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@grok

it’s impossible to buy helium balloons online

cunningham’s law go

four unopened "Sim City: The Card Game" starter decks & six unopened booster packs.

A recent episode of @getplayedpod.bsky.social brought up an ancient, defunct Sim City-themed CCG from the 90s. I was fascinated by the fact that it had "tall cards" so I picked some up (for cheap) on eBay.

I thought I'd share some of the more bizarre/hilarious cards I got...

> “Janet Planet,” the playwright Annie Baker’s affecting directorial début about a single mother and her daughter, was a critical darling that grossed only $800K --Barasch, New Yorker

wow this is criminal, this movie was so good i rewatched it as soon as it came out online

This is the entirety of a section on the Wikipedia entry for John Ford's The Searchers (1959)

ach. the ending to call me by your name. every now and then i’ll be reminded of it. so lovely

would it really be that hard to add emoji reactions to emails? emoji reactions are a straightforwardly good invention (except for the fucking party parrot)

Amazon's motto should be "For sale baby shoes never worn," because that's exactly what I need right now and that's the exact website I went to in order to buy them

A new Signals and Threads just dropped, with @ianthehenry.bsky.social! This one is about building tools for traders, but it also has some fun dives into Ian's personal projects, including bauble.studio and janet.guide.

Anyway, more here:

signalsandthreads.com/building-too...

white people always get chip crumbs on the couch

the economist is a such a shit newspaper

if altman's t-shirt collar pokes out from underneath his banana republic sweater, you KNOW the information session is going to be POPPING

maybe ive can make a new altman smartphone before i'm forced to upgrade my 12 mini into a chunky 16e just for better battery life

One day, I hope to come up with a sentence half as well-written as the lyrics to a Superorganism song

they don’t have content restrictions also

white people love taking screenshots of a photo instead of just saving the photo

Why is there no way to turn off notifications if you text yourself? I text myself, my wife text herself, and my wife says what if Apple employees need to text themselves pictures of apples because they have to remind themselves of what an apple looks like (then she did a dab in the air)

"you never tweet about me any more on bluesky" —my wife

this movie definitively captures the high-school experience of the late 2000s (four hours of homework a night, three to five AP classes a semester, going to sleep at 5 AM and waking up at 5:05 AM)

New mosaic at the 14th St & 6th Av subway station.

lesser-known small towns:

limbaso
limbasso
cluckville

this is a "3D printed" logo for bauble.studio

i thought i could get a striped/contrast effect with alternating layers of brass and bronze. turns out brass and bronze look almost identical. still pretty neat though

(made from lost wax casting a 3D printed mold)

this year we have decided to cancel the intellectually bankrupt idea of “annual movie awards”

in lieu, we will be releasing an hour-long version of emma stone’s dancing scene from kinds of kindness

wife reading my bsky account:
oh, i guess there's nothing about your wife, i guess she hasn't said anything quotable lately, oh yeah, ooooohhhhhh yeaaaaaaaahhhh

jim loves pam but he doesn’t know how to show it. all his life he’s taught to apotheosize individualism, that load-bearing pillar of western thought. should he get flowers, or should he seize pam in the dark and take her lips into his? jim loves good news and jim loves quiet places and jim loves pam

me:
hey beverly

beverly:
yeah what’s up

me:
anybody ever call you beaverly

a strong, positive relationship with a bald man is built on the person’s two prior bad experiences with bald men, the way a brick lies on top of two other bricks

the discover tab on bluesky is the “you know what? i think we ARE going to be ok after all” of tabs

i just wanted my thirties to be perfect 😌