My wife insists that you all know that she was working on taxes while I was working on this.

My roommate and I watched the first episode of Homicide last night and I searched my posts just now to see if I'd talked about that show before. I had totally forgotten about this and assumed Braugher was still alive. Damn.

I get offended when the cat climbs into my lap and then starts bathing himself. I thought we were going to hang out, that is something you should be doing on your own time.

Every time I empty a bottle I toss the bottle cap to the cat. He bats it around for a while until it gets stuck under the refrigerator or the stove. Eventually that space will be so densely packed with bottle caps that pushing one in will knock another one out.

[Checking in with the guy I'm trip sitting] "Don't forget you can exit the simulation at any time by saying the safeword"

🧠 Trouble sleeping huh? "yeah" 🧠 ... "..." 🧠 Hey remember when your dad had persistent insomnia and it turned out that was an early sign of Parkinson's? "thank you brain that's very helpful rn"

Up until today, the cat ignored most indications that he should get off the kitchen counter but would sprint out of the room as soon as he saw me pick up the spray bottle. Today he laid down and looked directly at me while I repeatedly sprayed him to no effect. He is winning the battle of wills.

I love living with cats. You walk into a room and there's a funny little guy standing there. He's not actually supposed to be up on the countertop, but still... pretty cute.

They should have given Mr Beast a cameo in The Long Walk

fashboard confessional

💭 wait, does thumbs up mean "yeah, go ahead" or "don't kill that guy, he's cool"? Everybody's looking at me I can't think right now I've hesitated too long and now it's awkward Maybe if I raise my sword like I'm about to swing, I can figure it out from their reaction. I can play it off like a joke

I should should make my own Terrence Malick's Avatar by editing out the action and all of Jake Sully's dialogue, then adding a voiceover.

They should let Terrence Malick make an Avatar

This whole wiki looks like a fun resource, but I particularly like learning that some film types have a distinctive smell www.sprocketschool.org/wiki/IB_Tech...

Avatar, Mystique, Smurfs, Tobias Fünke... who am I forgetting?

"Hey chuds, why aren't you using all those guns you stockpiled while the left unilaterally disarmed? Aren't those for fighting this government that's totally controlled by your ideological allies? Weren't you afraid you'd be violently oppressed if you couldn't fight back? God, you look so stupid rn"

If public opinion polling is thoroughly broken, special interest groups become a little more powerful because a legible voting block making demands is the only way to really know how many voters you're pandering to.

The future is already here - it's just not evenly distributed. Start filling sandbags, maybe we can make a levee before it gets to us.

The worst part of being a carrington Chicken Little is that I won't be able to post "told you so"

It really undermines my authority when I'm telling the cat he can't do something and then he does it too fast for me to stop him

I love it when a store has a sign outside that says "open to the public" Lucky us!

That game everyone keeps recommending to you is free today. Alternately funny and sad, it's the best world building I've ever experienced. No fast reflexes required, just an elaborate branching storyline with great dialogue. store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/disc...

Guy who's always saying "this is like Black Mirror" whenever something involves a pig

Would you rather be alone in the woods with a bear or a marijuana?

In this sci-fi book Neal Stephenson has twice described the rotating habitats on this space ship as passing by "at about the speed of a second hand on a clock" which is such a funny description because it FEELS like you understand even though the characters are on the perimeter of the structure.

It's unsafe to use my radiators because boxes of stuff I've packed for the move are pushed up against them. But it's cold in my apartment so I turn on the oven. Now the appliance I use as a clock says 400 I'm hungry what time is it? 400 There's no sun, what time is it? 400 It is always 400 here now

Sometimes the pharmacy texts to say they auto-filled my prescription. Other times they send me a reminder that I need to log in and trigger a refill. This is the second time I've failed to read carefully before driving to the pharmacy.

This 2019 article I found in a stack of newspapers is cracking me up because it's like "Marijuana legalization was a billionaire conspiracy led by George Soros [positive affect]"

In samsara, wheel reinvents you

I only get pho at this place down the street when I'm feeling sick and I wonder if my waiter thinks of me as that wretched guy who always has a runny nose and looks like shit

The Peripheral will be remembered as Gibson's most prescient novel.

Top 10 things I enjoy about living in the future: 10. Literacy 9. Internet was fun at first 8. Recording media so I can be nostalgic for the past 7. Get places by flying through the sky 6. Have a car I drive other places 5. 💊 that fixes problem 4. 💊 for fun 3. 👓 2. Always have food 1. Hot Shower

I'm moving furniture around and discovered this discrete charging block, still plugged in. I started charging things at my desk instead of leaving them on top of the bookshelf and then forgot I'd ever done this.

You can't outrun nominative determinism

(guy demolishing chesterton’s fence) check it out, i’m cutting the gordion knot

My review of the Lomography Konstruktor as a DIY kit is, idk "two stars" ig? C+? It's one of those products that's 90% of the way to greatness but has enough little problems I can't really endorse it. If there weren't youtube videos of the assembly I would have been unsure how to proceed sometimes.

my job is to fill the presidents plane with diarrhea on the runway. i dont agree with it but we all participate in capitalism

"Not everything has to 'rock', okay" @gaywad.lol defending Steely Dan

There are several free light meter apps with good reviews but I threw a few bucks at this developer just because I'm so charmed to see an app with skeuomorphic design in 2025

Last night I watched techconnectify.bsky.social's video about old photographic processes and this morning YT showed me a guy who built a portable wet plate lab and takes photos with the old collodion process. youtu.be/OIMUOqh5h74?...

This is true, I'd recommend the book to anyone. I think a lot of people see the title and expect Seeing Like A State to be right/libertarian but it's actually about high modernism destroying indigenous ways of knowing.

evening project

I hate when parking apps only offer a flat "overnight rate". Nobody is parking overnight in your lot between a restaurant and another restaurant. If you want to fuck me $15 for an hour of parking just say so.

This weekend I played in a tournament where they had the Elton John collector's edition. It was the nicest and most flamboyant pinball machine I've ever seen. A laser projector between the two screens on top made patterns on the ceiling, which reflected on the glass of other games and confused me.

Sometimes when an old reply starts getting new likes it's a hint about a larger conversation happening on the site. Since my reply to this comic is getting pinged I gather someone made a new hole? And it feels like the old hole? I want to try it out where is the new hole?

I'm trying to watch The Master but I find the cult people to be unbearably cringy AND I'm embarrassed for Joaquin Phoenix's character when he doesn't fit in with them.

When I can't remember how to spell something I switch to dictation mode and let the computer spell it for me. But every time I say "ludicrous" it types out "Ludacris" and idk why the rapper is iOS's first guess.

Got my first roll of film back from @gaywad.lol labs

The app doesn't hate you, neither does it love you, but your life is made of moments that it can use for something else.