Hi team! I had a lovely baptism yesterday, you shoulda been there. It was in the SEA and a WHALE appeared as a physical manifestation of God being particularly excited about my conversion, as opposed to some random conversion. A+++ would be immersed in the Pacific again, would recommend it to others. Now, let’s see what we loved this week on The Toast!
Mallory and I yelled a WHOLE BUNCH about Crimson Peak and we regret nothing:
Mallory: and somehow leaves are falling through the roof even though there are CLEARLY NO TREES NEARBY
Nicole: Like, c’mon, now, I don’t think of myself as high-maintenance, but I would have told my manservant to put my trunk back on the carriage, bc we are staying at the Ritz until my contractor is done.
NO TREES
Mallory: this movie looked like a Silent Hill cutscene and an Emily the Strange journal cover had a goth baby
and I LOVED IT
Star Trek dreams and Geoff Marcy:
According to TV.com, Geoff Marcy guest-starred in a 2001 BBC special called “Star Trek Night.” The Times article noted that his dreams were “the stuff of TV fantasy, a ‘Star Trek’ script.” Back here at home, was Geoff Marcy trying to live in his own personal episode of Star Trek? In the realm of sexuality, unfortunately, his fantasies seemed to override any more current information he might have received about what is and is not appropriate behavior. As a faculty member at Berkeley, I can attest that we are mandated to receive training on sexual harassment every other year. I have taken the the in-person training, the online training, and the fun theater skit-based training, and I know that during his sixteen years at this university, Marcy was certainly given the information that his behavior was unwelcome, inappropriate, illegal, and might cost him his job. Yet the dated fantasy trope of the space opera with the bold explorer hero does not die easily.
“Oh you should be like this,” but I’m not even any kind of way
Simon Le Bon and The Goldfinch:
Nintendo was founded in 1889. I was born 100 years later. It didn’t take long for my parents to see how different I was from my older, neurotypical (non-autistic) brother. My senses were fragile, and easily overwhelmed. Loud environments like parties and restaurants compelled me to scream and hide, like a dog scared by fireworks on the Fourth of July. I began each day by sprinting from room to room, flipping on every light in the house to banish the oppressive dark. Worst of all, my nerves construed even the softest touch of another person as a brutal hammer strike. I lived with the certainty that I’d been dropped into a maze of spikes and lava from some gentler, faraway place, which would forever lie beyond my reach.
EMILY GILMORE’S LATE-IN-LIFE LESBIANISM
Good week guys. Lets all find a puppy and nap forever.
A whale showed up? At your baptism? Any chance there’s a trip to the Middle East (Nineveh, to be precise) in your future?
Whales never stop being baptized.
NEW TOAST IS LIVE! Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
Hey! The redesign team just took the new site live! Anyone who’s looking, I hope you like it. (Official launch on Monday.)
The thumbs up are so positive and affirmative now!
Very pretty!
It is great, I love it so much, the comment threads work like WOAH and everything is clean and beautiful and you are all geniuses.
The redesign looks so good! Good work, redesign team!
Daaaaamn the new Toast is pretty!
I’ve only seen the mobile version of the nuToast so far, but I may or may not have had an “It’s alive… It’s alive!” moment when I did. Time to dial back the Frankenstein watching methinks.
Here’s hoping it doesn’t crash my computer anymore (although I just upgraded to ubutntu 15.10 so that’s a confounding factor).
As soon as I saw NewToast I whitelisted it on adblock and have had no problems! Will not stop my (small) monthly donation, though, since I use a RSS-reader and want my Toast to keep coming, please. But hurrah, hurrah!
I have also just whitelisted NewToast! It seems to be going well – there are a few ads down the righthand side, and one of them is actually showing something I might want (why yes, I AM looking for invoicing software).
Quick question – do you still see a little crying-face emoji on the header? Is there supposed to be an ad there as well?
No, I see no crying-face emojis, but I do at the very top have an ad for Audible.
Hooray New Toast! I also just donated money and whitelisted it in Adblock. Looks great, everyone! Nice choice of fonts, too!
nuToast is lovely beyond imagining and doesn’t crash on my work computer anymore! This is the greatest of things–I might actually waste LESS time at work now because I won’t have to reload every page 15 times. Can’t wait to see it on my phone/tablet. <3 u toast 5eva!
I looked here to check because I missed a Friday. I use a laptop so apparently haven’t run into other users’ aggravations. If this iteration doesn’t crash anybody, then good. I love Toast. I don’t like change for the sake of change, yet if that makes this site more available to others who may wish to share it, so be it. I will adapt.
This new layout is AMAZING.
SO EXCITED ABOUT THE REDESIGN! I like the updated look of the comments (though I still wish they were contained visually somehow, hmm), and I’ve already whitelisted the domain for ads! Good luck ironing out the details.
Woohooo…. I have clicked on nuToast NOT KNOWING IT WAS NUTOAST and my computer is silent… usually it is breathing like one that hath a weary dream and I had to limit visits due to the overpowering sense of heated thighs (laptop, right).
Good-oh!
Roger and out.