It’s been a pretty incredible journey watching Alaska Air go from a pretty solid regional carrier to just an absolutely garbage carrier with global aspirations in around a decade

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macabre = “muh-KAHB” Worcestershire = “WOOSS-ter-sheer” omnipotent = “ahm-NI-puh-tunt” reticent = “RET-uh-sunt” epitome = “ih-PIT-uh-mee” myriad = "MEER-ee-ud" Never make fun of someone if they mispronounce a word. It means they learned it by reading.

Services I provide for my cats

it is so interesting going through these negatives and looking at someone's slice of life photos from 80+ years ago. here are a few more.

jamelle@jamellebouie.net · 6d ago

i have been given a bunch of world war ii era film and i have been scanning it for the last few weeks. it's very cool!

"Sure, this city isn’t near major job markets and doesn't have maintained roads, well-funded schools, or functioning emergency services, but it does have a series of dilapidated ranch houses located between a data center and a second data center that is currently on fire." buff.ly/03WTZvh

Why Aren’t People Moving to This Town with Cheap Housing and Literally Nothing Else

“Sure, this city is in the middle of nowhere, isn’t near major job markets, and doesn’t have maintained roads, well-funded schools, or functioning emergency ...

mcsweeneys.net

Let us not forget Tim Curry's greatest roles, in no real order: - Long John Silver, Muppet Treasure Island - Anatoly Cherdenko, Red Alert 3 - Dr. Yevgeni Petrov, Hunt for Red October

Just remembered the Dolly Parton bus.

Life without sparkling water when you haven't been to Costco in a while: ah well alas, regular water is pretty great! I can drink this all the time! When you finally make it to Costco: Sparkling water is the best of all things and why would I ever drink non-angry water

The death of folk graphic design in favor of AI slop across our country's delis is leading to some incredibly Lovecraftian food horrors

“I would have given anything to have an alcoholic grandfather who drove a monkey to a swamp and kicked it out of the car. I’m so jealous.” —David Sedaris, interviewed by Eric Spitznagel (Iss. 28) www.thebeliever.net/an-interview...

An Interview with David Sedaris - Believer Magazine

David Sedaris knows more than any author should about his readers. He knows, for instance, that more of his German fans have seen their parents naked than fans of any other nationality. He knows that…

thebeliever.net

I will never forgive them for what they did to Smartfood White Cheddar popcorn. My favorite snack since I was about eight years old, until they started selling garbage a few years ago. www.eater.com/24394718/sma...

Why Doesn’t Smartfood Popcorn Hit Like It Used To?

One woman’s quest to figure out why her beloved white cheddar popcorn started to disappoint.

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The Nokia 9000 Communicator (1996) was one of the first devices to resemble the functionality of a modern smartphone. It opened up like a laptop and merged a cell phone with a PDA, including email and web browsing over cellular.

Big Walk is a very very good game. Clever concept and really well-executed

whomst so amongst us i say

Dinah Rose KC@dinahrose.bsky.social · 3w ago

This is not the conduct I expect from a cat who has just released a live mouse into my home, and lost it.

Today's look back post: MSP circa 2007

So embarrassing when people think the point of reading a novel is to know the plot, so a summary is just as good. The plot isn’t important, you rube. You absolute simpleton. The point of reading a novel is to find out what the characters are eating and start thinking about what you want for dinner.

if your government software looks like this, it will never break, never need replacement, and will work on every computer since we landed on the moon

onekade@onekade.bsky.social · last mo.

This is not a joke. This is a screenshot of the actual case management software used by Massachusetts' 11 District Attorneys. Must-read work here by @nasser.wiki nasser.blog/dial-up-just...

X Money sounds like the name of a guy aggressively handing out burned CDs in front of the M&M store in Times Square in 2006

shauna@goldengateblond.bsky.social · last mo.

oh good the full self-driving of money has finally arrived

enjoying imagining the discussion among editors in which they determined if this ought to be pluralized as Spider-Mans, Spider-Men, or Spiders-Man

Homer (not a real person, wrote about inscrutable Mediterranean culture) was the Elena Ferrante of his day

A small reminder of what we really like about this here city share.inquirer.com/485lES

The beauty of a walkable Philadelphia

Scene Through the Lens with photographer Tom Gralish.

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lmao at the Inquirer being like “here are thirty LeBron stories, also our copy editor died RIP KING”

‘He’d lie down in front of the moving ship’: a fresh look at Ernest Shackleton’s Endurance expedition

‘He’d lie down in front of the moving ship’: a fresh look at Ernest Shackleton’s Endurance expedition

Shipwrecks, ice football and igloos for dogs … the digitisation of Frank Hurley’s photographs shows the heroic trek more clearly – and unlocks some remarkable new details

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Compared to my first camera (Canon Rebel XT), modern mirrorless are basically magic. But I cannot figure out why Canon doesn't include built-in GPS chips any more. One of my favorite features on the 6D and such a pain now. Smartphone app is garbage. Ended up with a Garmin just to log locations.

The Battle of the Peasants, by M.D. Hout, 17th c

People are gonna fucking hate this if it actually happens. Enjoy all these post 8am sunrises

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The House overwhelmingly voted to pass a bill to make daylight saving time permanent