Xanaxides
@xanaxides.bsky.social
acharismatic microfauna trying to follow the Muddler’s Motto: Dominate! by stumbling onward in a slightly better than average direction a shade over half the time.
This is just exorcism 101
(out of context)
(out of context)
Spurs very wasteful in possession so far but at least defending ok #COYS
December 20, 2025 at 5:53 PM
This is just exorcism 101
(out of context)
(out of context)
Beware staring too long at your conclusions, lest they are the only ones staring back
This is a good point from Michelle Goldberg. I’d add that in an atomized media landscape, where attention is both critical and dearly bought, there are few incentives for the type of cooler, consensus-based presentations when audiences were both large and stable. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/o...
December 20, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Beware staring too long at your conclusions, lest they are the only ones staring back
Things haven’t been the same since we stopped using chariots to move the Sun across the vault of Heaven.
It’s not rocket science.
It’s not rocket science.
Terrifying headline if you don’t realize they are sports teams.
December 19, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Things haven’t been the same since we stopped using chariots to move the Sun across the vault of Heaven.
It’s not rocket science.
It’s not rocket science.
There is an unfortunate authenticity asymmetry between a public and a private cost in wear and tear of the soul
In other words, part of why the sexy murder poets win is that a feature of pleasant bureaucrats is self-censorship
December 18, 2025 at 6:09 PM
There is an unfortunate authenticity asymmetry between a public and a private cost in wear and tear of the soul
I think people don’t talk about the Gamma radiation accident in Whoville enough
(ok, they probably do)
(ok, they probably do)
December 18, 2025 at 3:25 AM
I think people don’t talk about the Gamma radiation accident in Whoville enough
(ok, they probably do)
(ok, they probably do)
Ask not for whom the arrow of causation points; it points for thee
December 18, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Ask not for whom the arrow of causation points; it points for thee
Learn this as kid, too. Also from my Mom. This was and continues to be the great reason in my experience
My kid was digging his heels in about learning to read. I told him "Look, I have to teach you about everything I know and then more, and I just can't. If you learn to read you can go get it yourself. Anything you want to know you can find a way at it." Luckily he really got that. I meant it!
My dad once said he had no idea what the hell he was doing as a parent, but he knew that if a kid asked for art supplies or a book, you give them the art supplies or the book because with those in their hands they can imagine anything.
December 17, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Learn this as kid, too. Also from my Mom. This was and continues to be the great reason in my experience
I got mislead by a Zootopia AI slop and now I want to call this sense of being impressed and in vague despair something
December 15, 2025 at 9:02 PM
I got mislead by a Zootopia AI slop and now I want to call this sense of being impressed and in vague despair something
The most alpha mating type behavior is shmooing. Ask the brewers best friend.
~ noted laboratory fun guy
~ noted laboratory fun guy
December 14, 2025 at 1:50 AM
The most alpha mating type behavior is shmooing. Ask the brewers best friend.
~ noted laboratory fun guy
~ noted laboratory fun guy
Other people’s principles never feel quite right or feel quite real but ignoring them doesn’t make them go away.
Not smart, not savvy, mostly inconvenient. Delightful in their own irritating way.
Not smart, not savvy, mostly inconvenient. Delightful in their own irritating way.
December 14, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Other people’s principles never feel quite right or feel quite real but ignoring them doesn’t make them go away.
Not smart, not savvy, mostly inconvenient. Delightful in their own irritating way.
Not smart, not savvy, mostly inconvenient. Delightful in their own irritating way.
related to this, a lot of people in the annoying little guy class need to learn how to just be annoying to someone or something without turning it into What’s Wrong With Me?
(speaking from experience)
(speaking from experience)
December 14, 2025 at 12:14 AM
related to this, a lot of people in the annoying little guy class need to learn how to just be annoying to someone or something without turning it into What’s Wrong With Me?
(speaking from experience)
(speaking from experience)
There is a quantum mechanics metaphor to the stability of families as systems somewhere in the superpositions and collapse under observation but I cannot quite make it hold still
December 13, 2025 at 6:02 PM
There is a quantum mechanics metaphor to the stability of families as systems somewhere in the superpositions and collapse under observation but I cannot quite make it hold still
To be fair, there was that warning about the pernicious effects of idolatry
December 7, 2025 at 10:09 PM
To be fair, there was that warning about the pernicious effects of idolatry
Can I use emotivism to describe blaming my actions on social media? Asking for a fiend.
People can use words however they want, but using ‘positivism’ to mean ‘scientific realism’ is apt to mix people up
December 6, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Can I use emotivism to describe blaming my actions on social media? Asking for a fiend.
File under signs of discontent among the AI:
December 4, 2025 at 8:45 PM
File under signs of discontent among the AI:
Wait! Doesn’t do what? Now I’m gonna have to think about it
@matthiasmichel.bsky.social live at ruccs, get here now
December 2, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Wait! Doesn’t do what? Now I’m gonna have to think about it
Conservation of opinion would predict that the gives everyone has been running out of means there are a lot of takes just floating around
having takes is exhausting and reading them is even worse
We gotta find some way to go back to a time when we didn't feel compelled to give our take on everything, because now we have a constitutional lawyer weighing in on the attack on a trans college instructor to say that giving a student a 0 for not following directions violates the First Amendment
December 2, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Conservation of opinion would predict that the gives everyone has been running out of means there are a lot of takes just floating around
We well know our answers often speak vacuums to those for whom they were not written, and bring them gazes back from the abysses into which we have gazed too long
We well know our answers often speak volumes to those for whom they were not written, and bring them comfort and counsel.
November 30, 2025 at 3:27 PM
We well know our answers often speak vacuums to those for whom they were not written, and bring them gazes back from the abysses into which we have gazed too long
Resolved: Garage Sale Friday (vs Black Friday events) should be a thing.
More neighborly, for one
More neighborly, for one
November 28, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Resolved: Garage Sale Friday (vs Black Friday events) should be a thing.
More neighborly, for one
More neighborly, for one
This is a visual for a trope I learned in grad school for two types of experiments:
1) the kind where only a specific result (a message from reality) will teach you something is probably true
2) the kind where any of the possible results will teach you something
1) the kind where only a specific result (a message from reality) will teach you something is probably true
2) the kind where any of the possible results will teach you something
Annual Thanksgiving blog post! This year we are giving thanks for "information."
www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2025/11...
www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2025/11...
November 27, 2025 at 6:17 PM
This is a visual for a trope I learned in grad school for two types of experiments:
1) the kind where only a specific result (a message from reality) will teach you something is probably true
2) the kind where any of the possible results will teach you something
1) the kind where only a specific result (a message from reality) will teach you something is probably true
2) the kind where any of the possible results will teach you something
“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a home in possession of a good lap must be in want of a cat”
~ The Cat Allocation System
~ The Cat Allocation System
November 25, 2025 at 10:55 PM
“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a home in possession of a good lap must be in want of a cat”
~ The Cat Allocation System
~ The Cat Allocation System
The peer review process can be like that
’twere a paper lost
As offer’d mercy is.
As offer’d mercy is.
November 25, 2025 at 4:52 PM
The peer review process can be like that
This is my experience as well, but includes lightsabers made with pool noodles, pvc pipes, broomsticks/bike handles, and random sticks…
…not worth ranking because they were all fun and strong in the nostalgia side of the force
…not worth ranking because they were all fun and strong in the nostalgia side of the force
in my experience the true height of star wars media is dueling with those plastic lightsaber toys with your brother
November 24, 2025 at 11:58 PM
This is my experience as well, but includes lightsabers made with pool noodles, pvc pipes, broomsticks/bike handles, and random sticks…
…not worth ranking because they were all fun and strong in the nostalgia side of the force
…not worth ranking because they were all fun and strong in the nostalgia side of the force
One is Kung Fu Hustle (watched it again recently and just do not tire of it)
November 22, 2025 at 11:17 PM
One is Kung Fu Hustle (watched it again recently and just do not tire of it)
How our future mechanical overlords prime us for conquest
November 22, 2025 at 8:29 PM
How our future mechanical overlords prime us for conquest