been wondering if I should retry it. have since (~5 years ago) read ulysses and there's a lot I didn't understand, but nothing I literally could not parse. finnegan's wake feels like trying to read a CVS receipt after consuming everything on a CVS receipt

finnegans wake

I love saying "of course" instead of "you're welcome" like of course I'm helping you that's what I do. you were foolish to even consider an alternate dimension in which I'm not helping you. you idiot. you absolute buffoon.

a proper veterinary practice has 2 doctors who are 85 and 29, one kinda goth lady, the gently autistic guy with unusual pets, horse girl with a 150lb Rottweiler, the front desk lady is Dana from The Pitt, no one know what Ryan does

You know how IDEs give you a red squiggly underline if you use a variable that hasn't been defined? I want the same thing for writing prose. Red underline if you refer to a non-obvious concept that hasn't previously been defined in the text.

If you die in chess you die in real life

what's the most average size number you can fit into a post

Have you, like me, spent the last 26 years worrying if the Canadian Potato Museum STILL has the display of various potato diseases with potatoes in little coffins? Stop worrying. I checked today. Still there.

SLUGGO’S CATURDAY

That’s the name of this guy

i really like bubbles.town !!

there is no antimemetics division

as a society i believe we have made simply too many Devices and we must return to producing Contraptions

feeling like a beaver transformed in two directions

Scientists are calling this the most metal shit they’ve ever seen

Have you considered simply acting like someone worthy of human love and affection?

buttondown.com/perfectsente... this week in sentences: compliant, sand, forever, disappointment, quests, doppler, procured, witchcraft, outlier, honks, spite, elastic

everything is a bytecode-targetable virtual machine if you look at it sideways. JBIG2 image decompression? virtual machine. x86 mov instruction? virtual machine. truetype fonts? virtual machine. Magic: The Gathering? believe it or not, also virtual machine.

money's tight 🤝 dark chronomancy "we're going to have make some sacrifices for the time being"

i'm just a little guy! a little guy who lost sooooo much money, you wouldn't tax a money losing little guy, on his birthday no less?? - billionaires filing their tax returns

sick i love stuff

Perfection.

bryan says it's more about the power efficiency but we all know it's so we can put oxide racks in our bedrooms and still sleep at night

This is it, folks: come join the Megamanathon 2 steam at 12:00pm EDT _tomorrow_ to ridicule me for my shameful reliance on Item-2 to get past the blocks in Heat Man’s level, and to help support @translifeline.org.

starting a war so you have an excuse to skip your son's wedding

I switched to android because I didn't like apple's policy restricting alternate browser engines on iOS but google is rapidly making me feel like apple might be the lesser evil

@jakearchibald.com for all the folks who are switching to Firefox because google wants to destroy the open web, is webcompat.com a good place to report web compatibility issues?

nine inch nails collaborated with boys noize and called it "nine inch noize" but they could have gone with a different, lewder name.

this leche won't dulce itself

Scambling as a Service

gonna combine scams and gambling into a new thing called "scambling" and make twenty seven trillion dollars

any time revenue is reported

you can’t cut back on understanding! you will regret this!

*cracking knuckles* well gotta get to it these jams won't pump up themself

i once tripped over my own feet and dropped my keys directly down the gap. my super eventually recovered then but they were mangled, i guess it wasn't a clean drop and the elevator crushed them a little in operation

It’s weird that we created open source to be free to fork and personalize however you want without any agreement from upstream, and then we created social norms where we shame people for doing that

if the guitarist looks like nancy you're gonna die in that pit

buttondown.com/perfectsente... this week in sentences: working, pebbles, prophecy, heart, tradition, dare, underpass, 'butthole', doubtless, grease-surfing, scurry, exhaustion, pertinent

natasha lyonne

i love the crypt keeper's little outfits

rude. in my day we called that Italo-disco.

sometimes the internet is very, very good

obsessed with this US department of agriculture zine about snail farming from 1986 openknowledge.fao.org/server/api/c...

dear internet everything: unless I say otherwise I would like to remain signed in for, in fact, the rest of my life

me: *scrolling feed* wow this person is posting a lot of bangers *liking a bunch of posts* me, a few minutes later: huh, really noone else posting today huh *realizes i have liked 20 posts from one person because i am on their profile* oh no

this box cutter has improved my life to an astounding degree, if you interact with cardboard and/or packing tape in any way I cannot recommend this enough

Somewhere there's a CEO stuck in a meeting that's in desperate need of amazon gift cards, completely unable to get their team to answer their texts

whoever takes this job should get the option to remain anonymous because users as a general rule fucking hate design changes and this user base in particular loves to get riled up

Open source maintainers at profitable companies: stop asking permission to fix what your employer already depends on. No paperwork. No programme. No manager’s blessing. Just maintain it on the clock.