Long-necked dinosaurs should be renamed reachasaurus.

Finding out your homepage is down on a holiday is a new experience (I forgot to update my billing info)

Working at a computer for extended periods was easier with coffee and cigarettes.

I’ve had this stuck in my head all morning, which means a David Lynch kind of day. youtu.be/icfq_foa5Mo?...

I walked out of the subway and was greeted by an onion rolling out from around the corner of a building, which reminded me that the world can still be strange.

> "As a twist on Arthur C. Clark's famous words, science fiction author Carl Schroeder once wrote, 'Any sufficiently advanced civilization is indistinguishable from nature'," Kipping explained in an accompanying Cool Worlds video.

On the second floor of the indoor playground with the pneumatic guns that shoot ball pit balls, imagining some kid taking aim at kids below, reciting Barry Pepper's lines from Saving Private Ryan: "Blessed be the Lord my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight…”

Let's do Starship Troopers next

Legendary character from Australian mythology, Bluey.

Very excited to be part of this issue! Go ahead give this short fiction a read, about a deep sea eldritch god. #WritingCommunity

Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪

What would suck is having huge chunks of your past be unrecallable because of dementia and they come and arrest you because you're apparently the Zodiac Killer. That would be like an inverted Lost Highway.

Our kid shot this picture, which he unintentionally modified by pulling impatiently on the paper while it printed.

Can you run faster than a pack of bloodhounds?

“This is the averaging out, the displacement of the human being in time and at work, that A.I. tools impose…its derivative ethos seems to have permeated all forms of media. Everything must be easy to follow and to understand, simple enough to recognize and categorize.

My latest Patreon post is live. It's got some life updates, and for paid supporters, it has a snippet from my upcoming book, Ex Partum (coming soon from @atthisarts.com). www.patreon.com/posts/140919... #scifi #specfic #booksky

The November issue is out! Head over to the site for a read - link in bio. As always, a huge thank you to our talented contributors! 🧡

Check out "Brian is Missing", out today in the November 2025 issue of the @theberlinreview.bsky.social! This quick read is a riff on one of my previous stories, "Rolling", published in X-R-A-Y Lit (December, 2020) 🌊 theberlinliteraryreview.com/h-a-eugene-b... #shortfiction #fiction

Some praise for the Business 80 edit of "Run" by Mazmere!

My interview at foofaraw!

I had a dream that a film director was directing a child and his pet dog for some sort of commercial when a rapture happened, levitating all things on the film set that were good.

This story is a Suessian staring contest, and I am very happy that it found a home over at @foofarawpress.bsky.social! Just in time for the colder weather, I give you: Ugly Sweater Day foofaraw.press/ugly-sweater...

My son asked for a donut at the new bodega down the street and they reheated it, which melted all the chocolate frosting off on the wax paper. It was a streaming hot mess when they handed it to us. I don’t think they eat donuts over there.

(っ◔◡◔)っ ♥ Goth Walkin' ♥

We have a new track out, an edit of "Run" by Mazmere

WORMS

No mention of the CDC shooting. No mention of burning down the PA governor's home. No mention the Colorado school shooter apparently expressed neo-Nazi views. They included Luigi as getting "leftist" support when his support was bipartisan b/c every american has been screwed by health insurance

We just launched a patreon! It's free to join with paid tiers if you like what we're up to It would be great to connect with other people already using the platform. I know @capgrasman.bsky.social and @chelidonframe.bsky.social have patreons: who else is out there? www.patreon.com/DifficultArt...

Someone should re-edit Idiocracy to take out eugenics. You know, like how people edited the Star Wars prequels to have no Jar-Jar.

Is it The Rupture yet?

If you look intently at the little window on a cassette while it’s playing, you will sometimes see a tiny demon in there, smiling, enjoying the music, but also clawing mischievously at the tape, causing noise and artefacts. That’s why they put the window there.

This writer captured Blippi perfectly: it takes place in a dead world full of big things and no people. Except for the odd police car… www.currentaffairs.org/news/2020/08...

There's something particularly annoying about searching for a song you can't altogether remember, because modern search technology gets you so close to your answer. But if a popular song shares some of your search terms, it's just like "Are you sure it's not Cream?" Pretty sure, thanks Google.

I was thinking the other day about how I start each day with NYT games to prime my brain to think in words, when it occurred to me that the game Wordle is basically adult chewing gum. I am using these games to chew my way to fresh breath.

Our son said our neighborhood in Brooklyn used to be a forest. Then he said it’s going to go back to being a forest again, someday.

Animals with sunglasses are so cool

This is the assembly instructions for a Kinder Egg toy that goes along with the game at the other end of this QR code. Can you tell by looking at it what it does? Or how it’s even fun?

The guy in the beginning of a rom com who the female lead thinks she has to marry should be called the mantagonist

Every time an airplane flies overhead there's a part of me that worries it's going to poop on me.

Playing a word search, and feeling like “holnier” really should be a word.

Hot take: TV got weird at the wrong time. It got weird at the height of its power: Twin Peaks, Cop Rock. Max Headroom. This was wrong.

𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘣𝘶𝘪𝘭𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘺𝘴 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴

Imagining being at one of Queen's songwriting sessions and someone sings "We will, we will kill you" and Freddy Mercury's like "yes, but maybe dial it back a little bit".

This is neat: www.pcgamer.com/hardware/gre...

I wss at a kid's birthday party where adults were leading them in group parachute games - you know, like everybody takes turns running underneath, stuff like that. Happy fun-time games, sometimes with beach balls.

I feel like mourning doves don’t think they’re pigeons. Like if you asked them, they would deny it vehemently and become offended.

Absolutely no foresight in this email subject line.