Adam Harward

The worst part of living on the east coast is the sports schedules. Some west coast basketball games don’t start until 11.

The tax return of the king

A Ray Bradbury quote: “You have to inject yourself with a little fantasy every day in order not to die of reality.”

#IfYouHaventGot a little fantasy…

This!

Conservative American Christians' "Thoughts and prayers" while doing nothing to support real gun control is the new "Keep warm and well fed." It is religious faith without works, and as James 2:16 rightly says, "It's dead."

Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me? Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

Same! I’m 6’6.” I’m terrible if I ever have to describe how tall someone else is. My go-to answer is “well they are shorter than me.“

One thing they don't tell you is that grief accumulates in a bottle in your soul a drop at a time until one day you wake up so sad you don't think you can get out of bed. Then you've got to listen to a bunch of sad music and cry till it's empty enough to carry on anyway.

9. If you use Al to write something for you, it is meaningless and we'd all be better off if you had never said anything in the first place. This is the thing: Writing is meaning. The reason we write things is to express some sort of meaning, to pass along important information, to convey a human emotion or sensation. It doesn't matter whether the writing is grammatically correct, or vividly expressed. It matters that it came from you. That is the point of writing. If you ask a Chatbot to write something for you, you are being fundamentally unhuman and foundationally dishonest. I am not going to bend on this one. If it requires an Al bot for you to express something to me, you and I are probably not actually friends.

hell yeah @williamfleitch.bsky.social

This is…bleak. There is no bottom. I hate this.

I teach 5th and 6th grade, and I guess that’s kind of where my sense of humor lives.

This is also perfect for LotR, either collectively or individually:

The Lord of the Butthole
The Fellowship of the Butthole
The Two Buttholes
The Butthole of the King
(Almost went with The Return of the Butthole)

Ruin a book’s title by replacing one word with butthole.

The Old Man and the Butthole

Ocean’s 11: Basher nervously covers his crotch with one hand before activating an EMP.

My ballot for NY Times best movies of the 21st century. My picks: Children of men Interstellar The Royal tenenbaums No country for old men The social network Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind Mad Max: Fury Road LotR: Fellowship of the Ring Spider-man: into the spiderverse Arrival

My ballot:

a man in a red and blue spiderman costume is standing in front of a glass door . Alt: Spider-man being awkward.

Counterpoint: this is where super heroes come from.

Sign the Petition Stop the Township of Toms River, NJ from Seizing Christ Episcopal Church

This church tried to start a shelter for unhoused people, and now the city is trying to use eminent domain to turn the church into a pickle ball court. People are more important than pickle ball. Sign the petition to save the church.

The jump from “there are some places that you should not bring an infant” to “there are no places where you should bring an infant”

But he’s not. He goes to work. He just plays with his kids when he’s home.

Buying two books from the Bennington Bookshop.

Grabbed two books from the awesome Bennington Bookshop in Vermont!

Big Short 2: The Shortening

If Jesus had focused more on kitchen table issues and less on unpopular outcasts like lepers and prostitutes, he might have won more support from white working-class Judeans.

Hey, did you know there's an alternative to ChatGPT that makes sense economically and doesn't destroy the environment?
It's called English majors and they will happily fix all of your documents for the low price of health insurance and a living wage.

It’s crazy that during the circle of life song when Simba is born, it’s the first time this presentation of a prince has ever happened. It’s not so much a circle, just an…event.

No exaggeration-it is the only thing my dad reads

See a doc, post a doc.

Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.

—Simone Weil

Burger from hamburger?

OF THE EMPIRE We will be known as a culture that feared death and adored power, that tried to vanquish insecurity for the few and cared little for the penury of the many. We will be known as a culture that taught and rewarded the amassing of things, that spoke little if at all about the quality of life for people (other people), for dogs, for rivers. All the world, in our eyes, they will say, was a commodity. And they will say that this structure was held together politically, which it was, and they will say also that our politics was no more than an apparatus to accommodate the feelings of the heart, and that the heart, in those days, was small, and hard, and full of meanness.

From a poetry collection by Mary Oliver, where after a hundred poems showcasing gentle observations on nature and animals, she hits you with this