Johnicholas

A Queer Shoulder to the Wheel A version of this piece was originally published in Flaming Hydra, an art collective I'm proud to be a part of. Then I let David loose to edit as he does so...

"What can you do? What can you do, resourceless as you are, with freedom withering in a bone-stripping sirocco of stupid, wasteful fascist oppression?" buttondown.com/theswordandt...

🙏 Folded Hands Emoji | Meaning, Copy And Paste Two hands placed firmly together, meaning please or thank you in Japanese culture. A common alternative use for this emoji is for praye...

Like Humpty Dumpty🥚says, when you use an emoji it means what you choose it to mean (holy palmer's kiss?) but if you want an external authority to point to, emojipedia might be appropriate: emojipedia.org/folded-hands

Nice! Is this cubing, or something else?

Mechanical arms manipulate 2d "components" to move them past "riveters" and "welders" to "assemble" a "remote controlled car". An animated gif of a solution to an automation puzzle.

I am continuing to enjoy Kaizen; the puzzles are hard for me but not too hard for me.

Yeah I understand! There are very considerable limits to Barthes's "death of the author".

😬 yeah.... I once tried to write a game design essay about, among other games, Cultist Simulator: johnicholas.com/2021/04/12/n...

The first 100% effective HIV prevention drug is approved and going global An epidemic that's been sustained for 44 years might finally be quelled, with the milestone approval of the first HIV drug that offers 100% protection with its twice-yearly injections. It's a landmark...

Anyways, AIDS is going to be gone soon, this is a generic with FDA full approval.

Should I be repeating "this is not okay, none of this is okay" on social media? I do not have a following (and I block on follows), and it might harm the mental health of people I care about. OTOH if we do know each other, connect with me on Signal? Maybe social media isn't the right thing atm

Mechanical arms manipulate 2d "components" to move them past "riveters" and "welders" to "assemble" a "color television". An animated gif of a solution to an automation puzzle.

I have been enjoying "Kaizen: A Factory Story".

Wow

Superman was great

Yeah, Uriel said something similar, claimed they could be responsible with "Laws of form, and meter just, orb, quintessence, and sunbeams, What subsisteth, and what seems." And look what happened, the balance-beam of fate was BENT!

IIUC there's a story that, like sailboat tacking, people routinely adjust between their public and private demeanors, so if you are a confident decisive executive in public (and you are) then maybe the opposite in private? But that's not necessarily "brat". What's the theory?

"You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one." I like it!

Cabin in the Woods betting whiteboard meme. Text above pic of man taking bets says "ICE agents are complaining that every time they go out wearing masks in unmarked cars with no uniforms or identification as law enforcement to abduct people, protesters keep dumping pounds of glitter on them so that everyone can tell they're ICE for days afterwards." Text underneath the man says "Who had "Glitter bombing the Gestapo" on their bingo card?"

Cabin in the Woods betting whiteboard meme. Text above the man taking bets says "Who had another war in the Middle East?"

I am pleased to report that after a couple months of not seeing any, the Cabin in the Woods memes have returned with a vengeance.

I love the art that people make, downstream of this kind of absurd modern reality, like __lewky's say potato song: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTj7uv39k/

I think there's probably an analog to the "not flirting just got and talking" slogan here. Something like "not intimidating just correct and talking" or s/correct/confident/ or something.

You are cute and brilliant

It's like rainbow sprinkles, or chocolate sprinkles, or graham cracker crumbles

A plate with mango cheesecake on it. A bottle of beer labeled breakfast stout is nearby.

Starting my vacation with mango cheesecake and stout.

If I've been moving & doing stuff recently, becoming still (and a little bored - watching clouds or a tree or closing my eyes, not scrolling or reading). If I've mostly been motionless recently (including office work), moving (go for a little walk, fold laundry, wash dishes).

A silhouette of Terry Pratchett wearing his trademark hat is pictured against a stylised background of a lilac flower and leaves.

It's the glorious 25th of May. Truth! Justice! Freedom! Reasonably priced love! And a hard boiled egg! #GNUTerryPratchett

Depending on what precisely you do in Lightroom, Gimp or ImageMagick might be suitable. I haven't used DatkTable but it's clearly aiming to be the "compare to Lightroom" thing.

Reasonable! I don't think I can say whether "Melancholy of Mechagirl" definitely counts, but maybe.

From the Mythic Delirium Books archives • Mythic Delirium Books From Mythic Delirium, Issue 25, Summer/Fall 2011   The Melancholy of Mechagirl   Catherynne M. Valente     Read by Catherynne M. Valente   for Dmitri and Jeannine   X Prefecture drive time radio trill...

Is mechsploitation a genre, or a setting? Is "Melancholy of Mechagirl" by Valente mechsploitation? mythicdelirium.com/from-the-myt...

eight years ago today we all watched the glory of zendaya falling madly in love with tom holland and the internet was never the same

"To clean burnt stainless steel pots, boil a half-and-half vinegar and water mixture in them. This will loosen the burnt-on black stuff so you can scrub it off."

I think it is due to the LLM tech making scammers: 1. More automated and cheaper. 2. More hopeful that they can be more automated in the future, if they manage to figure out how to get the scam working now.

Sever your shadow from your feet- maybe it is slowing you down? Ask your nightmares for a favor- "no" is a complete sentence, and if they chase you, at least it's a familiar chase. Bet your left eye against an enemy's right in a staring match- you might win, and regardless it occupies their time.

Just in case this is market research... yes, I would indeed pay money to watch this scissoring scene.