Thleen
@kathleenbot.bsky.social
kathleen kath-mean kath-fighting machine | philosophy PhD candidate | she/her/hers
drunk girl trying to tell her friends that she thinks they are “weekend at Bernie’s” with McConnell, but she has got completely the wrong movie and keeps calling it “doing a Fish Called Wanda” with him and I’m dying
I managed to redescribed the case to myself in such a way that my horrible uncertainty aversion was canceled out by my horrible loss aversion: I’m first given a box that has a 50% chance of containing a million dollars, but before I can open it, some asshole offers to buy it off me for $50K
Husband is out of town, which means it’s a night for what I like to call “Wife Bachelor Mode,” which in this case means I’ve discovered that you can watch Heated Rivalry in Germany with a free trial of HBO Max
Heyyy babe sorry I woke you. I was just raiding the fridge. No I know—the wife unsatiated is a powerful folkloric motif. Your concern is so valid but you can go back to sleep. Yeah I’ll talk about Jung in the morning. I gotta house this sleeve of Babybels and watch a season and a half of Taskmaster
Watching “Strangers on a Train” for the first time and did not expect that my total ignorance of tennis scoring would be such an impediment to following important chunks of the plot
This headline is perfectly clear! Adding an Oxford comma would CREATE ambiguity because then “a New York vigilante” could be read EITHER as the second list item OR as an appositive for the first! The current punctuation provides only one grammatical reading! I feel like I’m losing my fucking mind !!
Sean Marshall@seanyyz.bsky.social · 3w agoWhy I’m a fan of the Oxford comma.
Does one of the announcers keep saying “Argentinia” in a British accent? Is that how they say it over there? Is this another “aluminium” situation?
Just watched Cape Fear (1962) for the first time and my phone’s Google history is now basically “history of restraining order” “American vagrancy laws 1960s” “restraining order when invented” “Polly Bergen Cape Fear dresses” “restraining order USA law first recorded”
Ethicists: I'm sorry but we gotta stop citing scientific claims to solo-authored books. The citation has to be the actual paper with a zillion authors and a clunky title and ugly graphs that actually proves the result. I know it sucks but please the philosophers of science are laughing at us
Time to advance from air conditioning discourse to air conditioning praxis. Specifically: I am an American living in Munich, staring down the barrel of three more days of 93° F (33° C) heat, and will accept all advice, thoughts, and prayers on how to install AC in an apartment with TILT WINDOWS
Soup is too hard to eat to be worth it and soup with noodles in it is the worst offender of all
Brendel@brendelbored.bsky.social · 2mo agoWhat’s the most widely enjoyed food that you can’t stand, not because of allergies or anything but just because you hate it?
If I promise myself I’ll go to bed after one more episode of my romcom anime but then that episode turns out to be the beginning of a multi-part “class trip arc” my promise retroactively ceases to be morally binding. I’m a professional ethicist so it’s my job to know this. It’s all there in Kant
In my family growing up the non-dishwasher dishes were “soapies.” Useful for dividing up chores (“You clear the table and load the dishwasher; I’ll do soapies”) or identifying delicate items (“Can this mug go in the dishwasher?” “No, it’s a soapy.”) Was astonished to learn the word was not universal
merritt@merrittk.com · 2mo agohit me with your hyperspecific friend or family slang. when i was a kid my friend once ate too many sour patch kids and then had some ketchup on fries and it was painful because of how acid blasted his tongue was. he told this story a few times, so "a ketchup story" came to mean an oft-repeated tale
As it happened I needed exactly the same thing today so I fired up Old Reliable (Kiki’s Delivery Service)
Olivia Messer@oliviamesser.bsky.social · 2mo agookay folks, I’m in need of a good cortisol release — please share which movies make you shake violently from sobbing. I’m talking Titanic, Fault In Our Stars, P.S. I Love You, the first dozen times you watch The Notebook level don’t let me down
This meme briefly made me fear I haven’t seen ten live acts in my life. On reflection I’m relieved to announce I think I’ve seen EXACTLY ten: Neutral Milk Hotel Beyoncé Dolly Parton Janelle Monáe Esperanza Spalding Lizzo Cécile McLorin Salvant The Mountain Goats Carly Rae Jepsen Death Cab for Cutie
John E Warren 🤠🐝♿️@floppyadult.com · 3mo agoIntroduce yourself with 10 bands you’ve seen live. The Rolling Stones Coheed & Cambria The National Electric Light Orchestra Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears Kimbra Rilo Kiley Against Me! Sigur Ros Okkervil River
Tonight’s movie night pick was Escape From New York—a movie that we went into knowing it inspired Metal Gear Solid and that still managed to surprise us with the extent to which it is just straight up a video game on film
I’ve feared this movie would try to do a “naturalized,” “grounded” version of the Odyssey without any supernatural shit—à la Troy (2004)—and this trailer seems intentionally cut to exacerbate this fear. Why the tease at the end? Why show Charybdis but not Scylla?? Give me the monsters you cowards !!
Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 3mo agoThe trailer for Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” is out:
My nightstand always includes (1) pacey sci-fi book that eventually gets too scary, requiring a switch to (2) Jane Austen book that eventually makes me too second-hand embarrassed for the heroine, driving me to (3) Terry Pratchett book I’ve reread so much I eventually lose focus, returning me to (1)
As a novice German speaker in Munich, I hate that when I see a passer-by with a great outfit I don’t know how to compliment them. Today over drinks I asked three fluent speakers how to do so. Each of them immediately—varying only in how well they hid their horror—replied “We do not do that at all”
A dozen hours deep into Titanium Court, an opinion is forming that is as unshakeable as it is hard to precisely describe: between the absurdism and the perplexingly insistent baseball theme and the ineffable aesthetic of 2000s-era techno-optimism……I think this game might, somehow, be a JonBoisLike
I guess I’m not surprised by a would-be Trump assassin who’s not all that far left, because I don’t think you have to be all that far left to think Trump is as bad as Hitler, and I don’t think you have to be all that far left to think positively of Hitler’s fate in, say, “Inglourious Basterds”
Business idea: extremely online craft brewery selling beers with names like The Uh-Oh Y’All Gettin’ Kinda Hazy IPA. That’s actually the only name I have right now so part of the business will be hiring people who can think of some more
In D&D your character has a “level” that is an integer. Each spell also has a “level” that is an integer. You may assume there is a simple function between the level of your character and the level of spell they can cast. Do not assume it aloud or nearby experts will laugh so hard they choke and die
When Cameron Winter sings that “There is only dance music in times of war,” do you think he means that (1) there is no dance music when it isn’t wartime or (2) in wartime, there is no music that isn’t dance music
Realizing my favorite works of 21st-century fiction about artificial intelligence might be @flantz.bsky.social’s “Universal Paperclips,” @jonbois.bsky.social’s “17776,” and Isabel Fall’s “I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter”—unfortunately three of history’s hardest texts to put on a syllabus