"the human brain is incredibly adaptable. this man is experiencing a moment of calm but as we speak neurons are already hard at work wiring up a new anxiety: calmness is ignorance of wrongness" is playing in my head in the sound of a 1930-40s educational video voice

I am would-like-to-give-up tired.

There’s another horrific video circulating on the timeline and this is my regular gentle and loving reminder to *turn off autoplay* on your videos so you can give consent to see these things.

"The research suggests that generalizations about human behavior are often flawed because they rely on samples composed largely of White individuals."

"He cites being anti crypto, anti prediction markets and anti gambling as why Democrats are losing young men." I mean, sure, a lot of young men do want you to fuck them, but I don't think that's how most of them mean it.

Now it's time to make "abolish ICE" the compromise. The nice thing about a floor is that you can raise it! How about "prosecute ICE goons, restitution for anyone detained by ICE, and a mass citizenship grant for immigrants and refugees in general"?

"Wilhelm types only the letter 'f' for every git commit message because 'it's the fastest key to press on the keyboard.'" Letting out my own Wilhelm scream.

looking for a history or comparison of different pseudo-3d techniques for rendering and representing 3d space. wondering what all exists on the spectrum between simple billboards and full polygonal models

You walk into the infinite diner that is the social internet. A table and booth for every person you can imagine. With your latest post, turns out you didn't imagine enough.

Video game logic: a potato is an easily acquired resource, therefore you must eat 8 baked potatoes to be full.

Well, in more pleasant news, the Fish Doorbell is back... 🧪

OK, why are you revving to red line in your front yard

yes and thank you for the excuse to share one of my all-time favorite tweets (from @longwall26.bsky.social)

Missed a week with my 8th graders due to the storm, so one last Black History Month poem as a bridge into Women's History Month. This one is by Lucille Clifton, which has a line I think about often: "come celebrate with me that everyday something has tried to kill me and has failed."

This is very important news, and I will be disappointed if within the next 5 years we don't have any picturebooks about wolves feeding blueberries to their pups! www.mprnews.org/story/2020/0...

‘Everyone deserves a warm bed.’ Ohio’s only LGBTQ+ adult homeless shelter is opening in Youngstown. According to a 2020 study, 17% of LGBTQ people surveyed said they had experienced homelessness at a point in their life. thebuckeyeflame.com/2026/03/02/o...

On top of all the other issues, the way using LLM as search engine adds a third-order filter on the web is going to do great things for keeping people inside corporate gardens. Probability distribution sample is never going to pick from page 7 of search results either, and now you can't even see it.

Frog and Toad were sad for a while.

There's a noise in my head that morals may rarely be picked up by guilt but they are only held onto by pride.

I have finally done something with the sewing machine, which granted was to join a sewing class, so nothing personally creative yet but is an improvement over wake-work-weep-sleep.

's a great habit. Folkways of physical spaces are often time and space management, but where people come and go at a whim and everything coexists at once, information/noise management is where it's at.

How about this one

As a wise spam horse once said, everything happens so much.

In addition to being inclusive, writing the alt text for images is fun tbh.

The same way you don't want people bombing you and your loved ones is the same exact thing that other people feel where they live.

The US was fascist since its founding. If public concern is lacking, it may be because people have noted how often public concern didn't matter to the people who have power in the past (see: public concern about AI, rifles, etc.)

The US is forever proclaiming that this or that region will be better off without this or that bad guy, all the while drenching those regions in bombs, fire, and the ashes of innocents. I don't want Congressional authorization for any of that; I want mass realization of it.

I don't care if Congress authorizes War on Iran. NO WAR ON IRAN. I want people to fucking reclaim their morality.

With more than half my lifetime spent watching US fuck up people's lives in the region, 59% is upsettingly low.

A turret in Ukraine with r/UkraineInvasionVideos, r/ModernAncientWarriors, r/popculturechat, and r/newjersey on it is ... huh, life's strange

I should check my email more. "In fact, you were the #22 donor to our HRT Harm Reduction Toolkit project!" Wondering how much faster I would have to have been to make #1, because... that's important.

The number of campaigns that would win by the simple tweak to their message "We need to reach across the aisle" of adding "with a fist"

Anyway happy Friday! Today is a good day to buy ONE MESSAGE REMAINS (ebook still on sale!) and perhaps to peruse any of the other fine publications that published me in 2025! :D psychopomp.com/product/one-...

Has bsky become much laggier lately or just me

anti [perceiving] violence

"haiku weaker in syllabary languages vs logographic" ...Japanese, the language the word haiku comes from, has two syllabaries...

"can't undo technology", "people will get it anyway", "no political power to stop them" Firearms or software? I don't think these arguments are why. I think one just isn't seen so harmful, and to be honest, I don't think the other would be either if its impact were exclusive to Not Your Community.

It's Ramadan and I am thinking deeply of spirit. And I think a lot about what some call "doomerism" as actually a lot of unprocessed grief mixed with a longing for meaning and purpose in life.

New Gunship? New Gunship! youtu.be/nrWpTNCd1uU?...

AvP Baldur's Gate Descent 3 Dungeon Keeper 2 EverQuest Freespace 2 Homeworld MechWarrior 3 Planescape Torment Quake 3 Arena SimCity 3000 System Shock 2 Unreal Tournament X-Wing Alliance I'm sure I'm forgetting a ton, but honestly, what a year 99 was, and that was just for computer games.

this is a great metaphor for software development

some granule of an idea, stats are the legally registered perspective of your character but only the story is the limit of your character

Shadowrun: Trolls are as intelligent as any other race, only the bigotry of others leads them to believe they are not smart as everyone else Also Shadowrun: Trolls have the lowest intelligence of any race, capped at 6

In case you hadn't heard, this bill being debated in the house would classify as "porn" and ban any book that mentions the existence of trans people, among other heinous bs. Call your reps. Give 'em an earful, particularly if they're on the committee reviewing this bill. Tell them where to stuff it.

love to have to repeat the "stop playing diet fascist by shrugging off the lives of the oppressed" conversation every year for the past 10? years

I would draw them once more years later, after some fears of becoming the "pinecrab guy"

I made this in a couple of hours and posted it a few days after another piece which I spent a full month on. While the latter got a pretty mute response and sold few prints, this little critter ended up being one of my most viral pieces. It's was a good lesson in learning to have no expectations

...trying to find short story about dying satellite that I feel like read in the past ...year? two? but my brain is not working and searching the internet is, hum, lately

I feel like Clair Obscur, from watching a friend play, did a really good job making me wonder about the details of their world without wasting the time their story had explaining things it didn't need me to know.