The storied Mokena Video, which is still in operation. Dark rows of handmade shelves of empty VHS (now DVD) boxes. You pulled a numbered tag off a little eye hook and brought it to the counter where a guy who had everyone’s phone number memorized started filling out your receipt before you got there

Chloe N. Clark@pintsncupcakes.bsky.social · 4w ago

Tell me about the video store of your past please

Why are these shoes exclusively for a guy who has just returned to his job as a majordomo after years of being a bewitched clock in an enchanted castle

Every sign/flier/seasonal menu in my favorite beach town was AI generated and there was nothing I could do but make it my sister’s problem

Has anyone seen a round-up of vetted places that are helping in Northwest Indiana right now?

The roaring exhaust fan noises my phone makes as it tries to figure out which of the dozen Jennifers I, a millennial woman, is trying to text

Yes YES The tiger is out

Derf Backderf@derfbackderf.bsky.social · 2mo ago

What a photo! A female Amur tiger is released into the wild in Kazakhstan.

It is just wild to me that we can simultaneously have eleventy billion articles about how social media is destroying young people and then also a near-religious AI adoption policy.

Vegier for Pets

just became aware of William Howard Taft’s 1908 campaign poster

The luxury Apple Store experience of sitting on a bunch of Apple crates on the floor with a bunch of other adults

A Scrooge backstory, how novel. We’ve never traveled back to his past before.

DiscussingFilm@discussingfilm.net · 2mo ago

First poster for ‘EBENEZER’, a new film based on ‘A Christmas Carol’ starring Johnny Depp. “Before he was Scrooge, he was Ebenezer”

The thing is I probably am a kiwi in a birthday hat

Spicymochi@spicymochi.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Your birthday month, your mini bird wearing a hat!

Hooray and congratulations!!

Austin Gilkeson@osutein.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Today’s the day! MAGGIE THE DREAD hits the shelves!

Jamie Oliver was at Taylor’s wedding because OF COURSE. Reputation era Taylor 🤝 pink sludge era Jamie Oliver

Honestly I want more of this on my timeline

Emily Nussbaum@emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 3mo ago

On my way to the wedding! V excited, blasting The Man out my windows as I drive to midtown!! Don’t 100% understand the Steampunk Manatee (casual-elegant Southwest/Netherlands) dress code but I’m game & ready to binge on solid-gold Pringles

Oh wow, it’s time for my daily rehearsal how I would answer the “what’s bringing you joy?” question on Good Hang with Amy Poehler

@likaluca.bsky.social just wanted to say how much I enjoyed your questions at the Ann Patchett event on Sunday! I learned so much and loved hearing your publishing takes. Thank you!

Returning to the same shelf at the library book book sale to see if the book I didn’t pick up is somehow back like a dog who found a chicken leg in a bush once

Yeah I don't feel like enough gets said about how "pivot to video" is really about "pivot to centralized platforms," it's not like anyone's saying to send out mp4s via RSS, it's all just another front in the project to dismantle podcasting's original decentralized model

It was very satisfying to be watching The Two Towers while completing the mini crossword puzzle tonight, is all I’ll say

The Sheep Detectives is the pro-hollyhock movie America needed

Did we know that the toast dot net has been taken down entirely? I thought they were planning to maintain the website into perpetuity

Daphne du Maurier, Novelist, Short Story Writer, Playwright, #BornOnThisDay in 1907, in London 📸 Bassano Ltd (July, 1930)

Well I guess this ends my 15-year (give or take) relationship (experience?) with Fitbit.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 5mo ago

“If you're in the US, you'll be able to sync your medical records with the app to be able to view lab results and medications within its interface. Google said it will store your data within the app itself, and you'll be able to control how it's used and shared.” 🙆🏿‍♂️

The answer at the end of this thread is true and somehow crushing

Helena Fitzgerald@hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 5mo ago

an arguably more interesting question is: what was the *last* millennial song

Considering paying for this substack so I can know if the Pope and I endured the same deep suffering (First Midwest Bank being bought out by Old National)

Christopher Hale@christopherjhale.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Last July, the pope called his bank in South Chicago. He wanted to update the phone number on his account. The teller told him that any changes had to be made in person with an ID. Knowing that was impossible, he asked: “Would it matter to you if I told you I’m Pope Leo?” She hung up on him.

Just wanted to say that I am having an excellent time with THE ENDING WRITES ITSELF. The book’s great, wonderful narration from Fiona Hardingham. I know V.E. Schwab and Cat Clarke have a lot going on but I hope they do more of these!

Is anyone around who could forward me the April SCBWI Insight email? I somehow fell off the mailing list, I think.

I’m sorry, I just learned that Jasper Fforde runs a yearly fan fest and it is called Fforde Fiesta. www.ffordeffiesta.co.uk?fbclid=IwVER...