They are not. Which is not their fault, they are relying on tips to survive and if some annoying man decides they didn't smile or top up the water enough, they don't make rent. But wow is it annoying when they ask for the tenth time if you have enough water

One thing you will never think after reading a great book or listening to a great album or seeing a great piece of art is, “I’m really glad this person remained cautious while they were making this and guarded against being perceived as weird.”

Sabrina is ON the spider beat 🧪🕷️
1: Biggest web found! Cave with more than 100,000 spiders in some sort of co-op housing, 2 species, one of which normally eats the other. But not in the dark cave.

2. The wee spiders using prey to make giant fake spider puppets to scare off predators. So metal.

IT'S '6-7', COOPER. A GENERATION ALPHA TREND. WHAT THEY CALL A 'MAY-MAY'. IT'S AN ORPHANED SIGNIFIER, NO SIGNS ATTACHED. ONE COULD CALL IT DADAIST, BUT SOMME SAY IT'S TOO STUPID TO BE DADA. IT'S ANTI-MEANING, ANTI-HUMOUR, BUT DAMN IF THOSE KIDS DON'T FIND IT A CRACK-UP.

What's your favourite 'lost' line from The Waste Land? Phantasmal gnomes, burrowing in brick and stone and steel! Carrying/Away the little light dead people Something which we knew must be a dawn -A different darkness flowed above the clouds I should like to be in a crowd of beaks without words But it is terrible to be alone with another person My God man there's bears on it

Giving a lecture on the drafts of The Waste Land tomorrow and all the strange and haunting lines that Eliot and Pound decided to cut

ΤΟΥ STORY The purpose of a toy is to bring happiness to a child ΤΟΥ STORY 2 Toys must accept that their child will someday outgrow them ΤΟΥ STORY 3 Toys can find new purpose with a new child ΤΟΥ STORY 4 Toys can abandon children, create their own purpose, and pursue relationships with other toys ΤΟΥ STORY 5 Toys can learn how to create new toys without the involvement of a child ΤΟΥ STORY 6 Toys construct a secret, self sustaining society parallel to human civilization ΤΟΥ STORY 7 The great human/toy wars begin THOUSANDS OF YEARS LATER Cars 1-3

Fortunately, I already figured out the plots of the next several Toy Story films

A sketch of two steam trains, human faces on the front. The title above them says 'The Broad Gauge and the Narrow Gauge'. The narrow gauge train is looking unbearably smug, then broad gauge absolutely raging. In the smoke, they are communicating, the broad gauge saying "You are a locomotive" and the narrow saying "You are another".

It's over: I've already depicted you as the seething broad gauge train, and myself as the smug narrow gauge!

Have I Got Phobia For You Bringing attention to the often harmful practices of our mainstream media. Thankfully the days of vile hostility against gay people are now more or less over, but, reading today’s newspapers, there’s ...

A neat little quiz game: Is a headline homophobia from the 80s-90s or transphobia from the 2010s-2020s? Because it's all the same bullshit, repackaged for the hate du jour

haveigotphobiaforyou.com

Last night I went to the Puca Festival in Trim, Ireland.

It's all fun and games until someone unleashes a giant demonic hare.

astrology isn't real, but scorpio season is

Made one of these for the house so I know when to leave to catch a train. There are live train data apis you can just use. Pretty neat of them

A man holding up a Kapital bandana.

A construction worker wearing a bandana.

If you live in a major city, you may have noticed more people wearing bandanas around their neck, as the accessory has made a small comeback. Typically made from cotton, the bandana — distinct from the ascot — has a long history in working class aesthetics, as it serves a practical function.

Mary had a little lamb,
Its pelage alabaster;
Her omnipresent chaperone
Persistently harassed 'er

Its chilling uluations!
Its wool so strangely luminant!
Mary's days were haunted
By this unremitting ruminant

i think if you ride public transit enough you learn that most weird behavior is not dangerous, and conversely i think driving a car teaches you that everyone is trying to kill you at all times

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hey man did u say something 2 toilet he's freaking out

Designer: all right Mr. Del Toro here’s those Frankenstein’s monster designs, real sexy just like you asked for.
Del Toro: (nodding) this is exactly as sexy as I asked for.

Barker called me up one night and without preamble said "It's opinions, not onions. Not onions. This is Clive Barker. I've been trying to track down and stop this error in editions for decades. OPINIONS."

IT'S CALLED "MUFFING," COOP! IT ALLOWS YOU TO PLEASURE THE INGUINAL CANALS! I'M TELLING YOU YOU HAVE TO READ THIS ZINE IT IS INCREDIBLE

A screenshot of Bryan Johnson, the insane and stupid billionaire who looks like a desiccated corpse but thinks he's making himself look younger, saying "I eliminated 85% of microplastics from my ejaculate" on Nazi Twitter

Roses are red,
AI is inaccurate,

Thank you for doing this research! I was eyeing it prospectively and it sounds like you have saved me some pain

great minds think alike bsky.app/profile/impo...

The Pearl Jam song "Even Flow" was inspired by Eddie Vedder's longtime plumber, Steven Flow.

credit: anthony dilorenzo, pix11

I'm not sure I've ever said this phrase before, but.... Disney may have had a point.

directed by Francis Ford Coppola

I don't hate everything Hans Zimmer does, but I went insane when I found it that his theme for that Superman film he did was just the chords from the John Williams theme without the melody. Like, come on now

turns out you can find some of william morris's speeches on the internet archive and they are entirely worth the reading

"how can we bear to use, how can we enjoy something which has been a pain and a grief for the maker to make?"

Pixar should do a TOY STORY about a group of Beanie Babies who've been in storage for over two decades and have turned into Gormenghast.

Tonight’s bedtime reading. Sweet dreams all.