Shrub Dryad
@shrubdryad.bsky.social
Enthusiast, writer/artist/musician, mom, occasional YouTuber and streamer. she/her Wellbeing for all! https://www.youtube.com/ShrubDryad
The 10,000 hours thing is for expertise! You can become proficient enough to enjoy yourself in like 20 hours!
Gretchen McCulloch@gretchenmcculloch.com · 6h agoOne of the great joys of my adult life has been realizing that I can just pick up a new skill every so often, take a fun little class in it weekly for a year or two, and simply enjoy meeting people and getting medium proficient and not attempting to become professional in it at all!
sometimes there is absolutely nothing more fun than understanding works of art through people's varied professional perspectives
Deidre Lynch@drbibliomane.bsky.social · yesterdayYou can/should read Emily Wilson's latest take on the Odyssey, but I'm logging on to convey my hairdresser's reaction. She was AGHAST that Nolan, with his million $ budget, gave Matt Damon ONLY 6 hair extensions. As a result, his hair did not blow around properly, & that ruined the film for her.
The Wake Up Dead Man video was so good. Mikey was My First Video Essayist, lo these many years ago, and he still always says things I haven't considered that make me like movies more than I already did.
mikey neumann@mikeyface.bsky.social · yesterdayI'm disabled and I somehow edit all of my videos and write all of my scripts without generative AI. Support artists that make stuff! We are youtube.com/filmjoy
I don't even know what to say. This is real, this is true, so, like, thank you all, from the bottom of my heart. This took over 25 years to happen so if there's any lesson here it's either "keep at it, who knows" or "many people are divorced"
Dracula, seeing a man seemingly dead:
Anthony Oliveira@meakoopa.bsky.social · 3d agoI am going through Bram Stoker’s earliest notes on DRACULA today - they include a list of the powers and features of the Count (then named “Wampyr” before Stoker stumbled on “Dracula”), many of which are never elucidated in the book…
airbnb I’m staying at unintentionally created the toughest punk album cover of 2027
🎉 IT'S LIVE 🎉 The game industry hardship fund itch bundle made in partnership with @necrosoftgames.com is HERE. Over 100 games for $10+ bucks: all funds (save for itch fees) go directly to the UVW-CWA Game Worker Hardship Fund. GOOD GAMES FOR A GOOD CAUSE👇 itch.io/b/3802/game-...
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Periodic reminder that it is not safe to post any part of your birth date online. BUT, I did this privately with friends and it was fun.
Merriam-Webster@merriam-webster.com · 5d agoFind the 5 words from your birth year that perfectly describe YOUR vibe ⬇️ www.merriam-webster.com/time-traveler/
Shout out to @barnesandnoble.com for charging $2 less for the signed edition of Hollywood, Ending than the unsigned edition, thereby making my signature worth negative two dollars. www.barnesandnoble.com/w/hollywood-...
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Over on Tumblr, @lucylehane.bsky.social set some posts from the thread to gifs of the 2005 movie, and I’m HOWLING 🤣 www.tumblr.com/lucylehane/8...
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💬 0 🔁 4 ❤️ 9 · Trung Le Nguyen (@trungles.com) · Trung Le Nguyen's epic Pride & Prejudice thread was so magnificent I had to gif it. For your convenience, the Pride and Prejudice live-posting su…
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As a society, we don’t talk enough about how Wishbone’s adaption of Dr. Faustus portrays the faustian bargain as having no downside.
It’s a lot of fun to be an absolute bastard of an enchanted sword as the GM.
Tango, the Wild Dream@tango.rebelsheart.net · last wk."I promise you the reasons that I don't want to tell you everything isn't because I'm a jerk, but because I'd have to use really big words." Snickersnack has a low opinion of the party. #dnd
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I’m signing editions of Pride and Prejudice at comic con now 🤣
This is a wonderful interview of @tkingfisher.com from Celcius 232 covering a wide array of topics, but the sign-off bit is perfect Ursula. 👨🍳👌 www.gamereactor.eu/if-t-kingfis...
I've met several linguistics students who've gotten into linguistics because of Arrival (and even more from Lord of the Rings, but give it time!)
Dr Lindsey Fitzharris@drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 2w agoSome academics turn up their noses at movie adaptations or popular history books, but I call them "gateway drugs" into deeper scholarship. How many of us fell in love with history because a movie (or book) sparked our curiosity first? For me, it was Amadeus - it sent me down an 18thC rabbit hole.
It's deeply satisfying that the graffiti in the bathroom of this Toronto bookstore is filled with book recommendations
There’s a reason Musk showed up at AfD events. He’s not just talking to Americans, he’s doing PR for all of Europe’s far right. All the people who said he was stupid for buying twitter had no fucking idea how anything works & shouldn’t be listened to. You can’t put a price on fascism succeeding.
It’s not even code. It’s policy. It’s policy written down in manifestos such as the AfD’s. Manifestos that people can vote for in the next election. Manifestos which almost 1/3 of Germans say they will happily vote for. They really mean all immigrants too. “Ausländer raus!” is what they chant.
Michael Feola@feolski.bsky.social · 2w agoThe world’s richest man, at it again. Reminder: “remigration” is far right code for the forced expulsion of ethnic “undesirables” in order to “purify” the nation.
Things will get worse as more students secretly use AI to do homework. There has always been a divide between those who care about education for its own sake and those who only care about grades, but AI will worsen this divide, leaving fewer people with the ability to do causal reasoning.
The Volatile Mermaid@ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 2w agoI’m sorry what
