Actually, it was raining this weekend and I realized: it's probably to put up those sort of see-through shades/awnings when it's sunny, but only when there's not rain/snow in the forecast.

I suppose it could facilitate running cables or strings of Christmas lights? Hold up some decorative bunting? Slow down any pianos falling out of third-story windows?

AI’s sales pitch has drifted steadily from “We can generate cool stuff!” to “We will overwhelm and smother cool stuff through sheer blunt quantity until we are all that’s left”

Some important new government policy that Native Americans might be interested in:

Everything is terrible but comics and board games and you nerds are helping me keep it together.

THANKS, NERDS.

YouTube video by YourContemporaryTenor Suffs 2024 Tony Awards Performance

Suffs addressed this beautifully.

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Muppet Christmas specials. There are quite a lot, especially if you include Sesame Street, Fraggle Rock, etc!

Wasn't this definitively answered in Muppet Family Christmas as "spending time with the people you love and also re-gifting a Fraggle pebble"? Because that's been my personal definition for three decades now.

Arcade Music that takes you from Mozart’s Vienna to The Mushroom Kingdom.

Oh hey, I just noticed that there's now a "?" part of the URL so I can link directly to the stream! That's great! :D

www.kusc.org/playlist?str...

It's actually encouraging me to fire up Word and get some writing done tonight/tomorrow because I'll have new music to listen to; all-new narrations is gonna be a lovely bonus 🤩

@jenmillerradio.bsky.social Heard you mention Thursday morning about Arcade 2.0 and have been meaning to congratulate you ever since! 🎉🎊

I know things are rough in the not-so-publicly funded world right now so I was wondering if the streams would even be continued. EXPANSION was a happy surprise!

This one has been a real hit on tumblr, for obvious reasons

Oh, what the fuck?!? All my published academic papers are in here. Somehow when I heard, “authors,” I forgot about myself and academic work.

Just hang out at a popular pokemon spot on a Saturday and ask if someone will trade with you? Is there literally no one else in your town playing (as evinced by the gym(s) changing hands)?

Hell, I got that feeling when I saw the "An Update on Classical California" email and I don't even work in radio 😭

Appreciate the hard work!

We recognize that Britney Spears was pilloried in the public eye as a child star becoming a young woman, picked apart, laughed at, and we wanted a reckoning. Now I don't know much about Jojo Siwa but all the same my feed is full of people being pointedly cruel to her as though she deserves it.

Happy Pi Approximation Day from @qwantz.com and @ryannorth.ca

What, the repetitive landscape and flower pictures on your dash not doing it for you?

I'm sure no one will mind another three fundraiser weeks! 😅

@dinosaurdracula.bsky.social

Saw these "toxic" candles at TJ Maxx and thought of you and those melts you keep putting in the boxes. Available scents were Radioactive Goo, Goblim Slime, and Zombie Ooze.

Video: Surfer Fined for Digging Standing Wave in Laguna Beach Surfers stand up against local government at Aliso Beach.

btw, did you hear about the local controversy at Laguna re: the guy who dug a trench/standing wave? Surfing + dubious treatment of the environment made me think of you for obvious reasons.

www.surfer.com/news/surfer-...

When I was a kid, one of my favorite words was "discombobulated" because it was fun to say. As an adult, one of my favorite words is "discombobulated" because that describes my current state most of the time.

Ag is a real job.

It takes real skills, knowledge, & people who gaf about what they're doing.

Stop treating agriculture like society's dumping ground.

I really hate how gator imagery is being used in fascism.

Gators don’t answer to anyone. No you can’t feed undesirable populations to gators. They don’t work that way. They don’t take orders.

You people know nothing about gators and it annoys me.

Read the whole thread.

T-Rex: Painting is just colouring for adults. T-Rex: ...Discuss!

Dromiceiomimus: You mean like painting a landscape, or perhaps a still life of some boring, TEDIOUS fruit? T-Rex: No, like - putting a fresh coat of paint on a chair or cupboard! The same skills apply: you've got lines you've got to stay within, you get to choose what colour you want it to be, you can do a good job or a bad job, and the process is actually kinda fun.

Utahraptor: Plus you can get paint all over you AND on everything you touch. T-Rex: Like kids with markers! YEP. Utahraptor: Well, I gotta say - I agree with you. Painting an object is absolutely like colouring, and the process can induce the same state of pensive pleasantness as we turn the environment around us into something more satisfyingly beautiful. Narrator: BUT THEN, AFTER T-REX PAINTS:

T-Rex: Painting can ALSO induce the same frustration and rage when, DESPITE YOUR BEST EFFORTS, it still SOMEHOW turns out SUPER CRAPPY! RARRRGH!! Off panel: ...You take things pretty seriously. T-Rex: THANKS BUT I'M TOO ANGRY FOR CRITICISM RIGHT NOW

"thanks but i'm too [x] for criticism right now" is SUCH the perfect response to any criticism, especially when you replace [x] with "attractive", that i hesitate to release it into the wild. but i'm too attractive for any criticism right now

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Accuracy will vary if you're not logged in or your fics aren't restricted to only logged in users, I imagine.

It also doesn't count *you* visiting your own fic as a "hit."

Source: I've hit 'refresh' on my own newly published fics dozens of times in a day to see if the numbers incrementally went up, and it never affects the hit count.

Ao3 knows that one person can severely throw off the hit count, so it doesn't count the same person/IP address visiting multiple times in a day (week?) as multiple hits.

Source: reading and writing fic in a small fandom, where numbers like the above would absolutely be noticed in the stats