Brian Gawalt
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Followed the instructions in this book and started solving Rubik's Cubes for the first time
December 25, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Followed the instructions in this book and started solving Rubik's Cubes for the first time
Converged to regular sphere ballness with many many more rubber bands to go
December 14, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Converged to regular sphere ballness with many many more rubber bands to go
Making a rubber band ball... cube. An L-infinity rubber band ball.
December 13, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Making a rubber band ball... cube. An L-infinity rubber band ball.
mcflies, in honor of how everyone reacted to us ticking past the "back to the future part 2" year of 2015
December 11, 2025 at 11:27 PM
mcflies, in honor of how everyone reacted to us ticking past the "back to the future part 2" year of 2015
I fucked up my first attempt at making an omelette -- and I vote
December 11, 2025 at 7:32 PM
I fucked up my first attempt at making an omelette -- and I vote
Seam goes on the back of the gift/tidy side goes on the front of the gift. Most stuff is packaged this way, like these AA batteries that have the easy-open flap behind the nice looking front:
December 8, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Seam goes on the back of the gift/tidy side goes on the front of the gift. Most stuff is packaged this way, like these AA batteries that have the easy-open flap behind the nice looking front:
No clue how long they've been there -- almost certainly they were there when I posted this -- but yes, FB does have their own Wordle daily game outlet. It's just buried. (I don't even know how I became aware of them earlier this week and had to hunt for them anew to get these screenshots.)
December 5, 2025 at 7:00 PM
No clue how long they've been there -- almost certainly they were there when I posted this -- but yes, FB does have their own Wordle daily game outlet. It's just buried. (I don't even know how I became aware of them earlier this week and had to hunt for them anew to get these screenshots.)
This is no longer allowed
www.arnoldporter.com/en/perspecti...
www.arnoldporter.com/en/perspecti...
November 30, 2025 at 6:26 AM
This is no longer allowed
www.arnoldporter.com/en/perspecti...
www.arnoldporter.com/en/perspecti...
Whether it happens or not, you're absolutely gonna get to hear a big story about it
November 25, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Whether it happens or not, you're absolutely gonna get to hear a big story about it
Full strip available on request, but this one Bloom County panel was pound-for-pound the densest pop music history lesson of my childhood
November 22, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Full strip available on request, but this one Bloom County panel was pound-for-pound the densest pop music history lesson of my childhood
this is sticking around my brain and is not leaving soon and i'm also coming up short. best i got so far, and it's only ranking at "book cover people will recognize if you make a parody/homage":
November 21, 2025 at 5:52 PM
this is sticking around my brain and is not leaving soon and i'm also coming up short. best i got so far, and it's only ranking at "book cover people will recognize if you make a parody/homage":
i.e., this account is lying to you
November 20, 2025 at 5:15 PM
i.e., this account is lying to you
The theme, put in the conclusion as "[u]ltimately human welfare is a matter of subjectivities," got me to plot out the General Social Survey series for "are you happy" and it's pretty stable until COVID, from which we haven't recovered. It's *not* the usual "you can see the Reagan era" graph.
November 18, 2025 at 12:28 AM
The theme, put in the conclusion as "[u]ltimately human welfare is a matter of subjectivities," got me to plot out the General Social Survey series for "are you happy" and it's pretty stable until COVID, from which we haven't recovered. It's *not* the usual "you can see the Reagan era" graph.
in ALIEN, the opening seq has a drinking sippy bird bobbing up and down. later you realize it means Ash was up scheming (and bird tapping) while everyone else was hyperslept. in ALIENS, you see several stupid magnet versions spinning around while the marines are hyperslept for no reason at all. bad.
November 17, 2025 at 6:42 AM
in ALIEN, the opening seq has a drinking sippy bird bobbing up and down. later you realize it means Ash was up scheming (and bird tapping) while everyone else was hyperslept. in ALIENS, you see several stupid magnet versions spinning around while the marines are hyperslept for no reason at all. bad.
Seeing this make the rounds as a meme this week and it just goes to show you: aronofsky is one of the greats and we're lucky to have him. "I'm going to take the concept of infinity/addiction/Noah's ark/pro wrestling and make it maximally dourly unsettling to live thru" is what it's all about.
November 17, 2025 at 5:31 AM
Seeing this make the rounds as a meme this week and it just goes to show you: aronofsky is one of the greats and we're lucky to have him. "I'm going to take the concept of infinity/addiction/Noah's ark/pro wrestling and make it maximally dourly unsettling to live thru" is what it's all about.
Ooooof, to not use the word "DVD" in this sentence is to say whatever gas it is they mix with the helium is what makes helium balloons float
November 16, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Ooooof, to not use the word "DVD" in this sentence is to say whatever gas it is they mix with the helium is what makes helium balloons float
This is the *the* big divide in the "what was 2020" rashomon. No, man, they closed the day cares and the playground and the schools, it was not Down Time over here.
November 16, 2025 at 4:49 PM
This is the *the* big divide in the "what was 2020" rashomon. No, man, they closed the day cares and the playground and the schools, it was not Down Time over here.
this late-breaking paragraph has gotta be one of the mayoral fatalities of all time
medium.com/3streams/zoh...
medium.com/3streams/zoh...
![Screenshot of a late paragraph in the linked Medium essay:
"The war [WWI] resulted in more than Mitchel’s electoral defeat. After the election, he volunteered to learn to fly military aircraft and died in a training accident: failing to wear his seatbelt, he simply fell out of his airplane (Wallace 2017, 997). You can find his monument in Central Park."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:43nhmzgiugf65gwskj3kpfj5/bafkreigr7x6sgjrfpjngb2mr23wtz2bgufwii2bumaa7tkoscdq7pzodry@jpeg)
November 12, 2025 at 5:07 PM
this late-breaking paragraph has gotta be one of the mayoral fatalities of all time
medium.com/3streams/zoh...
medium.com/3streams/zoh...
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November 12, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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