Melancholy Yuga
@MelancholyYuga
My views own.
Mary, Mary, meta-contrary, How does your garden grow? With gentle rain, and great disdain, For botanists' claims to "know".
"Aha!" said Joyce Carol Oates, ripping off her white bonnet in triumph. "You totally probably said that celibacy would be 'unnatural'. And yet are you yourself not in fact a MONK??" Thomas howled in pain of contradiction. "Sed contra! Sed contra!" he gasped patriarchically.
Oliver, I was just joking about the Angelic Doctor. Forgive me! Women find nothing to not-adore in the “natural law” whereby the average woman might endure a dozen—two dozen?—pregnancies before dying; & for men, not impregnating them would be “unnatural.” Fun times, natural-law…
I heard there was a secret blog That chronicled the Age of Prog Whose author had into some books quite old dug. Now the vast Cathedral's spinning hard As tanks roll into Harvard Yard The redpilled normies reading Mencius Moldbug! Mencius Moldbug (x3) Mencius Mooooollldbug.
brahms: smiling through tears liquid glass: tiling through smears
people need to come to meetings on time, but y'all not ready for that conversation
Why are comedy sketches so difficult to end? The default strategy is just to escalate until the scene falls apart, but this feels forced.
rolling up to my gf with “hey bb u look like an angel” only to be informed that the term refers to their office and not to their nature
I was glad to have known mst. We had many good-natured disagreements over the years, but he was an unfailing gentleman in them, and I always felt I had something to learn from him. It would only embarrass him for me to relate how privately generous he was in word and deed.
apparently @shadowcat_mst has died social.vmbrasseur.com/@vmbrasseur/11… > FYI for #Perl folk: mst (Matt S. Trout) has crossed the rainbow bridge. > shadowcat.co.uk/2025/07/09/rip… > #RIP
opponents of hereditary knighthood criticized the custom by pointing out: "the tap is not meritory"
What's the better name for a blog about the history of measurement, quantification, history/future of science and most likely a bunch of other stuff besides?
I was talking to someone in AI recently and mentioned my suspicion that a lot of the people involved are basically indifferent as to the long-term survival of humanity They replied, in very posh terms, that they were basically indifferent as to the long-term survival of humanity
If you will overlook my own inclusion (presumably due to clerical error), @ulkar_aghayeva has excellent taste. And if you are interested in such things as metascience, composition, early music, or views that resist categorization, give her a follow as well.
some of them you probably know but these are all excellent @a_manifolder @ever_verdant @MelancholyYuga @winterpard @LackOfView @amirism_ @niplav_site @AnnaLeptikon @eryney_ok @yokaihainen
tonight I sang some 15th century music and dined at taco bell #brandstrategy
TIL Engels had a girlfriend who just went to a different school
who called it spicy chinese chicken and not herbie hancock
who called it victorian brainrot and not content consumption
the arc of history is long, but it bends towards short-form video content rakhim.exotext.com/but-what-if-i-…
the original and updated covers of Amusing Ourselves to Death offer a poignant meta-commentary on the book's thesis
you’re telling me the guy who wrote about the dehumanizing effects of technology was named dr BORGMANN?
