My solo, uniquely mine belief: we can learn *a lot* of new and useful information if we review what we already have - and run basic tests on everything within reach. 🤓 That's how they (accidentally) discovered the immortal jellyfish - or that platypuses glow in UV light. 😮

Accidentally stumbled on what may be the greatest GIF in history. Enjoy. :)

A few days ago, I turned 39.5 years old. 🙃 That age is significant because it's exactly 20 years away from being able to withdraw from Roth IRA and 401k without penalties. 🥳 Only 19 years and counting now... Also wild, because *counts on toes* I'd started college over 21 years ago. 🫠

US hockey tweet but can be applied to most things in life

I've tested local beer For poison. Found none. Sleep safe, Sweet Bangkok.

Red streaks against the black. We go outside and cheer As Starlink plummets.

Look at the sky And ✨️fly✨️ Through sheer Force Of Your Will Leaving behind Just simians And penguins.

...I have questions.

The laser-dancing maidens of Khao San Road!

I've tested local beer For poison. Found none. Sleep safe, Sweet Bangkok.

Ernest Hemingway. Honst Hemingroad. Sincer Heminghighway.

Chopsticks. An insidious sobriety test.

Humans are good at zoos since we're already adapted to captivity. COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/script... PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm... STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com

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Thai night market. Laughing gas salesman. I laugh, no aid. He bows, conceding. Victory once more.

Just found a small, non-paying magazine that won't accept your story submission unless you also upload the very first draft and the middle draft. 😮 They're doing that to try and root out the AI slop. Saving individual drafts is something I already do (weapons-grade paranoia 🤪) but damn... #writing

dolphins on bluesky ee like

To truly understand any given society, one must inquire to whom it grants personhood - and vice versa.

Melville understood that flawed human art is better than AI.

Australians live only because emus allow them to live. 🥲

I propose to make universal the old policy of the Blackfriars conference at the American Shakespeare Center: If you do not end your paper on time, you will be forced to exit, pursued by a bear. Literally, a bear will come take your paper from you.

Places all over Bangkok (my hostel, subway stations, etc) have big signs that say, "No durian allowed!" 🤣 It's never explained because, presumably, all the locals already know. Only warnings, no explanations - this is such great low-key worldbuilding hahaha #writing

I just wrote a very long post elsewhere, and I accidentally came up with this exposition-dropping bio. 😅

I have a new story out today in Permanent Flux! 🥳 "Some Notes on Becoming a God" is partly fantasy, partly magical realism, partly autobiographical... 😉 I rarely play favourites, but I must say, I love how it turned out. You can read it here: www.amazon.com/Permanent-Fl... #writing #BookSky

Thai hostel kitchenette. A heavily tattooed guy in his 20s is preparing his lunch while holding a gigantic Oreo-like treat in his mouth for 5 minutes straight. (It's the size of a hockey puck.)

Proposal to rename the 44th element from Ruthenium to Ukrainium.

This is your periodic reminder to double-check your emergency supplies. A few gallons of drinking water. A flashlight. Matches. A fire extinguisher. An escape goat.

douglas adams was our most accurate futurist

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*does a solo reenactment of the evolutionary process by carefully ascending the ladder and belly-flopping across the mattress of his Thai hostel's second-level bunk after performing thorough quality control on local beers* (The beers passed the inspection... This time. 🤔)

Dreams shatter upon contact with our world. From perfect visions, a chaotic whirl.

The 12th of the 14 nights at my Bangkok hostel. The nearby seedy night market was overwhelming at first, but now it's my favourite people-watching spot, off in an alcove cafe with a big bottle of local beer and an empty plate of Pad Thai. Bar louts, enforcers, beggars, vendors... A biosphere. 💖

It's right behind me, isn't it?.. 👀

The same way OpenAI stole Scarlett Johansson's voice a few years back. 😡

This is your periodic reminder to double-check your emergency supplies. A few gallons of drinking water. A flashlight. Matches. A fire extinguisher. An escape goat.

oh hey look @baldurbjarnason.com wrote about this phenomenon extremely eloquently last year, go read it. www.baldurbjarnason.com/2025/trustin...

Proposal to either a) Rearrange every world map and globe to put the Netherlands at the very bottom, or b) Rename the Netherlands to something else 🙃

The last thing you see when you overdose on caffeine:

This is the cynic in me talking, buuuut what percentage of all those "PERSON finds ANCIENT STUFF in PLACE" headlines are about people who'd spent $100 on eBay, then got their hands dirty for the pictures, and got their 15 minutes of fame at a discount? 🙃 The spike in headlines is pretty sus...

Fifty Shades of CPA 🤣

yellow

*leveling up the illusion skill by spotting which street musicians don't actually play their instruments* 🎶🎵🤔

Okay this whole Wikipedia page is fascinating. At skim some of these regions had water that was green as often it was blue, but the idea that “terms for brown, purple, pink, orange, and gray will not emerge in a language until the language has made a distinction between green and blue” is a mindfuck

A snapshot of Thai life. This young guy was chopping off the excess bits of a truckload of coconuts. Looked like they came straight from the farm! The lowest price I've seen yet: 15 Baht ($0.50 USD) for a coconut. The water inside wasn't refrigerated, obviously 🙃, but it was *delicious*. 💖

Need some cool stuff to read? 🤓 For free? 😀 This spreadsheet has *tons* of stories, poems, and more that got published last year and can be nominated for Hugo Awards. Not everything in this spreadsheet is freely accessible, but a lot is. Have fun!

"You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you." Ray Bradbury #writing

holy shit!

I once jumped into traffic to save a small child. A rather interesting thing to learn about oneself...