A couple of older women saw me stretching my hip flexors while waiting for BART and now we’re all doing mobility stretches together

I really need rectangle wired glasses to go away, it’s bringing up memories long since buried

STANCED UP

Gumby Screens@gumbyscreens.bsky.social · 2d ago

Holy fuck we need to get this here in the US. Stat. Call your Congresscritter.

Ada Palmer@adapalmer.bsky.social · 5d ago

Endometriosis takes nine years to diagnose. That’s about to change. NICE has approved two tests: a saliva test reading microRNA markers, and a gut-sensor test returning results in 45 minutes, sparing women the keyhole surgery currently needed. buff.ly/QX3jHk8 #ShareGoodNewsToo

Sometimes Berkeley is pretty, pretty, pretty good

i understand why it's spring cleaning and not 'hot, sunny day cleaning'

What’s up with $100 tshirts, who is falling for that scam

August 1st means Californians can officially use DROP to delete their data from Data Brokers! privacy.ca.gov

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I’m sorry there’s “Instagram for TV” now?

LRB having Wilson's essay on The Odyssey and NYRB having Mendelsohn's is hilarious

What’s funny about The Odyssey is I don’t even care for Nolan that much. But people be wildin’.

What makes Scorsese, Spielberg, Nolan great is that they are some of our biggest movie directors who also make FILMS. They are in conversation with their art form and I just think it’s neat what they have to say!!

The extent to which the whole Sophie sitch is manufactured to test the W’s willingness to cave is so telling

Classic heads rightfully dogpiling on the Aeneid, but I still love the moment Aeneas sees Dido in the underworld. It’s so metal in Latin and I’ll always love her as a character in classical texts.

Every time I hear someone talk about how allowing new high-density housing or reducing parking will "destroy" their neighborhood's "quality of life," I think about maps like this one

Mr. Gorbachev, turn down for what

One of my Crank Theories of Everything, at least of Everything in the Recent Past, is that we are dealing (badly) with COVID trauma we’d mostly prefer to pretend never happened.

730 Stanyan is finally open, totally fine and normal for affordable housing to take 8 years to build

I have unfortunately trained myself to do RDLs to Shakira and idk how to free myself from this prison

Anyway i'm just grateful most mainstream audiences don't bother care about accuracy in plays or operas, give me all the postmodern versions of The Ring Cycle or Aeschylus' Tragedies you can

My take on today's Odyssey controversy is, with all respect to everyone involved, that plumbers generally shouldn't review movies about plumbing.

i like and respect Emily Wilson a lot, but her LRB commentary on Nolan's Odyssey is ... weird? "Unlike some of Nolan’s other films, The Odyssey is not boring" There's a lot you can criticize Nolan for, but how can you accuse him of being boring?

i'm finishing up season 2 of The Wire and man, Lester Freamon continues to be one of my favorite characters of tv, ever

really knocked this week's batch of mapo tofu out the water

a great political movie in part because it's about a collision of rights (and one straight-up bad actor)

Gonzomancer@samthielman.com · 2y ago

Pick a Miyazaki, really, but this one is maybe the most explicit about its politics

I just watched Richard Jewell and it’s kind of astonishing how interesting and reflective Clint’s late period movies are

Thinking of him today

not really surprised to learn that terminal stupidity and racism is the reason i can’t walk into a CVS and just buy a toothbrush without flagging down the one person who might be in the store dannykatch.substack.com/p/we-used-to...

We used to be able to buy things in this country

Locking up toothpaste was a warning sign that our executive class was crazy

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At a concert that feels like a honeypot meant to trap all baristas, past and present, from the Bay Area in one spot