Nosferatu/Babygirl double feature is my Barbenheimer

deleting my texts is not enough i need your phone to turn to ash in your hands

gonna take a cheeky midnight stroll by the sea tonight. come along if you please-- the city hums like a refrigerator left open. a siren wails somewhere, a cat knocks over a can, and a man yells at no one in particular. these are the lullabies we sing ourselves when the stars feel too far away.

two of my favourite classics and i’ve only just now realised that darcy and raskolnikov are the same guy—socially inept, riddled with guilt, thinks he’s better than everyone, falls apart when a hot girl calls him out on his bullshit.

whilst the newfangledness of it would be most grating at first as most new slang seems to be to people who are far past the age of relevance: "chat" is a fairly good gender-neutral alternative to "guys" when addressing a mixed-gender group it's giving spiritus mundi

i’ve just been massively roasted by google’s ai overview for trying to look up an old poem whose words i'm trying to place

ok don't tell anyone, but i think if i were a stone i simply wouldn't roll. moss is great. moss doesn’t compete. it thrives quietly, with a patience that puts time itself to shame.

an antidote for a too-nice day: have a one-sided conversation on your notes app with the person you wish would reach out

Hubble's sharpest view of the Orion Nebula

the most overlooked function of LLMs is that they act as a near-perfect photograph of the human condition--they expose existing biases, are perplexed by heterodoxy, are sometimes capable of profound brilliance and breathtaking enterprise... and their best features keep getting paywalled.

inside me there are two wolves

did you know that you can dramatically improve your morning routine by simply refusing to participate in it

a deeply humbling part of life is the realisation that no matter how much you meditate, you'll still be someone who gets irrationally mad when the bluetooth doesn’t connect fast enough

Sir Mix-a-Lot in his diary while working on writing the first draft of “I Like Big Butts”:

@trite.bsky.social aaaa i looked everywhere for you

some days your readiness to be governed by love is the rope that helps you climb out of the deepest pits of despair some days your readiness to be governed by love digs a deeper pit and kicks you in

if this is what ovulation feels like pms is gonna have me on my knees punching myself in the face repeatedly fight club style (spoiler alert)

some days you lick your wounds more hungrily than others

gm baby time to wake up and frown at your phone

when a river curls around a bend, it isn’t lost. it’s just lingering in a soft twirl, waiting for the earth to catch up.

I won the person who takes your feedback seriously lookalike contest

a little indie music trivia for you lot -- what connects these four songs? (apart from the fact that in my opinion, they're all among some of the greatest songs ever recorded)

an archive is not just history; it is sedimented power. it is a record of biases in what it includes and what it deliberately forgets

within the confines of this website i am free

Yes, I do believe that if we bully enough centrist libs on this website, we can achieve communism within five years. If you don't understand this, well, it's not my fault you don't read Theory.

algorithmic personalisation is a mirror, polished until it reflects your desires. but every mirror has its dark side—and every reflection wants to escape.

when foucault spoke of surveillance he imagined a panopticon but failed to foresee that it would be voluntary, nor that we’d decorate its walls with memes so bindingly self-referential that the physical structure itself would become entirely unnecessary (i am so po-mo that everything is pointless)

the algorithm showed me an ad for my dreams. i clicked, and now i can't wake up.

the thing about the bear being good is that many of you are watching it without having worked in the restaurant industry and i just wanna tell you that it is so much better than you even know

🆕 The new climate finance text is out and we’re down to two main options ministers came up with. unfccc.int/sites/defaul... No “headline” number yet, but option 1 is an indictment of climate finance as it currently is. Countries will settle for billions so long as it’s *not more loans*.

you're telling me these sacks belong to a gold man

everyone’s an influencer when you’re gullible as fuck 🥰

The Lord of the Rings is considered a fantasy because the trees win the battle against industrialization.

normalise bumping up a movie’s letterboxd rating by .5 because you watched it with someone you love and you had a fun time at the cinema this is a skeet about gladiator II

soz babe lacking work ethic doesn’t make you an anti-capitalist it just makes you a burden

regardless of my thoughts on determinism, my number one traffic hack is firing up the pool app on my phone—which requires the vehicle i’m in to be absolutely still in order to ensure an accurate shot—so that traffic may clear and the vehicle may start moving just to spite me

November the 18th be with you 😎

Love this. ‘Queue’ is from the French word with the same spelling (but pronounced as ‘kuh’) meaning an animal’s long tail. In the 18th and 19th centuries it also referred to a pigtail and was sometimes spelled as ‘cue’, which gave us the name of the long thin rod used in snooker.

you just can’t ask dudes if they’re a fight club fuckboy or a david foster wallace fuckboy anymore

one of the immediate joys of having a 500th of the following as i did on bird app is that i no longer have to suffer my own handwriting in order to journal not getting doxxed by swifties is a close second

even as an etymology nerd, it has taken me an incredible number of years to come to terms with the fact that ‘incredible’ means that which cannot be adequately credited, and not that which is not credible

watched Toni Erdmann last night upon @deepakkumasan.bsky.social’s recommendation and i have no lengthy letterboxd review to show for it, just a reaffirmed belief that few things can heal the heart the way a movie can i can’t explain it but the act of watching a film is an act of love

some of my comfort albums

Number Shortage xkcd.com/3009

i've spent so much of my life, and time on twitter compiling a list of podcasts i love, that has helped quite a few people ease into the medium or find their next favourite podcast. here it is--slightly amended, and ever-growing--again 🥰:

is there a shitposters starter pack where i can go to feel like not every account on here is being run either by a white yoga mom with a trendy bob and a lucrative career in diversity and inclusion at a fortune 500 company or three golden retrievers in a trench coat

every article about feline behaviour online: q - why does my cat display this specific behaviour a - glad you asked! there are only two possible reasons your cat is doing this 1) they are expressing their love for you!!! 2) they are very sick and they will die within the next 4 hours!!!

should i buy birkenstocks or should i tell people i'm 33 using my mouth

is it ok to no longer tweet or do i also have to delete my twitter account? should i skeet all my best tweets?? or reach into the seabed and rip out the very cables that carried them??? i'll do it

interestingly, the return to an early days text-based social network has triggered a dizzying revert to a namaah from 2010 what a way to find out that despite all the trappings of growth and accomplishment accrued since, the unhealed, slightly feral 19yr old was lurking in the room with us all along