House-made ketchup. Just give us Heinz, they figured it out already and you're not improving on the recipe.

i’m 40 now so i no longer have to avoid looking like exactly what i am: the middle-aged wife who will take you to the bead store

discord isn’t community. go outside, if you can

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Happy 100th, Mel Brooks.

guys sometimes this website is cool and good

An excellent use case for why people really need to be able to define “AI” and recognize it’s an umbrella term, not a synonym for heavyweight commercial LLMs/frontier models.

reading medieval accounts of anything:

love how this evokes a shadeless parking lot surrounded by strip malls

The Goosebumps Dog in the Criterion Closet.

Yves Tanguy, Multiplication of the Arcs, 1954 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135613

thru the quote tweets on this i learned about the Menominee Pageant, which looks awesome and i’m gonna go if i can

The regular Folklife Festival is so amazing that I can barely imagine how good the 250th could've been with events on the Mall. There are still local events happening across the US & territories though, as well as in DC: festival.si.edu

hello, are people discussing cheese curds?

[i’m in this picture and i don’t like it]

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man, it feels good to be cautiously optimistic about a politician and then watch them cheerfully hop over all your very low bars.

FUCK yeah dude!!!

man @romancingthevote.com has some great stuff. i don’t actually know these contemporary authors, but this annotated copy of Howl’s Moving Castle is a fantastic idea

The Fern Cat https://botfrens.com/collections/69/contents/19635

i need an ethnography stat

once again tapping my sign

feline crime wave hitting the nation (alfador is also asleep in a sunbeam)

i don’t think you need to speak portuguese to follow this but it’s extremely funny if you do

slopkaesque

what if theyre vibing. did you think about that

you used to call me on my shell phone

i finally found this man’s arch nemesis

whoops

plus, i know a shitload of engineers and designers who’d vastly prefer to work on the design and supply chain and infra problems inherent to mass adoption of heat pumps. do you know what they’re doing right now? probably ai horseshit

a general philosophy for life

sometimes i miss government

jesse i don’t know who you are but could you be normal about me for like 30 consecutive seconds

me, post-successful dissertation topic pitch

this is a sensible idea worth trying! i’m looking forward to monday :)

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i would also eat culver’s shrimp twice in a day. i would order a shrimp concrete mixer. i would inject a shrimp directly into my veins with a culver’s Butter Needle (tm)

i think air conditioning is a cool social design problem and these are potentially fruitful constraints for sustainable design

i have much greener high-res scan of this on the TV right now!

“data centers are glonzo” is one of the absolute stupidest and least reality-informed takes available. it’s some truly choice gibberish performing at such high levels of fine art that i think we should put it in a museum

okay damn this does look incredible

👀

whimsymogged

got whimsymogged on the LFT the other day by that family with the cargo bike and mom on rollerblades

this is hilarious and also very cool

every time i think @sodrock.bsky.social hit the bottom of the barrel in which he keeps his sanity, history continues to refuse to happen

if one of my alone-in-the-dark style friends invited me by cryptic letter to his haunted manse only to be absent i would just leave and make a facebook status about how i cant stand flaky people

If you only have time to read one thinkpiece today, don't. Go for a walk instead, dummy.