cloudflare outages are a big turn-on for me

PORN IS ART, PORN IS GOOD, PEOPLE MAKING PORN IS A SIGN OF A HEALTHY SOCIETY

me and ur girl this holiday season

enough productivity for today 🙅‍♂️🙅‍♂️. it's time to look up people i don't like to see if they've posted anything annoying recently

99% of memoirs should have been or remained essays. like what do you mean you're a 29-year-old brooklyn transplant and you wrote 70k words about your life. you better have been a war correspondent before you picked up that podcast mic. you better have been raised in a fundamentalist cult

currently self-flagellating by reading substack articles called "the over-consumption of girlhood" and "joan didion (and other writers you've probably never heard of)" and "the proliferation of degeneracy in contemporary romance: a leftist analysis"

[me, yesterday, watching the Arabic Zohran ad] dick cheney would die if he saw this

Long live Guilloteen Vogue

pumping my fist in the air like my team just scored

look at him. his bandana has skulls

ohhh noooOOooOO jira's down, what am i gonna doooOOooOOOoO

if i get a say in what people remember me for when i'm dead, may i suggest my preternatural tolerance for bad artificial grape flavoring. if it's purple and it says "grape" i will eat it and probably like it at least a little

my favorite thing that happens on social media is when people i follow on instagram are killing time at the airport and so they post a bunch of stories about being at the airport

For sale: baby shoes. So fuckin worn. This baby ran everywhere fast as shit

LLM AI exists to crush labour. That's not even my surmise, the people paying billions of dollars to fund this stuff are extremely open and explicit that this is their goal. There are no ethical use cases for LLMs at this point in time. Maybe when the bubble has popped thoroughly. Not before.

finally some cool news

hey sorry, can’t. busy.

i'm getting weirder, maybe open.substack.com/pub/pagemelt...

no judgment, no irony: if you're one of these people who's started using chatgpt for quasi-therapy, you should look into tarot reading. a friend gave me a great reading last week, and it felt like flossing

everybody loves to denigrate BookTok books but when a 19-year-old covered in cybersigiglism tattoos comes across my FYP holding up a paperback 9 times out of 10 it's East of Eden. I'm not joking. And if it's not that it's Lonesome Dove

having a paranoid delusion about everybody posting in a way that is designed to annoy me specifically

crashing out at Kroger because the security alarm has been screeching for several minutes and Blue Diamond apparently doesn't make their sweet Thai chili flavored almonds anymore

the cultural crisis is straightforward: there are no longer any formal consequences for blatantly anti-social behavior, and the rest of us are constantly just getting lectured that we have to put up with these assholes making our lives worse

my sources are telling me that caleb hammer—the personal finance podcaster who berates and humiliates his guests before recirculating their stories to a bloodthirsty audience on tiktok for clout—is a huge jerk, and i am shocked, shOCKEd, i tell u

this is really what it all boils down to, huh?

got the high score on the centipede machine at the arcade :) then messed up entering my name :(

tapping thee sign

📣 hi! i have an RSS feed now 📣 if you've never messed with RSS before, you've just got to: 1) pick an RSS reader (i like inoreader.com) 2) plug pagemelt.zone/rss.xml into your reader's "add feed" input 3) see updates from me 😇 4) see updates other people u like without an algo getting in the way

🕯 🕯️ 🕯 🕯 🕯 u wanna 🕯 🕯 delete ur linkedin 🕯️ 🕯 so bad 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯️ 🕯

patron of Old Joe's rag-and-bone shop faces criticism for recent comments about Ebenezer Scrooge's death: "If you want people to have kind words when you pass, you should say kind words while you're alive."

I've got this specific type of brain worm where--and I enjoy horror movies! really I watch more of them than most other types of movies--but when I watch a horror movie and things are ramping up sometimes all I can think is "who's gonna clean up this MESS"

i think Ezra Klein considered Charlie Kirk a peer. i think he thought of Kirk as debate club captain at a rival high school. the rest of us—trans people, Black and brown people, people who look out of place in a board room—are abstractions. grist for the mill of Doing Politics the Right Way

:(

this is the secret to being publicly online without constantly crashing out and i tell it to anyone who will listen

Can’t wait for the episode where they discover the basement

lol

did a lot of theater growing up and every director i ever had told me i talk too fast, but look at me now!! i don't act anymore but i do make videos that people don't have to watch on 2x

checking in a couple weeks later. things are progressing. for real no joke it's gonna be called "moon shot" but how funny would it be if i called it "black by pearl jam"

me and seth on our wedding day

not to sound threatening but if u ever refer to me as your "bestie" it's on sight

hey what's up i heard it's wip wednesday. this isn't a snippet so much as a note to myself

look at this

been watching a lot of liminal space videos. (for research! no really!!) one idea that comes up a lot is the idea that the uncanniness of liminal space is limited to the realm of human-designed objects

how your email finds me

when I imagined what my life as an adult would be like when I was 12 it probably looked a lot like what I'm doing tonight, which is eating chili and watching superman

big plans today