New from me, at @vqr.bsky.social: a few years ago two people contacted me about a TEDx talk I once gave, “The Art of Haunting.” When I replied I’d never given a TEDx talk, things just got weirder. On AI, ghosts, what it means to tell a story, and what Italo Calvino saw coming 60 years ago. Enjoy!

I dunno maybe when you're entire body is shaking like you're a 1920s jalopy with a busted axle you shouldn't be talking about how fine you are

❤️❤️❤️ to the bookseller wearing a shirt today that read DICK CHENEY DIED ON NOVEMBER 3, 2025, THE SAME DAY THAT ZOHRAN MAMDANI WAS ELECTED MAYOR OF NEW YORK CITY.

This is yet another example of why people telling us skynet is inevitable can eat shit.

How toxic do you have to be that Ring won’t partner with you.

well credit where credit’s due: it’s 2035 and i’m driving to work in elon musk’s moon city—or rather my optimus robot chauffeur is, heh. i’m just kicking back and enjoying the view. what kind of a name for a moon bridge is owl creek

Someone was abducted at 10 AM by ICE on Central Ave. Their coworker says they’ve lived here for over 20 years, are documented, and have 3 kids who were born here. Don’t be fooled by headlines when they’ve been lying to us the whole time. We still need you out patrolling until every agent is gone.

Go Hawks

I'm late to this but the Redditors are correct, that Absolute Elsewhere by Blood Incantation is an amazing album

A lot of people seemed to have picked today to have dogshit opinions on AI? Not sure why

We are facing a humanitarian crisis here. Each passing day we learn of new neighbors who haven’t left their homes and have fallen through the cracks. Lots of people aren’t connected to mutual aid networks. Just terrible suffering caused by the federal government.

[Nena’s “99 Luftballons” intensifies]

You just don’t usually hear them articulate in public, out loud, the idea that as long as a few folks get rich it’s OK to rape children.

Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground

damn that’s crazy that we don’t know what an LLM is maybe I should read the literal first sentence of the same article

How it started, how it’s going, would love to be an airline exec right about now (to say nothing of 1,000s of people whose travel plans were completely fucked for no reason)

I have no insight into this EP thing and maybe it’s bad! But my non-conspiratorial take is: when you fire all the competent people in government for ideological reasons, you’re left with amateurs, and amateurs make abrupt, disruptive and inefficient decisions.

Longest/biggest airspace closure since 9/11 seems like a big deal

No, seriously--shake your couch cushions, see what you can give. If you're not in Minneapolis or another place currently under siege, this is an easy thing you can do to help. You got this. Let's do this.

hey all, just over $1000 left on this, let's help out a family in need. Fuck ICE, today and every day.

[Fred Schneider voice]

The morning so far

I swear every online "service" is in the end some sort of tiered subscription scam.

Something horrifying I just learned quite by accident. I’ve subscribed and paid for Delete Me for several years, and then discovered all of my personal information on a data broker site. Checked Delete Me’s website and discovered there are tiers? And some sites they won’t scrub unless you’re “VIP”?

A fun thing about airports is that no one covers their mouths when they cough

LAX looking not bad at sunrise

Giving you the fingers this week, with help from @wynkenhimself.bsky.social, @matthewharrison.bsky.social & @vcp.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

Not changing my opinion that this sport is boring as hell, sorry

explaining my dream to my shrink

Every so often i look away from the Puppy Bowl and notice how much the Patriots suck

lol we’re all having fun you weird loser

Third time!

Holy fucking shit you’re spending $8 million for 30 seconds to try to convince people to use your shit product, the AI revolution is going great

Cause that's what heroes do.

Imagining wanting less of this in America lol. Skill issue

William Shatner making poop jokes about his own last name, Jesus what a bring down from that halftime show

Truly he is the Best Bunny.

Just such a stark reminder that white racists have never been, and will never be, cool.

The racists must be losing their minds

For more singing toilets tune into the Turning Point USA halftime show

We are day drinking and having a fine time

no one can watch these commercials and conclude america is having a good time rn

Yeah and then every third commercial is inexplicably sad? Ah, the Super Bowl, what a time to discuss taking away your father’s keys because he has advanced dementia

"watching for the commercials" in 2026 would be such a grim declaration, like eating meat and ferments only

“A strong run by Walker,” I clearly don’t understand football

The “I only watch the Super Bowl for the commercials” gag was really only something you could really do in the 90s & early 00s, when there was actually a sense that consumerism was bad & watching commercials was ironic. Then “selling out” became cool, and now these are just uniquely awful ads.

These commercials are fucking grim

It’s important to know who’s the David Bowie and who’s the Freddie Mercury in your relationship.

No Kings includes Draft Kings

In the room the women come and go, Asking what time is the Superbo