By August you should have determined which Silver Jews song is driving you personally insane this summer
It has to be The Colour of Spring, Spirit of Eden, Laughing Stock (or the latter two and the Mark Hollis solo album)
Mia Murphy 🏳️⚧️@miamurphy.com · 4d agoWhat's the best three album run from a band? (the correct answer is Moving Pictures, Signals, and Grace Under Pressure by Rush, but I'm excited to learn second place)
fond of the emergent poems in the Example column of this wikipedia page en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irreali...
!["Let us love!"
"I would probably love
you [if...]"
"Will you love me?"
"Would that you loved
me!" / "God forbid
[that] you love me!"
"Something tells me
she loves me."
"It is necessary that
you should love me."
"Does he love me?"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6v2n4rcpc7krmpmzk6vwf2zx/bafkreicnefc3zojtdcjonvilplapdqoprbe4kf5u2oqkdxzc5zplrdz6mq)
[woman who moved to the coast after living in a desert 5000 feet above sea level for a decade] sure are a lot of flood watches here
I hope LLMs don’t deter people from one of life’s simplest pleasures: walking into a store staffed by experts and saying “hey I don’t know anything about this, can you help me?”
Weizenbaum, Computer Power and Human Reason
m. r. sauter@oddletters.bsky.social · 2w agoposit: people will construct a persistent perception of a personality for any object or system they interact with suffienciently frequently. it doesnt matter if the object possesses one or is even responsive. our incredibly sticky pareidolic tendencies just get all over everything all the time.
The NYRB Author’s Closet, a series of videos of the least camera-ready people in society mumbling inaudibly about Vasily Grossman.
Ned Resnikoff@resnikoff.bsky.social · 2w agoNYRB should do their own version of the Criterion Closet for their book publishing arm imo
The sample sentence for this Gorton typeface (ubiquitous in NYC) is sooo transmasc coded
Why don't you see the talkative mystery rock. That rock really jabbers away! !
mayor mamdani bring your film to brooklyn’s only film lab Full Spectrum Photo staffed conveniently by only transgender women for develop and scan starting at only &$9.99
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 2w agoOver the past month, New York has welcomed the world. From neighborhood watch parties to the stadium, we’ve celebrated the communities that make our city the global capital of the beautiful game. Today, we close out a historic World Cup, proud of how New Yorkers showed up every step of the way.
Thus, then, in our hearts’ honeymoon, lay I and Queequeg—a cosy, loving pair.
I deny their credentials as whales; and have presented them with their passports to quit the Kingdom of Cetology.
genuinely parsed this as "active/concurrent sexual partners" at first and thought yeah that feels right, I'm average for a millennial. lifetime?!
Fannie Jack Hammer@0hbetave.bsky.social · 3w agoI actually don't think is far off from reality. 3B people in this world, and between people I know IRL and what TikTok has opened my eyes to. I think it's more common than we think.
Chainsmoker Cat is the most a girls hanging out anime has felt like The Ring tape. Primetime Emmy now
sometimes you have to queen out with your PM for 70 minutes in the 20-minute 1:1
1) it's not gender-affirming care when it's being foisted upon ppl w/o their consent. this policy is *invasive* 2) anti-trans GAC legislation is *also invasive* as it's designed to take away control of our own bodies. LET'S CALL IT INVASIVE! LET'S PROMOTE BODILY AUTONOMY RATHER THAN MAKING GAC JOKES
Tammy Duckworth@duckworth.senate.gov · 3w agoSounds like gender-affirming care to me.
