Dammit, this is actually starting to be fun.

Felt cute might delete later

I think the topic of my next newsletter is so interesting that I'm tempted to send it early just because I want people to see it. But it's going out on schedule, next week on Tuesday. Sign up to make sure you don't miss it. That's all I'm saying. ironicsans.ghost.io

20 years!!

Actor-style headshots from the 80s of artists like Cindy Sherman, Jeff Koons, Jenny Holzer, and Robert Longo. [ironicsans.ghost.io]

I love these 80s headshots of famous artists. Jeff Koons, Cindy Sherman, Jenny Holzer, and more ironicsans.ghost.io/80s-headshot...

I love these 80s headshots of famous artists. Jeff Koons, Cindy Sherman, Jenny Holzer, and more ironicsans.ghost.io/80s-headshot...

Regarding the Discourse, lemme just say that if you can't draw, yes you can. Everyone can draw, and folks will almost certainly respond more positively to your stick figures than some generic "A.i." slop. Also, there are LOADS of resources for free images. Like this! 🧵 www.nga.gov/artworks/fre...

Do you play #Gisnep on mobile? I'm looking for people who can test a new-and-improved mobile experience before I roll it out. If you're interested, DM me and let me know what mobile device and browser you use.

Flashback to when you could get a cool job in the newspaper classifieds. From the Sunday NYTimes this week in 2000. And that’s how I became Polo Ralph Lauren’s staff photographer for the next 7 years.

Might I interest you in some gisnep.com?

Under a minute! My favorite morning brain-waker-upper! I solved today’s #Gisnep in 00:49. No. 518 | January 7, 2026 gisnep.com

I do Alphaguess, Hang Five, and Gisnep. Sometimes they're super easy and sometimes they take me ages to finish.

The mysterious cartoonist who goes by pseudonym Olivia James has left the comic strip Nancy which she revitalized with sometimes surreal, absurdist and self-aware humor in 2018. Starting today Nancy is by Eisner winner Caroline Cash. Exciting times for Nancy fans! www.gocomics.com/extras/nancy...

That is correct for $2000! (Your current score: $182000)

I can’t believe tomorrow’s Gisnep is #500!! That’s a lot of puzzles. If you aren’t already playing, a vast archive awaits you! gisnep.com

God this is heartbreaking. I read many of his books. I’d seen him speak. One of my prized possessions was hand-written correspondence I received from Oliver Sacks. I feel so let down.

Good read — Becoming a Centenarian www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

No newsletter this week, but it’s a good opportunity to catch up on the last edition in which I attempted to find every giant model whale in the world, in size order. (Spoiler: the blue whale at the American Museum of Natural History is not the biggest!) ironicsans.ghost.io/there-be-wha...

@kottke.org This struck me as potentially of interest to you: youtu.be/uBwM8oy7_Ok?...

The last episode of Pluribus comes out on December 26, just one day too late to call the episode A Christmas Carol.

Carol Sturka is an anagram for Our Car Talks. Also: Ocular Karts, A Solar Truck, and Orca Ark Slut. This reveals everything.

This Vectrex version of Donkey Kong is incredible! www.youtube.com/watch?v=YO0t...

Gen X comedy nerds, assemble! youtu.be/Bw2bJZl990I?...

This is a good time to remind everyone that I disliked these people so much we rolled our own Whitney alternative to avoid giving them more money, and gave it away for free so that nobody else had to either nebulasans.com

Aside from everything else, Sora has the absolute worst feed algorithm of any feed that has ever algorithmed.

Johnny Carson's house is for sale for $110,000,000.00 www.zillow.com/homedetails/...

NEW PERSONAL RECORD!! I solved today’s #Gisnep in 00:56. 🎉 No. 433 | October 14, 2025 gisnep.com

The great thing about AI is that you can remake movies the way you remember them

A classic from @ironicsans.com I have always enjoyed. Can you tell Arial from Helvetica? I can, though I was tripped up by the same three that a lot of folks seem to miss. ironicsans.com/helvarialqui...

I wrote about people who write blurbs. Huh. Blurb. That’s a funny word. Blurb. Why do we call a little quote of praise a blurb anyway? Well, I wrote the answer to that, too. Blurb. ironicsans.ghost.io/the-king-of-...

I love to see a writer as the subject of an SNL documentary. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMgF...

🚨The movie “Cube” (1997) is now free to watch on YouTube. It’s one of my favorite examples of a movie that does a lot with a little, basically one set used so cleverly in different ways. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TrW...

Am I the only one who has no recollection of there being a PS2 or PS4? If you told me they only made odd numbered PlayStations, I’m not sure I could refute you.

They put a trampoline on the Great Pyramids. A trampoline. On the pyramids! ironicsans.ghost.io/the-trampoli...

In 1977, a plan was hatched to put a trampoline on top of a Great Pyramid. Best pyramid scheme ever. ironicsans.ghost.io/the-trampoli...

Just saw a product for making “AI Generated UGC” (that’s User Generated Content) and my head’s about to explode

Heck of a week for doomscrolling. Might as well have fun while you’re at it. gisnep.com/doomscroll

Wow this Liquid Glass on iOS is so awful. They have really shot themselves in the foot by needlessly breaking something that didn’t need to be fiddled with.

Wow, PC Gamer really doesn’t like my new web game. Actually, they did like it until they realized it was vibe coded and that changed their opinion. The commenters largely disagree with the article. www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/...

This is so fucking good that I had to use a profanity in this sentence.

In the last 24 hours more than 10,000 people have played the web game I announced on Tuesday. Here’s the story behind why and how I made it: ironicsans.ghost.io/doomscrollin...

I just Doomscrolled 1028 meters and killed 590 monsters. How far can you get? gisnep.com/doomscroll What a neat little web game.

DOOMscroll: a game you play just by scrolling, the NYT headlines ripped from their homepage are a clever touch https://gisnep.com/doomscroll/

I added #Gisnep to my morning puzzles a few months ago and love it. Easy second-place in my tier list right behind #squardle but before #nytconnections.

Dadgummit... my record is 59 seconds, and thought I might have beaten it this time. Recommended for those looking for a word puzzle to add to, or perhapos replace, their others. I solved today’s #Gisnep in 01:00. 🎉 No. 397 | September 8, 2025 gisnep.com

Fun concept: gisnep.com/doomscroll/

I just Doomscrolled 566 meters and killed 312 monsters. How far can you get? gisnep.com/doomscroll

I shared an early version of this a few weeks ago, but I've made a lot of improvements and I think I'm done with it for now. It probably has bugs, so please let me know if you run into them. I present to you: Doomscroll, the game you play just by scrolling! gisnep.com/doomscroll/