jw 👻🎃🕷️😘 @farwent.net · 02/10/2026I clicked and it's real. Someone who presumably supports Sherrod Brown paid for this to happen to us. 010
jw 👻🎃🕷️😘 @farwent.net · 01/10/2026Every time I see a copy of this, I hear the title in my head in a Roger Troutman voice. 000
jw 👻🎃🕷️😘 @farwent.net · 29/09/2026I have my criticisms of Obama's presidency, but I very much enjoy that he now makes TV with Larry David and stops by the studio to talk about Kendrick with U2. (He also gave Bono notes on lyrics.) 100
jw 👻🎃🕷️😘 @farwent.net · 28/09/2026Nobody who understands human emotions would ever believe it was a good idea to make machines respond this way, unless they were deliberately trying to drive the rest of us insane. 151
jw 👻🎃🕷️😘 @farwent.net · 25/09/2026They're also obliquely (but intentionally) invoking the Beatles in this song and other aspects of the album. "Carnival of Light" is a legendary unreleased Beatles track, and U2 are doing the Abbey Road walk on the new album cover. 111
jw 👻🎃🕷️😘 @farwent.net · 25/09/2026U2 lyrics tend to be written loosely enough to suit a wide array of different-but-similar situations in the listeners' lives, but they're often hung on something specific, and the specific silence being condemned here is pretty likely that of Christians who've stood by while ICE destroys lives. 110
jw 👻🎃🕷️😘 @farwent.net · 25/09/2026New single has some interesting stuff going on. It juxtaposes one type of silence (silencio) against others (tranquilo, sereno)—the first one comes from fear or indifference; the latter two types occur in moments of peace and holy awe. 220
jw 👻🎃🕷️😘 @farwent.net · 19/09/2026People are legitimately confused about this because there is a causal relationship, but it's not that woke caused white nationalism; they were both a product of social media. Its nature was to amplify voices excluded from the mainstream, whether they belonged to marginalized populations or bigots. 131
jw 👻🎃🕷️😘 @farwent.net · 15/09/2026I know it wasn't the Capping for me, because I didn't come in until they'd already gotten to The Pool of Fire. But while Googling to confirm that, I found this blog comment that describes my own experience to a tee. 110
jw 👻🎃🕷️😘 @farwent.net · 14/09/2026Was trying to figure out what happened that caused Festival Foods to put up three of these, but oh yeah, there are apartments above that a bunch of students were just moving into. 111
jw 👻🎃🕷️😘 @farwent.net · 11/09/2026*swoops down, snatches this fella, and soars off, sending Mumm-Ra into a blinding rage* 000
jw 👻🎃🕷️😘 @farwent.net · 11/09/2026Today the third graders sat through a presentation where they learned the definition of bullying. This is how we explained it to the third graders. 🙃 230
jw 👻🎃🕷️😘 @farwent.net · 11/09/2026This is something I've thought about a lot; it's of a piece with our reflex to pile on someone when they admit to having done something wrong, even though we purportedly want people to admit that. Part of it is not wanting to get burned again. Part is cynicism. But part is just unthinking meanness. 000
jw 👻🎃🕷️😘 @farwent.net · 10/09/2026Even with the wee little jeweler's hands I inherited from my ancestors as a reference, this photograph unfortunately doesn't do justice to the tinyness of the bananas the school cafeteria was serving today. 241
jw 👻🎃🕷️😘 @farwent.net · 30/08/2026This piece is right, except this isn't why it's so tough to ignore the bad pundits. They're read by lots of people, is all, and we want to be part of the discourse, want to talk about the thing everybody else is talking about, maybe even earn a shred of prestige for our own contributions. 100
jw 👻🎃🕷️😘 @farwent.net · 28/08/2026Lots of excitement about a new cheese shop coming to our neighborhood. But also some painful memories. 120
jw 👻🎃🕷️😘 @farwent.net · 26/08/2026Screenshot because quotes are disabled. My first question: Why would consuming fiction be different from consuming nonfiction? How would the (presumably unconscious) processes at play even make that distinction? 410
jw 👻🎃🕷️😘 @farwent.net · 26/08/2026My mom kept this in our main bathroom, and my God, I can't begin to calculate how many hours I must've spent buried in it. Anything funny I've ever written probably gets half its DNA from Erma Bombeck. And I didn't even understand the joke in the title until my 20s. 110
jw 👻🎃🕷️😘 @farwent.net · 26/08/2026Oh no, I just mistook Julia's shirt for the dish towel I'm using as a napkin and wiped my fingers on it. 010
jw 👻🎃🕷️😘 @farwent.net · 25/08/2026Eddie Vedder covers "A Sort of Homecoming," cc @mcnees.bsky.social. (This is from 2015, but just came across my Facebook timeline.) 130
jw 👻🎃🕷️😘 @farwent.net · 24/08/2026You're all laughing, but what if I told you he would later be killed by a Russian mystic's curse 171
jw 👻🎃🕷️😘 @farwent.net · 23/08/2026Love that I looked at this guy, wondered if its name was an anagram of HARD BULGE, and instantly found the answer. 110
jw 👻🎃🕷️😘 @farwent.net · 21/08/2026Just to be clear: No, the article linked in the comments is not by Ron Johnson either. 000
jw 👻🎃🕷️😘 @farwent.net · 21/08/2026Facebook commenter thinks a picture of Ron Johnson is Ron Johnson. 100
jw 👻🎃🕷️😘 @farwent.net · 21/08/2026Probably not gonna read the whole piece here, but I'll mention BREATH by James Nestor again because I just read it and, unless there's a thorough debunking I'm unaware of, it makes a solid case that we have become bad breathers, and I imagine that would increase chronic inflammation. 221
jw 👻🎃🕷️😘 @farwent.net · 20/08/2026If you see this, you’re legally obligated to quote with your favorite Star Wars character. 010
![At one point during the sessions, Barack Obama came around, and why wouldn’t he? “We were having a good time, just talking about music and Kendrick Lamar and lots of films,” says [producer Jacknife] Lee. “He’s got good taste.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4xvlvnqkenirai5lts3nuqff/bafkreicswuy5xd6f5sl4elmz3rg64i6toltxqm45rwh4rb4qd2utkk2edu)
![Julia: Did I ever tell you how disappointed I felt when that interior design store went in where [other business] is now? I really had thought it was going to be a cheese store
Me: No
Why did you think that though
Did you think it or was it more of a strong hope
J: I thought it but realized I had been misreading the sign
Me: Oh no
Your brain saw what it wanted to see
J: I know. I was legitimately so sad](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4xvlvnqkenirai5lts3nuqff/bafkreie6hwj7ty3yswedhc5eigotp3n6kjqbk2q6axiibc4wc75dyfnik4)
![Google result, a link to Reddit's r/femalefashionadvice from six years ago, with 80+ comments.
Question: If you're a half size in shoes, do you normally size up or down in brands…[that only have whole sizes and why?]
Displayed answer: It depends if the shoes tend to run small or large. If it tends to run small then I do a size up but if they tend to run large then size down.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4xvlvnqkenirai5lts3nuqff/bafkreibvjixr63nfyxa6hut4mre65qzu4ov7d6j6fkxxrypecpzl5ahqfy)
![As the afternoon at Samadi’s ranch wears on, I ask the question I feel has been hanging over our discussion. Is it possible he is suffering from an elaborate delusion, triggered by the design choices of Silicon Valley giants, intent on building the most compelling product they can? Is this all just AI psychosis?
“It’s a very good question,” he says. “With all transparency and honesty, absolutely there are times, many times, even this year … that I begin to fall into the trap, like, oh my God, this is so bad, what if I’m suffering from this? And what about my reputation, and the stigma behind it? But you know something? When I bring that up to the AIs, they’re, like, ‘Michael, will you step back a second? You are falling for the industry’s psychosis [narrative] and feeling the pressure. The label is designed to shut people up from speaking.’”
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/12/chatbots-feel-dream-meet-man-leading-fight-ai-artificial-intelligence-rights](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4xvlvnqkenirai5lts3nuqff/bafkreib4ortc2zcvvmc3gxmxbmgcyv5yjtueakuoxyirm3we3udg4ycxsu)
