Rainhall
@rainhall.bsky.social
Gamer, reader, Trekkie, baseball fan, member of #TeamOldGuys.
It’s been a good day. 1. Cat Cafe 2. Local bookstore. 3. Local restaurant with homemade desserts.
The manager at my local Taco Bell is a good one. When his young employees screw up, he guides them with patience and acts like he believes in them.
Imagine if a woman president spent most her time raving and crying about an election she lost 6 years ago. Emotional. Unstable. Hysterical. Unfit to lead.
“A desolation where even the tumbleweed does not tumble.” —great line by Padgett Powell in this month’s @harpers.bsky.social
Sometimes peak design can’t be improved upon. Fire exit signage has not changed in three centuries.
“Antediluvian stress wombat” Words to ponder from podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...
"Anchorage" by Samantha Mills
Podcast Episode · It's Storytime with Wil Wheaton · July 1 · 1h
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Me, an NFL person, watching everyone do takes on why the US is mid at soccer
There’s a fantastic piece in @harpers.bsky.social this month titled “American Ephemera.” William Vollmann has collected quotes from the USA’s founders that speak to the moment we’re in now. Some of the quotes are the ones you’ve heard before. Others, I wouldn’t have imagined they existed.
“‘Progress’ … ruthlessly deletes industries and traditions and makes redundant whatever it is you learned to do when you were in school.” -Thomas Frank in @harpers.bsky.social July, page 7.
“Magenta” by Ro Morrissey, on display at the Coastal Discovery Museum, Hilton Head Island, South Carolina.
@oriolesreview.bsky.social , any thoughts on having Beavers bat 4th? I know things are awkward with injury now, but that really surprised me.
A male Eastern Bluebird scanning the leaf litter from his perch before diving down to hunt insects.
Which games accumulated the most yards and had the fewest points? We calculated combined yards/point for FBS games this year and ranked the games. Congrats to Wyoming and Akron who combined for 654 yards in their matchup but only got 10 points out of it!
The turn to slop is something we actually have a lot of power over. We choose what art we engage with and whose art we engage with. We have the ability to choose films based on original ideas, to read books instead of just doom scroll, to talk about poetry instead of just Vanderpump.
I don't need to use chatGPT because as a cis white man, I already say things with 100% confidence and 60% accuracy
Yes! Before this universe spins even further away from the good feels of #StarTrekDay, give a listen to our Season 14 premiere with "#Sulu"— and the 60th anniversary summer of his debut, and first day on the job. 🖖😎🏳️🌈🚀
Roddenberry Podcasts@roddenberrypod.bsky.social · 11mo agoStop everything you’re doing and listen to our brand new interview with the literal icon @georgetakei.bsky.social @larrynemecek.bsky.social sat down with George to discuss his first day on set of Star Trek for #StarTrekDay… you don’t want to miss this one, folks. Listen here: pod.fo/e/327506
“Iran will have a nuclear weapon in three to five years (1992) Iran was probably only one or two years away (2009) Iran is 70 percent of the way there (2012)” From statements made since 1992 by Benjamin Netanyahu.
Nuclear Reactions, by Harper’s Magazine
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I’m going to say this again: there is a wide variety of opinion on this website, much of it very annoying. There’s just no tolerance for “opinions” like “Jews control the weather” and “vaccines are causing heart disease” and “there’s actually a lot of evidence that whites are smarter than blacks.”
Arron Automata@arrontk.bsky.social · last yr.Apparently it’s weird when you don’t want to spend your whole day arguing with randoms.
Just started playing a roguelite called Vellum and I’m hooked. If you like the character-building aspect of games, this is for you.
I feel like this item from the “Life Hacks Calendar” doesn’t need the exclamation point.
Bluesky needs a sticky post at the top with the original skeet/source/whatever of the thing is you are all clowning on today. Most days I can’t keep up.