Also hate weird cutesy names for Twitter like "the other place" or "the bad place," especially from people who are still active users there. Being coy and twee about your use of a site that's actively pushing bigotry and fascism onto the world doesn't make it innocent, it just makes it more gross.

*sees midnight strike on 10/31* 🎶it’s the most wonderful time of the yeaaaar🎶

you, uncouth, a grinch: noooo you can't start listening to christmas music until thanksgiving is over me, wise, full of spirit: holiday spirit is not a zero-sum game and i can celebrate them all in joyous overlapping waves

after wrestling with fastly's 50ms limitation on edge compute resources for a while, i've got archive-mrss into a stable state where it should be able to consistently handle audio collections of any size. give it a try! archive-mrss.rnf.me

this weekend i've been working on a new little tool that i hope others will find useful. archive.org has many great collections of episodic audio. i find them easier to listen to via a podcast app, so i made archive-mrss.rnf.me to create MRSS (podcast) feeds from the collections.

jd vance's date nights just got 30% more expensive

so if you're inside when the rapture happens how fast do you float to heaven, like do you do a sweet VTOL takeoff right there, will you just smash through the ceiling and leave a you-shaped hole in the roof wile e. coyote style

in a world with so many delicious fruits to choose from, why stoop to the level of cantaloupe

If you’re an elected Democrat (rightly) complaining about the GOP kicking 17 million people off of Medicaid, now is a good and credible time to critique the entire broken work-based non-universal US healthcare system. Now is the time to call for universal healthcare, for Medicare for All.

WordLadder #42, TRIAGE-TREAT (ace 5) 5-rung ladder in 4 moves 🔀◀🔃🎉 hell yeah

Have you been holding off on sharing Word Ladder with all your friends because it's tricky for them to get started playing? 😅 Worry no more. Now there's a verbose onboarding dialog with explicit rules and handy animations, which no-one will read fully! 🙌 Please share it with your friends now.

the thing about closed joanns becoming spirit halloweens is that they were already proto-spirit halloweens with some assembly required

fixed link jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... but in any case this is good news for those of us who ride bike

cool politics bro, did your dad pick it out for you?

any streakers in chat? 😎

I am a MAN an american MAN I eat RED MEAT I SCREAM when the shower is TOO COLD it SCARED ME a little

Just pushed a little update. Now you can backtrack into a solution if you find that one end of your ladder has gone too far. Also made some cosmetic changes to the share dialog.

WordLadder #20, AUDIBLE-SILENT (ace 7) 18-rung ladder in 21 moves 💡◀💡🔃🔀💡◀🔀◀🔃🔃🔃◀▶🔃◀◀🔃🔙◀◀🎉

trump and musk won't see your post that says the girls are fightingggggg but your friends who are girls who are fightingggggg will

WordLadder #18, FORWARD-REVERSE (ace 12) 15-rung ladder in 45 moves 🔀◀🔃◀◀🔙🔃🔙🔃🔃💡▶💡🔃💡🔃💡▶💡🔃💡🔙💡▶💡▶💡◀💡🔃💡🔙💡▶💡🔃💡🔀💡◀◀◀🔃◀🔀🎉 i truly apologize for FORWARD

wordladder.fun has difficulty ratings now (1 ⭐️ is easy, 5 is nightmarish), hints, improved help text, and cookies that actually persist session to session. more improvements to come but it's much more polished already!

1. pee before you leave 2. don't be a fucker 3. alt text 4. be extremely weird & silly 5. find your tribe

after a bunch of qol improvements, i'm feeling pretty good about where wordladder is going! if you haven't checked it out yet, please do. wordladder.fun

i made a game! WordLadder #1, EVOLVE-CHANGE (par 12, ace 8) Solved in 12 moves (on par) ◀▶🔃◀🔃◀◀🔀🔃◀🔃🔃🥳 wordladder.fun if you want to try it out

I did this X-Files piece for a zine a few years ago and I remember when I finished this I was like "omg this is so bad I can never show this publicly" Today I was cleaning out my files and found this again and I was like what the hell, this is one of the best pieces I've ever made in my LIFE??????

I keep my head down and turn out good work and I just barely made rent this month, but a lady calls a kid the n-word at a playground and she raises a half-million dollars in a week. I don't get the world, and I don't like it. We are surrounded by rotten dogshit assholes and they're thriving.

diane sawyer's influence in the 90s can't be overstated, as demonstrated by references to her in pop music such as the butthole surfers' "pepper" ("we were all in love with Diane, we were drinking from the fountain") and the cranberries' "zombie" ("in your head, in your head, they are Diane")

to the tune of beastie boys' "b-boys makin' with the freak freak"

angelic data breach leaks true names of uncountably many beings

okay this is an emergency assistance thread for anyone who got this National Endowment for the Arts email today some of you can still get your money and I’m going to tell you how article to come later this weekend but here is the Cliffs Notes version:

It was up to Mozilla to diversify its revenue at any point in the past 20 years. Firefox's continued existence is way less important than the overall health of the web, which has declined continuously under Mozilla's watch www.theverge.com/news/660548/...

"Your health records will be on the block chain." "Everyone will live in the Metaverse." "All art will be NFTs." "Generative AI will replace the need for humans." We need to reckon with the reality that the tech industry no longer creates things that anyone wants.

dudes rock

“is my calculator horny?“ our tech columnist asks. “i entered 5318008 into it and turned it upside down. what i saw surprised me”

cake's list of attributes for the girl they want is unreasonable and they need to be more flexible on things like allocations, dividends, name changes, and vehicle upgrades.

Have you ever heard the story of the country that intentionally sabotaged their standing in the world and ended all of their public investments in scientific research, which then led to a booming economy and an era of greatness? Neither have I, because that's not what will happen.

It is becoming unbelievably difficult to stay both informed and sane

mood

major respect to tv tropes for attempting to catalogue all possible ideas

maybe they'll move the overton window far enough that it'll loop back over to the other side

broke: circle jerk woke: goon squad

Alanis Morissette is legally required to tell you what her other hand is doing if you ask

we need project woke 2029 to save america

no no no see, you just need backyard chickens and a backyard garden and a uh *starts sweating* backyard coffee plant and um *shuffling papers on desk* backyard... steel mill *wiping forehead* a-a-a um backyard silicon chip fab and a bac--*weeping a little* back..yard car...assembly plant

all video games should have a "don't rain it makes me sad" toggle in settings