nothing better than a tourist town that resents the tourists. thank you for coming to my ten-seat microbrewery and vintage ice cream shoppe. you son of a bitch

sometimes there is absolutely nothing more fun than understanding works of art through people's varied professional perspectives

Deidre Lynch@drbibliomane.bsky.social · yesterday

You can/should read Emily Wilson's latest take on the Odyssey, but I'm logging on to convey my hairdresser's reaction. She was AGHAST that Nolan, with his million $ budget, gave Matt Damon ONLY 6 hair extensions. As a result, his hair did not blow around properly, & that ruined the film for her.

I remember a coworker in her late twenties saying this on how dating was so difficult. I was not surprised by her first two complaints: general anger issues and having few outside hobbies. I WAS surprised at her mention of how many men apparently don’t wash their hair or butts.

Faine Greenwood@faineg.bsky.social · yesterday

Surely someone has studied our modern epidemic of conservative men with unwashed asses.

Grant would genuinely be proud

Zebulon Vitruvius Pike@vitruviuspike.bsky.social · yesterday

hospitals want us to do more with less without a concern for patient safety or our own wellbeing while refusing to pay us adequate wages

Stop Saying There's a Nursing Shortage

The U.S. may have less of a shortage of licensed nurses than a shortage of nurses who are willing to work in bedside jobs that have become increasingly demanding.

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To the extent there are problems with The System, they’re largely (1) poor people suffer, (2) women suffer, and (3) people of color suffer. These are all things RFK likes about The System. To give him credit for “shaking things up” is to out yourself as either a eugenicist or a dumbfuck. Or both.

PMC Vanguardist@tylerboschert.bsky.social · 2d ago

You actually don't have to do the "well, you know, I disagree with MAHA but they're right that there are real problems with The System" thing. That's a concession you absolutely do not have to make.

Whenever I am tempted to imagine what another driver might be going through, I remember this and stop

I have a theory that a big chunk of the socialist fear mongering by liberals is really about the fact that it’s perceived as a youth movement and godforbid the young exert political power

Dan O’Sullivan@osullyville.bsky.social · yesterday

Nope, nice try. Not doing this to myself. You'll have to kill my ass

me: the simpsons have four fingers on each hand so you’d think they’d live in a base 8 society but as far as I can tell there’s no evidence of that in the show my wife: *screaming during labor* the obgyn: hold on i want to hear more about this

this guy would be bold enough to fly into my kitchen to steal peanuts if he could

He will never understand that being "the fat guy from Superbad" is infinitely better than being "the martial arts chud nobody likes"

All nerd hobbies can have the social structure of their communities quantitatively measured with the Q:N (Queer to Nazi) ratio. Pokémon is 8:1. Warhammer is 1:1. Paradox Games are 1:1 but different from Warhammer because the queers and Nazis are the same people.

bro go outside with the hose what are you doing

"heritage Americans" are corn-fed, farm-raised and just $8.99 in the section with rotisserie chicken

my wife leaves me helpful instructions when she leaves town

Every dollar spent on social services is, in some sense, a theft from the weapons industry

the point of most conspiracism isn't the prescription, it's the diagnosis. it lets people feel like they are cutting through complex information and accessing a secret truth. lab leak itself isn't always conspiratorial but this fauci stuff gives people a little hit of that.

mtsw@mtsw.bsky.social · 5d ago

The thing I can't really figure out about Lab Leak Theory is like... so what if it were true? Like is the idea that we could sue China for damages? That's not gonna work. It wouldn't really change anything both to how we responded to Covid and how we act going forward.

one of my slightly crankish opinions is that any piece of mass media on sale should probably store at least a single version of copy in a national digital/physical archive that is open to all

please put a bench next to the children's play area. i am 38 and so is every other parent in portland. please

one of my favorite things in the world is when someone hates a generally mundane thing with the sort of white-hot wrath you normally reserve for someone who has murdered your whole family

Andy McKay@korimakoecology.bsky.social · 7d ago

Incredible stuff from Avalon Nursery.

This is going to make it very difficult to know which sports we should ban them from.

Kat Kerlin@katkerlin.bsky.social · last wk.

Some avocados are female in the morning and male in the afternoon, while others are on the opposite schedule. This helps them avoid self-pollination. How do they do it? A @ucdavis.bsky.social study explains. www.ucdavis.edu/food/news/st...

to lose one representative may be misfortune, to lose two seems like carelessness, to lose three what the fuck are you doing

Soulebreaker@soulebreaker.bsky.social · 7d ago

Been almost two months now newrepublic.com/post/212682/...

the thing Star Trek got most correct is that, if advanced sentient life exists, we will fuck it immediately and some of us will be marrying into the species within a year

Micah@rincewind.run · 7d ago

“can we fuck (in) it” truly the driving force of human nature

when someone is mad at you on the computer they make up stuff about your identity to justify their behavior (youre straight, youre rich, you live in new york) because they're not mad enough to identify your actual crimes (i have killed before and i will kill again)

bought candy at the pool for a 13yo and she tried to give me cash. i was like nahh it's nbd, and she goes "girl i have seen your car." 13yo girls remain undefeated. you think you're talking to a child but you're actually talking to whatever gods used to send to punish mortals for their hubris

After my parents were visiting set for the first time, I asked my dad what he thought. He said “I didnt realize, it’s like you’re building a house, and once an hour good looking people run in and put on a play for five minutes. Then they leave and you go back to construction.”

Alvaro M. Bedoya@bedoyausa.bsky.social · last wk.

People think "Hollywood" is rich and famous. The reality? Film and TV is a national industry. It's a blue collar industry. And it is an industry free fall. My latest for @newrepublic.com on how the Paramount merger would crush blue collar workers who can not afford it newrepublic.com/article/2136...

I had a duty crew get a gun pulled on them because they asked a family member to put on a mask while they tried to take care of meemaw in respiratory failure. Hard to keep a pro social view of the world after that but boy have I tried.

Adam@adam35.bsky.social · 7d ago

I was still working in EMS during Covid. Nobody knew what would happen. I was brining in patients who got sick, would de sat, get tubed and be dead in 48 hours. Healthy adults. Respectfully a lot of you cannot understand what those early days were like. We truly did not know if we would die.

I would either be digging for a railroad or working as an English Lit professor so I would need to get a really good coin flip

Revan@revan.eurosky.social · last wk.

Enough “what would you do on the commune questions” If you got sent back 100 years and were given your grandparent’s job, what are you doing?

one of the things covid really laid bare was that senior leaders and executives are totally disconnected from how workers actually do their work in a way that was pretty shocking and wasn’t, in my working experience, always the case (at least to this extreme)

GOLIKEHELLMACHINE@golikehellmachine.com · last wk.

i worked for more than one client on trying to draft RTO policies that were intended to ease workers back into it and prioritize health, flexibility, and manager discretion only to see their senior leaders trash the plan and adopt the stick approach