"Fascist hypermasculinity is a repressed gay sex thing" theory actually just statistical error. Average hypermasculine fascist is straight. Leather Samurai Mishima is an outlier and should not have been counted.
Give me a condor’s quill! Give me Vesuvius’ crater for an inkstand! Friends, hold my arms!
alright let's do real discourse: five books *by bad people* that are still good or great books V.S. Naipaul, A BEND IN THE RIVER Allison Pearson, I DON'T KNOW HOW SHE DOES IT Kevin Myers, WATCHING THE DOOR Yukio Mishima, CONFESSIONS OF A MASK Neil Gaiman, BRIEF LIVES.
Hell, gluten-free food is better than it was just 15 years ago. I can't imagine having to live with Celiac disease in the 80s and earlier.
Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · yesterdayFood, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.
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.
Whatever it's called with the pages of a book aren't trimmed evenly. It makes them impossible to use because flipping through the book doesn't work.
Damn me, but all things are queer, come to think of ’em.
I feel about AI and ChatGPT the same way I feel about Amazon Alexa. I woke up at some point in the mid-twentyteens and realized everyone had installed a listening device in their home, and it's somehow happened again but even worse, but either way I don't understand it and I refuse to learn.
Kate Holzemer@katebits.bsky.social · 3d agoI realized today that the only AI I interact with is against my will. I don't really understand any of this. Is ChatGPT a place on the internet? Don't tell me. I don't care and I don't want to know. I think the is the hill I'll never find that I'm gonna die on.
As of this November, I'll have been on Goodreads for 19 years. Zounds.
No cheating post your lock screen. Sure, his birthday was on Saturday, but in this house we celebrate Herman Melville *every day*.
Dr ShinyGoth@ghostingdani.bsky.social · 3d agoNo cheating post your lock screen. Phone photo of a total solar eclipse!
Oh, turns out my brain just wanted me to reread Helen DeWitt.
Jacob@jacobaugust.bsky.social · 6d agoLove it when my brain goes "Oh, are you SURE you want to read a nice long novel? Wouldn't you rather waste a bunch of time just LOOKING at all the nice long novels on your shelves and UTTERLY FAILING to pick one out to read, before GIVING UP and reading something UTTERLY FORGETTABLE instead?"
My complaint about The Odyssey (2026) is that all 3 hour films should legally be required to include a pee break intermission
Love it when my brain goes "Oh, are you SURE you want to read a nice long novel? Wouldn't you rather waste a bunch of time just LOOKING at all the nice long novels on your shelves and UTTERLY FAILING to pick one out to read, before GIVING UP and reading something UTTERLY FORGETTABLE instead?"
*standing up on the plane* Call me Ishmael. Some years ago—never mind how long precisely—having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. It is a way I have of driving off the spleen and
Ceridwen Anne@ceridwenanne.com · 6d ago*standing up on the plane* Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to get through this thing called "life". Electric word, life, it means forever, and that's a mighty long time. But I'm here to tell you there's something else: the afterworld. A world of never ending happiness, you can always see
Expanding this to include TV, Gilmore Girls and Pacific Rim. You know Rory and Lorelai are drift compatible.
Sophia_Nyx 🏳️⚧️@sophianyx.bsky.social · 7d agoName 2 film franchises that need a crossover film.
O Brother, Where Art Thou? and Sinners
Sophia_Nyx 🏳️⚧️@sophianyx.bsky.social · 7d agoName 2 film franchises that need a crossover film.
Firefox glitched when I restarted my computer and I lost several dozen tabs I had open. So rude. I was definitely planning to read those at some point, I swear!
This fall...see Chris Hemsworth and Tessa Thompson in...THE ICEBOX HEIST "I feel like the director took some liberties with the source material." --Emily Wilson
Jesse Hawken@jessehawken.bsky.social · last wk.Studio execs are going to want to adapt more poems for the big screen now
I’ve been very measured and nuanced about Nolan’s Odyssey but I think Nolan’s Moby Dick would make me crash out
Andrew Pope@andrewpope.bsky.social · last wk.lol He should take on Moby Dick next. That may be the nudge I need to get to it.
Peter Jackson’s Jabberwocky The Cohen Brothers’ Canterbury Tales Francis Ford Coppola’s The Faerie Queene
Jesse Hawken@jessehawken.bsky.social · last wk.Studio execs are going to want to adapt more poems for the big screen now