Empty out the locker room, let me find my space location: more like GREATEST Boston "delightfully Bostonian", I'm told. • Blog: https://smadin.net/ • Fediverse: https://better.boston/@smadin
Tea towels are back up for preorder and will mail out mid-August- being manufactured in 🇬🇧 as I type! pigeonpost.shop/products/pos...
Postal Birds Tea Towel (Preorder)Preorder - expected to mail out in mid-August! This colorful tea towel reimagines United States Postal Service mailboxes if every state had its own design featuring their state bird. Quite a few state...pigeonpost.shop
Reminds me of how all racists think that everybody’s secretly also racist.
Elizabeth Lopattoit's so funny to me that writers who use AI are like "oh most writers use AI." today I saw a new riff on this: "oh all those people who publicly shit on AI ask me for help with Claude." hacks know that if they admit to using AI in their writing they have to pretend it's normal
Q: Doug, did you spend months researching the cultural history of salted caramel? A: Sure did. Here's 3,000 words on this oddly fascinating subject!
The long, sticky rise of salted caramelInvestigating a modern candy’s origins and evolution from Brittany to Blumenthal to your local candy aislesnackstack.net
We hear this at mothership allll the time and it makes me so extremely sad. As an editor you have a responsibility to protect your writer from lack of clarity, falsehoods, and poor structure. Which also means if things go wrong the editor is also at fault!!
Peter GI've very rarely had editors do any kind of editing of my work while in games media. It has made me feel very self-conscious because I'm not sure if I'm writing anything good or not. It has also robbed me of opportunities to grow out of bad habits because I don't even know if they are bad.
Ti West made an entire horror trilogy about how Hollywood is built on the abuse and exploitation of women and immediately decided to help make this.
Kat TenbargeThere’s an even more sinister angle to Johnny Depp’s ongoing “comeback” tour as the new Scrooge—it’s a Paramount production and part of a slate of Ellison-backed conservative cultural takeover attempts. It’s angled around MeToo rejection and the manosphere. spitfirenews.com/p/johnny-dep...
Glen Hansard met his costar, Markéta Irglová, in 2001 when she was 13 and said "I had been falling in love with her for a long time, but I kept telling myself she's just a kid." He was 31 when he met her. They dated for about 2 years once she turned 18, and he was literally twice her age. So.
Aside from its many other problems, the idea Fauci was America's power-abusing covid dictator is somewhat complicated by the fact that he never had the power to do the things they're mad about. His recommendations bound nobody and were not particularly rigorously followed by the actual policymakers.
Hurling F-bombs at an 85-year-old scientist who won’t fight back doesn’t make you tough. Staying silent after your own daughter accused Rep. Max Miller of holding a gun to her head, pushing her against a wall, and fracturing your granddaughter’s collarbone makes you a coward.
Aaron RuparMoreno to Fauci: "Who the fuck did you think you were?"
yes, but I think it's also about defusing the "Elon Musk killed millions by destroying USAID" narrative by making "so-and-so killed millions" allegations look facially absurd
ScottOhhh, maybe I'm late to this realization but Tuberville gives it away: this circus is to establish a counter-narrative to the (actually true) "Elon Musk is a mass murderer".
