Alyson Hannigan uses real ‘Buffy’ set pieces as Halloween decoration
“One of the benefits of being on Buffy the Vampire Slayer was that set dec gave me a bunch of Halloween stuff,” Hannigan revealed in the video. “They used to loan me things for Halloween and then when the show was over, they were like, ‘Just take it all.’” Moving on to a massive cross...
the circle has updated its relationship status to hulu
a sitcom made a fake song and now it’s my problem
“Hiccups (Body Go Crazy)” from Adults has absolutely no business requiring this much of my attention. i respect a comedy that understands a fake song should still commit to being a song. the bit has escaped containment.
justice for sides! this is Frotting 101
At a time when our understanding of pleasure outside of penetration continues to expand, many are realizing that frotting is essentially mutual masturbation on steroids. And while it isn’t entirely risk-free, frotting generally carries a lower risk of transmitting STIs than penetrative sex. link for more: Them
the halloween comics shelf has a serious woods problem
zombies, missing memories, hungry forests, monster hunters, and pop-star gods. the five comics on my halloween shelf.
Free Cable TV Alternatives: Channels With Movies, Shows, and Variety
Shout! TV, ElectricNOW, MovieSphere, and Revry offer different ways to recreate cable's put-it-on-and-leave-it-on experience without a subscription.
my grilled cheese needed better bread, not a personal brand
this week’s life-changing hack is to buy a sliced loaf from the bakery section and make grilled cheese with it. that’s the hack. we can all go home.
immortality has not improved anybody’s living arrangements
vampire families, reluctant covens, one slayer, and a haunted estate. five shows from my halloween shelf, with room for different attention spans.
graham norton’s theme song did not need to go this hard
graham norton’s theme song sounds like the party is already happening and you have made the correct decision by showing up. all this just to introduce some people sitting on a couch. exemplary use of everyone’s time.
my halloween bookshelf has concerns about the human body
five books, from illustrated fairy-tale dread to gothic classics, queer body horror, and a supernatural romance.
the websites are going to a costume party
meet Telly, Facet, the tiny pencil-wielding version of me, and Moots’ two ghosts. the sites are getting ready for a little optional halloween.
trove community reviews: books, comics, movies, and tv
queer horror, a disputed ending, mutual aid, a handsome fish situation, and a few notes from my own shelf.
baseball and i have a seasonal situationship
i enjoy watching baseball. i also forget baseball exists until the playoffs every year. apparently my fandom has a flowering season.
Samsung TV Plus Originals: Free Shows Beyond the Reruns
Unlikely Romances and Keanu Reeves's Hooligans show Samsung TV Plus using its free channels for actual first-run premieres.
Tubi Originals to Watch Free: Slay, Lowlifes, and The Z-Suite
Drag queens versus vampires, a road-trip horror movie, and Lauren Graham in an ad agency: three Tubi Originals to start with, plus the linear-channel distinction.
the new press secretary cured my imposter syndrome
watching someone walk up to the most famous lectern on earth and treat it like an unprepared oral report is a profound spiritual gift to working people everywhere.
Watch Revry Free: Drag Competitions, Queer Comedy, and More
Revry's free network offers Unconventional, King of Drag, Drag Latina, and ballroom programming—with live channels as well as on-demand viewing.
Tastemade Free Streaming: Cooking Shows Beyond the Reruns
Kitchen Glow Up, Worth the Hype, and Forking Delicious show why Tastemade's free channels deserve more than background-rerun status.
Free Streaming Originals: What to Watch Without a Subscription
free television has actual original shows, not just reruns. a guide to Tastemade, Revry, Tubi, and Samsung TV Plus—and the channels where they live.
the cowboy lost his hat. we do not need to make this complicated.
what did the cowboy say when he lost his hat? where’s my hat. a complete story with no unnecessary stakeholders.
the universe got bigger because someone checked the paperwork
Hubble’s VAR! plate is a wonderful discovery story. it is also a reminder that the person with the telescope is not the whole institution.
Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90
“To say Margaret Hamilton was a pioneer — to say she was ahead of her time — would be a dramatic understatement. She was a software engineer at a time when that field was in its infancy, and she not only developed advanced code herself but also led a team in using that nascent technology...
the duolingo owl has a personality. your bank’s purple people do not.
flat shapes are not the crime. asking the same cheerful purple person to represent a language lesson, a mortgage, and a layoff is.
the cw gives you six months between high school and somebody’s dad
the worst part about your late thirties is not aging. it’s getting recast from high schooler to somebody’s complicated dad between seasons.
the lesbian bar cannot pay rent with ideological consistency
a KN-95 policy can be care. one mask-optional night can also be care. a community space that closes because nobody lets it compromise is accessible to absolutely no one.
the head of trust and safety should not have an automated enemies list
a personal block is a boundary. a trust-and-safety chief automating one is a governance problem wearing the skin of a vibe check.
black ranch is purple ketchup wearing a spirit halloween uniform
black ranch tastes like ranch. the product is the moment everybody at the party decides whether fries should look haunted.
dating apps think every gay man lives twelve minutes from a tapas bar
dating apps were built for a world where every gay man lives twelve minutes from a tapas bar. outside the metro, the algorithm starts grading you for geography.
bluesky was small enough to reskeet every dick at 10 p.m.
a 10 p.m. dick-pic reskeet ritual was once logistically possible. that says something about the weird, tiny, communal Bluesky of summer 2023.
the iPad line is a value menu and a luxury car dealership
the $449 iPad is enough for almost everyone. the $1,199 iPad Pro may be the best tablet money can buy. the middle has been assigned paperwork.
Drew picked dad over big sis, and BB28 has its final three
Drew evicted Dee, kept Rick, and sent Taylor, Drew, and Rick to the final three. yay or boo, whichever you prefer.
spray butter has zero calories if you stop counting immediately
one spray is a serving. six sprays are 5 calories. the bottle contains 1,130 servings. nutrition has become a precision instrument for comedy.
i know tapping B does nothing. i will be tapping B.
a GameFAQs post from approximately 1999 still has administrative privileges over my thumb.
why would i let 20-year-old me review my life
he had more friends, a better city, and absolutely none of the information. i'm willing to hear his concerns.
a stray dog showed up and kindness immediately became logistics
a stray dog appeared at the door, and suddenly caring was not a feeling. it was a checklist.
Is Matt Mathews funny or just racist?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVgHCDeOT6E Bob explores the shift in how comedians gain fame today, contrasting the traditional path of honing jokes in clubs with the modern influencer model where an audience is built first through viral content. Source: Is Matt Mathews funny or just racist? - Bob The Drag Queen
the traitors: new blood has turned vibes into forensic evidence
twenty-two civilians entered a Scottish castle and immediately began converting mumbling, posture, and dog-groomer intuition into probable cause.
the water does not expire. the bottle is making other plans.
the date on bottled water is not a chemical trapdoor. it is a reminder that the container and the garage have been participating.
edible owns edible.com and edibles.com, which feels like cheating
the fruit bouquet company has acquired both the singular and plural forms of an ordinary adjective. language remains technically available to the public.
i thought “call me maybe” was a silly one-hit wonder. then E•MO•TION happened.
fifteen years after “Call Me Maybe,” i would like to formally acknowledge that i misread the situation. badly.
surely, we shouldn’t be worried about this infringement… right? 😰
“We feel obliged to speak up about the injustice and violation of our rights by not being allowed to promote a feminist work, specifically a work by Virginia Woolf who was born in 1882. What can we do? As a theatre we have to publicise our activities … and we have to make use of...
The Next Chapter for Bungie?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asnrQ1UoBQM Bungie leadership committed to restoring specific content to Destiny 2 that had previously been removed, though they did not provide a definitive list of names or a specific release timeline. Source: The Next Chapter for Bungie - YouTube
my mom’s angry playlist has two songs and no skips
The Bitch Is Back. You Oughta Know. apparently i inherited a very specific approach to emotional regulation.
the map must be optimistic because the food is not
the driver is “nearby” in the same way a distant thunderstorm is technically in the area.
a playlist is an email you can make someone not answer
the power of a playlist is that it can say too much, and nobody has to type back “thank you, that is a lot.”
the housewives anniversary trip is a hostile group project with luggage
seven veteran Housewives, five cities, one traveling jurisdictional dispute, and Teresa waiting patiently for the next euphemism to receive technical support.
streaming has turned watching tv into unpaid market research
streaming has trained viewers to treat every premiere like a performance review—and every show they love like an unpaid internship.
the group chat is a municipal service
somebody has to announce they have arrived, somebody has to react with a heart, and somebody has to send the screenshot.
the local file has better bedside manner
the cloud keeps promising my movie collection is safe, then asks me to download it before i can watch it.
Yash traded Drew the veto for two promises and a future problem
after roughly twelve to fourteen hours, Yash handed Drew the #BB28 veto in exchange for safety promises. this should age calmly and without incident.
sleep is a mandatory meeting i cannot attend
sleep is essential, automatic, and apparently unavailable whenever the brain notices you are counting on it.
a party photograph became a painting, and then became a memory again
Jordan Sullivan’s American Communion turns one 1998 Galveston balcony photograph into a small argument about memory, community, and what a camera preserves by accident.
the backlog is not a moral failing, it is a library
a backlog is only embarrassing if you believe every game you own is waiting beside the door with a tiny clipboard.
millennials are processing 9/11 normally, by which i mean posting
twenty-five years after 9/11, millennials are commemorating the formative trauma of our youth in the most emotionally healthy way available to us: posting through it.
Montgomery is talking about suicide prevention. we should listen.
A new WSFA report puts Suicide Prevention Month in very local terms: Montgomery families living with grief, bullying, and the work of keeping other kids alive. That story belongs beside yesterday’s post about queer and trans youth — not as the same story, but as part of the same obligation to take “different” seriously.
firefox would like to save this mistake for later
nothing improves an incorrect password like the browser offering to preserve it forever.
queer and trans kids deserve to grow old
on world suicide prevention day, the specialized 988 service for LGBTQ+ youth is still offline. queer and trans kids deserve more than a promise to bring it back later.
#BB28: the final 7, ranked after tonight’s eviction
After tonight’s #BB28 eviction, there are seven left, and my rankings are now Barrett, Taylor, Melody, Drew, Devens, Yash, and Dee. this feels correct for at least the next twelve minutes.
Ocean Photographer of the Year 2026: Seahorse farewell
A portrait capturing an extraordinary moment between an adult seahorse and two newly born juveniles in French Polynesia has been crowned the overall winner of the Ocean Photographer of the Year 2026 competition. Source: Ocean Photographer of the Year 2026: Seahorse farewell wins competition | CNN
the internet has made me suspicious of talented parrots
a parrot got a bob haircut and for one beautiful moment i believed in something
every text message comes with an appeals process
i know what i said. i also know what i meant. unfortunately, the other person received only the first item, and customer service is now closed.
the marshmallow does not need you to defend its racist name
a follow-up to the world’s most racist snack: chocolate, nostalgia, and the people making solidarity purchases on behalf of a confectionery label.
i have started missing things that are still here
grief is not a loyalty program. there are no points for starting early, and no discount for suffering efficiently.
yard work simulator got a sequel before i got a lawn
a joke about yard-work simulators became an unfortunately complete survey of gaming’s most specific genre, just before the free prologue arrives.
arkansas has put the library card on probation
an Arkansas censorship law has turned ordinary library use into a maze of age zones, checkout bans, and criminal-risk management.
september, finally
a hand holding Starbucks brand Pumpkin Spice Creamer
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AI might tear the fabric of our society apart. But look at this bunny wearing a little hat!
voter registration has discovered audience targeting
the voter-registration reminder has finally accepted that democracy may occasionally require a patriotic jockstrap.
the freezer has become a very small evidence locker
i have two boxes of recalled fruit bars, one obvious decision, and a brain determined to open negotiations.
the worst part of living alone is being your own lunch lady
living alone is freedom, privacy, and discovering that the person responsible for making you lunch is somehow you again.
mike huckabee would like custody of the produce aisle
Mike Huckabee tried to turn cherry tomatoes, seedless watermelons, GPS, cell phones, and USB drives into a geopolitical loyalty test. The inventions have declined to cooperate.
the raygun documentary keeps waiting for the joke to introduce itself
about twenty minutes into Untold: Raygun — Breaking Badly, i posted that the documentary was teetering on the edge between documentary and mockumentary despite being 1000% earnest. this is still the most accurate review i can offer. the movie is…
if you call yourself a golden retriever, people may say sit
dating apps reward us for turning ourselves into instantly legible archetypes. unfortunately, metaphors are package deals.
happy beyoncé day; attendance requires the extended mix
Beyoncé turned 45, B’Day turned 20, and the only responsible observance is the six-minute version of “Get Me Bodied.” A holiday with choreography is still a holiday.
your mom sucks is all the booking you need
professional wrestling is at its best when the entire story can be explained to a child in one sentence and the child is already furious before you finish. https://schwegler.tumblr.com/post/826748040276803584 this clip from the May 17, 2024 SmackDown is eleven seconds…
oblivion remastered faithfully restored the part where the corpse disappears
I bought Oblivion Remastered on Switch 2 for the soothing combination of open-world wandering and half-watching television. The game responded by misplacing a corpse required for a Mages Guild recommendation.
the biggest shoplifters have payroll departments
when a poor person takes from a rich institution, we call the police. when a rich institution takes from a worker, we ask whether they opened a ticket.
the x-men are a load-bearing interest
some fandoms are things you enjoy. others quietly become part of the structure holding every version of you together.
you can just stop buying the wizard stuff
loving what a story meant to you does not require an eternal pipeline of purchases, reboots, merchandise, and increasingly strained excuses.
this might be my dream mobile controller
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVv7j_S1h74 Source: Well this is different… MCON Controller - YouTube
#bb28: thog finally found the game on her way out
spoilers for Big Brother 28, obviously. Haley “Thog” Thogmartin’s exit press arrived this morning, several days after the feeds spoiled her medieval-twist elimination and one night after CBS finally allowed the television audience to catch up. this is an extremely…
only you can prevent forest fires, because everyone else got cut
i reblogged this because it is a good joke in the very specific modern genre of “the public service announcement has returned to clarify that the public service was laid off.” https://schwegler.tumblr.com/post/826745015599579136 Image by depsidase on Tumblr, reposted by Andrew;…
we have rebuilt the trip planner as a civil-rights document
Erin Reed’s 2023 and July 2026 trans legal-risk maps show more than a bad legislative season. They show ordinary travel becoming a legal calculation.
mapquest found the fastest route back to relevance
an ancient mapping service declined one pointless authoritarian branding exercise and discovered that “no” is still a very popular feature.
the movie you loved at 20 gets a vote forever
in 2009, (500) Days of Summer felt precision-engineered for being 20. revisiting it now means seeing both the movie and the person who first loved it.
youtube is quietly becoming the weirdest streaming service
youtube is no longer just a website with videos. according to my watch history, it’s a streaming service assembled from television, obsolete consoles, drag queens, wrestling autopsies, and whatever question I developed four minutes ago.
uncmaxxing: becoming playground equipment with dignity
being the fun uncle is mostly controlled irresponsibility, available attention, and discovering that your lower back has become deeply conservative.
god forbid a bitch own a weird little website
A personal site can still be a garden, junk drawer, clubhouse, and tiny act of resistance against the feed.
two patron saints of being too much: dolly parton and tim curry
Dolly Parton and Tim Curry died on the same day at 80. Their careers looked nothing alike, but both made glorious excess feel like permission.
1,000 episodes later: broken microphones, bitter streams, and the glorious mess of the big brother battle royale
Big Brother Battle Royale marked 1,000 episodes with Janelle Pierzina, returning alumni, broken feeds, bitter drama, and $10,000 for PCRF.
tim curry commits fully to being sexy pollution
Tim Curry’s “Toxic Love” from FernGully remains an absurdly committed lesson in how destruction sells itself as appetite.
the bored strategist: when having power leads to self-sabotage
there is a very specific, tragicomic pathology that infects reality competition frontrunners the second their position becomes too comfortable: boredom. a look at the psychology of overplaying in Big Brother, from Audrey and Haleigh to Dustin and Dee.
the art of the block: building an atproto tool for gut-checking your next block
There is a very specific, almost poetic flavor of digital closure that occurs when you go to block someone on social media, only to discover they already beat you to the punch. Enter bsky-mutual-blocks: a lightweight browser client designed to check your Bluesky graph, cross-reference block lists, and reveal when the antipathy across the timeline is 100% reciprocal.
#bb28: m&m dye, house micro-aggressions, and the impending blockbuster chaos
Catching up on Big Brother 28 after a theme CPU glitch: calling out the house micro-aggressions, Angela's M&M dye art, Drew's veto explosion, Thog's sudden tactical brain, and the impending BBBB chaos.
industry plant or chaotic good: the geese marketing conundrum
the discourse around geese being an "industry plant" vs just engaging in chaotic good marketing is proof that our collective brains have been fried by algorithm paranoia...
tulasi beads in the mosh pit: when 90s hardcore found krishna
which is why the early-90s rise of krishnacore remains one of the wildest, most earnest mutations in underground music history...
three universes walk into a bar: the avengers: doomsday collision course
the breakdown of who is getting thrown into the multiversal blender in avengers: doomsday
#BB28 breaking news: eggela has arrived
gird my fuckin' yolks, y'all
#BB28: a bunch of tools in a shed
me? i waited three hours for the feeds to come back and then fell asleep without plugging in my phone which led to me waking up late this morning the houseguests were busy all night, however when feeds came back, Devens was HOH, and over the course of the night a new super-alliance and backdoor...
the garbage fire group chat: why the absolute worst groups of people make for the absolute best television
there is a very specific type of tv show where you realize about three episodes in that there is not a single person on screen you would willingly choose to be in a room with, much less share an Uber with, and yet you cannot look away because watching a collection of absolute monsters ruin...
the world’s most racist snack
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/26m4uomWx0Y Source: YouTube
#BB28, first eviction of the summer?
oh, you know me, just over here chilling, waiting on the feeds to go down for dress rehearsal and not come back until after the west coast airing is over; there's an eviction, but the fun messy part seems to have gone down Yesterday with Ashley deciding to name names in her poorly executed campaigning...
#BB28 it’s waffle wednesday, part: the first
The rankings for today are here, but first.... Who goes home? Who stays? Ladies and ladies, your short-order cooks that the waffle house this week: Ashley She seemed to wake up yesterday finally, which was a sight to behold. Unfortunately for her, it may be a little too late. This woman is an enigma to...
the crib curse: can adding a baby ever actually save a tv show?
it is an ancient, undisputed law of television that the exact moment a long-running show introduces a positive pregnancy test, the writers have officially run out of ideas and the series is circling the drain. it usually signals the absolute death of casual hanging out, the sudden disappearance of main characters into background daycare voids,...
nimby, et c
Across the US, calls to halt data center construction have multiplied, as Americans grow increasingly concerned about risks of pollution, rising energy costs, and diminishing water supplies. At the federal level, Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) have introduced legislation seeking a possible nationwide construction ban. But Republicans are seemingly unlikely to embrace that...
Brazilian volleyball star Douglas Souza has married his long-term boyfriend, Gabriel Campos
Outside hitter Douglas was part of the national team squad that claimed Olympic gold at their home Games in Rio in 2016. He went on to win World Championships silver with Brazil in 2018, and in the same year, he started posting pictures of himself with his boyfriend on social media, coming out as gay...
WATCH: old man on old men
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xH-yAy8_yB4 Senator Lindsey Graham’s sudden death prompts Jon Stewart to dive into the gerontocracy problem in Washington, D.C., Trump’s backhanded tribute to his deceas... Source: The Daily Show - YouTube
Day 7 #BB27 Rankings and Run-down
I'm a slow-burn kinda live feeds guy when it comes to #BB28. We've all been burned a few too many times with that early pick who burns out too soon. Personally, for me this year that award is looking like it's going to Jason who just can't seem to stop telling people things. "Hypothetically, if...
oh to be a blown, blue rocks glass
https://www.reddit.com/r/oddlysatisfying/comments/1uw6gn1/process_of_making_slate_blue_diamond_cut_tulip/ Source: r/oddlysatisfying
shit
forgot to go to bed 2 hours ago :(
if you really loved me, you’d buy me this for 95 bucks
This Figurine Statues & Sculptures item by NieboArte has 45 favorites from Etsy shoppers. Ships from Spain. Listed on May 26, 2026 Source: Hamster Meme Figure - Etsy
british people discover brisket
https://bsky.app/profile/kissphoria.bsky.social/post/3mpo5tpi6kk2m
my month in hell
note: this was written and published on my old blog, originally on 7/7/2023 I never have and never will be big on social media. I don't really have that look, that joke hit rate, or that charisma. But I finally found a comfy little section to live in. Until it was burned down. For the...
wait, meth?
i will never not be taken aback from the meth part in ‘semi-charmed life’
i guess it’s better than Nothing?
Microsoft will likely soon follow Sony and stop the production of physical discs for Xbox games. But instead of leaving physical discs behind entirely, sources familiar with Microsoft’s plans tell me the company has quietly been working on a disc-to-digital feature that will allow Xbox owners to digitize their existing physical game collections. Xbox employees...
caffiendish
more coffee in the afternoon, so i can have trouble sleeping, so i need more coffee tomorrow afternoon, so that i can have trouble sleeping