About a month ago a actress came in and said she wanted to learn to actually knit instead of just making knit-like motions for a coming audition. We showed her the basics and she came back and said she got the part! and gave us some homemade banana bread. This is what busines success looks like
I know its something that ultimately doesnt matter at all but opening up a fortune cookie and getting nothing but ads for a fintech service is a sign that something has gone terribly wrong
As grotesque and obviously AI generated images start to appear on every single menu, poster, billboard, etc I’m starting to understand why the Amish are like that
A very confused looking man walked into my shop today saying “google told me you guys take… food donations..???” I directed him to a nearby foodbank but its very cool to see that the entire world is now michael scott driving into a lake
Watching christopher nolan's THE ODYSSEY as it was intended to be seen (on my phone, with a screaming baby on my lap, using a pirated version that has burned-in spanish and dutch subtitles for some reason)
RE: https://mastodon.social/@kottke/116994028497632581
I was at a cvs a few days ago, and needed to buy a baby thermometer which was on one of those pegs with a lock on it, so I pushed the button to summon the guy to get it for me. And when he arrived instead of getting his key out he just ripped the whole item off the peg and gave it to me. "a lot faster this way" he said
Charles Darwin owes me an explanation for why humans evolved underbaked ass infants that can’t do anything for six months but no marsupial pouches to haul them around in