happy birthday, gay people!!! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

[twirling my hair around my mechadendrite] so, uh… is there a Vivisectrix Martinax, or…?

the kestrel was back at the bird feeder again this morning, which I suppose indicates that the bird feeder is feeding it, too, after a fashion.

there was a literal kestrel at the bird feeder for a minute this morning??? like, it was on the railing by it, but then it hopped on to the feeder for second, as if to figure out what all the fuss was about. (all the fuss was, in fact, every other bird freaking out because *there was a kestrel*)

as someone Bad at Hard Games, and also someone with a human body, I found this very interesting and cool.

the chickadee who has started visiting the birdfeeder outside my window has no idea how much work it’s doing to support my perilously-teetering mental health.

The little cat meows at the wizard. He meows back. The little cat looks offended.

[airily, to the butler, martini in one hand] just save it to the desktop

They put one of yours in the hospital, you put out a statement about how disappointed you are. That’s the centrist way.

do you want to play a game with immaculate vibes? do you want to build a cool science-fantasy city atop of the ruins of a bygone world? if so, have I got a game for you!

despite my intellectual disbelief in any form for divination, in my heart I have accidentally reinvented augury from first principles. this morning I saw orioles & goldfinches *&* a spider (I also believe spiders are my friends, this is a bird+spider-based system of augury). the omens are good today

NEW from ME in the NATIONAL REVIEW: i was trying to impress olive oyl at the beach and hasan piker was there (shirtless) and he picked me up in one hand and spun me around over his head and then planted me in the ground like an umbrella before inviting her to drink a cold root beer in my shade 😕😕😕

there is no folly of the beasts of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men

it is in some small way a comfort to hear other people talk about how soul-crushing job hunting is, because under such circumstances my first assumption tends to be that I have a particularly weak and friable soul.

The wizard sleeps well. The little cat appears to be reading a grimoire in the library.

The wizard balances a book in one hand while petting the little cat with the other.

love when there's an article about how life is sustainable in the superheated waters surrounding a hydrothermal volcanic fissure on the ocean floor and then like six paragraphs in you find out the author's parents are chemosynthetic bacteria 🙄

it’s a nice day out. one cat is asleep under a quilt, her usual morning nap shift, and the other is crouched in the open window, intent upon the birdsong and the smells of this as-yet-unverified spring. and me, I think I’m probably going to make it, too. how are you?

The thing about Casablanca being the greatest film of all time is people don't believe you and then they watch it

It was believed in medieval times that hedgehogs had spikes so they could roll over fruit to carry home to their children, which is not true but is a really cute idea

HER: you better not be slutty archer death when I get there ME:

perhaps you would like to see a picture of my cat? if so, here she is! if not, no worries.

It has a certain, as the french say, [Tim Allen grunt]

this is a thick bilbo household always has been always will be

as a s’more myself, I concur (that’s such a good cat name)

i think in the name of fairness the producers of the baldur's gate tv show should demand that tv writers do at least a year of running around in circles doing unpaid writing tests before they're allowed to write for the show

You want me to send an email? The thing Jeffrey Epstein loved doing??

FOUCAULT: I wrote "Panopticism" to show how people are enculturated to think of themselves as subjects and agents of surveillance CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY: at last we have invented the Panopticon from Foucault's famous essay "Panopticism"! FOUCAULT: Jeremy Bentham invented the panopticon in the 1790s

taking a stand against the short jokes. not much of one. but,

the livejournal feature where you could change your icon to indicate different tonalities in which to read your posts was too powerful. They had to kill it to bring on the Long Night

everyone who's ANYONE is playing Commonwealth. make an awful little social-climbing freak in a decadent far future! gamble! court lovers! challenge rivals to monomachy! throw fabulous fetes! march out to battle! and above all, praise the autarch, whose haters wait upon his table of success.

today is for the ladies to have fun. its new years eve not new year's steve

New Illustration: "We Beat 'Em Before..." Taken from a British WW2 poster, the original features a WW1 German soldier at the top. I just swapped it for the Nazi soldier it had at the bottom.

Game designer: After lots of hard work we’re proud to announce we’ve created the Wheel of Saṃsāra from the ancient Buddhist classic Don’t Get Trapped in the Wheel of Saṃsāra

insanely good thing to say when you enter a room

Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread

Penda’s Fen is good. this isn’t why it’s good specifically but it’s not NOT why it’s good, either

me after sleeping like absolute shit

I misread this image so badly that I can only really hope to illustrate what I saw. ( Also a good excuse for an #art study )

Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.

As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history. Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX

If you’re wondering what a “least weasel” is, they absolutely live up to the name. This is the least amount of animal you can have that can still meet the bar for “is weasel”

once again today I am contemplating the legacy of Jack Ketch, an actual human man who did his job so fucking bad his name became synonymous with death itself, and also Satan. really up there with Charles Boycott for “mortifying reasons to be remembered.”