Lucent Beam

A thread of all my parodies: Foil - A Destiny Parody (Royals) youtube.com/watch?v=Rw2hYU…

A face that only everyone and their mother could love.

Today was a joyful day... our foster dog Jax got adopted by a couple that's going to be even better Jax parents than we were! 🥰 What a lucky boy!

@HeyFitzy And yet look at this Switch 2 with some great streaming games... 😇

@lucentbeam I hardly stream anymore/if at all. 😔 Life too busy for me at the moment.

Scored Pokopia from Pokemon Center, and a Switch and Z-A at Target. Big W. Time to have some fun! 😎

@Mercules904 I loved it!

Well… Project Hail Mary is indeed amazing. Never really seen anything like it, major props to everyone involved in that.

@anishmoonka The movie was amazing!

Andy Weir wrote a novel nobody wanted, posted it on his blog for free, then sold it on Kindle for 99 cents. It sold 35,000 copies in a month. This weekend, the movie based on his third book opened at $141 million worldwide. Weir was a software engineer who started posting The Martian chapter by chapter on his website in 2009. Readers asked him to put it on Kindle. Within days of it hitting the bestseller list, he had a literary agent, a publishing deal, and Fox bought the film rights. The Martian cost $108 million to make and grossed $630 million. Drew Goddard wrote that screenplay. He wrote this one too. Project Hail Mary cost nearly double at $200 million. And the studio behind it isn’t Fox. It’s Amazon MGM, which exists because Amazon wrote an $8.45 billion check to buy MGM in 2021. Four years and several expensive flops later, this is the first time that bet has looked smart. Amazon MGM’s 2026 started ugly. A Melania documentary earned $16 million on a $40 million budget. Crime 101 managed $65 million worldwide against $90 million in production costs. Then Hail Mary opened to $80.5 million domestic, the second-largest non-franchise debut in a decade, behind only Oppenheimer’s $82.4 million. Here’s what makes Amazon’s math viable: 200 million people pay for Amazon Prime, mostly for shipping. Prime Video is included. Every movie they put in theaters is a marketing campaign for a streaming service their customers already have. Their distribution chief said it in 2024: if they cover marketing costs theatrically, the movie pays for itself again on streaming. Traditional studios need a film to gross 2.5x its budget. Amazon just needs to cover the ad spend. The film earned a 95% on Rotten Tomatoes and an “A” CinemaScore (an audience exit poll that predicts how long a movie keeps selling tickets). If it tracks anything like The Martian, which had a similar audience profile and word of mouth, it could push past $600 million globally. Same screenwriter adapting both books, for a studio that didn’t exist when the first one came out.

It took me years of pinning and using Vivi buddies, but I've finally evolved them all! #PokemonGo #vivillon

My heart just can't stop hurting.

@OldhamKY_EMA w admin

According to our Kentucky Mesonet, Oldham County had a peak wind gust of 54.2 mph at 1:05 pm today. We're expecting up to 75 mph straight-line winds this evening.

@FryskePokemon Haha, this PokeStop is amazing!

Pooping Rainbows 🦄🌈 Taguig, Metro Manila, Philippines 🇵🇭 #PokemonGO

Vivi and Jax! Join the fun of Pokémon GO! pokemongolive.com/refer?code=WFP…

3 and 4 and 3 and 4 and 3 and 4 and

Chloe is so happy that spring is on the way because she gets to play Chuck It every day when I come home.

@Paradiced_ Ugh, I hear you.

The worst advice you can give someone is “it will get better”

Happy 16th Birthday to Drake. He bit the lit candle off his cake today. I guess that's one way to blow it out.

@brb_skywalking I double dog dare you. (Chloe and Drake)

oh no, I've watched enough Pokopia to feel like I need it

The worst feeling for a woman is when she tries to have a real conversation with a man about his behavior that hurts her, but instead of listening, he gets angry and turns it around on her. It cuts deep, a mix of frustration, sadness, and emotional abandonment. She isn’t trying to argue; she’s trying to be heard, to heal, to make things better. But instead of understanding, he gets defensive. Instead of acknowledging her pain, he deflects, blames, or mocks. Suddenly, the issue isn’t what she said it’s how she said it. And just like that, her pain gets buried under his anger. What hurts most isn’t the argument it’s the message behind it: Your feelings don’t matter. Your pain is inconvenient. Your voice is too much. That becomes a silent wound, forcing her to shrink herself just to keep the peace. But peace without understanding isn’t peace it’s silence. Eventually, she starts to question herself: “Maybe I’m too sensitive.” “Maybe I should just let it go.” But deep down, she knows better. Because when a woman speaks up about her pain, it’s not an attack it’s a gift. It’s her saying, I still care enough to fix this. And when that moment is met with anger instead of care, something inside her starts to shut down for good.

Someone I know stopped arguing in their relationship. Not because things improved. Because they realized the other person only changed temporarily when confronted. So instead of fighting, they started observing. Stopped reminding. Stopped correcting. Stopped asking twice. Just watched. Birthdays forgotten. Promises missed. Effort inconsistent. When they finally left, the partner said, “Why didn’t you tell me it was this serious?” They had. Many times. The difference was this time they didn’t shout. They documented it in silence. And silence, apparently, doesn’t feel urgent until it’s permanent.

@kehenashop My heart cannot handle this cuteness and joy!

🐭🐁 #Pokemonday2026