Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.
Stop-mo PNGtuber for @foxander.bsky.social in the style of Fantastic Mr. Fox. Foxander messaged me about the idea and it seemed so cool! He sent me drawings and screenshots for the idea I got to work, it took a bit, but I streamed most of the process and am happy with the result! #3dart #vtuber
During the drought, I left out a bucket of water to help wildlife. I'd never seen any frogs around here but one found it and left tadpoles. Now I'm chilling outside and listening to little peepers peeping all around me. It's really cool. That one bucket led to all this life and sweetness.
Took the kids to a beautiful sandswept beach nearby but miscalculated and got there 30 million years too early
airbnb I’m staying at unintentionally created the toughest punk album cover of 2027
Let's remember some Baseball Injuries! I'll go first: Glenallen Hill having a nightmare about spiders that was so bad he fell out of bed and through a glass table
Amanda Mull@amandamull.bsky.social · 5d agoMLB players are the thoroughbred horses of the human world in that if you take your eye off them for a second they will get loose and find some completely novel Looney Tunes way to suffer a catastrophic injury
I wrote about the Nolan Odyssey for the LRB. I'll summarize some of my main points below, in case you don't feel like reading all that. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Emily Wilson · An Uncomplicated Man
As they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my...
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When you've defeated the cone they put you in the Hannibal Lector
I swear I did not staple this to a telephone pole in my neighborhood in Portland.
his palms are sweaty, knees weak, palms are sweaty. he forgot his lyrics already, palms are sweaty
Overheard from a group of four guys on the subway: “Yo, why are you doomscrolling? You’re with the bros”
I've just seen about 40 kids sneak into watch 'The Odyssey' without paying by hiding in a giant wooden coat.
I'll straight up listen to elevator music in a house and house music in an elevator. I really don't give a shit anymore.
Art question 🎨 What painting, photograph, sculpture, or piece of visual art has stayed with you long after you first saw it? Not necessarily your favorite. The one that lingered.
my one-year-old loses it whenever i say this to him, so hopefully it’ll do numbers here too: poopy
saw a truck for a company called Absolute Chimneys and I can’t stop saying that to myself as if I’m an English soccer announcer calling a free kick that sailed over the crossbar
Pictures from a friend of mine who works on a crab-fishing boat off the coast of Newfoundland. I love the nightmare crab door.
I adore you Leon, Egyptologist here, they were built by a largely volunteer force (corvée labor) of 25,000. The builders were very well fed, paid in bread and beer, and received excellent medical care. There was no slavery whatsoever, it is a common misconception.
leon@leyawn.bsky.social · 4w agoum, so everyone cheering on egypt in the world cup realizes how the pyramids were built right? but i guess that's a conversation you're not ready to have