it’s important to go for a walk and notice the buds on the ends of the tree branches

I think the worst part of the last 10 years was that it was so obviously avoidable to anyone that reads above a 4th grade level.

sorry for harping on this but the problem of “knowing what you want to say but not how to say it” often means you haven’t yet figured out what you want to say. if you turn to an LLM to help organize loose thoughts into prose, you’re outsourcing your cognition to a machine

You can just tell when someones never had a job that made them mop

Nick Offerman shuts down hate over his The Last of Us episode. "When homophobic hate comes my way and says, ‘Why did you have to make it a gay story?’ We say, ‘Because you ask questions like that. It’s not a gay story it’s a love story, you asshole”

pretty disheartening quote considering PROJECT HAIL MARY is a lot like an episode of STAR TREK; it's a first contact story about mutual cooperation, where friendship transcends linguistic and cultural barriers. which yeah, absolutely makes it "political" and about social issues

me recommending pluribus

a character who admits to doing something evil vs a character who admits to wanting to do something evil. guess which one offers second chances and which feels no remorse. very good movie! 4/5

The sky is on fire and the radiation has so torn its way through our insides that we wouldn’t be able to eat even if we had any food. Out of the black smoke stumbles a man with a torn and tattered red hat. Through cracked lips he says, “you don’t get it. He’s playing 4D chess!”

A little more than a year between these two pictures

Seems relevant re: the Vice President

Kurt Vonnegut ending a chapter on a punchline that makes you realize that everything you've been reading for the last 10 minutes was just the setup

was once New Amsterdam.

The promise of the early web was that all the world’s knowledge would be preserved and accessible. In the past several years we’ve seen attempts to destroy every major hub of the knowledge-based internet. The “information super-highway” is a dream that is nearly dead.

"You know, I'm something of a doctor myself."

This movie stars Kristen Stewart, Michelle Williams and fucking Laura Dern and it was so cool that each and every person I heard from who saw this in theaters left only thinking about Lily Gladstone.

I see no lies here

WATCH MORE MOVIES!!! READ MORE BOOKS!!!! LISTEN TO MORE MUSIC!!!! ENJOY MORE ART!!

i'm sorry but y'all would easily fall imperial propaganda if we were living in star wars universe

i need to stop dreaming about people i no longer speak with #whendoesitstop