It’s “There Will Come Soft Rains” by Ray Bradbury Day. Who else up and going through the motions for a world that no longer exists?
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King of the Smooth Dogs
This is correct. I am only free if I can bring my dog.
Louise@selkies.bsky.social · last wk.Is this a good time to mention that in college my History of Translation lecturer (Michael Cronin) told us that one of the first vernacular translations of The Illiad was into Irish, and the translator had to give the main characters dogs because in Gaelic society a free man had a dog
‘night Mother: Night Bitch Frankenstein: Party Monster Secretary: The Good Girl
Owen K.C. Stephens (He/Him)@owenkcstephens.bsky.social · 3w agoTake a movie title, add a colon and another movie's title to make it SOUND like a sequel to the first movie! I'll go first. Big Hero 6: The Magnificent Seven The Black Hole: Event Horizon Cube: Sphere Escape Plan: Get Out The Mummy: Evil Dead Poltergeist: It Follows A Quiet Place: Silent Hill
I fully support banning Lord Sugar from the internet.
Duncan Weldon@duncanweldon.bsky.social · 2mo agoI’m open minded on real names. We should definitely ban “cartoon avatar coupled with cutesy or “funny” name and behaves like an absolute tool” though.
Starting at 8:30 PM GMT, you can cyberbullly British children unopposed. Set a reminder.
I my head says Anarchist Book Fair, but my heart says American Folk Festival. Banjos and funnel cake as far as the eye can see.
Erik Hane@erikhane.bsky.social · 2mo agoOkay but What would YOUR totally gratuitous White House lawn event be, if YOU were the mad king of a dying superpower
They’ve made The Office continuously since The Office went off the air. It’s called Parks & Rec, Superstore, Animal Control, etc etc etc.
1. “HR lady” is intended as a gendered insult. 1a. Not all gendered insults are necessarily Freudian 1b. Women are not bourgeois, Harry. 2. HR is bourgeois, because it ultimately and inevitably represents the interest of the owning class.
He’s bringing the foam sword out of retirement to sort out old LARP grudges.
Eurogamer@eurogamer.bsky.social · 2mo agoMore clues about Geralt's "very important" sword in The Witcher 3 expansion Songs of the Past have been found, and they strengthen rumours of a new location www.eurogamer.net/witcher-3-ex...
I am going to make the definitive world’s largest ball of twine. It will be jute, roughly spherical, and rolled by one man. No more competing claims. Just one ball to rule them all.
doc@docseuss.bsky.social · 2mo agoTHE WIZARD IS BACK! You have been cursed with a lot of money! You are going to become not just permanently brain damaged, but SUPER evil, incapable of doing good, if you use the money for anything that isn't ridiculous. To break the curse, you must spend it on something ridiculous. What say you?
Somewhere in South America there’s a right wing militia who can’t afford MANPADS because of this guy.
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2mo agoA senior CIA official was arrested last week after investigators found hundreds of gold bars worth over $40 million stashed in his Virginia residence, a small fortune that he apparently brought home from work, according to court papers.
Smells like a lie to cover up some perverse financial incentive.
Erik Hane@erikhane.bsky.social · 2mo agoWrong to the point of malpractice
Tim Burton Presents Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man
batkaren@batkaren.bsky.social · 3mo agoclive barker’s brideshead revisited
Slightly increase a band: More Dead Kennedys
Chef Kennedy🐸🏳️🌈@kennedytcooper.bsky.social · 3mo agoslightly increase a band 11,000 Maniacs
Slightly diminish a film La Amabile Vita
Lucy Fishwife 🥐@lucyfishwife.bsky.social · 3mo agoSlightly diminish a film 143 Pointe Blank
A possibly unnamed possibly freeware/public domain DOS game that was vaguely like Steamworld Dig if you ripped out all the features, graphics and sounds.
Chad Loder@chadloder.dev · 3mo agoAnyone who used computers before 1992, what's a video game you still think about all the time?
Fun Fact: NH has to maintain a list of police with known credibility issues because that’s exculpatory evidence.
Eoin Higgins@eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 3mo ago
Breaking: Jodie Foster remains unimpressed.
They used to tell the kids that got good grades and got bullied that adulthood would mean rewarding work, financial success, and a fulfilling relationship. 1/3 and I feel both lucky and cheated somehow.
Black Aziz Anansi@blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 4mo agoMillenials - Is this how you pictured your adult years?
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You don’t have to let the media off your youth control your life. The Xanth novels were a big part of my tweens, but with the help of a licensed therapist I’m nearly a productive member of society.
