[“I’m very disheartened by the shortage of quality men,” she added. “Men my age are less educated, their social skills are abysmal, and now they’re running into the arms of Trump and ‘incel’ forums.”]

It must be so satisfying to be able to floss your brain.

I walked back and forth to confirm this wasn't just an illusion, like a reflection of light coming from my side of him. Ooh, I also just found this video of the same thing: youtu.be/YdGKY5HpBzE

This is freakin' rad, I've seen the same lizard in the same place a few more times, and this morning I happened to catch him in silhouette and noticed that his ears(?) are see-through!!

Watched Eas Anderson’s “All We Imagine as Dark,” a.k.a. “The Chowpatty Chupacabra.” Disenchanted by the resting witch face of a recent blockbuster Malayalam lead? Take comfort in this significantly more talented and expressive countenance, and body. The Claymation was cute, but distracting. #filmsky

Guacamole, banana bread, smoothie—or as I’d like to call them, crisis-management food, when your consumption estimates pan out differently.

The sexual matador.

I was thinking how unfair it is that only high-achieving young people, the ambitious ones who want to get somewhere, seek out mentors, giving them another advantage, so I'm looking to mentor someone with no ambition, offer tips on half-assing it and just getting by without doing too much damage.

At India FOSS last weekend, I spoke about daydreaming with a Raspberry Pi and DIY homelab server racks. It starts at ≈57:40 in the livestream here. Half hour of your time. www.youtube.com/live/FtF-I0-... Instructions: jackerhack.ing/notes/202503...

Someone called me a dumbass and honestly I’ve never felt so understood

"To this day, whenever I meet someone else who loves DROP DEAD GORGEOUS, I know we’ll get along."

so much depends upon the red plums glazed with cold water beside the white chickens

Nothing says I mean business like wearing a hospital gown to the pharmacy.

If your novel is set in the recent, pre-cellphone past and your plot depends on a dilemma that would now be resolved with a simple phone call, make sure the reader understands that by having a character say, "Too bad cellphones don't exist yet."

I can’t believe I traded my soul for chicken soup.

Enjoyed it, despite what I felt was an unsatisfactory reveal, although this reviewer seems to have loved it. Always good to see poor-man’s FaFa get plenty of screentime. Edge-of-the-seat stuff. #filmsky

404: Personality Not Found. Flash fiction for today's #vss365 prompt, #catastrophe. We're living in the future, and the future is dumb.

Hummingbirds' metabolisms are so fast that they have to go into a hibernation-like state called torpor just to sleep through the night. Otherwise, they would starve to death in their sleep.

I tell you what, learn a little bit about cancer and people who think you can cure cancer with diet or supplements do look very silly. This is why cancer biologists have such a hard time not being snarky.

HR keeps referring to “the incident” and I keep telling them they’ll have to be more specific.

I just finished The Beatles doc and I was really surprised to learn that Ringo originally wrote "I Will Always Love You" and gave it to Dolly Parton in exchange for a lifetime pass to Dollywood.

Those are some well-laid schemes you've got there. Be a shame if they were to gang agley.

"You've already displaced native Hawaiians and devastated the landscape of an island with a vanity farm in order to procure your beef, so next, grate a pear."

Excellent watch. And CanCon to boot. #filmsky

“The Princess Bride” (1987) Director of Photography: Adrian Biddle

Did you know? In the Victorian era, doctors tasted their patients’ urine to diagnose diabetes. Before chemical tests were introduced, this was considered a respectable medical practice. A single sip of urine was the only way to confirm the presence of sugar in the body. #Victorian #history

Doubly ruin a song by adding the word “literally” to the title, wrongly We Didn’t Start the Literally Fire

Increasingly, being delusional is the only way to stay sane.

Ah, so that’s why they call it a steer. Got it.

I hate it when someone will post a fun little conversation starter like "what's your favorite ice cream flavor?" And someone has to respond with like "oh this small batch toasted basil and amaretto date gelato with a bourbon infused balsamic swirl at Avvone Glace in LA" Just say "cookie dough"

No Cowntry for Old Men

One day, nearly 2000 years ago, a cat dashed across some drying tiles, somewhere near Hadrian's Wall. It's immortality of a kind, isn't it?

ചിന്താവിഷ്ടനായ ശ്യാമളാൻ.

Nicely done.

I'm not saying I'm dumb but nobody ever tells me "that's a great question"

It's so cute how everyone names their food in the work fridge. I'm currently drinking an iced coffee named Judy.

Just think: Before the internet, it would've taken days, weeks or even months to receive mountains of misinformation we get now in just minutes

I know people are getting dumber because I can answer more questions on Jeopardy now.

[Lambert makes lovely low-key use of her coastal-Oregon setting and the unhurried rhythms of life there, finding the divine in the details.] This was good. #filmsky

The AI craze is the distillation of cargo cult belief. If you build a crude simulation of knowledge, then wisdom will appear.

When I try to list the The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse from memory the one I always forget is Bashful

We’re quite deep within the Singularity right now, though it’s turned out be the Singularity of Stupid (SoS), which effectively prevents the original concept of the Singularity from happening.

Why don't they just make the whole website out of cookies?

In a recent interview, Arundhati Roy says that everything you see happening in the USA, happened here in India in 2014. Indeed Modi has been a few steps ahead of Trump all the way, slashing freedoms, criminalising minorities on the pretext of targeting terrorism or illegal immigration,

The O.G. ChatGPT.

Municipal guide cover of the day (possibly an all time great!): Croydon, 1971. Countdown typeface klaxon!

He’s a ten but talks about himself in the third person

Wife: I'll buy a subscription to any publication that writes one honest story about the "masculinity crisis" that just says "Men want to be able to treat women like shit and still get laid" and just be done with it. There's no more depth to the discussion. There is no nuance.

How I've missed out on life: "Sounds like fun. But what's the parking situation?"

Humans tend to see human intelligence in their pet dogs, their pet fishes and their pet rocks so it's really not surprising that they see it in their pet natural language processing programs.