"there's a new serif in town"
10.12.2025 01:06 — 👍 12603 🔁 2199 💬 909 📌 218@merpwashere.bsky.social
Former tracker/kerner. Second career as recently minted JD. We’ll see.
"there's a new serif in town"
10.12.2025 01:06 — 👍 12603 🔁 2199 💬 909 📌 218Name your fav Tom Hanks film.
09.12.2025 01:54 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1“This is a chess clock in a stranger’s living room telling you your parents are getting divorced.”
08.12.2025 20:25 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0no idea
08.12.2025 08:43 — 👍 15994 🔁 4625 💬 104 📌 60It’s not your job, but I feel like in this information environment, we have to be prepared to explain what a “marginal” tax rate is
08.12.2025 03:56 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Today I watched the Kolchak: The Night Stalker episode about robots trying to be human, and the company at the center of it all was the Tyrell Corporation, so what I am saying is vampires, luxury cruise werewolves, and Spanish Moss sewer creatures apparently also exist in the Blade Runner universe.
08.12.2025 02:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0portrait: an angel with big white wings, holding a gleaming silver shield and sword, halo hovering overhead. (below, the text: sorry, bud). to the right, text: alas, your part has expired, but has gone to adventurer heave. press any key... below, it shows the party characters names and their status: each one dead names: greenbolt, guendolyn, morganna, runeflinger, ironpants, shadow.
the bard's tale III: thief of fate, game over screen, apple II (1988) www.mobygames.com/game/2509/th...
07.12.2025 04:13 — 👍 76 🔁 12 💬 3 📌 0I don't think transgender athletes are the problem facing girls and women in sports.
06.12.2025 16:46 — 👍 1058 🔁 300 💬 18 📌 2Live your life in such a way that, if you were ever wrongly accused of murder, Benoit Blanc would help you solve the crime.
03.12.2025 04:41 — 👍 146 🔁 27 💬 1 📌 1If you see this, repost with your model of positive masculinity.
06.12.2025 01:39 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0“This administration continues to challenge traditional notions of what it means to be ‘axiomatic’”
05.12.2025 23:13 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
05.12.2025 13:35 — 👍 22397 🔁 6679 💬 645 📌 411Disappointed with Pantone’s 2025 Colors Of The Year.
05.12.2025 11:57 — 👍 16 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0I give it six months before he’s donning a military uniform and giving four-hour speeches from balconies.
05.12.2025 04:17 — 👍 1366 🔁 365 💬 82 📌 26Forget it, Coach - it’s Calvinball
05.12.2025 00:17 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I believe the phrase Jobs used was “they’ll have to *architect* cities around it” at which point my ears bled and my field of vision went black
Related: remember when Inside dot com spent a gajillion dollars on their domain name?
I distinctly remember during its launch, some interview with Steve Jons forcing me to encounter the word “architect” used as a transitive verb.
03.12.2025 22:30 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0If you ever wondered what GOP gerrymandering looks like in red states with blue cities, I present:
02.12.2025 20:49 — 👍 5830 🔁 2195 💬 86 📌 137I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.
02.12.2025 10:58 — 👍 10924 🔁 3208 💬 211 📌 258parks Y @parkersity_9 Without naming your job, tell me something you say 20 times per day at work
“That sounds illegal”
01.12.2025 18:24 — 👍 4640 🔁 623 💬 239 📌 366It has “Christmas In Hollis” and “Let It Snow.” It has Christmas packing tape and a Christmas tree at a Christmas party. It has a Santa suit and “HO-HO-HO.” It happens at Christmas and involves a visit for Christmas. This is not a hard question.
02.12.2025 10:10 — 👍 338 🔁 46 💬 21 📌 15I was just in London, where the whole city has already gone inescapably full Xmas, and this film was being aired in multiple channels. It is a Xmas movie.
02.12.2025 11:28 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 01) Coal
2) Oil
3) Steel
4) Quakers
5) Founding Fathers
6) Gettysburg
7) The Main Line
8) Eastern State Penitentiary
9) The Johnstown Flood
10) The Centralia Mine Fire
I think it would also end with a short 2-verse, spare ballad called “hey, hawn, you need sohm wutter?”
01.12.2025 23:07 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0when there's a holiday sale at Le Creuset but supplies are limited
12.12.2023 21:38 — 👍 383 🔁 68 💬 5 📌 2In case you haven't heard, Nathan Rabin was in a car accident over the weekend. Here's a link if you'd like to help him and his wife with their hospital bills and recovery. gofund.me/544ae75ef
01.12.2025 01:49 — 👍 47 🔁 35 💬 0 📌 4My wife just said Johnny Depp dresses like a coat rack in the back of a local theater that's doing productions of Seven Brides and Pirates of Penzance simultaneously
01.12.2025 01:58 — 👍 1025 🔁 92 💬 24 📌 5