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Two panel comic. Panel 1: a digital kiosk at the entrance of a parking garage with a dispensed ticket. The screen display reads: PLEASE TAKE TICKET BELOW. Panel 2: a T-Rex is sticking its little arm out the window of its partially opened car door, trying to reach the ticket.

for the ten thousandth time, it's been proven the the best way to deal with this guy is look him in the eye and go "oh yeah make me buddy boy" and the lesson they take away in the USA will of course be that they continue to give him everything he demands in case he gets upset with them

Slow Puncture   I’d use every one of them – each tiny symbol / sign – to ‘light up’ my words … and write eye-catching lines: the comma; the colon; the ellipsis; the slash; the question mark; the hyphen; the en and em dash.   In stanzas 1-2, it was all there on show (Was there nothing not used? The short answer: No!) But then I came to an unfortunate juncture: my punctuation, you see, got a slow puncture   and those small, helpful marks which let my words breathe and made me understood, all started to leave. Hyphens unhappened semi colons got missed apostrophes went awol in commaless lists.   “And what of the question marks Oh yes even those (while my brackets and speech marks forgot how to close When the last comma left there was nowhere to pause my words floated by in one endless clause   and no one could tell once the full stops departed where one sentence ended and another one started capitals absconded and meaning left too as the breaks between stanzas bowed then withdrew just like the line breaks then all sense gotblurred thelastthingtogowasthegapsbetweenwordsbrianbilston

Today’s poem is called ‘Slow Puncture’.

You rotter

I'm reading R Scott Bakker at the moment. Soooo bleak. Rather good too. Like Silmarillion crossed with Cormac McCarthy.
Books I really like? Malazan and Culture.

Work buddy

Cover of illustrated children’s book titled “Brenda’s Beaver Needs a Barber.”

You see her and your heart
Fills up with lust and ardor
You take her to your bed
But that’s where things get harder
You find that there’s a wall
A dense and wild arbor
You need sonar and a map
To bring your ship to harbor
Things have gotten out of hand

Me too. I wasn't big on the old site, but I interacted with a variety of interesting people. Here I post.... wind noises, crickets.

Abstract mathematical code-generated art: Colorful meandering blurry lines on black background. Created with C code using only default operating system tools, by elkement 2026.

I was asking myself: Could I create mathematical art using just the bare minimum of tools that usually come with an operating system? (No python, no JS, no frameworks.)

Sorry to hear that. Good fuel for cthulu?

Stop that

Tax dodging immigrant worries about immigration.
They really are the worst of us.

Graphic showing changes in CO₂, global temperatures and global sea levels over the last 2025 years. Steep increases are visible after the industrial revolution.

Updated climate indicators graphics, now including 2025

ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...

Something compelled me to make this

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DOCTOR: I told him he needed to get out to a show, that was how he would cure his depression.

CHOTINER: So you learned this technique in school?

DR: No, not— listen it was good advice. Pagliacci was in town.

C: Right. Is it standard to give advice before learning a patient’s name?

DR: Now look

So the singularity has started

My wife actually had a dentist appointment at 230 and was delighted.

They are truly excellent. My kids love them and I love reading them to them.

Tell me we should trust AI to give us the facts. Tell me it's a future we can put our faith in. Come at me. I'm right here, waiting.

Days are getting longer

My Favourite Words    Pipette and plectrum, obumbrate and flimsy,  balderdash, spatchcock, flapdoodle and whimsy,  obnubilation and nontrepreneur – these are a few of my favourite words.    Sachet, humdudgeon, haboob, hurly-burly,  scroddled and dottle, goluptious and surly,  mumpsimus, tawdry, decumbent and blurb – these are a few of my favourite words.    Susurrus, zephyr, rubescent, boondoggle,  reboant, gaggle, hubris and hornswoggle,  plethora, refulgent, plinth and perturb – these are a few of my favourite words.    When the rose droops  When the branch snags  When I’m lachrymose  I simply remember my favourite words  and then I don’t feel morose.  Brian Bilston

These are a few of my favourite words …

He wouldn't he would make him laugh, and in so doing, find his humanity.

Wuuuut

Have you considered sending Canada some pickle seeds?

Further evidence that widespread covid vaccination is better for everybody.

Kung Fu Hustle

From The Betrayal of Anne Frank, by Rosemary Sullivan. #booksky