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Had the same feeling when I surpassed the age that my older sister lived to. She's been gone nearly 10yrs now and it's never not weird that I'm the older one now.

Grateful for a workplace/boss that understands that if my work is getting done, I an have my emotional support ppl with blades on their feet or loonies throwing themselves off mountains on in the corner of my screen.

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Duvall was always a favorite to watch. I can already think of a list of his movies that I'd like to rewatch to honor him.

Imagine being so boring and awful a person that you complain about googly eyes. I know of 2 ppl at work who put them on things. It's delightful.

Look I've been suicidal & not only that I've come to terms with the fact I'll always struggle with suicidal ideation. Those feelings crest & peak & people commit the act opportunistically at a low, when if they'd stuck around they'd see they felt better just a bit later. So yes ChatGPT is killing.

Long Island deserves a Representative who fights for working families and stands up to Trump’s attacks. Meanwhile, Andrew Garbarino can’t even wake up to vote.

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Late starting snow and ice storm once again proving that my office is perfectly capable of running with most people working from home for the day. All supervisors encouraged safety first for all of us.

If an academic library can do it, your corporate job certainly can.

I love that I get to sing some amazing works sometimes, but then I never get to sing them again. All that work for one or two performances.

Today I'm feeling a need to sing Alexander Nevsky again. I really need to scream sing battle music in Russian to cope with life these days.

Between the Islamophobia, the anti-Semitism, the racism, and the homophobia -- it must be so bizarre to be afraid of basically everyone, all the time

Pure loser shit

I think I'll try to find a theater this weekend to see it again on a large screen. <3 4/4

As a kid, having so many unexplained aches and pains, I felt as if I must have been made from used & broken parts. Then I read Shelley's Frankenstein. I already felt like a freak, never fitting in. Here was a monster like me. So yeah, I love him and his story, and when he's handled with care. <3 3/4

We all knew del Toro would treat Frankenstein, or his monster, with the heart he deserves. the film is also *stunning* visually. Costuming and set design are a dream. My colleague hates horror films but always watches del Toro ones because they're so beautiful. 2/4

When I heard that Guillermo del Toro was making Frankenstein, I was so excited. I adore Del Toro's monsters, his love and care for them. And Frankenstein is one of my favorite stories. I watched it online tonight and it did not disappoint. He didn't disappoint & it is a beautiful film. 1/4

me: a guy here was arrested for assaulting a woman while he was cosplaying as a nazi officer

Dad: what is cosplay

me: *explains*

Dad: sounds like a nazi who stopped "cosplaying" as a normal person

This man's ability to randomly say insightful thing while also putting cosplay in quotes is a trip

“Viewers,” ha! How many of the novels you read, pal? Ever read a 100k Kirk/Spock fanfic? Ever WRITTEN a Kirk/Spock fanfic?

The thing about the relentless march of time is that you only get an ending (happy or otherwise) in fiction. Here in the real world no cause is ever lost forever even though we may not live to see it prevail. This is both hope and cautionary tale.

I'm not even a creative and I am so tired of having to turn off all these features. I want my emails to sound like ME, not a language model. I want to note in the minutes what I know that my colleagues will need in them later. Let me turn this shit OFF.

I cannot emphasize enough how much the folks at Census are *obsessed* with doing the right thing for both representative data collection and privacy. (I say this as someone who nearly didn’t get to tenure because of all the frictions involved in using restricted-access Census data.)

Can attest to T. Kingfisher books as well. Her horror is delightfully creepy and her fantasy is fun with excellent world building.

I try to remember that while they were fighting the ban on gender affirming care for minors here, one of the (trans) lawyers did a thread reminding folks that they're really good at making this feel like an overwhelming groundswell, but it is one clown car of debunked experts on a road trip.

There is no argument you can make to me that will make me go, "oh yeah good point let's just abandon all the trans people I love" because I'm not a political operative, I'm a human fucking being who thinks we should not be monsters.

Allowing myself this one whinge of the day:
Tech is often not backwards compatible for many reasons incl. capitalism, but is it really so much to ask that the usb c to 3.5mm adapter I bought 3 yrs ago work on a modern mobile phone? Am I really asking so much?

Ok, today will be beautiful, LFG.

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Unfortunately as the keeper of the peripherals, they really do come in handy and it makes it all so much worse!

Talking with colleagues and I realized that I have a professional version of the millennial box of mystery cables that I've been moving around for years "just in case" I need them. Except it's all random cables AND peripherals and like three of us have stashes. 😩

Everything is bad, but books are good. Get a book. Read the book. Cherish the book. Finish the book. Tell your friends about the book, and leave a review of the book. Hold the book close. Listen to what it tells you. Do as it commands. Place it on the dread altar and let it guide your every choice.

A painting of a bird beside the text "i'd love to go back to just being angry about sports"

this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

we used to build household shrines to Going On The Computer and it's no coincidence that as we abandoned these we started straying further from god's light

normal people don't say "triggered" or "heteronormative," they say they gave their life to christ in a cracker barrel parking lot