Tagging @manishearth.bsky.social who was the one who requested it! Just to be sure, I assume @scalzi.com was wearing a different delightful shirt, not a different Lingthusiasm shirt? Double the sf author shirtfest would probably be too much for me to handle haha

More people have read the tweet about this shirt than I have www.redbubble.com/i/t-shirt/Mo...

A livestream of a volcano in the Philippines captured a meteor crashing to Earth today. What are the odds? Mayon Volcano, Location: Albay, Luzon, Philippines

Discworld QOTD, from Going Postal

several years ago @manishearth.bsky.social permanently damaged my comprehension of christian theology by having me read the Borges story “three version of judas” anyway donald trump is our modern judas iscariot

the delivery guy said (quote) stupid fucking bullshit bastard ridiculous system fucking bullshit stupid outfit as he handed over the package

“Imagine how good it could be if all the hype is real!” Bro you don’t have to tell me that, that has been my line trying to convince you for half a decade to switch to a programming language that makes half your bugs just evaporate overnight. 7/7

q: is this kosher for passover a: not if it's Ieavaned www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EYg...

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

Me: *Types "noosphere"* Google GBoard: *Autocorrects to "biosphere"* Me: *Deletes, types "noosphere"* Google GBoard: *Again autocorrects to "biosphere"* Wait, hold on. Is this literally gnosticism. Is GBoard the demiurge

think I convinced family friends living in Orinda suburbs to support the transit measure by saying 1) it'll affect their property value (that got their ears perked lol) 2) station closures are best case endpoint of a large gradient of possibilities if measure fails missionlocal.org/2026/03/bart...

we've all fucked up, but probably not as bad as when Tvaṣṭṛ was trying to wish his son, the serpent Vṛtra, to be the killer of Indra tatpuruṣa compound: indra-śatrú but while chanting the mantra he got the tone wrong and instead made Vṛtra one whose killer is Indra bahuvrīhi compound: índra-śatru

I think I disproved charge conservation

(The higher you go in dimension, the more kiki the 1-norm and ∞-norm become, whereas the 2-norm remains unquestionably bouba.)

guys if you're trusting unsourced polymarket 'breaking news' paraphrases of weeks-old interview statements just because they tee up a nice quote-tweet dunk then I regret to inform you but you're not gonna make it

I feel like someone has already thought of this, but I am constantly plagued by the thought of doing an (appropriately Lady Gaga-inspired) burlesque act where Jorge Luis Borges is tied to a chair and menaced by three cunty depictions of Judas.

Thank you to everyone who visited Lively Manor last night! I hope this won’t be the last time we see these characters or this setting.

happy rectangular february, sunday-first world.

curious borges

I love writing safety comments

This meant that @elizas.website and @hikikomorphism.bsky.social had an extended conversation describing debugging coding projects entirely in terms of a demon summoning that went wrong. The meaning of life is finding friends willing to commit to the bit.

it is incredibly instructive that the product is called an "Edible Arrangement" and not a "Delicious Arrangement"

@manishearth.bsky.social made a Passion(fruit) of the Christ when we watched Assassin 33AD last Easter, and I’m trying to remember what melon we hollowed out for the tomb.

for future plausible deniability reasons it's important to often text your friends things like "i am so hype for murder"

given the existence of skeleton and luge, i postulate the existence of two other, yet to be discovered, winter olympic sports

In Japanese, you address elder men as OG-chan and i think that's beautiful

By many metrics the new Temporal date-time API is the single biggest change to JS ever 🔥 Like Kiesel, V8 chose to reuse Boa's open source Rust-based temporal_rs by @jason-williams.co.uk from TechAtBloomberg, Kevin Ness & Manish 👍 boajs.dev/blog/2025/09...

ECMAScript excitement 😉 🚨🚨🚨 IT'S ABOUT TIME! 🚨🚨🚨 Congrats to @manishearth.bsky.social on shipping the Temporal API in Chrome 144 stable today 🎉 developer.chrome.com/blog/new-in-... Temporal is the replacement for the Date API.

given how common the "you're the sole survivor of a spaceship crash on a hostile planet" story is in factory games, someone should make a reverse-factory game where you play as an alien tracking down and destroying colonizers who fall out of the sky and try to turn your planet into green tech cards

a 100% accurate digitized map of the entire world, call that BorGIS

"while sexy christmas outfits are often characterized by exposure of skin, similarly structured clothing is not well adapted channukah due to the amount of frying involved. high-coverage clothing, such as latex, presents a better opportunity. in this paper i will...""

lol I love "we have a time limit because our students are self-detrimentally too tryhard"

At my weirdo tiny "SLAC but every major is STEM" undergrad it was pretty common for exams to be "you have 24h from whenever you open it to finish it" or similar, and I realize that's a lot easier at a tiny school but imo fundamentally it's the right model for most things

it's hard but I also feel that in many cases the solution lies in making the "accomodation" no longer an "accomodation" and just something available to everyone, or entirely obviated by the system *especially* in education where most of these things are about bad proxies anyway

if you do not think that your multiple ton hunk of metal which you are flinging down the highway at sixty miles per hour will eventually kill someone you are not qualified to work on any such thing

if you want your religious gear to be tactical you should just convert to sikhism instead of doing whatever this is

Take Trevor Moore's advice youtu.be/KivCRqfFcqY?...

i do want to point out that this does challenge the ironclad conventional wisdom that no one gives a shit about democracy

lol @hikikomorphism.bsky.social just described Ea-Nāṡir as "CMOT Dibbler (Assyrian Edition)"

was helping these older Marathi folks figure out how to BART at one point the machine gave them a pile of quarters and they asked me what the coin was. I unthinkingly responded "४ आणे" (4 annas) which is both a very culturally accurate translation but also makes no sense

ECMAScript excitement 😉 Congrats to @manishearth.bsky.social on unflagging TC39 Stage 3 Temporal in V8 today. Heading for Chrome 144 🎉 By many metrics this new date-time API is the single biggest change to JS ever 🔥 V8 uses Boa's temporal_rs by @jason-williams.co.uk Kevin Ness & Manish 👍

declaring that the singular of pierogi in american english is not pierog as everyone seems to be claiming it is "pierogus" for the same reason as the one that makes "octopi" valid english (love to apply descriptive morphology prescriptively)

me after years of working with french: double negatives are the stupidest thing, thank god the kids these days don't do it anymore me after a month or so of learning ASL: double negatives are the most natural thing why don't we have more of that

#rustlang PSA: you probably don't want #[allow(dead_code)], you probably want #[expect(unused)]

In an old ad for board game Scattergories in Spain a player was shown flouncing out while anothet said “OK, we’ll accept ‘octopus’ as a pet”. “Aceptamos pulpo” has now entered the language in the meaning of “that’s a bit of a stretch but let’s go with it just for the sake of argument”.

This is jawdropping. The idea that a state about to be invaded by out-of-state soldiers that Trump is moving around the nation like chess pieces has no standing to object to the invasion!

man, telling me that Open Source Man Known For Throwing Tantrums threw a tantrum about something makes me *less* inclined to fix it i have so little patience for this crap github.com/rust-lang/ru...

i do not think that destroying an object is wrong. i think that treating a thing like a person exclusively for the purpose of dehumanizing it is insane behavior.

i do not think that nonhuman things have feelings to be hurt but i do think the intent to hurt feelings is bad for a person notwithstanding whether the object of their sadism is real