today i helped a friend build raised beds in her garden for 6 hours. i do things like this very very rarely but it was great.

job alert! spotted in the @puzzmo.com newsletter today, they’re hiring an engineer. check it out if you’re an NYC-based dev interested in working on the best puzzle site in the whole world (disclosure: i don’t quite work there but do make crosswords there) eevd.fa.us6.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Psychology is complicated and I think the line between Compulsion (Desirable) and Compulsion (Damaging) is.. complex. I'm not even sure you can draw a line between "self-actualizing compulsion" vs "externalizing compulsion" bc seeking Brain Turn Off is a human activity that far extends beyond gaming

maybe don't do business with uline. via www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/c...

IT'S HAPPENING GITHUB, THE FIRST ENTERPRISE CLOUD SOLUTION TO REACH ZERO NINES RELIABILITY https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/ #github

that is a great question, Newton

i won't claim "funniest" but here's the one i liked most when i looked through my collection just now

Hey, we found ACE in the FDS version of SMB1! Check out the result of our hard work here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFLT...

just got to auth to prod with mfa code 777767... truly a blessed day

i had a kind of fundamental realization about videogames suddenly while playing 100 jumps that i'm kinda shocked not to have seen or thought of before: video game jumping is like irl throwing. that's part of why this weird invented verb feels natural. humans evolved to do arc prediction.

does anyone have a screenshot of that famous tweet that was like "binary thinking got people believing cat is the opposite of dog" or something along those lines. no results in twitter search or google :(

100jumps.org stats. the last three trophies seem kinda hard.

damn, magic story hits different nowadays...

Identity verification online is a growing danger, but there's a way to get ahead of it without compromising with authoritarians or creating dangerous infrastructure. Let’s talk about age signals and how California’s already passed attestation bill might be a strong path forward.

because of reasons i've sorted all the individual words in The Locked Tomb by how many times they appear, and the 92s make a nice little poem

fiiiinally squeaked back into the reckless top 20 after getting 1 win away like a dozen times this mode is so unbelievably good. that 570 games is since uh. february 20th.

today i learned wild language facts at the botanical garden

people are making Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny bits right now because of Chuck Norris's death and I think its important to note that today is also literally Mr. Rogers' birthday

im generally bitter about the latest-first world we live in now, but i am forced to admit that there is a specific puzzle-like pleasure in reading a post that refers to several recent prior posts and piecing the true chronology together as you scroll

I should double check that the modern SKM (Sweet-Kitty Motions) can handle rabbitlike scenarios. When I programmed these rabbits I was still understanding the concept of motions.... My current SKM was successfully used in Funeral Song for the Elemental Lords, but not for anything this complicated.

just found out that in 2024 a wikipedia vote led to GamerGate being promoted to the default article of that name... i feel that something truly valuable has been lost. and not only the uniquely bewildering experience of typing it in all unawares and ending up at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamerga...

just found out that in 2024 a wikipedia vote led to GamerGate being promoted to the default article of that name... i feel that something truly valuable has been lost. and not only the uniquely bewildering experience of typing it in all unawares and ending up at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamerga...

I want to pet a rabbit that's on a raised platform. In my past experience, the biggest design flaw I found with rabbits is that they're so small that you have to squat down to the floor to pet them, and it becomes painful.

Did you know you can read all of Flying Saucer Video so far right here in this thread?? Or the linked website!! It’s a story about a video rental store going out of business, told thru the lens of a romcom (with a hint of tragedy) 💞 it’s been a difficult project but I’m pretty proud of it

i just ran into a scary and upsetting Internet Archive behavior that I would like to warn you about. I searched for a substack url that had once been free to read, but was now behind a "free trial" signup gate. wayback had it; it loaded; i was reading it. then the archived page refreshed itself & »

reposting a 2018 twitter thread thats spookily related, from LittleBigPlanet 1: 2 weeks to gold, a Japanese QA tester started reliably crashing the game by leaving it on over night. We could not repro. Like you, days of confirmation of identical environment, os, hardware, etc; each attempt took /

this is one of the funniest speedrun strats i have ever encountered www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRym...

We're thrilled to announce the Ctrl-Z Award, a US$2,500 prize for researchers “who discover substantial errors in their published work and take meaningful steps to correct the scientific record." Covered by @nature.com today; read more here: centerforscientificintegrity.org/2026/03/10/a...

my thoughts on "Blue Moon" letterboxd.com/jseakle/film...

Poem in the Shape of the Poet Beating Henry Kissinger to Death with Their Bare Hands by Felix

it's yet again time for my recurring consideration of how mad it makes me that the movie Cradle 2 The Grave isn't a sequel to a movie called Cradle

Amalgamate is my entry to 7drl this year. merge things. it's got highscores if you're into that! zunil.itch.io/amalgamate #7drl

1076 on my first run past 20, which i'm pretty proud of... but also if i'd scored just 18 more points i'd be 7th instead of 15th :C great game

use the original wigglypaint :( beyondloom.com/blog/onwiggl...

play the grotesque secrets sylvie game now

just found out John Searle died a while ago. this is the man who brought you such incredible hits as "computers can't think because they might be made out of toilet paper", groping his students, and, my personal favorite, "The Searle Decision" (pictured). a vile stain on academia eradicated at last.

if you want to know how important it is for you to do this math: the fees patreon took from me in 2025 add up to roughly 3 months of income. that's 3 months of income i would have paid taxes on if i didn't deduct the fees from the 1099. 3 months of income i never actually had!

Sam Altman recommended, in a personal telephone call, that I work with some lawyers who tried to convince me to do securities fraud. He did then tell me not to do the securities fraud when I informed him of this, but his failure to offer a better alternative cost me several hundred thousand dollars.

When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the part of the bed where your phone is

When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the part of the bed where your phone is

My review of Battle Narf (narfnra.itch.io/battle-narf)

please god bsky just let me turn off reposts on a per-user basis, NO i don't want to use a stupid ass feed for only posts, NO i don't want to turn off reposts for everyone i follow, shut up

I made a crossword

just went on a wild emotional rollercoaster: 1. think of a hilarious joke 2. realize it's actually cruel & i don't agree with it 3. sadly delete and draft bleet about sadness 4. think of a different, related, not-cruel joke 5. post it, everyone loves it and it might become actual mystery hunt event

hey everyone it is a very exciting day today: my PAID CROSSWORD PUBLICATION DEBUT!!! @somebypaths.bsky.social and i have collaboratively produced today's Cryptic Crossweird, which along with 30+ other great puzzles can be yours for the low price of $2.50! www.patreon.com/posts/crypti...

narfnra.itch.io/battle-narf battle narf is out because i got tired of staring at it. you're welcome

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