Oh god there’s a new Good Omens episode

Started watching Long Story Short. Fortunately I’m only half Jewish so it was only half triggering.

It's Tunes Tuesday, because I took too long to wake up yesterday and I was taking today off anyway. Today's randomly selected album from my backlog is...Sylvan Esso—Soundtrack for MASS MoCA (2021) sylvanesso.bandcamp.com/album/soundt...

Absolutely cursed idea inspired by a stray comment in the most recent @neverpo.st: a blind box streaming site. Tiered purchases: Cheapest “box” gets you episodes from any show, next tier gets you episodes from a specific show, highest tier gets you episodes from a specific season.

The Dave Matthew’s Band ballad “I’ll Back You Up” except it’s a duet between Hans and Franz and it’s called “I’ll Pump You Up.”

The definitive millennial song is “All Star” by Smash Mouth, how is this even a debate.

NOTED FIREARMS ENTHUSIAST. Like I get you can’t legally call him a murderer but you can at least say he shot three people and two of them died and you should say that every time he surfaces from the muck of c-tier reactionaries for the rest of his miserable life…however long or short that is.

106 years ago today, on May 7th, an undergraduate at Christchurch College, Oxford, drank a glass of port then left through the main gates for a walk. I've been thinking about him, & his walk, for years now. It's taken a long time for me to figure out why - why I've kept returning, near obsessed.

Why is the Dem strategy never “be fundamentally distinguishable from your opponents in any meaningful way” but always “be DTV Republican knock-offs.” You went to Harvard, you can’t just cosplay as Jimbob and expect people to like you.

It turns out Returnal is a hard game to just jump back into after 2 years

This one’s so good, I love the ones where the murderer knows Columbo knows and Columbo knows they know he knows so it becomes this dance of how far can I push it, how much can I tease without admitting anything. And Shatner and Falk are delightful together.

It's Music Monday, the Monday where I day on the Music. Today's randomly selected album from my backlog is...Ben Levin—Havdalah to the Blank Without (2025) benlevingroup.bandcamp.com/album/havdal...

According to Letterboxd the only movies I’ve seen from 1986 are Castle in the Sky and The Great Mouse Detective, two perfect movies that shan’t be fucked with. For what it’s worth my coworker also said F/X.

Cheers Scavenger’s Reign Atlanta Bojack Horseman A Bit of Fry and Laurie M*A*S*H Reservation Dogs Columbo Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Star Trek DS9 The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air Westworld S1 The Nevers ep 1-6 Poker Face Whose Line Is It Anyway but only the good parts

Also they don’t mention Beorn at all in the cutscenes between “Riddles in the Dark” and “Flies and Spiders,” but I know he shows up at the Battle of Five Armies. Can’t remember how they explain that.

04/28/2026

might just do an ongoing thread of interesting web games as I find them

W/o downloading anything new etc etc

Ok unimportant but I had to listen to a podcast episode of Sam Harris talking to Tristan Harris for reasons and TH used that phrase, “double-click” on things to mean like look closer and I thought it was so dumb and now SH is doing it too because he is a weak-brained bullshit sponge.

It's Motorcycle Madness Monday. Today's Motorcycle Madness album from my Motorcycle Madness backlog is...Damien Jurado—Motorcycle Madness (2023)

Found a weird game on itch. Got stuck. Not sure it's a recommend? But the visual presentation is novel and I kind of like how oppressive it all feels, especially with the synth drone. managore.itch.io/birdsong

Fucking hell. Watching the Two Towers special features yesterday, seeing how much every person on those movies cared so much about what they were doing, and then seeing this shit. cjleo.com/blog/moleski...

The dad of the lead singer of my former piano teacher's high school ska band continues to put out lovely acoustic covers: www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6oH...

I totally get the difficulty of writing alt text for images if you’re not used to doing that, but if your image is literally just a screenshot of text you really have no excuse.

I keep thinking about how “AI taking people’s jobs” actually means those jobs being reconfigured to fit the limitations of AI. The AI future isn’t “we’re all unemployed and everything is automated” it’s “we’re all unemployed and everything is automated and also worse.”

I wanna be very clear about what I mean about eugenics: "Orchid," which 'technical advisor' to this benighted website Why invests in, promises to screen embryos for "autism spectrum disorder". Besides being medically dubious, their business is the elimination of a whole class of human beings.

Part Deux

James Spader in The Blacklist.

BREAKING: Spain to kick out all U.S. military personal, citing “not this shit again.”

I think where The Hobbit (2003) really starts to show its dev difficulties is at the end of “Over Hill and Under Hill.” Right before the last section we get a cutscene of Gandalf talking to Thorin where he says something about the old Dwarven mines having all manner of vile creatures in them.

It's Tunes Tuesday, because I slept through my alarm yesterday. Today's randomly selected album from my backlog is...Amos Roddy—Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector OST (2025) amosroddy.bandcamp.com/album/citize...

Really fucking weird to write a whole review in response to that NYT review and not mention it even once.

That being said

This has bugged me for 23 years

From Meat Loaf’s “California Isn’t Big Enough (Hey There Girl)”: “I’m no Fred / But I can make your bed rock baby” “You’re so cute / I wanna smash your face” “I can barely fit my dick in my pants / California isn’t big enough for me” and finally “I can barely fit my big dog in here”

What if BlueSky just played the National Anthem and then only showed static for several hours a day, could be fun

Lucy van Pelt has finally gone too far. But she will be brought to justice

Ok I’m not gonna elaborate on this at all cause I gotta get back to work but I’ve had this thought rattling around my head that “all AI is porn” and if you take the quoted post and combine it with the post it’s quoting I think you have the beginnings of an argument for that.

22 21st century movies I like: Flow Adaptation. Punch-Drunk Love Look Back Boys Go to Jupiter Shin Godzilla Arrival Everything Everywhere All At Once Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse Sorry to Bother You The Lobster

I think before answering any of the technical questions about how, exactly, magic works, you need to answer two: - What makes someone "good at magic," what kind of person is that, and what does that mean for the world that that kind of person is the best at magic? - How does that reflect the themes?

Celeste is actually the name of the scientist, the main character of the game is Celeste’s monster.

It's Music Monday, the day when I music on Monday. Today's randomly selected a̶l̶b̶u̶m̶ single from my backlog is...Damien Jurado—A Place Reserved for Reverse (2026) damienjurado.bandcamp.com/track/a-plac...

Man, I love when a piece of fiction keeps doing something that pisses me off and right when I’m just about fed up with it it reveals that it’s aware of what it’s doing and there’s a good reason for it. And at that point I’ll trust it with anything.

I think I just realized jokes like this are why I write.

Indietracks 2018 Part 3

If there’s one thing Outlook and I can agree on it’s that neither of us want me to do my job

Indietracks 2018 Part 2

It's Music Monday, just like it is every Monday. Today's randomly selected album from my backlog is...Indietracks Compilation 2018 indietracks.bandcamp.com/album/indiet...

Can I get a hell yeah #GuessTheGame #1419 🎮 🟩 ⬜ ⬜ ⬜ ⬜ ⬜ #MasterfulMindoftheSix guessthe.game/p/1419