generational differences are real but way too many people allow themselves to be defined by what internet culture says a millennial or gen xer is supposed to be and it severely limits their imagination about what they could be. toxic tribalism hiding behind silly memes.

a couple hours ago I got a good whiff of that earthy dead leaf autumn smell for the first time this year. now we're getting some strong petrichor with this little rainshower. smell update 9/19/25 madison wisconsin.

everyone in my building besides me is a healthy looking normie looking 20 something office worker and when they see me outside smoking they look at me like I have leprosy except for one young couple who always smile and say hi and if this place burns down I will sacrifice my life to save them

apparently I've gotten really into filming nature footage on vhs. I have a plan.

Her doorbell plays a bar of Stephen Foster Her sister never left and look what it cost her We're gonna live in Nashville and I'll make a career Out of writing sad songs and gettin' paid by the tear

dear autocorrect, I'm only ever trying to ask my girlfriend how's it hangin, and never how's it hanging, I'm not the god damn queen of France

due to inflation it's 84 ounces to freedom nowadays

unfollowed a bunch of people who post multiple long threads every single day about that day's news/discourse. afaik none of them were journalists or scholars or experts on anything, just people addicted to news/discourse/internet dopamine. for some reason this week I suddenly got very weary of them.

In 1981 a student at the University of Wisconsin wrote a postcard to his buddies about his adventures in Tijuana and LA. Yesterday my boss found the postcard while we were salvaging some parts of the house they lived in, which is about to be torn down. Full text in the alt.

I'm all set up in the back room with my nice little projects to work on and my nice audiobook in my headphones... but the customers... always asking! always wanting! always needing! helpless imbeciles, cursed interruptors... I hate the foul customer! will you never allow me a moment of peace?!

hey can you guys please make a few thousand more posts about how to have the correct reaction to the news so I can be sure I'm having the correct reaction to the news thanks

this autumnal weather has me going full peasant mode in the kitchen (making a hearty beef/carrot/potato/guinness stew to eat with some black pumpernickel bread; drinking fresh apple cider with a heavy shot of brandy in it)

august feels like a 30 day month. every year I'm like, oh weird, august 31st. just doesn't have the vibe of a 31 dayer. I can't be the only one who thinks this.

clear prison crt tv pros/cons pros: clear, looks cool as hell cons: rancid aura due to being used in an actual prison

if you're not busy later cmon down to the neighborhood sports bar where the bartender is the owner's 14-year-old grandson and there's baseball on six 72" tvs all running at 480p. the bathroom's never been cleaned but the pool table is in mint condition. everybody else here is retired. it rules man.

been getting really into this screwdriver at work lately. had it in the drawer for years without much use but suddenly it's the right tool for the job at least once a day. just goes to show you never know what's around the next corner in this crazy thing called Life.

stopped for a beer on the way home from work, accidentally had 3 beers, now I'm ready to create some lifelong regrets still wearing my work clothes

been feeling bad in most of the ways a person can feel bad but I just looked up from my cigarette and saw two red-tailed hawks swirling and swooping together above the trees. playfully, not like they're hunting. so everything is ok actually.

lord grant me the confidence and finances of someone who rents a 10k/month downtown retail space to sell their homemade magic crystal jewelry

my friend's uncle works for a baseball team and he says when you listen to baseball on am radio nowadays it's actually broadcast in perfect digital high fidelity and to keep that old timey lofi feel they get play by play guys who have naturally staticy voices

I'm not a writer so I don't need any metaphors but if you're a writer: when a dead tree decays it's mostly fungus doing that and a lot of the spores entered the tree through its roots from the soil when the tree was alive and then waited for the tree to die. maybe you can do something with that idk.

they say cis men don't have a monthly cycle but I alternate between roughly 4 weeks of listening to nothing but lord of the rings audiobook (read by rob inglis) in my car and roughly 4 weeks of nothing but singing along with late 80s/early 90s country hits in my car. and I think that's beautiful.

there's no ethical use of ai. every time you use it you're destroying the planet and supporting fascist billionaires. anyways here a shitload of screenshots of me using it just to show how bad it is.

one of the best things is when you're watching a dog have fun

dude you're looking sultry as hell bro

No music and I would ask everyone to be very quiet so I could concentrate.

This sucks man. They hate immigrants and trans people and want them to suffer. It's as much of a priority as the tax cuts. When you call their cruelty a distraction you're telling people it's not important and they shouldn't pay attention to it. If you can't fight them on all fronts, resign.

mason miller went to the padres... are you talking about baseball or the dang canterbury tales?!

hey do you want to watch lord of the rings. it kicks ass dude. it rules so hard.

5000 years ago human beings invented drinking beer outdoors with your friends on a nice summer evening and we haven't had a better idea since then

kinda sad about having to get rid of this perfect little dutchman* in this piece of reclaimed maple floor. I hope whoever made it would appreciate that I gave some folks on the internet a chance to admire it before I put it in the firewood bin.

this article about how to perfect your walking gait and maximize joint alignment is dangerous misinformation. you should not be thinking about that shit on your walks. a healthy walk is one where you forget about your body and only think about birds, plants, clouds, traffic engineering, and music.

I've lived my entire life in upper midwest corn country and I'd never once heard of "corn sweat" until 3 days ago and now everyone is talking about it everywhere. this is the kind of shit that makes me consider wearing a tinfoil hat.

obviously it's good to be politically engaged but I worry about those of you who wake up on a sunny saturday morning and immediately start posting about marco rubio

are you even friends with your friends if you're not offering to Cyrano de Bergerac each other on first dates

this is a very madison-specific post but they should make art fair on the square go clockwise just to change things up from the farmer's market's counterclockwise

Well, the water looks like jewelry When it's coming out the spout Nothing could make me feel better Than a wet kiss on the mouth Fake I.D.'s and honey bees The jagged skyline of car keys I never knew a bird could fly so low

French dubs of Disney animated movies in French class

I got so bored at work that I looked at reddit. Not even to find an answer to a question or anything, I literally just scrolled on there for a few minutes like some kind of weirdo

Out the window, in the harbor, he saw a little ship The moon was worn just slightly on the right And they slow danced so the needle wouldn't skip Until the room was filled with light

it's all backwards in this country these days. if you have a politics substack you should hide it from your grandma and coworkers so they don't think you're a filthy whore. if you have an onlyfans they should invite you on msnbc to talk about legislation.

this guy's name (pronounced "meesh") is so aesthetically unpleasant to me. sounds like the name of a belgian dish that uses the worst parts of the animal. sounds like the evil emperor of the swamp planet. sorry Gil Meche you were a good pitcher and probably an ok guy but your name grosses me out.

congratulations, you are the recipient of the rare Backwards Hat Ryan (I wear hats normal style every day; about once every 2 years I put one on backwards on a whim and think "actually that looks surprisingly ok" and then the next day I go back to normal style)

golf is just pool for dickheads. yeah I wanna have a few beers while trying to put a little ball in a little hole but I need 500 acres instead of 20 square feet.

fuck ai, there's no excuse for using it, but lately sometimes when I hear aggressively boring pop music I kinda wish it was made by ai because it makes me sad to think human beings put time and effort into making something so empty and pointless

it's been a while since I've had a more thoughtful, nuanced take on the news of the day than "death to america"

[seeing an open call for submissions for the exact kind of niche art that I make] wow it would be so cool if I could do that but alas it's only for Other People and not me

had a dream I was DJing at a fancy hotel bar in France and I was only playing early slow sad Belle & Sebastian and Zoe Saldana asked if she could take over and I said no and she said "I'm Zoe fucking Saldana" and I said "well this isn't the Zoe fucking Saldana show is it"

it's been a while since I've had a more thoughtful, nuanced take on the news of the day than "death to america"

I hate being mad at my friends I only want to be mad at The System