2 things to remember in a Tornado Warning: 1. Lowest floor of whatever building you are in. 2. As many walls between you and outside as possible — away from windows. A basement is best, but in many cases, an interior bathroom or closet is a good second option.

A2685.2 Origin of straw.

Jiminy Crickets, y’all seem to think that if anyone else were president all your problems would be solved.

Liking this for the title alone

6yo (holding some sort of paper sleeve): Mommy, look what I can do with this paper! Wife: Did you get that by eating a whole bunch of ice cream cones and taking it out of the box? 6yo: Even if I did...

I mean, two is a number

I appreciate “The Post’s View” pieces over at @washingtonpost.com—these are the opinions of the WaPo Editorial Board—because they give me insight into what the most powerful and out-of-touch elite in the country are saying to each other at any given moment to justify the status quo.

Still thinking about “Morning Glow,” the chirpy song that perfectly captures that effervescent optimism one feels right after murdering Charlemagne

I think Anthropic’s position (as far as it has a single coherent position) is that LLMs may have consciousness experiences, but this is largely separate from self-reports of consciousness. Which is a strange and subtle position, and easy to misconstrue

Horror piled upon horror

Well, I did it. I survived to the venerable age of ((90*365.25)/2)+1 days

Me too, kid, me too!

6yo: 6yo: Do you know what I’ve wished to see for a long, long time? Me: No, what? 6yo: Dr. Claw’s face.

‘night.

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Hmm. 🧐 HMMMM.

now the soft animal of my body is thinking about cigarettes

one of the most insidious achievements of capitalism has been to entirely strip us of any relational connection. "I just work here," "it's not my decision," "sorry it's company policy" are all capitalist maxims that have depersonalized everyday life and have left us all alienated and alone

Blecch…not at all, I hope! 😝

Trees primarily gather their material from the air. We are surrounded by enormous organic structures manifesting from the air and eating light. I don’t think we even need aliens. This shit is wild!

Look at this absolute unit 😍

One of the greatest bollard walks in history. #WorldBollardAssociation

Saw a snow plow stuck on the side of the road today. Who’s supposed to rescue him

No, you’re not supposed to like my *retweets*!

we could all be living simple lives of camaraderie, nourishment and contemplation but instead they forced unto us into this:

me at 2:37am quietly turning on the microwave light nope that’s the vent fan

It’s the most ridiculous thing that the government isn’t supposed to search without a particularized warrant BUT we allow corporations to access information about ourselves that we don’t even know and just hand that to whomever, whenever, warrant-free. You seriously think the Founders wanted *that*?

Is it possible for me to care less about something? 🧐 Theoretically, yes

Designs by Carlotta Bonnecaze for the Krewe of Proteus' parades in the #NewOrleans #MardiGras parade, 1880s and 90s. See more wonderful designs from the “golden age” of Mardi Gras here: publicdomainreview.org/essay/i...

happy birthday to one of my favorite poets of all time, William Bronk

I’ve found it, the perfect allegory for (or, perhaps more defensibly, a perfect analogue to) A.i.

[logging off] i am taking my talents to real life

*extremely Puritan voice*

every first pass at a diagram on google slides

I keep thinking this looks like a simple-enough recipe, but then I look closer and quickly lose count of how many halves (of halves (of halves?)) we’re supposed to be working with

Think on your sins, America.

I can't imagine anyone having a trajectory like this today

6yo: Mommy, you’ve had this for like 200 years Wife: I have not had it for 200 years. I think someone bought it in the '70s 6yo (thoughtful): In the ‘70s, the Beatles were still together

Would people stop talking about being on a path toward technofeudalism? We’re there. The thing ahead is feudalism.

*unchartered] uncharted www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/unch...

It's unchartered, but we can see the terrain: the territory ahead includes masked secret police taking people to concentration camps but not new vaccines. That's our reward for a system in which fewer than 20 people, all of them deranged and malicious, control over $3 trillion.

I have a secret to tell! From my electrical well. It's a simple message and I'm leaving out the whistles and bells!

Holy Mother of ______! Look at what Virginia Tufte's 1971 book, Grammar as Style -- an old paperback textbook, mind -- is going for these days. I didn't own a car worth that much until I was 29!

Hope Heaven is like being in a beautiful swimming pool (I get to wear a shirt)

I’m a public intellectual with a heart of gold

I have now fallen down a Met Opera rabbit hole. What do you mean its endowment had never been larger than $300 million?! That's insane to me. If ever a place needed planned-gift officers...

I can't imagine anyone having a trajectory like this today

@ellipticalnight.bsky.social youtu.be/gWP9V0YBIrQ

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Was perusing to make some ill-advised Super Bowl merch purposes, and I get that life happens etc., but man, it's hard to think of a scenario in which a ring from the 2013 Super Bowl team ending up in a pawn shop isn't a real bummer