Mike Laidlaw

My neighbor told me he keeps losing falcons to the widening gyre so I asked how many falcons he has and he said he just goes to the falconry and gets a new falcon afterwards so I said it sounds like he’s just feeding falcons to drown with the ceremony of innocence and then Yeats started crying.

...that...*sniff*...isn't grateful...*weightshift, pause to collect thought*...Mark.

-Don Corliorangey

YESSS. hahah. I had an officemate where for the last month of his wife's pregnancy she called A LOT (fair!) and that pattern is burned into my mind.

Especially that wicked Blonnnk beee blooonk blonnnk sound they made when anyone within 30 feet of you got a cellular phonecall*.

*for clarity, because we had traditional phones back then

Well. Shit. Had no idea.

YouTube video by Ленинград Ленинград — Рыба / Leningrad — Fish

Stumbled across this delightful wall of sound again and I feel everyone could use some Fish in their life.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-Cn...

Frodo: I wish so much unbelievably stupid shit had not happened in my time Gandalf: So do all who live to see such times. This is all exceptionally stupid, though

Gary Larson: In my cartoon I invented Cow Tools as a cautionary tale

Cows: At long last, we have created the Cow Tools from classic newspaper comic Cow Tools

Big Dr. Mrs. The Monarch energy here.

(I would also accept Lady Au Pair and her murderous moppets, for obvious reasons)

Well, we're still in business so something's probably happening, but nothing's been announced so it's probably not happening all that soon.

Appreciate you asking though!

The quote or section you actually want me to see/hear verbatim - and here I'm not giving an example because this is where you just hit paste. Even easier!

Context -"I have never seen a cuntier scientific paper in my life. It's SHADY. The whole thing is in this tone!"

Summary of what's been said so far and by who - "King Friday of Imagination Land and Dr Patch Adams say laughing at those videos makes you live longer and they have links to the papers."

"Arnica, come read this!"

"Can't Babe, making donuts! What do you want me to read, just tell me?"

Overview the topic - "They have a new study out about how laughing at those guys falling on the ground makes you live longer!"

It's even easier with a screenshot because when you see some shit you just have to tell ppl about, just highlight and copy the section that you want people to focus on. Then when you add the screenshot, the alt text is added using the same I'm Making Donuts principal

And if you're worried that doing that sounds too easy, so it's wrong... it's that easy because it's just that easy. It's okay that your alt text sounds like you and not a text book caption

The fine details - "he's a white guy, mid to late twenties, in a black and blue uniform with yellow lettering in it in, surrounded by other older white people in sensible winter gear shaming him"

Context - "and I wanted to show you because we love watching them slip on the ice!"

I'm in the kitchen making you DELICIOUS homemade donuts and I can't leave the hot oil, so tell me a quick overview of:

what it is -"It's a screenshot/vid/gif"

The overall view - "of a guy surrounded by people pointing and laughing as he falls"

Important details - "He's really eating shit"

My non professional tip for adding Alt Text to an image is to pretend you want to show me something on your screen and you yell "Arnica, come see this!"

And I reply "Babe, I'm frying you homemade donuts, can you just DESCRIBE it to me?"

Whatever you would holler to me is the Alt text!

Rewatching Wake Up Dead Man, and gosh the scene where Father Judd talks to Louise, the excavator company receptionist/planner about her mom. Just setting aside the case to be a priest.

I have a lot of complicated feelings about religion, but that scene is beautiful.

a screenshot from a document that says "PLAN PAYS: 100%" and a coverage start date of January 28th, 2026.

why wasn't it bigger news that healthcare covers dental now in canada?? It's called the CDCP and it was expanded to cover everyone from kids/seniors in fucking SUMMER I guess???

if you're canadian, sign up for it, I did, and now all my dental is covered. I might cry. Thank you NDP 🥹

Thanks for the lovely note! Glad you had fun.

Loving the Radiohead remix in this cafe

youtu.be/HH9MQmMtilU?...

Tweet screenshot from before that place became a hellhole. Content is all text: Tech enthusiasts: My entire house is smart. Tech workers: The only piece of technology in my house is a printer and I keep a gun next to it so I can shoot it if it makes a noise I don’t recognize.

Honestly? Goals.

I did a clean out of my dad’s email when he started getting errors that it was full. Nuked over 100K.

Madness. Set up a lot of block rules ;)

They’re aimed at older folks, who are less comfortable with tech and who have decades of conditioning that notices like that are very serious.

My dad’s super savvy, but even he occasionally checks with me to verify certain ones are scams.

One or two posts now and then? Rockin. Cool. But the endless takes? Exhausting.

My admittedly jaded view is that if they have all that time to post, they might not be doing all that much actual work. It's just endless hustle and posturing.

That unnecessary ellipsis on “Welcome to Movie Land…” is so pitch perfect.

Goodnight, sweet prince.