It was surprise and delight— surprise because in my brain you lived several times zones to the west, and delight because unlike most of the cool gardens I see on Bluesky, Longwood Gardens is a place I could actually visit sometime.

"we married into a marathon family" -- validating my old motto from my single life, which was: Friends don't let friends date triathletes.

Longwood Gardens in PA?????

A haunted old man that has lived a life of depravity and debauchery, fearing the Grim Reaper and losing his decaying mind, plots to build a giant gaudy mausoleum. He lives in a world of GPU phantasms, produced by foreigners pretending to be Americans for chump change and his scheming advisors

I have two kids a little younger than Joy and one of them is *so much like me* and suffers so much because of it. I just think of all the things we do for and to our children, how sometimes it's right to follow them down and sometimes it's right to let them go... and I'm a goner.

Hemsworth and Hiddlestrom as Aubrey and Maturin. A British-length prestige series per year for the next 21 years.

not to mention that it’s relying on the ability to distinguish between red AND green!

Yeah, I find this map unintelligible.

I used to struggle with why I didn’t like Rogue One as much as I felt like I should given its truly great moments. Then I listened to the wonderful podcast “Going Rogue”, which did a five-episode deep dive into the making of R1. It illuminated a lot for me podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/g...

if you don't even ask yourself, "ok, before i write this thing, what is the goal of this thing?" then OF COURSE you're prey for the con that you can substitute real human thought with statistically likely words agglomerated into a gross mash-potato-mountain Thing-shape.

when I'm in the discovery phase of a project, I spend a lot of time on business process and goals. In order to get client SMEs to think as tool-agnostically as possible, I've resorted to prefacing questions with "let's imagine all of this is being done by elves running around with Post-It notes."

screenshotting this and the previous post in order to commit them to memory