The Birdbassador

"how to blow up the torment nexus" i guess is what i want more of

there has to be a middle path in hci research between papers like "improving the efficiency of the torment nexus through cache-aware pain needle distribution" and "nexus to locus: an autoethnography of torment nexus experiences through the lens of the mediated self"

nowadays there are two contenders for funniest thing to do as a political comedian:
1) inscrutable, increasingly baroque soyjak memes nested in multiple layers of irony
2) propaganda of the deed

in 1995 the absolute funniest thing you could do as a political comedian was make write a "topical" parody of the "twelve days of christmas" where it was like "ten deficits a leaping"

THE COMPUTER Fitzhugh Dodson A computer is a thinking machine, The smartest one you've ever seen! It thinks up questions and answers too, Before you have time to tie your shoe! But every computer can only do What some person has told it to!

i was trying to remember which president was the one who died from eating too much cherries and milk (zachary taylor) and apparently if you aren't already familiar with that story people think you are nuts for going "c'mon, you know, the president who died from all the cherries and milk"

very cobbled-together image with a bunch of birds photoshopped onto a white background around the text (3 lines on different fonts): "birds" "IS TALKING" "/listen and learn/" above symbols indicating "no talking" and "listen quietly"

placing a moratorium on responding to chats with thematically related panels from achewood until i have developed an actual independent personality

pile of three books: camus' the myth of sisyphus, wittgenstein's tractatus logico-philosophicus, and volume 1 of eguchi's "stop!! hibari-kun"

does this count as environmental storytelling

tmg is playing in the zoo that was like four blocks from my old apt in seattle, do i go back to see them or not. guaranteed to be upset either way

A sign with some Chinese text, reading "外国人来华工作许可系统故障，请耐心等待" ("The system for foreigners to obtain a Chinese work permit is malfunctioning, please wait patiently"). The English translation on the sign instead reads "Please wait patiently for the failure of the system."

reposting with better alt

arthur wellesley: "there is talk about an imperial eagle, sharpe."

"not in this neck of the woods, sir; we only get golden eagles and white-tailed eagles in the uk, and even then mostly in scotland"

nobody told me about this series for some reason, extremely rude
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9aroePaO90

woke up at 5AM in the exact pose of the hanged man arcana, an omen that experts are calling "a bit on the nose"

🔹 🔷 💠 <- time lapse of you about to be incinerated by ramiel the fifth angel

another 👤 thought is that "👤" reads as solidly male gendered to me. i think the real gender neutral/gender ambiguous/agender default avatar should be a random screenshot of an anime character. in my experience, the anime character avatar seems to cross all gender and political lines. there are […]

certain iconography seems sticky even after the referent all but disappears. famously floppy disks for save icons, but also hourglasses for time/waiting, phone handsets/mics for audio calls, etc. i wonder what the next obsolete bit of tech iconography will be. hopefully flags for language […]

got really excited by an email with the subject "A new shape just dropped 👀 " before seeing that it was from a fidget ring company

it must be quite a relief to academics when they discover that the thing they are studying ends up being nuanced and polysemic and complicated. "how lucky for me!" they must think.

I've got whozits and whatzits galore
You want thingamabobs? I've got twenty!
But who cares? No big deal
I want more.
This, "more", for Lacan, is the object-cause of desire. In this particular case, while I have innumerable objects of surface life, I feel I am lacking the "Real" experience of […]

apparently nobody around me knows who mary oliver was, is this an xkcd familiarity comic thing? i thought wild geese was up there with two-headed calf and perhaps even wcw icebox plums in terms of General Poem Knowing

greeting card featuring a goose with the caption "let the soft animal of your body love what it loves", which is a quotation from the mary oliver poem "wild geese"

had to get the mary oliver card from the bookstore, sorry

after the revolution, well-meaning but misguided mom asking me if i've gone to the commune's labor assignment center and just seen if there was an opening for a socialist-realist novelist, that it can't hurt to ask, and, plus, the local anarcho-syndicalist soviet likes to see people with gumption

re-assessing yam, king of crops

(sobbing) but doctor! this *is* my professional mastodon

in 2017 a popular twitter game was to type a partial phrase then see what your phone auto-completes it with.

this proved so popular that it is now the only business model in the US.

i think somebody could write a fascinating paper about the tone, content, and user interfaces of mandatory hr training modules. like it has to be intentional that they are all designed so very weirdly but also idiosyncratically weirdly. am i going to be taken through an interactive slideshow? a […]

keep rejecting my academic writing and it just makes me want to do non-academic writing more. this is a threat.

Figure captioned "Frequency of beak (orange, right bar), tail (green, left bar) and wing use in rosy-faced lovebirds (Agapornis roseicollis). Wing use was not observed at any substrate angle." The data is in the form of a 90 degree arc sweep with bar charts at 90, 67.5, 45, 22.5, and 0 degree angles. At 90 degrees tails and beaks were used 100%. Tail use remained common until 45 degrees, after which it ceased, but beak use declined at a faster rate.

Figure captioned "Representative cycle observed during vertical climbing in rosy-faced lovebirds (Agapornis roseicollis)." A series of black and white photos of a lovebird climbing is juxtaposed with a gantt chart of which extremities (left and right hindlimbs, beak, and tail) are in use.

extremely good figures in this one

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9115034/

I think cia deleting the world factbook website might be my breaking point