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For too long we've lorded over by the Reading Elite who read more books than the bottom half of the population!
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December 31, 2025 at 4:23 PM
For too long we've lorded over by the Reading Elite who read more books than the bottom half of the population!
Just saw an IG ad of some guy running for "Senate". The ad didn't say what state so I had to look up his name. It's Colorado, where I do not live.
Gotta love the multi trillion dollar targeted advertising industry!
Gotta love the multi trillion dollar targeted advertising industry!
December 31, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Just saw an IG ad of some guy running for "Senate". The ad didn't say what state so I had to look up his name. It's Colorado, where I do not live.
Gotta love the multi trillion dollar targeted advertising industry!
Gotta love the multi trillion dollar targeted advertising industry!
Reading "The Ladies Auxiliary" because it was set in Memphis.
It's kind of impressive how this almost passes a reverse Bechdel test. Only one male character of any importance and he never talks to another man. I started to notice this when the Rabbi was weirdly silent in every scene he's in.
It's kind of impressive how this almost passes a reverse Bechdel test. Only one male character of any importance and he never talks to another man. I started to notice this when the Rabbi was weirdly silent in every scene he's in.
December 31, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Reading "The Ladies Auxiliary" because it was set in Memphis.
It's kind of impressive how this almost passes a reverse Bechdel test. Only one male character of any importance and he never talks to another man. I started to notice this when the Rabbi was weirdly silent in every scene he's in.
It's kind of impressive how this almost passes a reverse Bechdel test. Only one male character of any importance and he never talks to another man. I started to notice this when the Rabbi was weirdly silent in every scene he's in.
Trying to catch up on reading Victor Pelevin. It's baffling to me that a man considered the best Russian writer of his generation, who's works have twice been adapted to film, has something like half his catalogue untranslated into English. Empire V has a translation but not the sequel?????
December 30, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Trying to catch up on reading Victor Pelevin. It's baffling to me that a man considered the best Russian writer of his generation, who's works have twice been adapted to film, has something like half his catalogue untranslated into English. Empire V has a translation but not the sequel?????
Watching the office at the pub. I never thought about this because I watched the show in high school, but why does a business with ten employees that's not public facing even have a receptionist? What does Pam do all day?
December 30, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Watching the office at the pub. I never thought about this because I watched the show in high school, but why does a business with ten employees that's not public facing even have a receptionist? What does Pam do all day?
"Kirk's tragic death made me realize that I too frequently hold public appearances outdoors in places with lots of nearby rooftops"
doesn't have the appetite for vengeance anymore, except you know maybe against those slimy dirty hook-nosed Christ-killers running the space lasers
December 29, 2025 at 2:41 PM
"Kirk's tragic death made me realize that I too frequently hold public appearances outdoors in places with lots of nearby rooftops"
Noticing a strange error (?) at the library where an anthology collection titled "Best Sci-fi of [Year]" gets put in the B section for "Best".
Shouldn't it go under the editor's name?
Shouldn't it go under the editor's name?
December 28, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Noticing a strange error (?) at the library where an anthology collection titled "Best Sci-fi of [Year]" gets put in the B section for "Best".
Shouldn't it go under the editor's name?
Shouldn't it go under the editor's name?
Big shoutout to the lady in a very elaborate and colorful Mother Goose costume I saw walking alongside a busy road with no sidewalk outside of a day care.
December 28, 2025 at 5:25 AM
Big shoutout to the lady in a very elaborate and colorful Mother Goose costume I saw walking alongside a busy road with no sidewalk outside of a day care.
Decided to hubristically ignore global warming today and went for a 20 mile bike ride in full length black jeans in 75F sunny weather.
I lived, now to enjoy a refreshing 9% abv IPA
I lived, now to enjoy a refreshing 9% abv IPA
December 27, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Decided to hubristically ignore global warming today and went for a 20 mile bike ride in full length black jeans in 75F sunny weather.
I lived, now to enjoy a refreshing 9% abv IPA
I lived, now to enjoy a refreshing 9% abv IPA
I found out my nickname at my old job was The Magician and I have no idea if that was supposed to be an insult.
What's an insult you'll never forget?
December 26, 2025 at 3:54 PM
I found out my nickname at my old job was The Magician and I have no idea if that was supposed to be an insult.
Finally getting around to watching One Battle etc.
Hey whatdya know, it's a Christmas movie!
Hey whatdya know, it's a Christmas movie!
December 26, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Finally getting around to watching One Battle etc.
Hey whatdya know, it's a Christmas movie!
Hey whatdya know, it's a Christmas movie!
The pub was playing the NFL Netflix game.
The Snoop Dogg halftime show was the most "Gremlins II pitch meeting" thing I'd ever seen. Sure, just have a K-pop trio in there, why the hell not?
The Snoop Dogg halftime show was the most "Gremlins II pitch meeting" thing I'd ever seen. Sure, just have a K-pop trio in there, why the hell not?
December 26, 2025 at 12:29 AM
The pub was playing the NFL Netflix game.
The Snoop Dogg halftime show was the most "Gremlins II pitch meeting" thing I'd ever seen. Sure, just have a K-pop trio in there, why the hell not?
The Snoop Dogg halftime show was the most "Gremlins II pitch meeting" thing I'd ever seen. Sure, just have a K-pop trio in there, why the hell not?
Spending Christmas with the people he loves the most (hospital staff)
Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's family says he's underwent double hernia surgery at a hospital in the country's capital.
Brazilian ex-President Jair Bolsonaro undergoes double hernia surgery
Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's family says he's underwent double hernia surgery at a hospital in the country's capital.
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December 25, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Spending Christmas with the people he loves the most (hospital staff)
Setting aside my beef with the Illumination Studios style of animation, I dislike the 2018 Grinch for having Act 1 be about the Grinch going into Whoville to buy things implying he routinely interacts with them. He's an outsider! He exists outside their social bond!
December 25, 2025 at 6:11 AM
Setting aside my beef with the Illumination Studios style of animation, I dislike the 2018 Grinch for having Act 1 be about the Grinch going into Whoville to buy things implying he routinely interacts with them. He's an outsider! He exists outside their social bond!
"Man, I wished I lived in the Golden Age of American labor in the 60's when everyone had a job at a factory and owned a house"
Neat, lets check a primary source to see what working class folk at the time thought about their situation!
Neat, lets check a primary source to see what working class folk at the time thought about their situation!
December 25, 2025 at 4:59 AM
"Man, I wished I lived in the Golden Age of American labor in the 60's when everyone had a job at a factory and owned a house"
Neat, lets check a primary source to see what working class folk at the time thought about their situation!
Neat, lets check a primary source to see what working class folk at the time thought about their situation!
Reading "Very Important People" by Ashley Mears.
Now it would be a temporary solution, but I think it would be a great benefit to society if every named man in this book had their eyes gouged out and was sent to a work camp.
Now it would be a temporary solution, but I think it would be a great benefit to society if every named man in this book had their eyes gouged out and was sent to a work camp.
December 25, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Reading "Very Important People" by Ashley Mears.
Now it would be a temporary solution, but I think it would be a great benefit to society if every named man in this book had their eyes gouged out and was sent to a work camp.
Now it would be a temporary solution, but I think it would be a great benefit to society if every named man in this book had their eyes gouged out and was sent to a work camp.
I have just learned a right wing UK Gen Z guy is my exact duplicate and I am incandescent with rage about this.
December 24, 2025 at 11:09 PM
I have just learned a right wing UK Gen Z guy is my exact duplicate and I am incandescent with rage about this.
His feet are light and nimble. He never sleeps. He says that he will never die. He dances in light and in shadow and he is a great favorite. He never sleeps, Tiny Tim. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die.
Something you can say for Bluesky is that no other website is cranking out Muppet Christmas Carol Tiny Tim jokes like this place
December 24, 2025 at 8:21 PM
His feet are light and nimble. He never sleeps. He says that he will never die. He dances in light and in shadow and he is a great favorite. He never sleeps, Tiny Tim. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die.
I assume whoever made this had good intentions but I'm struggling to think of a book that doesn't tick at least one box. "Overcoming a trauma" is 90% of fiction!
The Third Policeman, maybe? Molloy by Beckett?
The Third Policeman, maybe? Molloy by Beckett?
December 24, 2025 at 5:14 PM
I assume whoever made this had good intentions but I'm struggling to think of a book that doesn't tick at least one box. "Overcoming a trauma" is 90% of fiction!
The Third Policeman, maybe? Molloy by Beckett?
The Third Policeman, maybe? Molloy by Beckett?
*At the pub watching Act 3 of Home Alone II on mute
So the Wet Bandits died in the previous movie and now they're in Hell where Kevin torments them, is the most plausible explanation for this movie I can tell.
So the Wet Bandits died in the previous movie and now they're in Hell where Kevin torments them, is the most plausible explanation for this movie I can tell.
December 24, 2025 at 4:57 AM
*At the pub watching Act 3 of Home Alone II on mute
So the Wet Bandits died in the previous movie and now they're in Hell where Kevin torments them, is the most plausible explanation for this movie I can tell.
So the Wet Bandits died in the previous movie and now they're in Hell where Kevin torments them, is the most plausible explanation for this movie I can tell.
Eric Adams once said New York City was the Ankara of America. What went wrong?
New York City Mayor Eric Adams once called himself the "future of the Democratic Party." What went wrong? https://cnn.it/49qt2Tm
NYC Mayor Eric Adams once called himself the ‘future of the Democratic Party.’ What went wrong? | CNN Politics
Four years ago, New York City Mayor Eric Adams swept into office with swaggering confidence, pledging to lead a government unlike any other in history and declaring himself the “future of the Democrat...
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December 23, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Eric Adams once said New York City was the Ankara of America. What went wrong?
Watched Hardcore (1979) last night. By coincidence, it's opening scene is around Christmas.
Also a lot of Star Wars stuff in the background, which I guess makes sense for being filmed in 1978
Also a lot of Star Wars stuff in the background, which I guess makes sense for being filmed in 1978
December 22, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Watched Hardcore (1979) last night. By coincidence, it's opening scene is around Christmas.
Also a lot of Star Wars stuff in the background, which I guess makes sense for being filmed in 1978
Also a lot of Star Wars stuff in the background, which I guess makes sense for being filmed in 1978
Slow day at work so I'm reading an older translation of the Odyssey.
By Jove I forgot how boring the first few books that focus on Telemachus are. Athena, you're a god! Just tell the boy his father is alive! You know this!
By Jove I forgot how boring the first few books that focus on Telemachus are. Athena, you're a god! Just tell the boy his father is alive! You know this!
December 22, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Slow day at work so I'm reading an older translation of the Odyssey.
By Jove I forgot how boring the first few books that focus on Telemachus are. Athena, you're a god! Just tell the boy his father is alive! You know this!
By Jove I forgot how boring the first few books that focus on Telemachus are. Athena, you're a god! Just tell the boy his father is alive! You know this!
You can't bank PTO or vacation at this job unless you've worked here five years so like, 75% of the factory is off work the next two weeks. I was one day short so I'm here today
♫ It's the most liminal time of the year! ♫
♫ It's the most liminal time of the year! ♫
December 22, 2025 at 2:27 PM
You can't bank PTO or vacation at this job unless you've worked here five years so like, 75% of the factory is off work the next two weeks. I was one day short so I'm here today
♫ It's the most liminal time of the year! ♫
♫ It's the most liminal time of the year! ♫
Hey that's not true, I also don't take a lot of popular anime seriously
i don’t think everyone needs to like every film but the way people refuse to even take the avatar series seriously in any capacity feels so performative in a way no other series has ever been treated, very odd to me
December 22, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Hey that's not true, I also don't take a lot of popular anime seriously