Reposted by maundering yokelmaundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · 28/02/2026drinking 500ml of mead in order to become this guy 061
maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · 9hcould never really get into anne carson. congrats to everyone who could get into anne carson 080
maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · 07/10/2026do you think somebody whispered in trump's ear about his ability to cause chaos renaming things or is it an aspect of his sort of protean trickster nature to know he can do this 030
maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · 07/10/2026wow, this might be a good opportunity for her to make a break for it 1110
maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I also think it's probably vaguely related to how strong organized labor is in hollywood productions, and there is probably a lot of good in acknowledging all the good work the key grip or whoever is doing even on the worst TV show 140
maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · 06/10/2026yeah I think that's what's rubbing me the wrong way, the idea that a sort of dissociated appreciation of craft is more enlightened and valid than the success of the whole project 250
maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · 06/10/2026feels like a weird take. people expect stories to fully hang together from beginning to end because that's what's satisfying, but it's also very difficult. so most original stories with compelling premises start much better than they end, revealing something genuinely disappointing 5260
Reposted by maundering yokelSamuel Pepys @samuelpepys.bsky.social · 06/10/2026My wife waked to ring the bell to call up our mayds to the washing, and I was and she angry that our bell did not wake them sooner, but I will get a bigger bell. 2647
maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · 05/10/2026the other half of this would be like my concurrent limewire library but if that's on a hard drive somewhere I am not motivated to find it 050
maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · 05/10/2026need to find my high school CD binder and honestly confront its contents before I can do one of those album lists 2100
maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · 05/10/2026hey quick question what video games could this guy possibly be referring to 120
maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · 05/10/2026slowed my car down to look at a bunch of big mushrooms growing in someone's yard and an acorn hit my roof like a gunshot. I immediately thought like "what an autumnal scenario" 1120
maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I guess I'm conflating "truly frightened" with the strictly unheimlich, here. I definitely got effectively made jumpy or grossed out by things in a similar time frame but not in a way I dwelt on afterwards 130
maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · 05/10/2026one of: rugrats giant baby nightmare; simpsons halloween special fog that turns you inside out; or the scary stories to tell in the dark story where the guy's dog starts talking to a severed head 020
maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · 04/10/2026increasingly convincing myself that they are not going to let you directly control consumer electronics in the near future. everything you do is going to be a natural language conversation with an AI that's going to snitch on you if it doesn't like what you say 1100
maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I genuinely don't even know what people mean by "banned book" anymore. like in america it's almost entirely about school libraries in individual districts at this point, right? and other than that it's this kind of historical/speculative larp 060
maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · 03/10/2026imagine trying to actually develop high schooler class consciousness in america 1121
maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · 03/10/2026is "workflow AI" a term of art? I think it just means the devs use LLMs to help them code 110
maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · 02/10/2026fascinating variety of backgrounds here, props to merz for not even caring about the low angle 071
maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · 02/10/2026the concept of The Titanic is cool because it represents both an incredibly high-profile failure of a grandiose project and an incredibly high-profile success of a grandiose project 030
maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I have detachable bullhorns already to help with this but they'd be way more convenient if they were a little more centered. maybe I should look into getting some other esoteric handlebar shape 010
maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · 02/10/2026also I definitely gave myself an ongoing tension headache from overusing a bunch of muscles around the back of my neck while leaning on the handlebars 130
maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · 01/10/2026did 10 or 12 miles on my bike trying to get my sea legs back and I felt pretty good but then I came home and very nearly had my legs give out trying to go up a staircase 170
maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · 01/10/2026did you know that my enemies are characterized by [universal failure mode of human psychology]? in fact I've handily defined them by it! also it's something else when my friends do it 1120
maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · 01/10/2026anyway I immediately decided I'm sticking to dedicated paths, full lanes of traffic, and sidewalks (according to taste and convenience) like all right thinking americans 010
maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · 01/10/2026on average I would say one third of people use the bike lane for its intended purpose (operating a personal conveyance in the direction of traffic) and then it's a third pedestrians and a third people going the wrong way 231
maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · 01/10/2026this would be way less concerning if I was simply renting the bicycle I used, then cleaning and maintenance would be the job of a faceless guy who parks his van in the bike lane to collect scooters and ebikes 110
maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · 01/10/2026went for a bike ride for the first time in quite a while and got to try out my town's new bike lanes, which are functionally big gutters that exist to keep drains out of the road surface and accumulate oil and small sharp objects 180
Reposted by maundering yokelmaundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · 30/09/2026"avatar" was a great pull for "digital representation" because it codifies reality as spiritually above computer world. neal stephenson remains stubbornly influential 061
maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · 30/09/2026"avatar" was a great pull for "digital representation" because it codifies reality as spiritually above computer world. neal stephenson remains stubbornly influential 061
maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · 30/09/2026saw a murdered out lexus earlier with the license plate "umbreon" 040
maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · 30/09/2026bluesky suffering badly for not being able to offer me this content 140
maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · 29/09/2026they're turning up the "make everyone crazy and evil" knobs on social media for the midterms. you should be sane and nice instead 0111
maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I wouldn't be super surprised if we hit some kind of hard complexity/obedience tradeoff ceiling. why would something better than me at my job want to do what I say 030
maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I feel like I could probably manage to zone out at a phoebe bridgers concert even without a phone. just sort of shuffling around looking at my drink. I could be less present than you could possibly imagine 1110
maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · 28/09/2026putting a painting in there is okay I think. that's just a solid innovation. I want to see a painting when I look in my fridge 061
maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · 28/09/2026it seems like a terrible resource for anyone who already has a passing familiarity with TV 020
maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I would sort of get the argument that star wars is fundamentally about unraveling family drama, but I don't get why you can't just make another family to have drama about. you can still do all the problematic bloodline stuff but these guys clearly aren't working anymore 010
maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · 27/09/2026anyway I'm never going to test my assumption that "choosin' texas" is sung in the same cadence as "deep in the heart of texas" 030
maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · 27/09/2026looking into it slightly, this lady's beat is basically claiming that (specifically woman-led) country music is dominant for some other reason than "most non-country listeners are no longer captured in chart calculations because of technology" 080
maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · 26/09/2026tried to make one of these that actually covers like "games that I have weird dreamlike memories of that shaped my sense of aesthetics" 030
maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · 26/09/2026can't remember the last time I was within sight of two people smoking normal non-electronic cigs, though the fact that I did just now is probably just down to being in a home depot parking lot 010
maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · 26/09/2026fandom has always been evil but I'm not sure it's ever been so dysfunctional or so integrated into the products it venerates 090
maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I guess america is pretty denuded of charming midwesterners and affable billionaires 020
