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It's weird -- I think the McD's theme in the last episode was right at the edge of being without taste. This show owes so much to its set/prop/costume design staff that it's OK to show off how much their work was inspired by the aesthetics of those early-80's McDonnalds restaurants. For an old like me, seeing those overhead menu boards again genuinely felt like a treat. Bloviating about how good the apple pies are was really pushing it, though.

I'm not certain whether or not it was effectively debunked, but there's a lot of personal belief and interest around the idea that one's gender is what one says it is and no amount of anatomical measurement (genital length, count of brain neurons or genetic flag) is permitted to say whether or not you are what you deem yourself to be.

If such a test did exist, then what's to be said of trans people whose gender expression doesn't line up with the test? What's to be said of cis people in the same boat? Are they trans whether they like it or not? Are they living a lie?

It's a sticky topic either way.

An Oral History of Too Many Cooks, Adult Swim's weirdest experiment ever

https://www.inverse.com/entertainment/50167-too-many-cooks-oral-history-anniversary

Oh hey, look, Turkey is doing its part to help strengthen NATO:

https://apnews.com/article/turkey-sweden-nato-erdogan-77dce28b7d7386c2e363f2468d089c11

白い鳥 黒い影 (shiroi tori, kuroi kage) = white bird, black shadow

Sadly the space burned down in a massive fire in June of this year: https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/local/fire-sk8-liborious-skate-park-north-st-louis/63-0be54560-2211-4b1e-b03d-fe862a845183

But good news: the owners just revealed plans on how they hope to bring the space back to life one more time: https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/metro/sk8-liborius-founders-prep-for-building-s-second-coming-months-after-fire/article_a2aa4b2e-653e-11ee-9e11-1f8358277dca.html

Of these, I think mother!. The Images and vibes there are taking up the most rent-free space in my brain.

I neglected to mention Gasper Noe; basically everything he's done. But his work leans too hard into palpable horrors for me to ever actively recommend.

• mother! (2017, Darren Aronofsky)
• Enemy (2013, Denis Villeneuve)
• Men (2022, Alex Garland)
• Under the Skin (2014, Jonathan Glazer)
• Us (2019, Jordan Peele)
• Titane (2021, Julia Ducournau)
• The Neon Demon (2016, Nicolas Winding Refn)
• Tideland, (2005, Terry Gilliam)

And a bunch more.

Harmon: I hate to call him out but Elijah Wood really abused having my personal number. What a vulture this guy was! He’s always wanted to be Morty. Elijah, please regain your professionalism!

Sadly, this made me laugh more than anything in How Poopy Got His Poop Back.

I just marked all my videos private over it.

Put your money where your mouth is.

"general orders" template "staff reduction"

NPR does maintain a number of good RSS feeds ( https://feeds.npr.org/ ), which are being simulcasted onto Mastodon by press.coop. They are doing this for a ton of news organizations: https://press.coop/directory

Same here.

But as a user of Firefox on mobile, I’m running into a weird persistent issue around the back button and post listings on pages beyond the first page. Sometimes, when I click into either the comments of a post or the post itself, when I click the ‘back’ button to return to the post list, sometimes I will end up on the previous page of search results (as though I pressed the back button twice).

Reloading the page seems to fix the problem (showing me the post list page that I expect), but it’s still weird.

Have you seen this?

Any national-stage politician who isn't, at the very least, simulcasting their Twitter/X posts to a fediverse account is actively backing (and consequently diminishing alternatives to) a fascist-controlled megaphone.

If he wants me to give a shit about what he has to say, he'll need to make the effort to find different coms channels through which to do it.

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It would be a crime against humanity to dilute the stunning natural beauty and magnificence of Yooper culture.

Not Risky Business era Rom Cruise?

No shit… these are like old Chuck Norris facts:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagoras

the priest of Apollo gave Pythagoras a magic arrow, which he used to fly over long distances and perform ritual purifications

A fragment from Aristotle records that, when a deadly snake bit Pythagoras, he bit it back and killed it.

he once convinced a notoriously destructive bear to swear that it would never harm a living thing again, and that the bear kept its word

You know what would be great? Low-barrier non-predatory banking services for low-income people provided by the post office like basically every other country has.