Said the hero of the story, “It is mightier than swords; I could kill you, sure, But I could only make you cry with these words.”

When you tell me Bluesky is going to die

Coming in late on the most recent "post your favorite tweet" flurry because today's topic reminded me of this true classic

Not arguing with Mr. Ball's facts here, just saying "we" don't have a problem. Bluesky losing users is very much not my problem

it is happening again

Happy Washington Irving's Birthday to all who celebrate.

Really, aren't they all Good Fridays

This video of home just came down from the Artemis II crew. Stunning. (Credit: Ellie Arroway)

Goes downstairs to get a hammer Walks past the pantry backstock Opens the chocolate chip container Eats a handful of chocolate chips Goes back upstairs without the hammer

I'm just now learning you can plug a USB drive into an iPhone and browse it with the Files app? How long has this been going on?

I will be transitioning to a much needed and important new job in the private sector (playing toon blast)

My cartoon in the first issue of Now Voyager, a new print magazine dedicated to long form international reporting, photography and art. Plus cartoons!

Nothing irrationally sets me off quite like when I tell the computer to play an orchestral selection and the piece it chooses is from a collection titled like "100 Must-Have Lullaby Baby Classics"

Reading about mission details like Hohmann transfers and translunar injection makes me want to take a formal class in orbital mechanics

moby-dick, his eyes enormous: from hell's heart you STAB at moby? for hate's sake you spit your last BREATH at moby? oh! oh! the great shroud of the sea for ahab! the great shroud of the sea rolling on as it rolled five thousand years ago!!!!

on some real shit though, i knew a bit (very little) about being trans and what it means, but the people on this website have taught me so much, and it truly is a struggle that you guys go through to be you, and you’re all so beautiful. i’m so proud to have my trans friends. i will fight for you.

I'm receptive to a lot of reasons someone may not be excited about crewed spaceflight, but "we could be spending that money on problems on earth" isn't one of them. I promise if you cut the Artemis program that money isn't going to Medicare for All

It's only an audiobook if it's in Latin. If it's Greek, it's actually just a phone book.

I tell this story every year but since it’s April Fool’s it feels especially appropriate to mention that when my grandfather was a kid in Poland he used to go around with his friends on the night of the seder and throw a goat in people’s houses when they opened the door for Elijah

The red book, about fourth from the left in the quoted photo, is “The Rishon Transliterated Haggadah,” which I don’t remember seeing before last year, and while I find its content hierarchy almost inaccessibly flat, I LOVE how it presents original/transliterated/translated text

Context is importantly, which is why it’s sometimes better if your alt text says “Robert Redford nodding” rather than “a man with red hair and a beard is standing in the woods”

If all goes according to plan, in a few hours, a crew of astronauts will begin a journey that will take them on a loop around the moon. Here's a video that NASA put together to help people visualize the journey through space, first orbiting the earth before looping around the moon and flying home 🔭

Here's the kind of April Fool post that I'm okay with. Straight faced but impossible to take seriously, not at anybody's expense but the poster

In honor of (hopefully) today's launch of NASA's Artemis II mission, the first crewed mission to orbit the Moon in more than 50 years, here is a to-scale graphic of exactly how far away the Moon actually is. (Click image to expand.) You could fit about 30 Earths between the Earth and the Moon!

Just imagine the Truth Social rant being mentally composed right now

Terribly Sexy Eliot (he used to be Terribly Shy Eliot but he changed)

Billy Ray Cyrus the Great

Saw this ad this morning, and while I know a lot of us would say “a million dollars? I could retire on a tenth of that!” I personally have watched an elderly relation burn through a million dollars just because the costs of medical care in this country are merciless

Favorite board game

I love the genre of medieval art where the artist said “what do babies look like? They’re just like grown ups, but small, right?”

eh hm 🎶They said there was a secret cord you plug it in you see the lord but you don't really care for safety, do ya? it goes like this the pop, the hiss🎶

The sheer hubris of "of course I'll remember where I hid all eighteen pieces of chametz"

Our children are not our possessions, and neither are anyone else’s. They belong to themselves, and being themselves is their responsibility and their right. I’ll say it again. Our children are not our possessions, and neither are anyone else’s.

It kind of annoys me how often many of us jump from “I just had a bad experience with annoying people on here” to “this site is completely unusable and unsuited for civilized discourse”

There's a lot of blurriness around pop culture that isn't overtly fascist but is correctly making people steamed because it betrays the kind of thinking that fascists can exploit. Nostalgia and fixation on the superficial being the big ones

Pretty much.

Gonna throw this take into the engineering standup and run for cover

Suppressing my responses to this video because I don't want an account suspension or a visit from feds

"I believe in a future in which trans people aren't forced to live in fear, shame and secrecy." My strip for TDOV.

"Chalant, yet gruntled" is a profile status right up my alley from @johnsmillie42.bsky.social

Happy TDoV (Trans Day of Venmo)

I have a headless 2014 Mac Mini whose entire job is to run Plex server and Transmission, and it's fine, but it's super laggy when I try to configure torrents. I might just go full Linux Sicko on this guy

i have once again fallen victim to the annual amnesia of the allergy sufferer. what is happening to my body? why am i sniffling? my throat is so scratchy. maybe this is a mysterious and terrible new respiratory virus because i don’t get allergies. i say this every year when my allergies start.

I’ve reached the point in the Patreon bonuses where @andrewhickey.500songs.com needs to mention the best selling song of 1968, which means, because of how my brain works, that I woke up this morning with Bobby Goldsboro’s “Honey” playing in my head. But don’t print on my timeline that I got mad

I thought O’Leary was canceling Neil Young, but nope, this is about Neil literally defenestrating himself

new liver, same eagle

Avocado About Nothing

Me reading about pretty much any human behavior: we are a highly adaptable species. Throw an obstacle our way and we figure out a way to live with it. Me when I accidentally twist my sock 10° while putting it on: this is intolerable

why are you posting screenshots of terfs and nazis when you could be posting screenshots of absurdist YMCA parodies