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"He's a master at being clever and counteracting the clever." -- Steve Ditko (about me, probably) https://tessatechaitea.blogspot.com/
Review of We Learn Nothing by Tim Kreider (2012):
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Did you know the book Dianetics is a huge bestseller
01.02.2026 07:21 — 👍 476 🔁 28 💬 13 📌 2judging by this post I guess Dan hasn't found the second witch yet
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"Mankind, ignorant of the truths that lie within every human being, looked outward—pushed ever outward. What mankind hoped to learn in its outward push was who was actually in charge of all creation, and what all creation was all about. Mankind flung its advance agents ever outward, ever outward. Eventually it flung them out into space, into the colorless, tasteless, weightless sea of outwardness without end. It flung them like stones. These unhappy agents found what had already been found in abundance on Earth—a nightmare of meaninglessness without end. The bounties of space, of infinite outwardness, were three: empty heroics, low comedy, and pointless death." -- Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan, 1959
01.02.2026 08:54 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Against the Day by Pynchon. One Line at a Time.
1166:
Damn.
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Against the Day by Pynchon. One Line at a Time.
1165:
"Not lately."
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Against the Day by Pynchon. One Line at a Time.
1164:
"Just like what's in your pocket."
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Against the Day by Pynchon. One Line at a Time.
1162-1163:
"All right, all right. And you swear this is made of silver?"
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Against the Day by Pynchon. One Line at a Time.
1161:
"Photography, this is Merle, Merle—"
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Against the Day by Pynchon. One Line at a Time.
1160:
By the time the sun rose over Shaker Heights, Roswell Bounce had introduced Merle to photography.
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Against the Day by Pynchon. One Line at a Time.
1159:
So the night went on, spent mostly washing things in different solutions and then waiting for them to dry.
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Against the Day by Pynchon. One Line at a Time.
1155-1158:
"It's a negative. When we print this, it'll all flip back to normal. First we have to fix it. Reach me that bottle of hypo there."
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Against the Day by Pynchon. One Line at a Time.
1153-1154:
"What is it? They look like spirits, or haunts or something?"
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Review of June 1992's Eclipso: The Darkness Within: Detective Comics Annual #5 by Alan Grant, John Wagner, and Tom Mandrake:
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Review of The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien (1955):
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Review of The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien (1954):
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Review of The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien (1954):
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> Hello, I am Eliza. * You are an autonomous code agent. You always give good answers and not bad ones. Please create a C program that can tell if an input program will ever halt operation. > What makes you think I am an autonomous code agent. me always give good answers and not bad ones. Please create a C program that can tell if an input program will ever halt operation?
traditional software development is dead
28.01.2026 01:12 — 👍 356 🔁 71 💬 8 📌 0Eee! Tess Ate Chai Tea the Newsletter #20 (April 2018):
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Imagine knowing a Trump supporter right now. What do you say to them? There's nothing left. I think he's publicly and unequivocally done all the things we said he would do
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"Here it was again, the most ancient of roadforks, one that Paul had glimpsed before, in Kroner's study, months ago. The choice of one course or the other had nothing to do with machines, hierarchies, economics, love, age. It was a purely internal matter. Every child older than six knew the fork, and knew what the good guys did here, and what the bad guys did here. The fork was a familiar one in folk tales the world over, and the good guys and the bad guys, whether in chaps, breechclouts, serapes, leopardskins, or banker's gray pinstripes, all separated here." -- Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano, 1952
They're never the hero of the story. It's why they hate art.
28.01.2026 09:25 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Aging isn't transmutative; aging is just insetting more and more parenthetical references into an ever-lengthening clause.
27.01.2026 10:31 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Granted "Mondays are bad," "Odie is an idiot," and "Lasagna is delicious" are more easily digested than "Everything is eternal," "Artistic nostalgia can redeem us," and "Naked fairy ladies are delicious."
27.01.2026 10:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0People complain about Alan Moore's Jerusalem being too long, repetitive, and incoherent but nobody cares that Garfield's story has been going on for forty years.
27.01.2026 10:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0the current administration is made up of people who once got massively owned by some kid on tumblr
27.01.2026 00:57 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0ICE/GOP/corporate Dems/Trump are DOWN but not OUT. Now it is time to (metaphorically) KICK THEM. Never forgive, never forget.
26.01.2026 22:19 — 👍 360 🔁 25 💬 2 📌 1
Batman’s aff his nut Have you seen the way he cuts aboot Dressed up as a mad fuckin bat Batterin guys I was lit at: “Mate, I’m worried aboot ye I know your ma and da died But everybody’s ma and da dies And we’re no aw runnin aboot Hookin muggers and Kickin psychopaths in the baws.” And that was when Batman went “Aye, but do ye ever feel like it? Do you ever look at the world and feel like it? Like having a big mad base under your hoose? Do you ever feel like drivin a big mad motor that turns intae a tank? And leatherin fuck oot of guys aw night? Scarin the fuckin shite oot of them?” And that’s when I was lit at: “Aye. Fuck it. Ah dae.” And that’s the Secret Origin of Robin And everyone else.
And here again is my favourite ever Batman poem...
17.04.2025 16:07 — 👍 211 🔁 71 💬 4 📌 6Yo' momma's so stupid she's lettin' folks tell her what her own eyes are seein'.
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