John May

Yeah, Bobby Fingers sets a galaxy-tier standard for high-effort shit posts.

YouTube video by Bobby Fingers Fabio and the Goose

For fans of 25 minute long youtube videos and swearing and dioramas, this is great place to learn more: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RIE...

3j0hn wearing an orange hard hat and overalls, carrying long handled trail tools

I wear a lot of hats. This weekend, it was an MWBA hardhat for a morning of clearing slides from a beloved trail damaged in the Eaton Fire. It's always a privilege to get access to closed parts of the forest, and we worked hard to make sustainable fixes to these trails. www.mwba.org/updates/mwba...

Definitely, it's pretty rare for an actual mountain road to be paved and if it is paved, it's probably also 20%.

Charges dropped against former College of Charleston paleontologist in case of missing fossils Charleston prosecutors dismissed charges against Robert Boessenecker and Sarah Jo Michalies of stealing about $8,000 worth of fossils and models.

Not a lot of extra details, but here's the full article on archive dot org
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Image titled “Toronto Pronunciation Scale.” It shows four ways of saying “Toronto,” each with a humorous description beneath: 1. “TOE-RON-toe” — “You are an American sportscaster.” 2. “tuh-RON-toe” — “You’re from Mississauga at best.” 3. “tuh-RONN-oh” — “You are a Torontonian.” 4. “CHRAWNna” — “Your pulse sounds like the TTC chimes and you piss Steamwhistle.” Arrows beneath the text progress from yellow to dark green as the pronunciation becomes more local.

Here’s a helpful graphic to help you prepare for the World Series:

Hello, friends! After 10(!) years of #AdventOfCode, I've made some changes to preserve my sanity: there will be 12 days of puzzles each December (still starting Dec 1) and there is no longer a global leaderboard. Read more:
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from my lunch today; "the trouble is not so much AI making you more productive, but that it's tripling the output of the biggest f***ing idiot where you work"

Oh dang, yeah. I was mixed up synonym and homonym while reaching for the joke. A rookie error

So hominid and hominim are are sort of homonyms? I guess not really. I guess maybe terms like this should be called homonyds.

Oh yeah, red-arrow scofflaws should be getting tickets every time. Hopefully new the state changes to red light camera laws will encourage that.

Way too many of the quote-replies to this are about Anime

I don't know about this one, man. I had to go through there daily last year when they were making that change, and that intersection reconfiguration created a huge reduction in drivers doing chaotic stupid things to get into the right lane. The new configuration feels safer for everyone.

For the record, where I grew up it was "gotch" and "gotchies".

I love the richness of terms for underwear in Canada (from this piece about the author of the Oxford Canadian dictionary www.nytimes.com/2021/05/21/w...)

For many games, "winning" is having fun with the friend(s) you are playing the game with.

I have the 18" version, and it feels like it'll be real useful in case of zombies

Chicago’s beloved ‘rat hole’ was actually made by a squirrel Scientists reopen the case of “splatatouille”

Shocking rodent news! www.science.org/content/arti...

two screencaps from 'Kamen Rider Fourze' alien in tweed jacket and hat: you're jumping to conclusions by thinking it's ninjas just because the room was locked. Kamen Rider, gesturing: first of all, this is the moon.

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30 in STANLEY® FATMAX® FUBAR® Utility Bar | STANLEY

That would be the Stanley FUBAR www.stanleytools.com/product/55-1...

DOOM sells, sadly

Omg. Better start looking into whether 529 college savings plans can be used for bail / FTC fines 😂

Anyway, to try to classify a deeply weird and complicated book like Imajica is hard, but... ah fuck it, let's just say Imagica is an Enemies to Lovers Romantasy

I would say that to be "romantasy" a book has to hue to the conventions/tropes of the romance genre as part of a larger fantasy plot. As a marketing effort, it's books designed to draw Romance readers over the Fantasy shelf of the bookstore.

They mostly say "No, because the romance is not the main plot" and as someone who has read the canonical romantasy dragon-rider book, I can say that the romance is not the main plot in that book either.

From the horrorlit community on Reddit Explore this post and more from the horrorlit community

I don't really like any of the answers here www.reddit.com/r/horrorlit/...
I don't think any of the commenters have actually read any real romantasy

Reddit post asking if Clive Barker's Imagica could be considered romantasy

this made me laugh a lot

Please send Jerry over to do my taxes too

They're currently like the opposite of the old AoL business model. To fix that, Augment just needs a lot more customers who pay but don't actually use their service.

Man in a suit - caption reads "I've just received a cal from JPL in Pasadena" - a screenshot from Lifeforce (1985)

I am worried that these big cuts at JPL will reduce our ability to deal with lifeforce vampires from Haley's comet