As a kid I'd pretend to be asleep in the car on the way home after a late-ish night to try and trick my parents into carrying me into bed. As an adult I pretend to be asleep so my cat doesn't get "oh, we up?!" energy and run around the house meowing and harassing me.

Is Bluesky primarily a pet obituary site and not a social network?

“Those are my drinks” is not a thing I figured I have to say so often. Cats.

I would fund a company that just makes leaf blowers sound less infuriating.

Colbert on Michigan’s public access is space ghost coast to coast

To share unconsciousness

Excelsior Extreme 9-- but what if someone creates Extreme 10?! www.youtube.com/watch?v=wF2m...

Why are so many LLM advertisements based on the concept of “pretend your life is better than it is” rather than “make your life better”? Is it really that bleak out there? I just saw one for using phone AI image processing to make it look like your hotel room is closer to the beach.

Is there some regulation that video games must inform you about auto-saving as their first and endlessly repeated notification?

So Dogstar is like Foo Fighters but we get to look at Keanu for at least 33% of any music video? That sounds like a much improved foo fighters.

I thought the FIFA peace prize shit was so dumb and insulting I just stopped caring about this World Cup. Is that not widely shared? Maybe something underneath all these hotel/ticket lack of demand think pieces?

It’s 2026, most social media sites’ algorithms promote rage inspiring political takes, one kinda distributed-ish network is bold enough to buck the trend… by promoting pet death stories. These are their stories.

Woke up thinking about Liu Kang’s flying dragon kick.

Aren’t we all born lonely?

Angry grapes

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. hard mode: no star wars, star trek, lotr, dc, marvel, disney, pixar, dreamworks, spielberg, cameron, wachowskis, or ghibli.

Last week it was random posts of people mourning their pets. This week it is all saved pet rehabilitation videos... is there just like a Bluesky "theme of the week" for random posts that hit your timeline?

I was an actual paperboy but didn’t get paid hourly. Had to collect from each house in the afternoons—it sucked. Some houses were so scary I just gave up the money. You had to collect enough to at least pay the paper. The rest was yours. If I did that math to hourly it would probably be pathetic.

The time it takes me to read an insightful article linked from someone on Bluesky seems to be precisely how long it takes for Bluesky to forget where I was on the timeline and reload so I can never respond to the poster of said article. 🤷🏻‍♂️?

Waddlers of Rohan! What news from the Mark?

My favorite thing about this post is how many people probably lost their place in their timeline by turning their phone upside down and likely triggering that annoying AF “scroll instantly until the top” side bar bullshit. Merriam got the meta.

I now need a password, a dual authentication app, and a biometric log in to get into half the things I use at work. Meanwhile, IT can't explain why copilot keeps turning itself back on. What are we doing?

Rate limit excreted

Done with convenience.

Oh man am I sad that the NASA stream ended. That’s been a constant companion these last weeks.

Even NASA is having “you’re muted”, “is it set to the right mic?”, “try rebooting” with audio chat. We’re so alike.

“Looks a little smaller” “Guess we’ll have to go back”

Suppress but not inhibit

Suited and seated!

Coming back from spaaaaace!!!

HOT DOG PARTY TONIGHT. HOT DOG PARTY TONIGHT.

This sadness has been increasing throughout the mission for me. I’m so used to things I cherish being cruelly ruined that each day I’m both excited and terrified.

Copy, moon joy.

Care as control

let's get Neurosis trending

This is exceptional and I really like the thoughtfulness of the spell effect.

I almost feel bad the Liturgy and Polyphia guitar players don’t get to romp around on stage as much as most metal bands on account of the complexity because they really seem to like it on the odd occasion they do. Bass player is having a great time though.

At this point if there was a “health” bar that said 750 calories I’d be more into it. Probably just an MRE but eating outside of pleasure is annoying right now.

Why can’t I use my phone upside down anymore?

“Men, you're lucky men. Soon you'll all be fighting for your planet. Many of you will be dying for your planet. A few of you will be forced through a fine mesh screen for your planet. They will be the luckiest of all.”

Help! My heights, they are wurthering.

I must have 4-6 half finished drinks around me at all times.

When you close the dishwasher door, it should push the racks in smoothly. How has this been continually corrupted year after year, model after model. Do people who design dishwashers not use dishwashers?

Anyone ever try to eat a cumquat?

Coursera has been around for 14 years now. How come most of us don’t have a Stanford level education?

The paralyzing effect of getting a call from your HVAC guy saying he’s 15-20m out.

My cat can sense when I move into a position that she’d want to sit on from a room away. Will ditch a sunbeam for a lap if it’s the right angle.

I’ve jumped, naked, into a frozen lake in Finland in the middle of February but somehow the chill from wading through my flooded crawl space waste high after a pipe burst this morning is sticking with me far longer. Longer exposure for sure but damn.

One of the brilliant parts about This Year by @themountaingoats.bsky.social is how different it feels in December vs January.

Gary Larson: In my cartoon I invented Cow Tools as a cautionary tale Cows: At long last, we have created the Cow Tools from classic newspaper comic Cow Tools