@a-real-octopus.bsky.social has helpfully pointed this out to me, but Alpha Centauri's "and what of the immortal soul in such transactions?" is the basically the correct response to AI. Sister Miriam Godwinson might be crazy, but she really nailed that one.

I wonder what they'd call the action movie adaptation of "Oh, To Be A Blobel!"

Reminded of when we got a new roof from "We Get High"

We had an appliance delivery today, and the cat would like you to know she survived, but only barely.

I had a math teacher give an assignment where she deducted five points for every mistake, but there were more than 20 possible deductions.

My child: What's the scariest book you ever read? Me: *Five Minutes of Trying to Explain House of Leaves* Child: Sounds annoying

Surprisingly radical messages at the trampoline park

Ugh how this simultaneously suck AND look like they're building a stargate?

Our daughter was assigned to write a sequel to "All Summer in a Day" and came up with a plot where the kid moves back to Earth only to find out they don't have the sun there anymore either? Wtf kid

it is time for the Cubs to do a merch collaboration with Avignon

I used to support my daughter learning things but she just referred to a Disney cruise line ad as having "too much pathos," and I can't take that seriously from a fourth grader

I was calmly sitting by the creek near us when I got a shower of little bits of wood courtesy of a woodpecker above me

Gold Rush!

Probably walk into a lot more stuff and I already do that with glasses

Unexpectedly achieved a new level of Dad today when I received an unsolicited copy of the Colonial Williamsburg magazine in the mail.

I'm trying to explain who the characters on Star Trek are to my child but she doesn't care? My dad never had to deal with this.

Ah, look, a statue of the First Doctor. Or possibly John Wesley.

One repaired radios and later ran a service station, the other was a manager at IBM.

I continue to be bothered by how bad a reading of Family Matters this is.

Say what you will about Kid Rock, but I watched six seconds to see how bad the lip syncing was and every word of "Bawitdaba" flooded back into brain like it was 1999 again

This is ridiculous. Everyone knows Yellow Tail pairs best with restaurants that delivered to my college apartment in 2005. The red blend and a Nathan's pizza puff and corn dog? That's living right there.

Five classes I took in college: 1. Byzantine Empire 1025-1453 2. From Vikings to Crusaders 3. Thinking with Stories 4. American Originals: Franklin and Lincoln 5. Disasters in the Ancient Mediterranean World

One for the nautical trivia fans. HMS Wellesley, launched before the end of the Napoleonic wars, was both the last British ship of the line to be sunk by enemy action and the only one ever to be sunk in an air raid.

During the work day, my husband only texts me if it's really important

Lots of respect to the elderly man with the walker who rolled up to the Taco Bell at 10am, filled a water bottle with Baja Blast, and left.

I know they mean "people who've played before," but you can't call something an "Advanced Dungeon and Dragons Camp" if you're playing 5th Edition.

At the last second, I donated money to a place that runs summer camps because it gave me the right to register early and while I kind of disagree with this in principle, I would 100% do it again.

Having a really productive day back to work* *Remembered my password on the first try

Lol

There should be a sitcom about life among the tradespeople at a living history museum, and it should be called "Hanging with Mr. Cooper"

Anglo-Catholic/Anglican memes:

After a day of pulling a cream puff out of the fridge every hours and eating it, I'm not feeling well, but I won't stop.

Merry Christmas from our house, where my kid insists on playing mancala by bullshit made up rules she says she learned at school, but I think she's lying

My kid got too many presents

My parents' dog is humping people, and my mom is convinced she learned it from bad dogs at daycare.

Having successfully subdued the catnip present, she's taking a nap

People used to listen to radio plays, it's basically the same thing

A very big day for All My Friends from My 20s

Our annual Loeb tree is up! It's topped with a 3D print of a 3rd century BCE terracotta figure housed in the library @palaeofuturist.bsky.social sketchfab.com/3d-models/la...

Let the cat name the baby! What's the worst that could happen?

You can always tell a text I send my husband is going to be good if I start by reminding him that his wedding vows said he couldn't get mad at me (they didn't)

My kid is currently obsessed with personality quizzes so I'm having her answer all the questions on the Daggerfall Class quiz

Thanks to my daughter, my Spotify Wrapped is basically just Wicked and the Kevin Kline/Linda Ronstadt Pirates of Penzance.

I dreamt of a Mathnet style TV show for adults called Math Bridges.

Happy Thanksgiving from Providence, where my daughter is staging a loud protest of Christmas decorations being up in November.

Introduced my daughter to "The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins" today. When I told her I loved her at bedtime, she answered "it doesn't seem like it, because you played that song for me."

My daughter told me yesterday that she names her Pokemon rivals after me, and I have no idea how to take that.

We're seeing Ohio relatives for Thanksgiving, so our preparation is mostly relearning euchre.