Prediction: in the next few years, there will be a brief fad as backlash to the extreme anti-aging craze currently taking place, where some people in their 20s will go too far for the "silver fox" look and get aesthetic crows' feet surgically added around their eyes

'portmantoe' is my new portmanteau meaning "men's shoes"

I'm sure I'm the millionth person to observe this, but some of Dostoyevsky's Underground Man's screeds could be basically WORD FOR WORD posts on incel forums.

If for whatever reason you need a "soul leaving your body" cardio workout, this one definitely fits the bill #FitnessSky www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXln...

Prediction: there will be an #influencer scandal where it's uncovered that someone used AI to make their new pet look morbidly obese, so they could put it on a compelling social media weight loss journey

This made me think that there should be an ANTM-style reality show on like, Animal Planet, where pet parents compete across several weeks/challenges to have their dog or cat become the next spokesmodel for Chewy or Petsmart or something. ANTM x Best in Show would be exquisite entertainment.

Possibly the coldest take ever, but argh, OutKast is sooooo good. How they can weave such melancholy and bittersweetness into things, without overdoing it one bit, is just remarkable. The staying power of their sound is eternal. I put them into the very highest level of my personal musical pantheon.

Sad this boingboing article about the Squonk didn't mention the Genesis song! boingboing.net/2025/11/06/t... song: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aRj...

Is gender a wave or a particle?

'The math is not mathing' also sounds like something Latour would say

Credit to 2013 Jaden Smith, "How can mirrors be real if our eyes aren't real" is probably a question Isaac Newton would have loved

New Nordic jail where the guards are all just cats who sit on your lap and purr and look at you in betrayal if you try to move

Product idea: three-dimensional Humpty Dumpty puzzle. Finish it, put it on your mantel or something, knock it over (or let the cat do it), it comes apart obviously, then do the #puzzle again.

Anyone read *Shikasta* by Doris Lessing? What did you think? At about 1/5 through I can certainly see the Olaf Stapledon influence, but I'm not sure what to make of it. 📚🪐

My brain can't de-associate "giardiniera" and "giardia"

For those of us who will never be willing to invest in the full tabletop experience, a #Warhammer40k board game would be an amazing sweet spot. Maybe you even have to paint your own game piece or something. #gamesworkshop

Going to start a much superior granola bar company called Artifice Valley #naturevalley

House of Leaves, or The Eldritch Horror of Family Vlogging #booksky

Someone in #STS needs to study the social media exercise science crisis expeditiously if not sooner

Not a sports person but I do like that the #Cubs have the cute baby name of the animal as their team name. We need to do the Kittens and Puppies as well.

For October #Zillow should add a "haunted/not haunted" filter option

Xenaon, warrior princess of the 21st century

What's the most challenging *fiction* book you've ever read (and completed), and what made it challenging? 📚💙 #booksky

Very very helpful FYI

<communist statisticians seizing the means, medians, AND modes of production>

Who, indeed :P 📚🪐 (From *The Futurological Congress*, 1971)

I think one of the greatest general virtues of good #humanities teachers is their ability to ask fruitful, stimulating, "guiding," but not overly *leading* questions at the right times in a person's knowledge acquisition process. That is actually a really difficult and subtle art.

New #cozymystery idea: "Cold Cuts and Cold Cases," where a whimsical deli employee has to solve a decades-old murder

People who grow giant pumpkins are the feeders of the #gardening world

I'm about 70% confident that *The Worm Ouroboros* was easier to write than it is to read. 📚🪐

Misophonia: the sound of miso

There's something very noble and romantic about spending months painting a painting, which can then be 'consumed' by a viewer in less than a minute or two, if that. Is there any other art form with such a huge discrepancy?

Just two days until our EXTENDED deadline of August 7 to apply for our hybrid #CSCW2025 workshop! You still have time to share your ideas and experiences with us :) #cscw #civictech

Remember letmegooglethatforyou? I never thought that specific style of beautiful passive-aggressiveness would ever seem passé.

@wsdot.wa.gov Fun new upgrade for I5 express lanes? www.youtube.com/shorts/gC-PP...

Great news! We have EXTENDED the deadline for our #CSCW2025 workshop to Thursday, August 7 (Anywhere on Earth). If you've been thinking about applying but didn't quite have enough time, you've now got an extra week. Really looking forward to your exciting submissions!

Just ten more days to apply to our #CSCW #CSCW2025 hybrid workshop on doing research and design in government settings!

There needs to be more female leprechaun representation

I think I've wandered too far into #gardening social media. Got a Youtube recommend about using your own pee to fertilize your plants. Going to have to do some self-reflection.

"Friends in Low Places" would go hard as a craven populist campaign song. [Also just goes hard in general.]

Plants are so pathetically grateful for water. It's almost a little embarrassing.

You have until July 31 AOE to apply to join our hybrid #CSCW2025 workshop on design in government contexts. Workshop submission is pretty short and straightforward, so there's still plenty of time! Looking forward to all the great submissions!

Did you know that some people remember the Mandela Effect once being called the Biko Effect?

The intrinsically eerie skittering and twitching of arthropods is like cosmic horror at micro scale

The first applications of the term "post-truth era" now seem kind of innocent and shortsighted in comparison to what has happened since.

Speculating about future tech needs to include plenty of speculating about what unique and peculiar characters could become prominent because of that tech's characteristics. So not just, what will the future 'internet' be, but who will be the Amberlynn Reid or Andrew Tate of that internet?

Few know this but Trump is actually a Bokononist

We now know how to torture AI boingboing.net/2025/06/17/a...

Cyberpunk character named Organelle

(also using #CSCW2025)