A family member was working at AVID back in the day, doing well. At a big company-wide meeting the execs announced “95% of television & movies are edited on Avid!” and during the cheers, their boss quietly said “that means one good competitor cuts our sales in half.” They left the next week.

e.w. niedermeyer@niedermeyer.online · 1h ago

I always feel crazy pointing this out, but it's such an important point: having 85% market share isn't actually a good thing, especially when you're buying more of your own product than that 85% of the market is

if i have no greater legacy on this website, let it be this

Louis@louisevans.bsky.social · 57m ago

(“We die like mice” is the redwall-inspired gender neutral reinvention of “we die like men” and I’m going to be posting it a LOT)

I'm trying to get some writing done in a nice little pod that the apartment building offers. But out of the corner of my eye I can see someone working on a business presentation set of slides in a /different/ pod, and I keep wanting to critique their capitalization choices.

the best of america

Jamie@crayonsocialism.bsky.social · 5h ago

I heard “inshallah and the creek don’t rise” the other day.

This is exactly what I was saying - in Michigan, at least, he's totally right. For a whole lot of folks here, the stereotype - which is still a generalization and a stereotype - is "competent, careful doctor with an accent" rather than the more negative tropes the GOP wants to label him with.

#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · 3h ago

Banger

One of the great joys of my adult life has been realizing that I can just pick up a new skill every so often, take a fun little class in it weekly for a year or two, and simply enjoy meeting people and getting medium proficient and not attempting to become professional in it at all!

Got very targeted spam suggesting I buy some software that lets my Latin students properly record their graded declamations to show to their parents, and... I don't... have my students do declamations? Like, read aloud in Latin, yes, but I don't grade them on that much Latin speech! Huh.

sorry folks but one of the many awful, terrible things about politics is that you do sometimes have to reward politicians, even those you don’t like much, with high-value liver treats for actually doing what you want them to do

seriously, they seem to be passing that particular test just fine right now

politiburb@politiburb.bsky.social · 6h ago

It gets an actual chuckle out of me seeing people on here say "now the TRUE test is whether the shitlibs can live up to their own words and line up behind El-Sayed!" only for Stevens, Whitmer, every prominent Michigan Dem, the DSCC, etc. to have endorsed El-Sayed before they can finish the sentence.

One tiny bit of good news for the moment! Please don't stop pestering your senators, though!

Mike Stabile@mikestabile.bsky.social · 7h ago

SCREEN failed to pass out of committee, despite a 15-13 vote (in favor). Not enough members voting, but looks like a party line vote. Good work everyone! Keep up the pressure for after recess and beyond!

How does he feel about licensing something for a graphic novel adaptation? I have it on good authority gay vampire comics sell pretty good. :V

Zebulon Vitruvius Pike@vitruviuspike.bsky.social · 24h ago

Triton: Yeah, I can't tell you how often I'm just like, should have just kept travelling, why did I let myself get captured by this Neptune dude, I could have been in a less angsty solar system by now....but no, I'm here, only able to rebel by going in the wrong direction....

Had a sudden burst of nostalgia over the memory of the summer where I was at a weird little retreat with my family for group therapy near Fresno, found out by hunting through a phone book where a store was that had a copy of Nobilis, and got my mom to drive me an hour each way so I could buy it.

best thread

Tom Cox@dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · last mo.

I've decided to compile a definitive thread of photos of the best sheep I've photographed during my walks in the countryside, together with supporting biographical information. I will put the vital story associated with each sheep in the alt text, since some of it is a little long to fit in a post.

Another version of this: My Special Interest is historical sewer systems, and during the most explosive scene in Guillermo Del Toro's new Frankenstein, when everything's blowing up, James hears me go, "is that a 45-degree sluice with a basket-handle profile??? Give me a BREAK"

Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist@nameshiv.bsky.social · 4mo ago

if you ever want to see something really really funny, watch any hacking scene in a Hollywood movie while sitting next to an IT security person

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.

If you read fiction and you don't like AI you're a hypocrite. If you eat monster munch and don't like asbestos you're a blacksmith. If you play videogames and don't like stubbing your toe you're a submarine captain. We can all just SAY things. It's not hard.

put some respect on the Count’s name, he’s out here working hard for the public good he ain’t got time to be seduced

ao3 tags@ao3struggles.bsky.social · 2y ago

(none of them could seduce a trashcan if they tried)

Where is the lie.

Regime Accountant, CPA ☠️🎢@regimecpa.bsky.social · 9h ago

Missouri elections be like: Hitler (R) 79% - Christ (D) 21% And then the ballot initiative: Amend the Missouri constitution to require the state to own the means of production and work towards full communism? Yes 92% - No 8%

I washed a horse that did not care to be washed. That's a workout. Him mad.

ok this sucks but it is kind of interesting how people use "medieval" when they actually mean 19th century the actual structures of university life - the things faculty, for example, actually DO - would not, in fact, be recognizable to William of Ockham

Jon Becker@jonbecker.bsky.social · 7h ago

This Clay Shirky essay about AI in HE uses the word medieval, so we are all obligated to ping @lollardfish.bsky.social and @profgabriele.com . It's just the rules.

" a full verbal recitation of the Odyssey would take somewhere between sixteen and eighteen hours (depending how fast one recites). " Ok HBO, it's time for a seven season unabridged staging of the Odyssey.

this Democrat is now allowed to text me asking for money

Jen Rice@jenrice.bsky.social · yesterday

Lon Burnam, a former state lawmaker representing Tarrant County from 1997 to 2015, was carried out of the room by four sheriff deputies, who held him by his hands and feet: fortworthreport.org/2026/08/04/t...

do not hire the mountain goats guy to lead your guided meditation unless you have very particular and frankly weird meditative goals

the Mountain Goats@themountaingoats.bsky.social · yesterday

imagine debasing yourself before one of the most ridiculous figures ever to occupy the global stage, imagine doing that with your life

let me go in the NYC subway maintenance tunnels you cowards

Call me Ishmabill@billjank.bsky.social · yesterday

I like the idea that every citizen should get to use one thing their tax dollars pay for that otherwise they wouldn’t have access to I’ve done most of the military stuff I’d like to do; I think that my request would be to go change batteries at a weather monitoring station somewhere deep in Glaicer

I’m still here but that’s because my primary online identity is #TTRPG nerd who hates capitalism rather than screenwriter. Branding works!

Adam Mallinger@bitterscriptreader.bsky.social · 21h ago

It was so damn depressing to watch every TV writer who was willing and eager to have open, intelligent conversations about their process get hounded off social by a combination of aggressive stans and belligerent wannabes defending the right to be a shithead to creatives

If you have a "public health agency" that you only fund to test for bacteria & viruses but not parasites, you don't have a public health agency! 🥲 Now we all know!!

Happy Ray Bradbury apocalypse day to all who celebrate.

I know it’s so pedantic, but I hate it when people throw toga parties and then wear a Greek chiton off Amazon with, like, a gold meander pattern. That’s why I always teach my students how to tie a proper bedsheet toga—because Rome.