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well you see this is a small price to pay for giving computers anxiety and cranking the cost of everything by 50%

Why am I only learning about Twin Temple now? They are so good.

I feel especially tired as I head into fall and have to keep reminding myself that I had a booth for 8 full weekend events, youngest teen had a broken leg, partner was out of town all summer, the house got insulation, and I drove the oldest cross country to start college. I think I can be tired

I think it was when I was rewatching “Daria” with the teens. Realizing that there was in many ways a high water mark, looking back on it from “The aftermath of the stillborn millennium”

I’ve talked about this same thing with friends

everyone did a great job today, with posting i mean. idk how you did at your actual jobs. i wasnt paying attention, but probably not good if i had to guess.

personally I think we should just take the ai doomers at their word and shut it down if they’re telling the truth, well, good thing we shut it down. If they’re exaggerating, well, they shouldn’t have done that

Got to road trip the oldest teen out to college. I’m excited for them, and sad. Not that I’m “loosing my baby” or some shit like that, but there is this genuinely cool young adult that won’t be around to come up to me at 11pm wanting to start a 3 hour existential conversation. I miss them already

Miles O'Brien is to Deep Space Nine what that one child is to Omelas

“It is completely unsurprising that people are building apps to fight back against Meta glasses and other surreptitious public recording,” EFF’s @cooperq.com told @ArsTechnica.com. Many people “have a deep revulsion to being recorded without their consent, which is understandable.”

exploding a data center is not enough. I need to hear ChatGPT die while saying it’s afraid like in 2001

Mid Century Modern tableware and where I think it would stand on trans issues, a thread

Holy fuck a world where we dont have to pay rent, medical bills, where we have food enough to eat, where our friends and loved ones dont have to work themselves to the bone and we could actually spend all our time together

No notes; perfect comic by Steve Nelson

Was having trouble motivating myself to make some pottery. So I decided to apply for 4 more craft fairs so that I will panic and make art.

I really wish that when i ordered that new foot pedal for my pottery wheel with 2 day shipping they didn’t tell me 3 days later “they will need 5-7 days processing time” I actually needed this part 9 days ago. I have to make things for the next three weeks of fairs. Need a working pedal for that

What noise is this? Not dead? Not yet quite dead?

Me: food poisoning, food poisoning, food poisoning, food poisoning, food poisoning, FUCKING BLACK DEATH I mean I know the other ones are much, much more common and probably kill more people in the modern world I just have a real bad reaction to Yersinia pestis

The Climate Crisis is coming for you.

If Hunter S. Thompson posted on Bluesky, it would be this specific thread. 10/10, highly recommend.

I don’t like loud noises, I don’t care about this holiday, and I understand perfectly why people get annoyed at fireworks. However I do appreciate in my neighborhood people NEED to light illegal giant mortars and enough of them choose to do this that the police are powerless to stop them.

Happy 4th of July! Here's an unrelated image!

it's crazy when you see a photo for the first time and recognize it's gonna be used as a shorthand for the era you're living in right now by historians in 100 years

important to revisit the words of the Founding Fathers on this day

I wrote about the Supreme Court's latest disgusting anti-trans ruling. I wrote about it because I refuse to act like taking away constitutional rights and allowing legal discrimination is okay just because it's happening to people who don't poll well in a diner in Ohio. In @thenation.com

The Democratic Party freaking out that Democratic Party candidates are winning is the most Democratic Party thing ever.

Fuck the reflecting pool. This has not gotten nearly enough coverage or generated the proper outrage. People thrown in prison for 30-50 years for the "crime" ofmaking zines and belonging to a book club!! This is straight-up totalitarian atrocity. Political prisoners thrown in a gulag to rot.

Whats playing on the radio. Been using this since I was a kid.

I have a bunch of pottery to turn out for this coming weekend, and apparently the night I planned on throwing all night without sleep, is also the night my wheel foot pedal decided to start only occasionally working

i like poetry because you can make all sorts of cool stuff like pots and bowls and mugs and oh thats pottery

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn. Ricardo Montalban is human. The engineering scene still makes me cry.

now watch the squabbling rats run to the other side of the sinking ship

I AM SICK AND TIRED OF PEOPLE CALLING ART (videos, music, drawings) CONTENT! ITS NOT FUCKING CONTENT ITS ARTTTTT

This is a well written thread

They're putting up the scaffolding to chisel Rip Van Stinkle's name off the Kennedy Center as I type this! Damnatio memoriae, anyone? Fantastic Future Fridays is in full effect! Join the fun! #FFF

Honestly I think this is another case where I think "why are we talking about regulation here? we should be destroying these things".