I've reached the point in this heatwave when the answer to everything feels like more fans. Like more cowbell.

I just ran errands like a vampire racing the dawn.

We are having Cambridge gin with Tribute olive lemonade and it is outstanding. I'd like more, but I'm trying not to get absolutely flattened by it. letribute.com/products/le-...

faith in humanity restored

Keep this in mind when people claim cars mean business — closing Central #Madrid to cars over holidays resulted in a 9.5% boost in retail spending on its main shopping street: STUDY. There was also a 71% drop in air pollution. Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople

I check citations when i do peer review, but I'm mainly checking what's missing and making sure the citations i know are referenced correctly; sometimes In These Times i will go that extra mile & check for bullshitted up cites. But that Is extra. That work is on editors (and i say that As an editor)

Saw an AI bro refer to "brain-only writers" lol

Fascinating long thread about the disability use-case for Meta glasses and its broader implications.

I'm drinking fancy wine and watching Attack of the Corn Zombies on Plex, thanks for asking.

I never remember whether I had lunch or not until that first glass of wine.

The one very important lesson from Wales and Scotland that should be read from these Senedd and Holyrood results is that explicitly progressive and left-wing politics is deeply deeply popular, extremely electable, and *the* only way to successfully stop Reform UK and the rise of fascism.

This is the only Odyssey adaptation that understands that the hero is an impulsive himbo who deserves his many ass whoopings. It is entirely believable that this Odysseus would get a bunch of his guys turned into pigs by a sexy witch.

I've been meaning to do a post almost identical to James' The difference between the Labour response when voters are switching to Reform or the Greens is not something I'm going to forget

Criminalization is the fuel of fascism.

Idk man I feel like even if AI scraped from 100% ethical sources, had zero impact on the environment, and produced gorgeous work, I’d still think you were a bitch for using it

Supreme Court Overturns ‘Right v. Wrong’ https://theonion.com/supreme-court-overturns-right-v-wrong-1819573211/

Long shot but we have received a very sweet birthday card, including some cash but no return address, to a "Jordan Bedding" who presumably lives/lived in Stroud, though not at our house. Please feel free to repost and let's cheer up a stranger.

this is the same type of posting they did when cracker barrel changed its logo

“We just wanted to confirm that all Moleskine notebook covers are created by our designers, while AI was used to enhance the background of these images. We hope The Lord of the Rings inspires you!” Oh, sod off, Moleskine. Tolkien would have despised this and so do I.

sure we’re enjoying a good natured laugh at lil dude’s expense but this would actually be such a cool way for t-shirts to be. motorcycles and pies. nevada and baseball. autumn and judaism. i could go on

My day is going so well that when I poured pasta from the box into boiling water, there were also spiders. Plural. Multiple.

we all know I have no life, so:

General George Washington required Continental Army soldiers be inoculated for smallpox. We would not have won independence if he hadn’t. You dumb chucklefuck.

Watch out, y'all. I just stepped on a Lego outside a supermarket. They have breached containment.

I'm cracking open the M&S tinned margaritas

my cat after i go pspsps:

all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant

Waiting for the boiler guy. Why am I so terrible with home repair stuff, finding engineers, etc? Ugh.

So what was the last movie you watched? For me it was that Luc Besson Dracula.

There's no way I'm using those interdental brushes tonight.

Millions of American voters wanted to be villains. They came to believe it’s the key to success, while goodness is weak, woke, loser stuff, done only to signal. Offered the option of unvarnished villainy, they enthusiastically took it. Seeing others suffer more made them feel big. And here we are.

Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.

Today is Easter, but it is also Roger Corman's 100th birthday! To mark the occasion, I tracked down where you can stream all of the films that Roger directed for free. So, if you're looking to celebrate Roger today, I've got you covered! from-the-desk-of-the-horror-chick.ghost.io/happy-100th-...

I'm slightly drunk and wonderig why nobody talks much about Lionel Ritchie anymore.

moby-dick, his eyes enormous: from hell's heart you STAB at moby? for hate's sake you spit your last BREATH at moby? oh! oh! the great shroud of the sea for ahab! the great shroud of the sea rolling on as it rolled five thousand years ago!!!!

asking this one more time! thank you!

We didn't survive and thrive as a species because we had warriors or hunters - pretty much every omnivore can manage that. We did so because we developed Grandmothers, and domesticated Dogs. Community is what defines us as a species, and every "self-reliant" libertarian shitweasel be damned.

Wandered into a random bar here in Bremen four hours ago. It had a "NO FASCISTS. EVERYONE ELSE WELCOME" sign outside. Spent the time since then sat at the bar in the antifash, cash-only German punk boozer drinking and reading scifi. And that, my friends, is all i have ever wanted out of life.

is the generosity in the room with us now, shabana?

I respect trans people, so it's such a little thing for me to not watch the Harry Potter trailer or show. The proceeds from that property go directly to funding anti-trans work. It's a straight line from HP to destroying lives. I can actually SAVE TIME by not supporting this. It requires NOTHING.

I think I might need LotR underwear but they should say something like “speak friend and enter” or “no admittance except on party business”

Kurosawa on watching Solaris with Tarkovsky

NO LONGER CORRECTING TYPOS - THEY ARE ARTISINAL PROOF OF HUMANITY.

They said it would take 193 years to clean London’s air. We did it in nine. 💨 London has now met legal limits for nitrogen dioxide air pollution.

I am sick and so have ordered myself a book, a tea pet, a crochet booklet from 1919, and a burrito.

If he's going to get a national profile on the strength of a younger woman's campaign, I'm going to come out and say it: during his short-lived tenure as a math professor, Biss had an inappropriate romantic relationship with one of his undergraduate students. I was that student.