Lex Joy

Headline of a Q&A in New Yorker formatting Headline: A panicked middle-aged man refuses to tell me directions to the bathroom. Subhed: Please, I just have to pee. I'm in a hurry. By Isaac Chotiner March 4, 2026

Excuse me. Oh, God. Oh, no. Holy shit. Get away from me. I was wondering if you knew where the bathrooms are. Look, I'm ... it's not a crime to scroll through your high school girlfriend's Instagram account. We remained friends after high school! I was at her wedding! It's only natural to see how she's doing.

I'm in a bit of a hurry, and I'm afraid that if I choose the wrong corridor, I'll be late for my train. I think they're down that way, but I'm actually from out of town. Please stop talking to me.

Real quick, though. I agree that it's natural to be interested in an old friend, but aren't you afraid about the message you might be sending by liking a picture of her at the beach from 2015? If that did happen, and I'm only going off your word, it was probably an accident. They put the ... scroll bars or whatever ... close to the thumbs up button. People have been complaining about that for years. I've been complaining about that for years.

I'd probably straight-up ask him what I'm doing wrong, apologize, and go about my remaining days like Scrooge staving off Christmas future.

The job is not to appease the median consumer, it is to light a beacon so the lost & scattered freaks who fuck with your shit can find you

Whether or not you're running for Congress, tell us the make and model of your first car and the place where you met your significant other.

A post that reads, "Whether or not you're running for Congress and trying to seem rugged (and you probably should run, because, look who's out there) what did your grandpas do for a living?

New identity theft meme just dropped.

You learned a skill: Mental Collapse

what is this from. I'm feeling it

"The CIA conspired to make me less cool than I was when I was 25" is the most succinct Gen X manifesto I've ever heard

Is it Robert Hale Merriman? I always thought a younger EBJ looked the part.

A zoomed-in screenshot of the Bluesky app, showing yours truly (@aeneas-nin.bsky.social) with 1K followers.

I'll be damned. It happened!

AI BOOSTER BINGO The squares read: I might get attacked for saying this Imagine what it'll do in 5 years Al critics are just afraid Al is better than you Everyone is doing it "Levels the playing Field" Your time will be spent on work that MATTERS Your time will be spent correcting the Al's errors MORE VOLUME!! Shit outputs? Switch to [alternate LLM] Yes jobs will be cut... Humans aren't perfect either It's FUN!!! No practical advice "Sorry bluesky" Solution to chronic underfunding What if it could cure cancer??? I made something that appears passable No need for pesky underlings Is it accurate? No. But... Framing human work as "bespoke, hand-crafted" Get with it or get left behind!!! Al critics are luddites This was actually written by AI For more free printables please visit www.timvandevall.com, created by Tim van de Vall, copyright 2013 Dutch Renaissance Press LLC

I made a bingo card

Guess who's contributing a piece on Pokémon Pinball (GBC) to this beauty?

I also tweaked it so that you can select a black fly if you want, and made minor cosmetic updates to the color selection screen.

Reposting for the morning crowd.

Mothmom
#kaseyart #penandink

Fly Fight

Why zero players, you ask? Because there aren't enough zero-player #pico8 games. Now there is one more.

Re-upping my idea that once per year we get school buses to replace F1 cars for a grand prix

A screenshot of Fly Fight. It shows two computer monitors side-by-side, indicating the zero-player "COM vs. COM" mode.

A screenshot of Fly Fight. Two player icons are shown on screen -- one red, and one blue. Instructions for changing the colors appear on either side of the icons.

New features for Fly Fight! I've added a zero-player mode for the authentic fly fighting experience, and color selection options for the flies. Enjoy! #pico8

aeneas-nin.itch.io/fly-fight

Please don't reskeet this, lol.

I live in fear of it *when traveling*, and therefore always pack as if I'm going to soil myself every hour of the trip.

This is just Kurt Rambis.

really says something when the only positive news in America is that the president has a rash that looks like a Men in Black alien is almost ready to split from his skin

Raytheon Executive: I know you’re skeptical about buying American again. But hear me out. The MIM-104 Patriot is the only surface to air missile system with a proven track record of success against the US Air Force.

Danish Defense Minister: Continue.

Games and stories are imitations of life, ways of playing at life, sometimes ways of learning how to live. Some of the rules may appear both cruel and arbitrary. But if you want to play the game, or live the life, you have to follow them.

PAINTER: Painting is fun!

SCULPTOR: Sculpting is fun!

COMPOSER: Music is fun!

WRITER: Writing makes me want to kill myself and everyone around me.

Same energy.

this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to bomb this elementary school full of kids because he thinks it makes him look cool. also his scheming viziers will be betting money on it for fun. good luck soldier

Turns out my Analogue3D doesn't make me suck any less at Jet Force Gemini and GoldenEye. But I like it anyway.

This is more or less why I went for a pixel art UFO from a game nobody I know played.