"typo correction nuked the thread" writing that down in my little phrase-book

Crop of the quoted post that appears to read "Oprah Dickolas [handshake] Bigolas"

this bluesky line break is so powerful

shouting "I am not political" as all my physical assets burn and/or sink

oh heck yeah

I'm out over my skis. I'm getting my arms around it. I'm seeing daylight.

oh he means, inauthentically, "emotionally tormented". i got excited for a sec that he was being locked in The Device

These books are very good & very fun in an extremely "core genre" way and it's bizarre to me that I don't see them being talked about more

100%

I occasionally daydream about a very niche alt-history where Smith & Roosevelt don't fall out, Smith beats Hoover and injects a very different sensibility into US politics

announcing ILÚVATAR, my multi-billion dollar company which will specialize in the dismantling of all other idiotically tolkien-named entities, that they shalt see that no theme may be played that hath not its uttermost source in me, nor can any alter the music in my despite

tork paper towel dispenser

get that cintas out of here. brother; i’m a tork man

Coachella is trying to wipe all of the footage of The Strokes protest set so I’m gonna post it here. The last images on the screen made me cry.

they did it, they finally made me read it

the penne opticon

I don't know why but it's extremely funny to me that this is from a phone manufacturer; I'm visualizing a comedic set of ads about trying to get away from your phone but IT'S A DISTANCE RUNNER. "IT'S YOUR MOM AGAIN BEEP BOOP"

the success of Lethem/Chabon/Whitehead undermines that border so spectacularly, just off the top of my head

they did it, they finally made me read it

sometimes I will literally write "this is the awful dumb BLECH everyone-mock-me version of what I'm trying to say:" at the top of the doc and go from there

if ARB ever gets an office I want to get a plaque or a cross-stitch of this

different vibes but FIRST COW a weirdly good companion

awesome, glad you enjoyed! Tough to even scratch the surface in an hour, but it was nice to focus on some of the personal/philosophical takeaways with @tallesteden.bsky.social

Look, for my money the absolute game changer technologies right now are batteries and biosciences, not statistically modeling a mid conversation, but you do you.

"We could all stand to be weirder and to know less about each other"

Matches_12_立方体グリッド YouTube video by SWIMMING

This YT stop motion channel that I love just dropped a ton of mesmerizing new stuff

oh man I love those

At a guess no on some of the more extreme aspects of avian vision (b/c they're flight adaptations); but wouldn't surprise me if dino vision still wicked cool (since they presumably didn't go through the mammalian nocturnal bottleneck)

it is 100% a "so good I'm mad for some reason" collection

Fuming it took me this long to read You Glow in the Dark.

The Cave is one of the most temporally brain cell-rearranging stories I’ve read in a long time, and I didn’t realise cyberpunk could be so ethereal until I read Atomito.

Liliana Colanzi is a phenomenal writer.

in addition to other recs here (Asimov & van Vogt especially)
Sturgeon's MORE THAN HUMAN
Bester's DEMOLISHED MAN
Clarke's CHILDHOOD'S END
Harness's THE ROSE

not a *good* book but, thematically, distressingly prescient