What a cool little story! Rock on. \m/

A lot of wealthy people standing thirty minutes in a line to get a free book that they could afford without really thinking about it. Weird... and yet not surprising at all.

The creator of Apple TV's "Pluribus" (aka Plur1bus), Vince Gilligan, has said that he conceived of the show a decade ago, but the relevance to today is obvious; (1/2)

Apparently the word "dance" and "table tennis" sound nearly identical in Mandarin, so the automated announcer just told me (in English) that I just listened to Brahms' "Hungarian Table Tennis #5"

Congratulations to my Congressperson, Mikie Sherrill, Governor-elect of New Jersey! @mikiesherrill.bsky.social

The drones are back in New Jersey. This is the second night this week that I've observed large, silent fixed wing drones are flying over northern New Jersey.

Fawlty Towers was essentially an ensemble show, and Prunella Scales' Sybil was a key part. RIP. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/o...

Every Autumn, I keep thinking the Spice Girls should make a comeback, with a new member named "Pumpkin".

October 4, 1950: ⁦‪Snoopy‬⁩ makes his first appearance!

If the Rapture is indeed tomorrow, this is a good time to binge the first season of The Leftovers, a fantastic show with a devastatingly amazing performance by Carrie Coon @carriecoon.bsky.social

If the Rapture is indeed tomorrow, this is a good evening to binge the first season of The Leftovers, a fantastic show with a devastatingly amazing performance by Carrie Coon.

Happy 50th birthday to Fawlty Towers! The greatest comedy in the history of televison. Review from The Guardian from 1975. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

There is increasing interest in using AI tools not only to listen in on animal speech, but also to potentially talk back go.nature.com/4pqGYCP

This is a glorious piece of writing.

This will put a smile on your face!

Ezra Klein: "But we’re already treating it as borderline banal — and so GPT-5 is just another update... from barely speaking English to being able to intelligibly converse... about virtually anything a human being might want to talk about at a level that already exceeds that of most human beings. "

The poor kids who saw this might be a little traumatized, but the video is simply a masterpiece of absurdist expressionism.

If Monet had painted an alien-cheetah hybrid eating a live chicken...

Watching ChatGPT talk to itself is reminiscent of the theory of the bicameral mind in both Westworld (HBO version) and Julian Jaynes' original conceptualization.

Heidi was the best. Sigh.

Cornish Kern cheese is one of the best things in the entire world.

Orioles announcer Kevin Brown dropping all sorts of Seinfeld references... master of his domain, pretzels are making me thirsty, import-export... And Ben McDonald is beautifully clueless about it all.

Orioles announcer, Kevin Brown, just compared Astros' pitcher's minor league journey to George Costanza (the pitcher is Jason Alexander). KB is the best! Last week, when Wilson struck out, he said he was "cast away". Obscure, but awesome references!

It's great to see this particular Bluesky account promoting Arnold Bax, the most underappreciated, underrated, and unknown composer of all time. Bax rules!

Sixty years ago this week nuclear bombs were dropped on Japan irrevocably changing the course of humanity. Today, as GPT-5 is introduced, it will also change humanity's course (if you believe the hype).

Another earthquake in northern New Jersey!

Earthquake in northern New Jersey!

Beautiful!

Jaw drop emoji. www.linkedin.com/posts/minuso...

I think the Orioles give up on the season, trade Morton, Sugano, and Eflin for pitching prospects and high draft picks, and cross fingers for fewer injuries in 2026.

I want the entire match!

Did you know that the original lyric to "Strawberry Fields" were much different? "Can you pick me up? 'Cause I'm coming from Blueberry Lake. Everything's fake. Which nothing can be done about!"

The greatest songwriter and pop music arranger of all time, leader of the best band of the 1960s, the Beach Boys, has died. RIP Brian Wilson. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/a...

Breaking News: Representative Mikie Sherrill won the Democratic Party’s nomination for governor of New Jersey. https://trib.al/GPwoeYt

Congratulations to my Congressional Representative, Mikie Sherrill @mikiesherrill.bsky.social for winning the Democratic NJ Gubenatorial Primary!

Buffy 2.0 youtu.be/cLRLyD7DBn8?...

Given we're here on Bluesky, here's a photo of the sky yesterday in northern New Jersey.

Another brilliant and bizarre SNL sketch...As someone who has found a tiny baby shoe on our sidewalk, I looked, but never found the owner. youtu.be/Lc1JmvC13Z8?...

Bwaaa! AAAAAUGH! Grrrrgglll! www.sciencefriday.com/articles/dea...

Bwaaa!

We needed that win!

Happy 50th birthday, Monty Python and the Holy Grail! www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ap...

Heartwarming story! www.mlb.com/news/dylan-c...

Our current Representative in the House and a candidate for Governor in New Jersey. Go Mikie!

The 2025 AI Index Report hai.stanford.edu/ai-index/202...

Beyond bizarre... Growing artificial brain cells of a deceased avant-garde composer and using them to process and generate "music". www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Want to learn about a fantastic composer (the best, IMHO), Sir Arnold Bax? This thread is a great place to start!

Quite an interesting list of the best film scores of all time voted on by film composers themselves. www.classical-music.com/features/tv-...

Good for Cory! www.cnn.com/2025/03/31/p...

If this week's episode of 1923 were an episode of Friends, it would be titled "The One Where Nearly Everyone Dies"