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Geek, born to European parents. Speak Spanish and German. Grew up just outside Philadelphia; have lived in the Bay Area since the mid-90s. Exist mainly to care for and entertain dogs. Own way too many headphones.
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In a word, no. In multiple words, the first season has, so far, been a fairly faithful adaptation of the first book, so you don’t need to have read anything to understand what’s going on.
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She’s so fantastically, relentlessly *intent* in every single frame of Andor that whenever I see Gough laughing or even smiling in an interview, my brain misses a step and stumbles, taking a second to recover. If that’s not a sign of phenomenal acting, I don’t know what is.
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We need a Tim Orange, just so we can chastise people for trying to engage in comparison.
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I’m going to wash the sting out of my eyes that that evokes with the gentle, soothing power of bleach.
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Come on! He’s the only director ever have made shit Star Trek *and* shit Star Wars movies! How can you not appreciate his singular franchise-straddling talent?
Er, I mean, “same”.
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Ooooh. I, who am WEAK when it comes to spiciness, was introduced, by my father, to a different brand of fried chili a few years ago; I now put it on damn near everything. I’m going to order some of this and see how it compares.
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Are they doing the thing where they perch on the sink’s edge, tilt their heads 90 degrees, hold it near the faucet, and flick out their tongues to catch each drop as it falls? I love that.
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I'm past trying to convince national Democrats of stuff, and posting on social media wouldn't do that anyway. But I really believe that there is an immense latent appetite in this country to BURY these fucking bullies, here and elsewhere, and that doing so is work many people want to be a part of.
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My deepest condolences. If at all possible, please don’t flog yourself. Like anyone caring for a loved one who can’t speak, you made what felt like the best choice given the information at hand. That things didn’t play out as hoped doesn’t retroactively make you selfish or cruel.
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I posted before seeing this, but I do exactly the same thing. I’ve referred to it as a race condition ever since I realized what was actually going on.
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I have a whole set of typos that aren’t so much a slip of the finger as a race between hands: the word contains alternations of letters entered with left- and right-handed keys, and one hand will jump the gun just a bit, inserting its character prematurely.
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I always, always, write “cloak” as “cloack” the first time; I _think_ that’s because, aside from “oak” and “trek”, most words with a vowel and a ‘k’ have a ‘c’ between the two: brick, dock, pack, truck, wreck…
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They cower in the chilling cold, clutching their hoarily frosted wrongness, thinking that the slabs of frozen water out of which crafted their shelters will preserve them and their mistaken opinions. They are oblivious to the fact the ICE is gonna BREAK.
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Nothing is distracting from anything. The central truth isn't the economy or the deportations or the tariffs or the pope picture or anything else. They are all parts of one big picture, which is that we have given unchecked power to a crazy person.
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It’s a terrible shame. That he lived to 86, I mean.
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As strong as “What the gibbering fuck is wrong with you, Chuck?”
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“Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.”
— Howard W. Newton (probably)
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Gavin Newsom is busting his butt in an almost single-handed effort to keep the New York Democrats from just walking away with the “biggest set of useless douchebags” prize.
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My brain hears the narrator’s voice, declares that he has a close relative who’s likewise a culinary adventurer but lives in Sweden, and refuses to take any questions at this time.
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Mmmmm, wireheads.
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This makes me want to go literally medieval in my prompts. “I beg thee, o noble system, to, should it tickle thy whim, answer me the following question…” “…I am beholden to thee for answering my ignorant and unworthy question with so generous a gift: a glittering sliver of thy vast wisdom.”
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I enjoy a good whiskey, but yeah. I’ve always thought whiskey as the gruff old man who glowers at you suspiciously the entire time, while tequila is the guy sprawled comfortably across the beach chair in the afternoon sun who smiles and nods knowingly at you as you settle in.
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Speaking just for myself, I want Democratic candidates to stop sending me inane messages about their working-class background, polling numbers, or FEC deadlines; stop talking in vague terms about what they’ll do in the future, and instead focus with laser intensity on opposing a criminal President.
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NBC - 3
ABC - 6
CBS - 10
PBS - 12
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“How do you fire it?”
“I pull the twigger.”