Joel Roston @bointillism.com · 08/01/2025Thank to @sawtoothwave.bsky.social for including my most recent album, "We're Able (Forty Dialogic Valences)" in their "2024 music year in review"! substack.com/inbox/post/1...substack.comInbox | Substack 082
Joel Roston @bointillism.com · 04/12/2024It's a year-and-a-half later and I've come to realize that the original post here is only half the story. I now also, intermittently, use two sets of em-dashes inside of a single sentence. 010
Joel Roston @bointillism.com · 27/11/2024As far as I can tell, Whole Foods customers tend to be in the 30- to 90-years-old range, while Trader Joe’s customers tend to exist more in both the 15- to 29-years-old and 91- to 140-years-old ranges. 100
Joel Roston @bointillism.com · 13/01/2024I've never really understood what the word "expat"/"expatriate" means. After taking a light dive this morning, I think my confusion stems from the fact that it maybe should be "EXOpat"/"EXOpatriate." 000
Joel Roston @bointillism.com · 10/01/2024I haven't hung out here for a while, but I was just playing with my cat and got a weird feeling that someone thought of this and posted it, and I was like, "If I'm right, I need to sign in and share it." 121
Joel Roston @bointillism.com · 14/09/2023There's some kind of "This is your spinal fluid on drugs" joke in here somewhere, but I'm not awake enough to find it. :/ 000
Joel Roston @bointillism.com · 13/09/2023I guess Lifetime Movie Network is really running low on ideas. 020
Joel Roston @bointillism.com · 27/08/2023Hey, here's a post I made to Slack this morning that didn't go over very well. 110
Joel Roston @bointillism.com · 05/08/2023the ol’ Aireox 45 (changing filters annually, as recommended) since, apparently, before there were different 45 models, but now we’re like, “Maybe it’s time to check in on the whole air-purifier landscape again and see what’s what.” So, I ask you: What’s what? Thank you! 110
Joel Roston @bointillism.com · 05/08/2023Attention: Scientists and scientifically-minded people of my Bluesky network (maybe not so much, like, non-science-y “independent researchers” or whatever): Might you have an air purifier recommendation? We’ve been using... 110
Joel Roston @bointillism.com · 26/07/2023Meanwhile, MARGOT ROBBIE is an anagram of MR. GO-TO BARBIE. 010
Joel Roston @bointillism.com · 25/07/2023Gut Check Alert: Is it okay that I feel like the more psilocybin a person takes, the more likely they are to call everything that ISN'T psilocybin "a neurotoxin"? 010
Joel Roston @bointillism.com · 17/07/2023As someone who’s been using chess engines to analyze his games since way before AI existed, it’s been really interesting to watch the machines go from, “Inaccuracy.” to “Daayyyuuuumm, bruh! Slick trick jimmy-jammin’ the ol’ bish downtown for a little somethin'-somethin'!" 000
Joel Roston @bointillism.com · 29/06/2023I mean this in the nicest possible way, but what sort of maniac would ever click on a music theory video made by a guitar player? 010
Reposted by Joel RostonJP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 28/06/2023doing numbers on bluesky (20+ likes) feels like making all my buddies at the bar laugh while doing numbers on twitter feels like accidentally alerting The Predator to my location 5868631610
Joel Roston @bointillism.com · 28/06/2023Just sayin’: “Je suis le Rappeur, Il est le DJ” by DJ Jazzy Jeff and the French Prince 012
Joel Roston @bointillism.com · 26/06/2023If you ever find yourself living in Boston in the early afternoon of Monday, June 26, 2023 and you think to yourself, "I think I'll go for a long bike ride—it's not supposed to rain until around 4pm," then this is for you: It will defs rain before 4pm. 030
Joel Roston @bointillism.com · 16/06/2023Attention 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? 120
Joel Roston @bointillism.com · 09/06/2023Over the past few years, I’ve read all six Shirley Jackson novels. While I loved them all and carry special parts of each of them around with me, as far as I can tell, the only unambiguously clear impact they’ve had on me is that my phone’s customizable lock-screen reads: WHAT IS THIS WORLD? 010
Joel Roston @bointillism.com · 09/06/2023My pal @skybondsor.com and I bought an air purifier many years ago after hearing a scientist make this statement in an interview of some sort (I don't recall the person or the circumstance, but I think about the statement all the time): "If you don't own an air purifier, you ARE an air purifier." 050
Joel Roston @bointillism.com · 09/06/2023"Party A retains the right to decline the formation of a friendship for any reason." chat.openai.com/share/00fa810d-68c7… 010
Joel Roston @bointillism.com · 06/06/2023The 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 000
Joel Roston @bointillism.com · 01/06/2023I would NOT be shocked to learn that Pinterest is an alien lifeform attempting to disguise itself as a website. Like, whatever Terence McKenna thought/suspected about the origins of psilocybin is exactly on a spectrum with what I think/suspect about the origins of Pinterest. 010
Joel Roston @bointillism.com · 29/05/2023Non-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." 110
Joel Roston @bointillism.com · 28/05/2023Hahaha! That would've been awesome! "Excuse me, I'm sorry to interrupt your meal. You don't know me, but I'm wondering if you think it'd be possible to rapidly prototype an idea I have for a new technology that has to do with medical account-keeping." 010
Joel Roston @bointillism.com · 27/05/2023I've said it on every single social media platform I've joined and I'll say it again here: It simply does NOT MAKE SENSE that boomers don't like The Ramones—and we KNOW it's not about the lyrics because they love "Wooly Bully" and their special "bird is the word" song. 020
Joel Roston @bointillism.com · 27/05/2023Along a certain axis, it doesn't get more Boston-y than two strangers on the street animatedly attempting to predict how long it'll take them to prototype something. 120
Joel Roston @bointillism.com · 25/05/2023Interestingly, my personal, solo guitar compositions probably sound more like someone simply reading/reciting your original skeet than they sound like Eric Clapton playing an actual guitar. Also, for what it's worth, I think you're, very truly, a really great lake. 110
Joel Roston @bointillism.com · 25/05/2023Self checkout? Never heard of it. I'm talking about bagging my own groceries as a cashier scans them, my friend! 110
