There’s a Saying Round Here
“Each day on twitter there is one main character. The goal is to never be it.”
The strongest nominee for Main Character 20200417 is Adam Schorn, the author of this piece from the LA Times “Enough with the WFH sweatpants. Dress like the adult you’re getting paid to be”, who was collectively bodied by Twitter as his piece made its way through various corners of the site. Although his profile picture makes him look like a door-to-door Fruit Stripe salesman, Schorn is actually a fashion editor at the Times, and wanted to shame people for wanting to be comfortable when working from home, which is such an odd stance to take. If work is going to make its way into my personal living space, it has to do it on my terms, which is “barely decent” most of the time.
In case you’d like to wade through a gallery of burns, here’s the link to his original tweet promoting the article, and I assure you the replies:likes ratio has not improved since this screenshot was taken.
Watch This: THE LIGHTHOUSE - available via Amazon Prime Video
Okay fine, so I’m pivoting this to a combination A24/Robert Pattinson fanzine, but the coincidental timing of this release isn’t my fault. From Robert Eggers (THE WITCH, an outstanding “not outright scary but very uncomfortable to watch” film that is A24’s wheelhouse). Set on a small island off the New England coast circa-late-1800s, Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe must care over the titular lighthouse while also dealing with the isolation caused by a massive storm that comes through the area. Surprisingly, things do not go well.
Isolation Day afoiawgksadvir…
Very relatable. The thread also includes a link on how this was constructed in case you’re an executive for Boston Dynamics wondering how your robots could be slightly creepier than they are now.
They’ll never suspect a thing:
My sister take her kid’s Nintendo Switch away at night, so the kids made a fake Switch and tried to swipe the real one and put the fake in its place.
Imagining the children standing over the actual Switch preparing to swap it like in the opening of RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK.
Vemos is a neat tool that allows you to watch videos from different streaming services simultaneously with others, keeping everyone in sync and even allowing for video chat if watching eyes dart back and forth rapidly is your thing. The catch with all of these services is that you’ve got to use Chrome to utilize it which is…not ideal, but sometimes you have to sacrifice all of your RAM to get something nice.
It’s been truly baffling seeing the MAGA crowd show up and show out in various states, red and mad over stay-at-home orders from their governors. Now that everyone has had the time to complete their correspondence epidemiology courses, the same people who think there are lizard people in the hollow core of the Earth are certain that everyone’s just making up the virus to hurt Trump’s re-election chances, to which I say: damn, got us. To celebrate, someone modified the Gadsden flag for these freedom fighters. In Virginia, having this as your license plate is like the automotive equivalent of a red hat, in that you should have to report to your neighbors if you move in with either.
I DON’T KNOW, MAYBE DON’T CHOOSE FINGER-SHAPED PASTA WHEN YOU’RE TRYING TO FEED THE BIRDS GARY. PERHAPS NEXT TIME A CAVATAPPI OR FARFALLE WILL HELP AVOID THIS CONFUSION GARY. This news item was sponsored by HBO’s Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.
Finally, today’s dispatch from the Department of It, In Fact, Being Like That Though:
