I know they’re “just calculators” or whatever but videos of people abusing robots or working them to death really bother me. Maybe I’ve just internalized too much sci-fi but it seems a fine line between abusing a robot and abusing a person. #earnestposting

Joy to the World 2 Joy 2 World Joy to the World: Tokyo Drift Joy & World Joy Five Joy & World 6 World 7 The Fate of the World J9 Joy X

Less than one minute in and fucking Elmo is pointing fingers. God I hate that guy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJxz...

Holy Fool Podcast Episode 1: Denver emo band Buddy Bench Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/01T7xry... Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d... Youtube: youtu.be/rHvKSz8DS7w?...

AfterHours' most epic partner is Don's Club Tavern. If you want to know what real hospitality is all about, check out Don's. Make a lunch and put some more love into the world at Don's the first Monday of every month at 7pm. Tonight: uncertainty, the unknown, and what it has to do with faith.

it's that time of year where i can whip out this, the craziest ad of all time. what happens at the "climax" is so funny—i don't understand how the actor at that moment could have been directed sincerely by any person. other than maybe some total saboteur tim robinson type. youtu.be/PDonPiUV07E?...

every day i wonder, why am i cursed with literacy?

Plumbline Services, you didn’t have to go so hard on this. youtu.be/dVF2NMhqzSM?...

Keep it long and warm with us at AfterHours this Thanksgiving.

yes, hello, I would like to place an order for everyone’s funniest stories of holiday food-related family grudges / drama / chaotic incidents / lore I feel like we need this

Scoot forward ever carefully into the breach, men!

Just a friendly reminder as we go into the holidays: Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink. If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business. Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.

Finding Forrester is one of my favorite Busta Rhymes films

Relatedly, my take on why US elite culture has gone down the drain is that they're suffering from the same law enforcement neglect that a lot of high-crime underclass-coded neighborhoods do. Super rich ppl live in a low trust environ where they cannot trust their peers not to commit crimes vs them.

Prepared for people to be totally normal about this.

Jamelle was cooking. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/o...

“In the United Methodist tradition, we have something called connectionalism, which, in this moment, we are saying means: If you come for one United Methodist, you have come for all of us." 😭✊

This is what you're actually looking at, btw. An exceptionally cool piece by David Wallace Haskins called Image Continuous. 3 sides are mirrors, but the 4th is this, a view of the sky framed by a reflection of the woods. It is ever changing, ever responsive to the conditions above & around the cube.

Made me think of this, I admit.

oh my God

Anyone out there who manages volunteers know of a sign-up service better than Sign Up Genius?

i’ve said this before and i remain convinced it’s true, the 2028 platform that would deliver obama 08 results is “i am gonna bring the hammer down on the corrupt self-dealing politicians and their rich friends and there are no sacred cows id give a pass”

Friendly reminder that dishwashers made after 1995 or so are so water and energy efficient that even if you ran them twice fully loaded it would still use less water than handwashing the same load. So many "green" things feel like sacrifices. Dishwashers are not one of them.

if you can’t see the aurora borealis tonight, here is a sewer tunnel which is a wonder in itself.

Everyone knows this but did you know the En dash was invited by her cousin Enily Dickinson?

God: I really love *and* you gotta act right, ok? Human: Ok G: I’m pretty angry at you guys right now but I still love you. H: Thanks, God. G: If you go down there and fuck up, I’ll kill my son over there. H: Ehhh, no please don’t do that. G: <whispered> *I want to do it* H: Jesus Christ…

I bet if I meditated and drank mint tea or hibiscus at night instead of doomscrolling I could figure out how to start fires with my thoughts

🇺🇸 Democrats. The very last people you want with you in a fight.

Had a long talk with my son about some hard stuff he’s going through tonight. And I’d just like to say a resounding, “Fuck you,” to my own dad for not being there for me as a kid.

Nikola Jokic, never change. youtube.com/shorts/tG52F...

I don’t think rich people will leave NYC because it’s NYC, you know? It’s the A#1 city. There’s a “Second City” by definition because there’s NYC. Like where are you gonna go? Houston Texas? Paris? GTFO of here with that shit. If I’m NYC my message is, “I dare you mother fuckers to leave.”

People still think of the internet as something other than “IRL.” Also mental heath generally is not seen as “real.”

Hope!? Where? *In the darkness*!? Just where you wouldn’t expect to find it??

Colorado voters passed universal free lunch for kids on Tuesday and I just wanted to take a moment to appreciate the genius of this ballot design. When I saw the number 300,000 next to the number 486 on my ballot I actually laughed out loud.

The thing is, everybody dies.

I would love to see a show where this guy and a depressed English DI race to solve the same crime before the other.

Absolutely fantastic sci-fi. Top shelf.

Wayward Wizards, my Lord of the Rings slow-read podcast, had the amazing Jadzia Axelrod @planetx.bsky.social on this week! She was a fantastic interview and she has great insight into Lord of The Rings as an author and deep reader! Check out links to the podcast at www.waywardwizards.com

"All we do know, and that to a large extent by direct experience, is that evil labours with vast power and perpetual success – in vain: preparing always only the soil for unexpected good to sprout in. So it is in general, and so it is in our own lives." ~ J.R.R. Tolkien, 'Letters'

A colleague of mine had been case managing a formerly homeless man who needed to be in hospice care. The man died yesterday. Today the colleague was worrying generally about his client: relieved he was no longer suffering but anxious about how much peace the client may or may not have now.

I’m more into underground podcasts. I don’t know, you probably haven’t heard of them.

Forth Eorlingas! Cast aside your heartburn and headache, mount your Subaru and ride to oblivion!

I grew up in S. Dakota which established the second Monday in October as Native American Day in 1990(!). So the hubbub around Columbus and whether we should celebrate him has struck me as rather quaint.

When will someone consider the masculinity of men?

The police narrative of Mark Sanchez’s stabbing is truly bizarre, in the sense of “ah I see why they charged the guy who got stabbed.” apnews.com/article/nfl-...

The old federal building in my hometown had marble doors *on the bathroom stalls*.

If you read this you will feel hope.

I’m jealous of people who really love baseball.