Is the "15-year-olds are a gray area" person the same as the "of course Santa Claus is white" person?
November 13, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Is the "15-year-olds are a gray area" person the same as the "of course Santa Claus is white" person?
what if we had some kind of mark that denoted the use/mention distinction? something like air quotes but for text?
November 13, 2025 at 6:52 PM
what if we had some kind of mark that denoted the use/mention distinction? something like air quotes but for text?
Punctuation is next to be cursived
Mark my words
Mark my words
November 13, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Punctuation is next to be cursived
Mark my words
Mark my words
There are people alive today who have grown up knowing only eight planets
As if the blink plates had never existed
#JusticeForClyde
As if the blink plates had never existed
#JusticeForClyde
November 10, 2025 at 9:21 PM
There are people alive today who have grown up knowing only eight planets
As if the blink plates had never existed
#JusticeForClyde
As if the blink plates had never existed
#JusticeForClyde
You can always tell when an old API architect retires by when the API starts using PATCH
November 10, 2025 at 7:03 PM
You can always tell when an old API architect retires by when the API starts using PATCH
Well, welcome back Tammy Faye!
You've been missed
You've been missed
November 10, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Well, welcome back Tammy Faye!
You've been missed
You've been missed
Reposted by Philip Borenstein
31) Diaspora liberal Jewish denoms should bring back the meturgeman. Doesn't need to be in Aramaic, but have someone read out a translation after each verse. Good opportunity to get the kids involved, and for those who do the triennial system then the readings are short enough that there's time
November 7, 2025 at 11:51 AM
31) Diaspora liberal Jewish denoms should bring back the meturgeman. Doesn't need to be in Aramaic, but have someone read out a translation after each verse. Good opportunity to get the kids involved, and for those who do the triennial system then the readings are short enough that there's time
it's been like 50 years or something since I've heard The Wreck of Edmund Fitzgerald played so many times
November 9, 2025 at 9:40 PM
it's been like 50 years or something since I've heard The Wreck of Edmund Fitzgerald played so many times
One elevator in the building goes out of order about two or three times a month.
Feels like LARPing Cold War era Russia
Feels like LARPing Cold War era Russia
November 9, 2025 at 7:49 PM
One elevator in the building goes out of order about two or three times a month.
Feels like LARPing Cold War era Russia
Feels like LARPing Cold War era Russia
Some days I just want to remember what Delaware Punch tasted like
November 8, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Some days I just want to remember what Delaware Punch tasted like
Reposted by Philip Borenstein
Empathy is exhausting because you have to feel in both directions.
November 8, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Empathy is exhausting because you have to feel in both directions.
Honestly, I don't trust people who make diagrams with the initial state at the bottom.
November 7, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Honestly, I don't trust people who make diagrams with the initial state at the bottom.
Should Honest Abe be institutionalized?
November 5, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Should Honest Abe be institutionalized?
I am not making this up
November 3, 2025 at 10:59 PM
I am not making this up
He's gonna try to declare bankruptcy, isn't he? I mean, it's always worked for him before.
November 3, 2025 at 1:56 AM
He's gonna try to declare bankruptcy, isn't he? I mean, it's always worked for him before.
Something I always tell my son is that no one knew it was actually possible to go to the moon until Kubrick had to.
November 3, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Something I always tell my son is that no one knew it was actually possible to go to the moon until Kubrick had to.
wishing a social event had started earlier so I could have been leaving by now
November 2, 2025 at 5:08 PM
wishing a social event had started earlier so I could have been leaving by now
I want to read her post-divorce memoir
October 31, 2025 at 8:00 PM
I want to read her post-divorce memoir
I'd like to think that they've hassed that cheezburger by now, but then, I'm a dreamer
October 27, 2025 at 8:39 PM
I'd like to think that they've hassed that cheezburger by now, but then, I'm a dreamer
Perplexity won't identify Viven Leigh for privacy and safety reasons. Even if I ask "Is it Vivien Leigh?" it wouldn't answer.
In the "Images" button is a gallery of (presumably) contemporary actresses whose names I don't know, and it's not about to tell me.
In the "Images" button is a gallery of (presumably) contemporary actresses whose names I don't know, and it's not about to tell me.
![screenshot of a session with Perplexity, asking it to identify an actress
[image of vivien Leigh]
who is this actress and what movie is this from
Sorry, I can't identify the actress or the movie from this image.
→ why not
# Perplexity pro
It's not possible to identify people or state what movie an image is from because image recognition of people and specific roles is restricted for privacy and safety reasons. This includes not naming or confirming actors, even if they are widely recognizable or associated with famous roles.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cxanujrx65atb5ln5rpw4g3l/bafkreibrmta3pyv3n23gk7t2p47vpm5ny63khsgrtcqxgx4hoafabiobx4@jpeg)
October 23, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Perplexity won't identify Viven Leigh for privacy and safety reasons. Even if I ask "Is it Vivien Leigh?" it wouldn't answer.
In the "Images" button is a gallery of (presumably) contemporary actresses whose names I don't know, and it's not about to tell me.
In the "Images" button is a gallery of (presumably) contemporary actresses whose names I don't know, and it's not about to tell me.
I need a word like lassitude but a bit more laid back and not so doctrinaire
October 18, 2025 at 11:21 PM
I need a word like lassitude but a bit more laid back and not so doctrinaire
you ever notice that that high angle he's always photographed from makes him look like a little boy in a suit
October 17, 2025 at 8:00 PM
you ever notice that that high angle he's always photographed from makes him look like a little boy in a suit
Surely someone must have already made "The Pilates Kid"
October 16, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Surely someone must have already made "The Pilates Kid"
Should I renew my decades-long sub to the Chicago Manual of Style. The main reason I had it was to prove to my boss that the way I was doing [whatever it was they didn't like] was approved by the mighty CMOS.
October 15, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Should I renew my decades-long sub to the Chicago Manual of Style. The main reason I had it was to prove to my boss that the way I was doing [whatever it was they didn't like] was approved by the mighty CMOS.