Reo Eveleth

Albini Sessions (Benefit for Letters Charity), by Fugazi 12 track album

Holy heck, Fugazi just released the 1992 Albini sessions for Bandcamp Friday! Proceeds going to Letters Charity.

Very fun to find old notes to yourself that are vaguely terrifying. Today I found a note from January that says:

become the cactus
eyeball cave pearls

Are we falling out of love with nonfiction? In the early 2020s, readers flocked to books to explain political turbulence. But is the world now too grim to read about – and are podcasters taking the place of authors?

my view on this is that publishers should stop it with the 80k wordcount obsession, so many contemporary non-fic books are obviously 40-50k pieces of work stretched to the extent that they become very boring to read - just let people write cheaper, shorter books! www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...

"British female track and field athletes are being asked to cover the cost of their own £185 sex tests if they want to compete internationally"

A tax on women courtesy of the Gender Critical.

You know feminism /s 🙄

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tbh a new goal, what a way to go!!

booooooo (I laughed)

I'm not a moray eel expert or anything but I have seen them while diving many many times and I simply do not think that they would tear a living human apart if one was dumped into their pool? But maybe I'm wrong!?!?

I guess this comes originally from here: "Pliny the Elder in Book IX of Historia Naturalis, which is wholly devoted to sealife, mentions, in the chapter on moray eel behaviour, the macabre penchant of a certain Vedius Pollio, an equestrian and a friend of Augustus."

Just read a passing reference to the idea that Vedius Pollio fed slaves to eels. On quick search, I am seeing repeated that he had "a great pool of moray eels" & would throw slaves in to be "ripped apart." This doesn't match what I know of moray eel behavior at all. @greenleejw.bsky.social help?

I really don't think I should have to verify that I am human to look at the Cheesecake Factory menu online. Dogs and robots should be able to look at 57 types of cheesecakes too.

kill the imposter syndrome in you head because not only is there someone out there doing it worse than you, they're also using chat gpt to do it

Anyways.

Screenshot of The Guardian with the top 42% taken up by some car ad and the bottom 42% by another ad from the newspaper asking for money.

Web design in 2026 leaving a small gap where you can just about read the headline

Saw a thoughtful thread about AI, don't want to QT or argue. But. The biggest rage factor with LLMs is the people who, because genAI is transformative for coding, think it's transformative for everything else, because they devalue every other form of work and labor and knowledge.

you can tell that this isn't a real problem, because if it was this would be written by someone it happened to and not someone who it didn't happen to saying "but if it did that would have sucked."

Two Bsky posts, one by @why.bsky.team which says "Until December of last year I was using LLMs as fancy autocomplete for coding. It was nice for scaffolding out boilerplate, or giving me a gut check on some things, or banging out some boring routine stuff. In the past two months Claude has written about 99% of my code. Things are changing. Fast" The other by Paul Frazee (CTO of Bsky) which says: "A year ago, I thought LLMs were kind of neat but not that useful. I saw the code autocomplete and thought, meh. Last summer just flipped. I never ever thought I would see automated code generation like we see now. I know there’s baggage but you need to know the coders are being real about this"

Anyway, here are two people who make and operate this website, just FYI.

I am simply begging for one (1) website that isn't built and run by people with AI brainworms.

Letting Fetterman score clean dunks like this is a threat to national security

we played it in my college scramble band! It is a great song

Every so often I remember a friend who is extremely not a sports person, explaining to me that her home town football team had this amazing special song they would play to hype up the crowd.

Reader it was “Seven Nation Army.”

I had to be like “I’m sorry to tell you this but…”

That's right. You got no leg to stand on, Newsom supporters. Shut your hole. We don't need anti trans anti homeless greaseball shit. North Carolina is purple, it's not some blue stronghold.

@reveleth.com is a phenomenal writer and I so appreciate their attention, and the way the share that attention with us. This one was particularly lovely.

aw thank you!!

Okay yes, I hear you, HOWEVER I am a weenie and I have a really hard time reading/watching horror! So I have always been like "oh no no horror is not for me!!!"

The Scratch collective exists because we believe art matters, that artists matter, and that those who would have us believe otherwise—believe in "content" alone—are worth fighting head-on. My thanks to everyone who spread the word or shared kind ones of their own. Much more to come. talkscratch.com

〰️ 14 〰️ in 〰️ out 〰️ 〰️〰️ IN 〰️ These are things I read, saw, ingested, ate, listened to, or just generally thought about in the last month that I want to share with you. It's an incomplete list (obviously) but it's the...

Every month I write a (often long) newsletter about what I did, read, listened to, and made over the last month. The February recap just went up and includes a missive from Namibia, a reflection on book writing, and a playlist I made for you. reveleth.com/14-in-out/

Influencer's fleeing Dubai right now.

가정리 Fig. 2 Diagrams from William F. Gardner's Time Ball patent application, 1884, show the time ball pictured as a monument, complete with doric columns. Figure 3 in the diagram represents the releasing apparatus that used both magnet and an electrical circuit to drop the ball when the noon signal was received via telegraphic circuit. (Boston file, in "Time Ball Reports, " Records of the Hydrogmaphic Office, United States Navy, National Archives Records Administration, Record Group 37, Entry 64) no Gardner IN PENTOR

I learned that the phrase "on the ball" comes from the Greenwich Observatory's time ball that signalled to sailors that it was 1 pm. My mind is very easily blown, but this is also why there is a ball drop on NYE. Why yes, I do have an article due and may be procrastinating. Why do you ask?

Hello @ghost.org / @johnonolan.bsky.social is there any plan to make it easier to add alt-text to images in galleries? I understand that right now you have to drag the image out, put the alt text in, and then drag it back into the gallery. This is... annoying! Is there any chance this will change?

The good news: I have had a useful breakthrough in the novel I am working on.

The bad news: That breakthrough is that in fact I am, once again, accidentally writing horror.

(Sigh, @amalelmohtar.com, as always you are right, I think I am a horror writer. Horrible!!!!)

I have finally purchased an e-reader after years of saying "eh it's fine I can read on my phone."