A quick guide on "How to fall downstairs": Step 1 Step 6 Step 8, 9, 10, 11.

I know I have more than 200 fans in New York City. Your ideas welcome for how can I coax people out for a short, early show on a Tuesday evening?

CHOTINER: You enjoy a late night snack. ME: *chuckles* guilty as charged CHOTINER: You mentioned previously that plums are a favourite. ME: Oh. This. CHOTINER: Straight out of the icebox. ME: I can assure you that I was not aware that they were for breakfast. CHOTINER: okay, but this note...

Apropos of the Rapture discourse…my favorite Dutch Catholic priest loves the Book of Revelation. For him it’s a book of marvels, visions, and poetic images. His sermons that touch on it are beautiful and full of hope. American Protestant theology is not definitive within Christianity.

Sitka

A new study, based on a survey of 1,150 workers suggests that the injection of AI tools into the workplace has not resulted in a magic productivity boom and instead increased the amount of time that workers say they spend fixing low-quality AI-generated “work.” 🔗 www.404media.co/ai-workslop-...

imagine if a family of beavers randomly showed up right now and finished whatever thing you've been putting off

This was a fun and interesting read that got to the Hacker News frontpage yesterday. anniemueller.com/posts/how-i-...

#SilentSunday #Photography #ItIsSundaySomewhere

Amazing!

In case you think it’s just the US/UK.

I have long theorized that British royal marriages break up because one spouse has an entire staff telling them that they’re right in every conflict. What a thing to democratize.

Quote a line from a song "God knows I've failed, but He knows that I've tried."

Here. Have one of my roses.

Here’s a poem called ‘English Roundabouts’.

When you say someone’s existence is up for debate, you are saying that your hobby is hurting them.

Whenever I hear handwringing about lost generation of young men I'm reminded about how our grandmothers stayed married not because they wanted to but because if they left their husband they couldn't walk into a bank and open a checking account or get a credit card in their own name.

Rocky says to stop doomscrolling for a moment and look at the lace his hooman made. What have you done that you want to show Rocky in exchange?

It’s fine to say that violence is never the answer, but I can’t help but observe that for Charlie Kirk violence was always the answer, and it was the only answer he offered, and, because of the privilege that he refused to admit he had, he could enact it from a comfortable and respectable place.

every time there's political violence discourse i think about how jo cox was assassinated in broad daylight by a fascist who shouted "britain first" as he shot her, and now nine years later her party is dedicating every moment in power to placating the ideology of her murderer

No, it's when you realize that two particular books should be shelved together.

You do not really need to see Epstein's birthday book for yourself if it's going to trigger you. Like, just to pick an example not at random, if you're a survivor of sexual assault. I wish writers would think outside their own life experience. Especially when they're trying so hard to do good.

Good morning! Here is a meme (ganked from somewhere it was retooted on Mastodon, original source lost in the mists of time)

Tennessee Williams died in 1983, so he was alive at the same time as Venus and Serena - the other tennis-y Williams

Hey docs friends! Come hear my talk at Write The Docs: Berlin. It’s going to be a vulnerable, and hopefully helpful, talk about transitioning into a leadership position.

"you will be left behind if you don't use it, but if you *do* use it, it will replace you at your job eventually, and there won't be any new jobs to replace it" is not a great set of selling points if we're being honest

And done. 🧶

No box is too smol if you believe in yourself.

Sitting and chatting in the garden and Solo the cat came up to me. I teased a small matt out of his fur. Then grabbed a stick and started spinning the fluff. Broke the stick to wind half the singles onto, broke it again to ply. Now I have cat string.

I’m super new to the games industry but I already know that the best way to bring a diverse group of colleagues together is to say “l’m super new to the games industry; why does everyone get so worked up about credits?” All differences of opinion are instantly washed away by a flood of shared rants.

Just reminded of the Oglaf strip with the crow lawyer. (One of the few safe for work strips, but the rest of the comics are very smutty.)

Every now and then I remember that this comment by @heresiarch.bsky.social exists. Over ten years, now, and I still think of it. nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/...

If they’re on the Epstein list they’re not on my side. Whatever their party affiliation.

(Lacemaking intensifies.) I wanted to use a bunch of my quirkiest one- (or two- or four-) off bobbins for this. The glass ones are surprisingly good!

This is your regular reminder that rationality is an emotion. It is not the opposite of emotion. It is the feeling of being calmly certain. That is not the same thing as being right. It is the FEELING of being right.

Video appeals 46-year-old conviction for killing The Radio Star, argues that The Radio Star is alive and well and living under assumed name of The Podcaster.

Me: Portugal! O culltured and beautiful European land! What wonders await me today? @shana.spoiledcat.com: How about a street full of umbrellas with dicks for handles? Me: 😶

Lisbon! I’m in Lisbon! I have the goofy “new place” grin all over my face.

It has been - 0 - days since I’ve had someone snark at me for not being able to eat spicy food. Don’t be that person.

Excellent thread, but one nit. Remember that women read these threads too. “You, your sister, your daughter…” we exist, not just as appendages of the male reader, but as an audience ourselves.

For all of the Gender Criticals in the Back~ Sex hormone levels, & not chromosomes, primarily dictate muscle gene expression!!! x.com/kirstimiller...

All the trigger warnings for physical abuse in this thread, but…why are we not making a big thing of this child abused, especially now that raising your trans kid supportively is subject to the heavy hand of the law?

Fine, my contribution to the Newsome discourse. He’s peaking way too early to succeed at higher office. He doesn’t have the base in-state and attention spans are short. Let him soak up some attacks and use up some MAGA energy. Every attack against him is not against someone else.

Hadestown, Here we go.

19 Aug 25 -- Confounding decades of trans-denial pseudoscience a new study of 900 cis & trans kids tracked from 2013-2024 found gender identity was a “stable trait“ & the trans kids were “no more or less likely” to show or express regret than cis ones. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social

Strong Koning van Katoren energy.

Bottom line, there are a lot of horrors abroad in the world, but if you’re cis and you don’t grasp that the defense of trans people has to be one of _everybody’s_ top priorities, you’re asking to live in a world run by the worst born-to-be-a-hall-monitor garbage people you can possibly imagine.

the problem with having god as your client is that he initially makes a pretty good witness during direct but he dies on cross

KPop Demon Hunters is “that” movie LMAO