I keep calling 3 of my kittens "gang of nine colors of girls"
deleted chapter from hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy
hobart mariner@hobartmariner.bsky.social · 12h agomy brother bought perhaps the worst robot of all time - a pet simulator with rounded-off wheel tracks meant as "paws" that talks in a chirpy woof-like gibberish sporadically interrupted by an alexa-like voice asking for clarification
I cut 1! of his dew claws while he was sleeping and now he’s hiding his feet from me
Finally got to go home. Dulce hates the baby. Sancho is intrigued by the baby.
did you know that trout mask replica is currently unavailable in any medium or streaming (new that is, legal)? because of old legal folderol. this is a thing i learned yesterday from andrew hickey's podcast
Trout Mask Replica: Man with Fish Head Mask Plays Saxophone
ALT: Trout Mask Replica: Man with Fish Head Mask Plays Saxophone
static.klipy.com
i fear the trendy short-form videos showing the process of making hard candy by hand are inspiring people to believe a lie, namely, that hard candy tastes good
I was unfamiliar until recently with the story of Father Mychal Judge, a gay priest who became the first recorded casualty of 9/11 while administering last rites in the lobby of the North Tower. There is an effort to canonize him, which would make him the first openly gay saint in history.
Father Mychal Judge, Gay Franciscan Killed in the North Tower, Could Be 9/11’s First Saint
The first recorded death at Ground Zero would become the first known gay person canonized a saint in the Catholic Church’s history.
thelettersfromleo.com
i wasn't always sure why people *'d so liberally but it happens to me pretty often. the "cz*ch mentioned!" alarm goes out, and they are trying to out-c*ec* each other in (the comments? my mentions? anyway)
knedliky, my host-mother sliced hers with a string
janes@idlerat.bsky.social · yesterdayseemed too important not to share with the world
i'm a lot better at commenting than i am at posting. i know i overcomment but it's where i feel i excel. all the janes wit and whimsy, the spontaneity and verve that my posts lack
i made a kale salad and a potato salad and (once i dress it) a romano bean salad. tomorrow i make panzanella (tomato bread salad) and my favorite lentil salad with walnuts, capers, and mint. and then it’s salads all weekend
people are always making their philodendrons drape artistically
i’m listening to the monkees for the first time in a while and i kind of forgot. joy
ugh i just went to bulk discount day at the coop and only bought bulk (beans, olive oil), and i spent $50
It is impossible for me to hold a grudge because I don't remember that. I don't remember what I said. What month is it
i liked this book review by gabe winant on the pmc, labor organizing, and advances in social democratic politics. i would give it an (even) more materialist spin, but the point about organizing--that you actually have to do it, figure out the alliances--love. dissentmagazine.org/article/muti...
The Party of Baristas - Dissent Magazine
Noam Scheiber’s Mutiny shows that the labor organizing of the radicalized PMC is far more than a fit of whimsical proletarian roleplay.
dissentmagazine.org
the late-90s fever for virtual reality was so of its time. yes please let's sink into our imaginary world as far as we can, whee. oh wait i need to buy sunglasses in every color of the rainbow
i probably need an intervention but i've developed a strange human sympathy for john fetterman
Cyclops: I'm on a "Sea Peoples" diet. I see people, and it eat em!!! XD
"With a field of view 100 times that of the Hubble Space Telescope and the ability to map the sky a thousand times faster at the same resolution, Roman will produce the equivalent of a thousand years’ worth of Hubble data every 10 months."
Space Telescope Science Institute@stsci.edu · 2d ago“Hubble and Webb are like looking through a keyhole at an individual object,” says Kristen McQuinn, who heads the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope mission office at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore. “With Roman, it’s like opening the door, and now you see everything." 🔭 #NASARoman