it’s never a good sign when a software developer starts talking about human nature

Humans crave Pocky because it satisfies the forbidden urge to chomp on a thermometer under your tongue

thinking about her (Taiwanese flat cabbage)

my buddy had a dream about "newport snows" which where like, spearmint, not menthol so i made it for him in photoshop and got carried away

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it directly benefits the people in power to believe that each individual is the cause of their own suffering. we have to acknowledge and actively push back against the victim blaming impulse inside each of us. that being said, everyone i know who’s been attacked by a goose kinda started it.

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ladies if he’s a matador that is a huge red flag

domino effect meme where the smallest domino is "craving for nasi ulam" and the largest is "buying an electric coconut scraper"

bf was really fighting for his life here

I hope people understand that the anomaly here aren’t the conditions—the conditions are very typical—the anomaly is that they put a number of documented workers from a high-income country in those conditions. This is how people are treated in custody routinely

1. Tahoe 2. Mint Milano 3. Chessmen

threw a package of frozen boneless duck feet from H Mart into my last batch of broth and it has gelled beautifully

Do you think unbending Clippy until he was a long piece of metal would be painful for him. Or do you think it would cause him to feel a great sense of relief

bought a massive cauliflower at the farmers' market and now keep thinking "chou de ouf"

All I saw was cheesecake boat and ocean for at least 5 minutes

pressing boiling hot phone screen to my cheek: listen pig there is a word for novelists who dare to write with lower ratios of summary to scene than i, claudius or master and margarita and that word is lazy hostage negotiator, covering mic: he's right...... fuckkkkk

A friend just reminded us that three years ago today at a cocktail party someone bragged about being great at drawing ducks while blindfolded, so of course we had to give it a try. I went first and my friends will never ever ever let me live down the fact that I forgot that ducks are bipedal:

forgot that every time I get the COVID shot I end up having some sort of uncomfortable personal realization

my perception of Hochul has never been much above "tepid" but she is growing on me a little bit

you know what? fuck it. theremin mode. github.com/samhenrigold...

5.5 ft. Lifesize Haunted Woman...

none of my business but I do think after New York defeats Eric Adams with the power of democracy y'all might consider keeping him on as like a fake comedy mayor I just find the shit he comes out with so incredible

I will never stop finding it funny that hating Andrew Cuomo's guts is accepted as enough of a reason on its own for multiple candidates to stay in the mayoral race. needs no qualification or explanation

boyfriend bought some type of advanced back-scratcher and it came with an instructional DVD

In this tableau the Umibozu asks the sailor Kawanaya Tokuzo to “name the worst thing you know” and Tokuzo answers “my profession is the worst thing I know” which the spirit accepts and disappears along with the storm that threatens to capsize his boat

Life is short and the hour of our death is a mystery, so no, I will not rate my transaction

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going through unlabeled boxes of books and sorting them into "staying here", "storage", and "donation"; unfortunately hit the Nabokov/Borges/Edmund White jackpot right away and now have little motivation to open the rest

Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldn’t write it

about every year and a half I remember how good tuna melts are

Until we give a crow adderall we will never know their full potential

took me a second to place the name "Riley Walz" and then I realized it was this same guy www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

boyfriend woke up from a long nap and I got to be the one to make him aware of this

I need an early warning system to dissuade me from attempting press-in tart crusts

thought these guys were just really excited to talk to each other and then (20+ minutes in) realized that I'd accidentally set it to play at 1.2× speed

Job hunting in August has proven especially futile so I've been trying to use the extra time to come up with better ways to effectively market/pitch patreon.com/sfultra. Sadly, I keep just making shit like this instead.

I'm feeling grumpy, so in an attempt to change that I am posting these old fake Antiques Roadshow pictures that make me laugh

just in case u feel like doing ur part for the Indian theatre scene this is a friend's project and should be ! very cool chuffed.org/project/1423...

King face-down in the hay the morning after having had too much to drink at the birth of the Christ: I have of late, but wherefore I know not, lost all my myrrh

isn't there somebody* you forgot to ask *Edward G. Robinson

remembering the time I was talking to @deepthi.bsky.social about how much faster one could knit with about six more arms and she replied, "yes, but think of all the sleeves"

Here’s a wren sitting on a sensor outside This gentlemen is the sum and substance of cyberpunk

not sure whether to listen to the neuron which keeps suggesting that now might be a very good time to reread The Driver's Seat

there was more business to find out what should be read, than to read it when it was found out.

Sliced, stabbed, punctured, bleeding, harassed on all sides by various weaponry, the curious image of Wound Man is a rare yet intriguing presence in the world of medieval and early modern manuscripts. @j_hartnell on this enigmatic figure: publicdomainreview.org/essay/t...

Can we get the end of narrative (especially "the narrative") too? Isn't it insulting enough that they can admit outright & with pride to telling a story day after day?