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ex luna, scientia

@exluna.bsky.social

sorry i cant be her

christmas tree ornament of a little felted mouse wearing a big red coat and a green scarf and blue mittens and a red hat and little yellow boots with green laces. she is smiling primly with her eyes closed

December 2, 2025 at 10:19 PM

ex luna, scientia

@exluna.bsky.social

if you want to buy this on steam they make you email in a scan of your marriage certificate so that you can prove you have one wife before being authorized to have your another wife

steam tile saying Your Another Wife with an anime lady wearing a bunnysuit

December 2, 2025 at 5:21 PM

ex luna, scientia

@exluna.bsky.social

thats how it is on this bitch of an earth

caves of qud death message informing me ive been decapitated by a decarbonizer

December 1, 2025 at 5:14 AM

ex luna, scientia

@exluna.bsky.social

some screenshots i took while playing shiren the wanderer: the tower of fortune and the dice of fate

old man in old-timey japanese style home saying "where do people go when they die? will they awaken in a beautiful paradise?"

guy in a dungeon saying "in this world, there are things that you can't get, no matter how much you want it or ask for it."

sparrow in an old-timey japanese style inn saying "let me tell you, there aren't a whole lot of people who can say they lived their lives the way they wanted."

blacksmith saying "i need 🍑Juicy Peach. thanks."

November 30, 2025 at 12:30 AM

ex luna, scientia

@exluna.bsky.social

start of achewood bit where ray becomes convinced he is channeling the spirit of einstein

November 13, 2025 at 4:07 PM

ex luna, scientia

@exluna.bsky.social

www.newyorker.com/magazine/199... was going through this again and found the obvious bit that leapt out at me but too depressing to assemble the rest of it. basically just that he's a self-obsessed garrulous malevolent moron with a flair for irrelevant detail and hysterically crude evasions

In Chicago, Gacy took classes at a business college. Then he got a job as a shoe salesman. The company he worked for sent him to Springfield, Illinois, to superintend the sale of its shoes in a department store. He traded shoes for clothes with salesmen who came into the store. “The Jockey man would come in and get a pair of $40 shoes at cost,” Gacy wrote in a letter he gave me a copy of. “I would get a dozen briefs and Jockey T-shirts, sometimes more. It was the same with shirts, nothing but the best. Manhattan french cuff white shirts, some silk, some the finest cotton Van Heusen shirts the same way—shoes for shirts. . . . You talk about men’s jewelry, hell again I had the best of Swank cuff links, tie pins. I had a collection of stones of the world in cuff links. I liked large flashy cuff links, as women would always remark about my dress. Psychologically, I got recognition from the customers, always remarking about my cuff links, or ties, and never the same. I enjoyed the attention . . . and it made a good impression on the customer, not only would they know I was the manager, but just by looking at me, you knew I had to be the boss. . . . I dressed and looked like an owner or a millionaire even when I was young. . . . I never wore brown because a man from Hart Shaffner and Marx said I didn’t look good in brown. . . . I liked rich dark blues, blacks, burgundy, grays, olives; some wool but I stayed with shark skins and silks because of the richness.”

November 12, 2025 at 11:24 PM

ex luna, scientia

@exluna.bsky.social

cheers to the mozilla corporation for silently replacing my desktop firefox shortcut with a mysterious exe file. i appreciate your forward-looking and trustworthy willingness to give me a five minute panic attack in service of not marginally inconveniencing onedrive users

For most Windows users, the existing desktop shortcut for launching Firefox has been replaced with the desktop launcher, a small program that will launch Firefox if it is installed, but if it is not installed will prompt the user to install Firefox. This will provide an easy installation point for Firefox users who acquire a new Windows device, where Firefox will not be installed by default, but the desktop launcher program may have synced via OneDrive or other cloud storage product. Learn more.

November 12, 2025 at 6:41 PM

ex luna, scientia

@exluna.bsky.social

#TwoFromTheHomePage

November 8, 2025 at 4:33 AM

ex luna, scientia

@exluna.bsky.social

$fucked up green fetus thing in a glass jar saying "Short of the intervention of a deity, nothing can ever be returned to this state once fractured." we're in a red glass dome$ horrible entity of some kind like a human thats been hunched over into a distorted spider-like sort of body-plan except it still only has two legs and two arms and its skin is featureless metallic blue-grey with green highlights. its name is displayed as "????" and its saying "This is one of my favorite places to be by myself."

horrible entity of some kind like a human thats been hunched over into a distorted spider-like sort of body-plan except it still only has two legs and two arms and its skin is featureless metallic blue-grey with green highlights. its name is displayed as "????" and its saying "This is one of my favorite places to be by myself."

floating blue guy with multiple eyes wearing a robe with a ruff collar. we're inside a rock dome with multiple holes in the ceiling showing an eerie purple sky above. hes saying "What is it, indeed, that grows by the tens of thousands in my far-reaching fields of timeless, ancient, dust?"

November 7, 2025 at 5:26 AM

ex luna, scientia

@exluna.bsky.social

didn't actually take that many screenshots in Goldenheart but retained a few that i liked

man fishing saying "It was really embarrassed. So embarrassed that it became awful. That's how the story went. It became awful. Ha ha!"

woman in stone hut saying "The desert people have a saying that goes, 'Kindness is the only coin that can't fit through the holes in our pockets.'"

November 7, 2025 at 5:21 AM

ex luna, scientia

@exluna.bsky.social

collage scraps. 80s bride. inset panels/figures of guys from battle angel alita. one is crying and saying "F-FREEDOM IS SOMETHING ONLY THE ST-STRONG CAN HAVE!" and the other is going HEH!

November 1, 2025 at 9:36 PM

ex luna, scientia

@exluna.bsky.social

collage scraps. star wars monster with a word balloon saying koff koff

November 1, 2025 at 9:11 PM

ex luna, scientia

@exluna.bsky.social

theyre afraid of the truth

i tried to post "baseable ball" and they took my internet down

October 28, 2025 at 5:00 PM

ex luna, scientia

@exluna.bsky.social

this is one of the things that has felt the worst to me over the years lol. a decade of posts about how this is the real crypto crash for real this time, all those posts from the first year or so about how twitter was about to get fried and irrecoverable from cold start, etc

Other habits of ye olde blogosphere lived on in Zitron’s work. More important than the feuding is what we might call his tech-blogger eschatology. One longtime tech writer described it for me, drawing on his own experience in the 2010s: “You see something getting shittier and shittier, worse and worse, you see your authentic engagement with the core product just sort of dying, you see a shittily rotting thing, and you have this moral instinct that, therefore, it will all come crashing down.” But the crash rarely ever comes. It didn’t come for Facebook or Twitter. For that matter it didn’t come for crypto, which after a great deal of doomsaying merely wound up buying a presidency.

What people were actually witnessing as they watched a particular product get worse—enshittify, to use Cory Doctorow’s coinage—was not the slow approach of some inexorable fate, as many believed. It was, as the tech writer put it to me, “evidence of a company doing very well by being very bad.” A lot of sharp people still don’t see it, in part because of a faith, not yet exhausted, in some kind of self-correcting market mechanism: A costly and degraded product would be punished somehow. It simply had to be. Forget generative AI. That faith is the biggest bubble of all.

October 27, 2025 at 5:54 PM

ex luna, scientia

@exluna.bsky.social

At its core, this is a deep, first-person RPG - one where your story unfolds through the high-stakes loop of a multiplayer extraction shooter. [pauses] [does the eddie izzard smiles and shakes head thing]