This is a gimmick account I wish had kept up the bit. There was something important to this work.
frasier looking at video games@frasierlooking.bsky.social · 3y ago
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frasier looking at video games@frasierlooking.bsky.social · 3y ago
trying to find good vegan recipes using modern search engines is abysmal I'm algorithmically sorted into all manner of health food/dietary restriction demographic I do not want them air baked or gluten free, just give me a donut recipe with no eggs
it seems impossible that 10 years in, we're still somehow discussing Trump's hair. And yet.
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(@walkingjalopy) on Twitter: "I hate when dates are just talk about boring work stuff like passwords and guard rotations at the research facility you work at"]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4djfp3b27soxcfkxhirydi6d/bafkreid7zlwynan5w2hdknqe3i2wpogkpbcaxgknbea7f2p5gs4sfslzlm)
This is the racism equivalent of using the wrong pronouns for trans people who are horrible people. Just don’t.
Noah Berlatsky@nberlat.bsky.social · 12h agoyou shouldn't use racist slurs against clarence thomas either. or candace owens. or anyone.
the usa is the thanksgiving uncle who won’t eat tofu cause “it sounds like more feminist bullshit”
I love re-upping this: for decades the main library at UCLA had the generic name University Research Library because the person most responsible for getting it built was an English professor named Hugh G. Dick and the university refused to name it after him.
Katelyn Burns@katelynburns.com · 2d agoTell me a fun fact.
My wife, a prodigious sleep-talker, failed to disclose her affliction when we started dating, which led to the fright of my life the night she sat bolt upright in bed and in a low flat monotone loudly declared that “THIRTEEN BABIES REMAIN UNFATHERED.”
ProPublica spoke to dozens of people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.” We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words. ➡️ This is what they wrote:
When you toss something in the trash and then you remember you just emptied the trash but forgot to put a new trash bag in and you realize you have to reach into the smelly trashcan and pull out the piece of trash just to throw it away again is how I feel anytime I read news about the government.
The Cat Righting Reflex is the official name of the process cats use to automatically correct themselves mid-fall and land on their feet. It develops between 3 - 9 weeks of age, and is responsible for the greatest wikipedia gif of all time.
Katelyn Burns@katelynburns.com · 2d agoTell me a fun fact.
coyote vs acme was pretty decent but by the fourth gratuitous sex scene i was kind of over it
Even piracy benefits the franchise, though I imagine JKR's already gotten a massive lump sum from this. When Game of Thrones was still relevant, Warner Brothers used piracy stats to gauge interest in the series, after which they changed the price of HBO Max to get more paying customers.
The Verge@theverge.com · 4d agoAs a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.
“If history shows anything, it is that there's no better way to justify relations founded on violence, to make such relations seem moral, than by reframing them in the language of debt—above all, because it immediately makes it seem that it's the victim who's doing something wrong.”
It turned out that my friend Steph and I got our first mammograms within a day of each other which makes us.... bosom buddies!!
Amanda Wong@amandawtwong.bsky.social · 4d agoI'm very, very, very grateful for Canada's public healthcare system but man, nobody told me about the number of cancer screening tests that start after 40. (Just got my first mammogram)
If you have a Gmail account, you need to read this. Google's AI now scans your emails and attachments, bank statements, tax files, medical letters, all of it. It turned on by default, and there's a class-action lawsuit over how. Here are 5 moves to shut it off, the switch is hidden in two places:
it's wrong how we all just accepted the world will end soon.
