I was only half listening to the pregame show for the NLCS so I have no idea what was actually said, but what I heard was Jacob Misiorowski described as a "Pokémon fart collector."
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doug m. (he/him) Math teacher by day, occasional music maker by night. Fond of music, birds, pizza, and bad jokes.
This is a short but entertaining story about a oh so very New York fake website that offers "New Yorker verification" for folks not born and raised in the city.
Gothamist@gothamist.com · last wk.The perennially contentious question of who may claim New York City as their own can now be decisively answered. By whom? The Department of New Yorker Verification, which is now accepting formal applications. gothamist.visitlink.me/_jhVi2
I’m at the Pizza Hut. I’m at the house of leaves. I’m at the combi s n e a v t a i e o l n fo esuoh & tuh azzip
My "About You" page on Amazon was really not that entertaining. They did get this right.
Also, I've been playing Well Dweller by @kylethompsondev.bsky.social and it is absolutely delightful. If you are a fan of Metroidvanias and exploration and storytelling and the like in video games , you should go check this out. store.steampowered.com/app/3699590/...
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"WHY IS YOUR TAIL WET?" is one of those questions I didn't really expect to be asking my cat but here we are.
Took the Where Should I Live? quiz online and I suppose you could call this a reaffirming result. whereidlive.com/where-should...
My parents left my hometown in PA in 1996 and I can still recite their old number without hesitation. It was mine through all of high school and it was the one I used to call home from college. I can also recite the number I had in Indiana from 1993 to 2000, and I imagine some friends could too.
Links I Would Gchat You If We Were Friends@linksiwouldgchatyou.skystack.xyz · 3w ago#785: Phoning home • Plus: Synthetic content, crashing for clicks and participatory vicarious nostalgia
I graduated med school in 2014. I was taught-and saw-how hard melanoma was to treat, like a death sentence Since then, new treatments have made it possible for people w/ the most advanced melanoma, like Jimmy Carter, to live to 100! We are killing ourselves by letting them destroy American science
The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 3w agoA cancer vaccine succeeded in a clinical trial in preventing the recurrence of melanoma, a result experts say is a breakthrough for mRNA-based treatments. Trials for lung cancer, pancreatic cancer and other diseases' vaccines are also underway.
Last three songs the soundman played while the band sets up were Fugazi, Unwound, and the Minutemen, which feels very curated for me.
Next band's singer gets up and soundchecks by yelling "CHECK! CHECK! THIS IS HOW LOUD I'LL BE! CHECK!"
Watching grindcore singers sound check with a mix of high pitched shrieks and low growls is very entertaining.
First day of class for my 25th year of teaching high school math. Every September, day one commute gets the same soundtrack.
Interesting thread. Has me thinking about bad habits and how many things I've learned just enough of something to get a job done and never gone back to develop further.
Chris Brody@chrisbrody.bsky.social · last mo.Interesting from Terence Tao on his Mastodon. I'm not a math guy (although I am a math fan and observe math developments with interest) but I think there are two points here that are worth noting, one of which I haven't really thought about in these terms before
Police say the man who stole a copy of Ulysses is looking at a long sentence
This is wild: only *one quarter* of the New Yorkers who live in the city today were there on 9/11. It's basically an entirely new city. Cities are magic: constantly changing, churning engines of human progress. This is why conservatives hate them.
A City Forgets. Maybe It’s Supposed To.
The New York of today is a different city than the New York of 9/11.
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There are endless studies showing this and also the financial and societal benefits of universal basic income and or housing-first policies but the U.S. never goes for any of it because it would require allowing the poor to receive benefits that the rich consider “undeserved”
Jen Taub@jentaub.bsky.social · 2mo ago“A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.” ysph.yale.edu/news-article...
New one today for @defector.com: in the wake of the most recent declaration of reading's demise, I was curious what booksellers, almost always ignored by the post-literate prognosticators, made of such claims. Here's what they told me:
What Do Booksellers Make Of “The End Of Reading”? | Defector
If you haven’t yet encountered the cover story for the August issue of The Atlantic, I have some bad news to share: “The End of Reading Is Here.” It’s an intentionally provocative headline for a sligh...
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Rivers and math are two of my favorite things, so of course I'm going to enjoy a column like this one.
Quanta Magazine@quantamagazine.org · 2mo agoQualia columnist @nattyover.bsky.social is spellbound by the ubiquitous branching patterns that show up in nature — she even has one tattooed to her forearm. In today’s column, she homes in on the alluring math of ever-evolving river systems. www.quantamagazine.org/why-are-rive...
If Dolly was our constant reminder that it was Good to be Good, Tim Curry was our reminder that it was Good to be Weird. Embrace your strangeness, sing with Muppets, wear your lingerie with a leather jacket, and fuck with uptight people who hate anything that makes them remotely uncomfortable.
Craig Calcaterra@craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 2mo agoRIP to a motherfucking icon.
I really cannot think of a greater honor than to have the Muppets say this about you upon your passing
I have long believed that “what, to you, is Tim Curry’s definitive role” should replace Myers-Briggs, the enneagram and H*gwarts houses as our primary societal methodology for sorting categories of people I am a Frank-N-Furter sun with a Van Helsing moon and a Long John Silver rising
Brendel@brendelbored.bsky.social · 2mo agoIt’s been interesting to see whose mind immediately went to Rocky Horror and whose mind immediately went to Muppets and whose mind immediately went to Clue and whose mind immediately went to SPAAAACE and on and on and on because no matter what age you are he’s iconic and very special to you
"It's given a lot of people permission to be themselves, to not dream it, be it, which is the motto of the movie, really. I would like to be remembered for that." Farewell to Tim Curry (1946-2026) #RIP
He changed so many lives and made so many people comfortable with who they are. I hope he knew that.
Dave Itzkoff@ditzkoff.bsky.social · 6mo agoHappy 80th birthday, Tim Curry.
the famous line about how michael caine treated the muppets as fellow actors and tim curry treated himself as a fellow muppet keeps running through my head we have a lot of brilliant actors, but how many of them can really pull off 'unhinged muppet' the way curry could? what a tremendous loss
Tim Curry Laughing as Pirate Captain
Alt: Tim Curry as Long John Silver in Muppet Treasure Island laughing
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First thought : FUCK, Tim Curry on the same day FUCK Second thought which made me crack up (as Tim and Dolly would surely have liked): “Someone go check on Miss Piggy, she just lost her frenemy and her ex lover”
