Arcpollux

Enjoys bread, perhaps a little too much.

for my review podcast

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

In America I ordered a milkshake and the young man turned it upside down over my head.

I did not move. A samurai does not flinch, even when the ice cream is above him and gravity is the law.

Nothing fell.

The cup hung there, upside down, defying the sky, and the boy held it over me with the calm of a man who has done this ten thousand times and buried his fear long ago.

This is the Blizzard. This is Dairy Queen.

If it falls, they told me, you get it free.

I understood at once. This was not dessert. This was an ordeal.

The boy was not showing off. He was swearing an oath, with his own arm, that he had made the thing thick enough to hang against the earth, and he was betting the price of it on his honor.

The flip is not a trick.

It is a vow.

In my land a smith proved his blade by cutting.

Here a boy of seventeen proves his by turning it over a stranger's head and looking him in the eye while the whole line waits to see if he lied.

He did not lie.

He set it upright, handed it to me, and said "there you go, man," then turned to the next customer as if he had not just gambled his good name across a counter.

I tipped him everything in my pocket.

He tried to give it back. He said it was just a Blizzard.

I told him it was not just a Blizzard.

I could not explain the rest in English, and there was a line, and he was busy.

So I bowed instead.

He said, "You too, man."

That answered nothing I had said.

It answered everything I had felt.

[RopesToInfinity @RopesToInfinity]

Hope the guys making this thing are recording a bunch of increasingly ominous audio logs about the process onto individual USB sticks and scattering them around the facility

[ash @contextmxnster]

you think the itsy bitsy spider gave a fuck about the rain. no. it climbed the spout again. lock in

[one dozen rats at a keyboard @PanasonicDX4500]

fifteen years ago one plane had to land in a river and it was such a big deal they made a movie about it with tom hanks.

[PESTRiCAの日常 @PESTRiCA_R]

Today I could not make a new video.
Please take this as a token of my apology.

[LaudablePractice @cath_cov]

'Sob story'

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

This is a five alarm fire.

The people elected Donald Trump to be President - not Elon Musk.

Having an unelected billionaire, with his own foreign debts and motives, raiding US classified information is a grave threat to national security.

This should not be a partisan issue.

[Sour @The_Sourkraut]

Insane things happening on the lunar surface.

[isabel @wisepissmage]

Child on this train is playing classic toys crashing into each other and exploding game. Whatever. If I had those toys I’d be concocting much more complex scenarios to put them in.

[IFC Center @IFCCenter]

"There's nothing like the big screen. The cinema is really built for the big screen and big sound, so that a person can go into another world and have an experience." - David Lynch

In recognition of the passing of a true cinema visionary, our marquee will be dark tonight.

[Banned From Wawa @HolyShitCerise]

Part of the reason Lynch's death hits so hard is that he was the last American filmmaker before the arts became so thoroughly corporatized that nothing like his work could ever slip through to the mainstream again. There'll never be another Lynch because Lynches aren't allowed.

[Joshua Minsoo Kim @misterminsoo]

Always think about this bit from David Lynch: “Write down the idea in such a way that when you read it again the idea comes back in full.” One of the most important pieces of writing advice I’ve ever read.

[Alex Hirsch @_AlexHirsch]

Impossible to find the words. David Lynch was a fundamental force of the universe, a towering iconoclast who bent the entire artform purely with the power of his subconscious. I can’t even process reality without him. Without Lynch there’s no Twin Peaks, no X-files, obviously no Gravity Falls. (My Bill Cipher voice was just a crummy Lynch impression.) But he’s so much more than that. He wrote little books about Buddhism and did morning weather reports and abducted random abandoned woody woodpecker dolls on the side of the road, calling them his “friends” and then ditching them later because they had “dark energy.” When asked to explain his art he calmly replied “no.” Trickster weirdo genius legend. Pour out a mug of black coffee for the king. There will never be another one like him. Miss you already, David

[ᴘᴏᴛᴀᴛᴜᴍ @pot8um]

Back in my day, most paid apps / software had ONE price that you paid ONCE and then you owned it FOREVER

Everything’s a subscription model now. WHY is everything, even something as simple as a photo editing app, $10+ per MONTH now

This shit is wringing people dry and for what

[Nintendo of America @NintendoAmerica]

And the name of the new console is … Wii U!

[AdequateEmily @AdequateEmily]

In my freshman year of film school, my media criticism prof showed us this video of a Sizzler promotional video, and I have never forgotten it. It’s been 7 years.

[Emmett Shear @eshear]

bath: full body immersion other than head, can sit and relax
shower: water is in motion so actually useful for cleaning, you’re not lounging in your own runoff
solution: a heated micro river, but inside your house

Who is building this?