The Super Mario 64 source code lists names for Mario's footstep sounds. The list starts off normal but becomes poetic with names like "Footsteps in the Fallen Leaves" and "More Than Anyone Else in the World". It turns out the names are actually taken from a 1994 dating simulator.

Dang, I was just writing a stanza about that bird yesterday. But I used the other name (it drops bones from the sky sometimes): an ossifrage’s alchemy of altitudes; acuity begotten from similitudes of brawn and ingenuity;

yes i did cram the first few lines with german words for no reason, thanks for noticing #sonnet #poetry

At the Nuremberg trials, Karl Dönitz was convicted of war crimes for the sinking of civilian vessels. This is not a complicated question, it's been illegal for centuries.

I've been trying to understand why this isn't generating as much fury as it should, and i think it's because there is a fundamental belief among many americans that the military can pretty much do whatever (which isn't entirely inaccurate.) that said, what the actual fuck.

lot of people immediately able to grasp why this is bad still making excuses for posting on twitter

Honestly the war has seemed pretty silly for a long time.

more like department of homies' insecurities

Saving this list for the next time I have a student ask why I say that Watergate was small potatoes compared to what goes on in an average week with this administration.

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

i just have a gut feeling that people are really going to regret buying those bone vibration conducting earphones. it just seems like the "vaping" of using your ears to me, if that makes sense

"His true poetry is created out of ancient materials, as in a foundry—not spun out of his own entrails as by a spider." christoper ricks, writing about milton being bad at coming up with fresh metaphors (by trying out a couple of his own. )

In Tagalog, an equivalent phrase to "Jesus take the wheel" (for leaving things to fate) is "leave it all to Batman" (Bahala na si Batman)

#sonnet from april, just typed & cleaned up today. thanks for reading! #poetry 🦩🦩🦩🦇🦇🦇

we're going to win

THREE POEMS by Jordan Davis @jordandavis.bsky.social Poetry for BURNING HOUSE PRESS @thearsonista.bsky.social LANDSCAPE // LABYRINTH burninghousepress.com/2025/09/20/t...

typing up some old drafts and i must have been in quite a mood on April 2, when i wrote both of these. one of them (not sure which) i must have written in the *morning*! ☠️☠️☠️ #sonnets #poetry ... thanks for reading! thoughts welcome!

smash three movies together: the hobbit (the book)

advice #sonnet #poetry

walk or stand as often as you possibly can for as long as you can every day

advice #sonnet #poetry

New pome out, with thanks to @lrb.co.uk :

#OTD 19 September 1991, walkers in the high Ötztal alps on the Italian border, found a body melting out of the ice. It turned out to be the remains of a c.5200 year old man preserved with all his kit. Of course, it was essential to replicate him in Playmobil. 1🧵 #PlaymobilÖtzi #PlaymobilInfestation

you hear people say stuff like "we live in a post-ideological world" but the reality of it doesn't fully hit until you see an image like this

“For the large majority [of the Harper’s Letter signatories,] Trump’s reign of terror has apparently been less objectionable than the irritating undergraduate and entry-level scolds of the 2010s.”

smash two movies together: the fellowship of the ringlourious basterds

smash two movies together: psycho brother, where art thou?

smash two movies together: dracujo

smash two movies together: nosferatu mamá también

smash three movies together: the beastmaster and commander: the far side of the world war z

smash two movies together: timecoppenheimer

smash three movies together: the hobbit (the book)

smash three movies together: the seven samurAI, Robot

smash two movies together: twovies

smash one movie together: empirecords

smash seven movies together: alien(s)^3 vs. predator: requiem for a dreamgirls

smash two movies together: tár wars

There is a roughly 100% chance he thinks that both this and Kimmel are the same ABC

smash three movies together: the taking of pelican brief interviews with hideous men

smash two movies together: the exorcister act

#AEStallings has a new poem just out in the @lrb.co.uk : www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

only 1 1/2 albums in and already several tracks i love. favorite so far is bleak freudian / lovecraftian (? or is that just me) song called "something in the well". we had actual plumbing disasters plus emotional stress last week & it really got to me. Source: YouTube share.google/Oo5B8UsE2a71...

1/THREAD: @AP has published our investigation into how US tech firms enabled China’s digital police state. We obtained multiple, massive leaks of internal and classified Chinese government and corporate documents running into the tens of thousands: apnews.com/article/chin...

not awake enough to properly think about this, so i'll just throw it up here - do eddie vedder's lyrics almost never rhyme

idk if you've seen this south korean editorial that ran a few days ago. google translate version scorched my eyebrows www.hani.co.kr/arti/opinion...

More prosaically, as someone pointed out to me recently: LLMs are *always* hallucinating. its just that sometimes their hallucinations appear to map our experienced reality. But the map is never *of* our reality, just *like* it. So the words don’t describe it. 4/4

not an exaggeration to say I am WEEPING with laughter at this reply from someone who hadn't seen that Robert Redford died today

#sonnet from april, just typed & cleaned up today. thanks for reading! #poetry 🦩🦩🦩🦇🦇🦇

springsteen must be the first person to have released an album of entire (unheard, complete) albums right? (caveat - i think a couple of the 7 "albums" are more like compilations themselves, but still. and dylan's basement tapes haven't included unreleased entire albums per se)