When I was a kid there was a project at the local university involving Ancient Greek and computers. The prof in charge drove a huge Cadillac covered in antennas and wore a crash helmet, as did anyone who rode with him.

King’s Lead Hat by Eno. Heard it in a movie theater when it was new. Took me years to find it

Bryce 1.0 (1994)

This sign raises many questions, which probably should be answered by the sign but aren't

"The phrase has been borrowed, stripped of its roots, and sent out to do labour it was never meant to do." tarakiyee.com/on-the-enshi...

There’s a guy begging outside the train station here. He has a little stereo setup and only plays Dire Straits. #existentialheroes

The Wall Street Journal is running a puff piece about people manifesting wealth through completely mad superstition. I am going to liquidate my entire retirement and purchase a fifteen hundred kilogram tungsten orb.

From the Icelandic news: For over 400 years the people at Loftsstaðir Farm have been under the protection of the long dead warlock, Galdra-Ögmundur. They say that as long as their farm houses his femur, which they keep in a small box (pictured), they will continue to be.

The music in this place has a bell that sounds just like the iPhone new message sound and it’s fun to watch people look at their phones each time.

Edinburgh reminds me of San Francisco in that it’s constructed on an Escher principle in which everything is uphill from everything else.

My flight is leaving both at 1530 and at 1630 and is oscillating between gates 150 and 155.

www.theregister.com/2026/03/12/i... RIP to the man behind the funniest bit of all time: the invention of the null pointer

Is it a good sign when the doctor wants to talk to the other doctors here about how weird this is? 😬

HELLO. I TOO AM OLD ON THE INTERNET. WHAT? YES, I’LL HOLD.

Hurrah! this is the way a fellow feels when he’s going to Davy Jones—all a rush down an endless inclined plane!

“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.” James Baldwin

furthermore it's kind of a relief to accept that one of my main responses to a lot of things remains "surely you know you are going to die". dont knock it it's got range

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I got a Silver Alert on my phone and the link for more info is a bitly that resolves to capacitor://localhost If I ever go missing, please just try to find me yourselves.

Lawyers and their ridiculous garish bow ties

I’ve hit the age where people say “never in my life has this…” and more often than not I think “it has in mine.”

all this is both foolish and unnecessary

Autocorrect changed a typo in “signature” to “dog attire.”

“Measles at Disneyland” is simultaneously a news story, a metaphor for current events, and a good idea for an 80s Orange County hardcore band.

@zebulony.bsky.social ahem

Increasingly depressed by friends becoming reactionaries and disinformation victims. Would prefer a different zeitgeist.

Is it good when the electrician says “wow you weren’t kidding! This isn’t what I expected!”

Goodnight.

On Dilbert Death Day, I remember the first Kaleb Horton genius work I saw: kalebhorton.ghost.io/the-d-lbert-...

yeah

I got a fundraising call today asking for my father, who died in 1993. Good work, all.

Been tasting blood lately. Wonder if it’s mine?

be sure to start Temple of Love (1992) by 11:51 if you want to hear the whole thing by midnight

The recorded announcer on this plane sounds exactly like the Suburbs’ “Music for Boys”

Philly airport bar: bartender shows you pictures of her grandkids

And so does 2025 begins its own pilgrimage to the shadows of the dark, dank ossuary of yesteryears

It's the holiday perineum! Happy Baunchmas to all!

it’s “jingle rock bell” season motherfuckers

Fraid of straws

This latest Epstein image drop of 8,000+ files is super-awkward. Each image is wrapped in its own pdf for some reason. That makes browsing difficult. So I fixed that. epstein.junkdrawer.cc/

The feature journalists, science popularizers, creative nonfiction writers I loved in my youth have mostly turned out to be terrible fakes. I’m angry to have been fed all that bullshit and I now mistrust good storytellers.

@codzilla.bsky.social were you aware of this?

The French national library is such a treasure cave of incredible pics, like what the hell is this: gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/b...

Money has been trying to turn the internet into television for 30 years now, and it looks successful now.

Woke up to a mysteriously trashed right knee. Can barely make it around the house with a cane. How? Why?

We need more 3/4 and 6/8 in popular music.

Spending the 80s bus commuting with a Walkman has after effects. “Soul Survivor” came up on the mix and I was immediately on the 170 headed north from Hollywood at 8 am

my big issue with "enshittification" as a term is that it represents what it critiques: a general decline in facility with metaphor, overall literary cleverness, public intellectual culture itself. Compare with a term like Twain's "The Gilded Age"