Me four weeks ago: callow, filled with the foolishness of youth, obsessed with Tonight Is What It Means To Be Young from 1980s cult classic Streets of Fire Me now: wise, sophisticated, urbane, obsessed with Nowhere Fast from 1980s cult classic Streets of Fire
ME: I am going to make a post on social media. I will get a small burst of dopamine if people interact with my post. PEOPLE: [interact with my post] ME:
Feels like a good day to say out loud: as a lifelong trivia lover (Scholastic Bowl, pub quiz, etc.) I don’t like Jeopardy. The format is annoying AF. The “questions” do not grammatically or factually match the “answers,” so it’s just a tic of saying “what is” to start and it annoys me to no end.
Heard steel pan music as I approached the station and thought ‘I bet that’s an ice cream man’ and IT WAS but the bastard drove away as I approached and I am without an ice cream :(
"Bluesky is a political echo chamber" okay but I'm mostly here to chat with fun internet people and post art and make jokes, I cannot stress how much I don't care
Very good paper on this by Pratchett & Vimes (1993)
Max Dubler 🏳️🌈@maxdubler.com · 3d agoI think my most genuinely unpopular take is that a widely held and genuine consumer preference for cheaper, lower-quality goods, not private equity, is driving the decline in quality of consumer goods like clothing and housewares.
“Say what you like about Rod Liddle, but…” yeah no thanks, I look forward to never having to read another piece of his bile-spattered rentacopy ever again
I hadn't worked out why people were going on about COVID because I think I've blocked most of the terrible centrist journalists in Britain. I advise all of you to do the same
Raiders of the Lost Ark came out in 1981, but was set in 1936 - a difference of 45 years. If they made the film today, the same time difference would mean it would be set in 1981.
Gene Kelly in a publicity still for On the Town (1949)
Hello I have made this due to a mutual having issues with some folks on here forgetting this fact and shouting at him for it. Feel free to use it as a handy PSA x
Boring Domestic Posting: HOW is a week’s groceries for two people now £70?!! I’m thrifty. I meal plan and cook from scratch. I waste very little. We eat each dinner twice because of how ingredients are portioned and sold. Proteins this week are chicken legs, pork mince and turkey mince. And still.
another data point for “spider-man is the best superhero” not even superhero fatigue can keep people from wanting to hang out with our pal pete
Pop Base@popbase.tv · 4d ago‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ ($168M) passes ‘Avengers: Endgame’ ($157.4M) in earning the biggest opening day at the domestic box office in history.
That was a top four Spider-Man experience? Definitely not as good as Raimi 2 and original Spider-Verse, on a par with Homecoming. Easily the best Marvel film in years.
paid off the last bit of my student loan, I am free forever!!
100 years ago none of my grandparents had been born. Even the oldest was a decade away. Hell, all of my great-grandparents would have been teenagers at best.
Revan@revan.eurosky.social · 7d agoEnough “what would you do on the commune questions” If you got sent back 100 years and were given your grandparent’s job, what are you doing?
To mark the 25-year anniversary of The Princess Diaries, Ella Kemp celebrates the timeless charm and significant milestones of the Anne Hathaway teen classic by unearthing your own diary entries. https://boxd.it/3hs
if Only Connect is cancelled I shall simply perish
Scott Bryan@scottygb.bsky.social · last wk."The BBC has confirmed Blankety Blank, Celebrity Mastermind and Live at the Apollo will not be returning." "These difficult decisions form part of the BBC’s previously announced first phase of its proposals to make £500m of savings over the next three years." www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...
'...while it was regarded as pretty good evidence of criminality to be living in a slum, for some reason owning a whole street of them merely got you invited to the very best social occasions.' - Terry Pratchett, 'Feet of Clay'
Finally found a cheap(ish) copy of this. It’s undeniably polemical and occasionally too discursive but a work of forensic detail and controlled fury. Astonishing that Landis ever worked again – and didn’t go to jail.
Just seen someone who says they have a two kilogram cat. Two! That is less than a third of a Bird
Counterpoint: The guy I once saw driving through Brentford, windows down, loudly playing Don’t Lose Your Head from Six
Pandy Fackler@thatbrenna.bsky.social · last wk.Why does every person that blasts music from their car have shitty taste in music?
If your Python be Palin Or Idle, clean sailin’ If your Python be Cleese Or Gilliam, jeez.
Made a carrot cake, heavily spiced, crushed pineapple, cream cheese icing, caramel sauce, candied pecans for crunch.
