Benny & The Gesserits

Picture of 4 month old grey kitten, passed out with her head tilted back & a little smile

She even sleeps smugly

Two older women outside Safeway

Woman 1: Ok, you take care. And be safe! No speeding. Woman 2: Ha, don't worry, safety is my middle name!
[they part]
Woman 2, under her breath: But my first name...is Speeding.

The Offspring in their prime

A funny thing that everyone missed in the chaos of Covid waves was The Offspring firing their drummer because he was anti-vax and the lead guy is a PhD in Molecular Biology and didn’t have time for that shit and then the drummer ended up joining Tim Pool’s midlife crisis band

Thinking about the time I saw The National in concert. The singer asked "how's everyone doing tonight?" and the guy next to me shouted "I'm getting a divorce"

"why did u post that"

For a sec I was sure this was X Files fan art. It works

I had to cancel a first date tonight with a cute guy from Ireland due to a power outage at the original destination, followed by an unplanned hour long BART delay between there & the Plan B meeting spot.

Cockblocked by our dying empire. In front of company, no less

I also figured out who Vincent Adultman from Bojack Horseman was based on

Watching The Maltese Falcon & B pointed out The Big Lebowski is, beat for beat, a noir. "What if Sam Spade were even more of a loser?"

I kinda loved that the only glimpse we get is some guy saying 'Eh could be worse, blood taxes aren't too high & there's better class mobility than you'd think. My mom saved up her dressmaker's wages to get euthanized & brought back'

Like damn yeah you'd never save up enough here to become a lich

One thing I'd like to have seen explored in China Mieville's Bas-Lag universe was High Cromlech, a nation governed entirely by undead liches.

Get the leadership of whichever socialist party he's in to ask him to do it as a fundraiser, triple their budget for the year

Buddy that's not the problem with 4chan

Last month, longtime Trump Organization executives Matthew Calamari Sr. and his son Matthew Calamari Jr., who each held senior roles overseeing security at Trump properties and the surveillance of the Florida club, appeared before the grand jury.

my apologies as I've been on strike and had my hands full, I did not even realize we'd entered the "Trump's security team is a father and son named Calamari" era

Illustration from the front of a paper packet. In the upper left across a circle (possibly the moon or sun) dotted with three birds it reds "Vo Toys" in yellow. Diagonal across the illustration is written "catnip leaves". A red cat lies across the words, looking down at a grey cat and yellow cat that are playing below. Yellow words in the bottom left corner read "Makes Cats Playful".

Catnip packet! Ca. 1940s. https://thepethistorian.com/2018/01/16/vo-toys-catnip-leaves-makes-cats-playful/

Oppenheimer leans a little hard into its moral ('The only way to prevent STEM majors from becoming monsters is if they're all communists') but maybe that's a message we need today

Awww I was sending 'come get free boba at a meet-n-greet' texts to everyone who's shop steward I am now and immediately got back "Yeah cool...btw can you change my name from [boy's name] to [girl's name] in the database?" so I am now trying to craft the digital equivalent of The Nod

NIXON: The, what do they call them, the Kens—
HALDEMAN: Yes sir, we looked into them. Gosling, particularly.
NIXON: Bunch of lousy [inaudible]. And you know they stayed out of Vietnam.
HALDEMAN: Yes sir, they did.
NIXON: In the film?
MCNAMARA: Nothing about Vietnam, sir.
NIXON: [inaudible]uals.

You can pretty much condense the last decade of tech into these two posts

If you liked the 1st season, the 2nd is fantastic so far. Continuing to deliver on the premise 'what if there were new episodes of old-style fun, campy Star Trek?'

3 eps in they've also done 'oh yeah the Federation's timeline cops have deal w ppl trying to kill baby space hitler CONSTANTLY'

Funniest self-censoring you’re ever gonna see is “b*llocks.” Who are you trying not to offend? Chimney sweeps? People who bite coins to make sure they’re real?

New Star Trek has a LOT of guts just retconning in 'oh yeah in the 2200's humans find out there's been a little leprechaun species on earth with us this whole time, but it never comes up because everyone got chill about it REAL fast'

Just toying with lore obsessed nerds' minds

IATSE Calls Strike Authorization Vote, Could Halt Broadway and Touring Shows as Soon as Friday The strike would affect workers on IATSE's Pink Contract, which includes stagehands, hair and make-up artists, wardrobe staff, and more.

BREAKING: The International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) has called a strike authorization vote for 1,500 workers who power Broadway and touring shows.

If the union members vote yes a strike could start as soon as Friday morning.

becoming incandescently pissed off as I realize that Marx was right and it actually is going to take me about 20 yards of fabric to sew a nice coat

Same, honestly. Sorry folks

Wait what show(s) do you write for?

The hunt for an on-theme action movie meant someone put on The Patriot after burgs yesterday and idk what I was expecting but that was a lot of Ideology.

Yeah sure there was a SC planter who didn't like or engage in slavery but ALSO wasn't an annoying abolitionist or anything, didn't come up much