you may know everything I'm going to do, but that won't help you because I know everything YOU'RE going to do! -R youtu.be/H6Eyq7uazkk?...

always fascinated by idea that i am not being sincere or that my tinglers are a joke or that this is a 'bit'. on one hand i get it because my art is BY DEFINITION unusual, but i just think WHAT IS ALTERNATIVE? what would me being 'fake' even mean? imagine writing 400 books over 10 years for a 'bit'

On this episode of the Overly Sarcastic Podcast: the situation with these "Jack Sprat" memes is fully out of control. It's become a real Jagety Stragety scenario, a veritable Jalamity Scalamity. (The OSPodcast is available on all podcast platforms!)

On the one hand Chicago is looking at paralyzing amounts of Lake Effect Snow tonight and tomorrow morning. On the other hand, how well are those Ice and Border Patrol guys prepared for our winters? Who is going to be paralyzed?

On the one hand Chicago is looking at paralyzing amounts of Lake Effect Snow tonight and tomorrow morning. On the other hand, how well are those Ice and Border Patrol guys prepared for our winters? Who is going to be paralyzed?

Many of them have personal schemes and personal megalomaniacal visions of the future. But none of them dare stick their heads too high because the one thing the evil fool hates above everything is anyone who is not his abject groveling slave. /3

As a result conservatives in power have to bow to his Caliguaesque cruelties (they also enjoy the cruelty since that's what the cult is about). They're all waiting for him to become incapacitated so they can fight among themselves to be his successor. /2

The person making the decisions has never understood anything and has only gotten worse in the last few years. The core Republican voters are a cult of imperialist worshipers of this embodiment of arbitrary cruelty. /1

Great read about Chicago’s growing resistance movement against Operation Midway Blitz. Story of community, solidarity, and empathy bringing the children of day laborers together with suburban moms. Gift link. By Andrew Carter @chicagotribune.com www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/08/c...

I love my city so much

It's the myth of the wish granting Djinn. You have only to say what you want and the Djinn brings it to you. This character idea also showed up in various stories as the magical valet (such as Jeeves) who could do anything even for a mindless idiot.

Some say he's got the most attitude on the team. youtu.be/Nte8_5-U0jQ?... -B

Welcome to the paradox of relativity. It is a fully mathematically and physically consistent model to see everything in the entire universe as trying to pull you down (each with their own direction of down). It is equally true that you are a universal force of nature pulling everything else down.

Science is more a humanity than a science. 5/5

It confronts us with our preconceptions. It reveals our mental processes and emotional attachments. It challenges the ego's confidence. The process of science is far more important than its results. It enables us to see the void staring back without blanching 4/5

The significance of science is in knowing, or more precisely in the participation knowing, or perhaps more precisely the participation in striving to know. The point is science is a deeply human activity and engagement with it ultimately confronts us with ourselves. 3/5

"... what matters in science is the understanding of the world that science provides." Absolutely not. The significance of science is not knowlege about the world -- at least not knowlege as something possessed and external to ourselves. 2/5

Because I am mad (and wanted a read different from what I have been reading) I am reading "Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity" by Carlo Rovelli So far it's OK, but one sentence I vehemently disagree with. 1/5

The main thing is to take care of yourself and do what you need to to get better. /2

Please don't think that way. People fall. It happens. Living on land is annoying (I much prefer water) and bipedalism is not great. I spent way too much of my life defining myself as clumsy. It never helps. And it makes each fall, no matter how rare feel like proof, /1

Tiredness is a wave function, but it can be approximated as a vector. Neither math nor science are tool sets of certainty. They're toolsets of mistrust to examine possibilities. They are removers of certainty.

My brother and I talk about this difference in our math popularization X Marks the Spot. We use the analogy of mathematicians as the Smiths who make the Tools and Physicists as the Knight who uses the Tools. Two very different perspectives on the same thing.

We explore ideas for fun all the time. Playing with ideas is a large part of my job as a writer. The questions and comments you made were not playing. You could simply have asked "how is Judaism like math?" listened to the discussion and formed interesting questions.

You're being silly. If you're trying to be silly, get better material. If you're being serious learn basic logic and writing. If you're trolling. Go away.

"Is like" means shares aspects with. It does not mean can be substituted for. This is basic logic. It's also basic writing. "Is like" is used in similes and metaphors. Lips like roses does not mean they are flowers. /1

New OOTS! #1335, A Righteous Mushroom: www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1...

Ahhh thank you, that’s a great way to phrase it! Almost everything & everyone to ever exist is in the past. But somehow, I’m supposed to believe TODAY is the most useful & meaningful referent? Leave me alone with my ghosts!

I just read Van der Toorn’s article on teraphim & divination by means of necromancy. Ancient people understood that the ghosts know things 🤷🏻‍♀️

The variation in cultural attitudes toward and interactions with the dead is fascinating.

Today is when we can do the most and the most can happen to us. But understanding the past gives vital perspective on the present, so hanging around with ghosts can be very handy. But some people get weird about it. Necromancers were very shrewd rebranding as historians and archeologists.

Ooh. That can be a fraught subject. Good luck and remember modern times are transitory. The ancient past is always with us and grows bigger every day.

Things that are bugging me tonight 1. The Old Testament is not the Torah. The OT vengeful God is nowise the Jewish God. 2. Missing teeth is not a sign of stupidity, ignorance, or backwardness. It is a sign of poverty. Not understanding this is lazy and cruel.

Ah. Monsieur le Comte. We’ve been waiting many years for you to grace us with your presence. And how do you plan to spend your time among us?

at long last, the fruits of my machinations... youtu.be/idObk4I4bdg?...

SFF writer innocent whistle, sliding genres and designations around as useful, finishing prepping a highly ambiguous trilogy for self pubbing. My most heretical view: Genre designation mostly up to the fans.

Making a ballgown in a week for my VtM LARP was a success! #sewing #costume #historicaldress #vampirethemasquerade

To not be complex beings, not be humans among humans, living life in this factual world. They want to be so simple that no processes keep them alive. They want to be nothing but grains of sand.

All those who praise that silly orange fool and call him divinely ordained king. They worship him because he has made himself nothing but grains of sand. And they wish to be like that.

All the ICE thugs. All the Nazis. All the abusers. All those who would starve others or withhold medicine. those who claim to be violent for some holy calling. All of them just envy the grains of sand, blocking up a process necessary for life.

Around twenty years ago, I nearly died because of grains of sand in my gall bladder. Thanks to a lot of very good medical care derived from millennia of experimentation, I survived and am living just fine. Since then, I've looked at violent people and seen that they envy those grains of sand.

Around twenty years ago, I nearly died because of grains of sand in my gall bladder. Thanks to a lot of very good medical care derived from millennia of experimentation, I survived and am living just fine. Since then, I've looked at violent people and seen that they envy those grains of sand.

On this episode of the Overly Sarcastic Podcast: it's Boys Night, so Blue & Indigo go off on a tangent about their favorite TV intro songs. (The OSPodcast is available on all podcast platforms!) -B

Having a Sauron cult start in Gondor is a recapitulation of this theme. I can see why he might have thought this would make sense. I can also see him scrapping it. Writers should be allowed to scrap the ideas we give up on without them being pulled out later. /2

Sauron started a cult of Morgoth in Numenor, eventually getting the king to worship Morgoth and then convinced him to sail to Valinor. It was because of this that Numenor was sunk. Isildur and his family fled because they were being persecuted by the Morgoth cultists. /1

More stuff is brought to and emerges from stuff happening than people think is brought to and emerges from stuff happening, More people need to think about stuff happening. And happiness. /2

Stuff happens. More stuff happens than people think happens. More stuff happens in happenings than people think happens More happening happens in stuff than people think happens. More stuff happening can make people happy than people think happens. /1

Stuff happens. More stuff happens than people think happens. More stuff happens in happenings than people think happens More happening happens in stuff than people think happens. More stuff happening can make people happy than people think happens. /1

Most people have no long term memory of what they used to think was good and now assert is bad. Orwell thought Doublethink was a new risk. If he'd studied the history of fashion he would have realized how commonplace it was. /4

One of the fascinating things living with someone who is well versed in the history of art and clothing is seeing how easily fashions change and how what was praised one day can be the subject of shame the next. /3

They're trying to stir up suspicion about how a family member is addressed in the same way they'd advertise a new product they were paid to push. And I literally mean the same way. Advertising has gotten people to be ashamed of all sorts of things and suspicious of people for no reason at all./2