Nothing says summer like waking up to a piss yellow sky.

I’ve probably said this before, but my tier 1 pet peeve on tv shows is when they take the headrests out of the front seats of the cars

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WICKER | Official Trailer | Only In Theaters October

YouTube video by Black Bear

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Dungeoness Crawler Crab. Is this something?

Trying to find what rare gifts insomnia gives me.

The rage of watching items rise in price as much as three times what they were just 6 years ago. They got away with inflating prices during the pandemic and they never stopped the practice. They never stopped bc no one stopped them.

Do the thinking that only you can do, with the experiences and perspectives that you have, and the real work that's practical for you. That's where originality and meaning lie. For more like this & for essays at the crossroads of history, science, and monsters, sign up for my free newsletter. 4/4

Basement adventures showed me why ChatGPT can only ever be garbage.

In The British Library. Photo by Surekha Davies. Hallo readers, First, a news flash: Join me for a virtual book launch for HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY...

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‘I asked ChatGPT’ Well, I asked Gandalf and he told me you should be silent keep your forked tongue behind your teeth because he did not pass through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm.

kids, i have something exciting to tell you. I just financed a cybertruck through x the everything app. also your mom left

holy shit

Practical/Quality Reasons - AI output is not guaranteed to be accurate or to work. - Verifying AI output requires human review time. - Verifying AI output requires expertise equal to or greater than that required to generate the output manually. 5/12

Interesting: There’s now an anonymous, moderated list of companies that stop responding after you interviewed with them

Ghosted After a Job Interview? Report the Company

Ghosted after a job interview? Submit an anonymous report and see which companies candidates say stopped responding after interviews.

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Wile E. Coyote, despaired, takes a bucket of paint and a brush and paints a beautiful two-bedroom house on a mountainside. He paints a beautiful coyote wife in the window, and two adorable coyote kids running around in the yard. He tries to enter this new coyote life, but it is inaccessible to him

a good piece of advice i once got is to disregard any despairing thoughts about the trajectory of your life that you might have after 9 PM. those are the night thoughts and we do not speak of them

SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going— SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti— SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE

Sardonicus@sardonicus.eu · 8mo ago

'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.' Photograph by Daniel Ibanez

(3 drinks) sometimes the world is so magnificent that i will weep at the many simple beauties you encounter during a normal day (3.25 drinks) if you begin to think about it enemies are actually surrounding me and closing in. i am beset upon by evil on all sides.

A Chinese shoe manufacturer made this video to show how indestructible their shoes are and y'all I'm much too gay for this 🥵

Here's something I post from time to time. My answer to a reader who asked me: what could journalists do NOW to break with some of their more corrosive habits.

I made a website that lets you cut out old magazines from the internet archive (or any PDFs you own) and make collage art out of them: ✂️ clipart.studio

This one sucks. He seemed like such a decent person.

Sam Neill, New Zealand Actor Known for ‘Jurassic Park,’ Dies at 78

He appeared in more than 150 productions over a five-decade career but was perhaps best known for his star turn in the “Jurassic Park” series.

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Thank you! At an event last night I said "If the word hope doesn't work for you try, 'Never fucking surrender.'" The word hope seems too sunny to a lot of people, but the heart of it as I'm interested in it is: we make the future in the present, if we show up, and that never surrender part.

Unfortunately, a stunned Paris is how they all got into this whole mess to begin with

Pop Crave@popcrave.com · 4w ago

‘The Odyssey’ women Zendaya, Anne Hathaway, Lupita Nyong'o, and Charlize Theron stun in Paris.

Okay there is another problem with this, I'm thinking about this, and obviously of course pervert glasses are really for cops and perverts, and one of the ways you can tell is by how much it doesn't make sense for a normal person to have these. bsky.app/profile/hype...

(VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve@braak.bsky.social · 4w ago

I actually think smart glasses have a different problem than the fact that they're 1) expensive and 2) perv glasses, and that problem is that the purpose of social media is to show people videos of *me*.

A great remembrance of artist Tony Stella by Michael A. Gonzalez in @oldstermag.bsky.social The Dream Has Ended in Death open.substack.com/pub/oldster/...

this guy said "if you elect me I'll do this thing that will make your lives better" and then he got elected and did the thing, so I can understand why most Dems think he is a dangerous witch

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · last mo.

BREAKING NYT: A New York City panel just voted to freeze rents for nearly one million rent-stabilized apartments — fulfilling one of Mayor Zohran Mamdani's key campaign promises and handing the mayor a major policy win six months into his tenure.