the girly who shall end all girls

i was looking at a house listing that could really use a coat of paint tonight. what with one thing and another i ended up playing with Sherwin-Williams' ColorSnap, which is basically adult coloring/house porn. you can use their photos, or upload your own and paint over them. then you can download the picture you colored with the paint chips. (so you can go off to the store, of course.) i'm a Benjamin Moore fan from my time in hardware, but this thing is addictive fun.

we finally made an order with Saint Javelin for some fun swag that supports humanitarian aid in Ukraine. (for US peeps, the prices are in CAD.) i grew up on a farm* so one of the things i got was a sticker inspired by this and other Ukranian farmers towing away military equipment with tractors.

an incompetent person at work is getting fired for being incompetent. i might have felt bad about it a couple weeks ago because they were a nice person who seemed eager. but at this point i can't wait for them to be gone so i can stop worrying about what they will break next. maybe i'll find time to write a locked post when the dust settles.

holy shit the Obi-Wan Kenobi teaser trailer dropped. i have read novels upon novels worth of Kenobi fanfic during the pandemic and am heavily emotionally invested in the character... so I am both thrilled and terrified by this thing. it reminds me of waiting for Wonder Woman. i'm worried that it's going to retcon his final scene in Star Wars in some awkward way, among other dumb things Disney is capable of. (and i know there's stuff that just isn't happening here; he's not going to have a cry about Satine and if we ever do find out what happened to Korkie it will be elsewhere.)

one of the side-effects of the war in Ukraine is that C and i are having rich conversations about geopolitics and the Cold War. a) the conversations are just good b) this is totally how we ended up dating originally, talking for hours about this kind of shit. so while everything is awful, this is also nostalgic and by association kind of sexy?

i am kind of in love with what sounds like a Goth cover album that i would have worked into my college radio show every week but is actually the Chipmunks on 16 speed.



*insert rant here about John Deere's current practices and also, hey it's Ukranian hackers that help farmers around the world do their own tractor maintenance

my joy at this knows no bounds.

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1. via tozka, Nina Paley of Sita Sings the Blues fame is a massive (and proud) TERF.

2. this lost baby goat being returned to the wild melted my heart. video, best with sound on.

3. i've been struggling with my hair a bit lately; turns out i failed to notice that the Overtone color-depositing conditioner i've been using has a bad silicone in it. glad i haven't ordered more, at least now i know what's up and how to solve it.

4. The Venture Bros has been cancelled. well, surprise, it took something like 17 years to produce 7 seasons. people are trying to get HBO Max to pick it up, fingers crossed. meanwhile, i realized that we hadn't yet purchased season 7, now that's on order.

5. i am rereading the Queen's Thief books in preparation for the new one coming out in October. squeeeeeee

Service call confirmed: dead modem. Visitors will recognize that it's probably been coughing blood for months. But hey, it was about 10 years old so I think it did its job and certainly proved that renting is a sucker bet.
Got free same day delivery of a new one (a younger and beefier brother of the old one) and I am enjoying it now. C even gets a dedicated network for his cloud gaming.
We used this moment (and the inevitable upsell attempt) to sign up for a new provider. It will be in C's name this time so all the service stuff is easy.

i thought i posted half of these some time ago. apparently i did not. thanks to folks in my circle who may have been the original source of some of these, alas i don't remember now.


this cosmonaut posts nifty videos from the ISS

the fish that live in a flooded stairwell in Philadelphia

an excellent interview with Penn Jillette

this is what the vantablack guy does with his power

video: Stephen Colbert Connects Chance the Rapper with "Lord of the Rings" dude can recite Silmarillion poetry from memory.

Denver airport embraces their lizard people overlords

all about manufacturing clothing for WWII spies

interview with a cast member from the short-lived live action component of the Disney Haunted Mansion

archive scan of a Japanese book of wave patterns

nerdy discussion of megapixels in digital cameras

an assortment of wacky medieval art

an analysis of what objects we use as a size reference over time which leads into a discussion of familiarity with pigeon's eggs.

Anne Lister, and her spiffy plaque at the site of the first (unofficial) gay church marriage in England

moving to Chernobyl

paleoburrows by GIANT SLOTHS

fan art: In Which Beruthiel's Cats Explore Middle Earth

Hendra virus and anti-vaxxers people who disguise being cheap in stupid ideology suck, also Australia wants to kill us in as many ways as possible. eep.

the myriad ways to romanize the spelling of the current Jewish holiday with the nice candles

All of Tor.com’s Original Short Fiction From 2018

naye shared a gallery of the silly things flagged by Tumblr's bot

Jughead meets Sabrina the teenage COOL TEEN


talk transcript about how fandom joined the Pinboard user base i think this was via jesse_the_k? sold me on a Pinboard membership, thanks!

Okay, brain trust, here are the previously mentioned Japanese anons. What is this? Feel free to share, it's too weird not to.

The following showed up as comments on this post.* Google Translate makes it sound like one side of a text or chat conversation. The IP is from KDDI - so a mobile phone in Tokyo? It doesn't read like typical spam (and I hope it's not offensive) but I'm guessing that there's some idioms that aren't being translated correctly.

Someone wanted to go out for drinks but got stood up?

(screened comment) no subject
Date: 2018-04-26 12:09 am (local)
From: (Anonymous) IP Address: (106.132.134.9)
ほんとに今すぐここに来るの？
( 51 more comments in Japanese )

Machine translated:
(screened comment) no subject
Date: 2018-04-26 12: 09 am (local)
From: (Anonymous) IP Address: (106.132.134.9)
Do you really come here right now?
( the full Google Translate )



*alas, it is not Japanese Ea-Nasir fans.

today I learned that there's a redditor who has slowly been taking over moderation of subs with "pussy" in the name and converting them from porn content to cat content. they are a pure joy.

Seriously, how can you resist PussyLicker?

Bonus: GirlsWithHugePussies and CasualCock

End the cruel tyrany of cucumbers.

Behold, pickle cat!