A. Fresnel

that's me in the corner
that's me in the float point
losing my precision

In elementary school we were assigned to write fan letters after learning about letter writing in English class and I sent mine to Boyd Matson, then host of my favorite TV show National Geographic Explorer. I still have the hand written letter and signed photo he sent me back on my shelf.

Meme-style image of a man in a white shirt and tie holding an acoustic guitar, styled like a Spirit Halloween costume poster. The poster reads “Broken Man on Halifax Pier” with descriptors: “inability to: fire guns, shed tears” and “was told he’d cruise”. The post is from a Canada.gov.ca account with 10.5K likes, 106 comments, and 151 shares.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Hey Canada you okay?

Canada:

Wombolds. I think they might be wombat kobolds, but I'm not sure, that's just the first creature name that came to mind?

The Fresnel lens, fixture, and stem of an old runway light mounted on a wood base and illuminated from inside the dome of the lens.

I couldn't get a second order coastal lens to light my apartment, but I could get an upcycled runway light from an old airport.

I had a classmate in like 2004 who tried to dunk on everyone by using a slide rule. 🤷🏼‍♀️

I've been stuck on the neck pickup on one guitar for a while because something is wrong with the wiring and I'm too lazy to get in there with a soldering iron and fix it.

I've done it again everyone, I've taken a ludicrously long time to make a pour over coffee because I forgot to turn the heat on for the kettle. 🫡

I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.

Yup! It is literally 100% impossible for the Starship platform to even approach the capabilities he's promised and for some goofy reason it's got full scale tests going as if they'll figure out a way to defy physics if they just keep doing it.

All I want to know is when is the window in which it's appropriate to watch the greatest Thanksgiving movie ever created: Planes, Trains, and Automobiles?

My favorite thing as a writer is when I start ranting about something on Bluesky, get it all out of my system, and then turn it into a real piece of writing.

On that note: hey, it’s me, heckling centrist Dems in the New Republic!

newrepublic.com/article/2023...

If my consciousness were digitized and I had to watch this shit I would rm -r ~/* so goddamn fast.

they are trying to kill every trans kid in America

when these rules actually come out, they will be open for public comment and all of us need to flood submissions, call our reps, make noise, everything including the kitchen sink

unconscionable evil

Fucking damn it.

whimsy fucking rules

What if I sing this at karaoke? 🤔
youtu.be/1ib54-mVnGw?...

I grow increasingly convinced that "Democracy Dies in Darkness" is no longer a cautious guiding principle but a mission statement.

Now I want to do a cover of Hey Nineteen by Steely Dan except instead of tequila and cocaine the only thing the 19yo and I have in common is being really into Weather Report.

I called my paternal grandmother's sisters aunts instead of great aunts. There was also a maternal family relative who was technically my great great aunt that was called great aunt. Everyone else I painfully awkwardly explained how they're a close family friend every time they came up in a story.

I've got Breaking Away and The Deer Hunter.

That's like the one reason I want to go visit my family in Tampa-St. Pete in spite of Florida basically being a no-go zone.

[: Brought to you by me having just finished my third listen-through!]

I genuinely haven't figured out if the rate at which I go through pants post HRT is because women's pants are made out of barely reinforced tissue paper or just because I now have to deal with thigh rub.

The new Sabaton album Legends is pretty solid. I like it better than The War to End All Wars, which felt like an album of The Great War B-sides except for The Christmas Truce. It's not as "epic" as Heroes or The Last Stand, but it's solid.

I've decided to buy myself a treat and for some weird reason I've decided that it's going to be corduroy pants?

I need to actually talk to my friends about playing Vampire: the Eternal Struggle sometime.

Also, hit me up if you want to play on Lackey and don't mind sharing a table with someone who barely remembers the rules and won't stop playing obscure bloodlines. 🤷‍♀️

Mage: the Ascension (I'm assuming that's what you intended to rank, Awakening was the New WoD wet fart) got me through high school.

The best iteration of Vampire was The Eternal Struggle (the collectible card game).

Everything else was just background for Mage: the Ascension games.

I'm nonbinary trans fem and I would still want to punch someone if they drew a picture of me with exaggerated masc facial features because my face shape is way different on HRT and I fucking earned it.