Yes, it's been nice to ditch commuting in packed trains, but if we're being honest, the biggest advantage of working from home while the kids are at school has been the effect on couples sex lives.

@mcfate what are you seeing that leads you to think the hotels figured out how to beat AirBnB rather than that all demand for travel accommodation has dropped as household budgets tighten?

@TheAbbotTrithemius I agree, but no, this was the Kirk Cameron movie that doomed his career to the same confined roles and genres as luminaries like Kevin Sorbo and the kind of actor who has a garage full of MLM products to shift.

@AthiDragon that's the one!
Although even 20mg of the best weed California has to offer was not enough to make the barely-masked antisemitism of the film amusing, tears of laughter streaked my red cheeks every time they mentioned the character, 'Dirk Burton'.

Honestly, it's like it was written by 11 year old kids.

The dawning realization that as a gen X who cycles several times a week, I'm only a pot belly and some lycra away from meeting the conditions for a very common stereotype. I think I'll see if I can stick the landing on aging hippy instead.

Our regular Friday night edibles-and-bad-movies session caused us to watch Left Behind last night.
I've not laughed as much in months.

Just spotted on LinkedIn that someone I was at university with has posted their role as Principle rather than Principal.

It's been over a quarter century since we said anything to each other.

Am I a bigger asshole if I reach out to tell him or if I don't?

❤️

Why does this exercise me so? It brought to mind the interview Will Smith gave a couple of years back, in which he told the audience that he hopes that the voters would now reflect on the destructive aspects of “loveless, godless leadership”. As if godlessness were a pejorative term. Not even ungodly. Godless. In other words, being of the mind that God likely doesn’t exist is seen as an inferior moral position than believing he does exist but that you’re against him.

So much of our political discourse is distorted by this American obsession with God. Democrats and Republicans both invoke God when attempting to appeal to unity. They often go further, each framing their criticisms of the other in terms of how ungodly their opposing party is, and how much more in-line with God they are. So much time is wasted. So much political nuance is lost. Our politics are mentally enfeebled by it, like a WWE event gatecrashing a book reading on Western philosophy.

Just realized that I've been wincing solidly for 10 minutes while listening to the news. My face hurts from this bullshit.

Yikes. A sobering warning for those making difficult end of life decisions for our loved ones.

https://onlysky.media/emakoff/the-last-words-he-heard/

This is so on-point.
https://youtu.be/6b-0dA8eBrw

First time out on the water with a smaller 7sq m rig. The boat still screams along.
I love sailing at Alameda.

@PaganMother I recommend Recovering From Religion. Their counseling service deals with RTS.
https://www.recoveringfromreligion.org/

How many of us with poor browser-tab-closing discipline spend a little bit of each day playing a game I call "what just went bong"?

Here's your regular reminder that faith is neither a virtue, nor a path to the truth.
https://onlysky.media/hemant-mehta/christian-hate-preacher-calls-for-the-execution-of-every-single-homosexual/

I am absolutely loving The Pentaverate on Netflix. I've really missed Mike Myers.