people often post this stuff to imply that moral panics about the technologies of the past were quaint. But the past is full of reminders that we are on a long, slow march away from embodied experience, and that we’ve lost more of it than we can even remember

The local burger stand brought back my favorite flavor for their Milkshake of the Month. I’ve been waiting all year for another Banana Cream Pie shake. We are going to make it

I went to the Emergency Naked Bike Ride in Protest of National Guard Deployment to Portland Oregon and everyone knew you

For the next hour all alcohol is free until the full moon peaks. They don’t want you to know this

Planetariums don’t do exhibitions of the stars or planets anymore they just play National Geographic documentaries about dinosaurs or icebergs

He will never be forgotten

If you don’t expose yourself to cancer causing chemicals when you’re young, you have no heart. If you don’t stare at a microsoft excel sheet when you’re old, you have no brain

This summer I pulled an axle shaft to replace the hub gasket and revealed that the spindle was so irreparably bent that it was impossible to get the thing reassembled. Turned a ten minute job into weeks of effort and a full rear end swap 😑

Everybody SAYS they want do something about microplastics yet nobody wants to bring back Hemacite, 1880s plastic forerunner made from compressed sawdust and cow's blood

Oftentimes during the day when I'm working, I think of Pontious Pilate so strongly I have to stop what I'm doing and walk away for a moment. He may be the only American in the bible.

I like in a nonfiction book when all the sudden there's a big break for a pictures section. The author's like "oh by the way these are the guys I was telling you about."

I'm not joking when I say many of these types subconsciously want to build an artificial superintelligence that annihilates humanity just because it will *personally* relieve them of the burden of dealing with other people.

HR lady interviewing me just asked me to describe the hypothetical path an ant would take walking across the surface of a 4 dimensional cube so that it touched each face only once. The job pays 14.50 an hour