"Sometimes my arms bend back"

This is my first time hearing of Planet Earth (1974), which is apparently Gene Roddenberry focusing on "gender relations from an early 1970s perspective" which sounds delightfully bonkers

RTs are endorsements

Share your favorite black and white movie (Y'all are going to think this is cliche, but I love the film)

Anyways, the point of Lord of the Rings, like the point of Moby Dick and Blood Meridian and anything else worth reading, isn't the plot, but what you feel when reading. The plot's barely even there. It's all the magic of these little marks on a page making us want to believe that it's real.

back on my butter

Related, when I was in college a guy set up a portable espresso stand. I'd never seen anything like it and as a coffee guy™ I became an instant loyal customer. Mike would grate Mexican chocolate into your cup with one of those cylinder graters.

Magical creatures

Pronouncing “prepared” like “infrared”

Last night of bats vs raptors 2025 for me. Solid ending. Can't wait till next year! #birds

Good morning

Oh, and EAT DESSERT. At restaurants, Jim always asked to see the dessert tray and asked about EVERY item (usually asking, "What's that thingie?"). When bringing in dinner for the crew, there was always something sweet to finish with. Jim absolutely loved his desserts. Believe in dessert. /17

What’s your favorite song that uses the phrase “et cetera”

I'm enjoying this post and replies but am disappointed that British children aren't learning the word "caucus" from its finest appearance in literature

okay that sounds bad but “aliens avoid us because this is the planet where the Great Old Ones were sealed away” seems fun. Wonder if anyone has done that.

Trump, pounding shoe: "We will bury ourselves!"

I turn to my computer like a friend

Here's something you learn in business school- data is not information. Learning a fact, *by itself*, does not make you any wiser. You must understand the context around the fact as well- how it fits into other facts, what it implies about the past, present, and future.

My wife says the way you start the new year sets the tone for the rest of the year. I’m starting by discovering the box of tea bags I wanted to use was in fact an empty box

Hey guys, my apologies for my part in moving toward one world religion

Been thinking for a while I needed to post something like this on the podcast site, given how widespread LLM slop has become. This is off the top of my head, and should probably be more precise and concise, but it'll do for now.

I know I'm not saying anything my fellow Apple users don't already know, but iMovie's support for captions is utter dogshit

Me off to the rapture.

i'm going insane. this is all literally driving me out of my mind

Happy Rapture day, everybody! Art (and maybe even dialogue) by Al Hartley, Based on a script by Hal Lindsey. From There's A New World Coming, a 1974 Spire Comics joint.

thinking about the scheduled rapture

yo @prankster36.bsky.social , I just noticed your display name change; mazel tov to you and yall's

I think it's good that Getty Images actively works to protect its copyrights and a bad thing that they're assholes about it

It's the first day of astronomical autumn. 🍂 The apple tree. Ink on Saunders Waterford HP. A piece I did back in 2014 as a sample for Crabtree & Evelyn on an apple wassail theme. In the event, C&E decided on a different direction and I didn't get the gig (boo). Still, I got an artwork out of it.

I’ve had to grapple with the question “how much money am I able and willing to pay to keep this being alive” with pets and more recently with elderly parents, and the cold fact that there IS a price you can’t pay is so devastating to your soul that you can’t safely hold it too close

This is honestly one of the saddest bits of corporate slang, because even though it makes me giggle when somebody says it, it feels like a capitulation to the idea that your body, your personal needs, are an unwelcome distraction from your higher purpose of generating profit through productivity

Call me Icarus the way I’m regretting these hot wings

Just remembered another gorgeous bit of Howe Gelb rambling from last night’s show. “Humans love patterns. Remember we all thought Ziggy Stardust was a concept album? Just a bunch of songs… We made a pattern out of it…” >>

Bouie is a really good TikToker and i think part of that is that his short form videos aren’t really that short

shit ain’t over til it’s over

Forget PSL season, this year we’re doing PSH season

Happy Rapture Eve

Forsooth! I Feel Like A Woman!

While Derek Skees was planning to curtail your rights, Zooey was studying the blade

Rebecca, inspired by (1) learning that babka is made from challah dough, and (2) not actually liking apples dipped in honey, we’re trying a round apple-honey babka for Rosh Hashanah 5786

Me preparing to post about the Charlie Kirk service

Nice post you got there, it'd be a shame if I deliberately missed your point so I could be tedious about it

Please god let there be a scene where he steals forty cakes

This is @andrewhickey.500songs.com probably looks after exhaustively tracing the influences that go into a Monkees song

You will leave this movie understanding that Lex Luthor is motivated to vengeance because Superboy caused his hair to fall out

Why did none of you people tell me about this

I’ve been a member of a recreational international folkdance group for over 20 years, and while we appreciate growth, I’ve learned there are some people who are natural evangelists who are good at recruiting new members, and others who aren’t and it’s okay for them to not take on that responsibility

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