I feel like the next best thing would be coming to terms with your grief, but what do I know.

"Are you guys talking about me?"

Oh, no, he's right behind me, isn't he.

I recognize those bottom ones instantly. I used to live near them.

Filled this in 'cuz I feel weirdly passionate about it. Training your brain to sit with something in a focused way is valuable! Was in HS 1998–2002. Read many books in full, not as summer reading but as homework to come to class to discuss. Was shocked to learn this wasn't the norm even back then.

How the fuck does one accomplish a tag like this? Is there an obvious answer? Some sort of rope-and-harness setup? I'm not mad, just legitimately boggled.

I pretty much universally hate historical stuff cut to modern pop, and "House of Guiness" is throwing that at me in spades just in the first twenty minutes of the first ep. Not promising.

had the urge to do this since the moment i saw this post! #pixelart

I resent the fact that I have to get up in the morning and do this all over again.

Need a search feature that only returns the long reads on a given subject. I know there must be some amazing essays out there on "Tanner '88," but all I get from Wikipedia and Google are a few measly newspaper clippings from the time.

Can't help but notice that the media breathlessly reporting on the messages that shooters write on their bullets seems to have been followed by a surge of shooters writing messages on bullets

Spotted by a neighbor this morning. Stay vigilant, Rogers Park.

Well, congrats, America. You got me curious enough to watch a Kimmel opening monologue. I hope you're happy. Was this your plan all along?

Checking in as safe during the rapture.

Watching "Tanner '88," and it's such a jump-scare every time I hear Joe Biden's name. The present is everywhere.

My old-man hot take is there's no reason to see a movie in IMAX, and if you can't capture it in a way that works for conventional screens, you've failed.

I feel comfortable disregarding any discussion of who's sowing division in this country that doesn't start with the guy setting the tone and temperature at the top.

Seconded. I used to love it until age and time came for my wrist. Maybe I should try it again in a more minimal capacity.

We're at the Jarvis Square Oktoberfest, and Amelia is going to do the sausage toss.

Yooooooo, the butternut squash latte is back at Charmers Cafe. Take it from me, it rips.

Yes! Support this! Copy this!

In the interest of just posting more often, even if it's just mundane posting.

Looks like Mastodon quotes are officially up and running. (Does anyone here even care?)

Using the computer out on the porch. Truly the best of all possible worlds.

the essence of conservatism is to object to knowledge because it leads to policy

Yet another post that only seems to see the platforms in terms of pundits/influencers and not in terms of the untold millions who are just looking for the online space they find least shitty to chill in.

You know what it feels like? It feels like government by Fyre Festival-ism. A "Let's just do it and be legends" approach backed by blind confidence (but in this case not just from greed but from demagoguery, anti-science quackery, etc.).

Taylor Swift has brought the AMC ticketing app to its knees. I just wanted to see what's playing tonight near me.

[Lebowski voice]: My thinking about blogging has been very uptight!

There can't be anybody still not recognizing the hammer-on-head social commentary of "Gen V" / "The Boys," right? It's so comically overt at this point.

As if on cue, I suddenly heard it in the distance.

Getting better at remembering to open up the ol' RSS reader and actually go through the various feeds, rather than letting them accumulate for days and then just clearing in resignation. The brain is healing.

Y'all know you don't have to keep opening those Ezra Klein columns, right? I'll cop to reading them occasionally, too, but you don't need to read and dunk on EVERY ONE. There's so much more to talk about out there!

You could never explain the current moment to teenage me, flipping through the channels and not considering either of these guys the least bit consequential.

Sometimes I feel like this is maybe the only attitude left.

I would absolutely die missing a camouflaged step in this house.

Timeline cleanse 🤣

If you don't sign on for parasocial relationships, you don't have to be all personally wounded when people you don't know disappoint you.

I see the "One Battle After Another" review embargo seems to have been lifted. Ducking links left and right on here.

Reading the other quote posts to this and seeing so many podcast names I don't recognize leads me to the conclusion that there are too many podcasts.

Odds on whether this was written by AI?

Trying to imagine being a musician today and seeing what fresh hell my songs are being deployed in service of at any given moment thanks to the ease of TikTok/Reels editing/remixing.

I dunno, man, we'll see. I thought more people would abandon the app after the Trump-fealty debacle in January (not to mention the increase in slop). But turns out people love the slop! Seems entirely possible that they'll move anywhere, so long as the slop keeps coming.

Today is the 30th anniversary of Hackers

Is it just me, or are bot follows ramping up again?

It'd be great if folks considered it disqualifying for a representative to actively give up on attempts at unity.

Definitely, for sure a positive economic indicator.

I'm sure this is gonna go great.

I do not know how to fix it, but I cannot say enough how much we in the news need to figure out how to handle the “flood the zone with shit” strategy.

Wish they still did, TBH. Their DVD catalog was a million times more robust.