Sergeant Bucky Yarns

Lawyer, crafter, fangirl. She/her.

[damejoansutherland]

men need to STOP starting podcasts and START forming barbershop quartets. NOW.

[2percentsugar]

does anyone else remember being a hapless american child looking at the prices of books on the inside flap and wondering. do we just hate canadians? this book is $8 here and $13 there, that feels..... mean somehow

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[dduane]

The Times link won't post on its own. But let's just subtitle this "EVERYBODY HATED IT (AND THERE WERE ALSO COPYRIGHT ISSUES FROM BIG COMPANIES)."

[meatsound]

bigs my me at you

[mimosa-sexypeople-contests-2026]

Creature

[necrotranscjk]

An important tweet

[sighinastorm]

This is such a "common sense" way of putting it. Everybody memorize this for spitting it back out whenever needed.

[skin-slave]

Never thought I'd have the opportunity to say this again: Reducing women and girls to their vaginas and then forcing them to show those vaginas to strangers is not a feminist ideal.

[escuerzoresucitado]

Pedestrian traffic lights

[sjorsdottir]

Ooooh, we have a bunch of really fancy pedestrian traffic lights in Germany! I need to share:

Starting off with the difference between formerly Eastern German traffic lights (upper images) and formerly Western German traffic lights (lower images):

The city of Erfurt had some additions, like an umbrella or a heart:

Same sex love in Marburg (upper image) and Frankfurt (lower image):

Traffic light lady in Bremen:

Karl Marx light in Trier:

Face of Friedrich Engels in Wuppertal:

Elvis in Friedberg (Hessen):

A sparrow (for the Golden Sparrow film awards) in Gera:

Winemaker in Bad Dürkenheim:

Mainzelmännchen (mascot of the public broadcasting service ZDF) in Mainz:

Otto Waalkes (German Comedian) in Emden:

Town musicians of Bremen in Bremen:

A miner in Pirmasens, Rheinland-Pfalz:

Bishop in Fulda:

Source: Saarbrücker Zeitung

Enjoy!

[translatingpoststogerman]

And we call these "Ampelmännchen" ("traffic lights little man").

[robot-roadtrip-rants]

omg that's amazing! I wanna visit Germany just to take pictures of all the cute traffic lights.

[firagasoap]

Broccoli Knuckle Duster by David Delahunty

[ma-gpie]

[intercal]

some social media manager at doordash has been tagging T-Pain (the rapper) thinking that they're tagging some New Zealand soccer player this is funny as fuck

[maswartz]

[fractally]

This has been my main argument against "AI" from the very beginning.

OpenAI scraped the entire web. All of which had been a labor of love from humans. Wikipedia is the backbone of a lot of LLMs, and that was volunteer human labor. They stole it and now they're selling it back to us.

And worse, they're trying to destroy the free sources that they stole from. It's destruction of human knowledge on an unprecedented scale. The burning of the library of Alexandria has nothing on this.

[thepromiscuousfinger]

I love very specific cakes

[easily-evi]

I had to redraw this cake 🍰

[sweaterkittensahoy]

A companion:

[femalegothic]

I just got off the phone with Lindsey Graham and we talked for 20 minutes about how Mitch McConnell is totally still alive and Scott Jennings really did talk to him

[cephalopodvictorious]

!!!! I just realized that Bug’s half birthday is not only the anniversary of the Moon Landing - her first one is Moon Day Monday!!!!!

[natalieironside]

Sub-par sea birds are properly liquid assets and can be exchanged in bulk, but sea birds of average or better quality can only be exchanged for one equal or better. This is because on good tern deserves another.

[dudethatsmypillowcase]

Two eridians and their wet dog

[justacynicalromantic]

My colleague (the one that works in shift with me and is supposed to relieve me) lives very near to where Russian missiles struck Kyiv tonight. Thank God she and her family are alright, but all her windows are gone. She needs to go to the police to document the damages and do something about the wreckage. Its a scary sleepless night for her and an extra shift for me.

And this is such a normal occurrence for anyone living in Ukraine that I feel somehow embarrassed even writing about it. But I just wanted to write it, to say that the war is still going on and touches our lives in many small and big, significant and mundane ways every day, even if Ukrainians do not write about it as much anymore - it's because we acclimated to it.

[rosieandthemoon]

from Gabriella Kiss