john speranza

this will sound like an unfunny joke but I think I actually need the first one for the neck of my fencing jacket — thank you for this public service

An image from the original AD&D Players Handbook depicting an adventurer leaving a trail of string as a navigational aid, and a complete asshole of a troll trailing behind him and winding it up onto his own infernal stick

This image is a pretty good litmus test for alignment. Do you view this troll with respect, or disgust?

Also, I’m a few years late on this call, but: I used to think that a person who couldn’t find anything to love about modernist art was just kind of dumb, but now I’m pretty sure it means you’re actually sort of an evil person

Too lazy to mock this up but imagine a bell curve meme where the text on the tails says “all you need to know about rationalism is that there was already a philosophical movement by that name, and it was over before Kant”

I am always astonished all over again to be reminded that there are people whose spirits are not stirred by the Rothko Chapel and A Love Supreme

did you see the other stuff on top of it

thank you! she was a good egg

I straight-up forgot Nail Yakupov ever existed

Around my house this is considered a pretty big win

Misbegotten DALL-E 3 annotation of the ingredients it expects a cake to require.

my name is DALL,
and wen i bak
i wisk the potper
with the vedk.
i sift the miilk
into the kek.
i brek the fear.
i pour the eg.

An image from the original AD&D Players Handbook depicting an adventurer leaving a trail of string as a navigational aid, and a complete asshole of a troll trailing behind him and winding it up onto his own infernal stick

This image is a pretty good litmus test for alignment. Do you view this troll with respect, or disgust?

A spectacularly photogenic tortoiseshell cat gazes upward into softly falling snow

My BlueSky momentum was derailed by the unexpected death of my beloved Bean; please admire this photograph of my best non-human friend

Somebody’s seeing across multiple planes of existence

I’m heading up the mountain at 2pm with a portable bluetooth speaker and I’m coming down in a search and rescue helicopter

It’s really fun and Resolve is free

best I can tell twitter turned sideways and is blocking the suez canal

Yesterday: Twitter hit an all-time high in user-seconds, an important measure of how well the business is doing

Today: No one is allowed to look at Twitter today for important business reasons

Bean is excelling at self-care, as usual

A distinguished and elegant tortoiseshell cat nestled in a pile of blankets whose warm hues perfectly complement her distinctive markings

Check this out

Have you ever seen such a thing

New reason to go on living just dropped

Good night sweet annoying person

I feel perfectly prepared for bluesky because double-digit engagement already stresses me out

Bean’s ratty catnip chicken needs to eat too

I started at 10K with a friend’s Gamergate blocklist back when you could share such a thing

Just thinking his little thoughts

mods are asleep post Wodehouse memes

Of all the things I miss about Colorado I might miss those most of all

I have something like thirty thousand people blocked over there