Instead of a 10 minute walk every day I've decided to start going for a 109,000 minute walk every 30 years

feels like we're living through some kind of cultural gas leak

I love it when things are in my wheelhouse. I spend a lot of time in there, with my wheel etc.

the skewer seems loosening out of the middle of the world

@londonreviewofbooks so are books any good or not

“My suspicion, my awful awful newfound theory, is that there are people with a sincere and even kind of innocent belief that we are all just picking winners, in everything: that ideology, advocacy, analysis, criticism, affinity, even taste and style and association are essentially predictions.”

putting my chili crisp in a hamster bottle, hanging it over the kitchen table. dook dook dook

Funnily enough, the craft-show bubble is a pretty interesting economic indicator: when people get nervous, there's a spike in "side hustle" which then makes for more competition when the bottom falls out. Huge craft show economy in northwest Arkansas did this in 2007, some big shows never came back.

wondering if there’s a world record for eating angel hair pasta and how fast I’d break it

design as repair

UNLIMITED VELOCITY

The fact that antihistamines can be used to relieve itches and also as sleep aids has led me to the conclusion that Consciousness is a Form of Itch

I forgot I was still connected to bluetooth so this played at max volume in the kitchen, traumatizing the dog

Never ask a man his age, a woman her salary, or GPT-5 whether a seahorse emoji exists

*looks at Jira backlog* waaaaay ahead of you

me: i've had too much coffee coffee: i know zee cure for zees me: is it more coffee coffee: eet ees me: why do you sound like pepe le pew coffee: shhhhh my pigeohn

"listen to your body" my body says it needs 40 pounds of carbs 3 gallons of ice cream and a 6-week nap

The amount of things you might need to know before you can know anything about anything is almost instantly disorientating. The world flickers in & out of scale & focus, randomly & very fast. You make some toast instead.

saw the simple machine elves. just messing around with levers and pulleys

Macintosh 128k tower and display.

I got a stern talking to about “HOR-ih-zon”

Frits Thaulow, Water Mill, Oil on canvas, 1892 (Philadelphia Museum of Art). Thaulow was a Norwegian Impressionist, part of the so-called "Skagen Painters," who worked in Northern Denmark.

good thing it wasn’t a ham sandwich

A 6-year-old called me “bro”. Going to find a cloud to yell at

selecting the wooden option of any selection of items whatsoever: this is the ladle of a carpenter

This feels like a spot of good news www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

if i ever retire from programming i’m going to have to switch to entirely new genres of music

hubris /hyubrɪs/ n.: white paint, black jeans

the number one reason the 80s were great? everything looked like it was shot on kodak 100T 5247. youd go outside and your dynamic range would just be crazy low

playing the tiktok sound to end the conversation

them: so what do you do for work me: rm -rf node_modules && npm i && npm start

a computer made of grass. I'm touching both at all times

Why I'm Leaving Çatalhöyük

I can’t be the first to think of scrolling the socials as gambling. repeatedly pulling the lever on the maybe machine

frantically paging through the DSM-5 for “need to eat the largest possible croissant”

In case you haven’t read this yet. One of the best science fiction short stories of the 21st century

Heat pump died: I am being punished It was just this capacitor: I am being rewarded

just found a half-finished list I’d started of my half-finished projects. checkmate @bertrandrussell

let eat

A spacecraft that loops endlessly between Earth & Moon without extra fuel? See this 1:1 Earth–Moon cycler from @RossDynamicsLab’s “Stable, Low-Energy Prograde Earth–Moon Cycler Orbits” 📄 ross.aoe.vt.edu/papers/ross-... 🖥️ Simulation: orbitsimulator.com/gravitySimul... #astronomy

he’s my right-hand man. but i am his left-hand man. he is facing the wrong way

week 2 of using the caffeine eyedrops. I don’t know if it’s helping per se but now i would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed

can’t believe I missed “peaking my interest”

I've been researching brickwork lately, and have found all sorts of interesting things to read on the subject. medium.com/@jnebos/the-...

posting "😂" in the zoom chat with a perfectly straight face

just confused shojo and shoyu. potentially fatal mistake in the wrong contexts