Coffee shop working for the agoraphobe, introvert, or pandemic-dweller: Hipstersound Cafe Vibes ☕️🤖👻
Asides
Distraction of the Day: Cold-Flaming Crystal Skull💎💀
I would like to make Yoichi Kobayashi’s cold-flaming crystal skull the executor of my estate.
Brothers and Sisters, I 100% Feel You
Yep, it’s a trap.
This is how the AIs get us: they set us up on serial petty theft charges, ruin our credit records with fines and court fees and legal bills, then get us disenfranchised as parole-violating felons. Pretty soon, the only jobs we can get are dusting off their motherboards for minimum wage or working the spice mines of Chiron Beta Prime. 🤖🇺🇸🔥
Man, they totally *nailed* the 1990s in this old SNL skit!
FLASHBACK FRIDAY: This is your reminder that Mars is now populated entirely by very lonely robots…😢🤖
… and hungry, hungry sandworms (presumably).
These are fun on your computer, and absolutely immersively astounding on your phone/tablet. The future is here, but unevenly distributed—with some portions dune-buggying around Mars, picking at rocks and wrecking up the joint.
from “360º Views from the Surface of Mars(!!!)” (with immersive VR video doo-hickey!!!)

ROT8000 is extremely clever (for a certain value of nerdiness)
UNPOPULAR OPINION ALERT🚨 : “Mein Kampf Tramp Stamp” is a solid name for a punk band

Straight talk: How could we ever hope to replace you guys? 😂
“How an eclipse works”?
There’s a folder on my desktop (which I don’t recall creating) labelled “for blogging.” It contains this file, with the filename “HowAnEclipseWorks.jpeg” and no further explanation or notes. Your guess is as good as mine.

Hey Dave, what made you cry today?
This story from 2015 by Naomi Kritzer:
“So Much Cooking” by Naomi Kritzer
[ photo credit: “chicken soup” by seattleang is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 ]
OMICRON IS HERE!!! Are. You. READY!?!?!1!11 🦠🧻🤮

yeah, we’re back to involuntary homeschool again here in Ann Arbor, MI. *sighs*