Big day for Chinese Catholic Muslims

Just throwing it out there that “Gong hei fat choy” and “xīn nián hǎo yɑ” have the same number of syllables as “pink pony club”

They’re playing @notalegalrecord.net‘s song

Wow.

The drunk uncle theory. You don’t argue with the casually homophobic uncle at Thanksgiving dinner to change his mind; you argue so that the closeted cousin at the kids table knows there’s safe people and better possibilities out there

DJ Muggs (left channel) vs DJ Muggs (right channel)

“I NOT TIRED!!!” - the most tired toddler you have ever met

This is why, to every student's displeasure, you have to practice diligently and apply a great deal of rational analysis to your learning. Your goal is to learn how the building blocks of your art – words, notes, colors, etc – fit together, so you can eventually assemble them effortlessly

the social media dillema: does my disclaimer prevent bad behavior, or merely make me angrier at the people who willfully ignore it

C'mon, muscle memory, time to fake horse anatomy

I believe small acts of kindness are crucial, for their own sake. But the insufferable nerd part of me bristles when people justify it with "the butterfly effect." The actual butterfly effect is about unpredictable outcomes from inputs. Maybe you're thinking of the snowball effect

The flip side of checking and checking the status of your Interlibrary Loan request is when you hedge your bets and hold eight books at once, figuring they can't all come at the same time, and then they do

that feeling when your @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social library hold is marked "in transit"

chatgpt is much like an improv comedy group 1) you are the audience, giving it prompts 2) it produces things roughly shaped like your prompt 3) it is trained to respond with Yes, And 4) it has the factual accuracy of improv 5) it does not understand comedy

I've been impressed with Maggie Rudy's mouseland for years, but this image today just blew my mind with awe for all the prop work she does. Little pots with little plants! A little sickle! A tiny enameled teacup! www.maggierudy.com/making-mouse...

Voting matters, but I'm less interested in who you vote for than who you support. A vote is a single action on a single ballot. Support takes many forms, all of them longer term and more public and therefore more able to impact other people and their votes.

Happy Presidents Day

I don’t know if Vivarium (2019) was good, but I liked it

“It's not clinging to the rocks and ivy planted on their columns now that bind me” is an outstanding lyric, rich with potential interpretations, in a song packed full of lyrics like that

Tired of the Kobayashi Maru

The lyrics to Embraceable You are so deeply dogshit that one can only conclude Ira wrote them to satisfy a bet. I mean, come on: "I love all / the many charms about you Above all / I want my arms about you"

literal lol at the ending there

By the way, while I was very pleased they announced the names of the sign language interpreters for the pre-game performances, it was annoying that they then didn’t actually televise their interpretation

One thing I love about microblogging is the way the character limit, the thread feature, and quote/repost combine to encourage composing longer thoughts built of discrete blocks that are each capable of standing on their own.

It’s very funny that the viral post whose lesson is “do not trust LLM output, always double check it” is itself an LLM output engineered to confirm our priors

Fact is, even though I watched the first 3 episodes on their original broadcast, I kind of noped out after Naked Now bc it seemed like they were just going to retread. Four years later @brianjayjones.com came home with a VHS of Best of Both Worlds and was like “you HAVE to give this another chance”

I watched this episode for the very first time today, and enjoyed it every bit as much as everyone has assured me I would

“my right to swing my fist ends at your nose” “reasonable enough” “i believe in the healing power of drinking urine and i’ve been pooping in the ground water” “hey that last part actually affects me so you need to stop” “incorrect, i have already determined you have not been negatively affected”

Me

The algorithm just coughed up Sweet singing “AC-DC” but I mistook the title for the artist and was VERY confused

Essay tee you are dee eh why Night

“How is this different than a right winger punching a leftist counter protestor?” Well you see this one is right and good

You can rely on the old man's monkey

Hi and welcome! A lot of you found me because of my crazy @jeopardyofficial.bsky.social quarterfinal game Wednesday. To clarify; @ibhirsch.bsky.social and @joshtigerhill.bsky.social are GREAT Jeopardy players and made the exact right wagers for the game. I only won BECAUSE they wagered correctly.

Me hearing that Pete Townshend was inspired to use suspended chords by listening to the Baroque records lent to him by Kit Lambert

I hate to admit this but Pat Boone is a good singer

When you’re as long as the human’s legs

doctor doctor gimme the news ive got an unworn pair of baby shoes

Horton Hears The Who

Yes YES The STP guy is here

Men won't even close the toilet lid to snort coke

Blessed notification!

All my deedees fiddled

Testament and Threads are the emotional devastation double feature

This is making me think a lot of the most popular war films are actually adventure films, because they focus on single operations and the efforts of individuals. My favorite war film is The Longest Day, which is about logistics

THREADS is a Christmas movie

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