maundering yokel

They said that martial law was only temporary, but it doesn't feel very temporary to me.

There are birders who quietly snap photos of rare birds. And there are birders like me, who kill as many birds as possible without ever learning their names

I-80 Laramie East,
10/29/2025, 6:48:37 PM

bsky.app/profile/nomi...

that's probably when they stopped being listenable, I guess

I know it's not a face but the overall impression is that they gave the logo dark circles under its eyes. the haggard butterfly

when I went there today they had also put insanely conspicuous cameras above each little self checkout station... the industrial society and its consequences man

pretty difficult for me not to interpret magazine essays about subcultures full of weirdos as basically a highbrow gloss on "look at these lolcows"

hate stuff like this so much because it's not like there's anyone to even complain to, I'm sure the store managers aren't deciding these kinds of things, it's just a little imposition, a little not-quite-accusation of malfeasance, that you can either swallow or make a useless scene about

the budget grocery store by me installed a receipt scanner you have to use after the self checkout to open a little gate to leave, which seems to me like it should be illegal given that I've already concluded my business at that point. like if I don't show it can they keep me there? surely not

"friendly reminder:"

'Brighton Beach, East Sussex.' For a decade from the 1920s, George Sheringham showed much of his work at the best galleries in London. He began his training at the Slade and spent much of his career as a decorative designer; he returned to easel painting in the 1930s.

I think this would sound better if you flipped the order to "chunky 225-foot-tall" but I can't really articulate why

I think we should respect the collective wisdom of women and build many turbocharged hatchbacks for them

no. my ethics are whatever yours are. if you hear otherwise that was a joke I was making

really tickled by the sentence "tigers tend to attack humans only while hunting or when they feel threatened," like oh so if they're threatened or they happen to feel like it. that does cover all the bases

getting there...

1776: The redbreast's note is very sweet, & pleasing; did it not carry with it ugly associations of ideas, & put us in mind of the approach of winter.

As I Cross the Heliopause at Midnight, I Think of My Mission by Matthew Zapruder

I know this one, the sheep stings him halfway across the river

the only downside is that now I know where that one "he just like me fr" picture is from, hate knowing stuff like that

damn... he's being too relatable again

in my opinion anyone who wants me to think about bari weiss positively or negatively or at all is a kind of thought police

terrible news: this led to me reading chainsaw man which is also very good

okay purely as a technical matter honor is a social schema for recognizing merit: if nobody likes the shit you are doing you are definitionally not being honored

if you can fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of playful fun

there are weeks where weeks happen and decades where decades happen

can't tell if my inability to feel impressed at anything another person does is a kind of ignoble contrarian impulse, a valuable and accurate sense of perspective, or a symptom of major depression

if having friends made you less healthy would they recommend you not have them? every good friend takes five years off your life. move to the woods, say doctors

seems like kind of an insane perspective to be like "don't forget about the instrumental value of human connection to you personally! friends are simply a means to your own well-being"