she’s a ten but every night at 3:31 am she stares at the moon, arches her back, and screeches like an panary giant fruit bat aka the Lucifer Bat for 13 minutes without taking a breath. I’m worried about my safety oh god shes in the yard its about to happen again

Imma be real with you guys the "TESCREAL" stuff is basically the libleft version of rightist paranoia over "Cultural Marxism", where you just smash together a half-dozen things that annoy you and go "these things are all connected and being pushed by a nefarious secret cabal of my political enemies"

Oh my god this story is delightful

Chotiner interviews Janeway

"wait, so you're telling me if you taxed land value instead of property value, you could both capture the wealth created from rezoning while incentivizing developers to build more units and lower housing costs?" Congratulations, you're a Georgist now.

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a monopole in possession of a large field energy, must be in want of an antipartner.”

Koko’s basilisk, is this anything

there's a pretty funny phenomenon i see from time to time on social media where somebody tries to explain the trinity to a non-christian and ends up committing several blatant christological heresies. on the one hand this is very funny.

Posted about rule by single-party technocrats being over-rated as I was going to bed, woke up surrounded by angry Brazilian communists. It's like a bluesky fairy tale?

ME, IN TEARS: you can't just say every single part of a computer system is a file UNIX, POINTING AT THE MOUSE: file

It is not actually difficult to say “race science is wrong and an attempt to systematize racial bigotry,” nor is it unreasonable to ask someone who verifiably reads and communicates with racists to say that thing.

i'm sorry

may wayf biraat mi hoğm a litıl törkiş tu ingliş fireysbuuk end wayl it is fun tuu filip tiru it end si hau dey tiranskirayb ingliş foğnaalaci intu törkiş ortaagirafi, ay tink it is sitaating tu efekt di wey dat ay tayp

improve your technical skills and you can discover new, exciting ways in which to be mad at the computer, ways to be furious at the machine that laymen couldn't even comprehend.

wait did I really never post this one

savidge beeft

me, this morning: "i took out the garbage last night and made sure the sink was clean, hopefully that takes care of the fruit fly problem" the half a lemon my wife left in the juicer on the countertop four days ago: LIVE FOR THE SWARM

elijint

upside down kitty

Starfleet captain is accused of crime by the Klingons and just immediately goes "I demand trial by combat" because he's the one Starfleet captain who is an insane HEMA head and immediately starts beating the klingon to death with a pommel

how ꝺaꞃe you ınꞅulꞇ þe ınꞅulaꞃ ꞅcꞃıpꞇ lıke þıꞅ

more beverages should come with pulp

My new app, DoorSmash, sends a burly man who demolishes the front door with a sledgehammer to your home. Payment is seamless in app. How burly the man? Is he angry or on drugs? What kind of sledgehammer? That’s all up to you. It’s your door. Smash it your way.

insisting on referring to ancient Chinese monarchs by their given names rather than their posthumous names, or livenaming

pen-and-paper themed game set in the pleistocene where you collaboratively pen the epic history of a stone age people stretching across thousands of years, their triumphs to their hardships, their heroes and villains, their language and culture

generations of people whose entire traditions have now disappeared teaching their children about animals in a language unlike any spoken today, there in the flickering dark

She react on my thermidor til i brumaire

Starting a margarita bar chain where we put one in each city and it's called "Marg Bar [city]"

more gratuitous cat pics bc I’m stuck in this waiting room

chillin

tired: it's always darkest before the dawn wired: it's all azhdarchids before the dawn

I was inspired by @segyges.bsky.social's post today to finish my own post about the Platonic Representation Hypothesis and the Universal Geometry of Embeddings, after struggling with it for quite a while. blog.whal.ing/blog/so_what...

you may wish to pet the fluffy tummy, but in fact it is a trap

i really appreciate the commitment the law and order franchise has to the lore and worldbuilding of its setting in the fictional "new york city"

grinning AI-generated Tocharian guy with a baby back rib in his mouth: kätkau sā mis!

yowling beafte

book cat

lulu has decided she is now a coffee table decoration

floorgazing

Was going through my files looking for a Simpsons joke about the Kagans and found this so you're welcome.

To me the Girondins will always be the ones who beat the drums of war which to me is when it all started going sideways. History remembers them as martyred moderates but they have a lot to answer for

It's just a fundamental category error, a lie, to say that authoritarian regimes are more orderly, they are not, they are incapable of order because they are sunburned to arbitrary measures and lawless means

Nothing quite like the stomach dropping transition from “something smells like it’s burning” to “oh fuck I forgot the muffins in the oven”

anarchism is probably the most thoroughly irrelevant of the big 19 and 20c ideologies, both in its own day and today; it is mostly just a curious byway in the history of much more successful kinds of socialism

plots i am sick of: anything involving gangsters (gangsters are boring). prison/prison escape episodes (grinds plot momentum to a halt). main character goes undercover (invariably involves gangsters, which are boring). anything to do with time travel. anything to do with parallel universes.

i guess my sense is that the difficulties of police reform in the US are in part downstream of a bigger problem, which is convincing american voters that hyperlocal nigh-sovereign institutions are actually a bad thing