Wait you mean Cathy Moriarty's rage at her son for sipping his drink through a straw was based on real gender stupidity?? That was the one but that I never really believed.

My baby cousin goes to UW and this student reminds them too much of their own older sister. There are no words.

A surprise portrait of Terry Pratchett will still make me sob hard enough to get a stomach ache

If I get a library card for Brooklyn and trek into another borough can I borrow a jigsaw?

The Redemption of Galen Pike by Carys Davies is a masterful short story collection, each one a little barb that will stick in your brain.

WHAT THE FUCK MAN IF I NEED TO FLY TO SEATTLE TO STAND GUARD OVER MY BABY COUSIN AT UW I WILL

This is actually true, imo. And also, COVID reminded people of their own vulnerability, the porosity of their own skins and bodies, their mortality and they HATED it. They still hate it. Thats why they scream about masks, about COVID and any reminder of that vulnerability.

I only know the uneven flowchart of the Ivy League which goes: Brown thinks Harvard is their biggest rival Harvard has never heard of Brown and thinks theirs is Yale UPenn thinks theirs is Princeton Princeton thinks theirs is Yale

Woke myself and my wife up from a nightmare screaming last night, so that's new.

I spent so much time on the phone today with various customer service representatives and NONE of the problems in question got solved.

I survived April by the skin of my teeth and had hoped to sleep through the first week of May. That was not feasible but I did get to take TWO naps this weekend.

Is this gonna be how we get out of fossil fuels? Funneling cash to the CEOs of Exxon and BP et al?

Do you want the Tank Girl future? Because this is how we get the Tank Girl future and last time I checked none of you are sentient mutant kangaroos.

First Harry Potter induced work anxiety dream last night and that stupid new series isn't out until DECEMBER It's going to be a long year

The Three Bags Full movie is written by the guy who wrote the acclaimed Chernobyl miniseries and directed by the guy who did the Minions movie so maybe I wouldn't be surprised by the glowing reviews on letterboxd?

My sister has decided to get seriously into writing (theatre) at a time where many other amateur writers are using genAI and it's infuriating. Another student in one class used it for song and story ideas, and "singing" his compositions.

Today I learned that when the Pope was at Villanova, he had a job mowing the lawn at the church that hosted the fair we went to every spring.

The Denali Park sled dog cam is active again. Trust me - you will want to bookmark this and check it out every day. www.nps.gov/dena/learn/p...

I was wondering why the bus lane was blocked off on my way home

I think I would just buy an island and unless you wanted to work for me scrolling social media and donating to every gofundme you found you'd never hear from me if you didn't already know me

Gonna be thinking about @juliewbach.bsky.social cautioning against bookstores that say "community" when they mean "customers" for a while

I do not usually like what Madonna wears to the Met Gala but I loved this even before learning the source material

This Is How You Win the Time War

If someone I don't know sent me $20 via Zelle, I take no action, right?

I would be curious to know WHERE on the M101 and the M15 these tickets were most common, because my suspicion is that it's my UES delivery loving neighbors triggering this. It's not a community that shops local.

genAI is not actually Janet!!!

Why does everything seem like a cult these days?

I went to a May Day celebration at Bryn Mawr probably 40 years ago and there are WAY more people around these maypoles than when I watched. Mostly I remember the group with the blue ribbons that couldn't get the pattern of weaving right 😬

BATTLEGROUND LOUISIANA! Message me if you qualify and would like to be a party plaintiff against Landry. #Resist

If you are trying to sell a self help book and you say that you can just use genAI content and then focus on your delivery, why would anyone pay for your book instead of just asking fucking claude to spoon the contents into their brains

Every bookstore posting their May events schedules with like 4-5 per week and I'm like "on May 1st I will sleep for three days to recover from April and you can join me if you want"

I did not know that the royals were here today but I was also downtown and when someone mentioned that King Charles was there, too, I genuinely thought she was talking about dogs (possibly my own, even though that seemed unlikely)

A PTA member where we're doing a book fair next week made teacher wish lists using chatgpt because none of the teachers sent her actual requests and I had to explain to her why that is counterproductive.

These are the books I've been looking for. I read Capitalist Realism by Mark Fisher Then Technofeudalism Then the related but more specific Underground Empire Still trying to get through Mother of Capital, which reads like a thesis

A local artist (thistrampstamps on IG) made me this and I'm obsessed

First job with taxes withheld was around $6/hr for running the cash register and scooping ice cream at a burger and sandwich joint at the Jersey shore My boss would just look up a previous paycheck for a similar amount and copy those withholdings Pretty sure I never got a W2

This does make it significantly easier to just not place the reorder that's been pending in my inventory system for a few months

When radioactivity was discovered, there was a rush to market for all sorts of radioactive consumer goods. There were water jugs made out of uranium glass, for example. I think about that a lot these days whenever I see AI products being marketed to consumers.

Rain is awful for retail businesses, but since I've only had 1 day off in the last 20 and it was to go help out around the house after my mom came home from the hospital after emergency hip surgery, I'm not entirely mad that indie bookstore day in NYC is likely to be a slow one.

Most Americans: I’m going to die working this job 😞 Members of Congress: I’m going to die working this job! 😃

I have increasingly little patience for people with no situational awareness

I put on Nantucket reds and my Jaws T-shirt today before remembering I have an evening obligation that has a dress code

And clocks!

Every time Matt Damon takes on a period role he ends up looking like a third baseman for the Phillies.

Yesterday I learned that in Europe and the UK, dog breeding and ownership regulations are so strict (good) that there are hardly any shelters, because they aren't needed.

My train has been stopped because it has "hot wheels" and so I'm going to miss the last commuter train out to the suburbs and I'm feeling very sorry for myself.

This is my business philosophy, which is why my email newsletter subscriber base has stayed about the same for 6-8 years, but my open and click rate is way above industry average.

Just because Caitlyn Jenner is an objectively horrible person doesn’t mean it’s okay to deadname her. Please don’t.