Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet. After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵

CHOTINER: So your son is 14, is that right? IKARI: It's complex, Isaac. If— CHOTINER: And the “robot” he pilots, that’s actually the child of an alien you keep crucified in the basement, which is possessed by the spirit of his dead mother? IKARI: Look, let me answer the question. CHOTINER: Sure.

Hey there Delilah I am writing the Quixote Adding hermeneutic weight to what Miguel wrought crude and floaty Vis-à-vis The work— attributed to me? Or only he?

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I’d make the case that Caves of Qud is one of the standout works of SF in the 21st century thus far. It’s taken over a decade; it’s sprawling; it has its own idiosyncratic but consistent epistemologies that are only learnable by fucking around. So to see it recognized by the field is so validating.

if you're anything like me you probably think at least once per day dang i really want an Obsidian vault of heraldry terms. well take a look y'all github.com/kevboh/heral...

TOMORROW comes a new Relentless Picnic

something i think is underdiscussed in tech is how venture capital is an engine that turns youth into money, and that this is why its most platonically ideal avatars (the vampiric thiel, the son-drinking johnson) are obsessed with reclaiming a spent youth.

best part about parenting is everyone has the same anecdotes. universal behaviors. the other dads complete my sentences: “and I told her honey you can’t just wander into the dojo when daddy is one with the blade lest I mistake you for my ancient enemy and eviscerate you.” knowing chuckles, nods

MUSE, the next iteration of our Core Rules, launches in 11 days on July 25th! Our rules are free and always will be to ensure there's no barrier between players and their next favorite game. Help our small team get the word out! A simple share makes a huge difference. ko-fi.com/pathwalkerone

been reading way more and gaming way less. getting back into wordslop

copied verbatim from my right arm, where I had them tattooed

_staring at the sky, alone, backlit by the atom flash_ chat they're calling it world war three what do you think about that

saw on @jeopardyofficial.bsky.social that the first telegraph message was “what hath God wrought?” More inventors should do this. I want the creator of Hasbro’s Mousetrap to be muttering what hath God wrought as the cage finally comes down

Found a tiny god dead in the garden fence. Looked like it got stuck and then in fear its divine ember burned too hot, cracked, and cooled. I buried it facing the south

KIM KITSURAGI - “Harry... it explains *everything*. The running around. The jumping. The *shot-put*. Your inexplicable facial hair...”

Joining a weird programmer cult. They know how to manipulate a small number of machines that are created specifically to be manipulated by commands that can be learned and googled so they probably have a line on ultimate truths

⚠️✨ I need work! I’m a frontend web developer with 15+ years experience, I’m an expert WordPress developer, I love making things usable and writing documentation and talking to people. Links to my resume and work are on my website at matthewmcvickar.com. THANK YOU! 💛⭐️

In a blog post for the SCS, I explore the Roman army as a self-consciously multi-ethnic force, responding to racist efforts to purge profiles of minorities and women in the nation's service from DOD websites. www.classicalstudies.org/scs-blog/mik...

on the contrary; i have a counter running in my head where if a completely unexpected thing doesn’t say live and drink to me before it expires i quit the game and it has never reached zero

How to watch basketball 🎁 defector.com/how-to-watch...

im wide awake and i can see the perfect guy rip torn

The neologism of addressing an unseen audience as "chat" is just fantastic. One of the best new slang words of my lifetime, amusing every time

Want to quickly share a single note from #obsidian? Use the “Share read-only note” commands to quickly grab share links—you can even password-protect them!

We've always supported collaborative folders right alongside private notes, but sometimes all you need is full Obsidian vault sync. Maybe you're working solo, or maybe you create dedicated vaults for groups of people to work on. We now support syncing entire vaults: screen.garden/blog/full-va...

I'm going to include this whenever I make part 3 of my Obsidian series, but if you are an Obsidian Lover like me and want a sync solution that also provides google-docs-style real time editing of your notes both in-app and on the web, you should very much check out Screen Garden:

Hello! The US housing market has gotten very expensive, but I still dream of one day owning a home in a walkable neighborhood. In that spirit, I'm offering my consulting services. If you support the Trump tariffs, I can help you find US suppliers. Let me show you some examples. 🧵

STEBAN, THE STUDENT COMMUNIST - “In dark times, should the stars also go out?”

Also—we launched file sync today! Share images, PDFs, etc. just as easily as markdown: screen.garden/blog/file-sy...

It's not an April Fools joke... it's Side Story, a new podcast from Friends at the Table, all about the games we play and the stories we tell about them! Hosted by @austinwalker.bsky.social! sidestory.show the incredible cover art is by @formyths.bsky.social!

dr pepper is balsamic pepsi

Elixir Radar issue 464 is out! 📣 You can read it here: buff.ly/5V3Nyyy This issue comes with content from @andrewtimberlake.com @polvalente.social @kevinbarrett.org , Daniel Bergholz, Vsevolog Grigoriev and Anton Frolov. Thank you! #ElixirLang

I wrote about using Elixir to make @screen.garden kevinbarrett.org/elixir-makes...

gemini's the best ai they is

I really think at its heart philosophy is one giant battle, taking place over many eras and nations, between people who are basically pleasant bureaucrats and people who are sexy murder poets, and it’s both super important and super boring that the pleasant bureaucrats must win.

INSULINDIAN PHASMID - That must be incredibly hard. The arthropods are in silent and meaningless awe of you. Know that we are watching -- when you're tired, when the vision spins out of control. The insects will be looking on. Rooting for you.

Look, sometimes the code is so good that you can lower your prices weeks after launch: screen.garden/blog/even-ch...

Happy #twinpeaksday to all that celebrate

screen.garden is now open to all! Check out what we can do at screen.garden/features and read more about our process on our blog: screen.garden/blog/early-a...

deeply humiliating to have made this flyer (which I hung in local coffee shops and bookstores today). sign up for my online class on theories of political dissent by wed. 2/5 so that my enrollment minimum gets met and they let me teach it. link: vitalthought.org/products/dis...

people really need to take this as an antidote to doomerism. how people react genuinely changes things. it's not lol nothing matters, even if that's how it feels.

We've been to 100s of antique shops and we can no longer ignore the glassware crisis. Noone wants exotic candy dishes anymore. Paperweight market has died. Nobody wants a sorta peacockish glass thing for some table or shelf. Everyone used to have these. Now people just throw their candy on the floor

An Ashcan release of Realis, the TTRPG that I've been working on (and off and on) for the last four years is now available for preorder! thecalcutec.itch.io/realis

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in Home Alone (1990), during the church scene, the Scary Old Man begins his conversation with Kevin McCallister by saying, “there’s a lot of bad things going around about me but none of it’s true.” This is the most deranged way possible to introduce yourself to an eight-year-old

We have RETVRNED to the ancient ways of right-sizing for agility. remapradio.com/articles/piv...