Scott "Maybe This Year" Nickell

"Separate the art from the artist" is something you do emotionally & intellectually, not a justification for making lucrative licensing deals with a problematic artist.

My father supported a household with 3 kids on his salary, but he was an attorney and, in 2026 dollars, made something like $300k. And mom still did all of the housework, clipped coupons, managed an annual garage sale, etc. At least I'm aware that my experience growing up was not typical.

That makes me wonder how to think of it compared to "found" art: Stuff like Duchamp's Fountain, or found poetry that recontextualizes & rearranges existing texts.

A Real™ DnD™ Wizard™ should spend the first five levels mostly hiding behind the rest of the party, doing something mildly useful once a day (twice at most) and saying "I'm not mooching XP, you want me to level" then dying ingloriously about 7 XP short of actual usefulness.

If I had a nickel for every time Franz Ferdinand was involved in the precursor events of a world war, I’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird it happened twice

musician Gary Numan, born March 8, 1958, aged 68

actor Gary Oldman, born March 21, 1958, aged 67

Happy Gary Retrograde everyone!

The next two weeks are the only two weeks out of the year when Gary Numan is older than Gary Oldman

Also "easily preventable uptick in fatal car accidents" day, and we have two of those every year.

I mean, given the way Narrativium and belief work on the Discworld, the Antimemetics Division would have their hands full.

this post deserves to be presented to you by having an index card moved down word by word with photos taken of your face after every new reveal

I've taken to saying lately that the libertarians had one good idea, which is that the centralization & concentration of power is generally a Bad Thing (for a variety of reasons). Their mistake was thinking that warning applies only to *government* power.

“thank you sir for firing me like a dog, which seems distinctly preferable to other ways one might deal with an unwanted dog”

Arguably Zork should be in the list, because it's the game that made me want a C64, but I went with Hitchhiker's Guide as the representative of Infocom instead, because that one I actually finished.

In no particular order, just the first 9 that came to mind when thinking "what videogames have been the most important/formative to my tastes?"

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As you can see here, right from the very first day he entered our house, Jim found great difficulty in getting settled and making the environment his own.

THREAD.

3 & 1/4 years ago, with no warning, a brilliant orange farm cat wandered over from the draughty barn where he'd been living, in rural Cornwall, & decided he wanted to live with us instead.

We decided to call him Jim.

This is the first photo I took of him, on that night: December 1st 2022

The best cat ever is always whichever cat is currently closest to you.
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Introduce yourself with 4 spaceships.

“Secretary Noem, do you remember when you shot that dog for not doing her job to your satisfaction? Well, funny story…”

I like to sing little songs and parodies to my pills when I take them.

"Cy-clo-benzaprine" scans to "This Is Halloween"

and

"Hydrochlora-thiazide" scans to "Alexander Hamilton."

Nixon romances Mao in Apr 1972

Hatoful Boyfriend but Nixon & Mao is a helluva thing.

"The reports of my death have been..."

[breathes on mirror]

"...<whew> greatly exaggerated."

I mean, there are multiple people who have bequeathed their skulls to the Royal Shakespeare Company, and other organizations, specifically to be used for Yorick in productions of Hamlet.

Obama is the only president to date born when there were 50 states

you can tell that this isn't a real problem, because if it was this would be written by someone it happened to and not someone who it didn't happen to saying "but if it did that would have sucked."

Shit, my brother voted Trump in 2016 because he thought Hillary would start WWIII with Russia.

(I think by 2024 he had emigrated to Costa Rica and stopped voting in the US entirely).

Depressing thread.

YouTube video by Hugo Rivera Jerry is a loser

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(Note: It's actually from The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents, by Terry Pratchett)

The alt-text here reminds me of:
"One day, when he was naughty, Mr. Bunnsy looked over the hedge into Farmer Fred's field and saw it was full of fresh green lettuces. Mr. Bunnsy however, was not full of lettuces. This did not seem fair."
-- From Mr. Bunnsy Has an Adventure

Maybe if their answer to every interview question were just "why the hell are you talking to _us_ about this?"