The giddy historian thrill of reading a first-hand account which names a now common thing and then immediately defines it

Samuel Pepys@samuelpepys.bsky.social · 4h ago

This evening came a letter about business from Mr. Coventry, and with it a silver pen he promised me to carry inke in, which is very necessary. So to prayers and to bed.

I didn’t anticipate how often life would remind me of Monica’s millionaire boyfriend trying to become a UFC fighter. Wild prescience from the ‘96 Friends writing room

Dan of the Year@downwithdan.bsky.social · 2d ago

He will never understand that being "the fat guy from Superbad" is infinitely better than being "the martial arts chud nobody likes"

Guy who always calls James Cameron “James”: Went to go see James’ Avatar yesterday! Another military contract for AI companies, things are looking more like James’ Terminator 2 all the time 🙁

Kool-Aid Man + Little Caesar = unbeatable cavalry unit, great strength and sprint speed with the frenetic flexibility of cartoons. Naturally they'll defend Jolly Green Giant's feet while I ride on his shoulder. The King will use his stealth-action skills to disrupt the enemy chain-of-command

Discontinued Foods!@discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · 2w ago

Things aren't great, let's have some fun

If you don’t know much about how transphobes operate you’d be surprised how essential “social contagion theory” is to their claims of legitimacy, and what a load of shit it is. Julia Serano’s been debunking transphobic junk science for decades and I hope her video on this reaches a lot of people

Julia Serano@juliaserano.bsky.social · 3w ago

I would *love* for this to become a top search result for trans "social contagion" & "grooming" – please watch it tonight (while it's still newly released) to help convince the YouTube algorithm to make this happen!

I support this congress in particular being the one to make daylight saving time permanent. This is real "Only Nixon could go to China" stuff. Let the Republicans get yelled at for implementing unfailingly noticeable yet wonkish changes to the fabric of nearly the entire county for once

Everything is fucked up and it's good to be hugely angry about the status quo, but if it helps anyone; dead members of congress being replaced by relatives to serve out the remainder of their terms is a well precedented thing history.house.gov/Exhibitions-...

It would be fascinating to experience how news traveled before mass media We have cautionary tales of rumormongering and scapegoating from those times, but I bet it would be impressive to watch accurate information spread, as it must’ve done sometimes

Scott “bell beaker” Cave@hellabarnes.bsky.social · 3w ago

what is the reverse historical dorito? the thing from the past that would blow our minds in a positive way

Lindsay Graham has died after being asked to carry soup into the Jackass offices before being slapped by a giant wall-mounted hand

I didn’t know the Coke Freestyle was Dutch

Best bot on this website and it ain't close

pauline kael bot@paulinekaelbot.bsky.social · 4w ago

HAROLD AND MAUDE (1972) The message is not very different from that of HELLO, DOLLY! or MAME, but Harold's flaccid asexuality (he's like a sickly infant, a limp, earthbound Peter Pan) and Maude's advanced stage of pixiness give that message a special freaky quality.

Attack Ad VO: Tom Loftus thinks it’s ok to waste herbs

rev. howard arson@theophite.bsky.social · 4w ago

oh, man, this is great. finally a Senate candidate without a bunch of skeletons in his closet. hear he did really well with the big storm a couple years back

anton chigurh: heads or tails. you must chose. me: is that a Prince Valiant cut? anton: yeah it used to have more volume me: you want to use something light on it, no silicone-heavy washes and of course... both of us (laughing): blow dry from the roots! me: alright heads anton: it's tails

I once wrote Dante had Beatrice; Orwell had Stalin; for political writers their muses are not the good things. Wrote this in one sitting today.

Pod Save Patriarchy (or Whatever That Sorry Platner Spectacle Was)

For at least a decade we have been told that this and that and the other thing must be tolerated in pursuit of the elusive vote of the working class or the white working class which often means the wh...

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hey so if you hate how Fandom wikis are bloated resource hogs i just learned you can go to "antifandom.com/whatever" and it loads a clean, ad and video-free proxy of the page

Random Access Memory: One day my sister’s husband calls me. Nice guy, when I’m out visiting we talk a bit. I pick up, he wants to know what Jollibee is. He saw an ad for one several towns over, hadn’t heard of it before. Has never called me before or since. Perfect interaction.

A day late for Father's Day posting, but this cover of a Grateful Dead song by Bonnie "Prince" Billy, on a compilation by two of the guys from The National, is a both a great track and a great cross-generational work of Dad Rock

Bird Song

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Seeing a lot of "Why don't legislators make the internet safer for everyone instead of banning kids from it?" and this is why. The people lobbying for these bans don't want any changes how the internet works for them personally, they want to control who gets to use it

Kat Tenbarge@kattenbarge.bsky.social · 2mo ago

A lot of the “kids online safety” proponents actually are anti-LGBTQ extremists and fundamentalists who want kids to have less freedom and don’t care if that actually makes them tremendously less safe too

Here's an easter egg in the new Lego Batman that I think all of you will REALLY appreciate. It's so good, I had to make a video.

Considering renewing my MLB tv subscription solely for Jung Hoo Lee. This is a vile Giants season, but Lee is doing All-Star stuff right now, and he was already fun to watch before

A director I'm watching with interest right now is Damian McCarthy. In an era where making original films is extremely difficult he's made 3 since 2020, including the wonderful Hokum that just came out this year. Gonna thread a few things that stand out to me about how he's working:

The car markers won so hard that there’s only one big work of anti-automobile art I’m aware of, and it’s mostly familiar to the sort of people who have opinions on how studios treated Orson Welles, but it’s great and I’ve been thinking about it a lot recently youtu.be/xOJ8Hdd1Nus

The Automobiles - The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)

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Let’s do a few movie recs for Pride Je Tu Il Elle (Akerman 1974) feels like the kind of experience you might have on the early web: A small intimate window on someone who’s retreated from the world and gone a bit feral alone in her room while she works on something emotionally. And then she leaves

Podcast idea: Just release every episode of Frontline as a podcast We've had all the discussions about how famous PBS voices like Bob Ross and Fred Rogers can serve as audio comfort food but we left Will Lyman out of the discussion

Here is Tom Steyer personally supporting high school trans athlete AB Hernandez. I don't think I've ever seen a candidate as brave as Tom Steyer in his explicit support for trans folks. It says a lot that it took a self funded billionaire not dependent on donors to do it.

I’d use the money to actually build a bunch of conceptual architecture that’s never existed. Anything by Lebbeus Woods, anything from a weird video game. This would make me happy, and there’s a risk it could make others happy, but given the nature of public art it will surely make more people mad

doc@docseuss.bsky.social · 2mo ago

THE 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?

Late night Criterion Channel posting: Finally watching “Jeanne Dielman” and so far my biggest wish is to see the view from her dinning room window. What are those flashing lights? Great way of reminding us of the hustle and bustle of Brussels, even as she moves carefully through everything

Josh Mayfield@bean525.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I'd REALLY appreciate it if anyone who sees this would try out my text generators so I can iron out any remaining bugs. Please, and thank you! trek.epicrandomness.com