Kurt Van Ristell

A crown of thorns is still a crown

Querying BLOODWALK: psychological Tennessee horror
Poetry @chillsubs :

[lumberjack @idmpredator]

Some one smarter than me could probably explain what it means that the infinite subspace beneath reality has transitioned over the last century from a library to an empty, decrepit, office

[Kurt Van Ristell @SecretVan]

"Beneficial Bloodsucking? Now who could have writte... Ahh..."

[Possum Reviews @ReviewsPossum]

It's true. They're seriously talking about genetically enhancing the disease-spreading capability of ticks to make people allergic to meat to force them to stop eating it, and they call it "morally obligatory."

[Jonathan Blow @Jonathan_Blow]

Games take so long to make now, sometimes you can tell the major creative decisions were made 5 years ago.

[Patrick Maguire @patrickkmaguire]

This decade's Liam Byrne note

[MΛЯIПΛ @oscillate23]

"The Alchemist Who Has Achieved Illumination", a famous historical illustration found within the 18th-century alchemical manuscript known as the Clavis Artis.

[Kyle 🚄 @KyleTrainEmoji]

PICARD: Data, shields up

DATA: Brilliant! Shields can reduce damage we sustain. Not immunity. Not hubris. Just prudence. It's not precaution—it's strategy.

[camera shakes]

WORF: HULL BREACHES ON NINE DECKS

DATA: Here's what happened: you told me to raise shields, and I didn't

[Kurt Van Ristell @SecretVan]

I eat 30+ meals a day by skipping everything but the salad

[fooler initiative @metroadlib]

WHAT IS HAPPENING?!?!

WHAT IS HAPPENING?!!!

WHAT?!!!

[Kurt Van Ristell @SecretVan]

It's a real mystery

https://t.co/DowKNcUpbg

[Lord Victor ⏸️ @lordvictor]

Why are women obsessed with Medusa not being a villain?

[Kurt Van Ristell @SecretVan]

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[Spy-D‼️| FF8 @_SpyDtroid_]

THIS DIABLOS SUMMON ANIMATION IS FUCKING INSANE

[Kurt Van Ristell @SecretVan]

CEO of Abacus Anvils after learning this

[Alex Griswold @HashtagGriswold]

It’s a gag lost to time. Acme is a Greek word for “pinnacle” that became ubiquitous for a time because it gave companies better placement in the phonebook. The Great Depression version of SEO.

[Paras Chopra @paraschopra]

Today I learned that in English:

words starting with "gl-" often relate to light: gleam, glint, glance, glare, glaze, glimpse, glitter, gloss, glower, glisten, glaze, glitz, glazed.

words starting with "sn-" often relate to nose: sniff, sneeze, snuff, snore, snort, snot.

[Paras Chopra @paraschopra]

Ok, so I learned that these are called phonesthemes :)

[Kurt Van Ristell @SecretVan]

CIA accountants figuring out the cost per head of this week's opinion drop

[Daniel Friedman @DanFriedman81]

The budget for “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” was $100 million per year. It had a full time staff of 200 people, and was reaching just 2.7 million viewers on an average night during the show’s final quarter on the air.

Colbert was the most-watched late night host. Jimmy Kimmel has a linear audience of 2 million, while Jimmy Fallon draws about 1.3 million. Jon Stewart on The Daily Show reaches 900k to 1 million, which more than doubles the 400k that watched when Trevor Noah was the host.

Kimmel earns $16 million, Fallon earns $16 million, and Stewart makes $25 million. They had to pay him that to salvage the show after Noah, who was earning $16 million per year, lost more than two-thirds of his audience.

None of the math for any of these shows works.

[VMU @VeeEmYou]

30 years ago you didn't need to be 50 years old to head major projects or have responsibility.

[Greg the Sorcerer @gregthesorcerer]

Tweets from the 18th century

[han @hanonfilm]

obsessed with whatever is wrong with london 😭 #mandalorianandgrogu

[Kurt Van Ristell @SecretVan]

And if you dare complain about this salary be prepared for dozens and dozens of crabs to passive aggressively imply you've gotten too big for your bucket.

[Roko 🐉 @RokoMijic]

Job vacancy in the Yookay

Shaping the future of AI governance

Pay is £39.4k - that's $53k - gross

Net of all the paypig taxes, you'd take home about £29,500 - which is about $40k.

To earn the equivalent net of this in the USA you could get a team lead job at Walmart (18 months experience stacking shelves)

[Lynsey Parker @LynseyJParker]

What the hell did Brum do?

[Mr. Chau @Srirachachau]

All-timer Homer pose