@RickiTarr
Totally on board with Blazing Saddles, Life of Brian, Holy Grail, Galaxy Quest, and Buckaroo Banzai.
I'd like to add Austin Powers, Being John Malkovich, Best In Show, Borat, Grumpy Old Men, Idiocracy, Rocky Horror, Rush Hour, Whisky Galore (original), and pretty much anything with the Marx Brothers.
@Em0nM4stodon #Caturday is also: #Baturday for bat fans or batmans #Flatterday for your boss' yesmen or flat-earthers #Fraturday for Animal House fans #Gnaturday for insect champions #Haturday for those with fancy chapeaus #Latterday for Mormons #Matterday for physicists #Patterday for salespeople #Raturday for cute rats
...oh, and in some jurisdictions it is referred to as "Saturday," but I'm not buying that one.
#Texas is losing Californian transplants again. No surprise to me, as Texas politicans use Californians as rhetoric bait—at the same time boasting about how Californians are moving into the state to create the next Silicon Valley in Austin, while simultaneously scapegoating Californians as disgusting commie liberals invading their state, lumping them together with “illegal immigrants” in their xenophobic rhetoric.
Not said in the article is the fact that Texas law is hostile to non-cis-het people, especially those with a uterus. You can’t pay me enough money to relocate to Texas (or any number of southern red states), because that would add a mortal risk, if not to me directly, then to someone close to me.
The recent influx of tech workers to Texas was a mirage anyway, fueled more by tax giveaways than any systemic change. Now that the money has run dry, companies are finding a different state to fleece.
“Texas Attracted California Techies. Now It’s Losing Thousands of Them.”
@drahardja About two years into the pandemic #Hawaii created the “Movers And Shakas” program which subsidized bringing remote workers to Hawai’i. Caused a valid backlash locally, and I wonder how many of the participants are still in Hawai’i. The program should have been called “Out Of State Landlord Support Program;” all HI got out if it was more shoppers in Costco.
@Binder
I have a huge number of books I’ve loved enough to never want them to end - so I skip the last chapter. The characters, the places, all the unanswered questions and unrealized potentials, remain my BFFs.
Sadly though, my mind reached capacity years ago, and now new BFFs seem to be overwriting earlier ones.
So I go back and reread, and the self-perpetuating cycle itself becomes the BFF.
@verge
Another reason to never, ever use #Windows: now you'll have ads embedded in your OS (browser ad blockers won't work on them). Use Linux instead - the vast majority of distros are #FOSS.
@compost Sometimes podcasts, but most of the time just gentle music, the sort that will brighten my mood and not put me in a beat-heavy rush. Gotta respect the bugs and bacteria whose homes I'm rummaging through.
Any modern TV is just an enshittified computer plugged into a TV. You could just plug a normal computer into a big ass monitor, get some speakers, then you're off to the races but you still have adblock. Fuck a TV
@sidereal my next tv will be a high-def computer monitor. With everything streaming now there’s no reason to invite the privacy invasions that come with a “smart tv.”
It's award nomination season! For your consideration, the best two things I published this year: The Terraformers, a novel, and "Unhearable Music," a short story which appeared in Rolling Stone's "future of music" issue. Thanks to all the kind people who supported me by publishing these strange stories about future ecologies, and mega-gratitude to my readers, who made The Terraformers a success.
A rider goes through flames during the annual "Luminarias" celebration on the eve of Saint Anthony's day, Spain's patron saint of animals, in the village of San Bartolome de Pinares, northwest of Madrid, Spain. REUTERS/Juan Medina
No, ABC News app, I will not watch a 60 ad while waiting for my chosen report to load. I guess I never will get to see that fibonacci spiral that the humpback whales form.
I am sick to death if every last thing coming with a pre-ad, or an ad overlay.
“Researchers have exposed an enormous quantity of previously untracked human activity at sea using a combination of satellite imagery, vessel GPS data, and AI.”