Brett Nicholson
@aggiebrett.bsky.social
Scribbler of rambunctious eloquence. Mostly comedy, but not always. Nicholl Finalist yet remain bitter and sarcastic. Love movies, beer, music, tacos, and floating in a Texas river. ¡SARCASMISTA! SCRIPTS: https://www.networkisa.org/profile/aggiebrett
I can't remember exactly when or where I heard it, but many many years ago I remember hearing "great art-- truly great art-- leaves you aching to make art yourself. It seduces you into wanting a world where more of that magic exists and wanting to be part of helping make it happen." I love that.
Had another/final interview chat with manager about that big promotion and she again said some very nice things and I grumbled and she laughed "you really don't take compliments well" and I shrugged "if I'm going to have a shortcoming, I'll take that one over a great many other possibilities."
More than half of Americans no longer eat at restaurants or get take-out just to afford other necessities. That’s not belt tightening, that’s a country getting squeezed dry while the corrupt GOP pretends the economy’s fine. Fine for them! We don’t fix that by staying quiet. #BlueWaveIn90Days
If life were a Blue Book exam you peons would all kneel and hail me as “Your Supreme Magnificence.”
Not gonna name names, but I saw six trailers for new/upcoming movies and I would gladly pay money now to never hear/see mention of any of them ever again.
New store manager asked (half jokingly) “so you don’t have a problem with a woman as your boss?” “Lady, I’ve been married for 36 years. What do YOU think?”
Daaaamn. “AI is the asbestos we're shovelling into the walls of our technological society. Our descendants will spend generations digging it out again, and the longer the bubble goes on without popping, the longer it will take to repair the damage." www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...
Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying
It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our t...
thenerve.news
Talarico’s argument is simple: Stop treating marijuana like a crime. Legalize it. Regulate it. Tax it. Stop wasting police resources on low-level marijuana offenses. Clear the records of people whose lives have been derailed by nonviolent marijuana convictions.
Notice DOJ doesn't talk about its efforts to obtain state voter files anymore. They are 0-20 in those cases and today is the beginning of the quiet period -- states can no longer do systematic removals of names from the voter rolls. TLDR: We won!🥳
I’m quite fond of many of my never expressed opinions. 🤣
Yeah, he was pretty good I guess.
Classic Movie Hub@classicmoviehub.bsky.social · 11h agoCelebrating John Huston born August 5, in 1906. Directed and wrote the screenplays for The Maltese Falcon, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Key Largo, The Asphalt Jungle, Heaven Knows Mr. Allison, The Night of the Iguana, among others. #botd https://www.classicmoviehub.com/bio/john-huston/
Because it apparently needs to be said: I have never fucking used the AI/LLM/chatbot/plagiarism machine and I never fucking will. If you use it, I think you're a bad person.
Progress claws forward despite the trogs.
Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 13h agoIn other Michigan news, the state looks set to elect it's first transgender lawmaker. Joanna Whaley won her Democratic primary and will compete in November for a state house seat, beating a primary opponent who tried and failed to disqualify her for not running under her deadname
I sometimes get the impression that some folks subscribe to a different reality.
I didn’t know there was a Chinese reboot of MR BEAN….
mike taddow@miketaddow.bsky.social · yesterdaythis man should get combat pay bc he was FIGHTING here
Saw a post today that asked "has ANYTHING actually improved in the past 40 years?" Yes. Lord, yes. COSMOLOGY and ASTRONOMY We remain in the greatest golden age of discovery our silly species has yet managed. And it is thrilling and glorious and breathtaking. youtu.be/8mvNrdHg31I?...
The Largest Camera Ever Built Just Saw What We Missed for a Century
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Reminder: the majority of arguments are simply not worth having. In the majority of cases, the actual issue is too trivial to bother with, or the opponent is too dim to understand the argument, or the point is moot by the time any useful argument might be offered.
The Daughter bought VIP tix for the two of us to see Robert Earl Keen at John T Floore's in September. I am way more than just very excited.
Was in the pool when an afternoon thundershower unlooshed on me. So I sat in the pouring rain, finishing my beer, as The Fam watched me through the window and shook their collective head disapprovingly. And now I am convinced "Swimming in a Downpour" is the title of something I've not yet written.
Heard a song. Had (another) goofy movie idea. Off to scribble minimal notes into The Idea Bin
But what does Emily Wilson think of the 1982 Arcade game JOUST?
Exhausting day of work that somehow wound up feeling kinda encouraging. I’m genuinely surprised pretty much every time I discover I’m actually respected and appreciated.
We live in a world where the sitting president of the United States had bank accounts seized for laundering and people still want to debate if he's a criminal.
FWIW, I still gasp slightly whenever Charlize Theron first appears on a big screen. She’s kinda wow.
