spouse and I occasionally dip back into early Buffy, and spent dinnertime today watching Band Candy for the first time in many years. Kat: you know what I realised? me: we’re closer to the adults’ age than the teenagers, I know Kat: we *are* the adults’ age me: no, they’re in their 40s- oh.

If you ever wonder why people say "slippery as an eel" I can confirm that one time we had to hold an eel for a vet to do a blood draw and that eel ended up on the floor 47 times out of 48 attempts

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This is, I regret to say, one of the only ways to get Lithuania to do it.

even among internet era fandoms the people who coined the term ‘shipping’ would also like a word (went looking up some details on the chronology and found this delightful article from 1996 citing “no less than 100 Web sites”!) www.metroactive.com/papers/metro...

Man Who Thought Fleetwood Mac’s ‘The Chain’ Was Over In For Thrill Of His Fucking Life https://theonion.com/man-who-thought-fleetwood-macs-the-chain-was-over-in-for-thrill-of-his-fucking-life/

I met Gabrielle Ruiz at Star Trek: New Jersey last year and she was so nice to me! I gave her a drawing I did of T'lyn in the "Women gotta stick together" pose from Crazy Ex-Girlfriend and she asked me to sign it even though I was at her table where she was selling HER signature.

This is how the far right should be covered and analysed Not focusing only on the words or actions of one man but by looking at wider societal trends, the role of the mainstream and of course accounting for power This is not (just) opinion, it's necessary analysis

tbf he also pays rich ppl in developing countries to pretend to be Americans

I quite frequently send my spouse Daily Tism articles going ‘hey babe’ but for this one in particular they reminded me that they have a Bad Spoon that they exclusively use for stirring stock because they don’t want it to feel rejected by just leaving it in the drawer or donating it.

y'know, if tech companies weren't so fired up to call every single thing "AI" it would be a lot easier to distinguish "ML spam filter that is well-sandboxed and tuned on your emails" from "giant context and IP-eroding foundation model that makes people paranoid and unhappy"

"St Benedict repairs a Broken Colander through Prayer", fresco, 1502, by Giovanni 'Il Sodoma' Bazzi. Yes, that's the subject. Yes, that's his name. Yes, the central figure with a sword, expensive robes, and badgers on a leash is a self portrait.

incorrect and yet more accurate than most of that song

Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door. This is who it was:

They're also responsible for one of the best emails I've ever received, when the college office sent out a plea for sightings of Professor Biscuit while conveniently forgetting to mention that he was a cat...(I won't comment on how often a similar email might have gone out about human Professors...)

another all-time tweet I am constantly thinking about

People know exactly what‘s going on.

STOP. this is a selfie checkpoint. you must repost with a cute selfie to proceed. — sunnier times

Star Trek: First Contact was released 29 years ago today. We'll be soon halfway between the film's release and First Contact Day (2063). 😄

I do not exaggerate when I say I want every person who supports abortion bans to be tarred and feathered for life.

Ok but this is totally something Charlotte Church would do

it makes me actually happy when it happens in a tv show, it's such a small detail to actually have the character in a specific known cosy cardigan for specific scenes, or a smart suit you recognise when they're trying to be impressive, tv does not do it enough

list of people I’ve dated, complimentary

By far the funniest part of this insane post is that even the maniacs who believe this stuff are so media-pilled they refer to it as a 'leaked photo'. As if God, CEO of Heaven Studios, had included it in a press kit for awards season, but embargoed it til January 27th.

That is the face of a man who doesn't give the slightest fuck that he ate your plums

you'd think the forced displacement of 10 million people from one of the oldest centres of civilisation in human history would get a little more news attention than beltway journalists writing essays on how Olivia Nuzzi is a genius because they want to bone her and you'd be wrong

This is absolutely the type of hard hitting reporting I want to see in my local news. Dive deep. Tell us everything.

hey does anybody want to mind some rich moron's five neglected kids while getting malnutrition in a shack full of dangerous snakes lmk. no pay

I spent lots of time chatting with the Nazi bot on Nazi dot com and giving ad revenue to the world’s richest Nazi in order to create these screenshots that you’ll hate. Enjoy

Duck — Tlatilco workshop, ca. 1000 BCE

Similar to drawing glyphs of warding in salt for autonomous cars.

BlasphemyBot:

🕯 Today we pause to remember the trans people whose lives were taken by violence this year. Those lost to hatred, and those lost to the unbearable weight of living in a world that too often refuses to see their worth. We hold every name and every story in our hearts. #TDOR

I want to very gently say something, and I hope nobody will be mad: If somebody on the internet says something that is NOT about politics and NOT about how terrible everything is, it’s a kindness not to reflexively make a comment (in jest or not) that brings it back to those things.

Personally I've been fighting the good fight in the family group chat.

"the fae are open source" is an incredible premise for a fantasy novel that would appeal specifically to me.

Okay now imagine what it's like to watch Western fandom encounter your culture's ancient worldview, folklore and mythology exclusively through watching and reading poorly translated xianxia of varying quality.

after the George Floyd protests when every business rushed to virtue-signal by hiring consultants, shoving every Black employee front and center, and boasting loudly about DEI, a lot of BIPOC experts were laughed out the room for saying “most of this won’t last five years,” and I just want to say

Thing I found out today: if you're on Universal Credit (or other means-tested benefits) you can get into Hampton Court Palace, Kensington Palace, or the Tower of London for £1 (and 50% off at one cafe per site too). Because poor people deserve days out too www.hrp.org.uk/one-pound-ti...

Today is the day to repost this meme about International Men's Day, one of the most unironically wholesome memes that has ever been made. Shoutout to all my fellow champs, chiefs, and kings. ✊

My favorite ever letter of recommendation is one Ficino wrote in the late 1500s, recommending a pupil for a secretary job with King Matthias Corvinus of Hungary, in which he says the young man is “the reincarnation of Saint Thomas Aquinas.”

Unfortunate environmental storytelling (me, popping by the vets earlier: oh dear, things got a bit out of hand? vet nurse: yeah, apparently someone had two rabbits and then they had 80 rabbits me: did they breed like… VN: like rabbits, yep.)

🎵 …couldn’t bescape if I bonted to 🎶

STOP comparing London railway termini St Pancras is MAJESTIC Waterloo is GIANT King's Cross is ADVENTUROUS London Bridge is SHINY Liverpool Street has MANY CONNECTIONS Victoria is CONVENIENT Euston Paddington is HISTORIC Marylebone is COSY

latin literature of the 5th-6th centuries AD

crossing professional streams for a minute I’ve been thinking again about when Harlan Ellison groped Connie Willis on stage in 2006, and even when almost everyone condemned him, she went in headlines from “multi-award winning author, sf luminary and convention star guest” to “person who got groped”.