took the shortcut.” I mean, yes, in that I took the one my phone said would be faster

A thing that made the old Internet good was all the world’s weirdos came together to offer their deep expertise on niche subjects. Now it’s so much harder to find that online, and we’ve destroyed the weirdos’ natural habitats. Netflix homepage could NEVER recommend a film like a video store weirdo.

1) I travel often enough in areas with poor connectivity that I still have a paper atlas in my car 2) Strangers ask me for directions quite often even now

The last time I deleted Bluesky from my phone was last fall when people were discussing the particulars of the New England oyster industry (as a way of assessing a particular candidate’s authenticity) and I had a very brief moment of clarity regarding my one wild and precious life

One of the most deflating was an editor/direct supervisor who said "your writing is so, like, over my head!" This sounds like a humblebrag and of course it was meant as a compliment but I was just like...I need (and want!) thoughtful feedback in order to improve!

This whale is not dead; he is only dispirited; out of sorts, perhaps

Direct hit from Dupont Circle.

courtesy of @cohenesque.bsky.social's mom's collection I bring you some pages from the New York Times Magazine of July 4, 1976. First we have some birthday wishes from Canada and West Germany

250, y'all. Thinkin' about the melting pot today. Folks who came here outta hope or by force. Folks who were already here, minding their own damn business. All of us in this sometimes rocky boat, trying to make it work. I love y'all. Let's keep meltin' and whatnot.

"Don't go chasing Waterfalls." —Your aunt, who lives in the same small town as you, and has learned through harsh experience that that entire family ain't shit.

It's hard to convey to someone who didn't experience it how culturally ubiquitous the bicentennial was at the time. Kids had red-white-and-blue SHEETS on their beds. Like many, many, many kids.

LLMs are a kind of uncertainty filter that give credible sources and bad ones the same glossy finish, severing the links so you can't really be sure

I'm bored by the gay not queer discourse, but since it's come up again, I wanted to reshare this. "Queer" is a different kind of label from "gay" or "sodomite," it does different work... slate.com/human-intere...

African, can confirm: every moment of your life has been spent during an atrocity somewhere, perpetuated or exacerbated by a larger number of countries and corporations than many care to admit.

Saw some people wistful for this tradition, but there's no reason to feel low. These women are engaged in a process known as waulking, in which weavers soak freshly woven tweed in vats of stale urine. Then they beat the cloth until it softens and shrinks. The work songs help keep rhythm. 🧵

Computers can't smoke weed and walk around Walgreens. They can't own jazz records or live in weird little apartments. None of them have been driven to tears by Bruce Springsteen

The Dudes Who Peel Out In Their Muscle Cars The Fuck Away From Omelas

"Google is extracting 100% of the value from the websites it summarizes, and giving nothing back in return."

We really are becoming a post-literate society so much faster than I would have thought even a year or two ago

absolutely. i think that there should be more of these big, federally organized civic activities. an annual fair where each state showcases their best food and fare is actually a great idea.

What if we all had to put on a show …to save democracy

“andy™ why do u own so many blu-rays”

His colleagues, family, friends and sources remember Zane Sparling as a talented reporter with a flair for language and an offbeat sense of humor that kept the job light even on days the work — and his health — were bleak. Read more at theoregonian.visitlink.me/QxR5KI

WELP. Today was my last day at Willamette Week. Note that I haven’t gotten far enough in the show to know if this GIF is contextually appropriate. It probably isn’t! This was never gonna be a permanent gig and it lasted far longer than I expected

This is such a wild thread and sign of things to come. Having poked around, I think it might be the case that people who've formed their self-image around the sense of being owed deference bc they're the smartest lad in the school are the ones experiencing LLMs as a spiritual concussion.

I’m still in regular contact with 1) several dozen people I met on Everything2 in 2000-2002 2) roughly a dozen people I met on the AOL music forum in the early ‘90s

Hard to gin up some patriotism as we approach this fascist disaster of a country’s milestone birthday but if there’s anything to celebrate about the United States of America it’s in this godforsaken parking lot

a few years ago I finally bothered to listen to the lyrics of "MMMBop" and I haven't been OK since

“Stirring it releases more Gatorade scent”

this is like the time my husband made mac and cheese subbing swiss miss for the cheese powder because of a meme

golden retriever flash mob

Is it carbon monoxide

remembering that in second grade my best friend and her little brother and I decided to start cursing every day on our walk home from school, I think on the logic that it was time to start practicing