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cyberghostface in scans_daily - Jessica Jones is finally getting another mature title…
cosmolinguist - I survived this week!
xkcd_feed - Eliminating the Impossible
dolorosa_12 - Friday open thread: fundamental changes
skygiants - (no subject)
openculture_feed - A Tour Inside the Chelsea Hotel: Once Home to Bob Dylan, Patti Smith, Leonard Cohen & More
openculture_feed - How the Golden Gate Bridge Was Built: A 3D Animated Introduction
hafnia - Talking Meme Month - day 19
cosmolinguist - What are the odds? And some of us are very odd
cyberghostface in scans_daily - Luna Snow: World Tour #1
turlough in common_nature - tiny long-tailed tit
mrkinch - 2/18/2026 Berkeley Meadow
oracne - Reading Wednesday, Yes I Know It Is Thursday
tcampbell1000 in scans_daily - Bottomfeeder: JUSTICE LEAGUE AMERICA #43-44 (JLI 59)
heartsways in scans_daily - I Saw Santa #2
openculture_feed - The Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead: A Guidebook for Surviving the Afterlife
openculture_feed - Herbie Hancock Explains the Big Lesson He Learned From Miles Davis: Every Mistake in Music, as in Li
wildeabandon - Doors closing, windows opening.
hafnia - Talking Meme Month - day 18
vivien - Random Wednesday

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… but it’s under the Red Band label which means no digital release. Talk about a monkey’s paw situation. (For me at least; I just prefer digital at this point.)

Still, it’s nice to see Jessica Jones kicking around. Bendis and Gaydos’ original run remains one of my favorites and Jessica was his best original character by far. She had such an interesting personality there that she really hasn’t had under other writers. Hopefully the mature label will bring some of that back.

ALIAS: RED BAND #1 (OF 5)
Written by SAM HUMPHRIES
Art by GERALDO BORGES
Cover by DAVID MACK
Variant Cover by ELENA CASAGRANDE
Variant Cover by JEEHYUNG LEE
Virgin Variant Cover by JEEHYUNG LEE
On Sale 3/11
THE RETURN OF JESSICA JONES! A series of grisly murders in Hell's Kitchen pulls Jessica Jones into a mystery more sinister than she could've ever imagined. As the wife of Mayor Luke Cage, she'll have to tread carefully as she forms a dangerous alliance with Typhoid Mary to track down the killer. But as she delves deeper into Hell's Kitchen's dark underbelly, the evidence she finds presents more questions than answers…

( Covers under the cut… )

cosmolinguist

I am so tired I can hardly string a sentence together but I wanted to say that today went great from a "finding a new place on my own" perspective, from actually being incredibly useful from a work perspective. Getting back was actually the annoying part (road works made it difficult to escape the area I'd arrived to by bus, and I got lost trying to walk back to anywhere I could get a bus or Uber; getting back from Stockport took much longer thanks to Piccadilly still being closed).

But I made it just in time to get to a much-needed yoga session, and got home to eat delicious takeout, and a basically-empty weekend and most-of-a-week off now stretches before me.

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https://xkcd.com/3210/

'If you've eliminated a few possibilities and you can't think of any others, your weird theory is proven right' isn't quite as rhetorically compelling.

https://xkcd.com/3210/

dolorosa_12

I wasn't sure how to title this week's open thread, but hopefully it will become clear what I'm asking.

Today's prompt is inspired by an article I read in my hometown's local newspaper, looking into the history behind Australia's adoption of decimal currency, which happened 60 years ago. They interviewed a woman who works at Australia's national mint (Canberra being Canberra, I — like virtually every Canberran school child — went on a school trip to the mint at some point, and it's also located on the same street as a) the pool where I learnt to swim, b) the location of my gymnastics club (although this moved to another venue two years after I started gymnastics classes), and c) the place where I did first aid training when I was working in child care), and the whole thing is a great snapshot of a moment of fundamental change in the way Australians lived their day-to-day lives.

Similar changes I can think of include Sweden shifting to driving on the right-hand side of the road, Samoa shifting into a different time zone in 2011, various countries changing to the Gregorian calendar, or massive political shifts such as a country gaining independence or having its borders redrawn (e.g. German reunification, the breakup of Yugoslavia or the Soviet Union, etc), or becoming part of the EU or similar international groupings.

So my question is: are there any similar fundamental changes that took place in your country? Were they within your own lifetime?

skygiants

One of the simplest and purest pleasures in fiction is to ride along as an unhappy person becomes happier, and this at the heart is the charm of the self-pub coming-of-trans novel Our Simulated Selves.

On first glance the premise of this one could seem dire: depressed incel, told by dream girl that they would not date even if the incel was the "last man on Earth," uses advanced brain-scanning technology and giant quantum supercomputer to set up a simulation world where literally everybody else on Earth does disappear immediately after that argument, and see how long it takes sim self and dream girl to get together in this apocalypse scenario. (The reader, who has already seen our protagonist describe dysphoric brain fog and experience mysterious joy about playing a girl character in D&D, will at this point certainly have some ideas about the ways that this sad incel is working from some fundamentally incorrect principles.)

Most of the book is from the POV of sim protagonist with occasional outside-world interjections and responses from the simulation runner, which means you also get sort of a fun inside/outside view of an apocalypse-ish survival situation -- within the simulation, protagonist and dream girl are running around gathering up non-perishable food and trying to figure out how long the power grid is going to last; meanwhile, outside the simulation, Protagonist Zero Version is like 'shit, I didn't really think through that they'd be treating this like an apocalypse and I forgot to write any code for food spoilage!' But the main satisfaction of the book is in watching our protagonist go through the work of transformation to become a better and happier person -- with a little added weight, because at the same time we're also seeing the worst and cruelest and most unhappy version. Overall I found the reading experience really charming and sweet!

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Posted by Colin Marshall

https://www.openculture.com/2026/02/a-tour-inside-the-chelsea-hotel.html

https://www.openculture.com/?p=1126413

We’ve all stayed at the Chelsea Hotel, though most of us have done so only in our minds, through such cultural artifacts as Leonard Cohen’s “Chelsea Hotel No. 2,” Bob Dylan’s “Sara,” Nico’s “Chelsea Girls,” Andy Warhol’s eponymous film that includes the Nico song, or Patti Smith’s Just Kids, which tells of the time she spent there with Robert Mapplethorpe. Enthusiasts of the work of everyone from Janis Joplin to Arthur C. Clarke to Miloš Forman to Dylan Thomas to Mark Twain may not know that they, too, thereby enjoy an indirect connection to that New York institution, which has stood on West 23rd Street since its construction in 1884.

At that time, it also stood quite tall, looming over every other apartment building in the city, and indeed over most of the rest of Manhattan. Nowadays, however, the cultural profile of the Chelsea Hotel (officially, and less coolly, the Hotel Chelsea) is higher than its physical one ever was.

Its reputation as a refuge for artists dates to the management of Stanley Bard, who inherited the business from his father in 1964. Already, a degree of dilapidation in the building itself, as well as the surrounding neighborhood, kept rents low enough to attract impecunious creative types. Bard displayed enough generosity to artists that, before long, Andy Warhol’s factory had more or less moved in.

The Chelsea’s latest transformation began in the mid-two-thousands with a series of takeovers and renovations not necessarily welcomed by the existing long-term residents, who appreciated the hotel precisely for its seeming imperviousness to gentrification. In the new Architectural Digest video above, current owner Sean MacPherson gives a tour of the luxurious Chelsea of the twenty-twenties, all of whose spaces have been meticulously curated to evoke its storied past. In its bar (with cigarette burns carefully preserved) guests can order a cocktail called the Two Dylans, named in homage to both Bob and Thomas; in the basement, they can choose from the largest selection of Japanese whiskey at a new restaurant named after former resident Teruko Yokoi. The experience of a nineteen-sixties New York bohemian is now available to all of us — or at least those of us who can come up with $500 per night.

If you want to revisit the hotel during its pre-restoration heyday, you can watch the 1981 documentary below. It will let you get glimpses of Andy Warhol, William S. Burroughs, Nico, and more.

Vintage Footage Shows a Young, Unknown Patti Smith & Robert Mapplethorpe Living at the Famed Chelsea Hotel (1970)

Nico Sings “Chelsea Girls” in the Famous Chelsea Hotel

Thanksgiving Menu at the Plaza Hotel in New York City (1899)

Watch Iggy Pop Perform Dylan Thomas’ “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night”

Architect Breaks Down Five of the Most Iconic New York City Apartments

Based in Seoul, Colin Marshall writes and broadcasts on cities, language, and culture. He’s the author of the newsletter Books on Cities as well as the books 한국 요약 금지 (No Summarizing Korea) and Korean Newtro. Follow him on the social network formerly known as Twitter at @colinmarshall.

https://www.openculture.com/2026/02/a-tour-inside-the-chelsea-hotel.html

https://www.openculture.com/?p=1126413

openculture_feed

Posted by OC

https://www.openculture.com/2026/02/how-the-golden-gate-bridge-was-built-a-3d-animated-introduction.html

https://www.openculture.com/?p=1126414

Built during the depths of the Great Depression (from 1933 to 1937), the Golden Gate Bridge became the longest and tallest suspension bridge in the world. During its construction, workers battled harsh conditions — strong winds, thick fog, and the risk of plunging into the San Francisco Bay. 11 souls perished. Likewise, the engineer Joseph Strauss had to work through complicated design challenges to anchor the structure in the deep waters, then spin massive cables and tension them across the 4,000-foot span. Created by the YouTube channel Animagraffs, the 3D animated video above takes viewers on a technical tour of the Golden Gate Bridge’s construction, deconstructing the engineering that makes the bridge both beautiful and enduring.

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Built to Last: How Ancient Roman Bridges Can Still Withstand the Weight of Modern Cars & Trucks

Building the Golden Gate Bridge: A Retro Film Featuring Original Archival Footage

https://www.openculture.com/2026/02/how-the-golden-gate-bridge-was-built-a-3d-animated-introduction.html

https://www.openculture.com/?p=1126414

hafnia

Tabletop goals for the year?

In no particular order:

1). Finish the Bounty Hunter's Guild and give it a satisfying ending.
2). Run and wrap Goodbye My Darling.
3). Start the long-form Eberron campaign (name TBD).
4). Finish Space Heist and get it on itch.io, even if it's only as a public beta or something, because IT HAS BEEN LONG ENOUGH.

That's nice and concise, I think? :D

Will say that I do have a brief update re: sourdough — I made a successful starter and yesterday, I baked bread with it for the first time. Nothing fancy; I made two regular boules. The prove on it could probably have been a bit better, but dang, y'all, it tasted great. :D I ate sourdough toast this morning and it was everything I wanted. 10/10, would do again. ♥ So that's one thing crossed off my, "I want to try to do this" list, and now that I've done it the straight way, I can start playing with different flours and such (want to incorporate a bit of rye into it, for flavor), start thinking about inclusions, etc. I had this amazing fruit and nut bread at one point that I kinda want to try remaking...was like, walnut with dried cranberries? so, yeah.

We shall see!

cosmolinguist

I thought I'd just get dropped off at the train station after our session (and the all-important debrief in Costa) was finished. But I should've known: my lovely colleague has sight loss herself and assured me that they -- she, her husband/PA, her guide dog -- would wait until I was safely on a train.

But first, I needed to pee, so I got directed to the gents' and I was only gone for a few minutes but when I walked back up the platform I saw those two (three, counting Flick the dog) standing with two other ladies chatting away. As I got closer I'd have guessed they were people R knew from work; one of them mentioned another charity that's known to us. I was happy to chill while they did that "Oh you know Nick?" kind of thing. But it turns out they didn't know each other; these women had just been at some sight-loss related event but one of them just spoke up when she saw the guide dog because she always does and is clearly the kind of person who'll talk to anyone. They had made friends at a local society for blind people, and had just come from, of all things, a funeral for someone they knew from that group. The chattier one told us about her eye condition, Homonymous Hemianopia -- and R and I said "that's the one we couldn't say before!" when we were going through a list of them at the session earlier; we both know about hemianopia but neither of us could get the word out at the time.

Then the other person said "And I have optic nerve hypoplasia."

And then I said "Shut up!" because I was so surprised. That's what I have! And even among other blind people, no one's heard of it. It's an odd, rare thing. I literally don't think I've ever met anyone else who's got it.

They and I ended up getting on the same train for the first 15 minutes or so, by which point the chatty one had made friends with the conductor and exchanged numbers with me.

My hypoplasia pal lives in Runcorn and says she comes to Manchester regularly; I said she should let me know if she wants to hang out.

Such a goofy coincidence, but an uplifting end to a day that could've gone better. (It was fine, it just...well, I'm too tired to explain it now. But it was fine. Just, could've been better.)

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scans_daily

"Luna Snow's been a blast to write ever since she debuted in comics in the War of the Realms: Agents of Atlas book. But this new story is something special – we get to focus on her as the hero and dig deep into what it means to be a pop star and a super hero at a time when fascists and exploiters have very specific uses for pop stars and super heroes." -- Greg Pak

( Scans under the cut... )

turlough posting in

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We've had a very persistent winter here this year and this has happily meant that I've had lots of visitors at my bird feeders. Today I had the opportunity to photograph this adorable little Long-Tailed Tit (Aegithalos caudatus caudatus) while it was hunting for seeds on the bike-shed roof just outside my window.

Click to enlarge:

small black and white bird with very long tail feathers

( one more photo... )

Current Mood: okay

mrkinch

There was in fact quite a nice break in the rain this afternoon so I went down to Berkeley Meadow to see what two inches of rain had done to the wetlands. Not much; there was less water than in December, just enough for a few American Wigeon and Mallards. Two small peripheral ponds had water but nobody home, and one area that does flood was getting squooshy, but that's it. All the paths were perfectly passable. I did have some fun on the east-west path, hearing Hutton's Vireos, a species I don't expect there, and seeing a Fox Sparrow as well as the usual small birds that like that tangle of willows. Also the White-tailed Kites were in residence. I didn't see them both simultaneously, but they were whistling and I'm sure they were both there. ( The list: )

I was a bit late for fun at the mudflat off the parking lot, so the only shorebirds were two Willets at North Basin.

oracne

The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones is gory historical horror set in 1912 Montana that's in conversation with Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice. More importantly, it's both narrative and meta-narrative about settler colonialism and the genocide Americans perpetrated against the indigenous inhabitants of the American West, viewed through a lens of revenge, survival, and atonement. Finally, it shows a long, difficult attempt at justice, requiring sacrifice and suffering along the way.

This review contains spoilers.

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For those not well-versed in American history, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz would be good preparation for this novel, or as a readalong.

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Giffen, DeMatteis, Hughes.

This story arc begins with a “heroic” Justice League associate using wealth and power to crush a reporter researching the truth about the team. You probably think I’m talking about Max Lord, right?

( I mean, when Batman or Iron Man want to suppress reporting about themselves, at least they have the decency to sleep with the reporter to create conflict of interest. )

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Posted by Colin Marshall

https://www.openculture.com/2026/02/the-ancient-egyptian-book-of-the-dead-a-guidebook-for-surviving-the-afterlife.html

https://www.openculture.com/?p=1126401

The saying “You can’t take it with you” may be a cliché to all of us here in the twenty-first century, but it would hardly have made sense to an ancient Egyptian. One of the most widely known qualities of that civilization’s upper crust, after all, is that its members spared no expense trying to do just that. The most compelling evidence includes the tombs of the pharaohs, lavishly stocked as they were with everything from daily necessities to religious artifacts to servants (in effigy or otherwise). And nobody who was anybody in ancient Egypt would be seen shuffling off this mortal coil — or whatever the shape in which their poets cast it — without a Book of the Dead.

“A standard component in Egyptian elite burials, the Book of the Dead was not a book in the modern sense of the term but a compendium of some 200 ritual spells and prayers, with instructions on how the deceased’s spirit should recite them in the hereafter,” writes the New York Times’ Franz Lidz.

“Compiled and refined over millenniums since about 1550 B.C.,” the text “provided a sort of visual map that allowed the newly disembodied soul to navigate the duat, a maze-like netherworld of caverns, hills and burning lakes.” Each of its “spells” addressed a particular situation the deceased might encounter on that journey: a snake attack, decapitation, a turning upside down that “would reverse your digestive functions and cause you to consume your own waste.”

We can certainly understand why these high-status ancient Egyptians didn’t want to take their chances. In the animated Ted-ED video above, you can follow the journey of one such individual, a scribe from thirteenth-century-BC Thebes called Anees. After his body undergoes two months of mummification, his spirit makes its harrowing journey through the underworld, calling upon the spells he’d thought to include in his Book of the Dead when alive. Then comes moral judgment by a battery of 42 “assessor gods” and a weighing of his heart, the final step before his admittance to a lush wheat field that is the Egyptian afterlife. Whether Anees got that far remains an open question, but modern physical and digital enshrinement of Books of the Dead (more of which you can see up-close at Google Arts & Culture), has granted him and his compatriots a kind of immortality after all.

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https://www.openculture.com/2026/02/the-ancient-egyptian-book-of-the-dead-a-guidebook-for-surviving-the-afterlife.html

https://www.openculture.com/?p=1126401

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Posted by OC

https://www.openculture.com/2026/02/herbie-hancock-explains-the-lesson-he-learned-from-miles-davis.html

https://www.openculture.com/?p=1126406

One thing they don’t teach you in parenting school is how to guide a young child into making fewer mistakes in her homework, while also communicating to her that mistakes are not “bad” but often “good” in that they can be conduits for creative thinking and intuitive pathways to progress. This lesson presents even more problems if your child has perfectionist tendencies. (If you have sound pedagogical methods, I’m all ears.)

The problem isn’t just that adults constantly telegraph binary “yes/no,” “good/bad” messages to everyone and everything around them, but that most adults are deeply uncomfortable with ambiguity, and thus deeply afraid of mistakes, as a result of imbibing so many binary messages themselves. Improvisation frightens trained and untrained musicians alike, for example, for this very reason. Who wants to screw up publicly and look like… well, a screw up?

We think that doing something well, and even “perfectly,” will win us the pat on the head/gold star/good report card we have been taught to crave all our lives. Surely there are excellent reasons to strive for excellence. But according to one who should know—the most excellent Miles Davis—excellence by nature obviates the idea of mistakes. How’s that, you ask? Let us attend to one of Davis’ former sidemen, Herbie Hancock, who tells one of his favorite stories about the man above.

Loose improvisation is integral to jazz, but we all know Miles Davis as a very exacting character. He could be mean, demanding, abrasive, cranky, hypercritical, and we might conclude, given these personal qualities, and the consistent excellence of his playing, that he was a perfectionist who couldn’t tolerate screw ups. Hancock gives us a very different impression, telling the tale of a “hot night” in Stuttgart, when the music was “tight, it was powerful, it was innovative, and fun.”

Making what anyone would reasonably call a mistake in the middle of one of Davis’ solos—hitting a noticeably wrong chord—Hancock reacted as most of us would, with dismay. “Miles paused for a second,” he says, “and then he played some notes that made my chord right… Miles was able to turn something that was wrong into something that was right.” Still, Hancock was so upset, he couldn’t play for about a minute, paralyzed by his own ideas about “right” and “wrong” notes.

What I realize now is that Miles didn’t hear it as a mistake. He heard it as something that happened. As an event. And so that was part of the reality of what was happening at that moment. And he dealt with it…. Since he didn’t hear it as a mistake, he thought it was his responsibility to find something that fit.

Hancock drew a musical lesson from the moment, yes, and he also drew a larger life lesson about growth, which requires, he says, “a mind that’s open enough… to be able to experience situations as they are and turn them into medicine… take whatever situation you have and make something constructive happen with it.”

This bit of wisdom reminds me not only of my favorite Radiohead lyric (“Be constructive with your blues”), but also of a story about a Japanese monk who visited a monastery in the U.S. and promised to give a demonstration in the fine art of Zen archery. After much solemn preparation and breathless anticipation, the monk led his hosts on a hike up the mountain, where he then blindly fired an arrow off a cliff and walked away, leaving the stunned spectators to conclude the target must be wherever the arrow happened to land.

What matters, Davis is quoted as saying, is how we respond to what’s happening around us: “When you hit a wrong note, it’s the next note that you play that determines if it’s good or bad.” Or, as he put it more simply and non-dualistically, “Do not fear mistakes. There are none.”

Note: An earlier version of this post appeared on our site in 2018.

How to Respond to the Challenges of Our Time?: Jazz Legends Herbie Hancock & Wayne Shorter Give 10 Pieces of Advice to Young Artists, and Everyone Else

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Herbie Hancock’s Joyous Soundtrack for the Original Fat Albert TV Special (1969)

Herbie Hancock Presents the Prestigious Norton Lectures at Harvard University: Watch Online

Josh Jones is a writer and musician based in Durham, NC.

https://www.openculture.com/2026/02/herbie-hancock-explains-the-lesson-he-learned-from-miles-davis.html

https://www.openculture.com/?p=1126406

wildeabandon

So the Church of England has drawn the "Living in Love and Faith" process to a close, in a way that puts any pursuit of my priestly vocation out of reach for the foreseeable future. A new working group is being set up to continue looking at the question of priests in same-sex marriages, which is supposed to report back to Synod in 2028. Based on past experience, that probably means 2029 or 2030, at which point there will no doubt be a new round of painful arguments, and then I guess we'll see. But for now, that door is closed.

I think I am currently feeling less upset about this than I thought I'd be, although it might just be alexithymia fogging things up. It didn't really come as a surprise, so to some extent letting go of the uncertainty is something of a relief.

It also removes the potential complication that comes with having reinvigorated my academic vocation, coming back to the field with my mental health intact, my ADHD treated, and the general increased wisdom that comes with age. Of course academia and the priesthood is hardly a combination that hasn't been tried before, but I had been worrying slightly about what happens if I have to make a choice about which to pursue first, and now that that choice has been taken off the table I can just concentrate on my studies, and should at least be well into a PhD before the question of formal priestly discernment becomes pertinent again.

hafnia

Fiber arts project I've finished that I'm most proud of?

There's two that I'm really proud of, honestly — the rainbow afghan (pictures of which have been lost to time, alas), which was a queen-sized afghan I made from these blocks. It was, literally, red/orange/yellow/green/blue/indigo/violet flowers, yellow-centered with black edging about them to set it off (instead of white as in that pattern).

My ex pressed on me to give it to his mom, since she was going through a hard time, and so I parted with it and we shipped it to her. I have mixed feelings about that — on the one hand, it was so much work and it was really pretty (I made it all from thrifted yarn; it was jewel-toned and beautiful), but on the other hand, I don't tend to keep stuff I make, so who knows where it would have ended up otherwise? She was grateful to get it, so.

The other one that I'm very proud of is a cross-stitch project I did earlier this summer. It was the first time I'd actually cross-stitched anything in about five years, and I did it without a proper pattern (I did get instructions on how to do the worms and the dragon, but, you know). Pictures of it are up on Mastodon, so here. Perfect? Definitely not, but the person it was made for appreciated it, and I am still proud of it, so. ♥

vivien

Sometimes I look at the Craigslist free stuff page. Today there are five free pianos on offer. One is paying $50 to have one taken away. It's so sad. Pianos went from being prized possessions to free giveaways. If I had the space, I'd give one a home. I don't play, and with my hand and wrist issues probably shouldn't learn, but it would be neat to have one.

I finished The 'Burbs series on Peacock while I have it for the month of the Olympics. It was lots of fun. Good suspense, interesting characters, good performances, and a cliffhanger that had me wanting more. I may pony up for another month of Peacock if it has a season 2. Maybe. I'm tired of streaming services and having to pay and pay and then still having commercials. Peacock is $10.99 per month with plenty of commercials. No thanks. I've been seriously working on my DVD collection for several months now because if I want to watch a favorite show or movie, I'm not paying for it if it's not on services I already have. I'm also concerned about content with queer story lines and characters being pulled. I prioritized those. I, uh, have a lot of DVDs now.

The future is so freaking stupid. Commercials you pay for, devices listening to you, AI, fascism, billionaires run amok.

And still no flying cars.

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Jessica Jones is finally getting another mature title…

I survived this week!

Eliminating the Impossible

Friday open thread: fundamental changes

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A Tour Inside the Chelsea Hotel: Once Home to Bob Dylan, Patti Smith, Leonard Cohen & More

How the Golden Gate Bridge Was Built: A 3D Animated Introduction

Talking Meme Month - day 19

What are the odds? And some of us are very odd

Luna Snow: World Tour #1

tiny long-tailed tit

2/18/2026 Berkeley Meadow

Reading Wednesday, Yes I Know It Is Thursday

Bottomfeeder: JUSTICE LEAGUE AMERICA #43-44 (JLI 59)

I Saw Santa #2

The Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead: A Guidebook for Surviving the Afterlife

Herbie Hancock Explains the Big Lesson He Learned From Miles Davis: Every Mistake in Music, as in Li

Doors closing, windows opening.

Talking Meme Month - day 18

Random Wednesday