Something always annoyed me about Starfleet crew talking about their Bat'leth practice and injuries and I finally found the word for that feeling: cultural appropriation. Y'all just think you're cool because you're pretending you're Klingon warriors.

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I'm filling in for the video game show at my station this Friday and taking my "research" very seriously. I try to actually play the games that I spin. Any suggestions?

This bluesky thread of AI breaking from trying to pronounce "wwe" had me crying with laughter

I just showed my 6 year old Marcel Duchamp's urinal and like 5 minutes later he says "Daddy? Did he just use a urinal that was in a bathroom?" It's working!

Name one time your airbnb provided breakfast

I watched Wall•E yesterday and Short Circuit today and while I love both robots I think Johnny 5 still wins for me

I needed a new washer and dryer last week. I checked out a local company called Campo. I later wanted to go to their website so I checked out campo.com It resolves to... A-1 Appliance. Another local retailer. Campo's website is campoappliance.com. Looks to me like A-1 snatched up their […]

Watching my kid play Sonic Mania on our Switch 2 on our OLED and I'm really impressed by the #crt emulation.

I'm about halfway through this mini-doc that SpaceX put out and if you like NASA docs I think it's worth a watch. It sticks to what they're trying to do, how they try to do it, how they fail, how they learn... just the science stuff. So basically what I'm saying is you don't have to look at […]

I found my old GameCube disc of Odama, which I barely played back in the day but got sucked into today. The battlefield is essentially a pinball table where you knock over things and people with your ball. Meanwhile you bark out orders into the GameCube […] [Original post on heads.social]

The news in New Orleans right now has coverage of a thwarted mass shooting targeting Jazz Fest bumping a mass shooting in Baton Rouge.

Every time I walk my kid to school i take a camera with me, and half the reason is because I want to get a photo of an egret on this canal. Today the egret was there, but not in a great place, didn't have my best lens, and generally it just didn't line up like I […] [Original post on heads.social]

Here's a guy worried about being able to play his music on Android in 100 years because a "successor" to Opus was released.

I'm going to come clean. The lyrics I like the way you work it No diggity, I got to bag it up (bag it up) I still don't know what that means

New Tokyo Shoegazer dropped and is good like everything else they've done. https://tokyoshoegazer.bandcamp.com/album/remains #shoegaze

Cancelled my Amazon Prime subscription in hopes to finally move on. Ordered an xqd card reader from eBay yesterday. Amazed that it shows up on my doorstep before 7am this morning. In Amazon packaging. You can't win.

I think it's interesting that people seem to have generally cooled off on saying that vinyl sounds better, or even warmer, than CDs. Obviously that's a good thing, but the "vinyl community" still clings to things like "Crosleys destroy your records" so I'm surprised they've silently moved on […]

This is what happens if you sort by "best selling" using the "surf" tag on bandcamp. People really like King Gizzard! (subnote, I wouldn't consider them surf)

This guy landed on my door this morning and didn't mind me taking pictures

My kid was amused that I bought the soundtrack to the game Heave Ho and was enjoying listening to it since he liked the game. So he seemed to appreciate this song that kinda reminded me of James Chance and the Contortions. https://camillegiraudeau.bandcamp.com/track/heave-versus-ho

With the success of Nintendo's movies, I think it only makes sense to capitalize with an Aldo movie

On one hand I think YouTube's algorithm can shove people down a path of radicalism. On the other hand, yes, I do want to watch a 30 minute video about why the numbers on people's houses are often this one specific font.

Maybe this was well known and I missed it but in 2007 one man livestreamed himself counting to one million aloud over the course of 89 days, 16 hours a day. A true American hero. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Harper_(record_holder)

Ospreys and lampreys are not as similar as they sound

Swapped keys with my wife today because she wanted to use my car and dear lord she actually has more key rings than keys

Birbs

Man, the more I watch the more transfixed I get. This garbage transfer of a VHS rip of a film camera is certainly its own vibe.

Watching silent video from when my mom was a kid in the 60's. It's pretty mesmerizing. Tiny little vignettes of another time. In the 90's my uncle would shoot a lot of home movies but the sequences were longer. I think we've gotten back to short clips, but nobody would edit them into a long […]

Do y'all remember the last time Google announced something really exciting?

I found a VHS tape of a park ranger teacher about the Jean Lafitte Historic Preserve in Barataria from 1999 and put it on youtube. It's actually pretty boring and I'm not suggesting you should watch it. But I thought I should post it in case. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_zTIIxbVIQ

From that Trump AI photo, looks like the statue of liberty is blindfolded

CRIME POPE

When a lizard shows you its throat sac, proper etiquette is to compliment it

A strange challenge this morning. We were going to meet with family under this nice little shelter. Expecting five little ones running around. Somebody left a cleaver here. I don't want kids using a cleaver. But there is nowhere to put it. So I'm walking around […] [Original post on heads.social]

Humans all have to figure out what to do with hair

My wife and I just had a 10 year wedding anniversary party at the playground behind our house today. Her family had plans to fly in before we decided on the dinky venue. But we put a lot into it, catered it, had DJs, decorated, had a bounce house for the kids... And we totally nailed it. It was […]

I think this is a record for me for least time spent on #duolingo while still doing it each day

Swamp tour this morning

I found an old wide angle lens for smartphones. It broke. But it turns out one half of the lens worked well as a macro lens. This is basically smushed against my eye and the selfie camera lens

Good #shoegaze album if you're cool with unabashed MBV mimicry. https://sparklersd.bandcamp.com/album/glidewinder-2

I haven't played 1000xRESIST but this upcoming game from the same devs looks pretty gooooooooood https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WKLifo41ts

I'm hate-watching the Melania movie and 20 minutes in it's mostly just talking to tailors about how her dress fits

So we're having an Anniversary party at the park by our house and decided to get a bunch of mulch to close up gaps in the playground that the kids could trip on. We're aware that the city might frown on it but having kids not twist their ankles is important! […] [Original post on heads.social]

Former high school pole vaulters: How has your special skill come in handy in your adult life?

Just goofing with my camera in the yard, ended up with something I liked

Fresh nilla wafers < slightly stale

Was just thinking yesterday about how my college roommate had fallen of the map. None of my friends had heard from him. Got a wedding invite from him today :)

Been having so much fun with this song. Memorials - Dropped Down to the Bottom of the Well https://youtu.be/jGofSjCykh8?si=WE3A2k8c7BmNE_yu

Today I learned (thanks to members of Satan's Pilgrims) that the guitarist from Dave and the Customs who did the surf classic "Ali Baba" was Ernie the Barfly on It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXiVCqfLB2s