you...you HAVE to zoom in on their faces lmao

DM tip: if your party encounters an Awakened Shrub that is willing to have a conversation with them, there is a 99% chance they will be very engaged in conversation with said Awakened Shrub.

Almost every single bit of this thread is its own Sentence™️

Garin Cycholl

The distinction is simple. If it would be 30+ minutes spoken and about something fascinating but ultimately relatively unrelated to my daily life, it needs to be a video or podcast. If it contains information I might need quickly or will ever need to reference quickly, it needs to be an article.

Always wonderful to bump into my old friend Daniel Radcliffe!

Living in San Francisco is wild sometimes. Yesterday I saw a dozen half-naked guys walk down the street in leather fetish gear and my only thought was, "Dammit, that was today, that explains why traffic's a nightmare." Extraordinary city

Will never forget how my college audition recordings were almost thwarted because Naperville parents were scared shitless at the prospect of their 16-18-year-olds walking half a mile from Union Station to Michigan Avenue at 8 PM on a Saturday in a group of 10

Gotta participate in this year's -tober challenge

J. Alfred Prufrock:

Forgot to post on the day of, but my sister and I went to Stagecoach Greens for my birthday and it was absolutely cute as shit

Instead of a tie game, players of Sam Reich's choosing must immediately participate in an episode of Game Changer.

If your Klein be Naomi, then listen, homie; But if your Klein be Ezra, disregard what he sezra

Politics for some people is a vaguely-but-not-really-immersive cross between sports and theater

ah sim as aves lendarias zapdos articuno e moltres

Ah, the classic losing Among Us strategy of being the first one to loudly and repeatedly accuse someone of being guilty before dropping it immediately and hoping nobody remembers to look at you

Well don't I feel stupid

Has anyone ever done a Kickstarter for a classical music project and been happy with it? What kind of project, how did you do it, any advice?

Some transgender people see only darkness in front and behind them. The current climate is especially accelerating this. Transgender people just want to love the people they love and live their lives as themselves. Let's all join hands and change the world🫶🌏🫶

Dave Matthews has the opportunity to do the funniest thing.

Wow didn't realize Chunk was problematic... listening and learning

the people who work the morning commuter shift at the union station starbucks are significantly braver than the troops

She basically invented astrophysics. She proved the laws of chemistry, quantum mechanics, and statistical mechanics, not just gravity, applied universally. She determined the composition of the sun and primacy of hydrogen in the universe. She advised the PhDs of Frank Drake and Frank Kameny.

where are these human beings

Shhh let them cook

www.wsj.com/sports/baseb... Great article about the storied tradition of baseball organists *gift*

Watching Dead Man Walking for the first time in a long time, and I'm reminded of how motivically tight and well-constructed yet immediately accessible it is. It's genuinely a triumph.

Uhhhhhh this is like... nuts??? @sfopera.bsky.social thank you for Gratitude Upgrading your lowly Balcony 3 subscriber 😭

They told me to make myself at home, so I turned the thermostat all the way down and buried myself in every single blanket they own

Couldn’t understand why our local undertaker have an eel-shaped coffin in their window, but now I realise it acts as a memento moray.

A Chinese singing competition reality show did this to a random Russian translator they hired once and I'm not even kidding

I'm not saying the SF Opera deliberately scheduled one of my favorite operas (Dead Man Walking) with my favorite singer (@jbartonmezzo.bsky.social) on my birthday as a treat for me... I'm just saying, like, how did they know

HER NAME IS OPERA, YOU GUYS

This is, unfortunately, incredibly relatable

Springsteen's birthday today. A good day to remember the time my mate couldn't remember his name or nickname and called him The Job.

In Swedish, a word for what you eat to bridge the gap between meals (or while waiting for the main course to cook) is stödmacka. It means "support sandwich." A similar word in Norwegian is ventepølse, or "waiting sausage."

This is your annual reminder that if you aren't cool with fat people, you don't get to enjoy fat bears.

dudes rock

I have smashed The plum Flavored lacroixs That were in The cooler Hell yeah brother The dudes They do rock

HEARTBREAKING: reheated the first Soup Cube from the meal prep trays I bought and it was like... half a bowl. Diet culture strikes again

Going to read this one with the seniors next week/talk about the ethics of doing something like chatting about a novel when it seems like we’ve got bigger fish to fry

emily dickinson be like: bog is this true

me when my 32mm scale model Meiji Restoration-era Japanese village is out for delivery

I saw a version of this posted on a classroom door during AP testing like 3 years ago, and "one day something will kill me" rewired me

Sixteen years later, still the funniest piece of writing on the internet. I revisit it every year the way some people rewatch It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown or reread A Christmas Carol. You’re either ready to reap this freaky-assed harvest or you’re not.

GUESS WHAT WEEK IT IS

Altos every time we open damn near anything

@wesflinn.bsky.social sighting! Incredible stuff

the bone farmer, revisited | patreon.com/lubchansky

Oooooh we shakin