Very important question: If I write :) instead of 😀 do I look cool and retro or anachronistic and indecipherable?

dudes rock

Wrap it up. We're all Deleuzeans now. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

"Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that." Looking forward to seeing Jimmy back on the air.

Self Edge has dropped new Sugar Cane jeans, their “1966 Jean”, that are great Jackpot pants: time-travel perfect repros of 1966 501’s. Even the denim itself is an exact match!

I’ve decided to play hollow knight and then, later, maybe silksong.

Junkerngasse in Bern https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/483125

Pavement is so good.

new territory for me & the result of a great year spent reading (with @euclidpjones.bsky.social) as much writing on cybernetics as possible from 1943 to...I think we're up to 1965 now. "Other Cybernetics for Other AIs" - a paper I'm presenting tomorrow loriemerson.net/2025/09/18/o...

You know things are rough when the AAUP's advice on how to use social media is just "set all your accounts to private."

Sil 2 by László Moholy-Nagy, 1933 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137732

Astronaut, by Clifford Hooper Rowe, undated.

Ohtani. 5 no hit innings and he hit his 50th HR.

top of the sixth inning of the Phillies game.

if anyone's looking for a distraction, i'm happy to discourse on how overrated apple picking is

JD Vance is doing the Reichstag Fire the right way. by Ezra Klein

belatedly realizing this whole kirk performative retribution is a dry run for the next guy

“Nothing prepared me for the Sisyphean exercise that is playing Hollow Knight: Silksong... I've spent over 25 hours with the videogame equivalent of sticking your hand into the Dune pain box.”

Mantle Model xkcd.com/3141/

Got fired from my job for saying that Samantha on Bewitched didn’t really wiggle her nose, she was just kind of twitching her mouth back and forth.

I did a Q&A about Downtime and slow motion, which certainly is one way to end up talking about The Great Beauty and The Matrix in the same sentence. My thanks to @ucberkeleyenglish.bsky.social. Downtime is out now from @columbiaup.bsky.social Available here: cup.columbia.edu/book/downtim...

Tragedy on Stilts (Tragödie auf Stelzen) http://www.moma.org/collection/works/63811

At the 2025 #Emmys, #ThePenguin's Cristin Milioti won for best actress in a limited series bit.ly/3VOkq1f

So cool to see Cristin Milioti bring theater kid energy to her #Emmy win as best actress in a limited series for The Penguin. She did amazing work that I never thought the TV academy would be smart enough to honor. "I love acting so much! Whoo!!!"

it’s time for universities to return to their core mission (an escalating series of pranks played by a trouble-making fraternity on the straight-edge dean who will stop at nothing to shut them down)

Hobby: reading about video games.

Not really judging whoever wrote on this library book, but the person who wite-outed it—that’s new 🤯

It's annoying that football games begin at specific times

horrified they weren’t quick enough to keep her from spreading this kind of vile hate speech on TV. for those who don’t know, “go birds” is a coded expression of support for the Philadelphia Eagles

Remake of Children of Men but it’s about a non-white family from another country trying to get home safely from a vacation to Florida’s Disney World

In the new art, a book may be an enigma, a problem where nothing happens.

Aniway, TLDR While hollow knight was about the destructive consequences of trying to preserve what cant be, Silksong is instead about the importance of fighting to preserve what can still be, even if that thing has already being deeply broken. A broken world is still worth saving

Should I play Hollow Knight or Hollow Knight: Silksong?

Hellish boss run backs.

Hobbies: geological time, reading about video games online, googling medical information.

You should probably read Michael Clune’s Pan.

Although the use of the Ink Spots’ 1949 “We’ll Meet Again” in Episode 5 of Alien: Earth seems to depart from the series’ reliance on rock music, Vera Lynn’s original 1939 version plays a key role in Pink Floyd’s The Wall, where it is referenced in the song “Vera.” In this essay I will

I love Silksong just like I loved Hollow Knight, but the run backs, the additional boss damage from the start of the game, and the sponge-y boss health is wearing on me. The tools definitely make it easier at times, but there are QoL upgrades from the genre since the 1st that they ignored.

Dark Souls, Elden Ring, Hollow Knight, Silksong Games where you take a lot of elevators