Bruce Lee: Be like water Mario: OK [fucks up the bricks in your basement then disappears through a pipe]

There’s an idea that a lot of symptoms of what we considering traditional haunting come from Victorian homes with leaky gas lamps

Ccait.bsky.socialNov 17, 2023 7:29pm

in case you've never seen it, here is the original reddit thread where a dude posts looking for legal advice bc he thinks his landlord is breaking in and leaving post it notes everywhere, and someone in the comments saves his life by correctly diagnosing him with carbon monoxide poisoning

What a glorious truth to read spelled out, so unexpectedly and necessarily and shockingly, because of where we find ourselves

Rebecca Solnit’s book “A Paradise Built In Hell” should be required reading for everyone. Basically: people are generally good & in disaster situations self-organize effectively & often joyfully. It’s when authority tries to “restore order,” that shit goes off the rails.

I've read somewhere that maybe more than anything else, "Red Nails" is the ur-text of the old-school D&D dungeon crawl. Overcoming obstacles with clever plans that make use of the environment, ancient ruins seeped with history settled by factions with their own goals, it's all there.

A U.S. Court has ruled that Marvel and DC Comics no longer hold the trademark for the term “Superhero”: https://playascifi.com/marvel-dc-lose-superhero-trademark/

This 18th-century écorché by Honoré Fragonard predates Body Worlds and plastination by 250 years. Fragonard never divulged his preservation methods. In 1771, he was expelled from his teaching position at the École Nationale Vétérinaire d'Alfort as a madman.

It's worth noting that the FRENCH rail speed record was set in Operation TGV 150 in 2007. It hit 554.3 km/h, or 344.4 mph. Overhead electric power—which, in France, means a nuclear-powered train! There is video of its land speed record run: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvGl...

PayPal is updating their ToS to let themselves give your data to merchants starting in November and they're certainly banking on people not knowing to opt out, SO to opt out before they start: go to Settings > Data & Privacy > Manage shared info > Personalized shopping, and toggle that shit off

If you want younger generations to value hard work, you have to maintain a world where hard work has value and isn’t just a method of exploitation.

Bosses are firing Gen Z grads just months after hiring them

Here’s what they say needs to change.