Tolu Oloruntoba

I’ll fight in your army!

having moved to the Greater Vancouver Area after Trump 1.0., this tracks.

The Ceiling Trap This scene (occurring in Resident Evil) involves a small room in which the ceiling slowly comes down on top of the player. It is sprung by taking the shotgun from the following room, without replacing...

wow that must have been a vigorous dream. Were you enacting the ceiling trap scene from Resident Evil? Hope your ribs are ok now! residentevil.fandom.com/wiki/The_Cei...

The changing landscape of my dreams is also interesting to me. For years after moving to Canada, my stress dreams often involved trying to evacuate my family from the path of a flood.

Having disordered sleep is so weird. When I’m having martial arts dreams (more frequently than I’d like), I’m aware enough to realize I’m doing those elbow and knee blocks in real life too.

I’ve been watching an unreasonable number of Wing Chun and Muay Thai videos on IG. This is how some of my sillier hyperfixations begin. Time to augment the moves I enact in my sleep (I’m one of those people who act out their dreams in real time because I have little to no hypotonia in REM sleep).

An official comic book permission slip granting you, yes you, permission to make a comic.

Seems like a good day to post this again.

Print it out.

Frame it.

Hang it on your wall.

Make your comic.

the apps had totally hijacked my dopamine axis. Thanks!

I’m on week 2 of only having social media on The Computer. Going well so far although I realize how many times I grab my phone needing another hit, and all I can do is check my email inboxes. Maybe I should remove the email apps too. Maybe I should become a Stylite.

you aren't Cassandra, it's just that tweeting doesn't stop bad things from happening

happens when you take “giant of Africa” / “African Giant” (choose your flavour) doctrines to heart. The deep humility required to not centre one’s self in these narratives is untenable for many people.

💯!

Catherine O’Hara was, is such a light. 😭

Sure, it’s at 60 km/h, but still it’s Peter-Cullen-as-Optimus-Prime levels of Maximum Overdrive.

a black car with a california license plate is parked next to another car Alt: Still from one of the Fast & Furious movies. An orange car and a black care are moving side by side. The black car suddenly accelerates on its back wheels in a burst of white smoke.

Sometimes I’m stopped at a red light before an upward incline, and I know that on green I'll need to use the D3 gear on my jalopy so it can both accelerate and survive the gentle climb.

And in those moments I cannot help but feel like Dom Toretto hitting the nitro.

I agree. Could the fact that both the author and Highsmith were at critical points of their lives have played a part? Blanco was 20 and very receptive to the world; Highsmith was at the most taut ever, at the very end of her tensile strength. I’m off to find more of Blanco’s work.

I find myself peripathetic: itinerant and unsettled on the one hand (peripatetic), maudlin and pitiable (pathetic) on the other.

the man just fall everybody hand. Nonsense.

Is “peripathetic” a word? If not, it should be.

Reposting this for no particular reason. bsky.app/profile/tolu...

My new project is learning how to code healthcare apps for watchOS. Pray for me.

It is also no wonder that, at the middle of my life, I am utterly burnt out and disillusioned. If I were a mammalian heart, I’d be in high-output heart failure.

L = λ x W is Little’s Law, an innovative approach to queuing theory I learnt in business school.

“LETHALITY If L = λ x W, the engineers of our Trolley Problem need more people to shovel their coal. I did all I could to become one of those consultants. But having seen the lethality of PowerPoint bullets, I’m glad I failed."

I imagine how ghoulish I would have been if I managed to get into McKinsey any of the ~7 times I tried. I felt consulting would be an appropriate vehicle for my creativity and desire to solve problems (and be perceived as intelligent.)

Screenshot is from the poem “Lethality,” in UNRAVEL.

Suggestible. Gullible. Distractible. Like if a magpie were a person.

AuDHD-brain is a really wild ride. Also, never meet or learn more about your heroes.

One cannot be a “quitter of things” without having tried many things.

I enrolled in psychology courses to attempt to become a psychotherapist after my time with the best therapist I ever had. I had a 10-year wannabe-Stan Lee phase (including my Katana-weilding Blade-inspired character called Tsunamii). I wanted to be a screenwriter after Benjamin Cleary’s “Swan Song."

It’s a pity that Ben Carson turned out to be so disappointing, because I wanted to be a doctor after “Gifted Hands.” And a psychologist after reading Freud. Then a management consultant after Tiger Woods' ad campaign for Accenture. Or a published poet after meeting Tolu Ogunlesi.

And now, like the suggestible fool I am, I will see if I can learn how to write good personal essays.