Abacus Wizard @abacuswizard.bsky.social · 2hI might even go a step further. If a state has less than, say, a million people in it, maybe it should go back to being a territory again. 040
Abacus Wizard @abacuswizard.bsky.social · 3hFlorida doesn’t have the mythos. Florida is beaches and citrus orchards and Disney World and gators and retirement communities and weird Florida Man headlines, not rugged cowboy individualism. 2110
Abacus Wizard @abacuswizard.bsky.social · 4hWhen I was in college there were some new benches installed near the math department, and groundskeeping put signs on the benches saying PLEASE DO NOT PARK BIKES HERE with DO NOT printed in red ink. Except as it turns out the red ink faded to white in the sunlight pretty quickly. 000
Abacus Wizard @abacuswizard.bsky.social · 4hBrazor: “The Emperor needn’t lower himself to fight this rabble.” Meanwhile, the rabble: 020
Abacus Wizard @abacuswizard.bsky.social · 4hYeah, as I understand it the UC system was originally intended to be completely tuition-free for Californians. For a while they were charging “student fees” to cover costs, but the “fees” kept getting bigger and bigger, and at some point they just started calling it tuition anyway. 020
Abacus Wizard @abacuswizard.bsky.social · 4hApparently that got changed to mere house arrest. But importantly, I said “arsonistS,” not “arsonist.” One is not enough. 050
Abacus Wizard @abacuswizard.bsky.social · 5hEven the fictional ultra-right-wing newspaper in Watchmen had a “crank file” of letters-to-the-editor so out-there that they wouldn’t publish them unless they had absolutely nothing else to print. Now-a-days everything in the crank file would just go directly to the comments section for all to see. 030
Abacus Wizard @abacuswizard.bsky.social · 5hI think the normies need to start realizing that fixing everything needs to start with prosecuting and imprisoning the arsonists. 31285
Abacus Wizard @abacuswizard.bsky.social · 6hHeathcliff continues to be the most delightfully surreal comic in the modern funny pages. 000
Abacus Wizard @abacuswizard.bsky.social · 7hI take a Victorian-handbill approach to graphic design. Cramming as many fonts and dingbats as possible into your flyer is how you *win*. 120
Abacus Wizard @abacuswizard.bsky.social · 7hBut not without gentle advice from their more experienced elders! 010
Abacus Wizard @abacuswizard.bsky.social · 7hThe People have been using clip art for centuries; it’s an important tradition and should be continued! 000
Abacus Wizard @abacuswizard.bsky.social · 7hI genuinely can’t even begin to answer the question unless you can tell me what “conscious” means. 000
Abacus Wizard @abacuswizard.bsky.social · 7hGranny’s entire character is a master-class in ways to subtly (and sometimes not so subtly) steer the way other people think and act. 0120
Abacus Wizard @abacuswizard.bsky.social · 7hI spent a lot of time in college thinking and reading and arguing and writing essays about what a mind is and what it would mean for a machine to have a mind, and that was fun. I was not expecting that 20+ years later all that would become *relevant* and I am not happy about it. 040
Abacus Wizard @abacuswizard.bsky.social · 7hI think the problem is that it’s not really about one specific guy because it’s about so *many* guys. 190
Abacus Wizard @abacuswizard.bsky.social · 7hNo, I don’t know what you mean. I have a lot of things. Which one of them is “conscious”? 100
Abacus Wizard @abacuswizard.bsky.social · 8hWhen you say “conscious,” what do you mean? Without any definition it may as well be a nonsense word. 100
Abacus Wizard @abacuswizard.bsky.social · 15hIf you don’t know what it is, and you don’t know how to measure it, why base an entire system of ethics around it? 110
Abacus Wizard @abacuswizard.bsky.social · 16hThen why would you use that to determine whether someone deserves rights? 110
Abacus Wizard @abacuswizard.bsky.social · 19hGood heavens. He has absolutely no idea why we change the clocks. He has absolutely no idea how clocks work. He is utterly clueless and has decided to make it everybody’s problem. 000
Abacus Wizard @abacuswizard.bsky.social · 19hI saw it in Philosophy of Mind class in college and wrote an essay about it. In the last few months I’ve been watching TNG in order from the beginning (for the first time) and spent the whole first season-anna-half looking forward to this one. It’s magnificent. 130
Abacus Wizard @abacuswizard.bsky.social · 04/10/2026As soon as I saw the image I immediately started looking for “…by Chuck Tingle”; it just seems like his sort of cover art layout. 010
Abacus Wizard @abacuswizard.bsky.social · 04/10/2026To me, the final duel in THE MARK OF ZORRO (1940 version) is still the greatest swordfight in the history of cinema—not only for the swordplay itself, but also for how it fits into the overall plot.youtube.comZorro 1935 - Tyrone Power & Basil Rathbone [final duel]YouTube video by clautchernev 040
Abacus Wizard @abacuswizard.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Based solely on the trailers I’ve seen, it looks like they’ve hit exactly the right blend of taking the source material seriously and also not taking themselves too seriously. So yeah, I think they understood the assignment, so to speak. 000
Abacus Wizard @abacuswizard.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I’ve heard that the model train chase sequence was the first part of The Wrong Trousers they planned out—everything else in the film was designed to build up to that scene. 000
Abacus Wizard @abacuswizard.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Okay, *parts* of Reacher Gilt. Specifically SPOILER ALERT all the stuff about using questionable methods to buy up a tech company and then acting like one of the founders/innovators. 190
Abacus Wizard @abacuswizard.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Pterry was truly a master of the delayed-detonation stealth pun. 0210
Abacus Wizard @abacuswizard.bsky.social · 04/10/2026It was a long time after reading Going Postal that I finally got the “twelve and a half percent” joke. 1260
Abacus Wizard @abacuswizard.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Everyone else: arguing about whether Elon Musk is Lex Luthor or Tony Stark Me, an intellectual: Elon Musk is *obviously* Reacher Gilt (derogatory) 1201
Abacus Wizard @abacuswizard.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I always thought it tremendously unjust that kindergarteners have to take naps when they don’t want to, while grown-ups really want to take naps but don’t have time. 030
Abacus Wizard @abacuswizard.bsky.social · 03/10/2026“i still can’t get my head around it but i’m not upset anymore” Dang, if we could just get everyone to adopt this mindset, we could wrap things up and have utopia by next week. 010
Abacus Wizard @abacuswizard.bsky.social · 03/10/2026That’s nice but I’m still rooting for the orcas. 010
Reposted by Abacus WizardAbacus Wizard @abacuswizard.bsky.social · 03/10/2026In America you can never truly be lost—if you’re out in the wilderness and can’t find your way, just whisper the word “free” and a libertarian will jump out from behind a tree and say “ACKSHUALLY it’s not FREE, it’s paid for by TAXPAYERS” and then you can ask him for directions to the nearest town. 011
Abacus Wizard @abacuswizard.bsky.social · 03/10/2026In America you can never truly be lost—if you’re out in the wilderness and can’t find your way, just whisper the word “free” and a libertarian will jump out from behind a tree and say “ACKSHUALLY it’s not FREE, it’s paid for by TAXPAYERS” and then you can ask him for directions to the nearest town. 011
Abacus Wizard @abacuswizard.bsky.social · 03/10/2026static.klipy.comThor Ragnarok: He's a Friend From Work!ALT: Thor Ragnarok: He's a Friend From Work! 030
