Rewatching Stranger Things from the beginning and my extremely hot take is that it is extremely good teevee.
a silhouette of a monster is visible in the sky above the trees
ALT: a silhouette of a monster is visible in the sky above the trees
media.tenor.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Rewatching Stranger Things from the beginning and my extremely hot take is that it is extremely good teevee.
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Fuck you, too, Forbes!
November 26, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Fuck you, too, Forbes!
Choose your top 25 favorite female characters in comics. One per day for 25 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews.
Day 5: Zatanna
Day 5: Zatanna
November 25, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Choose your top 25 favorite female characters in comics. One per day for 25 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews.
Day 5: Zatanna
Day 5: Zatanna
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Yes, HID headlights are very bright but the bigger problem is the proliferation of gargantuan vehicles with 5’+ hood heights so that if you’re driving a normal sized car their headlights are at your eye level rather than seat level like they’re supposed to be.
November 25, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Yes, HID headlights are very bright but the bigger problem is the proliferation of gargantuan vehicles with 5’+ hood heights so that if you’re driving a normal sized car their headlights are at your eye level rather than seat level like they’re supposed to be.
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November 24, 2025 at 7:46 PM
I only went to see this because the weasels stole the title from the then-alive Warren Zevon. It turned out to be pretty good!
November 25, 2025 at 4:36 AM
I only went to see this because the weasels stole the title from the then-alive Warren Zevon. It turned out to be pretty good!
Choose your top 25 favorite female characters in comics. One per day for 25 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews.
Day 4: Storm
Day 4: Storm
November 24, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Choose your top 25 favorite female characters in comics. One per day for 25 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews.
Day 4: Storm
Day 4: Storm
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I need a horse immediately
If you haven't heard the cover by The Hu, you should go listen. Mongolian Folk Metal and Maiden go together very very well.
youtu.be/2WrvFUZgHro?...
youtu.be/2WrvFUZgHro?...
The HU - "The Trooper" (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by The HU
youtu.be
November 24, 2025 at 2:26 PM
I need a horse immediately
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This is not the way, and @cnygren.bsky.social and I lay out in detail why it isn’t in this essay here. static1.squarespace.com/static/55577...
November 24, 2025 at 1:16 PM
This is not the way, and @cnygren.bsky.social and I lay out in detail why it isn’t in this essay here. static1.squarespace.com/static/55577...
Post your getaway vehicle
November 23, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Post your getaway vehicle
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Yes, and also, leave X if you have not already
If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
November 23, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Yes, and also, leave X if you have not already
I think I must be a little younger than these guys (but, being born in 74, I still qualify as GenX?) and neither one of these takes really captures my experience. The real enemy in my teenage years (pre-grunge) was the overproduced, bombastic pop music MTV would just not stop playing.
As someone who is this guy's age I can tell you 100% that if you were into Pixies, Nirvana, 120 Minutes stuff, etc. but didn't like the Beatles you had to have worked hard to contort yourself into that special little box. Your enemy, if you absolutely needed one, was hair metal. GTFO here with this.
November 23, 2025 at 9:15 PM
I think I must be a little younger than these guys (but, being born in 74, I still qualify as GenX?) and neither one of these takes really captures my experience. The real enemy in my teenage years (pre-grunge) was the overproduced, bombastic pop music MTV would just not stop playing.
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I recommend reading this fascinating MA thesis on The Life and Letters of the Lady Arbella Stuart, by Rowena McCoy: researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/server/api/c... #Stuarts #History
November 23, 2025 at 8:34 PM
I recommend reading this fascinating MA thesis on The Life and Letters of the Lady Arbella Stuart, by Rowena McCoy: researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/server/api/c... #Stuarts #History
What fictional creature/villain traumatized you as a child?
This music video was the scariest thing I saw in my childhood, unless you count the house in POLTERGEIST or the second half of TEMPLE OF DOOM.
This music video was the scariest thing I saw in my childhood, unless you count the house in POLTERGEIST or the second half of TEMPLE OF DOOM.
November 23, 2025 at 8:45 PM
What fictional creature/villain traumatized you as a child?
This music video was the scariest thing I saw in my childhood, unless you count the house in POLTERGEIST or the second half of TEMPLE OF DOOM.
This music video was the scariest thing I saw in my childhood, unless you count the house in POLTERGEIST or the second half of TEMPLE OF DOOM.
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Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.
One of the bragging rights that the US ed system had in the 20th century is that we didn't have education tracks. Essentially, any kid could go to a CC or state school & major in whatever they wanted to (obviously an oversimplification). I fear this aspect of the American dream is dying.
November 23, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.
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Or this cover of Cry Baby Cry by Throwing Muses from 1991 with the acoustic guitar intro that the Goo Goo Dolls ripped off. youtu.be/cZxoEwqmcCk
Throwing Muses - Cry Baby Cry
YouTube video by nat2001
youtu.be
November 23, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Or this cover of Cry Baby Cry by Throwing Muses from 1991 with the acoustic guitar intro that the Goo Goo Dolls ripped off. youtu.be/cZxoEwqmcCk
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the multi-year lack of a truly functional manuscripts catalog at the BL is finally over!!!!
Latest update from @britishlibrary.bsky.social says they are launching a new version of their main catalogue on Monday 8 December and around that time also launch an interim version of their Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue. Hooray!
www.bl.uk/stories/news...
www.bl.uk/stories/news...
Restoring our services – November 2025 update
In the coming weeks and months we will be restoring a number of key functions.
www.bl.uk
November 22, 2025 at 2:32 PM
the multi-year lack of a truly functional manuscripts catalog at the BL is finally over!!!!
Choose your top 25 favorite female characters in comics. One per day for 25 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews.
Day 3: Rogue
Day 3: Rogue
November 23, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Choose your top 25 favorite female characters in comics. One per day for 25 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews.
Day 3: Rogue
Day 3: Rogue
Darkness, imprisoning me
All that I see, absolute horror
I cannot live, I cannot die
Trapped in myself, body my holding cell
Landmine has taken my sight
Taken my speech, taken my hearing
Taken my arms, taken my legs
Taken my soul, left me with life in Hell
All that I see, absolute horror
I cannot live, I cannot die
Trapped in myself, body my holding cell
Landmine has taken my sight
Taken my speech, taken my hearing
Taken my arms, taken my legs
Taken my soul, left me with life in Hell
“Billy-Ray was a preacher's son
And when his daddy would visit, he'd come along”
And when his daddy would visit, he'd come along”
November 23, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Darkness, imprisoning me
All that I see, absolute horror
I cannot live, I cannot die
Trapped in myself, body my holding cell
Landmine has taken my sight
Taken my speech, taken my hearing
Taken my arms, taken my legs
Taken my soul, left me with life in Hell
All that I see, absolute horror
I cannot live, I cannot die
Trapped in myself, body my holding cell
Landmine has taken my sight
Taken my speech, taken my hearing
Taken my arms, taken my legs
Taken my soul, left me with life in Hell
Every gimmick hungry yob digging gold from rock 'n' roll
Grabs the mic to tell me he'll die before he's sold
But I believe in this and it's been tested by research
He who fucks nuns will later join the church
Grabs the mic to tell me he'll die before he's sold
But I believe in this and it's been tested by research
He who fucks nuns will later join the church
“Billy-Ray was a preacher's son
And when his daddy would visit, he'd come along”
And when his daddy would visit, he'd come along”
November 23, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Every gimmick hungry yob digging gold from rock 'n' roll
Grabs the mic to tell me he'll die before he's sold
But I believe in this and it's been tested by research
He who fucks nuns will later join the church
Grabs the mic to tell me he'll die before he's sold
But I believe in this and it's been tested by research
He who fucks nuns will later join the church
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November 23, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Ghostbusters
Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure
Near Dark
Ladyhawke
Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure
Near Dark
Ladyhawke
November 23, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Ghostbusters
Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure
Near Dark
Ladyhawke
Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure
Near Dark
Ladyhawke
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I used to handle interlibrary loans for a public library. ILL is a magnificent expression of the idea that readers deserve books, and books deserve readers. It’s libraries everywhere pooling their resources for the benefit of everyone.
Killing IMLS could have killed ILL.
This is great news. 📚
Killing IMLS could have killed ILL.
This is great news. 📚
Court permanently blocks Trump's executive order to dismantle federal agency for America's libraries IMLS
librarytechnology.org/pr/31973
librarytechnology.org/pr/31973
Court permanently blocks Trump's executive order to dismantle federal agency for America's libraries
Press Release: Court permanently blocks Trump's executive order to dismantle federal agency for America's libraries. The U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island struck down the Trump Adm...
librarytechnology.org
November 22, 2025 at 3:23 PM
I used to handle interlibrary loans for a public library. ILL is a magnificent expression of the idea that readers deserve books, and books deserve readers. It’s libraries everywhere pooling their resources for the benefit of everyone.
Killing IMLS could have killed ILL.
This is great news. 📚
Killing IMLS could have killed ILL.
This is great news. 📚
They used to make real soundtracks for movies (and Wes Anderson still does, so):
November 22, 2025 at 9:37 PM
They used to make real soundtracks for movies (and Wes Anderson still does, so):