I have a meeting today entitled "Cross functional scrum of scrums touch point" and I think that that is everything wrong with corporate America in a single invite

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

And the 2017 Browns and 2008 Lions crack a Miller Genuine Draft.

The Thursday Murder Club: this is one of those scripts that Netflix commissioned for people who aren't really paying attention, isn't it? Great cast, terrible movie. 2/10.

the symbolism of “Trump destroying the White House for a overpriced luxury vanity project, during a government shut down, days after a historically-large mass demonstration against his regime called “No Kings”’ would be rightly viewed as laying it on a little thick if it was in a work of fiction

“Buck naked” is unclothed. “Butt naked” is unclothed and up to something.

Older, not-at-all punk-looking white woman at this afternoon's protest in downtown Pittsburgh holding a sign reading FUCK YOU, MAKE ME.

the Anglican Communion was a reciprocal arrangement so that adventuring clergy could pray for spells of third level and above while travelling

“Sauve qui peut”. This is a French phrase that translates literally to something like "save yourself who's able/can" and roughly equates to “run for your life!” or “every man for himself!”, indicating a chaotic or dangerous situation/stampede. Postcard from my collection, no date/info.

Thought this was an even weirder new athletic conference at first

Steelers RB Kenny Gainwell report card: good vision, great intensity, unmatched nominative determinism.

Sure I've made this joke before but: Buc'ees: what if Sheetz but Target?

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

Mash up bands ben folds five talking heads

Christmas commercial for the Home Depot on ESPN2. IT IS OCTOBER 9TH

Tell you what's cool is sharing a name with your recently-passed father and getting helpful offers from ghouls who want to helpfully buy MY house from HIS estate (which does not own my house, of course). Super cool.

People who start the Teams call 3 full minutes before the scheduled start time: what are you doing

I moved from Goodreads to thestorygraph.com because TSG isn't owned by a megacorporation. Plus, also, it's good and provides data that is fun to play around with. If you use also use it (or want to give it a try) & want to be my pal on it I am "jhkiley" over there. /1

it is somewhat reassuring to see that the leaders within the American military understand the awesome and terrible power that they hold

my wife asked yesterday if DK Metcalf's initials stand for "Donkey Kong" and as far as I know they ought to

why are we posting isaac chotiner memes please help

no reason threadreaderapp.com/thread/15881...

By the standards of the perennial Die Hard discourse, Three Days of the Condor is also a Christmas movie.

just saw a tiktok from a disney adult reading from On Tyranny and asking their followers to cancel their d+ and disney trips omg

Sitting in a community park watching my wife's band kick a little ass. Perfect weather. Ate a crepe I shouldn't have eaten. Did some minor chores this morning, ate a cheeseburger. Worked out this afternoon. Lots of things suck but today is okay.

Border Czar Tom Homan was caught by the FBI accepting bribes - on camera - to deliver government contracts in exchange for $50,000 in cash. Pam Bondi knew. Kash Patel knew. Emil Bove knew. And they made the investigation go away. A corrupt attempt to conceal brazen graft.

I posted this literally upon waking up this morning so none of you saw it but I still think it's funny.

Sure, you hear about long covid, but nobody ever talks about tall covid.

@hitchdied.bsky.social dangit now that 'secret of my success' song is stuck in my head

If you see this, quote the energy you bring to Bluesky

listen we're happy for noah wyle and his tv show but if you refer to the city as "Pitt" people are going to throw hands

Forgetting to pick up your prescription but finding a cool limited release Doritos flavor is my love language

I'm at Stage AE in Pittsburgh for Alabama Shakes. Drinks are not as overpriced as they could be!

sup fam its ya boy renfield, you know im out here gobbling up life for the master. lets see what we've got today, we got some flies

did you know gmail now has a subscriptions page where it lists all your subscriptions and you can unsubscribe from them????

I always forget that I'm going to be a little bummed out the first few days after a play wraps. But I had such a lovely time with this one.

guess I'm never going to Florida again

If you don't know how to mute your phone, or are too deaf to notice when your phone alarm is going off, please don't attend live theatre. Please.

Last night I used my years and years of improv practice (I wouldn't say "skill" by any means) in an ordinary play (helped another actor recover from a mistake). Felt kind of neat.

what the hell do normal people do when they don't have rehearsal or performance in the evening

OK, work has enabled Copilot for Outlook. I detest this stuff but maybe there's a use case: I need to decline & reschedule all my meetings for upcoming time off, can you do that? That seems like a totally reasonable use case for a tool like this. HAHAHAH no of course it can't.

I cannot IMAGINE wanting someone else to write the ending for something an author has carefully made and I've loved for years. That's so silly to me. These people don't like ART. They like BRANDS. They like FANDOM.

This is written for my own benefit as much as anyone else's. It's so that I can have it all in one place and point people at it. It's what the Reference Rants are for. Needless to say, someone is in trouble. Likely several someones.

The fact that the thing we're calling artificial intelligence *can't do math* and yet we're jamming it into programs that successfully *have done math* for decades, then warning people against using the AI to do math, seems like an excellent summary of where we are.

Terrence Stamp at the Pearly Gates. God asks him to, “say the line.” Stamp stares coldly, gives nothing. God pleads, “Please say the line.” Stamp points, “Kneel before Zod!” God cracks up, “I love that! I do a version of that for laughs. Come on in.” …And that’s how Terrence Stamp entered Heaven.

what percent of modern ventilation systems are purely focused on getting rid of farts

"man, they're afraid of new Wal-Marts up here" -- my brother, explaining why there's no improv classes in Erie