every now and then the contributors' notes on genius toss out a true banger such as "Like many of his songs, this uptempo romp is actually about depression."

woooooo canada day screwin' up my plans for posting so's there are now TWO posts this-week-slash-today woooooo www.dreamtheory.media/the-art-of-f... and in case it wasn't clear donnorum.com/2026/07/08/i...

forgot about the 'the room' joke until pulling the link. remembered the awful pun on a britney spears lyric, tho. (could've spun up some python to manually facet this into a slightly less spoiler-y link, but c'mon. bsky.app should really handle that natively.) www.pulpasylum.com/grow-up-by-d...

listening to a lotta gordon lightfoot today because but of course and so has got me wondering whether or not @joe-hill.bsky.social watched the 1946 Abbott & Costello flick "The Time of Their Lives" at some point before Locke & Key? (collections're boxed up rn, so can't check introductions/endnotes)

"thanks it has thumb holes" is i guess the dude equivalent of "thanks it has pockets"

i just realized that from a certain point of view i appear to be constructing a room-sized lament configuration. although considering that my copy of tcathr is octavo/medium octavo and may end up housed within — maybe? (you know just without all the happy-go-luckiness it had in the hellbound heart)

If you're looking for an anthology with adorably whimsical cover art of a star-crossed synanthropic meet-cute that, statistically speaking, has probably occurred at some point in one or more of the major metropolitan areas in North America, you've got ~7 hours... www.kickstarter.com/projects/par...

always check for bees before you stop and smell the roses (i am not being metaphorical, i am just now nearly having been stung in the nose by a bee nestled down for the night in one of the roses on my regular running route)

how it started*: <Reading Vol. I of the 1963 Medical Journal of Australia> That's... just as sexist as I should have expected given the USAF of the 1960's. * Chapter Approved 2001: The Second Book of the Astronomican was earlier, but collateral. how it's going: www.kickstarter.com/projects/par...

Hofstadter's Observation on O'Toole's Corollary of Finagle's Law: The perversity of the Universe tends towards a maximum — even and especially when one attempts to account for this tendency.

for every engineering problem there is a physicist's answer that is clear, simple, and batshit insane

ain't no context collapse like seeing your shitposts printed out on a poster board being set up on a stand by a paunchy guy in a suit and tie

prolly 'cause it's been nearly thirty years, but godDAMN did i forget how funny geertz could be

past me will have a lot to answer for

Requirements for the John Wick Merit Badge: Formal instruction or demonstrated achievement (e.g., placing at a competition) in each of the following — 1) Jiu-jitsu or comparable grappling art. 2) Close quarter combatives (striking, misc. weapons). 3-5) Tactical pistol, rifle, and shotgun. (1/4)

everybody at the rap battle's gangsta until the classics major takes the mic

so i was out running last week and a couple of guys LITERALLY cat-called me - like, shouted "MIAOW!" out the window as they drove past. ngl, it was kinda... weird, def. more perturbatory than complimentary, and it took me 'til the end of the block to remember what i was wearing and go, RIGHT. yeah:

So I had this whole running-thought of how using "Hwæt!" to introduce a story to a rambunctious, likely-drunk audience was oddly enough exactly like how "So!" seems to be used in Tumblr posts and it turns out that Seamus Haney beat me to it by like twenty years. (Beowulf. Faber & Faber, 2009) -

Several of the families of Canada geese in the park have just hatched this season's goslings and so if you are or are responsible for a baby or a dog or an other curious and/or rambunctious type mammal of fifty or fewer pounds...

After a long day working at the polls yesterday, I went out on a run this morning and found 'MURICA:

In the same vein as Sonnets[1] Georg[2]: If someone punches a Nazi, they hate Nazis; if they punch three hundred Nazis, they love punching people. They may also hate Nazis. But they for sure love punching. 1: dedalvs.tumblr.com/post/1526697... 2: reallyreallyreallytrying.tumblr.com/post/4003302...

Of all the (unarmed) gendai budō to see busted out for a Chicago high school hallway fight, I think I would have expected sumō the least. (Q.v. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nekodam...)

The Climber (adapted by Shin-ichi Sakamoto [@14mountain.bsky.social] from Jirō Nitta's novel Kokō no Hito) is maybe the best story I've read about an ultrarunner, despite being 100% about mountain climbing with no running involved beyond a VO2-max test. Right up there alongside Murakami's WITAWITAR.

Morning run. Wish it hadn't ended up so blurry, but I was a bit off my usual pace and running late. (Plus, I've only ever shot, like... two? panoramas on my phone, counting this one.)

If I had a nickel for every time I found a nicely framed piece of art just lying beside the trail on my morning run, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.

If I had a nickel for every time I found half of a torn-up Social Security card on my morning run, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.

Yesterday, I sent the city manager a video showing the cameras left over from a canceled pilot program - which Flock claimed they'd disabled and would handle removing - appearing to still be recording traffic. Today, the city stopped waiting - Public Works was out before 7AM. A welcome C'Ville W.

Everyone gets everything he wants. I wanted a fandom with rigor, and for my sins, I'm now integrating hyperbolic tangents and composing MLA citations for Street Fighter 6 and FX's "The League" in order to make a bilingual pun. While working on a literature search of Romanian scientific biographies.

Welp, I've been running ultras for — bah gawd, a DECADE — and after this year's GEER, I've at last filled up my charm bracelet (iykyk and if you don't... best keep your bliss). So now do I: a) Curate the choicest of charms? b) Start doubling up charms on each link?, or c) Turn it into a necklace?

I don't know if it's because of mirth, magic, or mental illness, but every few weeks I've been finding colored glass beads scattered along the sides of the trail during my morning run. At this point, I don't know if I should be looking forward to a 1UP, or looking over my shoulder for ghosts...

Actually, a fair number of them are double-shelved and will be... I'd say "until the new shelves come online", but those new shelves are already allocated for (some of) the currently-boxed volumes, so... for the foreseeable.

pace Meckley, it's amusing that a very similar event actually is kinda-sorta canonical, per John 2:14-15. Imagine a random Temple-goer: "Hey, Jesus! Whatcha doin'?" "Makin' a whip." "Oh. Huh. I, uh, I see that. Why?" "For whippin'." "Right..." <Goes about their business, nervously.>

Session 0, That Guy: "Wait, so our party is going to be a bunch of randos who not only found weapons, armor, and disguises just lying around, but also, *somehow*, happened to stumble upon an ancient map *and* a spellbook? COME ON, MAN!" A few of the things I've found on runs in the last ~18 months:

When I hear "living in the Matrix", I think less about "tOtAlLy ReDpIlLeD, bRo!" and more about being out on a run and picking up a combination lock. Without breaking stride, I got the make & model with a reverse image search, pulled up an LPL video, and cracked the combination within a mile or so.

If you ever find yourself in need of an emergency lullaby, a reminder that pretty much any poem in trochaic tetrameter (or, in a pinch, octameter) can be sung to the tune of "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" - "The Phoenix and the Turtle" "The Raven" "The Tyger" etc. (Little kids love animals!)

Kids who only know @billamend.bsky.social's FoxTrot from the Sunday funny pages at their grandparents' house probably have no idea how hard it went in the early days. Case in point: a drunken HS senior hitting a bong rip, inviting a 14-year-old girl to bed, and then suggesting they snort cocaine -

It's a bit tricky to set up on a smartphone, and it doesn't provide any "extra" storage, but I've found Syncthing to be a perfectly cromulent alternative (private, encrypted, open-source, easy enough to use [YMMV, of course]) to OneDrive, Google Drive, Dropbox, etc. for cloud/sync functionality.

"balls to the wall" and "balls-out", both meaning 'maximum effort, commitment, speed', have completely different etymologies separated by a century and a half of mechanical innovation, and neither has anything to do with testicles. Ye gods, I love language.

i cannot believe that i somehow spent ten years not knowing that john wick spent his retirement COLLECTING AND RESTORING ANTIQUE BOOKS!!!

The world may be... <gestures broadly...> BUT, I have this year at least found out about FOUNTAIN PEN HIGHLIGHTERS. So I got that goin' for me, which is nice.

As Upton Sinclair said, it is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary — or, as in the case of David Brooks, his entire career, social standing, and self-image — nay, his whole goddamn Weltanschauung — depends on his not understanding it. (www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/o...)

Pace Niemöller, "First They Came" is given a meta level of irony by the fact that Aktion T4 killed Gerhard Kretschmar two and a half years before the Wannsee Conference, and that the Sterilisation Law preceded the Nuremberg Laws by about the same. Just something that came to me on my morning run.

How long until companies start charging a premium for "locally grown, organic, Fair Trade" versions of their AI models - trained on fully licensed datasets, powered by 100% certified-renewable energy, with some guaranteed percentage of all net profits going back to the creators of the training data?

"It is a truth universally acknowledged by the media, that a twentysomething man in possession of a podcast, must be in want of a platform. However uninterested the public may be in the hurt feelings or uninformed views of such a man, he will nevertheless be presented as an authority on some issue."

Welcome to my Thursday-morning TED Thread! Rick and Morty S01E05, "Meseeks and Destroy", is a surprisingly lore-accurate Gnostic/Kabbalistic retelling of the Apocalypse of Moses!

The whole "the Space Shuttles' dimensions were based on dummy thicc Roman horse booties" thing turns out to be an urban legend, but the dating system used by Oracle, among other software suites, really does go back to three praetors under Claudius in the first century AD. (I.e., the Julian period.)

There are a whole lotta reasons why you shouldn't do this, but if you query the raw data for a market from the Submission Grinder, you can automatically: - Notify yourself when response velocity picks up; - Given that it's been N days, estimate how likely it is your story will be accepted; - Etc.