Joel Roston
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Thank to @sawtoothwave.bsky.social for including my most recent album, "We're Able (Forty Dialogic Valences)" in their "2024 music year in review"!
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January 8, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Thank to @sawtoothwave.bsky.social for including my most recent album, "We're Able (Forty Dialogic Valences)" in their "2024 music year in review"!
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It's a year-and-a-half later and I've come to realize that the original post here is only half the story.
I now also, intermittently, use two sets of em-dashes inside of a single sentence.
I now also, intermittently, use two sets of em-dashes inside of a single sentence.
Over the past few years, I’ve read all six Shirley Jackson novels. While I loved them all and carry special parts of each of them around with me, as far as I can tell, the only unambiguously clear impact they’ve had on me is that my phone’s customizable lock-screen reads:
WHAT IS THIS WORLD?
WHAT IS THIS WORLD?
December 4, 2024 at 10:50 PM
It's a year-and-a-half later and I've come to realize that the original post here is only half the story.
I now also, intermittently, use two sets of em-dashes inside of a single sentence.
I now also, intermittently, use two sets of em-dashes inside of a single sentence.
As far as I can tell, Whole Foods customers tend to be in the 30- to 90-years-old range, while Trader Joe’s customers tend to exist more in both the 15- to 29-years-old and 91- to 140-years-old ranges.
November 27, 2024 at 8:00 PM
As far as I can tell, Whole Foods customers tend to be in the 30- to 90-years-old range, while Trader Joe’s customers tend to exist more in both the 15- to 29-years-old and 91- to 140-years-old ranges.
Robbin' Vader to pay Maul.
August 16, 2024 at 12:26 PM
Robbin' Vader to pay Maul.
I've never really understood what the word "expat"/"expatriate" means. After taking a light dive this morning, I think my confusion stems from the fact that it maybe should be "EXOpat"/"EXOpatriate."
January 13, 2024 at 3:19 PM
I've never really understood what the word "expat"/"expatriate" means. After taking a light dive this morning, I think my confusion stems from the fact that it maybe should be "EXOpat"/"EXOpatriate."
I haven't hung out here for a while, but I was just playing with my cat and got a weird feeling that someone thought of this and posted it, and I was like, "If I'm right, I need to sign in and share it."
Morton Feldman is a jam band
January 10, 2024 at 1:34 AM
I haven't hung out here for a while, but I was just playing with my cat and got a weird feeling that someone thought of this and posted it, and I was like, "If I'm right, I need to sign in and share it."
I guess Lifetime Movie Network is really running low on ideas.
September 13, 2023 at 12:39 PM
I guess Lifetime Movie Network is really running low on ideas.
Hey, here's a post I made to Slack this morning that didn't go over very well.
August 27, 2023 at 4:23 PM
Hey, here's a post I made to Slack this morning that didn't go over very well.
Attention: Scientists and scientifically-minded people of my Bluesky network (maybe not so much, like, non-science-y “independent researchers” or whatever):
Might you have an air purifier recommendation?
We’ve been using...
Might you have an air purifier recommendation?
We’ve been using...
August 5, 2023 at 3:02 PM
Attention: Scientists and scientifically-minded people of my Bluesky network (maybe not so much, like, non-science-y “independent researchers” or whatever):
Might you have an air purifier recommendation?
We’ve been using...
Might you have an air purifier recommendation?
We’ve been using...
I'd have to see how they MEASURE up.
July 27, 2023 at 10:51 PM
I'd have to see how they MEASURE up.
Meanwhile, MARGOT ROBBIE is an anagram of MR. GO-TO BARBIE.
July 26, 2023 at 12:38 AM
Meanwhile, MARGOT ROBBIE is an anagram of MR. GO-TO BARBIE.
Gut Check Alert:
Is it okay that I feel like the more psilocybin a person takes, the more likely they are to call everything that ISN'T psilocybin "a neurotoxin"?
Is it okay that I feel like the more psilocybin a person takes, the more likely they are to call everything that ISN'T psilocybin "a neurotoxin"?
July 25, 2023 at 6:20 PM
Gut Check Alert:
Is it okay that I feel like the more psilocybin a person takes, the more likely they are to call everything that ISN'T psilocybin "a neurotoxin"?
Is it okay that I feel like the more psilocybin a person takes, the more likely they are to call everything that ISN'T psilocybin "a neurotoxin"?
As someone who’s been using chess engines to analyze his games since way before AI existed, it’s been really interesting to watch the machines go from, “Inaccuracy.” to “Daayyyuuuumm, bruh! Slick trick jimmy-jammin’ the ol’ bish downtown for a little somethin'-somethin'!"
July 17, 2023 at 8:26 PM
As someone who’s been using chess engines to analyze his games since way before AI existed, it’s been really interesting to watch the machines go from, “Inaccuracy.” to “Daayyyuuuumm, bruh! Slick trick jimmy-jammin’ the ol’ bish downtown for a little somethin'-somethin'!"
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What's up with aspirin?
July 16, 2023 at 1:30 PM
What's up with aspirin?
I mean this in the nicest possible way, but what sort of maniac would ever click on a music theory video made by a guitar player?
June 29, 2023 at 8:23 PM
I mean this in the nicest possible way, but what sort of maniac would ever click on a music theory video made by a guitar player?
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doing numbers on bluesky (20+ likes) feels like making all my buddies at the bar laugh while doing numbers on twitter feels like accidentally alerting The Predator to my location
June 28, 2023 at 10:52 PM
doing numbers on bluesky (20+ likes) feels like making all my buddies at the bar laugh while doing numbers on twitter feels like accidentally alerting The Predator to my location
Just sayin’:
“Je suis le Rappeur, Il est le DJ” by DJ Jazzy Jeff and the French Prince
“Je suis le Rappeur, Il est le DJ” by DJ Jazzy Jeff and the French Prince
June 28, 2023 at 7:24 PM
Just sayin’:
“Je suis le Rappeur, Il est le DJ” by DJ Jazzy Jeff and the French Prince
“Je suis le Rappeur, Il est le DJ” by DJ Jazzy Jeff and the French Prince
If you ever find yourself living in Boston in the early afternoon of Monday, June 26, 2023 and you think to yourself, "I think I'll go for a long bike ride—it's not supposed to rain until around 4pm," then this is for you:
It will defs rain before 4pm.
It will defs rain before 4pm.
June 26, 2023 at 8:23 PM
If you ever find yourself living in Boston in the early afternoon of Monday, June 26, 2023 and you think to yourself, "I think I'll go for a long bike ride—it's not supposed to rain until around 4pm," then this is for you:
It will defs rain before 4pm.
It will defs rain before 4pm.
"Nobody on the road. Nobody on the street."
June 22, 2023 at 3:02 PM
"Nobody on the road. Nobody on the street."
We're havin' a real hike over here!
June 18, 2023 at 6:58 PM
We're havin' a real hike over here!
Attention scientists and, like, tree-people of Bluesky:
@skybondsor.com and I went for a hike this morning and encountered a bunch of trees with these cool, wavy, line-y channels/grooves in them.
Is there a, like, fun science-fact that explains what's happening here?
@skybondsor.com and I went for a hike this morning and encountered a bunch of trees with these cool, wavy, line-y channels/grooves in them.
Is there a, like, fun science-fact that explains what's happening here?
June 16, 2023 at 2:21 PM
Attention scientists and, like, tree-people of Bluesky:
@skybondsor.com and I went for a hike this morning and encountered a bunch of trees with these cool, wavy, line-y channels/grooves in them.
Is there a, like, fun science-fact that explains what's happening here?
@skybondsor.com and I went for a hike this morning and encountered a bunch of trees with these cool, wavy, line-y channels/grooves in them.
Is there a, like, fun science-fact that explains what's happening here?