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Former Christian fundie trying to redirect his idealism toward more humane ends. Black lives matter. Trans lives matter. John Hodgman once told me I was just daddin’ it up. he/him
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If you really think about it.. lamps in video games use real electricity
December 11, 2025 at 3:45 AM
If you really think about it.. lamps in video games use real electricity
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My grandfather wrote, during the Nixon impeachment, that it was improper for there to be public opinion polls on questions of impeachment. The matter is for Congress to decide, itself, using its own honor and judgment.
Obviously that feels quaint now, but like...
Obviously that feels quaint now, but like...
December 11, 2025 at 9:03 PM
My grandfather wrote, during the Nixon impeachment, that it was improper for there to be public opinion polls on questions of impeachment. The matter is for Congress to decide, itself, using its own honor and judgment.
Obviously that feels quaint now, but like...
Obviously that feels quaint now, but like...
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"An Orc Walks Into a Bar," a new short story by me, is free to read at my Patreon. Enjoy! www.patreon.com/posts/119305...
January 4, 2025 at 7:16 PM
"An Orc Walks Into a Bar," a new short story by me, is free to read at my Patreon. Enjoy! www.patreon.com/posts/119305...
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Made a site comparing the sizes of living things :)
The great Julius Csotonyi spent 5 months painting over 60 illustrations for the site, no ai used
> neal.fun/size-of-life/
The great Julius Csotonyi spent 5 months painting over 60 illustrations for the site, no ai used
> neal.fun/size-of-life/
December 10, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Made a site comparing the sizes of living things :)
The great Julius Csotonyi spent 5 months painting over 60 illustrations for the site, no ai used
> neal.fun/size-of-life/
The great Julius Csotonyi spent 5 months painting over 60 illustrations for the site, no ai used
> neal.fun/size-of-life/
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I’ve posted this before but the light was perfect today- a little Victorian cat paw in a brick at the front of the old Norfolk & Norwich Hospital. As this is on the front-facing corner of the main gates, the bricklayer quite clearly put it there on purpose, at a height where children would spot it.
December 10, 2025 at 4:07 PM
I’ve posted this before but the light was perfect today- a little Victorian cat paw in a brick at the front of the old Norfolk & Norwich Hospital. As this is on the front-facing corner of the main gates, the bricklayer quite clearly put it there on purpose, at a height where children would spot it.
My daughter’s music composition professor wrote music for this game (ergo I am famous)
The Outer Worlds 2 has a radio station where all the music sounds exactly like the stuff from Fallout, but it's all written *FOR THE GAME*. They hired real swing and jazz bands to help create the songs, and the lyrics are all tongue-in-cheek product jingles. It's my favourite thing about the game.
Here's the second part of my interview on in-game radio in The Outer Worlds 2, this time looking at the genre stylings behind each of the three stations. www.restart.run/articles/the...
December 11, 2025 at 7:25 PM
My daughter’s music composition professor wrote music for this game (ergo I am famous)
Oh, cool, fuck this asshole too I guess
SCOOP: Academy Award-nominee Liam Neeson narrated a recent anti-vaccine documentary that glorifies RFK Jr.’s rise to power.
In the film, Neeson—a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador—calls the COVID-19 vaccines “dangerous experiments.”
www.importantcontext.news/p/liam-neeso...
In the film, Neeson—a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador—calls the COVID-19 vaccines “dangerous experiments.”
www.importantcontext.news/p/liam-neeso...
Liam Neeson Narrates Anti-Vax, Pro-RFK Documentary
The Taken actor can be heard calling mRNA COVID vaccines “dangerous experiments.”
www.importantcontext.news
December 11, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Oh, cool, fuck this asshole too I guess
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THREAD
A couple of winters ago I decided to walk in a part of West Devon I'd never previously explored: a forgotten area that feels like stepping into a lost pocket of time. It's an unspoilt landscape, but not what you would call a friendly one.
it turned out to be a day I would not forget...
A couple of winters ago I decided to walk in a part of West Devon I'd never previously explored: a forgotten area that feels like stepping into a lost pocket of time. It's an unspoilt landscape, but not what you would call a friendly one.
it turned out to be a day I would not forget...
December 11, 2025 at 5:59 PM
THREAD
A couple of winters ago I decided to walk in a part of West Devon I'd never previously explored: a forgotten area that feels like stepping into a lost pocket of time. It's an unspoilt landscape, but not what you would call a friendly one.
it turned out to be a day I would not forget...
A couple of winters ago I decided to walk in a part of West Devon I'd never previously explored: a forgotten area that feels like stepping into a lost pocket of time. It's an unspoilt landscape, but not what you would call a friendly one.
it turned out to be a day I would not forget...
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it's always amazing to me how people whose entire way of life and economic well-being depends on the university in their town are also, somehow, incredibly mad that they have to share that town with that university's students
tbh the entire dynamic of criticizing university housing is one of the most stupid and shortsighted elements of nimbyism writ large. universities are major economic engines! they’re also part of the broader left-wing project for other reasons, like “create social mobility” and “promote education”
December 11, 2025 at 5:31 PM
it's always amazing to me how people whose entire way of life and economic well-being depends on the university in their town are also, somehow, incredibly mad that they have to share that town with that university's students
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Flights remain congested and often unpleasant.
But that misses the point that airlines core businesses are not flying planes. It is to build lounges so that people use their credit cards. And on that count, they have been incredible innovators. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
But that misses the point that airlines core businesses are not flying planes. It is to build lounges so that people use their credit cards. And on that count, they have been incredible innovators. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
December 9, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Flights remain congested and often unpleasant.
But that misses the point that airlines core businesses are not flying planes. It is to build lounges so that people use their credit cards. And on that count, they have been incredible innovators. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
But that misses the point that airlines core businesses are not flying planes. It is to build lounges so that people use their credit cards. And on that count, they have been incredible innovators. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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December 11, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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A good example of why direct inflation adjustment of this sort is more deceptive than clarifying when applied over very long stretches of time where consumption patterns are very different.
Basic foods (bread/grain) probably devours a third of Cratchet's income, but not the modern worker's.
Basic foods (bread/grain) probably devours a third of Cratchet's income, but not the modern worker's.
October 8, 2025 at 3:42 PM
A good example of why direct inflation adjustment of this sort is more deceptive than clarifying when applied over very long stretches of time where consumption patterns are very different.
Basic foods (bread/grain) probably devours a third of Cratchet's income, but not the modern worker's.
Basic foods (bread/grain) probably devours a third of Cratchet's income, but not the modern worker's.
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This sort of absurd, ultra-bleak reading of the remarkable prosperity of modern societies is not only embarrassingly wrong - and I saw a historian retweet this sincerely (!!) - but also helps fuel not materialist, left-wing politics, but rather reactionary right-wing politics ('RETVRN-ism').
December 11, 2025 at 1:54 AM
This sort of absurd, ultra-bleak reading of the remarkable prosperity of modern societies is not only embarrassingly wrong - and I saw a historian retweet this sincerely (!!) - but also helps fuel not materialist, left-wing politics, but rather reactionary right-wing politics ('RETVRN-ism').
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He even gets into how companies invent and then name their products after the Torment Nexus
December 10, 2025 at 8:11 PM
He even gets into how companies invent and then name their products after the Torment Nexus
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his politics in a modern lens are genuinely so fascinating cuz he'll casually just say shit that's still progressive for today for the most insanely "Edwardian Catholic Oxford don" reasoning and it ends up being like this
a man in a suit and tie is standing next to another man in a suit .
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is standing next to another man in a suit .
media.tenor.com
December 10, 2025 at 8:19 PM
his politics in a modern lens are genuinely so fascinating cuz he'll casually just say shit that's still progressive for today for the most insanely "Edwardian Catholic Oxford don" reasoning and it ends up being like this
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J.R.R. Tolkien, literal Butlerian Jihadist
![from a letter by JRR Tolkien to his son Michael:
[here is] the tragedy and despair of all machinery laid bare. Unlike art which is content to create a new secondary world in the mind, it attempts to actualize desire, and so to create power in this World; and that cannot really be done with any real satisfaction. Labour-saving machinery only creates endless and worse labour. And in addition to this fundamental disability of a creature, is added the Fall, which makes our devices not only fail of their desire but turn to new and horrible evil. So we come inevitably from Daedalus and Icarus to the Giant Bomber. It is not an advance in wisdom! This terrible truth, glimpsed long ago by Sam Butler, sticks out so plainly and is so horrifyingly exhibited in our time, with its even worse menace for the future, that it seems almost a world wide mental disease that only a tiny minority perceive it. Even if people have ever heard the legends (which is getting rarer) they have no inkling of their portent. How could a maker of motorbikes name his product Ixion cycles! Ixion, who was bound for ever in hell on a perpetually revolving wheel! Well, I have got over 2 thousand words onto this little flimsy airletter; and I will forgive the Mordor-gadgets some of their sins, if they will bring it quickly to you](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:eawrzkefxggvqbrmagkhsmcc/bafkreiehclqi7gi5ioox33zjtsvsk3aid326opn3ix6a2cadj3morubefq@jpeg)
December 10, 2025 at 8:10 PM
J.R.R. Tolkien, literal Butlerian Jihadist
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I don't look at the menu at restaurants anymore. I just say "give me the daddy stack" and see what happens
December 9, 2025 at 9:27 PM
I don't look at the menu at restaurants anymore. I just say "give me the daddy stack" and see what happens
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There are many stories about trying to bring back the dead. They mostly all have the same moral.
December 11, 2025 at 3:28 AM
There are many stories about trying to bring back the dead. They mostly all have the same moral.
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December 11, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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erik lensherr and charles xavier in college telling each other how much they love "A Separate Peace" for an hour
December 11, 2025 at 3:11 AM
erik lensherr and charles xavier in college telling each other how much they love "A Separate Peace" for an hour
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Pornhub has released the top most searched terms in the United States and every state searched “industrial crane lifting a dark and dripping shape from an unquiet sea” bc America is going through it,
December 11, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Pornhub has released the top most searched terms in the United States and every state searched “industrial crane lifting a dark and dripping shape from an unquiet sea” bc America is going through it,
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Something I have to reiterate is that you are being straight up lied to about trans people and our healthcare on an unfathomable scale, this instance reporting is already being torn to shreds by other people commenting, but the frequency of this kind of reporting is astonishing, it's neverending.
You might think from the headline that this is a story about a trans kid suffering medical consequences from a large drug dose but nope! It is just an interview with an estranged father who is angry that his child happily transitioned.
archive.ph/Tmthz
archive.ph/Tmthz
December 11, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Something I have to reiterate is that you are being straight up lied to about trans people and our healthcare on an unfathomable scale, this instance reporting is already being torn to shreds by other people commenting, but the frequency of this kind of reporting is astonishing, it's neverending.
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So many creep-ass Twitter accounts post paintings and photos from like, the 50s and 60s, with captions like “bring back cotillions, bring back balls, bring back house parties“
My guy
Those still happen
It’s just that no one‘s fucking inviting you
You ever wonder why that is
My guy
Those still happen
It’s just that no one‘s fucking inviting you
You ever wonder why that is
December 11, 2025 at 1:07 AM
So many creep-ass Twitter accounts post paintings and photos from like, the 50s and 60s, with captions like “bring back cotillions, bring back balls, bring back house parties“
My guy
Those still happen
It’s just that no one‘s fucking inviting you
You ever wonder why that is
My guy
Those still happen
It’s just that no one‘s fucking inviting you
You ever wonder why that is