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Joel Roston

@bointillism.com

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Joel Roston @bointillism.com · 13/09/2023

I guess Lifetime Movie Network is really running low on ideas.

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Joel Roston @bointillism.com · 27/08/2023

Hey, here's a post I made to Slack this morning that didn't go over very well.

An image of a screenshot from Slack that reads, "Hey, here's a post I made to Facebook this morning that didn't go over very well." with an attendant image that reads, "Hey, here’s a joke I made last night that didn’t go over very well: I was in a conversation about popular, fictional characters from the 1970s and 1980s and I told people that, when I was a kid (1) Ronald McDonald would come to a local McDonald’s sometimes and I’d get to meet him and (2) real-life “Star Wars” characters would come to Toys R Us and I’d get to meet some of them as well.
Then, a little further down the line I said, “Oh, also at Toys R Us, I got to meet Kathleen Turner’s character from ‘Body Heat.’” followed by an ASCII shrug.

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Joel Roston @bointillism.com · 13/08/2023

Not sure.

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Joel Roston @bointillism.com · 27/07/2023

I'd have to see how they MEASURE up.

A National Geographic magazine cover with a lone shark under the text, "Sharks: Rulers of the Deep"

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Joel Roston @bointillism.com · 07/07/2023

I made this.

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Joel Roston @bointillism.com · 22/06/2023

"Nobody on the road. Nobody on the street."

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Joel Roston @bointillism.com · 20/06/2023

I MADE IT TO THE LAKE.

Felton Lake landscape at 2pm on an intermittently gray/sunshine-y day in very late spring.

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Joel Roston @bointillism.com · 18/06/2023

We're havin' a real hike over here!

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Joel Roston @bointillism.com · 16/06/2023

Attention scientists and, like, tree-people of Bluesky: @skybondsor.com and I went for a hike this morning and encountered a bunch of trees with these cool, wavy, line-y channels/grooves in them. Is there a, like, fun science-fact that explains what's happening here?

Wavy cut--out dealies in the side of a bark-less tree that fell over in the woods.

Wavy cut--out dealies in the side of a tree that fell over in the woods.

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Joel Roston @bointillism.com · 07/06/2023

I mean, the machines are polite, so that's something.

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Joel Roston @bointillism.com · 06/06/2023

The print edition of Bait/Switch’s Spring 2023 issue is NOW AVAILABLE! My piece, “A Peculiar Incident,” and the attendant interview I did, are tucked right in there on page 60. For the Internet-only people, you can check everything out here: www.baitswit.ch/a-peculiar-incident

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Joel Roston @bointillism.com · 04/06/2023

I FOUND A TUNNEL.

The entrance to the tunnel (from the side that I came in on).

Looking back at the entrance from the middle of the tunnel.

The other end of the tunnel that you come out of after walking into the side of the tunnel that I walked into (if you decide to go all the way through).

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Joel Roston @bointillism.com · 29/05/2023

Non-technologist here. Going forward, English is going to need a word that means, like, "When you instantiate an instance of an AI-powered utility with the intention of using it for practical, functional reasons, but are so curious about its capabilities that you just wind up, like, 'testing' it."

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Joel Roston @bointillism.com · 15/05/2023

I’m psyched to share, "A Peculiar Incident"— a new piece of music that I composed for the quarterly publication Bait / Switch. Check out the piece, along with a companion interview, here: www.baitswit.ch/a-peculiar-incident

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Joel Roston @bointillism.com · 15/05/2023

Man, I love this business. The more crisscrossing, bendy tube-pipe thingies, the better.

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Joel Roston @bointillism.com · 13/05/2023

Sunset hang with @skybondsor.bsky.social

Photo of the sky over the Chaz at sunset.

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