Freek Van Ostrand

I once had enough social media influence to get free tickets to Gravity starring Sandra Bullock and directed by Alfonso Cuarón I am much happier now

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve seen xkcd’s Dependency (aka “All Modern Digital Infrastructure”) cartoon posted without attribution. xkcd.com/2347/

My table in a cafe was missing tableware. Tom Skerritt, seated at the table diagonal from mine, began to offer me the extra tableware from his. Waitstaff interceded and handed me a fresh set before he could complete the exchange. We nodded at one another and returned to our respective meals.

Stop listening to these people at all costs

No joke. I think this is the most important video I have ever seen about mobile games. This guy breaks down how this game psychologically profiles you, and makes the game harder or easier in order to show you ads

I got to see David Rees talk about Get Your War On tonight. It was pretty cool. Especially if you’re a lexical nerd with a love of words like apotheosis.

Scrib doon is doing numbers across social media like it's from a bygone era

my ai agent WENT ROGUE everybody please don’t invest your dollars in my SCARY SEXY TECHNOLOGY that even i cannot contain

Blissful silence. We're all yearning for this.

Kash just watched the first episode of Black Mirror, didn’t he? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Finally watching 2000s Battlestar Galactica Somehow, season 3 Colonel Tigh is the lighthouse from Robert Eggers’ The Lighthouse

Look, I am very much an Andor Guy’s Andor Guy, but I found The Mandalorian and Grogu delightful

The promise of Gibsonian Cyberspace fulfilled

every billionaire & tech mogul, they all want to be adored & celebrated without doing the things Dolly did with a fraction of the power & money. What she had, she gave away. I'm sure she was comfortable (& that's good!). But she just relentlessly helped. It's not that difficult. Love. Care. Help. 💚🌸

I see a lot of "we lost one of the best humans," and I will not dispute that. I challenge us all to make it less exclusive.

Oof. Jungle Theatre Liquidation auction. www.grafeauction.com/event/jungle...

Wondering now if Mitch McConnell got The Substance

20 years ago we had steve lettuce, johnny eggs, and bob blueberries wait am i doing this right

Is he getting a kickback from Big Steam Catapult www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

He’s become Tony Stark, now

obsessed with the font on IKEA's clam chowder packaging. this is what's in the freezer on the Nostromo

Isn’t this what @doctorow.pluralistic.net has been saying for as long as anyone’s been saying anything about it?

If I won the lottery I would hire an interior designer and just say “Columbo murderer” while waving my hand around my home office.

Someone just insulted me by calling me “brain trust” Brain trust Brain trust

Getting hyped for Diving into the Wreck and the Adrienne Richiverse

Perfect evening at home with my wife, my dog, a poke bowl, and international treasure Karl Urban as Johnny Cage in Mortal Kombat II… TEST YOUR MIGHT!

I started writing a joke about Tantalus, and, gosh, I got so close

Have they tried injecting testosterone into the Air Quality Index

The most anti-legal immigrant administration ever just made it illegal for international students to transfer schools or change majors or shift any "educational objective" in their 1st year and for graduate students **at any point** ever, at all. There is no legal basis for this

They want to meet at the marketplace of ideas carrying bayonets

Trump just shrunk Bears Ears by 91% and Grand Staircase-Escalante by 90%. Bears Ears was the first national monument co-managed by tribes. Five tribes spent years building that partnership. It's been walked back. 100,000+ archeological sites now exposed to mining and drilling.

Well, quick question? How many children did my colleague kill.

Just want to state for the record, if I’ve lived a life in service of grievous, malicious deeds worthy of excoriation, when I expire, pillory away.

step one the first hand distracts the audience all week with mitch mcconnell. step two the second hand sets up the trick with lindsey graham while everyone's focus is elsewhere. step three that's the majestic baby, christopher nolan's the odyssey now playing in IMAX next friday

This is just how my grandfather was with dementia

I've spent the last week testing out Kagi.com thanks to @doctorow.pluralistic.net's recommendation, and it's honestly wild to use a search engine that works again. I'd forgotten.

So as long as we’re doing all the dystopian futures, might as well throw Gattaca on the heap

if you see somebody using "cancel" unironically to talk about people facing consequences in 2026... you CLOSE THAT TAB! You don't pause, you don't start to typity-type. You CLOSE THAT TAB!

hearing that mr nazi tattoo may also be mr sexcrimes am i getting that right

I think the funniest thing about encountering the question, "Will it scale up?" professionally is living in a massive metropolitan area where the answer is clearly, categorically, "No."

Celebrating the 4th with the only patriotic movie that matters: 🇺🇸 Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter 🇺🇸

When you die, they tell you how much hair you ate