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don’t forget to destroy your clocks tonight, walk away from your mortgage, just start driving, you’re free

08.03.2026 03:12 👍 9519 🔁 2190 💬 122 📌 79
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New Food Lovers Companion 3rd Edition | Powell's Books Praise for previous editions."From 'abalone' to 'zwieback,' Sharon Tyler Herbst lists nearly 6,000 culinary terms in the newly published third edition of her classic Food Lover's Companion. Hands down...

Not exactly what you're asking, but this book lives in our dining room and has probably gotten pulled out over a hundred times in the past 10 years. www.powells.com/book/new-foo...

06.03.2026 21:52 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

“You had me at wet trash monk”

06.03.2026 05:47 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Bula Vinaka beachside!

04.03.2026 20:30 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Lick
The Lick YouTube video by Alex Heitlinger

www.youtube.com/watch?v=krDx...

02.03.2026 22:51 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Baldrick-ass spelling of “archetypal” there

28.02.2026 15:37 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Honorable mention for the wave of “we know better than Heinz” madness that caused every third restaurant to start making their own ketchup

28.02.2026 14:57 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

As a recreational language user I’m honestly impressed at what these guys manage to get up to

28.02.2026 05:52 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Mountain sunset in the PNW where the sun looks like abstract pixel art

Mountain sunset in the PNW where the sun looks like abstract pixel art

I’m just a guy with a phone but I go absolutely bananas for a non-Euclidean sunset

28.02.2026 04:08 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

caves of qud

28.02.2026 04:01 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Bow and Junior from Black(ish)

Bow and Junior from Black(ish)

27.02.2026 22:37 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I’m sure it’s been said before but the whole “trade to the professor for candy” thing is so much more twisted than if they simply showed an animation of the live animal being ground up and recycled. He turns them into candy and gives them back to you!!

27.02.2026 15:32 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Recently had to have “the talk” about travelers checks with my 8 year old thanks to Home Alone

25.02.2026 05:25 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

You could do it though

25.02.2026 05:20 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

A gentleman never asks

25.02.2026 00:01 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I once fought my way back through 10+ levels of Bethesda Susa because I'd forgotten my beloved slender sturdy counterweighted lacquered folding chair.

24.02.2026 23:56 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

And here I was just not putting boring parts into my games, like an idiot

23.02.2026 00:18 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

To the extent anyone outside of CA knows his name at all, it’s as “the representative from Silicon Valley”, which isn’t exactly winning hearts and minds right now.

20.02.2026 15:21 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The controller setup is so batshit crazy that it feels like learning how to play the guitar in a dream. Then it's basically a great psychedelic sci-fi novel that looks like the future from 1982, and you read it by clicking around until you die. Then you start over and it's the same but different.

19.02.2026 23:08 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I shudder to think of the days I could plan with that form factor

19.02.2026 22:43 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Bandcamp & merch tables

18.02.2026 22:24 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Caves of Qud

18.02.2026 03:08 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Some sort of "public house" if you will

13.02.2026 23:27 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I was getting dressed up for a wedding a few weeks ago and my daughter said, "Wow, you look like a rich math teacher" and it's maybe the best compliment I've ever received (I'm neither rich nor good at math)

13.02.2026 18:48 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Fails the classic baby name test, “what happens if you say ‘why doncha’ after it”

11.02.2026 19:22 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Counterpoint: Squisherz are really cool

10.02.2026 09:00 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Yes please, anywhere but Substack and you’ve got an enthusiastic subscriber

09.02.2026 06:06 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Sorry, orangutan. It’s haunted me for decades, had to go look it up. The ape mimes a series of things that are then correctly interpreted as a punny rebus of “Breaking Up Is Hard To Do”

09.02.2026 05:56 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Kind of? There’s a bit with a chimp who knows Neil Sedaka lyrics

09.02.2026 05:51 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

It’s got real “tired of your landscaper blocking access to the sports court?” energy

09.02.2026 03:08 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0