Timothy Malstead

Dev, artist, sometimes wordsmith and asker of obvious questions. I like the web, I like making things and I like you. Not a prolific poster or creator and no plans to become one. Trying Bluesky, liking it so far. Very purposefully taking it slow. #intro

It’s not that complicated. The desire for change is eclipsing the fear of criticism of the party.

i will say lindsey graham being asked by a reporter how mitch mcconnell is doing, answering “i don’t know, i’m going to check right now” and then dying is hilarious

I miss Satoshi Kon

It’s truly a cursed year to be a person who knows how things work and pays attention to the world.

i'm warning you all now that when the Second Reconstruction comes (inshallah) and politics seems slightly less existential i am going to become an incredibly annoying econ guy who complains about corporate taxes

A smart person knows there are better patterns than a for loop. A wise person knows to just use the damned for loop.

Creating with constraints exposes craftsmanship.

`path-exists`, a package that runs the built-in `fs.access` in a try catch 130M/week.

And some people are made to read, not sit there while a video host makes self-referential small talk and doles out the main point(s) in dribs. I want news, not a RELATIONSHIP.

WHAT'S up me hearties it be thy boy Ahab, with the biggest ounce of gold giveaway ever hath ye seen on the channel. Swerve not thy fixed purpose to attend this one, guys! But first I must tell ye the tale of SQUARESPACE, who be thy sponsor today

Accuse Noam Chomsky all you want, but nothing will ever diminish his enduring legacy as a trusted advisor to a child rapist and valued consigliere to a sex trafficking ring.

you're a senior engineer when this makes you happy

This is Jerry Lawson. He invented the video game cartridge for the Fairchild Channel F system. Because of his invention, many consoles had cartridges and CD formats and would become the norm. The Atari 2600, NES, Genesis, and many consoles wouldn't exist without him. Happy Black History Month.

If I was a billionaire I would give people $1,000 if they could tell me why they deserved it without using the letter 'e'.

I would go so far as to say that STEM education which becomes unmoored from any connection to the humanities loses its own way and starts becoming a cult that is disconnected from the idea of truth.

Louder for the anti-humanities crowd in the back: MATHEMATICS IS ONE OF THE HUMANITIES. It's an esoteric fine art dedicated to the pursuit of the aesthetic principle of "elegance." It's only useful by accident.

Scott Adams dying at 68 rather than 69 is the perfect capstone to a life of being almost — but not quite — funny

many rich people lost their minds because social media let proles tell them they sucked

it clearly needs to be repeated that layoffs are a leadership failure, full stop.

Excited to announce that our new app Hey dol! merry dol! ring a dong dillo! Ring a dong! hop along! fal lal the willow! Tom Bom, jolly Tom, Tom Bombadillo! has exited stealth.

the problem with dedicating campaign funds toward charitable endeavors is what if you lose and then all you’ve done is helped people in need in your community?

did you know you can make your own website. yes, even you, person who thinks it requires super coding skills you think you'll never have. it doesn't, you can do it too. yes even if you've never written a line of code before. no, not using one of those site building services you keep getting ads for

I need to share this with someone

Merchant Ivory style comedy-of-errors Star Trek

“Strong floor, no ceiling” is absolutely the type of slogan that a focus group of swing voters will tell you they find appealing after it has been a whole hour and they just want to go home. It’s a slogan for people convinced this country *really* wants a Mike Bloomberg presidential campaign.

Guillermo Del Toro's Duck Soup

“THE NON-ARTIST FIXATION ON HYPERREALISM AS THE PINNACLE OF ART IS CLEARLY PART OF THE REASON SO MANY ADULTS THINK THEY CANNOT DRAW OR CONSIDER THEMSELVES TO BE FAILURES, KAWAII, FOLK ART, DOODLES, OR OTHER EASIER ENTRY POINTS ARE CONSIDERED CHILDISH, WHICH IS WHY JAPANESE DRAWING BOOKS ARE BETTER…”

This photo of Stan Sakai at TOEI Studios just warms my heart. #comics

i haven't noticed the cloudflare outage because i've only been visiting morally pure websites today

Not to brag or anything, but my posts are enjoyed by approximately 5 people 😕

that the ruling class are a bunch of pederasts and decadent sex fiends trafficking in catamites and jailbait concubines is, like much else, a return to the historical mean rather than an unprecedented depravity

Time to start a conspiracy theory that their hideous punctuation and grammar is actually a form of code which can be deciphered to reveal the location of their adrenochrome storage tanks.

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