sorry this is the funniest thing i've ever read

why aren’t we in the bill and ted timeline? why are we not being excellent to each other and partying on? i want answers

Most non-Minnesotans have no idea what this means, but to put it plainly: we're raised with not just the expectation but essentially -programming- to assist others who get stuck during the winter. We'll help people we'd otherwise punch on sight if they're stuck in the snow and ice, for zero reward.

This is the level of rage we're at with ICE. I'm not joking to say it's almost physically painful to not help someone stuck like that, and it's worth it because the people stuck are ICE.

The only way we have to express how mad we are above this is channeling the First Minnesota all over again.

The Scandinavians who settled in Minnesota brought with them their Norse understanding of the laws of hospitality: you do not fuck around with winter, that if someone needs help in the winter, you help them as long as they don't actively try to hurt you or your neighbors. Food, shelter, labour, whatever, if you can help in winter, you do.

ICE has violated the "actively try to hurt you or your neighbors" bit of the laws of hospitality, and thus the hospitality has been revoked. They are free to feel winter's wrath against those who would bring harm to the community.

I like to think that Lady Skaði would be proud of her distant children.

this reminds me of the mud wizard who walked through everything without any problems while the police officers kept sliding and falling and getting stuck, you can watch it right here.

for context, this was during anti-coal protests in lützerath which went on for days and included people being forcibly removed, injured, or otherwise violated by the police. they showed up in riot gear against people simply sitting and camping and wanting to protect their forests. it was a really big deal here.

I was invited by friends to contribute to a group blog about terrible restaurant websites that I can't even find now.

First gluten free sourdough boule! Not perfect by any means (scored it so wrong, and it has a region that did not develop properly at the bottom) but it came out decent and it tastes great. I am pleased.

I have a second boule to make in the fridge, and then I will try again with two more loaves this weekend.

HOW TO HUG LONG DISTANCE

Dial the country code, then the area code for the person you wish to hug. Charges may apply.

“These new shows are just too expensive to make!” cry the people in charge of the choices that make shows too expensive to make

I watched a bts clip on ST: Picard about how expensive things were and that’s why we get such short seasons now then the next clip was about how the starship prop models were plated in real gold.

Okay so step one: don’t plate props in actual gold. This will save at least several dollars.

this leads me to the prestige television ➔ money laundering theory

Apparently Uwe Boll's career was mainly driven by the fact that companies could invest in movie making as a tax writeoff?

Notoriously, the Ernest Borgnine movie Marty was intended to flop, a la Springtime for Hitler. The studio needed to shave a bit of profits off the ledger for tax reasons. They figured that the most ludicrously unsuccessful premise for a movie would be Ernest Borgnine as a romantic leading man.

The public loved it, and it was a smash hit. It turns out the public loved the idea of seeing two relatable, ordinary-looking people fall in love.

The entire Canadian film industry is built on a foundation of arty exploitation and schlock B-movies, thanks to a period between 1975-1982 where producers could write off 100% of their investments.

But those tax credits and grants actually created a homegrown cinema economy that punches way above its weight today, with highly skilled crew, directors, VFX companies, massive indoor soundstages, greenscreen and mocap studios - and a lot of that talent is also shared across the game industry.

Interesting that Picard mostly filmed in LA but most NuTrek shows film in Toronto, and you can sense the difference in the style, tone, texture, sets, technology, and in the sets of writers / directors in each location.

I was planned, but a bunch of NIMBYs made my parents revise me so many times that I was doomed to failure. And now they point at me and say “See what happens when you try new ideas?”

Hate it when TikTok farm cosplayers and cottagecore types say stuff like "I'm not going to use modern equipment because my grandmothers could make do without it." Ma'am, your great grandma had eleven children. She would have killed for a slow cooker and a stick blender.

I’ve noticed a sort of implicit belief that people used to do things the hard way in the past because they were tougher or something. In reality, labor-saving devices have historically been adopted by the populace as soon as they were economically feasible. No one stood in front of a smoky fire or a boiling pot of lye soap for hours because they were virtuous, they did it because it was the only way to survive.

Taking these screenshots from Facebook because they make you log in and won't let you copy and paste:

all this. And realize that the people promoting this romantic image of tradwifery stand to profit from stark inequality - they literally want to roll back all the hard-won rights that give women independence.

important though to distinguish between “Jeffrey / Geoffrey” and “jeffery,” the sin of gossiping about an incompetent middle manager. First described in a papal edict around 906 AD, it indirectly led to the East-West Schism of 1054.