Chebucto Regional Softball Club

@401matthall

I think he didn’t have any awareness of how obnoxious he was being. All the rolling eyes and long sighs from the packed train car of people going to work (he was clearly coming home-and I get it you have no down time and you didn’t charge your earbuds. And you probably work nights. Or your life is so off the rails you are just out of synch with the whole city and that’s not fun. But, this is not the way.) I don’t think I was the only one just watching the show.

On a longer ride I could have asked him to angle the screen better. Taken out some popcorn. Asked what he thought about the stilted dialogue. (No one just explains their feelings like that. It’s so unrealistic. But the prop they used for that skeleton was cool.)

We’re watching TV together now? OK.

Guy on my subway watching TV on his phone: volume up: we are all in *his* livingroom. I’m annoyed. But, say nothing (you never know what someone is going through. Don’t wanna go through “it” with them? don’t step on stage. Anyway.) I’m right next to him. The show is loud. I start, sort of, unintentionally watching over his shoulder. It was like “Bones” or “CSI” (horrible dialogue. “You always saw him as a father figure.” blech!)

He *notices* I’m watching? Gets annoyed! Lmao turns it off.

There is an opera about Nixon going to China. AN OPERA. Yes. And? It's good.

It's one of my favorite operas. No irony.

In it Nixon sings about how much he hates the press. The chairman dances. You don't need to "get" opera (musical theater but MORE) to enjoy it.

I wish it could break containment. Opera fans respect it. But, no one else ever mentions it. I don't think they understand how *funny* it is, how blessed we are that it exists. (I assume John Adams knows what he did though.)

@chris_hayes

The thread is broken can you put a link, please?

@colinpurrington

I never really liked carrots much until I started growing my own on our roof garden. They have a freshness, and "green flavor" when you use them only a day or so after harvesting ... Anyway I just know these were awesome.

@feelnotes

I know of it. Isn't it one of those kind of impossible to read books?

But if it deals with this kind of horror I might be curious?

The essential horror of the #backrooms is the horror of scale. The mundane becomes grotesque when we're forced to confront it alone. Not one empty room, but millions. Not a few dozen cubicles, but a cubical farm that stretches as far as the eye can see.

Through specialization, automation we create these monstrosities.

One of my favorite "levels" simply contains billions beer cozies in bubble packs. None of the labels legible. Every one is different.

"It was like the meadow but...There were no aphids, no other colonies, and just the same kind of grass ... forever."
"It couldn't have gone on forever."
"I think it did. And something had been nibbling at the grass... it was all the EXACT same hight. Something big and precise. I've never seen grass eaten like that."
"That is scary."
"And then I suddenly came to... I guess a riverbank? But there was no river. Just sand. But no plants, no ant nests. It was smooth and empty as far as I could see."

To ants a golf course must seem like the #backrooms. An alien landscape that imitates a forest or glade, but strangely repetitive, devoid of other living things.

If we think about the alienation and confusion of the ant on a golf course we can understand what the backrooms might be. You see grass and trees. You think it's an environment you know. (You see rooms, you see electric lights) The backrooms are just a game-board for minds with aims beyond our own.

Leave a short public comment saying that people should use their gender not "assigned sex at birth" on their passport.

The point of doing this is so that the public comments cannot be used as a talking point in support of the dangerous and discriminatory changes they want to make.

The public comment won't stop them but overwhelming opposition will make them useless.

Take 3min and type something.

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/02/14/2025-02648/30-day-notice-of-proposed-information-collection-application-for-a-us-passport#open-comment

@bytebro @foone

I didn't know about it. It looks interesting!

@lemondisco

Spring is coming!

They are collecting sunlight!

@foone

Most ant fonts are texture-based since written ant languages generally use "ant brail" -- the textures are based on the various abrasion and punching methods the ants once used to hold pheromones in the early development of written language. But, no modern ant languages ever depend on pheromones alone. Pheromones convey general tone.

There are many ways to stylize the textures and long arguments about the best ant brail fonts.

(this is fiction... but what if it wasn't?)

@josh0

She always gets her way. That's just how things are.

Supervised browsing.

She won’t let him use the mouse. #picathecat

@rationaldoge

myrmepropagandist (@futurebird@sauropods.win)

The Rubber Mallet Man hits us on the head three times every day. No one knows why. I think he just enjoys it. But, what can you do? It hurts so much. I hate it. But, today was the WORST day. While I was in line waiting to get my bonks, I saw that the guy in front of me was hit just ONE time! Naturally, I was furious. I threw a fit until they dragged the bastard back and bonked him two more times. I'm definitely getting angry about the right things in this situation.

Sauropods.win (sauropods.win)

@reginaldodr @wakame @DrinkFromTheCup

Looking back I think he was trying to get me angry, but I was just baffled by his arguments and desperately trying to make sense of anything he was even saying. Now that I know a bit more about the "outlook" he was falling into I don't think I would bother letting the conversation continue as long as it did.