CHOTINER: And you thought it would be funny to do a fake interview by me? ME: A lot of people have, so CHOTINER: You were looking for engagement? ME: Well, to make someone laugh I guess CHOTINER: How many likes and reposts did it get? ME: That's, uh, not really the metric...look can we start over

I love “we knew this already” or “are you just learning about this?” Replies because I picture the person typing it wearing a “sarcastic comment loading” t shirt

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. For this recipe you'll need a 9x13 inch baking pan,

I mean, Charlemagne also has chocolates with his name and monogram on, so there's competition just in the "worst person named Charles" category.

Bluesky encourages users to get their cooties shots before interacting with any posts we deem "icky."

Holy Roman Emperor Charles V - possibly the worst person to ever have a chocolate bar named for them? I certainly know of no comparable crimes by, say, Babe Ruth or O. Henry. Maybe Sweet Marie has some skeletons in her closet but I doubt her troops ever sacked Rome

I hate apple more than other tech companies. mainly because I feel like they invented the modern tech landscape and this shit sucks man

oh my god they released Mecha-Hildegard

i’m a believer in ineffective altruism. i think that everyone in america should be issued a vga to s-video cable adapter and a bale of hay

stop da fuckin movie this guy's updatin da fuckin tv tropes page

sword & sorcery

Writers' room: "Okay, we've established Barugon can freeze things. Now the army is shooting missiles from a distance, and we're less than halfway through run-time. Ideas?" "What if he shot a huge rainbow from the spines on his back, and turned all of the missiles gay?" "Give that man a gold star"

rereading The Hobbit and pouring a few drops out for Balin son of Fundin, World's Okayest Dwarf

woke up today with the fully-formed urge to start a tumblr called "sadhenge", collecting half-assed and depressing Stonehenge/stone circle replicas. Tagline: "All henges are beautiful, but some are less beautiful than others. This is their story."

it'd be such a power move for some other city to also have a Bronx

"Makepeace" is a really peculiar surname when you really stop and think about it. Is there an anglo surname that's the opposite? Is there a Chris Startshit out there?

All this time I have been holding back from calling THUNDERBOLTS* "the Transitive Closure of Thunderbolts", and I am just going to do it this one time, you're welcome (yes I know it should be "the Reflexive Transitive Closure" but even my bloody-mindedness has limits)

art Chao Feng #Alien #xenomorph

Nope. We're done. We are going to back to a text only internet. Y'all had images and sounds and fucked it up too bad. We're going gopher mode. We're getting gemini pilled. You're going to learn to use telnet and like it. You have one movie, it's pretty good.

Listen to me. You have to watch The Dark Crystal Age of Resistance. You have to see these fucking puppets dude. There's a puppet show within the show where the puppets are using puppets and it fuckin rips shit. The skeksis are so shitty and I love them and they are all my friends.

My own example of this is that, as verbs, "roger" and "fuck" are synonymous, but "roger that" and "fuck that" have completely opposite meanings

Someday when the DBAs form a union I hope they call it LEFT JOIN

The greatest exchange in comics interview history still belongs to Jack Kirby

SciArt September, Day 7: Boreal (lands.) Many kinds of lichen and moss thrive in boreal forests. This is Florke’s Cup Lichen. It has gray/green scales on the columns and bright red, spore structures (apothecia) on the top. 🎨🐡#sciartseptember2025 #boreal #lichen #florkescuplichen

#swordtember fossil 🦴

"please. my wets"

every time the "litfic is bad because it's all about professors and their boners" discourse arises like a shambling zombie, I wonder what these people are reading. every lit fic novel I pick up is like "a WOMAN goes on a MADCAP adventure featuring SENTIENT MUSHROOMS and a masters thesis!"

“And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.” Roger Corman’s Edgar Allan Poe’s THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH starring Vincent Price.

Hey microfic writers 👀👀 Here’s a chance to win one of THREE $75 awards & publication on the front page of an Augur issue!! Share widely ✨ Anyone can enter, and there’s NO fee to participate!

Two trials will be repeated endlessly despite always producing the same results: 1) Does UBI work? (yes) 2) Does AI improve productivity? (no)

Today’s companion: headed to CT to play some D&D

Dear T.OCELLUS, I hope this letter finds you well outside any quarantine containment. You were amazing in the latest episode, so clever, fast and courageous. Human vocal cords are not easy to master, I am myself doing vocal training and I sympathize. Don’t give up. -Your #1 fan cheering for you.

Describing a right wing coded villain: yeah he hates [insert minority group] Describing a left wing coded villain: okay so here is an insane set of world building hypotheticals that would put this guy in a position of power that he could abuse against people like me, the author

🎹ARE YOU A DUNGEON SYNTH MUSICIAN?💻 🎶WOULD YOU LIKE MORE PEOPLE TO KNOW ABOUT YOUR DUNGEON SYNTH MUSIC?🎵 If "Yes" to both, DM us for details asap.

i wonder if there's anything about Turing's life that might benefit from a humanities perspective oh well we'll never know

ah yes Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser

Forewarned Apocalypse. #bfdi #art #petscii

Hell yeah brother

Something I teach my students is that reading is a rhythm. They need to build a space-time where the rhythm of longer form reading is available to them. Generally this begins by having them inventory the various kinds of noise (cellphones, screens, work/care/social commitments) in their lives.

this is the runk tweet

Much like "crab", industrial music is constantly re-evolving from first principles basically anywhere where there's a bunch of metal and plastic laying about

Lake Wingra Sunrise, 8/27/2025. A 72"x 60" acrylic painting on canvas.

I have never read the Aeneid before, and the bit where the Harpies prophesy that the Trojans will have to EAT TABLES before they get to build Rome is absolutely sending me. Like, I keep thinking about it and cracking up

all the best windows software in history is called something like "joe's thing doer". it does the thing and nothing else and is available on a html website in plain text and takes up under a megabyte of space and uses default windows ui elements and will work until the heat death of the universe

yo is this moth racist en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setaceo...

Noblewoman with a sword!

Biollante, rose form!

Yup! #google #android #BigTechShouldNotExist

songs should be spooky and called shit like "invoking the dragon moon"

"Kaa nama kaa lajerama."