Seamus Blackley

Thank you, kind sir.

Two dogs sleeping synchronously in the afternoon sun. Bliss.

May I present the 2026 Champion California State Formation Napping team.

I’m so glad I bought those 27 barrels of sweet Brent crude last month and stacked them in my kitchen. Sure I can’t make food anymore but it will form the kernel of my compound when shit goes all mad max.

And also people who trademark their handle.

That’s the singles event though.

Two dogs sleeping synchronously in the afternoon sun. Bliss.

May I present the 2026 Champion California State Formation Napping team.

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

Venus's copper hand mirror with handle or necklace with pendant. The cross-bar was added sometime after the 11th century. Women are fucking amazing. Happy Women’s Day.

Venus's copper hand mirror with handle or necklace with pendant. The cross-bar was added sometime after the 11th century. Women are fucking amazing. Happy Women’s Day.

It was going on one, two in the morning, and we were shooting what I felt was an important scene for me, when he makes an attempt to be quote-unquote straight, in a suit, and at the end of it he gets emotional and locks himself in the other room. And I felt like, I’m not getting what I want—I’m not happy with it. Mike was happy with it. He called me the next day and said, “I know you weren’t happy with the scene last night. Believe me, we wouldn’t have gone home if I had felt we weren’t getting it.” And then he sort of became my psychiatrist and said, “You find it difficult to be happy, don’t you? You find it difficult to enjoy things.” And I said, “Well, sometimes. Last night was about feeling too tired and not feeling I was reaching what I needed to reach for the scene.” He talked to me then about when he was making, I don’t know whether it was Virginia Woolf or The Graduate. He said, “I didn’t enjoy it for a second. I was worried about so many things.” And then he said, “You know, this is never going to happen again quite this way. You should try to allow yourself to enjoy this more. Take a minute a day, and then add a minute the next day, and another minute. Pretty soon, you’ll have hours of happiness.”

The Birdcage opened thirty years ago today, so in its honor, I want to share one of my favorite stories about Mike Nichols that didn't make it into my biography. This is from an interview I did with Nathan Lane.

Humanity shifts an asteroid’s orbit around the sun New research confirms that NASA’s DART mission successfully altered the trajectory of an asteroid system, validating a key strategy for planetary defense.

Humanity shifts an asteroid’s orbit around the sun

gleam.news/stories/huma...

Three foot wide video game controller with twin controller sticks, The controller sits atop a bookshelf in the corner of a closet

One great regret I've carried over the past twenty years was never conquering Steel Battalion. Time to haul this out of retirement.

#OGXbox #SteelBattalion

What a stunning shock.

Lovely!

It was illegal to say for many centuries.

Yep.

Neolithic road bike saddle. These guys were unbeatable cyclists.

Neolithic road bike saddle. These guys were unbeatable cyclists.

Hey #TeaseYaGame 👋

We are a small team making Knight George, a retro-style adventure where you solve puzzles, go through dungeons, fight large bosses and get to control small animals!

You can wishlist it here: store.steampowered.com/app/4305040/...

#indiegame #gamedev #gamemaker

My "real" 9 games that made me, as in the 9 games that influenced me the most, the earliest:

- Shamus
- Colossal Cave
- Star Trek (IBM)
- Pinball Construction Set
- Adventure (2600)
- Adv Civilization (AH board game)
- Energy Czar
- Pol/Econ (BBS)
- Divine Right (BG)

YouTube video by Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics Introducing: Cosmology 101 with Katie Mack

I've been going through these videos for some work reasons, and they're so well done. Just great work all around by @astrokatie.com and @perimeterinstitute.ca.

The timing and control feel are so fucking great here. Just so satisfying and fun.

JOHN! Great interview.

Can the Most Abstract Math Make the World a Better Place? | Quanta Magazine Columnist Natalie Wolchover explores whether applied category theory can be “green” math.

Hey! Now you can read about my work on applied category theory here on Quanta magazine! And not just me, lots of folks....

www.quantamagazine.org/can-the-most...

Archaeologists Discovered a Funerary Complex Left Untouched for Nearly 4,000 Years Finds from the site include necklaces, amulets, and cursive hieroglyphs inscribed on pots.

Archaeologists uncovered a nearly 4,000-year-old intact funerary complex at Aswan’s Oubbet el-Hawa, filled with 160 ceramic vessels, inscribed pottery, jewelry, and amulets, revealing burial practices from Egypt’s Old Kingdom onward

It's a ZX81! A small 8-bit computer with a built-in membrane keyboard.

This was my first computer. I learned to write English and BASIC at the same time, on its little keyboard - so everything I've put out into the internet is its fault in some way. Happy birthday, little ZX81.

“They of the Rickover.”

@waxsonic.bsky.social Nukes get a follow back.

Pyramidion of the royal scribe Ramose (Deir el-Medina, New Kingdom, 19th Dynasty, reign of Ramesses II (1275-1240 BCE)) Museo Egizio, Turin, Italy

Pyramidion of the royal scribe Ramose (Deir el-Medina, New Kingdom, 19th Dynasty, reign of Ramesses II (1275-1240 BCE))

Museo Egizio, Turin, Italy

Yes sir.