Ben Davis

This was even a plot point in an episode of Batman: The Animated Series!

That scent is for a very niche audience!

"If he needs a million acres to make him feel rich, seems to me he needs it 'cause he feels awful poor inside hisself, and if he's poor in hisself, there ain't no million acres gonna make him feel rich." John Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath

"If he needs a million acres to make him feel rich, seems to me he needs it 'cause he feels awful poor inside hisself, and if he's poor in hisself, there ain't no million acres gonna make him feel rich."
John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath

Dang. The gruff but ultimately kindly old swordsman who agreed to train me only after learning of my true parentage was killed during the very quest on which he was reluctant to bring me. At least I got his sick old sword

Crockett: Listen, Donald Trump is a piece of shit—we know that. But in a functioning democracy, he still wouldn’t be able to get away with this. He’s been able to get away with it because Republicans are complicit and—most importantly—the Supreme Court is complicit.

[quoting a tweet by fractalcounty that reads, “today I learned that there are actual people irl who get genuinely upset if they catch you using chatgpt. like they view it as a serious moral failing in certain circles”]

If you're using AI to write essays, eulogies, a text to your wife, I do think less of you as a person. Ceding your mental and creative abilities to a machine is an embarrassing thing and people should be ashamed to admit doing it in public.

Quick's the word and sharp's the action!

“If you want to save the world then the first step is to stop destroying it. In other words: don’t be a dick. Don’t work for big tech, arms manufacturers or the fossil fuel industry. Don’t accept relationships based on domination and share power whenever you can."
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Perfect!

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@joanmcguire.bsky.social You've seen this brilliantness, right?

Also and forever: Nandor De Laurentiis, neighborhood resident

but in the end truth will out.

I agree and no context is needed, but I'm curious what prompted this particular exclamation!

Are you doing the WNY Hiking Challenge?

Let the wild rumpus start!

Quick’s the word and sharp’s the action!

Throw away those lamentations,
We both know them all too well.
If there's a book of Jubilations
We'll have to write it for ourselves.

Ten writers of whom I’ve read five-plus books:
Agatha Christie
Emily St. John Mandel
Richard Russo
Stewart O’Nan
George Saunders
Philip Pullman
She-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named
Anthony Horowitz
Louise Penny
Michael Crichton

there was a brief moment in human history where it seemed like beatboxing was going to become a necessary skill

I called every McDonald’s in the greater Rochester area in 1987 until I found the elusive Miss Piggy toy, and then my mom loaded us in the car to get some dang happy meals™️.

Totally agree. I love his thoughtfulness. That statement is the whole idea of his song “Butchered Tongue,” too.

I still remember the artist who opened for Dave Matthews in 1995 said, “Yeah, Can-ON-da-GA!”

I saved Latin! What did you ever do?!

‘Thank you for your attention to this matterurghhh’

Do you know the actor’s name?

Same, same

Soylent Green is people.

Silence of the Lambs & Scott Pilgrim??