Today was a good "put on some cozy comfort TV and half-watch while making a ton of gyoza" fried up a few for dinner, freezing the rest (pictured sheet pan is one of two I filled up)

Ahh yes the pundit class's need to boil down every human interaction to a "phenomenon"

My contributions to the family holiday meal today—Kenji's "Hasselback potato gratin" (basically scalloped potatoes assembled sideways for lots of exposed surface area for browned edges), sourdough* focaccia, and spiced apple cake with salted penuche frosting

Lots of people sharing this clip because it's funny and cathartic but I also genuinely believe it's important. We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."

Overnight, the Raccoonobahn had this grey fox and coyote commuting, I think the raccoons are taking the long way round rather than use the Raccoonobahn at the moment. Though, neither fox or coyote would really want to tangle with an adult raccoon (they feisty). #mammals

That moment when you cross the threshold from just being tired of the hot takes to being tired of the "tired of the hot takes" posts I really should just log off

“You will be visited by three spirits.” The three spirits

Post doing the rounds about how great it was on "old twitter" that you could "bully brands in to acting right" and just want to vent about how big-clout accounts never seemed to understand that was something they could only do because of their follower counts

Have you ever had a dream you think about years later and sill get bummed you woke up before you could see the ending? A decade or so ago I had one where I had to fly a spaceship to Mars where an archaeological team had somehow discovered what were uncontrovertibly the bones of John the Baptist...

I'm on the whole positive on Star Wars (if decliningly so), but there is nothing more insufferable to me than arguing about Star Wars rankings. Just the worst.

“I asked ChatGPT” “I asked Claude” I asked this horseshoe crab and he said your ass wouldn’t have lasted two seconds in the Triassic

Quote your art with glasses on

every AI advocate is like "look out specific industry, AI can now create a weird facsimile of what your specific industry makes, very poorly... looks like it's over for your industry"

Food hot take going in to the turkey holiday: The conventional wisdom that light meat poultry is bad is in large part a product of the fetishization of cooking a bird whole.

Every “this 90s video game soundtrack did NOT have to go this hard” video essay fails to note President Clinton’s pledge that by the end of the decade, America would create a video game soundtrack that “goes extremely hard”

When's the last time an aging SF/F/H writer has in their late career it was really important to awkwardly retcon all their popular books and series into having taken place a connected universe/multiverse? Seems like it used to be par for the course but haven't seen it in a while...

The saying really should be "a stopped clock APPEARS right twice a day," it never actually _is_ right from an epistemic standpoint...

i love how bsky posters are so eager to appear worldly and wise that they'll jump to say "AND YOU'RE SURPRISED????" to the craziest shit that's ever happened. if bluesky existed on 9/11/01 you fucking bet these people would out here with "obviously, everyone with a brain cell could see this coming"

Every once in a while I find myself wondering why every bread recipe on the internet by default is enough to make two loaves and then remember as a single childless person baking everyday bread for only for myself I am not the primary target audience

Seeing a bunch of this again this morning, doooooooon't

Wizard squad is now a trio #wizard #felt #fiberart

As someone who spent too much of my life feeling an unearned superiority for being "smart" before I learned better it feels like an ironic punishment how that word has now become code for "a product or feature that's thoroughly smeared in Al shit in a way you will not be able to get the stink off"

It is real weird to me how many grown adults I see whining about GTA delays that is def a franchise you're supposed to outgrow by the end of your 20s at the LATEST

It's a shame there wasn't more care given when the skeuomorphic default iconography of computer applications was codified, would be nice if you didn't have to guess whether clicking an icon with a magnifying glass is going to pull up zoom controls or a search function

Two widgeons playing Lady and the Tramp with some milfoil #birds #birding #birdphotography #photography #naturephotography #wildlifephotography #weirdducktime

These ducks feel to me like they would be in a commercial for coffee if coffee had anything to do with ducks, no I will not elaborate #birds #birding #birdphotography #photography #naturephotography #wildlifephotography

So apparently the current science suggests Saturn's rings are only a few hundred million years old and will be gone within another hundred million or so, it's pretty cool that lifeforms that would eventually make telescopes and space probes and shit happened to evolve in the right window to see them

It's a good thing mergansers take their baths in the middle of the lake and not in a bathroom, they'd spend as much time toweling off the walls and floor as they did actually taking their bath #birds #birding #birdphotography #photography #naturephotography #wildlifephotography #weirdducktime

I had a dream the only part of which I recall was someone telling me there’d been new correspondence from JRR Tolkien found that indicated the term “hobbit” was actually a nod to the similarity of their agrarian lifestyle “habitants” of New France…

I'm usually descriptivist to the bone but when someone uses "misnomer" when they mean "misconception" it makes me feel like I'm covered in bugs

First post here. I’ll unpack our new paper @science.org highlighting the loss of old animals and calling for ‘longevity conservation’ www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Imagine losing “access” to this

TFW you revisit something and are worried going in that maybe your memory of how good it was is just a product of your less-developed tastes and at the time you first experienced it ✕ rose-tinted nostalgia for that time in your life, but then no it actually slaps even more than you had remembered...

Misspelled "BLESSED"

There used to be a running joke that Al would always be 5-10 years off because as soon as we start to make progress on a so-called "Al subject" we realize it's not really Al and just call it applied comp-sci, and it's so annoying that cycle broke on one of the stupidest not-really-Al things to date

This slaps more than it has any right to

Anyone ever think about how these two titles are basically synonymous?

My wife is getting gender affirming surgery in 5 days if you can repost this and / or donate that would help her immensely! #transawarenessweek

"One part constantly quoted out of context in a way that royalty misses the point of the whole work" starter set

New York Times social media guidelines prohibit expression suggesting partiality on things like ICE, execution of foreigners in fishing boats, or whether law is a thing. However, tipping off notorious serial pedophiles about other reporters is absolutely fine.

Been thinking about why @pantspants.bsky.social comics speak to my soul so much esp lately and have landed on two main answers

TFW everybody's pretty riled up for spaghetti night

Did you know. That the meme-explosion that was the wooden model of Sacabambaspis (an Ordovician jawless fish) held at a Museum in Helsinki, was created by a pioneering Estonian fish paleontologist and palaeoartist, Elga Mark-Kurik. 🧵

It is a real failure of scicom that this was published in October but only made the popular news too late for Halloween XD subtbiol.pensoft.net/article/1623...

Actual good faith question for polls like this How many people in this panel have anything to lose from a prolonged shutdown? I want to know what the people on the receiving end of this are feeling and what they want. And I don’t feel like I’m seeing that.

If the post you want to respond to already has a quoted post that is necessary to its context, sorry you're going to have to settle on the reply function, I am not following you two quotes deep.