Decades ago, when I first started learning guitar, I picked up a really weird habit of using an alternative open G. When @urbanastronyc.bsky.social pointed it out, I was scratching my head on where I got this. Finally found the answer: Jimmy Page In Tangerine, one of the 1st songs I learned. 🎸

Hey yall. We started to foster this lil guy a week ago and have moved to adopt. We’ve almost pinned down a name. We think he’s a lab/pit mix, and possibly others. He is the sweetest bundle of love… when he’s not in a puppy zoomie state being a razor-wire-mouthed Baby Shark 😂🦈

Thank you all for your kind words about the passing of my dear Oscar. It was nice to see so many familiar faces from the Twitter days who used to see pics of him regularly. I miss him terribly. The Best Boy. 🌈🐕💔

not sure if this is in the current bluesky consciousness, but the Nuclear Block is what makes this place great. a block ends everything between you and the blocked person. it robs them if all engagement. it’s very much why the troll problem here is much more limited than the everything app.

I’m rarely on here and I don’t know who of my old Twitter friends are still here, but at the risk of screaming into the void: We will be saying farewell to my boy Oscar today. He just turned 14 last Wednesday. It’s all very sudden. I’m absolutely devastated. He is the best boy.

Happy New Year from New York. May your year be filled with love, joy, and good health. We face some big challenges ahead but remember to take care of yourself too: You can’t pour from an empty cup. Love to all.

Okay, here's part of my painting process for The Horsehead Nebula on an angled cup!

I’ve decided to rewatch Attack on Titan. Just got to the opening title and sequence and I never noticed it starts with singing in German! „Sind sie das Essen? Nein, wir sind die Jäger!“ Are you (the) food? No, we are the Scouts*! 1/2

You are currently in line for Box. There is one Cat ahead of you. Thank you for waiting.

Herzog shows up with his Frankincense;

*Werner Herzog voice* now, the Jingle Hop has begun

What does the perfect Christmas movie have? Snow Sitting 'round a lovely fire Hanging out on a couch with friends and getting to know them better Feeling change deep in your heart

This gag never gets old for me.

Happy Christmas Eve. Every year I inflict this upon you, one of my least popular comics ever. Enjoy!

Part of fighting back is being both intentional, accurate, and forceful with our language. So anti-woke, anti-DEI efforts and activists? Especially when those efforts result in demonstrably lower numbers of qualified Black people the ranks? Start calling these folks pro-segregation.

Day 22 of #ArtAdventCalendar: Choosing and felling the perfect tree is a Canadian tradition! #wildlife

I just wanted you to know that the first two episodes of season 3 were absolutely SOLID. The ending of 1 was a banger and they - correctly - played different during the credits. I cried a few times during eps 1 and 2 which means im more invested and they’re doing their job. 1/2

Once again I am obliged to mention that I recently worked in a school district where the policy was teachers were not to accept gifts from parents worth more than $5 lest it affect our grading.

Interviewer: can you explain this gap in your resume? Gandalf: I did not pass through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm Interviewer: please leave

DONE! FINISHED! THE END! December's #InsertAnInvert2024 and the final month of these paintings. I thank and curse @franzanth.bsky.social for this year long project. #SciArt #TradArt #Invertebrates

Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume? Gandalf: I’m sorry, Frodo… I was… delayed… Interviewer: Alright then, keep your secrets.

I just watched the second season of “From” and I’m really sorry to say… I was grateful disappointed. It wasn’t a “Heroes”-level drop in quality but… it just didn’t work for me. So much unmotivated yelling, swearing, and decision-making. (I love swearing but this felt oddly forced). 1/2

Tea Pain just saw his first Tesla truck in person. Looks like a 12-year-old made it on Minecraft.

CUT MY WORM IN TWO PIECES NOW I HAVE TWO LIVE WORMS - Papa Roach as a kid, probably

when I was a kid I heard another kid arguing about why he had to do service for others in the gurudwara and his parent was like "if you won't help others what is the point of you" and I've never forgotten that line.

PBS News has activated their account on Bluesky.

me: [carefully placing a baby on my boss’s desk] my boss: and the other one me: [pauses, then unstraps an ankle holster that cradles a smaller, but just as deadly baby]

Happy Winter Solstice! These photos were taken with a pinhole camera I made from a beer can and left out from Summer to Winter Solstice - a 6 month exposure. Bottom line = Winter Solstice. Top line = Summer Solstice. The lines are the Sun moving across the sky w/some reflections. No line = clouds

There is no good music streaming platform but spotify is absolutely the most evil one and also has the distinction of sounding the shittiest

It's the 1920s, and the head of an American car company has endorsed a far right German political party. It's the 2020s, and the head of an American car company has endorsed a far right German political party.

as an ex-twitter employee, I can confidently speak for us all: this hits on EVERY level

Rewatching the 2004 Dawn of the Dead and I just wanna say, I’m glad it was the first feature film in Zakk Snyder’s catalogue. This movie would have been much worse with that extreme shallow depth of field he employed in Army of the Dead and the Rebel Moon movies. 1/3

People are still unearthing the old stories, and I'd argue that new movies and books of Christmas horror stories are in the same tradition. www.goodreads.com/author_blog_...

In the song “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year” (1963, Pola & Wyle) there’s the lyric: “We’ll tell scary ghost stories and tales of the glories of Christmases long, long ago.” Speaking as an American Jew, I feel commercialized Christmas is missing out on the ghost stories aspect. 1/2

Happy #WeevilWednesday - this broad-nosed weevil looks like it's been dipped in licorice sprinkles (zoom in). Seen on creosote at night in CA's Anza-Borrego Desert. Guessing it's in the same genus (Ophryastes) as a similar, smaller one I found 2 weeks ago in the Mojave, but not sure. #insects 🐙🌿

🇩🇪 An meine deutschsprachigen Freunde, hier ist ein toller Artikel in der Süddeutsche Zeitung von Theresa Palm, die mich über die wunderschöne und besondere Firefly Sparkle-Galaxie interviewt hat, die von JWST entdeckt wurde. ℹ️: www.sueddeutsche.de/wissen/firef...

On This Day in 1978: I married my dental hygienist, Marilou York. She cleaned my teeth & the rest... is history. #HappyAnniversary2TheLoveOfMyLife. ❤️ 🎆 🙏

So while I’ve been ill I decided to rewatch/binge the first season of The Punisher, which I have not watched since 2017. I did not realize that David “Micro” Lieberman was Ebon Moss-Bachrach. So Jon Bernthal and Moss-Bachrach went from partners in The Punisher to best friends in The Bear (2022).

What’s got two thumbs and body aches from having the flu This guy! 😷 👍🏻👍🏻

the year is 2034. there are thousands of specialty accounts on twitter. stair guy. smell doctor. cutlery gal. sports them. liquor baby. chef raccoon. finally, men can no longer post any photo without being criticized.

#EmotionalSupportSpood 💚 Goodnight y'all

I have found my people.

@timisham.bsky.social hey man. As a choral guy, I’m a lot less familiar with the orchestral/band composers. So I asked my coworker who just came up to the middle school from the elementary school if he knew your name and he was like “I just did one of his pieces last year!” :)

Last day! ⚠️

[bene gesserit voice] giddy up jingle horse pick up your feet

I stand by it, Elf on the Shelf is ACAB

Morpheus: You take the blue pill - the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill - you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes. me (42 years old): which one is ibuprofen