i don’t want my appliances to be smart or connect to the internet. i want them to do one mechanical task for 100 years

A WHOLE CIVILIZATION WILL DIE TONIGHT My son needs lunch, and I have to put his backpack together, but a whole civilization will die tonight, so I'm wondering if they've closed their schools. Like, a snow day, maybe, except instead of snow it's "keep your children home so if you die, you die together" — instead of "well open back up once the plows have cleared" it's "we don't know if we'll be here tomorrow, hold your babies tight." It's just "talk" I'm told, which I've been told before. "It's how the president makes his deals." But I've never heard anyone talk about other human beings this way, and I'm not certain I can look my son in the eyes if we all agree to stomach it one more time. A civilization will die tonight, but as I zip up his backpack and kiss him off to school I think: if this is what we call leadership then I'm not entirely sure ours isn't already dead. @michaelfdubois Mukad A QuBoy @michacifdubois

Brutal.

a cool thing about "cd's" is you push one button and it plays an entire album of music ad free and then (unless you request otherwise) it just stops and awaits further instruction. a very elegant system.

The primitive tortureboard Untangling the myths and mysteries of Dvorak and QWERTY

I just put online the chapter from my book that talks about all the myths and mysteries about QWERTY and Dvorak.

You can read it here: aresluna.org/the-primitiv...

Joke - Wikipedia

I recommend some further reading on the matter: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joke

signal group chat reads: according to discord archives, it was September 9th (2025) that I decided gender was not for me, and a deal was struck with the entity know as [name is redacted with a static overlay] that it would obtain my gender for $2. In 2 days, on March 21st (2026), I shall recive my $2.

blatantly cropped for privacy pic of dramatic a handshake with a forest background. the hand from the left wears a dramatic black sleeve and has a purple drape of skulls as well. the hand on the right is wearing a stupid grey hoodie and has the other hand popping up from behind holding 2 dollars. the posing is, dare I say, comedic.

oh shit. I guess I'm part of trans day of visiblity now. hap gender (or lack thereof)

Did people jump on that guy too fast and too hard? Maybe. I also noticed he immediately deflected his own responsibility and very proudly Took His Ball.

Two things can be true:
-a marginalized group that was hurt and reeling after its millionth body blow was not charitable
-you fucked up dude

At a certain point it became
Unfashionable for poets to care about
Meter. they just started writing
Whatever they wanted
Into a vaguely poem-like shape.

Whatever happened to sonnets?
Are rhyme-schemes trying too hard?
Or did we forget to teach people how
To read

gavin newsome: Under Trump, the cost of gaming is going up! He is NOT the gaming president.

ace watkins we need you now more than ever

I am what I like to call a positive nihilist, which is to say that there is no inherent meaning to existence except that which we create, and that this is not something to despair over but to rejoice upon, because it means we are free.

Narratively having Ever Given getting stuck in 2021 to set up Hormuz in 2026 is great foreshadowing. You want your audience to understand the basics of international shipping in a lower stakes context so you drop the real plot without a lot of saggy exposition about the minutiae of cargo logistics.

We're at a point where there are no cheap options to retreat to and no price points that guarantee quality. Every run-down studio is $1400, every fast food meal is $17, every luxury condo has peel-n-stick tiles, every $300 pair of boots falls apart. Endless expensive mediocrity.

a passage from an article by Hunter S. Thompson We are At War now, according to President Bush, and I take him at his word. He also says this War might last for "a very long time." Generals and military scholars will tell you that 8 or 10 years is actually not such a long time in the span of human history-which is no doubt true—but history also tells us that 10 years of martial law and a wartime economy are going to feel like a Lifetime to people who are in their twenties today. The poor bastards of what will forever be known as Generation Z are doomed to be the first generation of Americans who will grow up with a lower standard of living than their parents enjoyed. That is extremely heavy news, and it will take a while for it to sink in. The 22 babies born in New York City while the World Trade Center burned will never know what they missed. The last half of the 20th Century will seem like a wild party for rich kids, compared to what's coming now. The party's over, folks.

Hunter S. Thompson wrote this about a week after 9/11 and god he nailed it

A diagram showing how a 2 minute delay to an active travel trip reduces the accessible area from a 15-minute trip by 25%

As I was made to wait 2.5 minutes to cross a road this morning, let's again do the maths simple.ghost.io/lets-do-the-...

Oof. I just read your post in the most uncharitable, pedantic way possible, and I gotta tell ya: it's not looking good for you.

Gandalf really is heroic when you consider that there were originally five wizards and one of them turned evil, two of them fucked off and went out east to have orgies, and one is just super into talking to gophers. The one last hope of free peoples was the stoner and that crazy mfer did it.

After Careful Thought, I Have Decided That Our Ship Actually Is Being Attacked by the Kraken

For a long time I resisted the idea that the multiple tentacles tearing at the thin wooden planks of our vessel represented some kind of 'sea monster' threat. But when the facts change, I change my mind.

hey i skimmed your post and saw some words i recognize. anyway here's my opinion on what i imagine you said

Who could have *possibly* seen coming that besmirching 'purity tests' would result in the whole country getting dysentery??

Man Who Got Shit Together 5 Years Ago Still Viewed As Lovable Fuckup By Friends, Family

Man Who Got Shit Together 5 Years Ago Still Viewed As Lovable Fuckup By Friends, Family theonion.com/man-who-got-shit-togethe...

Burn results tree to go through how quickly it starts, what it smells like, how soon it goes out, and what residue it leaves. The real alchemy.

Just hanging out burning things, like one does.
www.tumblr.com/asexual-thot...

100% agree, and Ill take it further to say that good stories have a logic and rhythm to them... anticipating what comes next should be possible. If it isn't, the storytelling values surprise too highly and relies on random coincidence.

Bad stories spend their whole time trying to shock and surprise you.

Good stories build connections and anticipation, grounding you in moments and characters and building momentum for the huge scenes. That "predictability" is the sign that they are good.

big red dot labeled 'point' and a line labeled 'you' that curves away so as to miss it.

Yeah, that wasnt an option for me because tech's advanced and people want those of us who werent alive to skip straight to knowing all the modern stuff and telling you that you don't need to learn the foundation. that is my complaint here. Sorry you don't understand the passage of time works ig

straight up not true. windows is a system that people will have more often been shown in their life and *comes preinstalled* I had to smother windows in its sleep (and it fought me on that) so I could switch. Linux's whole point is you can make it exactly how you want. That is the opposite of newbie