Happy Hangul Day!
It's a Korean holiday honoring the best and easiest alphabet in the world! Everyone in Korea gets the day off work to contemplate it, but it only takes fifteen minutes to learn!
So today, learn to read Korean in 15 minutes!
you're lost in wilderness. after days of climbing you crest a ridge. while unzipping your bag to get binoculars, your last ten hard boiled eggs fall out and roll away, single file. you watch your eggs fade into the distance. you lift the binoculars. you watch your eggs fade into the distance
Sometimes my feed is just:
[amazing art] looking for work
[goated resume] looking for work
[great writing] looking for work
[banger music] looking for work
Dave Slutbutt, CEO of Game Dev, has laid off 9000 people to buy a 4th house in Bora Bora.
[industry veteran] looking for work
I absolutely LOVE this.
Christian Bale spent roughly 17 years fighting to make this happen.
This week, his foster-care village opened in Palmdale, California: 12 homes built specifically to help keep siblings together when they enter foster care.
The most absolutely massive flex from the state fair exhibit. This quilt is made of 40 years of prize ribbons from various categories at the New Mexico State Fair won by Carol St. Clair Johnson. She also won a prize for this quilt.
the famous line about how michael caine treated the muppets as fellow actors and tim curry treated himself as a fellow muppet keeps running through my head
we have a lot of brilliant actors, but how many of them can really pull off 'unhinged muppet' the way curry could? what a tremendous loss
"Bluesky is dying" bro you're talking about a website full of 38 year olds who have fringe political beliefs and listen to black metal bands with >1000 listeners on spotify, nobody here cares about popularity
Incredible. When E—n M—k & his crew obliterated USAID in a weekend, they deleted a vast trove of publicly-funded knowledge: the Development Experience Clearinghouse.
A Canadian high school student (!) happened to have downloaded the entire thing for a project. AidData has now posted it for all.
One of the quiet bright moments of lockdown was Sam Neill serenading us on the ukulele. This type of tenderness feels rare nowadays, how lucky we were. Thank you for everything. ❤️❤️❤️
i'd argue it's the other way around. the tech industry branched off at some point and has veered further and further into "useless shit nobody wants" while the people who actually like the computer have been doing the same thing