In my hometown, the Lutheran church that had been founded by Swedish immigrants had a teenage girl as the "Lucia bride" every December. She wore candles on her head and served coffee cake, and it was considered a high honor.

Merchant Adventurers’ Hall@merchantshallyork.org · 2mo ago

Want to know more about Santa Lucia? Well she is the patroness of the blind (which makes sense) as well as, according to the internet: ophthalmologists, authors, cutlers, glaziers, labourers, martyrs, peasants, saddlers, salesmen, stained glass workers, photogrammetry and of Perugia in Italy.

Ads from the back of old ufo/paranormal/occult magazines are the best. Like OF COURSE I'm already in the process of constructing a pyramid in my backyard, I get FATE magazine!

Yesterday for lunch I had a spiedie sandwich and Utica greens. No steamed hams, though.

Rodan. You don't have to put on that red light. Rodan. You don't have to fight Godzilla through the night. Rodan!

Listen, you can date a bunch of 1s and 0s without having an AI boyfriend.

"Budviser" must be a trademark-dodging fictional beverage, but I wanted to think it was a virtual friend who gave you advice.

Topher Florence@topherflorence.bsky.social · 18h ago

trying to figure out an ancient inscrutable british softcore windows 95 girlfriend simulator called "Love Bytes" with almost no info online that looks like a fake game from clarissa explains it all

I'll bet the poetry megafans in the 1870s got all excited when Tennyson dropped a new Idyll of the King.

Someone who has never read anything about heraldry ever.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d ago

RFK Jr on autism: "'Oh, we're just noticing it more.' But this is an absurdity ... if we were just noticing it more, we would notice it in older groups. But we're not ... so something happened in the mid '90s that changed our children"

Amadeus (1984) #Amadeus

My grandmother always had to try to remember if my brother lived in Monroeville or in Mansfield, two Pennsylvania towns that sound like blonde actresses from the 50s.

cait (and adonis)@cait.bsky.social · 3d ago

today an old man told me "you look like Marilyn Monroe. do you know who that is?" i've heard of her, yeah

Where did I sign up to cede societal control to the DebateMeBros with yellowed dot matrix printouts of logical fallacies scotch taped to the side of their 15” EGA monitors?

Who among us hasn’t dreamt of slowly descending down a stone spiral staircase with a torch in hand and discovering a hidden candlelit library filled with thousands of centuries-old novels and being welcomed by a friendly-yet-misunderstood library ghost?

I read this as "desk killing," and it seemed reasonable for a moment.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 3d ago

“The idea of deskilling implies that someone possessed an ability and then lost it. Here, the danger is not just deskilling but never-skilling. Although a doctor who has forgotten how to reason is recoverable, one who never learned how may not be.”

❌data modelling ✅ Data, modelling

To be fair, some young woman in 2076 might well stumble across her grandmother's old character-ai account and get seduced by the bishounen chatbot inside. Maybe we're closer to the Star Trek future than we think

not to be confused with quesadilla

if they're drinking nounwine it's fantasy. if they're snorting a verb it's sci fi

My phone almost turned "Foucault's Pendulum" into "Foucault's Pangolin."

O m(eters) sk

Rev. Poppy Haze 𓅋@poppyhaze.bsky.social · 4d ago

Omsk, a city in Siberia, has the world's shortest metro system, with just one station and 0km of track

A burrito at Felipe's, right off Harvard Square, costs $8. $9 if you want the super burrito. These economic geniuses are paying more than twice what central Cambridge charges, and probably getting a worse burrito.

huck mason@tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · last wk.

for reasons that only make sense if you're insane, a TPUSA kid complaining about burrito costs on xitter has the GOP's biggest divas going for each other's throats.

the american paradox

This is the future liberals want.

Curator Rob@curatorrob.bsky.social · last wk.

This is what the future looks like...

Sometimes Japanese snacks appear in the free food area at work.

Artists! Quote with your brave character art! They're the bravest little nautilus.

Voodoofox69 🔞@voodoofox69.bsky.social · last wk.

Artists! Quote with your brave character art! .... She's only afraid of one thing... And that's self acceptance xD

🎶Little ditty 'Bout Hackin' Diane One American girl Blowin' up All your broadband

As an American, the biggest barrier in doing British cryptic crosswords isn't the cryptic part so much as remembering terms that are used differently (like "tie" for fixture).

omg I found the picture ❤️

ECP@ecppdx.bsky.social · last wk.

Years ago I coined the milleneuve, which is a unit to measure how horrible the sky color is based on Villeneuve films. Blade Runner 2049 is around 900mn. Today is around 250 I'd say. (It's a very scientific scale.)

"Rockwell" and "Rockefeller" sound like names made up for The Flintstones.

(old crone voice) all women need armor