Pine-Scented Chris 🌲♿️🎄
@chrislike.bsky.social
Recovering humanist, software developer, stroke survivor. Delighted in detail. I take pictures in Western Mass. (he/him)
“Love Is Sunk Cost Fallacy”
me, several years ago, tired of hearing this nonsense being called an experiment 😂
www.nbcnews.com/think/opinio...
www.nbcnews.com/think/opinio...
February 14, 2026 at 4:15 AM
“Love Is Sunk Cost Fallacy”
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"Some mornings I wake up grumpy. And some mornings I just let her sleep."
#ducks #nature #photography
#ducks #nature #photography
February 12, 2026 at 11:42 AM
"Some mornings I wake up grumpy. And some mornings I just let her sleep."
#ducks #nature #photography
#ducks #nature #photography
The Emperor’s New Tax Writeoff
Melania’s first screening in Times Square draws four people, at least three of them professional critics. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
January 31, 2026 at 3:56 AM
The Emperor’s New Tax Writeoff
To hell with this I guess,
Let the rock roll.
Let the rock roll.
January 30, 2026 at 3:38 PM
To hell with this I guess,
Let the rock roll.
Let the rock roll.
The Melania bribe movie faceplanting is just a tax write off for Amazon, no? Everyone writing schadenfreude articles about how many millions were lost when everyone got their bag, and Ratner was never going to find legitimate work again. 🙄
January 30, 2026 at 3:24 PM
The Melania bribe movie faceplanting is just a tax write off for Amazon, no? Everyone writing schadenfreude articles about how many millions were lost when everyone got their bag, and Ratner was never going to find legitimate work again. 🙄
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The “human” we compare to AI, though, mistakes the dichotomy. It’s not that AI isn’t human — it is an automation of capitalism, a human imaginary. The opposite of Artificial Intelligence isn’t the human mind, the opposite of AI is a community.
January 30, 2026 at 1:35 AM
The “human” we compare to AI, though, mistakes the dichotomy. It’s not that AI isn’t human — it is an automation of capitalism, a human imaginary. The opposite of Artificial Intelligence isn’t the human mind, the opposite of AI is a community.
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having a whole new visceral experience of past eras of European opera though, holy cow
January 30, 2026 at 3:51 AM
having a whole new visceral experience of past eras of European opera though, holy cow
Snow Crash did it first. Amazing how influential @nealstephenson.bsky.social‘s work is.
Wow, someone was allowed to mention the Network State in the New York Times opinion section. I believe this is a first.
Trump Is Not a Nationalist. He’s Something Worse.
gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/o...
Trump Is Not a Nationalist. He’s Something Worse.
gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/o...
January 30, 2026 at 2:35 AM
Snow Crash did it first. Amazing how influential @nealstephenson.bsky.social‘s work is.
All historical evils are alike; each historical evil is evil in its own way.
I don't think there's a lot of margin in trying to prove a one-to-one correlation in order to say something is evil. All historical evils evoke each other; all historical evils are also unique.
January 23, 2026 at 7:43 PM
All historical evils are alike; each historical evil is evil in its own way.
I am certainly not wishing frostbite on the March for Life today. Be safe!
Don’t cuddle ICE, sublimate it.
Don’t cuddle ICE, sublimate it.
January 23, 2026 at 1:11 PM
I am certainly not wishing frostbite on the March for Life today. Be safe!
Don’t cuddle ICE, sublimate it.
Don’t cuddle ICE, sublimate it.
Does anyone else report and block the amazon bots in the fountain pen feed? It’s like a meditative practice for me.
January 23, 2026 at 1:01 PM
Does anyone else report and block the amazon bots in the fountain pen feed? It’s like a meditative practice for me.
Accidentally started a Headspace sleepcast with ASMR and could not stop it quickly enough once the whispering started.
January 19, 2026 at 3:46 AM
Accidentally started a Headspace sleepcast with ASMR and could not stop it quickly enough once the whispering started.
Oh so this year is finally the Saturnian return of analog? I guess I should let the youth feel excited about discovering things I love. *sighs in cursive*
Stores like Paper & Pencil — packed with stickers, fountain pens and planners — have seen sales surge. Chicago shop owners credit social media and influencers who have marked this year as a return to analog.
Looking for a pen? Shoppers overwhelm Chicago stationery shops as social media touts 'return to analog'
www.wbez.org
January 16, 2026 at 2:25 PM
Oh so this year is finally the Saturnian return of analog? I guess I should let the youth feel excited about discovering things I love. *sighs in cursive*
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CALL FOR ART
🛶🪁🎭
Apply for a $1,000 grant to create a floating art piece for the Ashfield lighted boat parade! 12 grants will be awarded. Open to all US residents / individuals or teams. Applications must be received by 5pm March 31, 2026. ashfield.org/publicart
🛶🪁🎭
Apply for a $1,000 grant to create a floating art piece for the Ashfield lighted boat parade! 12 grants will be awarded. Open to all US residents / individuals or teams. Applications must be received by 5pm March 31, 2026. ashfield.org/publicart
January 5, 2026 at 12:37 AM
CALL FOR ART
🛶🪁🎭
Apply for a $1,000 grant to create a floating art piece for the Ashfield lighted boat parade! 12 grants will be awarded. Open to all US residents / individuals or teams. Applications must be received by 5pm March 31, 2026. ashfield.org/publicart
🛶🪁🎭
Apply for a $1,000 grant to create a floating art piece for the Ashfield lighted boat parade! 12 grants will be awarded. Open to all US residents / individuals or teams. Applications must be received by 5pm March 31, 2026. ashfield.org/publicart
Hell is Other People…loading your dishwasher.
January 5, 2026 at 3:44 AM
Hell is Other People…loading your dishwasher.
Humans have always attributed meaning to meaningless phenomena. LLMs are no different. Conmen selling tickets to their magic 8-ball. Brilliant idea if you can convince the rubes. #ai
December 26, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Humans have always attributed meaning to meaningless phenomena. LLMs are no different. Conmen selling tickets to their magic 8-ball. Brilliant idea if you can convince the rubes. #ai
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this is a delightful thread for everybody interested in Christmas as a cultural narrative
I am not a Christian of course but like all Americans I have spent my life marinating in Christian mythography, and so around this time of year I have a lot of thoughts about the Nativity and the part where the innkeeper says there's no room in the inn.
December 25, 2025 at 6:45 PM
this is a delightful thread for everybody interested in Christmas as a cultural narrative
Diamine saved some of the best for last. Inkvent Day 23 “Let it Snow” sprinkles us in mid-century nostalgia. These snowflakes are perfectly ripe, don’t wait until February.
December 23, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Diamine saved some of the best for last. Inkvent Day 23 “Let it Snow” sprinkles us in mid-century nostalgia. These snowflakes are perfectly ripe, don’t wait until February.
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Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
December 15, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
As a disabled person with limited use of their left hand, these Inkvent bottles are fucking hard to open.
December 10, 2025 at 1:05 PM
As a disabled person with limited use of their left hand, these Inkvent bottles are fucking hard to open.
Does anyone else wake up to a few moments of warm happiness before the weight of the world reasserts itself?
December 7, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Does anyone else wake up to a few moments of warm happiness before the weight of the world reasserts itself?
This makes me want to be reborn as a writer.
sorry I'm late! I have at last broken my silence on Pantone's Color of the Year johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/cloud-danc...
'Cloud Dancer': A Measured Response
Regarding Pantone's decision, and so on, and so forth
johnpaulbrammer.substack.com
December 7, 2025 at 1:52 AM
This makes me want to be reborn as a writer.
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I fucking love memes you can understand through the language barrier, holy shit
December 6, 2025 at 3:39 PM
I fucking love memes you can understand through the language barrier, holy shit