Vinny @vcolavin.com · 02/08/2026leaf and pith, stem and seed and all grit sand gravel and dirt and particulate 000
Vinny @vcolavin.com · 31/07/2026i just watched Elevator to the Gallows last night, that's a good fucking movie, it's basically perfect. excellent movie for fans of nighttime yearning/longing. like In the Mood for Love. and the SOUNDTRACK! 000
Vinny @vcolavin.com · 29/07/2026everyone listen up, habitual liar sam altman has something to say 020
Vinny @vcolavin.com · 29/07/2026after years of yearning, i bought myself a notebook with the legendary tomoe river paper. i'm so excited to use it. some reddit nerds say it's not as good as it used to be but i'm not bothered. i'm about to finish my rollbahn notebook. 000
Vinny @vcolavin.com · 08/07/2026hank and peggy hill are canonically 31 and 33 during the storyline of king of the hill 000
Vinny @vcolavin.com · 16/06/2026it's astounding that the netherlands, of all places, developed a rich tradition of landscape painting. the place on god's earth most devoid of landscapes. 000
Vinny @vcolavin.com · 06/05/2026i've been getting into tower crane counterweights recently. there's a lot of construction around my neighborhood. interesting to see the different designs. 000
Vinny @vcolavin.com · 06/05/2026in the shadow dark episode of @dungeonsanddads.bsky.social Freddy Wong makes an excellent joke referencing Hearst Castle. i just want to say as someone who recently visited Hearst Castle i enjoyed the joke. 000
Vinny @vcolavin.com · 25/04/2026if i were to write a jordan peterson style 12 rules for life type book targeting alienated young men one of those rules would be “keep a jar of trader joe’s kalamata olives in your fridge at all times” 010
Vinny @vcolavin.com · 25/04/2026wikipedia is always saying shit like “the french word potage comes from the old french word potage” 000
Vinny @vcolavin.com · 24/04/2026we are going to apply Goodhart's Law to all publicly available data. a stupid future built by the worst people. www.npr.org/2026/04/23/n...npr.orgFrench police probe suspected weather device tampering after odd Polymarket betThe incident is the latest eyebrow-raising bet on Polymarket, as allegations of rigging and manipulation continue to haunt the popular prediction market site. 020
Vinny @vcolavin.com · 13/12/2025ai boosters are like "best case scenario it'll ruin everyone's life and kill your family", and then they act all indignant and confused when people aren't stoked about it 010
Vinny @vcolavin.com · 11/12/2025the inexpressible heartbreak, the impossible labor of art: i am full of metal and cancer and these are my songs, my terrible children, this is my work, i bring it to you cupped in broken hands. genius dot com annotation: "cancer is a type of disease. it is being used here as a metaphor" 010
Vinny @vcolavin.com · 11/12/2025it's remarkable how explaining poetry, especially in the modality of genius dot com, makes it suck nuts super hard 100
Vinny @vcolavin.com · 09/12/2025the newest Geese album has a Magnetic Fields type sweet romantic innocence to it, not what i expected. i'm a sucker for that stuff. I've got half a mind To just pay for the lobotomy And tell em get rid of the bad times And get rid of the good times too I've got no more thinking to do 000
Vinny @vcolavin.com · 03/12/2025my other high-confidence observation is that i'm usually wrong about stuff, so by saying "ai isn't a bubble" i'm goading the universe to prove me wrong 000
Vinny @vcolavin.com · 03/12/2025based on the long-running observation that, these days, the dumbest and worst outcomes are the most likely, i hereby register my prediction that AI is somehow _not_ a bubble and in fact will continue to grow and make everything worse forever 120
Vinny @vcolavin.com · 24/11/2025there's some weird thing happening where people say Rogue One is the best Star Wars movie. i'm left flabbergasted and speechless. i think it's happening alongside Phantom Menace revisionism, a winking and outrageous opinion 000
Vinny @vcolavin.com · 24/11/2025The Big Ship by Brian Eno is ready to become the big TikTok sound of 2026. Everyone's going to be saying, looks like Gen-Z finally discovered Brian Eno. They're going to love it and they're going to love Before Sunrise. 010
Vinny @vcolavin.com · 29/10/2025i remember getting yelled at on the portland subreddit for saying an internment camps for homeless people was a bad idea. blue state voters have been frothing at the mouth for exactly this policy for years 000
Vinny @vcolavin.com · 17/09/2025september 15, 2025: i just figured out tom green and seth green are different guys 130
Vinny @vcolavin.com · 31/07/2025i'm so sorry but i've actually been told by very serious people that this isn't realistic and Helsinki should probably give up on this nonsense :/ (jk this is amazing) 010
Vinny @vcolavin.com · 30/07/2025this joke was unappreciated in its time. decades after my death it will be rediscovered and elevated to its deserved position among the stars 020
Vinny @vcolavin.com · 05/07/2025letterboxd.com/vcolavin/fil...letterboxd.comA ★★★ review of The Gold Rush (1925)super competent slapstick with a shallow romantic drama tacked on. in its original context it was apparently impressive but i think we're allowed to look down from the shoulders of giants and say, i a... 030
Vinny @vcolavin.com · 28/06/2025i can't imagine a single system that would be totally resilient degradation and corruption by bad actors over decades or centuries. even a perfectly egalitarian democracy would be vulnerable to a stupid and cruel populace maybe authoritarian is here because a lot of people wanted authoritarianism 010
Vinny @vcolavin.com · 28/06/2025i watched night moves and i thought it sucked and it was badletterboxd.comA ★ review of Night Moves (1975)vapid and lecherous, written by men who think women are mysterious and nonsense sex creatures lots of little continuity errors between the cuts, especially the fight scene, to the point that it might ... 010
Vinny @vcolavin.com · 20/06/2025a nice vineripe tomato, room temperature or sun warmed, never cold. red all the way through. you can't beat that. i'd eat a tomato like an apple, just eat the thing on its own, that's a perfect thing. the peppery smell of vine in your fingernails 110
Vinny @vcolavin.com · 04/04/2025i'm just casually wondering if there's a sickness in our hearts that we ignored as it festered and metastasized. if we spent decades or centuries as convenient bedfellows of pointless cruelty and violence and the darkness grew in from the corners of our eyes until it covered them 120
Vinny @vcolavin.com · 15/02/2025of the european microstates, andorra is certainly the one whose name is composed of the most prepositions strung together 011
Vinny @vcolavin.com · 03/02/2025i would like to be carved from a large cool grey stone such as basalt over the course of years, tap by tap of a hammer and chisel 000
Vinny @vcolavin.com · 27/01/2025this is clearly a shameful attack on romanian-moldovan unification by the blu-ray disc association 120
Vinny @vcolavin.com · 27/01/2025moldova was in DVD region 5 but is in Blu-ray region 3. what the hell happened 121
Reposted by VinnyMarco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · 24/01/2025I believe what many people actually want in their heart of hearts is for the "right" thing to happen without requiring anybody to wield power. But it turns out there is no magic. It's just us. 1244
Vinny @vcolavin.com · 21/01/2025much like electric bicycles, lentils are utterly utopian. i will not elaborate 010
Vinny @vcolavin.com · 19/01/2025talented artists spent hundreds of hours of their precious lives posing clay puppets by hand in a labor of love. awful. just awful 000
Vinny @vcolavin.com · 19/01/2025releasing your movie on netflix is a good way to make sure it withers into obscurity and irrelevance. i didn't even know they released a chicken run sequel in 2023 until i specifically went to check if such a thing existed 110
