I am not a religious person by any means, but if I saw this in person I'd assume the gods are speaking to me directly

FARSCAPE EPISODE GUIDE S1E1: Pilot. And several other characters too S1E2: Girlfriend needs thermostat turned down S1E3: Roommate in a d/s throuple making it everyone’s problem S1E4: The gang tries meth S1E5: Girlfriend’s old coworker is kinda hot. Not that you noticed S1E6: The gang tries molly

"known as GLA-3M-052-LS+OVA" Just rolls off the tongue like that moment in the movie where the chain starts falling off the bridge.

misogyny, racism, & fascist ideologies ai systems encode and exacerbate that we've been telling you about for yrs never went away. it's just that governments & those in position of power said "we don't care about that. just adopt ai at whatever cost"

A friend of mine who was TA’ing for an AmLit course found a copy of Moby Dick a student had left behind. It had only one marginal annotation, around page 100, that simply said “whale is important.”

"Separation is free shielding" is also emotional advice

More games need to have the level of sound control that Saros offers.

okay so we’re doing discourse about twitter versus bluesky today, which means tomorrow is *checks notes* fighting the mods again, everyone get your ban-worthy posts ready

The eternal wisdom, whether big or little reasons, but especially social media reasons. Don't waste your very finite time being miserable when you have the choice.

Today in jokes I wish I'd thought of:

I am delighted

9pm: yawning 2:12am: time to become a scholar on uncontacted tribes

Fun little daily word game for those so inclined. playwhittle.com

Handling duplicates, a standard use case of a set data type.

Being relatable isn't important or a criteria, so best just not.

NEW: Why is Titanium Court selling 25k copies great? - For its developer, he can likely "make my next game at my own pace" - For its publisher, it “should be profitable enough for us over time to fund another 2-3 bets of a similar size” Full story, more numbers: www.gamefile.news/p/titanium-c...

an anecdatum My brain keeps rolling it like I'm doing the ba-dum-tish sound.

War as a moral metaphor is limited, limiting, and dangerous. By reducing the choices of action to “a war against” whatever-it-is, you divide the world into Me or Us (good) and Them or It (bad) and reduce the ethical complexity and moral richness of our life to Yes/No, On/Off.

please appreciate this video of an itty bitty pinky springtail

THIS IS HUGE: Colorado Supreme Court orders Colorado children's hospital to resume gender affirming care for trans youth. www.coloradopolitics.com/2026/05/18/c...

Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost resigns to join national anti-LGBTQ+ hate group. Yost will step down next month to join the Christian legal group behind thousands of pieces of anti-transgender legislation. ✏️ @hcomeriato.bsky.social

Airports: places where you arrive and wait in squared shapes to then move in circles over a sphere in cylinders. An industry of cutting corners.

"saying that it got orders right without employee intervention 86 percent of the time" or, "irritated customers a minimum of 14% of the time"

wrote about the claim that Ds & Rs flipped on race in the 60s. that isn't what happened. at the time neither party supported Black rights. there was a bipartisan consensus for white supremacy. & forgetting that means we forget why bipartisanship is bad. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/ds-and-rs-...

Absentmindedly trying to dig up a little more documentation on a library named SOSEX on the internet. Yep, that returned exactly what I would have expected had I paused long enough to have expectations.

Cat, the coffee is not for you. It will never be for you. Leave my cup alone.

This entire topic is breaking my mind. What exactly do people think putting your name on something means

Actually you ARE responsible for checking your co-author’s citations, wtf does no one do their own first edit passes on their own work anymore?

I feel like one fundamental difference is previously the established real life betting events were horse go fast or man catch ball, which are generally less motivating for political behavior from capable parties than "does the US invade in less than 37 hours"

everything, you useless, illiterate hole in the ground

This is the money paragraph for me.

I have flown across the world, attended a couple weddings, visited multiple states, helped some move, and spent moments at odd hours because that's when we could make it work with people I'd only known online for years, decades. Yes, the friends I've known online are my friends.

LinkedIn tells me a professor from my old university looked at my profile, and I'm just ... one, that was over a decade ago, two, I was not a good student, why I will not pay to find out, but

to be a turtle so happy and exfoliated

you know that feels so goood

we hates them, filthy hobbitses unhand us we hates them took our precious makes us nappies

I think a lot about James Baldwin's explanation of reading as the discovery that you are not alone

You can post 20% more if you start each post with 10321

Panic! on the floor: anxiety

@thebuckeyeflame.com 's guide to the 2025-26 Ohio Legislative Session thebuckeyeflame.com/2026/05/15/2...

In the thrall of big soup

Flock is such an on the nose name. Invasive and suddenly everywhere, like starlings. I'd not seen them here 6-12 months ago but now I drive by no less than five on the way to work in semi-rural midwest.

Many policies and technologies: neat absent context, but alas, we live and die in context.

Tech does not exist outside the context of other things happening in the world, and neither do we

Getting so many notifications after posting with the friends flag.

Oh to experience joy like a possum, rattling off life and fence links

This so rarely happens, but the New Yorker recently had a poem I like a lot. Morgan Parker; “Meanwhile It Rains for Two Weeks and the Heat Never Breaks”

This line is getting so much airtime in my head.

Sometimes art is so breathtaking and poignant it defies all expectation