my heart wants a beautiful, neatly arranged home like the ones featured in architectural digest. but my spirit wants to adopt as many cats and dogs as my living space humanely allows. very difficult dilemma.

I don’t know Butchie instead.

I spotted this on Mastodon and I find it horrible, not least for the speed with which this has happened.

"I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain." This James Baldwin quote is hitting harder than ever.

Being an actor is wild. You can be one of the great literary polymaths of the 20th century, but you do one walk-on role on a network sitcom where your only line is, “Ey, who’s cookin’ boigas in da bathroom?” and for the rest of your life you’re “the boiga guy” to everyone except, like, Terry Gross.

32 years ago today, Homer Simpson was force fed all the donuts in the world while in Hell. “Treehouse of Horror IV” first aired October 28, 1993.

reading slaughterhouse 5 for the first time and i was absolutely knocked senseless by this passage, which is so true and relevant that it feels like it was pulled from a history book

MAGA “mRNA vaccines change your genes.” When your genes are in the nucleus and mRNA works at ribosomes in the cytoplasm. Basis high school biology is only required.

it's my first day at AWS and I'm in charge of the big cable labelled "Internet" :)

Not sure the folks at NBC/Peacock thought this one through

Blockety block block BLOCK!!!

“Who was president in 2020?” remains one of the most pertinent questions in American politics—absurd, yes, but here we are—and that extends to “who was president January 1 - 19, 2021?”

“Starbucks holds nearly $2 billion of customers’ money in its rewards program. That’s more than the total deposits managed by 85 percent of chartered banks, making the coffee chain one of the biggest financial institutions in the country.” jacobin.com/2025/10/bank...

#OtD 4 Oct 1884 the first issue of anarchist newspaper, The Alarm, was published. Famously edited by future Haymarket Martyr, Albert Parsons, it was the most prominent English-language anarchist periodical of its day stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1260...

Another terrible day to be literate

you might not like it but the truth is king tut would have been a mr beast subscriber

"the menswear guy isn't fair and balanced." do you even hear yourself? "fork lady is eroding public confidence." "ladder baby is undermining the credibility of the field." "lemon raccoon is acting without transparency or accountability." that's what you sound like.

When you bought the dip on fartcoin

TEEN: you’re the only one who understands me danny. my stupid dad won’t let me go see billie eilish with gretchen AI CHATBOT DANIEL PLAINVIEW FROM THERE WILL BE BLOOD: Your father is a bastard. Fit for a hole in the ground. You will go with Gretchen. Even if your father must die, as a bastard dies

Life's little reminder....

One of my favorite movies of all time.

friend: Is she the one? Plotinus: No but she emanates from it

Honestly a better argument to get people off their phones than most of the scolding you see on substack

Why don’t you Pokémon Go to the reeducation camps

My sentient enchanted sword came out to me as transmasc. Talk about Un-She/They-ing your blade! I told him "I don't care how you identify, I just need you to he/it whatever is in front of me!"

Me literally every single day

It's the safest way, isn't it?

Every time there is a mass shooting, I can't help but think of the parallels between gun violence and traffic violence. Two things that kill a similar number of Americans each year (including many children), and two issues with obvious solutions that we, as a country, have chosen to ignore.

This is the Platonic Ideal of a Bluesky thread

Some days the toilet seat begs for the brown, but some days the brown begs for the toilet seat

A popular bag of chips with many locations

Wheeeen theee Bird in your room represents all your gloom Nevermoré When you're trying to grieve but that corvid won't leave Nevermoré It will rap Tippy tippy tap Tippy tippy tap Waking you from naps aaand Your dream-a Then will fly Never tell you why Even if you cry Landing on your sideboard Athena

As a person who was big into forums and chat rooms in the 90s, it’s unreal watching ChatGPT ppl develop forum addiction & epistolary limerence & go through vicious-cycle social reinforcement in EXACTLY the same ways, except with a reskinned Eliza app & they’re not being publicly shamed for it enough

"She had a bottom that would make any toilet beg for the brown."

there's a secret network of government bureaucrats that subverts the democratic will through sophisticated and clandestine means, like, for example, smoking law enforcement officers in the chest with a footlong meatball sub on camera

Posting bobs on main