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Adam Thornton
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Age yourself with gaming.
November 12, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Torn. I really like Southern Culture On The Skids, but OTOH, Game 7.

Eh, I can probably make it back home for innings 13-29.
November 2, 2025 at 2:13 AM
I got a new computer today!

Well, new to me and newer than me, anyway.
October 30, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Reposted by Adam Thornton
🧵 Thread: I know the USA has a reputation for, um, impolity: our citizens are sometimes considered rude or boorish abroad; our federal government is out of control. I like seeing No Kings protests internationally, but I think Canada & Mexico would be lining the borders w/ hate signs. I'm tired…
October 19, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Define your taste in books with 8 authors:

* Thomas Pynchon
* Gene Wolfe
* Ursula K. LeGuin
* Cormac McCarthy
* John Crowley
* David Foster Wallace
* Martha Wells
* Fritz Lieber

#BookSky
Define your taste in books with 8 authors:

• Anne McCaffrey
• Terry Pratchett
• Alison Cochrun
• Darcy Coates
• T.J. Klune
• Anna Fury/Hazel Mack
• Lissa Kasey
• Robert Asprin

#BookSky
📚💙📚🌈📚🌶️📚🩸📚🪐📚⚡
Define your taste in books with 8 authors

• Becky Chambers
• Terry Pratchett
• Brandon Sanderson
• Lois McMaster Bujold
• T.J. Klune
• S.A. Chakraborty
• John Scalzi
• J.R.R. Tolkien

#BookSky 💙📚🪐
October 17, 2025 at 6:00 AM
In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

I can do three:

"UTC or TAI?"
In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

rm -rf ~/
"The chancellor approved it"
October 12, 2025 at 5:17 PM
I bought this earlier today. It was not until I went back to check if it, uh, came with mounting hardware (it does!) that I realized that I have been goatse'd.

You're welcome.
October 12, 2025 at 1:30 AM
"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"
October 9, 2025 at 8:27 PM
I guess it’s Fall. Blink just decided he wanted to be under the covers rather than on top.
October 7, 2025 at 4:55 AM
This is great except I also need to get my feet under the desk.
September 22, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Great RPG moment tonight. This is the reason I've been playing them for 45 years.

My young GM Sam, who played in my UVG campaign with his late father Simon (his coworker) was running.

I play Diogenes, who is both Diogenes The Cynic but also literally a talking dog, who is always seeking...

1/
September 22, 2025 at 5:47 AM
Bat Out of Helloween was a blast.

“Paradise by the Dashboard Lights” is still a banger, and having the girl be way closer to 70 than 17 was adorable.
September 21, 2025 at 6:06 AM
How did nobody ever tell me that Radiohead's _Paranoid Android_ video was basically everything that would ever be good about _Rick And Morty_ ?

youtu.be/fHiGbolFFGw?...
Radiohead - Paranoid Android
YouTube video by Radiohead
youtu.be
September 20, 2025 at 8:12 AM
If you see this, quote the energy you bring to Bluesky
September 20, 2025 at 5:42 AM
It’s here!
September 18, 2025 at 10:24 PM
There we go.

Happy 50th birthday, 6502.
September 18, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Just a quickie. Didn’t go for the dot.
September 18, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Of the systems visible here: the C64, C128, Atari 800, Atari 800xl, Apple //e,and Vic-20 are 6502 based.
September 17, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Well, I'm sure it was another horrible day in the world, but I figured out an automatable workflow to take a presentation I wrote in org-mode, and (following gitlab.com/olberger/doc...) generate a reveal.js presentation from it, and a decent-enough PDF of the deck as well.

I feel good about that.
Olivier Berger / docker-org-teaching-export · GitLab
Sources for building a container image for scripting org-mode exports for the org-teaching framework (https://gitlab.com/olberger/org-teaching)
gitlab.com
September 16, 2025 at 12:46 AM
I'm noticing that these rates are fairly reasonable, if someone better-heeled than me wanted to fly a banner over Mr. Kirk's funeral. I'll chip in what I can, but what I can is like $100, not anywhere near the cost of the banner.

airads.com/aerial-adver...
Aerial Advertising Arizona | Outdoor Advertising
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airads.com
September 14, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Slightly diminish a book

U
Slightly diminish a book

1983
Slightly diminish a book.

Moby Glans
September 8, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Doctor I trust more than RFK Jr
September 7, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Do you want shoggoths? Because this is how you get shoggoths.

www.earth.com/news/black-e...
No one knew what was inside the black eggs found at 20,000 feet underwater
Scientists discovered fragile flatworm egg cocoons over 20,000 feet deep in the Pacific, the deepest record of flatworm reproduction.
www.earth.com
September 7, 2025 at 4:34 AM
I've got a new Cracker Barrel logo, which looks like an AI company's logo, which is how they should market themselves hoping to find someone who will buy the company for several dozen billion dollars, because AI.

Want to hire me as a management consultant? That first hit was free.
August 28, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Ruin a book by adding Tom Clancy's to the title

The Shadow of Tom Clancy's Torturer

or perhaps

Soldier in Tom Clancy's Mist
Ruin a book by adding Tom Clancy's to the title

Tom Clancy’s Metamorphosis

ovid, or kafka? tom clancy decides
Ruin a book by adding Tom Clancy's to the title

Tom Clancy's Are You There, God? It’s Me, Tom Clancy
August 28, 2025 at 2:10 AM