Oh my god I ordered delivery from the one restaurant I can order delivery from, and for the first time I was able to order real rice instead of cauliflower rice, and I am ready to never eat fucking cauliflower rice again

enough. i’m tired of github actions. it’s time for github consequences

samsara may trap a lot of people in eternal dukkha, but it also helps a lot of people get to work on time, so, it;s impossible to say if its bad or not,

A sneak peak into the development of indie games:

The fascial network being the conduit for (some forms of) qi flow certainly ties a bunch of stuff together nicely, and feels coherent with my own (admittedly novice) practice. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The Yoshi's Island map screen theme is remarkably similar to the song "Anywhere Is" by Irish singer Enya. Both of these were composed around 1994 and released in 1995, meaning that neither of them could have been influenced by each other and this is an astounding coincidence.

There are only 4 types of stories 1) Man vs man 2) Man vs nature 3) Man vs himself 4) Little mouse goes on BIG adventure

It is wild how drastically meditation has shifted for me recently from “a series of mental states I can access with active effort” to “a physical state that my body sometimes enters if I relinquish control to it”

with all due respect to professor bright, both of these schools are inadequate to humankind’s sense of ultimate concern. instead, it seems to me, the secret third thing is to become a good gardener. that is to say, the great hero of our time may be Samwise Gamgee.

Calvin’s dad voice: The two types of philosophy are mysticism and lists. All philosophy falls into one of these two categories. Plato? Mysticism. Aristotle? Lists. Confucius? Lists. Zhuangzi? Mysticism. Despite constantly talking about true essences and infinite attributes, Spinoza is lists.

They suspended @cara.city for this!!! Dogshit website run by absolute babies. It is a Serious Violation to point out that the head of trust and safety’s pants fell down and everyone saw his little red ass and laughed

It’s incredible that Whoop has screwed up their industrial design so badly that customer service’s official response to “the watch band on my brand-new device that you charge $400/year for keeps coming undone” is “you should bend the metal clip with your hands until it fits”

Nothing will make you feel like a nimble, prancing jester more than when a really hot lady likes one of your little jokes

Ploopy is calling their trackpoint clitmouse the “Bean”. Incredible. liliputing.com/ploopy-bean-...

Yeah okay I’m going to be vagueposting for a bit still but holy shit the vibes are good, we are so back

[ FMS ] Handheld FM Groovebox for the GBA officially released I can finally reveal that I’ve been beta testing this for the past month and can tell you, without reservations, that this thing RIPS. BIG UP FORS & LO-BIT CLUB!! Go get it! lo-bit.club/fms

"what is a roguelike?" is the least interesting discussion in games, but my personal rubric for any definition is that it has to recognize the "complex world simulation with lots of spikiness" lens, through which Spelunky is more like-rogue than some games with actual ASCII graphics

My annual reminder that we are both the best conference in games and the most misnamed conference in games. If you’re making weird or interesting art using procedurality, procgen, deep systemic simulation, we want your talk, regardless of what your relationship to “roguelikiness” is!

"openai.com" was once the personal homepage of a guy named glenn (2001), and "tiktok.com" was the quaint shared homepage of a couple as their relationship progressed from dating to married with a baby (2000). THREAD!!!

I’ve been eating homemade shiozake (Japanese salt-cured salmon) for breakfast every morning for several years, but it’s only this week I’ve been able to have it with rice, and holy shit lmao it turns out a food that is intentionally over-salted to go well with rice tastes *way* better with rice

I’m watching a video of a qigong exercise where someone has you put one leg towards the front and the other towards the back, and it is remarkably similar to Alexander Technique standing posture. This stuff really all is people rediscovering subtly different forms of the same truths about the body.

ISAAC CHOTINER: So, the food bowl. It's empty, you say? CAT: That's right. IC: And has it ever not been empty? C: Not that I can recall, no, it has not. IC: Fascinating. And this bit of food caught in your whiskers, where would you say that's- C: Now hold on, this is about the bowl, not

borrowed time, easter egg, macintosh (1985) 'enter the command 'burger' at any time to get beheaded with an axe. this is part of a long-running inside joke on the part of interplay co-founder rebecca "burger" heineman.' tcrf.net/Borrowed_Tim...

“do you say please and thank you to the LLM” and “do you suck the strap” are the same question send tweet

Software locales are hard. (If you don’t read hanzi/kanji, 英語 is… “English”)

It took me six months, but I successfully reintroduced white rice into my diet. Which is great, but given the number of "you met me at a very Chinese period of my life" jokes I'm making these days, I find it exceptionally funny that "yeah, I'm really into eating rice these days" is a true statement

“do you say please and thank you to the LLM” and “do you suck the strap” are the same question send tweet

Incredible that Fediverse <-> Atproto migrations are now less lossy than switching instances within the Fediverse

When I have to cross-reference each individual LabCorp / Quest test code that appears on a lab requisition with the lab's test menu to make sure my doctor's office ordered the test they actually intended to (we were 0 for 3 today!!) I really feel like *they* should be paying *me*.

now THIS game has the deduction juice. all you sickos who love linguistics, language, translation, and logic puzzles, play this right now: jamwitch.itch.io/trevosa

A neat piece of science we got out of the early pandemic is that "worse" furnace filters (e.g. MERV13) actually perform *better* than HEPA for full-room cleaning. You can get a best-in-class purifier for ~$150, or DIY one by literally duct-taping some filters to some PC fans or a box fan.

One sign I can tell a lying-down meditation session is going well is I find myself repeatedly repositioning my tailbone to progressively extend my spine, which is physiologically interesting given one of the key goals of the Daoist standing meditation posture is also elongating the spine

Hello World, we’d like to introduce ourselves. We the workers of the Magic: The Gathering Arena team have come together to unionize as United Wizards of the Coast - CWA! 🧵 unitedwizardsofthecoast.com/news/announcing-united-wizards-coast-cwa

Magic: The Gathering Arena team unionizes at Wizards of the Coast aftermath.site/magic-the-gath...

One sign I can tell a lying-down meditation session is going well is I find myself repeatedly repositioning my tailbone to progressively extend my spine, which is physiologically interesting given one of the key goals of the Daoist standing meditation posture is also elongating the spine

[ slaps top of game theory game] All right then, if you’re not satisfied let’s fit some stakes into this busted jalopy

Painting I made about how sometimes you have to remove stuff from your life that no longer serves you

I'm learning all about circadian rhythm (today in "boy is it annoying to have an 'incurable' illness"), and it's truly wild how all living creatures — mammals, insects, plants — have a shared invisible timekeeping system that runs on everyone individually toggling genes on and off throughout the day

anyone need a NetApp or F5 rack mount server while I’m at the gatcha store?

The “you met me at a very Chinese time in my life” jokes will continue until my jing, qi, and shen improve

"Disco Elysium depicts these men not solely as individuals making bad choices, but also as products of their environments: imperialist violence, the drug trade, and economic plight." - from @madisyn-writes.bsky.social 's first for the site www.mothership.blog/disco-elysiu...

The “you met me at a very Chinese time in my life” jokes will continue until my jing, qi, and shen improve

I'm still eternally thinking about this

this body is a machine that turns a pot of herbal tea into an untouched cold pot of herbal tea when I remember it exists an hour later

It's becoming clearer to me that the foundational practices of qigong (e.g. breathwork form, standing form) are intended (among other goals!) to unfuck your pelvic floor, which I find particularly interesting given my pet theory that "bisexuals sitting funny" is usually just pelvic floor dysfunction

Most common #PuzzleScript object silhouettes

Interesting study about whether language models are suitable for generating spaced repetition flashcards based on user highlights/snippets to foster long-term recall (tl;dr: not currently) memory-machines.com

The original Shiren the Wanderer is a wholly perfect videogame that tries to answer “what if Nethack was playable on the Super Famicom”. Shiren 6 is a lovely intro to the series, easy to play on modern systems, and on sale

game jam idea