[Morrissey voice]

wish I could tell all the new arrivals "welcome, we block don't engage" but it's not really true any more. now we argue like a bunch of basic ass twitter users. we go into other people's mentions and carry on interminable arguments with zero laffs. welcome, we used to be cool

My husband every time he gives me updates about his woodworking project

First of all i dont have 'meltdowns' or get 'over-stimumated'. These are simply Rockabilly Freakouts, and are totally normal

The particular pleasure of science fiction (as opposed to other kinds of fantastic fiction) is the channel that links the present to the imagined future of the text. The suspension of disbelief works differently. Unlike dragons, the future is real, and that gives sci-fi its distinctive flavour.

I hope the Blue Jays win the ALCS. I’m not a baseball fan. I just think the people of Toronto deserve a little treat, as compensation for having to live in Toronto.

i'm not going to chide or scold anyone for only now leaving twitter. your private, unspoken acknowledgment that i'm your intellectual and moral superior is all i need

Dropout is a shining example of a successful, progressive, and relentlessly weird creative business. Easily the best subscription I have.

Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves. One for practice and the other one is the "main" grave.

On October 13, 1994, The Mosaic Communications Corporation launched, under the name Mosaic Netscape 0.9, the first one in a series of browsers, called Netscape Navigator. #InternetHistory

more of a publishing opinion than a literary one i guess, but books should come out in paperback first and then do a hardcover release farther down the road

Lore-dumping is fine, actually

Portland:

In video games, you will often find a fully roasted chicken abandoned on the ground, and eating it extremely quickly makes you feel better. What's less known is that this is also true in real life

damn. hoping it at least signifies something

I hate how accurate this is

Every photo I take is done practically with very little digital work, using household items to create special effects like cotton wool for fire & foil for water. Each set is meticulously set up for just the one scene then dismantled so I can set up another scene. Thanks for helping me keep going.

In my 30 years as a #StarTrek researcher, this will forever be one of my coolest finds: This screenshot from #StarTrekTNG's "Qpid" shows both 24th/25th century Starfleet Captain Jean-Luc Picard ⬅️ and 20th/21st century thespian Sir Patrick Stewart ➡️ on screen at the same time. How, you ask? 🧵 1/6

I seriously don’t think anything like this has ever happened even once anywhere in the world

David Cross folks.

when I went to the store in the past they put a sticker on my shirt and gave me a cookie and let me play with the toys. I go to the store in 2025 and they want me to pay for my groceries myself and mommy doesn't drive me home? retvrn

Sharing this again because it's a good guide for finding useful tech tools, but it's becoming more important to cut ties from US tech

Got my performance review.

This one really ticks all the Port Coquitlam boxes

This only happens to you once

"In some places, French postal workers now pick up prescriptions, return library books, and deliver flowers. Last year, only twenty eight per cent of La Poste’s revenue came from sending mail." Services can evolve in positive ways to meet new and growing needs.

I finally cleaned up my messy cablework

presented without comment: ★ the floppy disk alignment chart ★

you busy? the monolith from 2001 A Space Odyssey is here. it wants us to—yeah, beat each other to death with bones

this exists it is called thinking

IYKYK

Here's a thing that's probably right up your Straße, you big mad oddball.x

I met Dan Ackroyd at a liquor store. I asked him “why would Elwood Blues select a Ford LTD for the new Bluesmobile when the 94 Chevy Caprice 9C1 is better in every way?” He looked me dead in the eye and said “Ha. It looked weird.” A king.

My personal top 5 theme songs: 1. Doctor Who (original) 2. Buffy the Vampire Slayer 3. Kids in the Hall 4. The Sopranos 5. S.W.A.T. (1975)

Saw this while walking my dog today. Outrageous Bush Era energy coming off of this image. Three Doors Down is stuck in my head all of a sudden. New Jeff Dunham special is likely imminent within the year. The U.S. is for sure about to destabilize a country that the president can’t identify on a map.

They grew old together it’s beautiful

good luck to the americans. i’d give my data to the ccp over ellison and andreessen any day 🫡

Hi guys, did you already know there are competitions for window tinting? With better commentators than most of the tennis matches I’ve watched on ESPN? (Low bar I know) Anyway if you need to procrastinate harder than you’ve ever procrastinated before, I got you

Injecting some levity by sharing one of my favourite memes of all time

As an advocate for patronizing local live music and theatre, I welcome this wholeheartedly

need someone to feed me Doritos while i read, so i don’t mess up the pages. no weirdos.

0.3% of the Earth’s land area is about 446,000 square kms, which is roughly the same as the land area of Morocco. Per the USDA, 614 million acres of US land is used for livestock, which is over 2.4 million square kms, or about 5 Moroccos.

Literally begging you to post about Just Some Stuff. We will see the news I absolutely promise. Twenty people will repost the same exact thing about the news. Only you can post about a turtle you saw

Every European in the 1890’s:

Bugs when you lift up a rock: