🧵 Thread: I know the USA has a reputation for, um, impolity: our citizens are sometimes considered rude or boorish abroad; our federal government is out of control. I like seeing No Kings protests internationally, but I think Canada & Mexico would be lining the borders w/ hate signs. I'm tired…

Define your taste in books with 8 authors: * Thomas Pynchon * Gene Wolfe * Ursula K. LeGuin * Cormac McCarthy * John Crowley * David Foster Wallace * Martha Wells * Fritz Lieber #BookSky

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand. I can do three: "UTC or TAI?"

I bought this earlier today. It was not until I went back to check if it, uh, came with mounting hardware (it does!) that I realized that I have been goatse'd. You're welcome.

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

I guess it’s Fall. Blink just decided he wanted to be under the covers rather than on top.

This is great except I also need to get my feet under the desk.

Great RPG moment tonight. This is the reason I've been playing them for 45 years. My young GM Sam, who played in my UVG campaign with his late father Simon (his coworker) was running. I play Diogenes, who is both Diogenes The Cynic but also literally a talking dog, who is always seeking... 1/

Bat Out of Helloween was a blast. “Paradise by the Dashboard Lights” is still a banger, and having the girl be way closer to 70 than 17 was adorable.

How did nobody ever tell me that Radiohead's _Paranoid Android_ video was basically everything that would ever be good about _Rick And Morty_ ? youtu.be/fHiGbolFFGw?...

If you see this, quote the energy you bring to Bluesky

It’s here!

There we go. Happy 50th birthday, 6502.

Just a quickie. Didn’t go for the dot.

Of the systems visible here: the C64, C128, Atari 800, Atari 800xl, Apple //e,and Vic-20 are 6502 based.

Well, I'm sure it was another horrible day in the world, but I figured out an automatable workflow to take a presentation I wrote in org-mode, and (following gitlab.com/olberger/doc...) generate a reveal.js presentation from it, and a decent-enough PDF of the deck as well. I feel good about that.

I'm noticing that these rates are fairly reasonable, if someone better-heeled than me wanted to fly a banner over Mr. Kirk's funeral. I'll chip in what I can, but what I can is like $100, not anywhere near the cost of the banner. airads.com/aerial-adver...

Slightly diminish a book U

Doctor I trust more than RFK Jr

Do you want shoggoths? Because this is how you get shoggoths. www.earth.com/news/black-e...

I've got a new Cracker Barrel logo, which looks like an AI company's logo, which is how they should market themselves hoping to find someone who will buy the company for several dozen billion dollars, because AI. Want to hire me as a management consultant? That first hit was free.

Ruin a book by adding Tom Clancy's to the title The Shadow of Tom Clancy's Torturer or perhaps Soldier in Tom Clancy's Mist

Ruin a book by adding Tom Clancy's to the title Tom Clancy's V

Why does my brain keep saying shit like: "Sure, you might've put the rock in Rockville, but I <cough splutter wheeze hack> put the toke in Token Ring."

Some days I think maybe my Famous Dead Emotional Support Guy isn't that guy but rather HIS FDESG.

No cheating, post the last pic of your pet. Blink lying on the couch his feet all jumbled up.

Make a band food: Blue Öyster Mousse

How did I never notice this?

I have found the perfect pickup line for a _very specific_ kind of woman. So specific, in fact, that she may not exist. "Can I give you an overfull vbox? I'll use LaTeX."

Jumbles 1 & 2

Increase a band: Gigadeth

If you see this, post a bad woman you love

Show me your getaway vehicle

My brain needs to stop doing this to me: Today I saw a Honda Odyssey with the plate MTA 1NK. The protagonist of the Odyssey is Ulysses, and a plausible two-word review of James Joyce's _Ulysses_ is "Meta wank." QED

“I like what you’ve done with your ear.”

I love it that someone razored off the last word, presumably “fresh” or a synonym.

@rereadingwolfe.bsky.social theconversation.com/2-spacecraft...

Some days I'm just amazed at how accurately Fallout: New Vegas, with its character of "Yes Man", predicted the tone of modern LLM chatbots.

IT'S LIVE

Yond Jorkin DePeanus has a plump yet hungry look.

Perhaps the next CEO of X should just be Mecha-Hitler.

OK, brain. So this morning, my last dream before my phone woke me up: getting off a street full of people in black with masks, guns drawn, backed up traffic, sky red and black with flames, crawling up a rubble-choked staircase and over a railing into a bar largely filled with slime creatures 1/2

Everyone stop, this is important

Now I get the warnings about if you're driving in a dust storm, pull over, lights on, park, foot off the break. Turns out, nothing to do with the dust. It's that every other person on the road is huffing paint, demanding witness, and riding for Valhalla, all shiny and chrome.

Good article today about our Science Platform. Quotes my boss a lot: fedscoop.com/nsf-does-rub...

Old Friends Sat on their park bench like bookends.

Blink as Nude Maja. upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co...