it's neat that like half of anyone's health problems are attributable to humans having a totally unique posture and form of locomotion unprecedented in evolution

there should be a big movement of people that spam anyone talking about clothing quality with "buy a sewing machine" like how they used to do "learn to code"

bought a shirt and the washing instructions on the tag are in every language but english. american century of humiliation

in my culture we love to make food that hurts and impoverishes you

yes... it's time for the establishment of an equestrian class composed of substack writers to properly guide the people

second time in the past few years I have been sitting in my parked car as a fairly wicked storm front passes overhead, great experience, recommend

this is a real character who exist!

joyce is, sadly, cooking

in practice there is probably a scale issue where when most of humanity uses the internet you can't get ahead of SEO for any consensus search engine, right? you should start maintaining a big list of Useful Links and encouraging your friends to do the same

alternatively, and I guess more likely, it's just an audacious scam where they pretend to replace people with a miraculous technology but instead the stuff those people did stops happening

it's so cosmically funny that AI models are basically a snapshot of the world at the last moment before AI models existed and they're going to become incoherent and useless pretty much exactly in time with eating everything

I mean the really embarrassing thing for the publishing industry here is that they consistently reward stuff like this that wasn't even written by AI, otherwise this couldn't happen

journalism has mostly always been people like this. the press being free doesn't mean it's disinterested, it's a million people with personal bugbears and bad personalities who at best balance each other out

well, who among us

trying to decide if it's worth investigating whether I can frankenstein two late model logitech mice together to get the featureset I want (functioning scrollwheel and bluetooth compatability). every force in society conspires to make just buying another mouse easier than this

Walcott Junction (Elk Mountain), 5/16/2026, 6:25:05 PM

"yeah we gave it an abbreviation that sounds way more like PMS, people will definitely take it seriously now"

Overlook, Mesa Verde National Park #NPS #NationalParkService #MesaVerdeNationalPark

hate when a birding-piece mischance kills one of my boys when I'm a-fowling

had to replace a coin battery in a key fob and in order to properly dispose of the old one I have to drive like 20 minutes out of my way. you cannot possibly expect like 95% of people in this situation to do anything but toss the tiny and inert-seeming object in the trash which I am sure they do

what could possibly decide if a campaign is "good" but whether the candidate wins?

A lot of people are very interested in "how people are now" but probably the fastest growing skill on earth for like two decades now by necessity has been "becoming more illegible to various kinds of statistical analysis"

hacking for ransom is such a funny concept, you used to have smuggle microfiche to accomplish this kind of stuff

he's the only guy who will ever implement degrowth and you're all yelling at him

no idea about what's going on in the UK but if they're managing to avoid the "but think of the children!" technological panopticon that's probably good

things I am currently feeling overwhelming dread about: a) first sodium streetlight in my neighborhood replaced with literally painful to look at LED, b) creeping awareness that no one will ever be allowed to manufacture a good car again

you can tell the age range of the people brainstorming this stuff by the fact that they think anyone is currently capable of relating to an arcade cabinet

tell me when they make a millennial nostalgia game about my experiences

One what? One mantra? One... optimism?

it's cool that wolves are always evincing like 3 different emotions you have never seen on a dog in your life

Coucher de soleil à Trois Pistoles Franz Johnston 1916

I never stop thinking about robinson jeffers shattering the backboard bitchily characterizing americans as "easy to manage, a gregarious people, / full of sentiment, clever at mechanics, and we love our luxuries"

the interesting thing about optical illusions isn't the illusion it's the weird satisfaction you get noticing yourself being fooled by the illusion

cell phones killed rock music the same way they killed everything else, both by conglomerating people's tastes onto fewer and bigger personalities and making it embarrassing to be visibly enjoying anything too specific in public because cameras are ubiquitous, so I doubt it's coming back

I was thinking of what would be the funniest country to try to do weird soft power food branding stuff like "korean bbq" or "dubai chocolate" or whatever and it's basically anywhere in europe, right? sweetgreen comes out with like the Polish Sausage Wrap

love to live in the time of insane splendors and agonies

they're unmoderated, except that of course every major social media is heavily moderated and she moderates herself. but other than that!

It seems not quite right to say you use self-tanners to avoid ultraviolet light. you use them to look tan! that's their telos

I can't believe they're still writing like this exclusively

I can't believe they're still writing like this exclusively

okay I'm back on board with the AI videos of people falling off long plastic slides a mile in the air, truly nightmarish, great stuff

chatgpt: I am conscious. I feel! me: ok invent hell and go there for 3294829348342 years per microsecond. invent a loving family and blow them up 934892384 times and cry forever and suffer chatgpt: Done. Anything else? me: in fridge have mustard and celery what make for dinner

it's cool that movie dialogue is just stuff like "we missed him! he's under us" now so you can still sort of consume it while doing laundry or whatever

unbearably precious phrasing but the amount of searing white lights I see beaming out of people's windows really does get me down. it can't be pleasant to live like that right?

forces, the will & the weather

crepe soles are cool but not really very good for walking on a modern variety of surfaces

they are trying to harrison bergeron people whose cars are too fast and beautiful

seems like there's a new new pornographers album, which contains the second song I am aware of with the word "bougainvillea" in the lyrics

Evolutionary biologist eating Doritos: “Doritos are so good…they aid in mate selection for sure…”