kai!!! allegra ran a polar event and i went to say hey to her after and this tiny person in a very sick jean jacket pops up at her shoulder and goes “hey you might not remember this but museblog—“ it was so great

in retrospect it’s like. wow did the forum for a magazine about hollow earth theory and rube goldberg machines and bird intelligence studies and caesar ciphers and black hole spaghettification and napoleon’s poisonous wallpaper have a self-selecting population

i unexpectedly met someone from my old kids’ forum yesterday. every single time i meet one of them i have the same reaction which is “when i was 13 i thought you were so, so cool. now i still think you are so, so cool and also, i think autism is very underdiagnosed”

"STEM" is insufficient for a modern economy. We need to make it "STEAM" by adding Artifice, to ensure a supply of cunningly-wrought golden birds for the Emperor, that sing by an arrangement of valves.

it made me notice that the American left is so accustomed to police violence that it has given up on *succeeding to be safe* and has capitulated to violent/peaceful dichotomy in its own way --- if there is no violence, it's useless lib shit

“tasers might have done more harm than good,” tom copped

I haven't recovered since learning that "taser" is just an acronym for some guy [screenshot saying Thomas A. Swift’s Electric Rifle, named after the Tom Swift series]

“taser is an acronym” tom said, shockingly

that major league baseball isn't called "major league baseballs" is a perpetuation of the one-baseball myth, one easily dispelled in the age of streaming. one can now simultaneously watch two games, in different cities, played with different baseballs. mlb does not use one ball and hasn't since 1997

Me: is this a party? is this a disco?

David Byrne: *extremely deep inhale*