It’s embarassing to buy merch for products with actual cash, but I’m not sure if saving up proof of purchases is better or worse

Yeah I have a movie rental popup!! it’s called my plex server and the fee is being my friend

Sorry to be a hater but there’s a new local small biz popup movie rental service that’s $20 membership +$5 per week to rent regular ass criterion collection DVDs!! If you’re going to do that it should be freak stuff

went to a classics department holiday party once where food was mixed nuts and ritz sandwich crackers spread out directly on kraft paper. this is who you’re trusting with film criticism

I think some people don’t understand that being kind of annoying is one of the traits you have to develop to maintain a career as a successful academic, and people who aren’t exposed to many can find it jarring!

Mainlining feelings of pure shame and embarrassment by putting myself in situations where I meet new people and explain that I work in Data

Great Uzbek animated adaptation of There Will Come Soft Rains youtu.be/OumNKTn6iek

Watch: There Will Come Soft Rains (1984) | The Rediscovered Soviet Animated Warning

YouTube video by Trailer HQ

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T H E VV O R S T@milfparade.bsky.social · 2d ago

A few weeks ago I realized that tomorrow is the date the Ray Bradbury story “There Will Come Soft Rains” takes place. It’s a shame science fiction from 75 years ago isn’t relevant anymore

Once a week someone on the local Reddit posts “how do I make friends as an adult in this town” and the answer is always just show up to things and be consistent and yet…

Once again I have proven myself trustworthy and it only took 10 minutes to find the key this time

lilya@lolifer.bsky.social · 4w ago

i can be trusted with a single fobless key

failed state

yeah we gotta just ban the short form video platforms if they exist to blenderize loosely understood concepts from sociology and history into conspiracy-brained rants about how starbucks exists to neuter the revolutionary class

💢Marx Was Right.🕊@paulwalker44.bsky.social · 7d ago

3rd spaces and revolution.

It was that lady in middle school who said I was doing OK for a non native speaker but shouldn’t pursue a career in writing or anything

Louie Stowell@louiestowell.bsky.social · 5d ago

Who was YOUR great english teacher (if you had one)? For me it was Hugh Epstein at Richmond college (RUTC). I hope he's well, wherever he is!

Spending all day arguing about how all anyone reads is slop and then sitting down to some Real Prose

How do I train my body to send me signals like “drink some water” instead of “eat 4 or 5 plums” when I’m thirsty

it’s Hou Hsiao-Hsien Summer

I do wonder if data centers in NC are the new hog lagoons. In response to Smithfield lawsuits, limited damages in ag lawsuits were capped by the GA to basically be tied to the value of the affected property (which is artificially low bc of the harm!) - will we see the same with data centers??

the Xinú perfumes sampler honestly top tier both as fragrance and as a whole package

Thinking about this more and I think it’s funnier to condescend to “oh is a sportsball on” people because that somehow always puts you in a position of defending something that doesn’t acrually need defending like sports or billion dollar movies or celebrities

lilya@lolifer.bsky.social · 7d ago

And we are right to do it

Incredible value for only $20

just remembered ody-c, maybe the worst odyssey adaptation I’ve ever read

I know I joke about working in the data mines but how come every day after work I feel like I’m covered in a layer of toxic grime

The Trump era has been a complete vindication of the middlebrow. Art that is merely a slightly more sophisticated version of mass market media is in fact too complicated for a huge swath of the nation. Go ahead and feel smart for getting the jokes in that HBO comedy.

m@keptsimple.bsky.social · 7d ago

there's nothing wrong with middlebrow

I don’t think enough people are snobs actually

And we are right to do it

Can anyone explain why I have such a strong and immediate negative reaction to nyt bestseller fictionslop book covers, but the exaxt opposite to nyt bestseller looking cookbooks

I think some people don’t understand that being kind of annoying is one of the traits you have to develop to maintain a career as a successful academic, and people who aren’t exposed to many can find it jarring!

Sorry to whoever had emergency tree work today that granted me this chip drop

going to be real I don’t think Nolan read beyond that line

Mekka Okereke@mekka.mekka-tech.com · last wk.

🤔Emily sold 1 million copies of her book thanks to the movie. True. But... Nolan made $1 billion on his movie based in part on her unique translation of the original text. He didn't pay her for this other than (hopefully) buying at least one copy of her book. He didn't "feed her.🤡" She fed him.

I was obsessed with Navokov’s Pnin as a 20 year old but I am so curious to know how bad it would wreck me almost 20 years later

We took off Edie’s collar so she would be easier to groom and without her bell I am constantly getting startled by heavy breathing directly behind me