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Usually when someone is blasting music in the parking lot at this hour it’s really bad but someone is currently playing Mingus at full volume and I’m curiously down with this.

@FalconMarkSix@tech.lgbt aww you’re always welcome here!

If good people die too soon and bad people die too late, what kind of people is William Shatner?

@FalconMarkSix@tech.lgbt welcome back!!

I bought a nice merino cardigan off of eBay and the seller did not disclose that it came from a smoking household. Does anyone have any good suggestions for getting the cigarette smell out? I'd like to avoid laundering it if at all possible, but that may be the final answer. #laundry

Whoa just had a major flashback and ended a text convo with Keillor’s “And that’s the news from Lake Woebegone, where the women are tall, the men are good looking and the children are above average” 😵‍💫

I wonder if Apple ever thought about not having eight different alerts to update e-mail settings all pop up at the same time upon upgrading a device.

@gruff@4bear.com Are all evil men big or are all big men evil? I am concerned (for myself)

Been having a couple of days where I feel utterly overwhelmed at having to do my job and also do the stuff of life at the same time. How do people do it all?

Everyone stand back I’m about to buy a whole bunch of pencils again

I really wanted You're Killing Me to follow along in the vein of Harry Wild and continue to solidify Acorn as the new home of this type of light mystery show, but the pilot is a hefty slog. If I hear one more generational humor joke…

@James@woof.group @thickurt@woof.group hope you have a good time!

@alt_brews@mstdn.social I MEAN……look at it

Defrosting the fridge is so much fun! We should do it every year! Said absolutely no one ever. Here's hoping that it solved the fan noise issue, but not an experience I would repeat again.

@Lewie_Kong@retro.pizza Fingers crossed Lewie!

At some point you have to read the stuff you chuck into your read later service of choice.

All this just to play the Wordle I see what you’ve started doing New York Times

@sbattey@pnw.zone I like the default app but depending on the platform you're using it can be a real crapshoot sometimes (I'm sure there are server factors that also affect it). I've gotten good mileage out of keeping Infuse around, particularly for 4K playback if I need it. But I'd really just like Plex to smooth out the rough patches in the tvOS app.

I’m sure hot guy is evil but hot guy is still hot

I thought I made a mistake buying broccolini instead of broccoli rabe, but it turns out if you just drown it in butter it hardly matters.

Wow I'm really at odds with everyone on the third season of Silo. I think I might be ready to peace out of this one.

@germ@deletethis.lol definitely other people, who should totally pay me.

Watching a 30 for 30 episode about Joey Chestnut v. Kobayashi Takeru and it's a reminder that I still can't passively listen to Japanese as well as I'd like but I can completely zone out for the English stuff and stay on top of the narrative flow

@germ@deletethis.lol I did do three tarot readings last night so consider me master of the mystic arts

“Orthogonal" is my new performative academia word of the day.

Jesus Christ young John Corbett. I understand why people loved my big fat Greek wedding.

I assume that my phone keeps running out of storage due to how iOS27 is building the new database. Right? 🤔

@motoridersd@pug.ninja it’s…an interesting replacement but that whole plotline with her son also gets dropped, understandably. That’s a bummer

@ptburly@woof.group I have a certain level of tolerance but there are a lot of quality of life stuff that makes that gray area between n64 and ps2 really rough depending. I don’t think anyone really figured out how to master the independently moving camera until the ps3 generation at least, so I can get really motion sick from that early 3D stuff. And some of the really old pc gaming stuff feels like a lot of waiting. But hidden gems everywhere

@James@woof.group Happy birthday!

Lobster Landing

@QsBoyfriend@tenforward.social I have the hunch that it’s one of the reasons he is the most popular movie director these days. So much of his productions are designed to make you feel rather than think. Every film has some explanation of the gimmick that doesn’t make sense in or out of the world of the film if you push on it too much, but it’s just comprehensible enough that the audience can not pay attention and pretend like they can follow what’s going on, and thus feel smart for having “gotten” it.

Does Media Matters have an actual RSS feed or is the only one they have the one where they repost right wing voices and leave me to guess whose side they're on?

@NickGates@friendsofdesoto.social I can’t tell if the wiki is badly written or the books are badly written but the plot summary for the book series on Wikipedia is nigh incomprehensible in places

I was too hasty a few weeks ago. Peaches are finally in season and they are everything I wanted them to be

Maybe if acclaimed Hollywood film director Christopher Nolan himself communicates what is wrong with tvtropes as a manner of critique the first-year students who drive me up the wall with this false equivalency will figure it out. I have faith. https://deadline.com/2026/08/christopher-nolan-real-problem-amateur-film-criticism-1237015553/

@motoridersd@pug.ninja buzz was that it was about the prosthetic nose. But also iirc Julianne Moore was splitting the vote with herself; this was the same year as Far from Heaven and I think she was nominated in best actress for that and best supporting actress for The Hours. I haven’t seen Unfaithful, but I don’t think Zellweger was gonna win for Chicago due to the biases of the academy sadly

@motoridersd@pug.ninja One of my favorite films!

@germ@deletethis.lol look germ the alternative is two hours of mundane mediocre fetch quests in order to advance one plot point interspersed with 30 second unskippable cutscenes you’ll be slamming a button on constantly and impotently because the realm was reborn~

Just thought I'd give Resident Evil a shot and I'm finding the real horror of this game is the entire early PS1 days controller scheme. What do you mean the controls are forward backwards spin spin?!