every spider is actually a tiny artificially intelligent robot and every web they weave is AI slop
every spider is actually a tiny artificially intelligent robot and every web they weave is AI slop
Hate it when someone chops my arm off as I reach the top of the siege ladder. Ok I guess Iโll just tumble screaming into the throng of attackers below ?
Reginald Belgium would be a good name for a poet born in the early 1950s who comes to prominence and acclaim in the late 1970s.
footage leaked from a hidden camera on an abandoned space station shows xenomorphs doing push-ups on grated catwalks and pull-ups on exposed pipesโabsolutely pathetic that these aliens arenโt naturally athletic and have to work at itโhopefully this makes them less scary for all
dreamt that food was so scarce in LA that people began eating clothes. specifically people scavenged the highways for discarded clothing and when someone found an old dried encrusted clothing item on the freeway, they ate it like a drumstick and called it โLA fried chickenโ
also my favorite sports accomplishment youtube.com/shorts/Vp7w_...
nba players should be able to parkour off each others bodiesโallowing them to get to the basket by climbing a โladder of chaosโโand if it ends in a dunk you get 5 pts. if you miss the dunk or donโt score, however, then youโre charged with a foul for every person you touched
I just think itโs so cool how thereโs not any high fructose corn syrup in some foods, and at the same time, thereโs also not any parabens in some bathroom products
poking a ghost with short sticks markleidner.substack.com/p/william-ca...
please limit political commentary in the work slack
we hate him too, but slack is not the place to vent our antipathy to this man
slack is where we collabโon GRINDING ONLYโto complete tasks faster
so we can live more of our limited lifeโboldly, POLITICALLYโbeyond the work slack
iambic tetrameter ass stick
dreamt I bought warner brothers with a single poem worth more than the netflix and paramount offers combined
getting a mfa is like going to the citadel in game of thrones to become a maester
Words have such super meanings
a long-held worldview of mine is getting absolutely bodied by one of todayโs current events ๐
after the odyssey, christopher nolan needs to team up with vince gilligan to make a movie about pluribus and memento happening to the same person at the same time
bro last night was like if pluribus happened to gerard butler in greenland 2
bro last night was like if pluribus happened to gollum in middle earth
according to WME, tarantinoโs hateful comments did an estimated $70 million worth of damages to paul danoโs reputation, but on gofundme, the paul dano reputational recovery fund is now approaching $110m, exceeding its target of $70m by close to $40m as of dawn this morning
what society really needs
isnโt marty supreme
but a film in the style of marty supreme
set during biblical times
about a brash, young, iconoclastic shepherd
no one really likes
who sacrifices everythingโhis health, his relationshipsโ
to be present at the nativity
my dentist told me he dreamt tarantino
made a hagiographic prestige documentary
about paul dano as a form of penance
Faculty Hilary Plum's latest novel, "State Champ," out from @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social, was named in the @parisreview.bsky.social's "Our Favorite Books of 2025" list (selected by @markleidner.bsky.social) ๐๐โโ๏ธ๐ฉธ
Full list: www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/12...
@parisreview.bsky.social includes STATE CHAMP in its list of "Our Favorite Books of 2025!" "Hilary Plum's novel has a pulpy, political premise that is complemented by an arresting structure and complex characterization." -- @markleidner.bsky.social www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/12...
dreamt the last level of jedi training was firing up your lightsaber in the shower and having to block every single droplet of water
As long as the grid has a few of these things every so often
Itโs fucked up that in the Book of Job, the main character is made to suffer endlessly through no fault of his own, and his name is spelled the same as the thing you have to do for money 2,000 years later.
We need a massive New Deal-esque spending program to redirect all the rivers within the United States to flow along contiguous state bordersโso that a map of the United States would look like a jigsaw puzzle of states, with rivers being the seams between the pieces.
(to the tune of eleanor rigby) eleanor rigby
"Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" shouldโve been titled โThirteen Ways of Being Looked at by a Person When You Are a Blackbirdโ to center the blackbirdโs POV even though the poem is from the POV of people.