I saw Bloodywood tonight. Two points on that:
1. They are on the extremely short and blessed list of acts I have seen shout out their LD from stage
2. They definitely do the best metal song about dal tadka I’ve ever heard.
“At some point, our Silicon Valley overlords forgot that in order for their vision of the future to be adopted, people had to want it.”
Comic of the beetle from the cover of Massive Attack's "Mezzanine" meeting the crab from the cover of The Prodigy's "Fat of the Land".
Hi this joke is for me
“Inside one of the mummies, the team discovered a rare papyrus containing a passage from Book II of the Iliad by Homer. The text includes part of the “Catalogue of Ships,” which lists Greek forces involved in the campaign against Troy.”
greekreporter.com/2026/04/19/h...
Chlorine Triflourode is a “molecule” in the same way a guy, his wife who he cheated on, his mistress who just dumped him, and the raccoon in his back yard are a “family.”
So what do we think, how long till the next big tech grift, 3 months? I expect it’ll be “post-quantum” (which to be clear is a real thing, I’m just talking about the grift on top of the reality). What’s your call?
Yeah, same. I have an advantage in that I’m usually up against someone with an extra 30 inches on their arm so “inside of range” is a bit easier
On this date, 112 years ago, members of the Colorado National Guard and private security opened fire on striking miners and their families at Ludlow, Colorado, in the southeast of the state. 21 people were killed, mostly women and children.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludlow_...
Feels like green is trying a psychological approach of rapid useless threats and red is just having none of it.
One of my fencing instructors used to regularly win moving almost nothing but his wrist. I have always used that as an inspiration. Especially as my strengths are about getting inside of range quickly, it’s a very good guideline.
I was, of course, referring to this: bsky.app/profile/bryc...
It occurs to me belatedly that texting a friend “the crazy sonofabitch did it” in the current climate rather immediately calls for clarification
This makes me wonder if the available corpus for perl is larger just because of former ubiquity
Oh hey, this year's JordanCon just ended, which means they've announced I'll be joining them as literary GOH for 2027!
I've been referencing this essay by @mollytempleton.com a lot lately in conversations about reading fantasy and other literature. Templeton's piece includes a discussion of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's useful ideas about 'paranoid' and 'reparative' approaches to reading. reactormag.com/on-learning-...
Orion of the New Gods in close-up saying "Fool! Tigers merely know their work!"
*people describing what to them is a perfectly normal and reasonable writing process*
Me:
I got four in my wallet right now. One is for DC and I’ve only been in DC for 48 hours ever. I pull out my Library of Congress card to impress girls (those girls are mostly librarians but still).
#Librarymaxxing: signing up for a library card at every library that you can get to make sure you have access to every physical and digital service they offer
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I got four in my wallet right now. One is for DC and I’ve only been in DC for 48 hours ever. I pull out my Library of Congress card to impress girls (those girls are mostly librarians but still).
Endless Blue - Beautiful Season
@endlessblue.com
"Melancholy trip hop to play as your love walks away"
#downtempo #triphop #triphop #melancholy #triphop #femalevocalist #goodbye #lovelost #music
getmusic.fm/l/cilppe
A flatscreen display on a "smart" water fountain, demanding to be reconnected to the internet.
In 1999, I was playing a decker in Shadowrun, and tried to distract a guard by hacking a water fountain to overflow, and my GM said "why would a water fountain be on the network? That's fucking stupid. No you can't try."
Well it's 2026 and I just want you to know, Phil, that I FUCKING CALLED IT!
An AI slop image showing the '12 steps to masterful game directing", including 'Connectiarg' and 'Porkon Cows'
People over on Facebook/YouTube/elsewhere on bluesky/reality have been mocking this, but these are all totally genuine and highly advanced GMing techniques pioneered in obscure corners of indie rpg design in the early 2000s.
Let's go through them one by one and learn together.
This man is my spiritual cousin-in-law
Lovely, thanks so much!
Yes please! I am particularly interested in the current where they are embracing drone and modern mixing, but I will take any and all
Awesome, thanks so much!
So I have OXN and One Leg One Eye, who am I missing?
A bathroom door on which is text describing waiting for the bathroom in narrative form
When you’re waiting for the bathroom and the Key 23 starts to hit
Very nice, yeah I thought I’d seen you post a picture of the OXN at some point maybe, I figured it was important enough to make sure
@nexusrasp.bsky.social making sure you see this, as a Scott Walker enjoyer