It's that time of the year where we all get to enjoy Jeff Probst barely containing his glee at the existence of a gigantic muscle man excelling at physical challenges on Survivor!

there's a big problem with the culture here on bluesky, and it's that not nearly enough people are posting about the 10 year anniversary of Carly Rae Jepsen's groundbreaking and timeless album EMOTION being this year and how awesome that is

24. One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This This is fantastic and I think everyone should read it. It has me reevaluating some of my own (in)actions. It’s well-written but not overly wordy, it’s impactful, and it says a lot of what needs to be said. Highly recommend it. 📚💙

Bruh

yes

23. Be With Listen, I’m not gonna lie - most of this went over my head. I enjoyed the ones that didn’t, though!

22. Mister Magic I liked a lot of elements of this but wish it was a little spookier. I was never Mormon, but had a lot of friends who were, and I think a lot of them could’ve stood to read this when they were young. The author’s acknowledgment at the end is very touching. 📚💙

Oh yeah, speaking of the tattoo shop

All sense of normalcy left my body the second someone at the tattoo shop asked me if moogles being in Kingdom Hearts meant they shared a universe with Final Fantasy. Mask hanging on by a very frayed thread.

People only come out and say “there is no place for political violence” when it’s a physical act. Words can be violence, voting can be an act of violence, parading around school to school and advocating for violence is an act of violence.

I consistently get the nicest spam texts.

I present: Kimahri with a bottle of coke.

there is only one way to persevere through office winter

I was waiting for the bus downtown and saw a guy cruise by me on a Lime scooter in a hospital gown. I love the city.

The hardest thing to do in life is picking which handheld to take when I travel

21. Lord of the Butterflies I’ve been dabbling in poetry again, and I very much enjoyed a lot of these. I read it in eBook format which was a little wonky in some parts, but I liked it enough that I’m going to buy a physical copy. I’ve been pretty down lately and this was just what I needed. 💙📚

My new documentary premieres on Sunday! Seeking to understand why physical media is making a comeback, I dig up old vinyl records, CDs, cassette tapes and DVDs – and I end up in a much bigger story about ownership, memory & meaning. #physicalmedia

I'm struck by the cavernous difference between saying, "They should make the Muppets canon to Kingdom Hearts," and saying, "They should make Kingdom Hearts canon to the Muppets."

They hated her because she spoke the truth.

Before this week I’d never had one of those dreams where you lose your teeth but now I’ve had one of those AND one where I coughed up my own tongue, and I’d very much like to go back to just not remembering my dreams! Hard pass on all of this.

be on the lookout for a very small dracula

20. Seconds This might be my favorite of his that I’ve read. It’s a good reminder that we can’t control everything and to accept that things won’t always be perfect. I kind of wish it had a different ending, but that’s okay. I like that it acknowledges its message isn’t all that deep, too. 💙📚

I don’t ever post going-live notifications but since it’s the first time I’ve streamed in a million years, I figure I’d say that I’m gonna stream some Viewfinder here in a sec. twitch.tv/kreestin

me during my nightly Pikmin Bloom mood check

Between this and Florence + The Machine announcing a new album today, I’m unwell.

the sensory fruit always find me when I need them most

Okay I’ll come out for a drink but I’m not going to sing-a about the moon-a and the June-a and the spring-a Me three drinks in:

The Year 2004 - Space Solace XXIV The Zoo Tycoon Crew is back in space to pick their favorite video games from the year 2004 and hoping no tragedies befall their spaceship… podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/v...

Y'all won't believe the celebrity sighting I just had

19. The Bones Beneath My Skin I mostly liked this, but I definitely think I’m a little TJ Klune’d out. Didn’t realize this was a rerelease and it makes sense that it is. And maybe I’m just a prude but the spicy stuff in this felt really unnecessary and out of place. 💙📚

We're LIVE picking the best games from the year 2004... in SPACE! twitch.tv/superNPCradio @alecrobbins.bsky.social @redmageroxy.bsky.social @connermccabe.bsky.social @jeremyschmidt.bsky.social @pastrick.bsky.social @kreestin.bsky.social

Hey, as a librarian I have to tell you You don't have to finish a book that doesn't interest you. Life's too short for that. Not your jam? You have my permission to move on to the next book.

Tomorrow we draft the best video games from the year 2004… in SPACE! Friday at 7pm PST we’ll be live on Twitch. Come hang! twitch.tv/supernpcradio

Space voyagers on this episode: @jeremyschmidt.bsky.social @connermccabe.bsky.social @redmageroxy.bsky.social @alecrobbins.bsky.social @pastrick.bsky.social @kreestin.bsky.social Mikey Stephens and Ben Cassil

“i asked grok” “i asked chatGPT” yeah well i asked Esquie and he didn’t think that was very whee of you

I should have known that a purchase from The Snooki Shop would not come in subtle packaging, so really this is on me.

18. The Gate of the Feral Gods Still enticed by the series and liked this, but it started getting into Ready Player One territory with all its references. It also leans heavily on doing some big move and then explaining what happened afterwards. I still wanna see where things are going, though!

Just me and my completely normal quantity of mustard on a hot dog.

I don't really do YT content but I did create this video of my favorite JRPG town themes and I figured since I spent so damn long on it I should at least try to get it some views to justify the time spent: youtu.be/WT-QFfCRoho

"ChatGPT is great for brainstorming!" Actually we have a tool for that already! It's called thinking. We use our brain. It's called brainstorming! Clue is in the name.

17. The Manor of Dreams I thought this was decent. I liked the family dynamics and the generational trauma aspects, but the spooky stuff didn’t land for me. I also always struggle with instant attraction relationships in books and there’s one of those too. But still, it kept me hooked! 💙📚

YUUUUUUUUUCK

In a stunning moment of carnal desire, my calculator said “BOOBIE5”

One of my favorite things is a shared crowd experience of people being just a *little* bit excited, like when I saw La La Land in theaters in Las Vegas and there was a bout of brief excited mumbling when “Boulder City, NV” came up on screen.

Good to know that the switch 2 continues that annoying feature where you turn it on in the dock and it falls asleep before you can change the HDMI input on your TV.

happy 15 years to the goat 15 fucking years youtu.be/Hv6RbEOlqRo

I once had to tell a big-wig at work that I could not add Jewel’s personal email address to a distribution list and that we would need to onboard Jewel as a contractor if they’d like to do that. 💀