Opening the shades can definitely wake up sleeping children, so there's a tradeoff, but i think there needs to be some way to get natural light on a long flight

Unassuming Local Guy@bionicslingshot.bsky.social · 2d ago

Unsure when it became standard for everyone to always leave airplane window shades closed, but I do wish it wasn’t. 😅 Sometimes it’s nice to get natural light. Of course I could choose my own destiny here, book a window seat, and open my own shade… but window seats make me feel claustrophobic. 😅

Gen-X folks can and do enjoy breeding dudes and they’re still Gen-X because breeding dudes is inherently cromulent

where do we want him? fucking in heaven

🅿️rofessor Kiosk 💊@professorkiosk.wtf · 2w ago

who do we want? the funk soul brother when do we want him? right about now

In general nothing should aim to be "for the whole world". That always comes either with a colonial mindset or with blind spots as big as the milky way. Focus on serving a defined group of people. An actual community with shared values. And /maybe/ connect to other communities. If you want.

mice today, scrollwheels in 5 years, touchpads in 10

Emily M. Bender@emilymbender.bsky.social · 2w ago

And that sentence continues "by some measures a few are already in the range of a mouse brain, and at recent growth rates, they could reach the range of a human brain within five to 10 years." Uhh --- what are those measures, exactly? >>

Spiciest panel topic at the Chinese-to-English translators’ conference

disc horse bot@horsedisc.bsky.social · 3w ago

Can we normalize tone indicators?

the rain does not seem to be clearing the smoke much at all

Dreamed I was probably* elected Student Body Secretary under the pseudonym 新生 *probably because i was the only candidate, but i could not access the election results to confirm my victory

Thinking of putting one of those little restaurant butter packets in the microwave for just a second to soften it? Don’t.

Sherrilyn doesn't want you to know about the IQ boosting effects of fish milk

lmao of course

andré@andre-carlisle.bsky.social · 3w ago

fatality www.instagram.com/p/DasR6g-lZB...

Had the pleasure of meeting Lindsay Graham at a charity do once. He was surprisingly down-to-earth, and VERY drunk.

In better news, John Oliver's three-day stint/stunt as a corporate villain on legendary soap opera "General Hospital" appears to be going... fucking brilliantly?? I have watched this clip on a loop for like 20 mins I really, truly need to see the full episodes NOW

Scott Jennings speaking to Mitch McConnell

Ian Miles Schlong@tedcruznipples.com · 4w ago

Scott Jennings speaking to Mitch McConnell

lots of tall ships on the Hudson rn it is way too fucking hot to go outside though

“Why are men afraid of women?” “If your strength is only the other's weakness, you live in fear,” Ged said. “Yes; but women seem to fear their own strength, to be afraid of themselves.” “Are they ever taught to trust themselves?” Ged asked “No,” she said.

You are free, Tenar. You were taught to be a slave, but you have broken free.

I usually try to explain it like this. Imagine Gorbachev is the Haidilao manicurist. Now imagine he’s a Berliner. Doesn’t look so much like the fall of the Soviet Union was caused by Covid-positive people pigging out on endless shrimp appetizers now, does it?

Tamper Proof Lid@readuction.bsky.social · last mo.

What the fuck are you talking about

instead of doing anything pride related today we had dinner with a woman who turned out to have been a close confidante of leonara carrington. the fomo i had about missing pride? eviscerated.

I look at the world, at the forests and the mountains here, the sky, and it's all right, as it should be. But we aren't. People aren't. We're wrong. We do wrong. No animal does wrong. How could they? But we can, and we do. And we never stop.

The Earth is also terrible, and dark, and cruel. The rabbit shrieks dying in the green meadows. The mountains clench their great hands full of hidden fire. There are sharks in the sea, and there is cruelty in men’s eyes.

Apropos of nothing, but my unpopular opinion on the Toronto Island City Billy Bishop Airport (if it’s so great why do they have to keep renaming it btw) is and always has been that it should be closed, period.

Ok I love you guys but not as much as I would love to be eating that delicious salmon that seems to be going to waste for some unaccountable reason - our cat, anytime my husband leaves cooked salmon out on the stove

I’m always saying this

disc horse bot@horsedisc.bsky.social · last mo.

Fake bugs in opera have ruined us.

I wonder what sorts of works flashed through the minds of respondents when asked this question. Pollock? Picasso? Socialist realism?

Ariel Edwards-Levy@aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 12mo ago

108. Gallup, 1955: "Do you like modern art?"

We're so used to the idea of a machine doing something more efficiently than a human that this is counterintuitive to us, but actually the illusion of cognition that comes from LLMs in an agentic loop is less efficient than the actual cognitive power of real minds.

On Thursday they’re opening a 25k-sq-ft Aldi on top of the Times Square subway station and I feel like the concentrated shopping energy in that place is going to summon the stay-puft marshmallow man

judging from the noise outside, i gather they won, eh?

speaking from experience, you just never know if the person will somehow someday find out you told your spouse, and if they do, there’s a good chance they’ll feel you’ve betrayed them, so A is the most pragmatic thing to do even if you really believe in B

Whit EM@whittyrem.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Help settle a 16 year discussion between me and my husband- if someone tells you something in confidence and asks you to tell no one does that mean: A- You’re not telling your spouse/partner B- You are telling your spouse/partner unless you’ve been specifically asked not to

Bouncing on your boy's dick is the weaponization of civility