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This is the most incredible footage of blue whales I’ve ever seen

The fact podcasts are getting legit awards is as concerning to me as anything happening to the honey bees.

Industry S4 has made The Leap for the third consecutive year, let em know

The only thing with as much dead air as Pluribus is an NFL football game.

If I ever am in a LOST situation, I hope Ethan Hawke is on the flight. A true finder of the silver lining, awesome skill. I just saw a clip of him saying, "You know what was great about Tarantino shitting on Paul Dano? It gave Paul an opportunity to find out just how much everybody else loves him."

Which I admire -- having 200+ people paying mortgages thanks to you is a real privilege/obligation.

But if you shipped him out to the Czech Republic and forced him to film with a local crew, I think he'd redevelop a traditional sense of pacing *real quick*.

You need to understand that every narrative decision Vince Gilligan has made since 2013 has been made with one single goal: "How do I keep getting my ABQ family paid?"

"Sweaty" is my term of endearment for my disgusting hairy-shouldered husband 🥰

In a time of slop, AI or not, it’s time to lean into niche communities and odd work by passionate weirdos with well-honed clarity of intention and craft

She reminds me of all my favorite professors in college, got the right mix of smart and scary... I needed to feel like I was playing russian roulette every time I raised my hand.

Love to see Eriks thriving out here

We've lost recipes, I remember a time when penguins were athletic equipment.

Database games Bruno Dias recently posted this (good) blog post: Against ‘Metroidbrania’: a Landscape of Knowledge GamesWhat are knowledge games? How do we relate them to each other? What sub-genres exist – and whi...

new blog post: I also wrote about "metroidbranias". Surely if enough of us write about how we dislike a term, people will stop using it? That's how it works, right? blog.vbuckenham.com/database-gam...

"Clanker" as an AI slur: 6/10. A little soft, but it's fun to pretend you're in a sci-fi movie set in 2030 but written in 1994.

But calling an AI-enjoyer a "vessel" is 10/10 hating, that's already informing my worldview.

Powerfully activating my dopamine receptors that were weaned on NES manuals, these are really fun.

The abysmal lab safety in Alien: Earth would normally be something I shrug off, but the #1 most fundamental drama in an Alien movie is containment & the failure to contain. That's what makes the chestburster so great. So if the story is nonchalant about this, things get boring quick.

The fact I once would have thought he was dead wrong about this entirely explains why I didn't like his movies from 2010-2020. Couldn't agree more now, and am fully back on the bandwagon.

I need to befriend someone who hosts legendary dinner parties that will let me hobnob with all the wits and sophisticates of our set. Never get to hobnob these days.

If I got turned into a werewolf I wouldn't even be doing any mayhem, I'd just be howling all night. Or maybe I'd be doing tiktoks into ranchers' trail cameras, reviewing various types of prey.

Had a good time painting on my tablet & listening to this, thanks for sharing all that work.

Now announcing:

PS the live readings are a delight, thanks for orchestrating those. I am neutral on Star Wars, but pro-actor/performance/jokes, and there's so much to enjoy in them.

So many scenes with clerks & cashiers, across all their films, and many different kinds of haggling. Ulysses fails to fast talk his way thru a logistical problem. Rooster Cogburn gets grilled by a lawyer: both enforce the law, but they think + talk about so differently.

The Coen Bros. favorite kind of scene: two people who speak different languages need to make an exchange, and the fun/surprising ways those negotiations can play out. The language usually isn't literal, more like: one guy is performing a routine business transaction, the other is

Does that chain say "Man-Child"? Let me zoom in. God, that's funny. Let me find a higher-res image. Hold on, what is this?

To jump off of that, not only is it not creation, it's *really* not procreation. Take the artist out of the exchange and replace it with your own whims & you quickly enter an aesthetic/emotional death spiral, with no new psychic energy entering the mix.

M. John Harrison, I WISH I WAS HERE

I'm cool with living on a volcano, but I'm not above getting nervous when the comfy people get nervous. They invented this thing called the NASDAQ that can chart their panic by the millisecond, so they will get a very timely notification to stampede.

MJH is still a blue chipper for me, thankfully.

The hardest captcha for me is security questions that assume there's a chunk of my hippocampus devoted to tracking my preferences over time. I was already saying "green" through gritted teeth when I was a kindergartener and the adults told us to have a favorite color.

When I start to look at instagram for more than 15 minutes a day, I feel like a dog eating grass. I don't know why I'm doing it, I don't care for the taste, but there's some medicinal property I'm trying to get at.