David Mahaffey

Why you should get (back) into RSS curation. Right after college, I moved to San Francisco, a city where I knew one person. I had a lonely time at first, and in particular I struggled to stay connected to the friends I no longer shared a camp…

Feeds remain antidotes to the labyrinth of walled gardens that comprise the modern internet. RIP Google Reader, and long live RSS. Other benefits in this @literaryhub.bsky.social article on why you should get (back) into RSS curation: lithub.com/why-you-shou...

At its heart, Star Trek is a utopian fantasy about a society so advanced they are capable of holding productive meetings that last no longer than three minutes. Below this text is an image of a scene from Star Trek: The Next Generation showing the main crew gathered around a conference table in a meeting room. The characters are wearing their distinctive colored Starfleet uniforms—yellow, blue, and red—and appear to be engaged in a discussion or briefing. The setting has the characteristic futuristic design of the Enterprise's interior with curved walls and ambient lighting.

Truly the most fictional of all the science fictions. Utopian, not eutopian.

The 90s are for hot country music, not for hospitable temperatures. In both cases the 00s are so much worse.

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The otter keeper gave this baby otter a sock to keep warm. She later turned it into a onesie with holes for the hands, feet, and tail

sometimes I feel like a dinosaur, cause no one looks anything up anymore 🦕

In my parents' house is a math trophy I won in elementary school 🤷

Spines for Senators Is Now Pitchforks for the People It is with a heavy heart that we admit Spines for Senators (S4S) has failed in its mission to provide invertebrate lawmakers with the transformatio...

"It is with a heavy heart that we admit Spines for Senators has failed in its mission to provide invertebrate lawmakers with the transformational surgeries they so desperately need."

Do I overcaffeinate myself? Very well then, I overcaffeinate myself. I am large. I contain multitudes.

Mine is the Onyx Boox Go 6. About the size of a Paperwhite, e-ink, runs Android so I can run any app in the Play Store or side-load whatever else I need. It's great for me!

Let me take this format for a spin

YouTube video by Susan Werner (SW) Susan Werner - Fear is An Instrument

Fear is an instrument.

Everything the billionaires (and DJT) do is alarming and deeply harmful, but I am also very impressed by how petty it all is.

It's really easy to find the source of images. If you google neurodiversity smorgasbord, my name and website comes up. Here's the image without my name covered up.

Hey, friends! My personal portfolio website (and shop?!?!) are up and running! It lists all of the services I offer. I'm still waiting on a few testimonials but the site is live!

Would love it if you can give it a share!

We recently took Newt for an annual vet exam and dosed him with sedatives first. He swallowed it whole, no questions asked. Moon Pie just got dosed in hopes that it helps with his auditory sensitivity while we watch Severance in a few hours, and it took some trickery and persuasion.

Only the parody version used "download a car!"

hi! @teenvogue.bsky.social has been a reliable outlet for strong political journalism since at min 2016 — which was *9* years ago!

you don't need to be surprised each time you're impressed by our work! (maybe other outlets would respect us more if you didn't!)

signed, 1/2 of Teen Vogue Politics

Hi 👋 I do the thing. Still won't be able to remember their name.

Before you decide whether or not to take that writing advice about mixed metaphors, find out whether it's coming from a bartender or a chemist.

My chaotic good version of this was when I always ordered the daily special at the burger place near my office.

YouTube video by E.O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation Listening to the Quiet with Harrison Ford - 2025

Harrison Ford, tender curmudgeon.

Reddit headline: Mark Zuckerberg, Recipient of World's First Rat Penis Transplant, Announces Meta Will Stop Fact Checking.

It's true because I read it online and it did not hurt my feelings.

Uh oh!

Still holding out for Seagal in the Expendables franchise.

Anyway, I played the first round of a collaborative storytelling game (Dialect) last night. It ended with a robot funeral. Happy birthday to me.

It has been suggested that bumming people out is one of my spiritual gifts, and this is true. I'm not trying to be the bummer I wish to see in the world, though. Just extrapolating from available context.

Image description: This poem is presented in the form an excel spreadsheet, with words in each cell. The line ‘Our cells shall merge themselves together’ is in a longer merged cell, and there are filter arrows on the line ‘Remove this filter from my heart’. Love Excels Let's spread ourselves on sheets of love, and turn our data into poetry. Our cells shall merge themselves together as you wrap your text around me. Our sum is greater than our parts, let's crunch our figures without compunction. Remove this filter from my heart, you give me form and function. We shall frolic among the formulae, pivot our tables now and often. I will total all your rows and you can add my column. Brian Bilston

Today’s poem is called ‘Love Excels’.

Hey we're Taco Bell Quarterly, we're a prestigious Literary Magazine. We pay $100! We're open for another week. Submit something. This is one of our favorite poems published in our last issue, TBQ6, Staircase wit by Rhiannon McGavin.

https://tacobellquarterly.org/staircase-wit/