adding a blank emoji to my discord server might be the best thing to ever happen to text communication. asynchronous digital equivalent of hanging out in a room with your friends in silence. let’s all nothing together
my corner store guy is a 50 year old man who’s my best friend in the world and recently he was like “you’re too pretty to be single I have some nephews you should meet. very handsome!” and I was like “a niece might be more up my alley” and he just got more excited and said “ah even better! I was overselling my nephews but my nieces are very beautiful”
the paris catacombs are 1000x more fucked up than i imagined
did you know the cops once found a fully functioning movie theater with a well-stocked bar inside the catacombs and they when they tried to go back later to formally investigate it was completely emptied out save for a note that read “don’t search for us”
Underground french cinema
my little bro is part of the catacombs community and yeah, it’s basically a fully autonomous society! enough that when my bro goes in on a friday night, they don’t come out until monday for work- sometimes longer if they took days off.
some of the rooms have fully stocked pantries with cooking equipment, some have movies like the one described above, some have books you’re allowed to just take but people always put back- every day people bring things from the outside. artists often set up galleries there. there are rooms with mattresses and hammocks set up for people to sleep. one of the room is just a place where people leave shoes for the fun of it.
this is Known, it’s not a secret by any means. the catacombs are as big as paris itself, and people live there just as people live above. it’s wonderful when you think about it.
A little update! My little bro is now my little sister. Please don’t misgender her :)
MTV, the channel that revolutionized the music industry, has today said its final Goodbye by moving to a digital-only model. Its 24-hour music channel has ceased to be officially its transmissions.
The end came with a nod to its beginnings, the last broadcast was the iconic videoclip of “Video Killed the Radio Star” by The Buggles, the same one that inaugurated the history of MTV on August 1, 1981. In this way, the channel closed after 44 years, with the same song that defined its birth
RIP 1st Aug 1981 - 31st Dec 2025
I wish I’d known this was happening…I would have tuned in to watch, one last time.
In 1981, we got a satellite receiver. It was huge…five feet wide. We hooked it up to the brand new 50 inch projection tv.
I was 12 years old, and sat watching as the static became the MTV logo, and the Buggles video came on.
It blew my young mind, and fueled a lifetime love of music and videos.
I know that MTV hasn’t really been a music channel for decades now, but…it’s the end of an era, nonetheless.
I wish I had been tuned in, to see the Buggles video play, the logo, then the fade to static.
