Promise?

Stop calling it an “ask” you corporate toddler. It’s a request. Say request. We have a word for it. Use the word we already have you pickle brained business bozo.

All I’m saying is I once named a pear shaped lamp from IKEA “Pearold” and felt genuine sadness when its batteries died. So no, I don’t think I’ll be asking ChatGPT about anything.

That full pairing and observation is also often the only way that a mentor can pass on the things they’ve forgotten they know. It can be shocking how quickly we can forget that what is now muscle memory was once mystery.

Imagine getting a notification that your bed needs to update its firmware. I’d walk into the ocean.

Women don’t like the vehicle

So excited to tuck into this. Maybe I’ll finally know what a map is for!

Hold on- lemme just shoot some Malört to get my head right.

Got to see some of these songs previewed at a fun little show in Isle of Palms. The next @themountaingoats.bsky.social album is going to be an all-timer. youtu.be/5qm70IbkR1Y?...

I hope this email finds you: - before I do - in a ditch - screaming - praying to a god who does not know your name - well enough

My proudest achievement might be maintaining a group chat with 2 other guys for 2 years now without any of us suggesting we start a podcast.

Has everyone checked their spam folder for the rapture?

Friendly fall PSA: You don’t have to buy a mum just because they’re at the front of the grocery store. You don’t have to bring it home and put it on your front stoop and forget to water it and let it whither to brown. You can leave it at the grocery. It’s okay.

Listen. Sometimes you see a lamp and it makes you feel *things* www.shawnmlucas.com/lamps

It may not have been worth bringing the accordion.

JOYCE MESSIER - “Of bodies of water and forest-covered surfaces, clusters of light where the cities lie. You've seen the montage, we all have -- this world is enough,” she concludes. CONCEPTUALIZATION - It *must* be. This is the greatest and kindest arrangement the atoms had in them.

Band of Ponies

Iron and Grape Juice

As much as I tend to steer clear of manifestos, the principles here are pretty aligned to my own ai-manifesto.dev/

Just a reminder that no technology in the history of technology has ever taken a job. Technology has no agency. It can not take. A job can only be taken by another person, and sometimes they justify that with technology.

Vitamin Water should have been called Wetamins

Given all the discussion on the latest LLM release, I’m trying to remember this— if sufficiently advanced technology may be indistinguishable from magic, sufficiently marketed magic may be indistinguishable from technology. (Em dash my own. Fuck you ChatGPT. You don’t own punctuation)

Mister Rogers never misses

There’s no Bluesky experience more essential than watching a flock of people react with absolute sincerity to someone’s silly little joke.

My brother did not ask me to do this, nor did he know I was going to, but I made him a mashed potato volcano for his birthday. The number of potatoes this required was shocking but otherwise it was relatively simple to do. A side effect is a freezer full of leftover mashed potatoes.

It’s only an echo chamber if it comes from the Écho region of France.

And Alexander wept, for he had no more issues to label “wontfix”

So, @katherinelam.bsky.social and @grafixp.bsky.social, did you, like, plan this or something?

Some good-haired consultant just liked one of my skeets and now I’m questioning the value of anything I’ve ever said

ADIDAS All Day I Dream About Shareholder Value

Sometime in 2014ish I saw a photo on tumblr of a ring of snails on a patio table captioned with “take me to snurch” and I think we probably should have declared the internet complete there and then.

“Let me run that by my leadership” is the same thing as a medieval court alchemist saying “I must consult the stars, my liege”