I would like to propose the Taco Bell Principle When a person/institution Did A Problem, & IMMEDIATELY fesses up & takes proactive steps to solve it That's exactly what we want them to do? So how bout we let them live ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Sarah Taber@sarahtaber.bsky.social · 3w ago

A quick word on Taco Bell: That's where we found the suspected lettuce, and it's not bc Taco Bell is gross. It's bc Taco Bell is REALLY GOOD at tracing product! Keeping track of exactly where they got their ingredients, & exactly what restaurants each shipment of ingredients went to!

The crouton is the powerhouse of the salad.

"The power to incinerate cities in a single blow, long ascribed only to gods, was now an option for the species that invented bloodletting, the cholera belt, and the electric tablecloth." www.rogerebert.com/mzs/silhouet...

Silhouettes and Warnings: On Reading Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains" On the Exact Day When It's Set

The events of Ray Bradbury's short story "There Will Come Soft Rains" occur today: August 4, 2026.

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Tossed this post up on Threads and it did INSANE numbers. And I still got zero new follows from it. Social media is a goddamn mystery to me.

Joseph Wade@cordialwombat.bsky.social · 3d ago

The movie where Matt Damon plays a boat captain who gets trapped out at sea, away from his wife and son, featuring an antagonistic ocean god, magical creatures and sea witches? Yeah, I've seen Ponyo

Worked on live professional poker last night. Absolute dogshit television, though among the parade of baseball caps and shades to hide tells I appreciate this one player dressing as Doflamingo from One Piece as his personal intimidation tactic.

The movie where Matt Damon plays a boat captain who gets trapped out at sea, away from his wife and son, featuring an antagonistic ocean god, magical creatures and sea witches? Yeah, I've seen Ponyo

SECRET SANTA MEGAPLEX INTERNET CODEPENDENCE WE DIDNT START THE FIRE…

Billy Joel Flips The Table

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Merriam-Webster@merriam-webster.com · 5d ago

Find the 5 words from your birth year that perfectly describe YOUR vibe ⬇️ www.merriam-webster.com/time-traveler/

When you finish an episode of Hardcore History and come inside from doing yardwork, only to discover a brand new Hardcore History just dropped

Grandpa Abe's Confused Exit in The Simpsons

ALT: Grandpa Abe's Confused Exit in The Simpsons

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Post the first album you ever bought.

Make Wistful [sic]@makewistful.com · 5d ago

Post the first album you ever bought.

The crouton is the powerhouse of the salad.

The Shallows is so good, y'all

Joe's Cinemarama@joescinemarama.bsky.social · 5d ago

The Shallows came out 10 years ago this month. So Happy Shark Week!

[stomps on the brake pedal while driving on the highway] WHO WHO IS SAYING ERNEST GOES TO JAIL IS ONE OF THE WORST MOVIES EVER

Worst Movies Ever@worstmovies.bsky.social · 6d ago

Ernest Goes to Jail (1990) TMDB score 50% Bumbling bank janitor Ernest P. Worrell is assigned to jury duty, and soon finds himself in trouble when he is covertly switched with a look-a-like crime boss. Ernest must escape from jail to expose the mix-up. #movies #moviesky #badmovies

You *met* Solomon Spooky? Why, Solomon Spooky has been dead for 75 years!

Nikki was telling me about a Halloween ghost tour she wanted to take, where the website described it as “solemn and spooky”. But I definitely heard “Solomon Spooky”, which is an A+ name for a ghost tour guide

How I feel about these online age verification laws

So far this summer, my bucket garden has yielded one pepper, one cucumber, and not a single damn tomato

NEW EPISODE! We’re back just in time for Christmas in July. Join us as we look at the 1979 TV movie “An American Christmas Carol”, starring The Fonz himself! christmascreeps.com/2026/07/28/e...

Episode 177: An American Christmas Carol (1979)

It’s Christmas in July here on the podcast, and we’re back discussing that most eternal of all holiday classics: Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. More specifically, we’re…

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“Hey! People in Hell would be happy to have that!” - me yelling at my dog for not finishing her ice water

Of course I can tell the difference between The Vampire Lestat & Nirvana the Band The Show The Movie One’s about a mediocre talent trapped in a Sisyphean doomspiral across time with a vain idiot manchild desperate to achieve artistic immortality. The other’s about vampires or something

Christopher Nolan is the king of movies where a guy burns down the entire world and then has to look another person in the eye and say "I fucked up"

Also cuz it’s my bday and cuz I’ve been listening to a lot of music from 1986 lately, here’s a thread of some of my favorite music videos from 40 years ago youtu.be/616-QGQyx-I?...

Talking Heads - Wild Wild Life (Official Video)

YouTube video by Talking Heads

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Today your boy turns the big 4-0. And since I’ve been in my Quint phase lately, it’s apparently a Jaws kinda birthday!

Few things are as funny to me as Peggy Hill reverently saying her own name

On a brand new DRAWN OR ALIVE, Ivan Reitman's last attempt to make Ghostbusters happen again is dredged from the primordial sludge as Evolution and its animated spin-off go under the microscope! www.drawnoralive.com/2026/07/show...

Show #10: Alienators: Evolution Continues VS Evolution (2001)

Maudlin, ill-advised attempts to recapture the spirit of Ghostbusters may seem a recent phenomenon, however examination of the pop culture f...

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Hey Google, can you help me find a painting I wrote about 10 years ago? "Duuhh nope! We have no idea what you're talking about, and none of our AI assistants do either!" Okay, fine. Hey, Wayback Machine, can you take me to the article I wrote on my dead website from 10 years ago? "I got you, fam"

We handled Facebook for Walmart's store pages way back when. We were helping with a promo tie-in with Pitbull. A colleague came by my desk: "we're not paying to promote the store page for Kodiak, Alaska, are we?" Me: "I haven't even turned paid ads on yet." Colleague: "Ah." *vanishes*

SMD@anothersmd.bsky.social · last yr.

what are some absurd work situations you can share? once i got called into a meeting i had nothing to do with because the consultant brought an engineer and no one in the room could understand him, so they asked me to translate. he was scouse. i translated from english to english.