Séamus Aran

Holy matrimony is one man and one woman.
Biggie matrimony is one man, one woman, fries and a coke.

It turns out the most unrealistic thing about The Hunger Games was that the oligarchs had some fashion sense

Picture from a Richard Scarry "Busytown" book, showing an absolute boss-dad rabbit driving a tall blue coupe with a lil worm guy in the back seat.

This is what peak transportation looks like and if you can't see that I pity you

Why stop at cars? Kei planes and trains! Kei houses! This would satisfy my newly-discovered need to live in a 1:1.3 scale world

A google search for "espn cubs" showing summaries for the main site and the Cubs' roster as "Please gamble..."

Sports betting and Search have gotten so bad, and at the same time, we now get summaries like this. Google "espn cubs" and you now see gambling ads as the content previews for both the main site and "Roster" too #enshittification

Are the comically oversized suit jackets an aesthetic choice? Or are there just no fascist tailors?

Don't worry you'll feel the same way about your 30s when you're 40 [ironic thumbs up emoji]

Fortunately spring training has already started, so all this snow isn't real #baseball

I put the "sword" in "password"

If you're like me -- and I hope you're not, because, woof --

I Have No Platform, and I Must Vent

I'm gonna keep calling my lanyard a "business necklace" and there's nothing you patriarchal hegemons can even do about it

This is it, 100%. It's gachapon for business bros.

Downtown Toledo, Ohio, in the early '80s

Again, the desperation to take a midnight train to anywhere means she probably won't fancy the relatively short trip west through South Bend to Chicago. Toledo is the last stop the other way, and, in '81, boy & girl could find overnight trains to New England there such as the Lake Shore Limited. 3/3

A Lake Cities Amtrak train passes through Indiana

In '81, the route to Toledo had just been added via the Lake Cities Amtrak line. On a desperate whim, you're taking the new addition. Our small town girl boards a midnight train too, and the smallest town served by Lake Cities is Niles, Michigan, near the Indiana state line. 2/3

Michigan Central Station, seen from an outbound train, in the early '80s

The "small town girl" and "city boy" from Journey's "Don't Stop Believin'" met in #Toledo. Ignoring for a moment that there is no "south Detroit" (that's Ontario), if you took a midnight train to anywhere in 1981, you were going west to Chicago or east to Ohio (from Michigan Central, pictured). 1/3

I see the featureless sky
I see the coming and going of wan daylight
I see the wind-driven snow, blasted clean of color
And I repeat to myself:
Four days until pitchers & catchers

#baseball #poetry #gocubsgo

When Ace of Base sang "Life is demanding without understanding", did they mean

1. Life is demanding if you don't understand it, or
2. Life is demanding and doesn't care to understand you

I've been wondering this for decades

Outside: There but for the it's too cold go I

Enjoying this brief moment when "XL" is both my shirt size and age in roman numerals. It may come around again in 10 years if I lose some weight. And should I--through some wild happening of science or magic--I live to be "M", I might finally fit into my high school band t-shirts again.

The tileset is modified from "Modular Pixel Isometric Tiles" by happysmily on itch.io. Well worth $1, saved me tons of time.

happysmily.itch.io/modular-isom...

arade. I mean, it's clear from the jump that none of the main characters are in any real danger. Show me a Die Hard where John bails and Holly has to girlboss her way out of Nakatomi Plaza

We see the "battle" screen from an apparent tactics-style RPG. An isometric 10x10 tile graveyard stage floats on a purple-to-green gradient, looking like something from a Game Boy Advance game. A banner labels this "Old Burial Hill", listing the player commands "Spell Book", "Items", and "Party". We see the characters from Hocus Pocus here: Winifred Sanderson on her broom, Billy Butcherson having just been raised from the dead, and Allison, Dani, Binx, and Max with Winnie's spellbook. Max says "They can't touch us here, right?!", to which Binx (Thackery) responds "Well, THEY can't..."

I made "Hocus Pocus: Tactics". I don't want to talk about how long it took to make this one mock screenshot.

#pixelart #isometric #rpg #fanart #hocuspocus

If you make a product for parents of little kids but it's not designed to be opened/operated with one hand, no you don't

Vincent van Go to the polls

Sharks, today I'm asking for $500k to start a restaurant with a one-of-a-kind spin: It's in the airport but the food isn't ass

Even tech that has near-universal adoption is pretty easy to avoid. Would you believe I don't use Google services or Windows either?

Inscrutable you say? Well yeah with that attitude! Now get out there and scrut it like the champs you are

It's the "Two Kingdoms" / "Our Blessed Homeland vs. Their Barbarous Wastes" meme. At the top we have "My generation" vs. "The next one". On the My generation side, Our iconic fashion, Our poignant humor, Our classic tunes and Our dank memes. On the other side it's just a single line that says "Their inscrutable bullshit".

This meme came to me in a dream last night

"Remember class, your First Duty is to the Truth. Whatever *that* means! WhoaAAa! Honk honk, boi-yoi-yoi-yoing--"

- Journalism school, 2025