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Bryce
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I write poems and stories
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someone seeing my phone: Bluesky. Sounds peaceful. Is that a meditation app?

me: It’s where I watch the world ending in real time
Sartre: Apropos of nothingness,
November 24, 2025 at 8:31 PM
If I eat my cereal in a seated or standing position, 1yo hugs my leg and cries to be picked up. But if I eat my cereal walking in circles, he chases me contentedly
November 24, 2025 at 3:37 PM
It’s cool that derek guy is citing Newman’s “Definition of a Gentleman” (taken from The Idea of a University) but it seems worth noting that for Newman, being a gentleman is a mixed bag and not at all the same as being a saint
November 24, 2025 at 2:23 PM
I was trying to figure out what to do about the mass murderer who cut off USAID and I read this smart tweet
November 24, 2025 at 3:05 AM
If you’re wondering whether I liked Andor I am currently on Wookieepedia learning the full history of the galaxy
November 23, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Sometimes the planets of my children’s moods align in happy play, sometimes in independent meltdowns
November 22, 2025 at 1:00 AM
When you’re in middle school and the teacher you have a crush on walks in
November 21, 2025 at 9:39 PM
I love when my colleagues in India write things like “For your kind information…”
November 21, 2025 at 5:26 PM
As a kid I had no idea the game Operation was preparing me to fish out bits of food that fall past the hot stove grate
November 21, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Humans weren’t giving Musk enough flattery so he got his word calculator to do it
November 20, 2025 at 8:38 PM
I wish there were posts from all kinds of times and places in history, and the best posts were really long and sort of responding to each other and put on paper maybe so the screen wouldn’t hurt your eyes, and you could read them for free
November 19, 2025 at 10:32 PM
You know the demons are gonna have a good time with “quiet piggy” when they’re tormenting him in hell
November 19, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Shel Silverstein calling out ChatGPT in 1981
November 19, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Every month now there’s a new Ugliest Word in English. The current champion is “Grokipedia”
November 19, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Not me getting chills as the Ghor sing their anthem, not me feeling patriotic for a fictional place
November 18, 2025 at 6:07 AM
5yo LOVES the fact that “damn” has a homophone because he can just say it unreservedly and claim, “I meant the good ‘dam’”
November 17, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Had to see Noem’s face talking on a screen while in security and now the pilot said “Gulf of America”
November 17, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Cloudscape
November 16, 2025 at 3:47 PM
from an album in my phone called “the rebellion”
November 15, 2025 at 1:37 AM
5yo: Why is it called DI-arrhea if you don’t die from it?
November 14, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Had a story accepted by The Hopkins Review :)
November 13, 2025 at 7:41 PM
*nodding sagely as I read on Wikipedia* Auroras are the result of disturbances in the Earth's magnetosphere caused by enhanced speeds of solar wind from coronal holes and coronal mass ejections
November 12, 2025 at 3:52 AM
To put this in alpha terms: Joyce Carol Oates is dragging Musk the way Achilles dragged Hector
November 12, 2025 at 2:47 AM
One way to make the case for the humanities is to show how 87-year-old Joyce Carol Oates can just easily demolish the richest man in history
November 11, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Welp. Held out to November 10 before putting on Home Alone
November 11, 2025 at 12:52 AM