A Lord of the Rings cover band called Grond Day

It would have saved a lot of time if they'd just released a PDF reading "You'll stop pokin' yer nose inta stuff y'ain't s'posedta look at, if ya know what's good for ya!"

On this day: Avatar became the highest grossing film ever

True Fact: Merrick Garland is just his stage name, his real name is Frank Gumm. #truefacts

“I’d like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn”

At 2004 Thanksgiving my dad was acting odd. The next day he was hospitalized with a malignant glioblastoma of the brain. He died the day after Christmas. The day before Thanksgiving this year my best friend was hospitalized. Yesterday they diagnosed glioblastoma. Christmas is in a week. Fuck cancer.

“You’ll be visited by three spirits.” The three spirits:

Sure, nobody's renamed a performance center after me, but at least I'm not losing my mind with anxiety about some files being released tomorrow.

Transporter technology just keeps improving, culminating in 'It's An Honorable Life' at the Historic Mounds Theater in St. Paul this weekend! moundstheatre.org/klingons/ #startrek #transporter #beammeup #klingon #fanproduction #holiday #xmas #christmas #theater #original

Firefighting plane, May 2025 #photography #photojournalism #fire #firefighting #Oracle #Arizona

Today is Jane Austen's 250th birthday #JaneAusten #writers #history

Going into 2026 like...

In all seriousness, Miller is trying to be cute by ALMOST throwing the "OK" white supremacy sign. No, it's neither an accident nor a coincidence. #whitesupremacy #dogwhistles #NewNurembergTrials

Not Rob Reiner, not like this. This fucking year.

Had to browse 5 separate headlines before the name of the woman who was murdered appeared. I saw 'husband' & 'Miss Switzerland finalist' but the actual PERSON was buried under other roles and relationships that set the violence in a clickbait context. Because those clicks matter more than the person

Just finished (again) Delany's "Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand," and how anyone can write like that is mind boggling. I feel like I need a cigarette, and I don't even smoke. #books #sf #delany #classicsf #criminy #literature

Do you want an octopus revolution? Because that's how you get an octopus revolution. I, myself, like the idea of an octopus revolution. You could say I'm a sucker for it.

That during this day and age people can look at a billion-dollar lottery and tell themselves, "I'm sure that's being run fairly and it's certainly not fixed" says a lot about people's trust in institutions that have long since demonstrated their flimsiness.

Folks, there's no 'fixing' the damage being done. Everything moves forward. The damage is permanent. Maybe someday we'll build a BETTER future, but the only way out is THROUGH, not BACK. Power is never surrendered, it's only taken. Nobody with power will give it up, they must be relieved of power.

"Netflix Accidentally Buys Paramount, Warner Bros Still Available."

And now suddenly this morning I've had to block "America First" and "Let's Go" fascist troll accounts. Did somebody think a toxic algorithm change was a good idea at the holidays?

Top Ten Things They'll Find on This Old Unix Tape: https://ksltv.com/science-technology/university-of-utah-discovers-rare-computer-relic/853296/ 10. Price guide for a WANG 2200 9. A newfangled FTP server 8. /etc/passwd protected with 2ROT13 encryption 7. An RTTY centerfold of Barbi Benton 6 […]

What skill did you master that you will never, ever use again?

"Movie you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars, LOTR, or Marvel."

It's a hoarding disorder. If they collected old newspapers or cats to the same extent we'd get them therapy, but because it's money we put them on the cover of Forbes. The ultra-wealthy are a tiny, mentally unwell sliver of the population and they cause so much misery.

I'm really looking forward to receiving the NFL prize for particle physics.

Missing is the middle image showing University students being run down by two-lane bidirectional auto traffic for fifty years. #history #minneapolis #foshaytower #universityofminnesota #lightrail #streetcar #transit

Confirming a number of popular theories, the Curiosity rover has discovered that Mars is made of peanut brittle. #science #mars #candy #TheMoonIsMadeOfCheese #CheeseGromit

I call my fists Simon and Garfunkel because if there's a Bridge Over Troubled Water we'll hear only The Sounds of Silence after you meet The Boxer.

Tens of millions of people bought hundreds of millions of tickets on multiple days & still nobody won. You're about as likely to win the lottery by buying a ticket as you are by finding the winning ticket blowing down the street. The latter is much cheaper. #statistics #math #StupidityTax #HopeTax

Okay, yes, Section 31 was uninspiring and intensely stupid. However, it was all worth it for the message from Control. #startrek #section31

The most hilarious part of South Park is the idea that anyone in the US would have the spine to put Peter Thiel and Pete Hegseth behind bars. #SouthPark #comedy #satire

Spent the day working on the van, checking on Keith's Caringbridge posts, and toying with Internet Gopher and Gemini. Keith's doing okay, so it could be worse. It's fun playing with Gopher and Gemini.

Post your favorite "Lord of the Rings" character. Wrong answers only.

I spent the evening playing with Internet Gopher pages and I think that was the right call.

I made up a gopherhole for myself that displays a different random text-banner each visit so I feel like I've accomplished something today. gopher -p \~albatross tilde.club

Today has been ugh. Very ugh. But it could have been worse. But ugh.

Millions of people bought hundreds of millions of tickets on multiple days, and still nobody won. You're about as likely to win the lottery by buying a ticket as you are by finding the winning ticket blowing down the street. The latter is much cheaper. #statistics #math #StupidityTax #HopeTax

I have no idea how a turkey is supposed to manage a $250M donation to a third-term re-election campaign fund. #politics #corruption #thanksgiving

Jensen Huang of Nvidia says there is no AI bubble. www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202... #politics #economy #ai #aibubble #nvidia #techbros #dotcom #dotcomcrash #herewegoagain #SantayanaWarnedUs #siliconvalley

I call on the resting soul Of Galileo King of night vision King of insight. I'm not making a joke You know me I take everything so seriously

Flying across the Washington Avenue bridge like a super-powered @chrissteller.bsky.social

At Loon Coffee

If you see this, post your getaway vehicle

Every time nobody wins a jackpot and it increases it to tell you how slim the odds of winning are. Millions of people bought multiple tickets, and none won. The odds of buying a winning lottery are pretty much the same as finding the winning lottery ticket blowing down the street.

MAGA astonished to learn some Americans think justice should apply to everyone equally.

STOP. This is a selfie checkpoint. You must repost with a cute selfie to proceed.

Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad

"Despicable Pismire" is my Drag King Name. pluralistic.net/2025/11/18/i... @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy "My guess is that Disney will have to offer Wolf enough money that he agrees to keep the film in distribution and the ride running. Which is the point."

If you think "Quiet, piggy" is disgusting, next week is the TENTH ANNIVERSARY of Trump mocking a disabled reporter, and yet the media still sanewashed his re-election. Trump has always been this person, everyone has always known it, and yet enough people voted for him to put him back in office.