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They call soccer “the beautiful game”, usually because they haven’t played Celeste

05.03.2026 05:44 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I ask why there are two loaves of bread in blocks of resin at the bar. “A lot of people ask us what the difference is between a hoagie and a roll, so we did this to show them. Of course, it raises its own set of questions.” He’s said this a million times. He does not want to be telling me this.

05.03.2026 05:43 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

# define True (fprintf(stderr, "Have you been writing Python again? Am I not enough for you?\n") || true)

04.03.2026 00:42 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Entschuldigung aber was heißt "German"?

02.03.2026 16:12 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thanks!! Emerging from the Math Hole has been a pretty big opportunity to explore life more fully & work on myself.

02.03.2026 02:01 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Yeah it definitely seems related to a devaluing of emotional/organizational work that a lot of men pick up. “oh, someone will take care of that.”

i appreciate you excluding me but i struggle with this too! i wish i were as good at finishing things as i am at starting them. meta-goal for this year.

02.03.2026 00:52 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

the person we were talking about last night, though?

01.03.2026 17:11 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I dreamt I overheard police officers talking about “milking human subjects”. It was clearly cop slang but I couldn’t tell if it meant bureaucratic processing of detainees, driving around looking for people to harass, or something else. Then had a 2nd dream about trying to decode the phrase. Curious…

23.02.2026 00:43 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

How bout Orville Sash?

20.02.2026 14:03 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Today is the 1-year anniversary of my second album!

Release show vid feat. @pvk.bsky.social, cutely shot by his mom, at Hole in the Wall in Austin, TX.

Listen to So Lows on any streamies! I like hifi Tidal the best. 😘

tidal.com/album/416031...

14.02.2026 18:48 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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12.02.2026 15:51 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Post a banger that's not in English
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JEQ...

10.02.2026 02:30 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

there's a passage in HOW MUSIC WORKS where david byrne details one of his lyric writing processes and it's mostly making random noises until he likes them, and then he finds the words closest to them and i really try to keep that in mind when i'm writing music!!!

09.02.2026 20:08 👍 326 🔁 4 💬 15 📌 4

music is sound art. it is textural, rhythmic, melodic, a game of tension and release, a conversation between expectation of the listener and the song itself, and reduce it to lyrics only displays the same lack of artistic palette as someone who can only appreciate “realistic” visual art

09.02.2026 20:01 👍 637 🔁 63 💬 10 📌 6

my opinion on the Bad Bunny halftime show, and non-English music in general, is that i think a need to “be able to understand the lyrics” displays an embarrassing shallowness of the speaker to appreciate the voice as an instrument & to appreciate music as something other than a lyric delivery system

09.02.2026 19:59 👍 3760 🔁 839 💬 110 📌 168

just one more...

06.02.2026 15:45 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

In science class once they made us rinse a cheese puff and it looked identical to Styrofoam. “See? This is what you hogs eat.” But they couldn’t quench our fire…

05.02.2026 15:08 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Weird. No clue.

05.02.2026 01:58 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Digital pedals use more. For a basic analog pedal like a DS1 or something I think you’d expect like 4-10 mA.

05.02.2026 01:36 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

And it’s the current that splits btw (like a river splitting into rivulets), the voltage is 9V for all pedals on the same supply. So like the manual for the RV6 says it uses 95 mA of current. Your power supply probably has some writing on it saying how much current it can deliver.

05.02.2026 01:30 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I have no idea, that’s a good question. Maybe you had it inserted in such a way that it was still sending the signal but not engaging the “cable is inserted” detector (which uses a mechanical feature of the input jack). Was it doing the reverb stuff? Or just working bypassed?

05.02.2026 01:27 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
Christian Bale batman

Christian Bale batman

you've read your last free article, joker...

04.02.2026 15:51 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Do we know where the yellow filter on ChatGPT image generations comes from? I’m kinda sympathetic to it being an intentional watermarking measure because it seems trivial to correct in a post-processing step

04.02.2026 05:58 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Incredible movie with an incredible soundtrack. The "Beautiful Treasures" theme first shows up in the early scene at the textile mill, but slow and in the background. So when they finally actually sing the song, it's like a release of an unnoticed tension.

03.02.2026 19:39 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

A little awkward because that term describes both the object and an endomorphism of that object, but pretty good, I think! And I love how "Frobenius" has apotheosized into counting as literal, haha

03.02.2026 19:30 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Any suggestions for renaming Witt vectors?

03.02.2026 19:23 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
From X:
Renaud Foucart
@RenaudFoucart
Few people now this but the Epstein library can be used to bypass academic journal paywalls. You search for a paper and if someone sent it to Epstein the pdf is there.

From X: Renaud Foucart @RenaudFoucart Few people now this but the Epstein library can be used to bypass academic journal paywalls. You search for a paper and if someone sent it to Epstein the pdf is there.

New sci-hub just dropped.

02.02.2026 14:47 👍 95 🔁 20 💬 3 📌 1

I love Mother
I love her way
I love her gospel
Precepts to obey

03.02.2026 18:03 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1

It’s like all those episodes of House where it turns out that the patient was fine and Dr. House was just being overly dramatic.

01.02.2026 02:39 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Got this far in before realizing that the replacement battery I was using was also dead. This concludes your latest installment of Pedals Hospital.

01.02.2026 02:38 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0