Do you want to see a picture of a good dog?

Update: it had stopped twitching by this morning.

Today, outside at lunch, a yellowjacket was buzzing around my kids. My wife picked up some chopsticks and, stonefaced, snatched it out of the air. Then she fed it to the venus flytrap. Eight hours later the yellowjacket’s leg is still twitching.

For those celebrating, a reminder that it’s customary to eat some sparkly spider challah on the first day of the chag.

חג שמח! 💙

An opinion column is when a newspaper’s editorial board makes up a guy for you to get mad at

If you need to degauss your brain here you go youtu.be/r8jrndKLOKM

גמר חתימה טובה 💙

Getting cleansed of all sin on Yom Kippur

If you scroll this site long enough you will encounter real wisdom

Somehow I’m getting all my wife’s political fundraising texts (addressed to her but coming to my phone) in addition to mine.

Broke: this sci-fi isn’t believable because of some complicated physics blah blah Woke: this sci-fi isn’t believable because it’s too tidy

Oh. I just recovered a memory of this kids cartoon version of the toxic avenger, from the 90s. I guess it’s only weird if you pause to remember literally any scene from the movie it’s based on. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxic_C...

Went to an event this weekend honoring my friend Martyl. I wanted to talk a little about her and her art. This piece is on permanent display now at the Schaumburg library. I think it’s worth seeing in person!

I finally cleaned up my messy cablework

I found another hand holder bsky.app/profile/doct...

I found another hand holder bsky.app/profile/doct...

OMG????

I blundered into a Burmese mountain dog meetup

Everything about this thread makes me so mad, but mad in the same way that a bird will attack its reflection

Okay let's do something trans, autistic and FUN, because I need it... and you might need it too 😮 Give me a page number and I give you a quote from my upcoming book SONG OF SPORES! My e-ARC has pages from 3 to 202. (Preorders here: www.brokeneyebooks.com/store/c62/So... )

Oh no my neuron activation

The story behind this statue is BONKERS and very tangentially involves Walt Whitman getting fired for leaving some too-horny poems at work one time. littlevillagemag.com/your-village...

ב״ה

ב״ה

לשנה טובה ומתוקה 💙

There’s no way their Figure 2a is not a FFVII reference, right?

New preprint! arxiv.org/abs/2509.15713 We propose an experimentally-friendly Hamiltonian learning (HL) protocol using the quantum Zeno effect (via virtual-Z gates) to reshape dynamics, enabling local tomography and global reconstruction. Tested with TN simulations and on IBM hardware.

Everybody’s phone has a Forbidden Button, right?

cHaRMeD I’m SUre

The photo of the cool guy holding a flag and wading through tear gas is a banger, of course. For every one of those I genuinely think you want to see a hundred like this.

When I shop for clothes

the history will continue until morale improves

Every time i open my phone now its like getting kicked in the head by a mule

Sorry I’m late boss, there were some flowers in my yard that needed looking at.

Tuesday is a day for thinking about Bud Powell. youtu.be/XEXHQPcWCCE

It’s this.

I keep seeing the screen shot of the hotboxed lobsters. Here’s the paper it’s based on. Science is a lot of different stuff. 🧪 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34197845/

It did the thing!

Appreciating yet again the measured and precise way that some people manage to talk about new and important information www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A reminder: You can turn off autoplay on videos in your settings here.

I regret to inform you that there are still too many things happening.

My number got added to a spam group text that was just me and like ten bots, all of whom were sending the same message. So I guess the spammers are all vibe coding now.

Rainbow #ドット絵 #pixelart

You have to do three loads of child laundry before you can match a single pair of socks. This is exactly the same non-Abelian bullshit as how you need to fail two times to orient a USB-A connector before it fits the third time.

[leaning over and whispering to my date] that’s the moon

Fun-ass paper. These trains go so fast that the designers have to think carefully about tunnel design. Train slams a big plug of air into a tunnel, with consequent weird pressure effects. One solution is to drill ventilation shafts perpendicular to the tunnel. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

At least for me, there’s a delicate mix of brain chemistry and horrors-absence that I need to fuel the posting furnace. If y’all fix the world I’ll post more shower thoughts

System of a Down concert in Millennium Park, so the art institute was full of people in Elder Millennial BDUs*

Yung Mary Anning over here wanted a T-Rex cake. Blanched almonds for the teeth, and a peach dum-dum for its baleful yellow eye