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this is the funniest thing i've ever seen in my life

Menswear Menagerie: That Fall feeling.

Woodworking has been a great way to get some quiet (well, “quiet”) time to myself My dovetails are terrible, but getting a little better each time

wrote about "Black October," the PHP vulnerability, and the AI-fueled dread and panic I'm seeing among almost all of the cybersecurity experts I've ever known. I think people w/ LLMs are brute forcing software the same way they brute forced social media w/ slop www.404media.co/php2shell-bl...

Not the top Steam review of Dressmaker making me cry this morning!

I’m pleased to announce the new executive order replacing every proper noun on earth with the word ‘America’

Wrote up a short piece about the ways in which NAUSICAÄ OF THE VALLEY OF THE WIND flips the script on portrayals of rationality and logic are often gendered, and why that seems so relevant right now.

My sysadmin friend is having a very bad day today

lock in, gamers do you struggle with taking your daily meds? GOOD NEWS taking your meds will now be referred to as "doing your dailies," so let's get that streak going! 🎉

In Penguin Colony, Lovecraft's imaginary horrors are very real aftermath.site/penguin-colony...

as a person who actually enjoys the process of learning and getting good at something, this is so bleak to me

DOON (2026)

Me every morning when i wake up

When Grammy-winning musician Rhiannon Giddens begins playing “Old Corn Liquor,” a traditional Black American folk tune, acclaimed Chinese pipa virtuoso Wu Man recognizes similarities to Chinese pentatonic music and spontaneously joins in. The joy on their faces says it all.

I know I'm a broken record on this, but one part of what is going on is that people have literally no idea what the US immigration system actually is; effectively, that there are no pathways into the country legally for someone who wants to wait in line.

will try to answer these in a piece next week but for now i will say that part of the *point* of court expansion, in my mind, is to create a disequilibrium — a potential race to the bottom — that will force a truce.

I think I cracked the home oven pizza code! …the answer was “cook at 500 degrees and use the pizza stone correctly”

that’s right

re-uploading because I misspelled their name. I'm sorry Biddy Blas, you deserve so much better.

The Making of the Perfect Martini, Guy Buffet, Lithography, 2000.

Gonna try to do some actual joinery for my woodworking project this weekend. Looking forward to/a bit anxious about how it goes.

Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon

It's that day again, but we must (and WILL) perversely persevere 🤘😈

one thing you learn from making a lot of things is that the nitty gritty details, the millions of tiny invisible decisions, ARE the art. The "higher level ideas" are not nearly as important or interesting

i like the idea of will smith being an apex predator for chris rock and only chris rock, like he is the metroid to an x parasite

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Yeah. Issues are often complicated, but in ways that have nothing to do with the actual political arguments

Recent Events have me once again considering: the cube

So apropos of nothing in particular, let’s talk about media tie-in novel pay vs. original work pay, shall we? Let’s say you write a novel. It’s set in your own world, your own characters, and titled The Original. You get a book deal! Look at you go!

Planing pallet wood on my extremely jury-rigged workbench setup

Decades and decades of a national policy and zeitgeist that amounts to 'nobody needs to care about social studies' and we're now in an unwinnable war with a foreign country whose culture and leadership we did not understand based around geography we ignored. 🤷‍♂️