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Yeah start insinuating he has morning chai rather than coffee, say that he knocks things for 6 rather than hits a home run, allege that he is generally a clean living good boy who loves his mother and prays every Friday (pejorative).

The God of Bad Art gets offerings from all over the world, but in Their temple, They sometimes appear. "Why bad art?" I ask. "It is brave", the God replies. "To try and fail?" "No," the God chuckles. "Any creative work is a defiance of entropy, of Death itself. If you create, you do not fail."

This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

at some point i started feeling like i was stupid for entertaining the ideas in the space instead of examining the specific social forces involved. the ideas are clearly not actually driving.

Me, age 17, got a job at the local movie theater, I think "Hooray, free movies and maybe popcorn." My first shift was all day, 13 hours. When the manager told me the next day would be the same, I handed him my apron and said I'd rather quit.

Okay, if you, a middle aged white man, are going to get on a flight wearing a cropped T-shirt that says "I ♥️ hot dads", at least have the courage of your convictions and don't wear a contrasting blue shirt under it.

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford For Tax Purposes.

"We are all soon be dead so be as chill as possible." This guy would go places, but he may feel that is too much effort.

this is not my first day on the internet and i was forged in the fires of usenet

Every four years it's "oh, no, the Olympics are boring, no one cares", but then you try a little change to spice things up and they go crazy.

It's so me

Remember The Dark Is Rising? It's back, in TTRPG form.

Remakes of Cats are just getting weirder and weirder.

God, yes, every day.

My absolute favorite(*) driving story was when I lived in Houston, 27 years ago, I saw a TV news report about bad drivers. They interviewed a little old lady who said she never used her turn signals "because ain't nobody got no right to know where I'm goin'!" (*) Least favorite.

This morning I decided to go to the second-best bagel shop for breakfast, and as I wait here for over 15 minutes without a bagel in my hand I am remembering one reason why they are the second best.

"A boycott makes demands. This made none, set no conditions, named no grievance, and offered the Recording Academy no way to win them back. You negotiate with an institution whose judgment you still need. The one whose judgment you have outgrown, you simply inform." Damn. 🫳 | | 🎤

Of course you don't need to say it, it's obvious that every recipe starts this way.

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Trump: It's not working! Why don't they love the fair? How do I make the crowds cheer? Oracle of DC: If you test your strength against the heat with a very long speech, the nation will celebrate harder than they ever have. They will party in the streets. No one will ever forget the night.

"It is, of course, an extraordinarily effective estrogenic agent, but that is the least of the problem. It is hypergolic with every known patient*, and so rapidly hypergolic that no induction period has ever been measured..."

Isaac Chotiner: can you list some examples of systemic oppression green creatures face? Kermit the Frog: I’m sorry? Isaac Chotiner: well you do mention the difficulty quite a lot

He doesn't even spring traps really. He asks questions and asks follow-up questions and says "What do you mean?" and then the interviewee drops the rake they are holding, walks onto it, and starts hitting their own testicles with a hammer.

My country is not for cowards who fear difference, for lily-livered people who cannot bear the sound of a foreign tongue, the taste of a new food, the tempo of an unfamiliar kind of music. It is for the strong worker who welcomes new immigrants, not the slacker who fears the diligence of others.

The first warning arrived on a Tuesday morning, six weeks after consultants advised moving from dependency on six hundred small excel scripts - and nobody at Zenith Ledger Advisory paid much attention. It appeared in the system dashboard between routine audit notifications and a maintenance reminder

Premee Mohamed wins a 2026 Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire! The French edition of The Annual Migration of Clouds and We Speak Through the Mountain by Premee Mohamed has won the 2026 Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire in the Nouvelle/Novella étrangère category!

New IFTF Blog Post! IFTF Seeking New Board Members The Interactive Fiction Technology Foundation is currently seeking applicants for its board of directors. If you are interested, please see the full details below: blog.iftechfoundation.org/2026-05-21-i...

I can only aspire to be that dapper.

Suddenly: bear attack!

Yet another banger where I start laughing too hard to talk and then have to tell my family, "If I explained why it's funny it wouldn't be funny anymore."

“average guitarist knows three chords” factoid actualy just statistical error. Guitar Georg, who lives in London & knows all the chords, is an outlier and should not have been counted

I don't know which is more quintessentially Bavarian: the guy in lederhosen walking through the park with a girl in a dirndl, or the other guy riding his bicycle with a pretzel hanging off of each handlebar. (Hi from Munich!)

New for your May Day: I wrote a song about when IT happens. frontalot.bandcamp.com/track/common... And there's a playable RPG music video for it. frontalot.com/loot

Banana Aikido

Me, on reading almost any post by a millennial or younger.

New Year's Eve, 2000. All my friends are out of town, I'm sitting by myself in the House of Pies drinking coffee and eating pecan pie. At 10 they closed and kicked me out, so I walked around the streets of Houston until 1am and then went home.

As a NY resident, I really need this headline to clarify *which* NY cemetery is full of bees. It's okay, it's East Lawn Cemetery in Ithaca, those of us not in Ithaca are safe.

I had better see a record number of reposts on this.

The first time a therapist explained this to me I got so mad because.... It's 100 percent true.

In a just world, Afroman would get a Grammy and a Pulitzer for this song.

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.