This ocean sandstone looked pretty cool when I picked it up on the beach, but now that I've got it home it just looks like a cat turd that's been rolled around the litterbox.
After Enlightenment, Chase Clout and Post Through It
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This is only an iteration. Don't get comfortable.
New independent wolf domestication event discovered in Sweden, dating to the Middle Neolithic on Stora Karlsö in the Baltic Sea. The wolves, likely brought to the island by humans, had small body sizes, low genetic diversity, and had a primarily marine diet. 🧪 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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The passage of time is a direct attack on me, the main character of the universe.
I eat meat like a carnivore so I don’t have shit on my ass hole or ass area at all. Nowhere around the ass.
Oh my god the dietician who is telling everyone in the White House to only eat steak and sauerkraut doesn't wipe his ass.
"Today is August 4, 2026," said a second voice from the kitchen ceiling, “in the city of Allendale, California." users.wpi.edu/~zrbutzke/Do...
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FURIOSA (George Miller, 2024) It's funny that I did not like this when I saw it in an IMAX with a raucous crowd. I was feeling hormonal & I was pissed off at everything, including the film. I rewatched it six months later and thought it ruled. Some Sergio Leone shit. ZARDOZ IN THE WASTELAND.
A really good essay.
Luke O'Neil@lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 2d ago"It is an interesting and somewhat macabre parlor game to play at a large gathering of one’s acquaintances: to speculate who in a showdown would go transphobe," @sandyernestallen.bsky.social writes. "By now, I think I know." www.welcometohellworld.com/who-goes-tra...
Every author's got a BookFINALedit1_FINAL2_FINAL3revised_FINAL3revisedv2-_FINALUSETHISONE_FINALUSETHISONEv37_BookFINALFORREALTHISTIME.doc to make their case
Ann Leckie@annleckie.com · 6d agoFor writers worried that they won't be able to "prove" their work isn't Spicy Autocomplete--worry not. You thought about every choice and will be able to talk about those choices easily and clearly. Folks who used the slop machine didn't make choices and won't have anything to say about why
Well, it’s invoicing day, and since they’re really apparently not going to pay me for something I wrote for them two months ago, I guess today is the day to post about how @vulture.com fucks over its film freelancers. Long (sorry) thread, with receipts:
Vulture@vulture.com · 2mo agoThere are 118 feature films, plus galas, talks, podcast recordings, and more at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival. Our guide to the movies and events worth lining up for.
Emily Wilson's piece about Nolan's movie didn't sit right with me, so I wrote about it. FWIW, JCO recently wrote, "One would expect a translator, of all people, beholden to a text, in service to a text, to be just a wee bit more thoughtful and respectful of others who are acting in good faith..."
The World Does Not Need A 7-Hour Odyssey - The Stranger
It isn’t often that a movie review in a literary journal like the London Review of Books goes viral—let alone a 4,234-word movie review—but that’s what happened this week when the LRB published transl...
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i think that telepaths being bald comes from pre-xmen science fiction Once I had a comic book that reprinted a pre-xmen short story with a proto-mutant who was very much like Charles Xavier (and bald) It’s an easy symbol: brain so powerful that it pushed out all the person’s hair follicles
Glen Hansard .. kinda gross!
The GenZ mind cannot comprehend the I Dream of Jeannie/Bewitched Power Hour. An entire ½hr of Veteran & Submissive Magic Wife Who Leaves When Your Friends Show Up followed by Salaryman & Mischievous Magic Wife Whose Mother Never Leaves These were The Two Lifestyles. And we used to masturbate to it
Sometimes, you know, I'll watch something and think "Man, imagine if they got actors to do this."
Karen Berger in DC Comics' offices during her tenure in charge of Vertigo.
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Did you make that Ribena ad like I asked? Sure did boss, real Dr Manhattan, just like you wanted.
We went to a microbrewery today and it was, like, a *church* megabrewery. The beers were all named for Bible stuff and the owner is a pastor and they have religious events there. This is a thing capitalism can give us. It cannot give us health care
Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, or Alice in Chains
captain bleach@blainecapatch.bsky.social · last wk.Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, or Alice in Chains
Lost my job a few weeks ago so now I'm just waiting for James Remar ro rise up out of the blackened sand and tell me which way to go.
Homer called it a "wine-dark sea" because Cool Blue was the most popular flavor of wine back in those days. lost to history now, I'm afraid. climate change and all.
When my wife did chemo and radiation, she would go outside once or twice a day and shed the hair as it all fell out. Today, seven months later, we just found a nest a bird (likely a wren) made out of her hair.
En route to The Odyssey, or, Dad Star Wars.
