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Pride is one of the seven deadly sins, so I'll just say I'm quietly impressed by the guitar body and guitar stand my son recently finished making. Not even out of high school yet.

I follow @boschbot.bsky.social & I've realized that it mirrors my bsky experience in general: zoomed in closeups of weirdos/oddities stripped from context that make me chuckle or wonder wtf while generally admiring the artistry involved.

lower branches of the backyard maple trees are a soft salmon colour because of the shade, but they also catch some of the falling leaves from upper branches that get full sun, punctuating the salmon w occasional bright red dots

when holding Elon accountable, why not move fast and break things?

the first guy to wear armour was probably called a cheater

Not sure what vibe coding is, but think my SO might be doing it: - quickly responds w plausible sounding stuff that falls apart upon further consideration - corrects one inconsistency in a way that introduces three more inconsistencies - maintains a positive tone as I slowly go berserk

contractor calling your house the Tower of Pisa as he places a lien on it.

Okay, so Nathan Fielder with Musk for however many weeks before he goes to jail next?

wow Zacharia outmooched the Mooch

So Odin gave one eye for wisdom and foresight, but surely he lost some perspective

ruin a book by adding a word How To Kill a Mockingbird

The Pope rejects the death penalty (apart from the whole Jesus thing)

In the waiting room at the hospital the other day, a volunteer at the "pre-reception" desk kept pulling down her N95 mask to cough. She caught me watching her coughing once & said with an apologetic smile "I think this place is making me sick"

A grade 4 classmate once wrapped a can of dog food for our teacher for Christmas & got him to promise in front of the class to eat it but during recess the teacher had swapped it out for a tin of pie filling and when he unwrapped it the kid burst into tears & screamed that the teacher was a cheater

me: Instead of elect a clown expect a circus, how about elect a clown, expect a big tent? SO: That's completely backwards me: I mean in the pants of the clown supporters SO: Why would it be big? me: Elect a clown, expect many small tents SO: (sigh) Did u feed the cats?

Weird AI: this sounds funny Weird A.I.: this smells funny

Maybe this latest right wing obsession with Greek mythology has something to do with the father of the Gods being a prolific rapist(?)

Surely the draft IPO filing suggests AI is more of an existential threat to OpenAI than the rest of humanity given all the money it's hemorrhaging.

CNN headline: "Republicans are panicking about 2026. Should they be?" Article then goes on to say they have good reason to be panicking. So... Betteridge's Law of Headlines no longer applies(?) Weird, I wonder why....

Idea for a new magazine about popular music/ politics/ pop culture: call it Gun and Rose

pie aren't squared pie are round

Guy caked in orange makeup with a dyed hair transplant, shoulder pads, false teeth and lifts in his shoes has a problem with the word artificial

I never answer our landline phone because every time it rings, our rescue tabby runs over to one of the handsets & waits to hear S.O.'s voice on the answering machine. It is a charming thing to see.

can someone please remake the converse ad but with golden Trump running shoes on the lyncher wearing the Klan robe?

Remember when a NYC fundraiser auctioned off a dinner date with Weiss & Bowles, & Bari allegedly yelled “And you can make out with Nellie!” to encourage bidding? How gross is that? Touching your lips to something Bari Weiss has been kissing... Gross

going to feed our two rescue cats and having them, in their excitement & purring, push their heads against my scoop holding hand & spill kibble everywhere except in their bowls is a fitting metaphor for my life

Aha's song Take On Me is all about hooking up cuz he'll soon be gone, but in the last lyric of the chorus he sings "in a day or twoooooooo" at such a high pitch that you can't really make out the words, which I'm guessing led to some pretty awkward mornings after.

Finally. The higher interest rates everyone voted for

Ed Sheeran A ginger selling someone out for pieces of silver Unheard of

just found out about Paul Rudolph's Niagara Falls Public Library building. Remarkable

What makes the song Dust in the Wind great? 1st verse- pretend to get a rhyme out of eyes/ gone/ dreams & curiosity; 2nd verse- rhyme sea/ see; refrains- straight up rhyme wind/ wind a zillion times. Super meta songwriting approach- like why bother with rhyming cuz we're all going to die anyway

I really admire Peter Sarsgaard as an actor, but his performance in the remake of The Magnificent Seven comes across like he's doing Heath Ledger's Joker(?)

quick question for any landscapers out there: when you're deliberately mowing over a pile of garbage, which gives you more joy?: a) the damage you're doing to the equipment; b) the noise you're making; or c) the mess you leave behind.

(texting) son: plz pick up egg whites S.O.: what for? son: fuel for a prototype car dad and I are building in the basement She got home late w egg whites, asked for more info about the prototype & was furious to find out that the whites were for eating I couldn't stop laughing for about 20 minutes

LOTR spinoff where Merry and Pippin return to the shire, but the adrenaline rush of battle has awoken a bloodlust in them. No longer able to relate to peaceful village life they team up at night to commit horrible crimes.

watching the battle scenes in the LOTR movies and saying "Can you imagine the smell?" every 5 minutes

Our oaf rescue cat Winston has discovered that climbing on guitar amplifiers gets him attention making it his favourite activity, so now I've lost the carefully curated tone of a favourite preset channel due to his chewing on knobs while stepping on buttons until he eventually hit save #Caturday

Make your favorite film sound as boring as possible without giving away the title: Street vendor sets every clock and watch he sees to Paris time.

Our age of the-bronzer-using-guy is collapsing

They say we all have our own coping mechanisms, but I prefer to install coping by hand the old fashioned way

if Charlie Brown did have hoes, that's an awful lot of head

re Space X colonizing the moon or Mars, Columbus proved beyond a reasonable doubt that curiosity driven state sponsored navigation is an inherently bad thing

in high school one of my friends' dads (the guidance counsellor) showed me a pad where he'd written "how can I soar like an eagle when I'm surrounded by tourkeys" & asked if I got the joke & I said yes, it sounds smug but misspells turkeys & he said no, then looked confused, then got red in the face

CNN reporting on the ICE agent who pointed his gun at a Virginia woman who broke no law: "The gun was out for much of the encounter, according to the video footage." Not "as the video footage proves" but "according to" What you see with your own eyes is now just the video footage's opinion.

Is Kalshi taking predictions on how many ICE agents shock themselves in the nuts?

Politico: "Crowley defeats dem socialist Hong in Wisc governor primary: victory is a relief for establishment Dems" (39.8/39.4) on El Sayed: "Progressives didn’t get the big election night they wanted: razor-thin margin will only deepen divisions over the future of the Dem Party." (48.5/47.5)

The wnba should just give courtside seats to every game to Royce White's ex. Given the 50 year restraining order the judge issued against him for physically abusing her and their son, he wouldn't be able to enter the stadium let alone step onto the court.

show idea: "Double Jeopardy" Winning contestants from the Trebek years come on and don't have to answer sh*t cuz they've already been through that. They just tell stories about cooking Thanksgiving for everyone in a toaster oven and whatnot.

I've seen a few obituaries that have said "died suddenly" but never one saying "died instantly" and there are obviously some people who die instantly. Maybe that's because writing "Died instantly at age 44" makes it sound like turning 44 made their head explode.

this white spider has sat in the same location, in the same poise, on this echinacea flower since it opened weeks ago, presumably catching flies that land. As it has increased in size, it must be having some success. Interesting that the stripes on its abdomen match the petal colour. #BloomScrolling

texted s.o. asking her to pick up some pho on her way home, she texted back a thumbs up emoji, but without my reading glasses I mistook it for a middle finger emoji and without questioning it made something else for dinner.