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did any of Jane Austen’s heroines marry a man with less money than they had?

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the F-104 Starfighter is an incredibly shitty plane but man does it look cool, you could drop it into a Star Wars movie practically unchanged.

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huh I hadn’t heard that one.

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one could define an abstract logical concept “grubthorp” which represents the set of propositions whose implications most accurately describes the world and in five minutes some idiot would be like well what if the real Grubthorp was the things which if affirmed would most optimise human flourishing in the imaginary past society I happen to idolise.

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if you’re ever feeling down, just remember that you matter to the universe, or at the very least you are matter in the universe, which is kind of the same thing.

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I was talking with some of the old-timers at Microsoft, and they noted with wry amusement how in 20 years we’ve gone from being the Evil Empire to being a complete nonentity in discussions about Silicon Valley malfeasance. I mean, look at any “evil technology companies!” thinkpiece: they’ll always bring up Facebook and Uber, usually Google and Amazon, occasionally Apple (for reasons I still don’t understand), but never Microsoft.

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no gods, no masters, no stable APIs

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I was wondering if people on tumblr preferred gifs to videos. Many people told me that the sound was missing (and because I'm proud of my owl dubbing). I repost the video version here

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adding Gasolina to my emo playlist for reasons that escape me

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holding up a boombox outside your window (playing Creep)

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ruining a perfectly good song with a poorly chosen music video framing device; many such cases!

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I used to post too much as I was compensating for something and now I don't post enough as I'm compensating for something else, can't fucking win on this site

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was eating dental floss earlier & got some dental floss stuck in my teeth & had to dental floss it out. hair of the dog...

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I'm bored, amuse me

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the fact that we now have two competing colloquial meanings for "drops" (both "abandons," as in "Elon Musk drops lawsuit against OpenAI"; and "releases, announces," as in "Chappell Roan drops new album") is moderately annoying. they're not quite used in overlapping contexts, but it feels like the ambiguity is only going to increase over time

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me and the boys are making real progress on some of the fundamental issues

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I regret reading Lewis Dartnell's apocalypse prep book "The Knowledge: How to Rebuild our World from Scratch" in 2018 because (1) I retained nothing, (2) if civilization ever collapses I'll be harassed by crucial details dancing out of mental reach for the rest of my brief life