Someone needs to reenvision the local pharmacy and I kinda think I want it to be me
Dani Oliver
@danioliver.bsky.social
Poet. Free lecture attendee. Development at n+1. Flimflam man.
Is nor’easter just a word with an accent already built in or what
most of my life has just been three advil and a vague idea
Videos of people watching tennis are unintentionally horrifying. It's like those videos of hundreds of turkeys gobbling at the same time.
Came upon our block's bodega cat, Kevin, loving up against two women outside our apartment this evening, and when we were like "hey Kevin" they were like, "Oh no... is he already named? Is he somebody's cat? We've been calling him Cheddars. He's been answering to Cheddars. ☹️"
Having a pre-dinner snack & pickle juice martini after a great afternoon on a park bench w/ my partner and then a very long & very bubbly bath, wishing I could retroactively knock out every idiot who ever told me childhood/youth is the best period of your life. Horrifying. Thank god, so very untrue.
this boils down to "the pandemic didn't actually happen but they still closed the applebees" which frankly i think is a trauma response by a lot of people that buy it - lot easier to be in denial that things were that bad instead of reckoning with 1.3m dead people [in this country]
RFK Jr said these words today on national television "There were ICUs that were empty all over the country including in New York at the height (of the pandemic)" hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha You are a fucking idiot hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha <sobs silently>
Via Variety: The Odyssey box office has studio exec assistants scouring The Bodleian Libraries for the next big epic poem
I wish I could Shazam the sounds from the video game my neighbor plays
A directing problem, not an acting issue, but I can't stop thinking about how that HOTD episode would have been monumentally more powerful if D'Arcy hadn't already been Claire Danesing their way through every previous episode.
Is there anything more humiliating about being alive in this moment than an AI tech support chatbot asking how you are?
I'm mistakenly on two NYT newsletter lists so I frequently get to see their A/B tests. Yesterday's query: are people turned off by the mere mention of books?
Sorry to say, but I got my first mosquito bites tonight in Brooklyn. It's been an incredible three weeks of being outside during that slice in the timeline between pollen allergy and bug bite seasons, friends. It's been real nice.
Has someone done a "How The Da Vinci Code and National Treasure Paved the Way for Q Anon" think piece
I'm gonna assume there was a legitimate reason, for my sanity, but today the city removed the biggest, most gorgeous tree across the street from my apartment, roots and all—the one that I've been staring at happily for seven years—and the devastation I've felt is immense, unreasonable maybe.
MyChart just made me log for new information posted in the portal to ask me if I wanted to donate a kidney
The first company that emails me and is like "Hey we commit to never integrating AI into our operations/products/business/interface ever or your cash back" is getting so much money from me.
Dumbest idiot you've ever known with "wordsmith" on their LinkedIn profile
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Re: the Richard Dawkins thing, did any of you have a wacky 7th grade science teacher who put raisins in Mountain Dew to demonstrate not to be so stupid to be tricked about what is alive & what isn't? Anyway I think about Mrs. Gerardi & her raisins every time some idiot man is like "AI is sentient"
Anyone else noticing that (extremely unrelated) brands are sending emails with the same subject lines on the same days/times now? I'm assuming they're suggested by AI in MailChimp or whatever based on day/time/etc., but it's become a very weird and very obvious thing in my promos tab every day.
I blinked and interior decorating has gone full blown 80s
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I never had any urge to get married but getting forever paperwork with a guy who breaks down ten years in and yells I LOVE YOU SO MUCH BUT YOU WASH DISHES LIKE A DICKHEAD is absolutely worth getting married for. This shit is hilarious. I wanna be 78 years old and still getting read for filth.
You guys without seasonal allergies think you’re so tough huh
Quick - let's turn off all the lights on the planet while Artemis is on the dark side of the moon
Really love how everyone interprets each and every piece of artwork as fable now. Really exceptional, healthy culture we have here.