erica ricardo

lol i'm going to start calling you "junior" i'm going to start slying remarking to you, "i thought the same thing when i was your age"

check w your alder! ward offices are stocking them!

different topic: a while back when singing "Baa Baa Black Sheep" it hit me:

the little boy who lives down the lane is the illegitimate child of the master. or possibly the dame.

thus singing the song is a way to safely gossip.

TELL ME I'M WRONG
you will find: you cannot

a game i sometimes play is the "make it make sense game" where i identify or imagine a reason that reveals a human (even if hideous) explanation

re: the vile unqualified editor-in-chief everyone is talking about, it cannot be overstated how Being a Good Fundraiser can rocket you to the top

Chicago finally looks like everyone's parents imagine it: gangs of violent young men with guns roaming the streets, literally looking for trouble.

Still image of Chancellor Palpatine from Star Wars episode III, as he sits smiling like a messy bitch pretending to be captured and watches his potential padawan attack his current padawan

The messiest bitch you know is a man

Poster for GENIUS NIGHT! Monday Sept 29, Cafe Mustache, 7pm. Hosted by Tom Harrison, feat. Devon Price, Josh Watkins, Mike Migdall, Tom McHenry, Sara McHenry, erica dreisbach, with Kevin Johnson's new quiz

FOLKS: it is two mere weeks until GENIUS NIGHT bursts onto the scene and redefines the live comedy world (current definition: "A world of shows of which Genius Night is not one").

Mark your calendars and get our there to Cafe Mustache on Sept 29 at 7pm!! This lineup is ALL KILLERS!

it's truly no wonder so many men treated metoo like an existential threat bc there are men whose entire public existence relies on people not comparing notes

dread

The poster for the first ever "Genius Night." A Comedy show on Mon Sept 29th at 7pm at Cafe Mustache, hosted by Tom Harrison and featuring Devon Price, Josh Watkins, Mike Migdall, Tom McHenry, Sara McHenry, erica dreisbach, and Kevin Johnson

From the ashes of the Skewer rises GENIUS NIGHT: A NIGHT FOR GENIUSES, a live comedy show co-produced by Tom of @animesickos.bsky.social!

If you loved the Skewer you'll love this.

Be there for our first show Monday Sept 29th, 7pm at Cafe Mustache in Chicago! Check out that lineup!! Jesus christ!

everything is getting much worse but i am at the gym and two bros are talking about numerology and their feelings while lifting kettlebells and some things, unambiguously, are getting better

all these "Barrett SLAMS Jackson!!" pieces ... ... KBJ wasn't writing to impress her co-workers, babe. She was writing for me.

Still from Legasov's testimony in the final episode of "Chernobyl" in which Legasov uses red and blue cards to demonstrate the balancing factors stabilizing the nuclear reactor. Overlaid on Legasov is the text "Trump v CASA". Overlaid on the final card being pulled away, representing the water and xenon that are the last remaining elements preventing nuclear explosion, is "judicial check on plainly unlawful executive action."

cc @notalawyer.bsky.social @fleerultra.bsky.social @moiradonegan.bsky.social

supărată

my Romanian uncle-in-law's take is that the Moldovan accent led to the more poetic "dragostea din tei" ("love under the [silver] lime tree") instead of "dragostea de te" ("love of you") and it's taken ~15 yrs but i now understand enough Romanian to know this is Standard Uncle Mild Racism

titrating dissociation

la naiba

a goofy face with even passable timing remains a killer bit

Nicuşor Dan a câştigat elecție de preşedinte în România, el zâmbeşte, şi toata lumea (global) zâmbesc cu el

DAN UŞOR!!!!!

am câștigat <3

My feelings about generative AI:

1) I'm highly skeptical it'll ever work

2) It's distracting from actual use cases for AI

3) We need a pause until it can be done without wrecking the environment or stealing IP

4) If it does have real potential then it shouldn't be controlled by ruthless people

is it really the right move to keep my chin up, be kind and good in my community, stock up on rice and beans? pull out my violin and play music while the ship goes down, exercise volition in what tune to play?

disappearing people

Gang members should not be disappeared to an unaccountable torture prison either.

screenshot of internet news pieces about liberal Susan Crawford's victorious win in the April 1st, 2025 election to the Wisconsin Supreme Court, demonstrating that Elon Musk's efforts including handing out two million dollar checks to Wisconsin voters suck just like Elon Musk fucking sucks

YOU'RE THE APRIL FOOLS MOTHER FUCKERS!!!!!!

lol lol the Cal-Rec

lol

lmao

yeah i just recalled every cybertruck

i recalled that they all look like shit

also the kid's been taking piano lessons and /sings/ on top of his top line like Glenn Gould, Thelonious Monk

a bright note is that i've been applying my 2nd City(TM) skills to anticipate and speak the kid's words /as/ he says them, which DELIGHTS, and then he slows his speech just a half-beat to make it easier for me, a natural partner, marvelous

is "webmaster" a job that still exists?

i want to be a webmaster