This is what it’s like when I go back to flying after a long time off. Then I’m like “omg this is what they’re thinking too as we sit here and chit chat catchup.”

Clavicular and Sneako aren’t actual people, they’re single-issue bottom-tier villains who fought Batman in a poorly-received one-shot in 1956 with the splash line “Can the Caped Crusader Measure Up to the Tip and the Toe?!”

but then what’s the difference between that waymo you mention and the thing creating “your” “art”? Why shouldn’t people just hire the machine directly?

Want to be in a throuple. Not for love or anything, just need a Doordash driver and a backup Doordash driver in case I get sick when I'm elderly and the US still doesn't have universal healthcare.

Disappointing, to say the least. But - just musing - I can’t help but think of how we were the last generation for which bullying and a certain style of misogyny was seen as the norm/shrug/totally cool? e.g. Do we think “the Heathers” grew up to be really thoughtful adults?

I don’t think “Catholic" means what he thinks it means

Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto https://theonion.com/man-who-threw-molotov-cocktail-at-sam-altmans-home-claims-he-was-following-chatgpt-recipe-for-risotto/

I know some of you have great Substack content, but this is why I won't subscribe.

Sometimes I wonder about the best way to talk to my kid about what it means to be neuro divergent, and then I do things like this: we simply tried to make brownies and I put FOUR times the amount of oil in.

He gets it

need a social club for people who don't like matcha

Every day under this administration I’m feeling more and more great about this airline career of mine </s> (also I don’t remember if I did the tag right and I can’t be bothered to look it up. I am Gen X after all)

"As a nameless cog in a corporate machine, I have worked hours far in excess of those outlined in my hiring contract without overtime pay because I needed health insurance and was afraid of getting fired. I will bring the same fear-based performance to this position."

there are no drag queens, trans people or bunnies in the epstein files

Thinking about how one of the most valuable things I've learned from trying to write is that I just have to sit with the discomfort and frustration of not being able to write, and persist with the attempt anyway, until I finally get something done no matter how small and incremental it may be.

How it feels doing literally any task right now.

Minoan amphora with floral design. 3,800 years old and still blooming gorgeous! 🌸 From Phaistos, Crete. Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me #Archaeology

bluesky is and has always been a posting retirement home for elder millennials

Psyched to read this baby again (after many years)

I think it’s weird how much I like brutalism. Like what does it say about me?

Happy Eating Chocolate and Watching The Sound of Music Day for those who celebrate.

The Trump admin only has experience bullying normal/sane govts/orgs. (Ones that should’ve stood up to them yes, but the point is…) it never occurred to MAGA that they’re not the craziest people in the room or the only ones who don’t care what happens to their people. None of the old tricks work

I finished the gorgeous story of the artist behind the Trafalgar Lions - which can’t be told without the scandalous affair (and truly touching love) between himself and the duchess twice his age. www.instagram.com/p/DWrjf53CEVF/

Also, I’m sure they haven’t done that out of “decency” (as he claimed his last rant) and not at all because we also benefit from the infrastructure that provides us with energy and would take decades to replace…

This genre never gets old

become ungovernable d2w9rnfcy7mm78.cloudfront.net/44803208/ori...

I really love this piece

Usually I don't post things older than the late Palaeolithic period, but #insects embedded in amber never cease to amaze me - the sheer age! This ant preserved in its finest detail is some 50-million-year old 🐜 Found in Gujarat, India. 📷 University of Bonn

One of those headlines were you just have no idea what word is coming next

Hard not to smile at this Burne-Jones tile design, showing a string-holding Theseus creeping up on a scary peek-a-boo Minotaur in the bone-strewn Labyrinth (1861, Birmingham Art Gallery)

Good!

Is this good?

One. That’s unconscionable

uhhhh

I'm receiving reports from airports all over the country about ICE sightings. I'll be sharing updates here as I get them. ⬇️

I’m imagining Rubio pretending to be an Iranian leader on the phone with Trump.

every single financial institution would benefit from hiring exactly one (1) progressive to walk around the office all day long going “are you fucking stupid?” to anyone within ear shot

Today at MSY airport: “TSA lines in [New Orleans] at 4:30 am. People have been in line since 2 am and it opens at 4. There are three levels and the line snakes back to the Parking deck and then doubles [on itself].”

New USA motto just dropped

Haha, it's great that we're all waiting to see if the sitting President of the United States destroys the global economy tomorrow for no reason, right? This is fun. Love the suspense of all our lives hanging in the balance on the whims of an unstable, raging narcissist.

Are we… holding our shit together? I think I missed that memo

I’ve already had my eyebrows raised at the world’s airlines admitting/showing stress (duh) but the US ones continue to be all “no everything is fine! Great even!” Is it kissing admin butt? Is it now-classic American corp bravado? I dunno, but it’ll be interesting to see the Obvious Thing happen

the human body was not designed to know what the worst person in the world is doing every fifteen minutes

Yes

I remember the very start of Trump’s second term when Hegseth said that we can’t support Ukraine because we have to focus on China.

Really stunning

[*gif of someone with their jaw gaping open in a mixture of shock and schadenfreude*]