Beemer Tectonic
@dr-tectonic.bsky.social
Mad scientist, husband, neurodiversionary, pangaemer, data wrangler, cat-walker, LJ-bear, TomSkite, silent were-kraken, hyperfixational author/artist. Eight platypi in a lab coat and a guan-dao at the wedding.
Fully aware this is needlessly cryptic.
Fully aware this is needlessly cryptic.
Homemade cranberry sauce is lovely.
Canned cranberry jelly -- in a cylinder, with the dents! -- is *important*.
I will delightedly partake of both.
Canned cranberry jelly -- in a cylinder, with the dents! -- is *important*.
I will delightedly partake of both.
November 27, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Homemade cranberry sauce is lovely.
Canned cranberry jelly -- in a cylinder, with the dents! -- is *important*.
I will delightedly partake of both.
Canned cranberry jelly -- in a cylinder, with the dents! -- is *important*.
I will delightedly partake of both.
That's pretty! Reminds me of my parents' tv after the dogs knocked it onto the floor:
November 26, 2025 at 6:32 PM
That's pretty! Reminds me of my parents' tv after the dogs knocked it onto the floor:
What's the number for rapidly switching between dozens of different highly-detailed, photorealistic apples until your brain starts wandering around the produce aisle and suddenly it's lemons?
November 26, 2025 at 4:53 AM
What's the number for rapidly switching between dozens of different highly-detailed, photorealistic apples until your brain starts wandering around the produce aisle and suddenly it's lemons?
Got one at the beginning of lockdown. I think we may have just bought toner for the first time. It's great.
November 22, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Got one at the beginning of lockdown. I think we may have just bought toner for the first time. It's great.
You could do "iron rations, but the wizard knows Prestidigitation, so they taste amazing", which is arguably the most typical meal for a D&D adventurer.
November 18, 2025 at 4:52 PM
You could do "iron rations, but the wizard knows Prestidigitation, so they taste amazing", which is arguably the most typical meal for a D&D adventurer.
Sometimes I wish Roger Moore would come back
With an underwater car and some kind of jetpack
Or a hover-gondola with a Union Jack
With an underwater car and some kind of jetpack
Or a hover-gondola with a Union Jack
November 13, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Sometimes I wish Roger Moore would come back
With an underwater car and some kind of jetpack
Or a hover-gondola with a Union Jack
With an underwater car and some kind of jetpack
Or a hover-gondola with a Union Jack
Next time you're in Denver, remind me to send you to the perfumer we occasionally go to.
November 13, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Next time you're in Denver, remind me to send you to the perfumer we occasionally go to.
Your colleague is weird.
I'm American, and I've never heard anyone call setting the clock forward / back "going through the change."
I've only heard that phrase used as an (old-fashioned) euphemism for menopause.
I'm American, and I've never heard anyone call setting the clock forward / back "going through the change."
I've only heard that phrase used as an (old-fashioned) euphemism for menopause.
November 10, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Your colleague is weird.
I'm American, and I've never heard anyone call setting the clock forward / back "going through the change."
I've only heard that phrase used as an (old-fashioned) euphemism for menopause.
I'm American, and I've never heard anyone call setting the clock forward / back "going through the change."
I've only heard that phrase used as an (old-fashioned) euphemism for menopause.
What s fabulous design!
November 8, 2025 at 3:43 PM
What s fabulous design!
If they're not on your radar already, Strange Horticulture and Strange Antiquities strike me as games you might enjoy.
They're, like, cozy horror. (They're also short and puzzly.)
They're, like, cozy horror. (They're also short and puzzly.)
November 7, 2025 at 11:28 PM
If they're not on your radar already, Strange Horticulture and Strange Antiquities strike me as games you might enjoy.
They're, like, cozy horror. (They're also short and puzzly.)
They're, like, cozy horror. (They're also short and puzzly.)
I get it.
And honestly, that *is* pretty funny.
And honestly, that *is* pretty funny.
November 6, 2025 at 6:26 AM
I get it.
And honestly, that *is* pretty funny.
And honestly, that *is* pretty funny.
So, y'know, it all makes sense and is perfectly logical.
In a way that doesn't help AT ALL with it also being The Worst Fucking Symptom when our modern world turns this highly valuable paleolithic trait into a liability.
In a way that doesn't help AT ALL with it also being The Worst Fucking Symptom when our modern world turns this highly valuable paleolithic trait into a liability.
October 31, 2025 at 3:01 PM
So, y'know, it all makes sense and is perfectly logical.
In a way that doesn't help AT ALL with it also being The Worst Fucking Symptom when our modern world turns this highly valuable paleolithic trait into a liability.
In a way that doesn't help AT ALL with it also being The Worst Fucking Symptom when our modern world turns this highly valuable paleolithic trait into a liability.
But anyway, if that's all true, then the reason why the unwelcome task luks, generating dread, is because our brains are going "okay, but it *might* be something bad, in which case I want to wait for a better moment, because I'll need to drop everything else and focus on that. So not yet..."
October 31, 2025 at 2:54 PM
But anyway, if that's all true, then the reason why the unwelcome task luks, generating dread, is because our brains are going "okay, but it *might* be something bad, in which case I want to wait for a better moment, because I'll need to drop everything else and focus on that. So not yet..."
Probably there's also something about catastrophizing / thinking about contingency plans, which could be a learned behavior or could be an innate tendency, but por que no los dos, really.
I don't have all the pieces sorted out yet, but it feels like it all hangs together to me.
I don't have all the pieces sorted out yet, but it feels like it all hangs together to me.
October 31, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Probably there's also something about catastrophizing / thinking about contingency plans, which could be a learned behavior or could be an innate tendency, but por que no los dos, really.
I don't have all the pieces sorted out yet, but it feels like it all hangs together to me.
I don't have all the pieces sorted out yet, but it feels like it all hangs together to me.
But it also means that we're prone to *not* acting under low-level stress. Our brains want to hoard our energy until The Moment arrives. That, plus low dopamine (or maybe it's the same thing), can make it hard to motivate ourselves to act on non-crisis problems.
October 31, 2025 at 2:43 PM
But it also means that we're prone to *not* acting under low-level stress. Our brains want to hoard our energy until The Moment arrives. That, plus low dopamine (or maybe it's the same thing), can make it hard to motivate ourselves to act on non-crisis problems.
It's also good for hunting, where you need to wait for the right moment,then act decisively. (And then maybe lock in and hyperfixate on pursuing your quarry until it drops from exhaustion.)
October 31, 2025 at 2:37 PM
It's also good for hunting, where you need to wait for the right moment,then act decisively. (And then maybe lock in and hyperfixate on pursuing your quarry until it drops from exhaustion.)
This is an evolutionarily advantageous trait: it's good to have some individuals in your tribe who function well when the river floods or a smilodon attacks.
October 31, 2025 at 2:35 PM
This is an evolutionarily advantageous trait: it's good to have some individuals in your tribe who function well when the river floods or a smilodon attacks.
Here's my hypothesis: (some chunk of) ADHD is having a brain that's oriented towards sudden action.
It's why we can be calm in a crisis: we're undertuned, so when everyone else is freaking out from a flood of neurochemicals, we're finally coming fully online and operating at max capacity.
It's why we can be calm in a crisis: we're undertuned, so when everyone else is freaking out from a flood of neurochemicals, we're finally coming fully online and operating at max capacity.
October 31, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Here's my hypothesis: (some chunk of) ADHD is having a brain that's oriented towards sudden action.
It's why we can be calm in a crisis: we're undertuned, so when everyone else is freaking out from a flood of neurochemicals, we're finally coming fully online and operating at max capacity.
It's why we can be calm in a crisis: we're undertuned, so when everyone else is freaking out from a flood of neurochemicals, we're finally coming fully online and operating at max capacity.
Ironic, that.
If you want to replace it, the songs from K-Pop Demon Hunters are fiendishly catchy.
If you want to replace it, the songs from K-Pop Demon Hunters are fiendishly catchy.
October 24, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Ironic, that.
If you want to replace it, the songs from K-Pop Demon Hunters are fiendishly catchy.
If you want to replace it, the songs from K-Pop Demon Hunters are fiendishly catchy.
SO much more!
It's astonishing in its depth.
It's astonishing in its depth.
October 21, 2025 at 4:25 AM
SO much more!
It's astonishing in its depth.
It's astonishing in its depth.
So, so much.
Man, that was a good community.
Man, that was a good community.
October 21, 2025 at 4:20 AM
So, so much.
Man, that was a good community.
Man, that was a good community.