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I enjoyed this. And what an infectious laugh. ā¤ļø "Reporter left speechless after witnessing Japan's new $70 million Maglev train in action at 310 mph"
[returning a text from eight months ago] Are you still at the coffee shop?
me too. i love how thatās the main course and then there just a few dessert villains that get handled after. a show that luxuriates in comeuppance.
I finally read computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaumās 1976 classic āComputer Power and Human Reason.ā This book deserves a massive revival in our current age of grotesque and largely thoughtless AI creep into everything:
anyway, lots of things are the future of politics, including what Pritzker has been doing in Illinois. it takes all kinds. bsky.app/profile/govp...
i donāt know about anywhere else but in Indy i think i see red lights run by one or more people about as often as not these days. been getting worse and worse since cops stopped enforcing traffic laws in 2020.
like congrats, the āyou should vote!ā argument has been won by the pro-voting side, and now a bunch of asshole idiots vote. themās the breaks
this stuff sucks but doesnāt bother me because 1) itās coming mostly from folks like hochul or newsom who i donāt think are useful for much else (i wish they were!) and 2) a lot of people who suck also vote and we got to win some of them over too
where did it land? if on the hood, did you share an awkward look at each other? is the little critter okay?
canāt stop thinking about how instead of drivers stopping at red lights again, as i have wished for, what i am seeing is a sudden onset trend of pedestrians/bicyclists just walking/riding into traffic
Given whatās unfolding with the EAA & their attempt to silence @archagainstaparth.bsky.social, I find it salient to share my @aljazeera.com Op-Ed from last year.
I dug into @guynes.bsky.social's university press round-ups and found this interesting book about children in Spielberg's movies by @lindaruthwilliams.bsky.social. "...children have served to cast Spielberg as a sentimentalist, but...they are frequently framed as complex, cruel, and canny."
A little BUTTER for your feed š§ šøNichelle Short
Americans Astronomers watching watching US politics Betelgeuse š¤ āIt could happen at any timeā
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Weakened at Bernie's
I donāt understand why weāre expected to agonize over the growth metrics of our favorite microblogging platform. I like Bluesky more than I ever liked Twitter. I canāt pretend to care what folks on X say about the whole thing.
At some point you have to ask yourself if you've maybe indulged in some behaviors that made your account a bug light for idle morons and lunatics. I'm thinking of Stancil, and I'm thinking about some of his antagonist accounts who also complain about people's inability to "be normal."
I have SO many thoughts on this and related topics.
Hell yeah, congrats!
Thatās right.
Someone already said Romulaāan right?
my strategy: donāt be sad that the 2pm announcement will be some awful thing and not that heās dying, just be happy that he feels the need to put on a 2pm announcement of something awful to distract from the fact that heās dying.
"The perception of capitalism as a three-class society...drew on the contrast that Marx saw, but never fully resolved, between two functions played by the capitalist: the provider of the means of production and the organizer of their use..." stonecenter.gc.cuny.edu/new-capitali...
Henry Adams on the vanity of US Senators: "...even [President] Grant, who rarely sparkled in epigram, became witty on their account..."
Aunt W
Yeah we just had the solo tape not the big fancy box
I come from a long line of nerd dads - we had a recording of it from when it was on TV and then the 1991 VHS release. I really thought the official release was earlier than that but internet says 91
Oh noooooo sir it was the Beethovenās 6th that was the most worn on my copy
Damn you had the dedicated rewinder? We just had the VCR š
By the way āon repeatā meant that I spent about 25% of my time rewinding the tape.
I am the weirdo who watched Fantasia on repeat and then was horrified and struggled to adjust to how much talking and singing there is in the other disney movies.
i met anubis in the realm of the underworld, big strong guy by the way, had a dogās head, iām not so sure about that. and he said to me, mr president, youāve got the heaviest soul weāve ever weighed down here. can you believe it? theyāve never seen a soul that heavy in all of duat
theyāre so close
Can't afford to care for your kids; can't afford to care for your parents; can't afford to care for yourselfāAmerica makes it hard to care for each other, yet we have unlimited opportunity to be selfish or cruel. Demand a system with less friction and bullshitāit's "unrealistic" or "impractical."
rip to everyone whos become delusional after talking to chatgpt but im built different. like actually different. according to chatgpt im some kind of god. the one who decides
Sex workersā¦? You mean our Thirst Responders? š«”š«”š«”š«”
Belgium will recognize the State of Palestine at the UNGA, and will impose and support a range of sanctions against Israel.
āwe're bringing the mcrib back very strongly, folksā
although, on a coens note, my son was mad that william h macyās character survived Fargo so he cheered when macyās character died in Air Force One.
haha we were catching up on coens movies to follow along with a podcast series, but now weāre caught up and it will be just one of those per week. gives us time to resume various 80s & 90s classics
this movie still sure is a lot of fun. (itās also still ten minutes too long.)
Obligatory repost
still hits!
Platner: I believe that input from working people is far more important than input from someone who simply has money. I believe that we shouldnāt be settling for crumbs while billionaires eat the cookie we baked.
now watching Air Force One
Funny that it now looks like Worf is getting distracted by Bluesky.
Iām sure for a collector, this is a very special book to own a physical copy of ā however, Iād like to recommend the audiobook! (This is also available as a eBook, of course ā that doesnāt cost $120 lol) All this to say: A Stitch in Time is very good.
SEPTEMBER ā 2025 Teenager found the nerf bin while cleaning his room. Only a dad and his purse full of darts stands before him. Bedrooms are now Battlefields.
Get the hell off Substack before you literally canāt anymore without blowing up your business
now watching Men in Black
I hope they adapt the part where he says "Itās Franken time"
mine tried to ban me from saying āuwuā in a weird voice and it became my most powerful weapon.
well, shit. the rest of our planned stops are closed today. good news is we are coming in way under budget for this adventure!
Success, +10 charisma which scales up as he levels the skill and the cards get worn in.
cursed: scan a QR code for the menu blessed: scan a QR code to pay
all buffs have been applied to the party and we are setting out on our first quest: a higher quality deck of cards for card tricks.
bike day has begun
The classical fascist regimes were not invulnerable, even after seizing the reins of power: Mussolini's primiership almost collapsed during a crisis where the criminality of his movement became apparent; it was a lack of political initiative and craven opportunism that allowed him to continue on
excited to soon have access to the last three seasons of columbo
@ elder millennial pater familias
āconsider the lilies of the goddamn fieldā is one of my all time favorite lines in a movie.
cleaned the whole house and now watching O Brother Where Art Thou
they had an apple cannon
Personally I was impressed that they managed to make a reference to the movie Seven even though it would not be made for another four years.
13yo review: āOkay that was good. And fucking WEIRD. That was some Starbuck-ass shit at the end.ā
"83.3% of LLM users were unable to quote even one sentence from the essay they had just written"
now watching Barton Fink
this is the part i think about, often.
sorry but that pic does not really convince me he is āaliveā in the classic sense
i wasnāt brave enough to use this one
100% correct and now i need a peach.
Iām notoriously bad at picking favorites but a perfectly ripe summer peach cannot be beaten. best fruit by a long shot.
Reaching the stage of parenting where your kids sleep in later than you is such a game changer.
i am laying around enjoying this right now!
thinking about this again, snoop dogg edition. dude spent decades becoming a household name and a kind of national avatar. he was at the olympics! but he couldnāt resist being a publicly homophobic shithead this week.
At the very least itās fun to think of this as a sort of tailgate party before the big event
people joke about this but itās important for folks to understand that a single salad cancels out all the junk food for the week, not just one burger.
I envy all of you I wish I had the ability to mute me
#LastFourWatched
outside. a couple houses away. i can only hear the vocals so weāre just getting started.
hotel california neighbor is playing hotel california on a loop again.
netflix needs to make more of those history shows that have the dramatizations in them. at least 4 per year.
This is a fantastic profile. Apart from Platner being exactly the kind of Democrat we need, it's just a pleasure to read. We need the anti-scarcity of *and* the antifascism of Andor.
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gave you the well-earned fave, but i am going to stay upset about this for a long time (~3 minutes).
when i saw her name i thought the same thing. sheās got a whole team on retainer by now probably and they have a 100% win rate! why would you test them?!?!
jabs scheduled!
It's a long weekend, baby
omg, i now need the āAlfred dogsits for Columboā sub plot even more than I need the Columbo/Batman main story š„¹
my ideal scenario is he is helping batman investigate something that happened at wayne enterprises, and bruce thinks he is doing a good job juggling his identities, but at the end after they solve the crime columbo hands batman a pen he borrowed from wayne and says āsorry slipped my mindā and winks.
āMs. Kyle, I just knew you were going to be such a big help to me.ā
imagine how much pocket rummaging he could do with that utility belt!!!
oh man this is so incredibly relatable for me (and my son! š)