Graphei

Seen. And. Heard.

Glad to know I'm not alone in my hatred of Edith Hamilton.

keep absolutely still. their vision is based on movement

i've been informed that xkcd has already made this exact same joke back in 2024 krilling myself

the story goes like this

I’m regularly flummoxed by people assuming I will be interested in or appreciative of their copy–pasting LLM output prompted with the topic in reply to me. If I was interested in that, I would just do it myself. What value could you possibly imagine you are contributing

To be a writer is to burn with the need to put words to page. To not just want to write but to **need** to write. After particularly satisfying bursts of writing you think you'll be sated for a while; but you're not. It will build up after 3 or 4 days. Go two weeks and you feel like a failure.

The EA movement *thinks* it's being rational about charitable funds, but what's really happening is that it's paring down charity to the simplest and most legible metrics in very poorly controlled ways, resulting in inefficient allocation, because they aren't charity professionals.

The horse carriage industry is coming to an end in New York City. Our administration will make sure workers and owners are protected and the horses are safe.

Checking my 'sent' folder to see who exactly I emailed at 10:30 last night. Weeeeee

Ever wonder why an Italian had to go begging the Spanish crown for money to fund his voyages? Yeah, turns out lots of bankers and nobles in Italy knew Columbus was: 1. a loose cannon 2. not great a math, which made his nav skills suspect so they sent him packing.

So, happy 89th anniversary of the day Oswald Mosley tried to sell fascism to Liverpudlians—and someone concussed him with a brick

Too good not to share:

By the end of Book 24, the “menin” is over. He stays because thats where he’ll achieve “athanatos kleos”. Patroclus dying is WHY he went back on the battlefield but not why he stays. The whole damn poem revolves around Achilles being salty about being dishonored near the end of his life.

After experiencing Boston Back Bay Station, I will never complain about Penn again.

instead of having one quiet train car, they should have two “loud” cars and that way people who have loud phone conversations or are juggling kids who want to sing songs, can do so and the rest of us can be in peace.

Again?!

Anne Carson!!

I'm at the point where I'm ignoring tech guides written in the past year. They're uniformly slop. I'd rather read something slightly out of date than another "Here's the thing..."

76 years ago today, Snoopy made his first appearance in ‘Peanuts.’

Churros: life's answer to its many little indignities.

Classics & Religious Studies degree here. I partnered with an early OCR effort because the programmers couldn't tell if things had scanned correctly. In the end, it was a lot faster to teach me some Python than to try and teach them some Attic Greek.

Jesus Christ dude

I have a type. That's for sure.

P(doom) - Nightcore Remix

Does this mean they finally fixed that display case bug? youtu.be/iZODN0QUgjI?...

So they invented 90s Yahoo?

I'm sitting in one of my favorite haunts writing. Me: Ugh. Why is dialogue so hard? Barista: Why do you think I went to school for poetry?

oh god it me.

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GERALT: Hhh. Seven Monster cans. Empty. And a diet Dr Pepper. If you're lucky, you've got a pack of small gamers. VILLAGE HEADSMAN: And...and if we're not lucky? GERALT: One really big one.

RIP DOLLEY - dashare.zone ADMIN

obligatory we got GTA VI before TES VI.

The Witcher 4 is accidentally the funniest game of all time despite not being out yet because it means three Poles with a potato and a dream were able to make not one but two AAA fantasy RPGs before Todd made TES VI.

Christlike Alf can still happen if people want it bad enough

Musk should be forced to use his personal wealth to clean it up. Clean the moon, you dead eyed haddock-faced bitch. What do you mean it's too hard? you were going to have a city living on Mars as soon as 8 years ago. Do it by Tuesday.

inshallah and that wadi don’t run high

I got a tan in England. No, that's not a euphemism for anything.

Now taking recommendations for noise cancelling headphones that work exceptionally well on airplanes. A bit of engine noise is good, but I need something capable of drowning out a herd of screaming 3 year olds.

witnessing the birth of a new all timer post is such a beautiful thing

There is a lot to say about the Nolan Odyssey movie. But one point that I think has not been emphasized enough is: this is a film about living in LA, as Nolan, my erstwhile British compatriot and age mate, has done for years. I gather it’s a strange place.

Waiting for people to find out that the funeral at the end of the Iliad isn't for Achilles.