Sam Falkner

Toys!

i'm an "all motivations at once" kinda guy. not "they're malicious, not incompetent" or "they're incompetent, not malicious". instead: they are malicious AND incompetent, but also? they're lazy.

sure, they'll take kickbacks. but they don't want to work hard to get them either.

You know, that "Shaving Cream" song works better if you replace the entire chorus with just the word "shit".

Just imagining the meeting where they must have been like “they might cancel my flight? Time to kill the sick.”

A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers. I binged the whole series, but that one was especially great.

Oh no! 😞

The World Series?

"If you desire". Yeah, right.

Me, a sailor in ancient times, sailing my boat into the rocks like an idiot: Uhh a lady made me do it. By singing. Usually I'm really good at this

Another amazing name is Diana Nyad.

They were good boys.

A sleeping greyhound lying in the sun.

Here’s a sleepy greyhound.

Did anyone else catch that the senate was about to pass a bill that would give anti-doxxing protections to every American and that was blocked so instead they passed a bill to give only themselves anti-doxxing protections???

First they ignore you.
Then they laugh at you.
Then your horse gets stuck in a swamp and dies.
Then a luck dragon rescues you.
Then you give a name to an empress.
Then you get to ride the luck dragon and give the bullies a good scare.
Then you win.

Legal settlements should be funded by police retirement funds, not the public (the public did nothing wrong).

The institutional Democratic Party is basically a vehicle for rich donors to make sure that when public backlash to terrible Republican policies causes Republicans to lose, the opposition does as little damage to rich people’s interests as possible and cedes power back as quickly as possible

Ouch.

The right will raise a child immersed in guns and guns culture.

And then try to blame the left for it, and the media just goes with it.

PCalc is a very good choice for this. It’s not an emulator, but it’s good in its own right.

In honor of Giorgio Armani, here is an old tweet of mine.

Alf: Hey everyone, I made some rags for my new car wash business!

Dad: (whining) Alf, that was my new Armani suit!

Alf: Hey, think how much I just saved you on dry cleaning!

(laugh track)

Thanks! I'm new at this and didn't know you could do that. I'll give it a try!

Field of stars with a fuzzy blue dot in the center. This is believed to be Comet Lemmon, C/2025 A6. Image taken 2025-09-04 at 04:49am US Mountain Time.

I made a stab at this early this morning. I think this is it. This was on my Dwarf 3 with 41 subs, 45 second exposures.

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Americans Astronomers
watching watching
US politics Betelgeuse
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“It could happen at any time”

I cannot believe that in this, the year of our Lord 2025, it never once occurred to you that the surgeon could be the boy's *fairy godmother*.

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13. Men only, tell me a song by a woman that you sing with your whole chest.

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Until we have an actual, positive counter programming movement of equal scale, we're going to keep having these same fucking problems. Men with privilege but without positive purpose and direction are the most destructive force in modern society outside billionaires (who are also mostly those men)

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