a new twitter meme appears
something about spider research in the amazon
apparently it's a movie quote?
and you feel something strange
it takes a bit, but then you realize
you feel... nothing?
no urge to join in, to riff
and it dawns on you
it's over
you are, at last, truly free
just got a push notification on my phone at two in the morning, to let me know that a person i do not follow or recognize has tweeted a mild clapback against someone else i do not follow or recognize
so uh
guess i'm progressing to the "desktop-only" part of my twitter phase-out
you ever do that thing where you hear a classic 90s song for the first time, parse the lyrics as one of the most beautiful anti-suicide anthems you have ever heard, and then look it up and find out it's actually about the film "cat-women on the moon" (1953)
looking back, "it is incredibly difficult to understand why customers like this product" was a really weird message for cinnamon toast crunch to be pushing
today has been Complicated and full of Events
but also it is maybe the only time i'll ever get to improv the line "well, steal my pillow and call me geraldine, you've done it!"
(because the team had won but also they had stolen my pillow and called me geraldine)
In Super Mario Sunshine, a Yoshi disintegrates if it does not eat a fruit every 3 minutes. If such a Yoshi wished to live for as long as possible, it would need to consume 480 fruits per day, or 175200 fruits per year. Below is a visualization of that amount.
went to "stranger things: the experience" with my work friends
i haven't seen the show still, but 'spretty neat! good acting, major-theme-park-level special effects, you get to wear a wristband if that's something you're a fan of
if i have any mutuals here waiting for a code to the Other Place, the one whose name is the Color of the Upness, let me know
i must refer to it only indirectly, as if i were an old norse bard, lest i be searched