Jack

I think I may have been the first person to ever explain a Dril tweet to an English High Court judge

I wouldn't lead with it on a date :)

My theory is that it's one of the ways I'm autistic. My brain often needs the JUST RIGHT level of input, eg too-slow video is terrible.

And maybe music keeps going too intense and then not intense enough

I'm a bit like this!

I don't often mention it because it's not wrong but it does feel really weird to be like that.

In terms of casually hearing music I seem average. Some I really like, some I don't. But I don't get really passionate about listening to music I really love.

A four panel comic strip. An anthropomorphic wolf man runs into an office where three others are working at their desks. He says, "The fire marshal is coming for annual inspections!" In the next panel, a seated wolf is playing with a remote control airplane, and a smoke detector with an open battery compartment is mounted on the wall above him. The first wolf says "Put that 9 volt back in the smoke detector!" In the third panel, an anthropomorphic dog holds a power strip while standing next to a sculpture comprised of multiple power strips. The first wolf says "Hide your..."Daisy Chain Power Strip" sculpture!?" In the fourth panel, a bear proudly displays his t-shirt which reads "I love storing combustibles around radiators." The first wolf, in exasperation, yells "CHANGE YOUR SHIRT!"

Trying to think of there's any crimes you have to be more careful of if you ARE invisible...

Some American states you're allowed to carry a gun only if it's visible.

Trespass..??

Sedation dentistry is no longer weird. Phone cameras are really good. The price of solar panels has dropped by tens of thousands. Southern white rhinos, giant pandas, Arabian oryx and Stellar sea lions are no longer endangered.

And, I can testify, modern cancer treatments are fucking amazing.

Maybe it needs more dragon :)

White mug with red handle and interior. Printed on the mug in black lettering is: This is my emotional support em dash —

Yes! Lawyer here, and you will pry the em-dash from my cold, dead hands (which have the windows shortcut in muscle memory).

I even have a mug about it!

One of my friends needs quite a few feathers for quills, but I don't know what the requirements are or if they've found enough. And they're in Cambridge. Is it worth me asking her given the distance?

I said in an interview that I have a lot of empathy for you because you lost your dream, too.

But Unbound's sales reports showing my second book as a flop when it actually sold out its print run was unfathomably cruel. Seeing Ingram's data, showing 10x the sales I was paid for, broke my heart.

😅

Only half the year.

Technically, that would be Sol.

Recalls my own editorial experience of pointing out Polaris is not the brightest star in the northern hemisphere

My main takeaway from the Intersolar / the smarter E Europe exhibition in Munich is that batteries are the new solar. 4 buzzing halls of products, trying to claim a differentiation that doesn't exist, in a rapidly growing market. 14GW of batteries built in Europe + Turkey last year.

And that guards thinking "What's good enough" is more common than guards thinking "How can we excel against unlikely threats". I need to remember that's more common in real life too! :)

I have to keep reminding myself, I don't need to plan HOW they break in or what the flaws are.

If I imagine "ok what's a reasonable sounding precaution they'd take with the resources and motivations they'd have" the design and opportunities just appear :)

Gambling on papal conclaves - Wikipedia

Wikipedia helpfully has a page en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamblin... :)

That sounds fascinating.

I keep only seeing dropout in clips, I still need to watch whole episodes. (Apart from the Sam says episode, I saw that, that was amazing.)

But also, a LARP may still have other strengths even if dropout already nailed a similar thing. Or be amazing even if precedented :)

But! The next clause, "qui sibi nomen imposuit [papal name]", has been the subject of a long-running argument in the Vatican's Latin department. (Which is a whole separate thread about its history and ups and downs, but.)

"First step, stop teachers from teaching."

Has he ever executed a two step plan in his life? Does he have the sense to put his coat on before leaving his house? To get in the car before starting it?

♥️♥️♥️

My agent sent me flowers for hitting the bestseller list and when I went to the door, the florist said “Are you the Kingfisher?” which cracked me up.

He-man waking up to a giant cat’s ass hovering over him.

Daniel would just keep inviting advice-seekers to come see his budhole, which is not a room for videogames & snacks.

"Only the heir to a Reality TV Kingdom would start a trade war on twelve fronts at once."

Aw, it's lovely.

Oh no :(

Don't bother with the hajj. We've got a Kaaba at home.
The Kaaba at home: