What's the most American snack food possible?

Close to our bows, strange forms in the water darted hither and thither before us; while thick in our rear flew the inscrutable sea-ravens.

Why am I seeing old posts...? Oh, I'm accidentally on the Discover tab again.

TODAY'S COMIC: Anatomy of a Kelpie

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It’s not the heat, it’s the humanity.

Just watched for the first time: Strangers on a Train (after reading the novel). Two very different experiences from the same material!

baseball is always some guy who is a physically perfect specimen being guided day and night by world class trainers, nutritionists, and doctors hoping to beat a record set by some guy named Pickles Bitch in 1937 who lived on cigarettes and moonshine and did not exercise other than baseball games

"He's a menace ... I WANT SPIDER-MAN!" J.K. Simmons is at the Mets game tonight and ran into a familiar face 😂

Prove you are human before you can proceed to the next page. Fuck....

I was concerned when what appears to be an AI-generated short story was named a regional winner of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize. As an advocate of literature, I decided to protest by writing my own prize-winning short story without AI johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/regionally...

Omar Sharif at the premiere party for Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

I just learned that Richard O'Brien posted his original ROCKY HORROR demos on Bandcamp, and it just sounds like a legendary lost folk punk album. Like if you told me this was actually Neutral Milk Hotel or @evangreer.bsky.social, I'd probably believe you. richardobrien.bandcamp.com/album/the-ro...

The metal-filled spaces that go through a circuit board to make connections from one layer to another are called "vias." I just read an industry magazine article that defined a via as a "high-aspect-ratio hole."

What's the bird that sounds like a rusty bike kickstand? I didn't get Merlin open in time.

The first time I went to London, it was 37 ºC. By extrapolation, I assumed that England is a hot, sunny, tropical country.

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.”

Never give up on your dreams

I’ve listened to this station. It’s pretty uneven. Lots of ups and downs.

YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK

Baseball is the best sport because every player is a Thomas Pynchon character

One way to add more D&D into your life is just to take every object in your house that has a compound name and separate it with of. That? Thats my Cloth of Washing Oh that? That’s my Fridge of Reeing Oh no! The Maker of Waffles has shattered!

The Space Shuttle could hold a flying laboratory called Spacelab in its cargo bay. Three French-made computers ran Spacelab. I opened up a Spacelab computer and found that instead of a microprocessor, it is built from a multitude of simple chips. Let's take a closer look at the computer...

I'd REALLY appreciate it if anyone who sees this would try out my text generators so I can iron out any remaining bugs. Please, and thank you! trek.epicrandomness.com

I haven't been doing it as much lately, but there was a stretch of time where I'd steam Japanese rice and lentils together and that made up the easy-to-prepare bulk of my dinners every day, usually with a small piece of fish and some whatever vegetables were cheap and easy.

do you need to see Andrew Eldritch in a white suit? "happy" world goth day etc

Me to self: Who even owns Fender now? A few seconds later: Oh. Private equity. Everything becomes clear.

There are some IC packages that are popular across the world that have the electrical leads on 2.54 mm, 1.27 mm, or 0.635 mm centers.

Been trying to come up with a "No-Tears Georg Johnson is an outlier" joke, but the math doesn't work out.

Coming soon: the NYT discovers the concept of Land Grant Institutions, a major force in American education for a century and a half, and the manual-labor college movement of the early 1800s that led to progressive institutions such as Oberlin and Knox.

me: I don’t know what to do with my hands when people take photos of me early 2000s music artists: I fuckin do

I tried to search for "smashed burgers," but swipe typing and my fingers turned it into "snake chargers."

Good morning

At least when Pittsburgh is called "the Paris of Appalachia," it's with a degree of self-parody and awareness.

just got to the love shack, you wouldnt believe the size of the chrysler in the parking lot

Quick primer on understanding business decisions. There are two paths to success: (1) offer enough value to the customer so they are willing to pay more; (2) offer a good-enough product cheaply at a reduced production cost.

Letterheads of Chuck Jones; Al Hirschfeld; Charles Schulz; and Bill Watterston

What's your vibe? 1. bookish eccentric 2. curmudgeon in training 3. mossy grandma 4. ghost in the fog

I'm 170 cm tall and my only complaints about it are that I'm mostly torso, so I still hit my head in cars with low roofs and have to run to keep up with long-legged people. #GeneticallyACoalMiner

You know, there are plenty of actual women who would be happy to discuss exactly this stuff with guys they don't find skeevy.

Adam motherfucking Schlesinger really was That Good.

TODAY'S COMIC: Anatomy of Medusa

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@jeremyhammett.bsky.social @dmacalvert.bsky.social Two countries, two very similar opinions that happened to show up next to each other in my feed.

I, for one, would totally play Gumby Kart

Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice & Grogu

Baby, Sporty, Posh, Ginger, Scary and Misc.