1 like = a description of one ttRPG character of mine I actually played sometime in the past 44 years (since my first game in the summer in 1982).

I was still in Leningrad in 1991, how did I miss this?!

@porcupunk.eurosky.social amazingly did not know there was a Soviet LOTR

Outstanding. Very good by itself but in context, superb.

More good news today, Link Wray inventing rock and roll distortion and power chords at a gig in Fredericksburg was truly some local folklore people didn’t believe. Can’t wait to see this one go up. “Virginia approves historical marker to the song that inspired a generation of rock stars”

#ShoegazeSunday #MusicChallenge #MusicSky "White" by The Field Mice ("Snowball", 1989) #NoisePop #Shoegaze

Has, uh… has anyone checked with, uh, the Etsy witches… lately?

Wrong turn (1/3)

#NewCollegeOfFlorida When the president was recruited from a lobbying firm... lobbying expenses more than double.

If you are wondering how I am spending my evening … pretty much as always - haunting a boneyard.

In 1931, two men in fruit-basket helmets sealed themselves in a seven-foot aluminum sphere and rode a hydrogen balloon past 50,000 feet. The valve froze. The hull cracked. Meet Auguste Piccard, Switzerland's tallest contingency planner. https://oddlet.com/p/x5y #HistSci #history #SciComm

“Of course Ian and I are going to work for free,” Rollins told me via Zoom. “No money was ever offered or asked for. I don’t want a dollar. I’ve got the bucks. Isn’t this what you spend money on? What would you rather do? Do fentanyl or work with a Cramps catalogue?”

Many happy returns to the legendary #PeterMurphy - born this day in 1957

all right fam it's time for "Give Us This Day Our Daily Thread," in which your favorite internet lesbian breaks down what's new and hot in the world of Schism Watch 2026 please hydrate, stretch, and get a snack, we have a LOT to go over today

Two year anniversary of when I first posted this comic

He burned every note he wrote before twenty-eight, scavenged Ford hubcaps and bomber nose cones, and built a forty-three-tone scale inside an abandoned chick hatchery. Then Harry Partch hit record as the demolition crew arrived. https://oddlet.com/p/0di #HistSci #history #SciComm

Discourse of the day waxing nostalgic for paper maps is; A. Adorable & chill & I’m here for it B. Vaguely disconcerting as cell service remains spotty enough in most of Canada that paper maps are very much still A Thing 😂

What share of young adults (25-34) still live with their parents? Culture and house prices shape this map. In North Dakota it's very rare to live with your parents at that age. In California it's almost the norm. Source: buff.ly/FUIqe8d

This promotional PSYCHO pre-release marketing photo (designed to satisfy demand and mislead from the film’s actual plot) always makes me smile.

“Start on the way and the way appears” -Rumi

I want our next Dem president to bring back the WPA and just build infrastructure all across this country again. Build green energy, trains, housing, etc. We can have nice things (and nice bathrooms), but we have to invest in ourselves!

Judge denies incumbent GOP #Florida state rep's bid to be put back on the ballot after her screwup, meaning that seat has now flipped to Democrats. floridapolitics.com/archives/806...

ME: i can’t drink this it’s expired WIFE: it’s just natural spring water ME: it’s summer now carol

There was also a lot more driving without knowing, which is really what I think has been lost. It was a kind of faith, just - oh I keep heading this way and soon I’ll be near the state road where there should be a hardware store.

Bonnie Tyler’s passing had made me think of the show SOLID GOLD, which I always associated with her song the way I associate “One Step Ahead of You” with MYV. This has made me think about Madam, who I also remember being on SOLID GOLD. I am wondering: Does Madam count as a drag queen?

The irony of the Vanderbilt and Yale reports is that they are self-refuting. These reports *are conservative activism* designed to remake the university while masquerading as disinterested scholarly assessment.

The Corcoran #NewCollegeOfFlorida aesthetic in its ascendancy. Enjoy the hot feet.

But I think it's perhaps more accurate still to say that these guys are all "anti-weird" and it just so happens that, in recent history, anarchism has been a political space on the left that made room for the types of weirdness that makes them recoil. Everything from sexual perversion to veganism.

"The Islamic Republic of Japan" is really a gift to builders of alternate histories. So the first missionaries could have followed the so-called Nestorian Christians out of Syria into Tang Dynasty China during the waning years of the Umayyad Caliphate. A plucky imam rejects al-Andalus for Chang'an.

There are news articles you could link to. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Saw a meme of GenZ baffled by how pre-internet travel worked, and realized we’ve crossed an enshittification threshold where IRL services that once seemed outdated, like travel agents, now seem luxurious: “You meet with a human expert who plans out your whole trip with you” sounds incredible now tbh

Weekly World News photos, dated 10-150-1996.

Hang tight, things are changing this year.

Holy moly. What a feat. www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adve...

One of the best shows ever. Available on the internet archive. Go find it. It is kind of perfect as a reprieve from how the real world is right now. Thanks, again, JVM. For the Middleman, and this thread.

my favorite thing ever said in any movie - for realsies - is in the climactic line in gattaca, where ethan hawke tells his brother that the reason he was able to best him in their symbolic childhood sport, long distance swimming, is that "i never left anything for the way back."

You can't be a hypocrite when all you believe in is power.

Orson Welles said something very similar: "I passionately hate the idea of being 'with it'; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time."

I wonder if the anti-trans people give gendered pronouns to the AIs they use. Do they refer to ChatGPT as "he"?

This is the best idiom ever. 🦀 and everyone should be thinking about the immortality of the crab. (I must use this as a prompt to write a flash fiction) Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinkin...

"They just want to turn it off." A fascinating story of the librarians who have started teaching classes showing people how to remove AI "features" from their phones and apps. www.bangordailynews.com/2026/07/02/m...

I think someone wrote this about me and I'm not pleased

Thread. Excuse me.

Absolute banger of an obituary in the Seattle Times today, rest in peace Judy

So uhhhh… yikes, huh?

God. Damn. It.

#Florida AG James "Oopsie!" Uthmeier claims the Irish Dance competition in Orlando is violating state law by allowing a transgender contestant. Note that the law governs sporting events, not artistic ones such as a dance contest.

Due to this, m.youtube.com/watch?v=JtfB... I feel like you might be able to trick it into recognition with a few more As incorporated.

Ritchie Havens, Freedom (1969) m.youtube.com/watch?v=tf1B...