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committing foxes to the repository

FIXES I MEANT FIXES

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feed me 

that's it that's the joke

wait. the button says "show more" doesn't it

it doesn't say "see more" so this joke will not work

frig

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I was typing in "good size for a desk monitor" but now I'm on a side quest?

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I'm gonna keep posting this until one of you fucking boosts it

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The famous essay "death of the author" is named as an obscure pun that probably only Barthes himself ever actually found funny and I love this

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Tonight's evil scheme:

Send an improperly cleaned probe to either Enceladus or Europa and contaminate them with bacteria. Then, long after humans have destroyed themselves and sapient life develops on whichever moon is chosen, that life will puzzle over the origins of life, and it turns out the weird conspiracy theorists who claim it was put there in an alien plot will actually be right.

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This year, as every year, I strongly recommend K Tempest Bradford's "Until Forgiveness Comes," a story about personal grief vs public spectacle, and whether it's healthy to "never forget" an act of violence:

strangehorizons.com/fiction/un

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Interactive map predicting when fall foliage will peak in your area in the US: smokymountains.com/fall-foliag

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Birdsite 

Bringing over from birdsite because it is wholesome and lime-like

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How did "the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog" become the typical sentence that contains all letters of the alphabet and not "sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow" which is objectively a million times cooler

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RT @tommorris@twitter.com
Blockchains have a real use case: just as the bad ideas of alternative medicine serve to illustrate epidemiology and clinical research methodology, the bad ideas of blockchain enthusiasts can illustrate important concepts in contract, corporate & real property law (among others).

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Games 

I should have named my dog Starfox, so that:

-when she is getting too excited and bitey, I can say "Playtime's over, Starfox."

-when she is chewing on something valuable, I can say, "Can't let you do that, Starfox!"

-when she shows up to stop me from taking over the solar system, I can say, "I've been waiting for you, Starfox. Only *I* have the brains to rule Lylat!"

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