Rated for mild peril and strong language
@nerd-cave-alpha.bsky.social
Early 50s mad scientist and dadfather. Love DND, Star Trek/Wars, Baroque classical and nerdy pop culture.
My son is ADHD and still has more self-awareness than Musk. I’m talking enough solar masses to form a black hole by comparison.
May 12, 2025 at 6:14 AM
My son is ADHD and still has more self-awareness than Musk. I’m talking enough solar masses to form a black hole by comparison.
When Temu Joseph Goebbels is trying to resurrect the Hitlerjugend without specifically calling it that. Because of the implication.
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." -George Santayana (1905)
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." -George Santayana (1905)
May 1, 2025 at 4:44 PM
When Temu Joseph Goebbels is trying to resurrect the Hitlerjugend without specifically calling it that. Because of the implication.
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." -George Santayana (1905)
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." -George Santayana (1905)
It’s one of those dark questions: How much is a person’s life worth, if you know without say, a $75,000 chemotherapy treatment, they will die within 4 months?
Now extend that to environmental concerns. Where an investor KNOWS (because scientists have told them) cancer rates will rise by 35%.
Now extend that to environmental concerns. Where an investor KNOWS (because scientists have told them) cancer rates will rise by 35%.
December 12, 2024 at 5:59 PM
It’s one of those dark questions: How much is a person’s life worth, if you know without say, a $75,000 chemotherapy treatment, they will die within 4 months?
Now extend that to environmental concerns. Where an investor KNOWS (because scientists have told them) cancer rates will rise by 35%.
Now extend that to environmental concerns. Where an investor KNOWS (because scientists have told them) cancer rates will rise by 35%.
I don’t care how good this song sounded when the late, great Leon Redbone sang it with Zooey Deschanel, it’s still a date rape tune. This is the ending I’d prefer:
December 10, 2024 at 11:49 PM
I don’t care how good this song sounded when the late, great Leon Redbone sang it with Zooey Deschanel, it’s still a date rape tune. This is the ending I’d prefer:
Even though I’m an advocate, Microsoft Office is VERY insistent about recommending Oxford Comma usage.
December 2, 2024 at 3:58 PM
Even though I’m an advocate, Microsoft Office is VERY insistent about recommending Oxford Comma usage.
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #2,646,402!
September 27, 2024 at 7:17 PM
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #2,646,402!
For the ladies: A guide to dating based on adult hobbies. Sportsball room themes are conspicuously absent.
July 24, 2024 at 7:47 AM
For the ladies: A guide to dating based on adult hobbies. Sportsball room themes are conspicuously absent.
“This list is incomplete. You can help by expanding it.”
July 9, 2024 at 1:56 AM
“This list is incomplete. You can help by expanding it.”
All things being equal, you’re the only sect of Christianity with a superhero costume.
July 3, 2024 at 9:18 PM
All things being equal, you’re the only sect of Christianity with a superhero costume.
For an old friend who believes in this stuff, but is cool with me not believing and giving her occasional shit for it.
May 23, 2024 at 9:18 PM
For an old friend who believes in this stuff, but is cool with me not believing and giving her occasional shit for it.
Who thought an animated story from 1981 would be so prescient?
May 21, 2024 at 10:29 PM
Who thought an animated story from 1981 would be so prescient?
Blessed be the fruit.
May 21, 2024 at 10:03 PM
Blessed be the fruit.
Nuke (from orbit): As per my last email…
May 8, 2024 at 12:45 AM
Nuke (from orbit): As per my last email…
Support heliocentrism if you must, but this is my new favorite theory on orbital mechanics.
April 22, 2024 at 8:14 PM
Support heliocentrism if you must, but this is my new favorite theory on orbital mechanics.
The shift leader is going to need some ointment on that burn.
April 16, 2024 at 9:11 PM
The shift leader is going to need some ointment on that burn.
This Easter, for the non-fantasy gamers among us, a handy reference:
March 31, 2024 at 3:33 PM
This Easter, for the non-fantasy gamers among us, a handy reference:
My one overarching fascination with the Internet is that it manages to create or seek out uniqueness and esoterica. Because there are times when you wonder if the Book of the Dead ever weighed testicles instead of hearts against the Feather of Truth, and somehow the Internet never disappoints.
February 20, 2024 at 4:03 PM
My one overarching fascination with the Internet is that it manages to create or seek out uniqueness and esoterica. Because there are times when you wonder if the Book of the Dead ever weighed testicles instead of hearts against the Feather of Truth, and somehow the Internet never disappoints.
I'm trying...
February 3, 2024 at 3:54 AM
I'm trying...
This is what Infinity War should have been about. All Thanos wants is some fucking peace and quiet.
January 21, 2024 at 12:47 PM
This is what Infinity War should have been about. All Thanos wants is some fucking peace and quiet.
Trying to picture AI art of Matt Damon standing over a banana man he’s punched out that’s bleeding pulp from the rind and in his best Will Hunting Boston brogue he’s all, “HOW DYA LIKE DEM APPLES!?”
January 20, 2024 at 9:58 PM
Trying to picture AI art of Matt Damon standing over a banana man he’s punched out that’s bleeding pulp from the rind and in his best Will Hunting Boston brogue he’s all, “HOW DYA LIKE DEM APPLES!?”
Good thing I only have one heart that’s aching from this truth.
January 19, 2024 at 12:53 PM
Good thing I only have one heart that’s aching from this truth.
Old joke but always hilarious.
January 19, 2024 at 11:15 AM
Old joke but always hilarious.
[relatable sigh]
January 18, 2024 at 8:09 AM
[relatable sigh]