Brock (Bv310)

Love a weird angry bird, and it being the Grass-type starter is a big plus for me, a longtime lover of Grass-types.

"Le Grill?! What the hell is that!" enters my mind more than it should

Best Homer scream in the entire series too

6. Identity and belonging Your shows often feel like temporary communities — chaotic but safe, transcendent yet grounded. How do you think about identity and belonging within these spaces, both for the band and your audience? Is creating that collective intensity intentional? Stu: Thank you! Creating a safe and inclusive space for folks to get freaky in is really important to me and the other gizzards and sometimes hard to pull off. We try really hard! Mostly I think it’s about validating and uplifting those folks who exist outside the sphere of “normal”. If you can make your space feel like home for minorities, women, LGBTQI+, folks with disabilities, first nations and more then the others people (like me!) should also feel at home. And I guess if cis white men don’t feel at home in a space like that it might be for the best that they stay at home and don’t crash the party ha ha

4. Amplification as creative force Beyond politics, I often think of amplification as world-building — shaping space, emotion, and shared experience. How do you approach it as part of your creative philosophy? Does it carry ritualistic or ecological significance? Stu: think I’ve been doing this crazy shit for so long I don’t think of it like that too often. I tend to just “do” it, you know? I try hard to be honest, open-hearted and generous and hope that the rest follows from there. In saying that, its pretty exciting to see a stage come together and in that sense it certainly feels like world-building. Like I was saying earlier - parallel universes…

Interview by Şebnem Altunkaya with Stu Mackenzie Şebnem Altunkaya is a Turkish PhD researcher with The Amplification Project at the University of Huddersfield (UK), funded by the Leverhulme Trust. Her work on Anatolian Psychedelic Rock explores the politics of amplification and the global revival of microtonal and psychedelic folk traditions — tracing how sound technologies and tuning systems become sites of resistance, belonging, and cultural memory

Why l do I love King Gizzard so much?
Aside from the fact that they make good music, they do things like put interviews like this in their newsletters.

it sucks how mamdani is probably going to have to not laugh at this

Thanks for linking this out, my grade 11 students are going to hate me tomorrow because we are 100% using this 😅

How far back in time can you understand English? An experiment in language change

This is incredibly cool, a story told in English where every paragraph steps back in time to an older form of English. I am super proud I got to 1000 before it was entirely incomprehensible
www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-ba...

photograph from the 80's of the wrestler Sting wearing a Gold's Gym shirt and sunglasses, leaning against a shelf in a bookstore and positively cheesing at an open copy of The Far Side Gallery 2, a collection of Far Side Cartoons.

what if i told you, through the power of forensic analysis, we are closer than ever to knowing the exact Far Side cartoon that is making Sting smile in this iconic photo. 🧵 👇

Buster Keaton and Rosalind Byrne in Seven Chances (1925)

forgot the most important of the genre

Found an additional graphic that gets even more of these quotes together.

I've kept "I hate myself, I hate clover, and I hate bees" pinned above my desk since I first started studying evolutionary biology as an undergraduate. So relatable to get extremely frustrated with your study system.

We're really missing out on doing Mighty Ducks: The Next Generation (though they did do that Disney Plus series a few years ago that was fun)

I have to admit, I wasn't super familiar with Bad Bunny before, and now I feel like I've discovered a whole new thing

Two screenshots from Pokémon Red: Diary: Feb. 6 MEW gave birth. We named the newborn MEWTWO.

Happy birthday to the GOAT

I will be deep in the cold wet mud before I put even one non-thematically-appropriate tutor in a Commander deck. I want my decks to sneak up on me in the middle of a game and yell SURPRISE WE'RE ACTUALLY ON ____ NOW BAYBEEEEE

Oh, and Jet Lag.

That, Taskmaster, and the one Youtube channel that's just Parts Unknown episodes on a loop are my "time to actually do stuff" videos.

Hell yeah, Defunctland is a great "Wait how did I just lose four hours" channel

Yeah this is a doozy. Bad timing though, the fullish Moon will wash out any aurora after it rises. If the effects don't get here for a few days it'll be easier to see after sunset. We'll see.

YouTube video by The Second City SCTV - Lola's Love Spirit

Catherine O’Hara SCTV thread

youtu.be/990OaFr8EYw?...

Well, damn. Been a big fan ever since SCTV, and reignited in Schitt's Creek. She made the world a much funnier place.

The "Large boulder the size of a small boulder" meme. The Facebook post is from 27th January 2020

Today is "Large boulder the size of a small boulder" day!

Ahman is an Akita Inu hero dog with a big face. An unofficial mascot of Akita Prefecture, his motto is "hot heart, calm head, loose body". He hits himself in the head with a plastic mallet.

Screenshot: serialephemera Thematically speaking, the most important thing Terry Pratchett taught me was the concept of militant decency. The idea that you can look at the world and its flaws and its injustices and its cruelties and get deeply, intensely angry, and that you can turn that into energy for doing the right thing and making the world a better place. He taught me that the anger itself is not the part! should be fighting. Nobody in my life ever said that before.

This is a good lesson, no matter how you come to learn it

Famous Poems Rewritten as Limericks The Raven There once was a girl named Lenore And a bird and a bust and a door And a guy with depression And a whole lot of questions And the bird always says "Nevermore."

Best TikTok thing going is the two dudes trying food from every country without leaving NYC. If you haven’t seen them yet, it’s incredible. My favorite so far is last week’s. Legit got me emotional.

Tired I am so tired of waiting, Aren't you, For the world to become good And beautiful and kind? Let us take a knife And cut the world in two - And see what worms are eating At the rind. Langston Hughes

It's real good.