Alex
@finchburn.bsky.social
"ℐ𝒻 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓏𝑜𝑜 𝒷𝒶𝓃𝓈 𝓂𝑒 𝒻𝑜𝓇 𝒽𝑜𝓁𝓁𝑒𝓇𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒶𝓉 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒶𝓃𝒾𝓂𝒶𝓁𝓈 ℐ 𝓌𝒾𝓁𝓁 𝒻𝒶𝒸𝑒 𝒢𝑜𝒹 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝓌𝒶𝓁𝓀 𝒷𝒶𝒸𝓀𝓌𝒶𝓇𝒹𝓈 𝒾𝓃𝓉𝑜 𝒽𝑒𝓁𝓁." - 𝓌𝒾𝓃𝓉
(he/him)
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Latest organizational hack is to buy up discounted advent calendars so I can be on top of things for the first 24 days of each month.
December 23, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Latest organizational hack is to buy up discounted advent calendars so I can be on top of things for the first 24 days of each month.
Fear and Loathing in Las Grinch
She’s Just Not That Into Grinch
We Grinched A Zoo
December 18, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Fear and Loathing in Las Grinch
Candy idea: bright, colorful chewy candies in exciting flavors like: Blue Watermelon, Cherry, Green Watermelon, Yellow Watermelon, and Regular Watermelon.
December 16, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Candy idea: bright, colorful chewy candies in exciting flavors like: Blue Watermelon, Cherry, Green Watermelon, Yellow Watermelon, and Regular Watermelon.
The Internet could easily become at least 35% better if every platform had a simple one to two-click way to block anyone.
December 11, 2025 at 7:23 PM
The Internet could easily become at least 35% better if every platform had a simple one to two-click way to block anyone.
The button to use AI to summarize an email or a news article may as well say "Light a tree on fire, just because."
November 12, 2025 at 3:38 AM
The button to use AI to summarize an email or a news article may as well say "Light a tree on fire, just because."
In all seriousness, how #StardewValley handles religion is really interesting because Yoba worship exists and Yoba artifacts actually do stuff—but at no point is anyone pressured to be a congregation member to access the community center or its resources.
It's entirely separate from the chapel.
It's entirely separate from the chapel.
November 6, 2025 at 7:40 PM
In all seriousness, how #StardewValley handles religion is really interesting because Yoba worship exists and Yoba artifacts actually do stuff—but at no point is anyone pressured to be a congregation member to access the community center or its resources.
It's entirely separate from the chapel.
It's entirely separate from the chapel.
Halloween is arguably a very humanist holiday.
The whole thing depends on a social contract.
The whole thing depends on a social contract.
November 2, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Halloween is arguably a very humanist holiday.
The whole thing depends on a social contract.
The whole thing depends on a social contract.
Bunch of posers probably couldn't even make it through the Library.
The Trump administration used a picture of Halo’s Master Chief to call for the destruction of immigrants. Something about seeing the stalwart hero of a beloved video game twisted into an anti-immigrant super soldier hit people pretty hard.
🔗 www.404media.co/trump-admins...
🔗 www.404media.co/trump-admins...
Trump Admin’s Racist Halo Memes Are ‘A New Level of Dehumanization of Immigrants’
"The White House just marked the end of the console wars; DHS is posting deep fried Halo memes. We are somewhere else entirely."
www.404media.co
October 29, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Bunch of posers probably couldn't even make it through the Library.
The same society that built the Torment Nexus also missed that the biggest Manic Pixie Dream Girl movies are about how the Manic Pixie Dream Girl is not a real thing.
October 28, 2025 at 4:16 PM
The same society that built the Torment Nexus also missed that the biggest Manic Pixie Dream Girl movies are about how the Manic Pixie Dream Girl is not a real thing.
Okay I updated Windows but now I can't find my 3D Objects folder.
Where am I supposed to put all my 3D Objects?
Where am I supposed to put all my 3D Objects?
October 14, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Okay I updated Windows but now I can't find my 3D Objects folder.
Where am I supposed to put all my 3D Objects?
Where am I supposed to put all my 3D Objects?
Reposted by Alex
Posted to the Southern Reach Reddit...
October 7, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Posted to the Southern Reach Reddit...
Reposted by Alex
I am having a hard time reconciling "Charlie Kirk was a fierce advocate of open dialogue and free expression" with "we must identify and persecute everyone who is insufficiently mournful"
After Charlie Kirk's death, teachers and professors nationwide fired or disciplined over social media posts
At least a dozen faculty and staff have faced fallout over insensitive comments online.
www.nbcnews.com
September 13, 2025 at 12:08 PM
I am having a hard time reconciling "Charlie Kirk was a fierce advocate of open dialogue and free expression" with "we must identify and persecute everyone who is insufficiently mournful"
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"The big problem with assigning [autism] blame to vaccines, Tylenol or cold, unloving mothers is that when we’re having discussions about blame, we’re not having discussions about the best way to support autistic people." By @ericmgarcia.bsky.social:
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb... #autism #autistic
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb... #autism #autistic
Opinion | Don’t let RFK, Jr. make you feel guilty for having autistic children
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., continues to sow discord and disinformation about autism and characterize autistic people like me as nothing but burdens.
www.msnbc.com
September 10, 2025 at 6:35 PM
"The big problem with assigning [autism] blame to vaccines, Tylenol or cold, unloving mothers is that when we’re having discussions about blame, we’re not having discussions about the best way to support autistic people." By @ericmgarcia.bsky.social:
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb... #autism #autistic
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb... #autism #autistic
Ask ChatGPT to explain John Searle's "Chinese Room" experiment.
September 10, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Ask ChatGPT to explain John Searle's "Chinese Room" experiment.
Today I learned:
* Foamy the Squirrel is still putting out new episodes? 🙂
* They're pro-AI, with trivial caveats? 🙃
* Design by Humans is dead, itself a testament to the death of Internet culture itself, in favor of social media rage-bait and algorithm-based pyramid schemes. 🙁
* Foamy the Squirrel is still putting out new episodes? 🙂
* They're pro-AI, with trivial caveats? 🙃
* Design by Humans is dead, itself a testament to the death of Internet culture itself, in favor of social media rage-bait and algorithm-based pyramid schemes. 🙁
September 3, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Today I learned:
* Foamy the Squirrel is still putting out new episodes? 🙂
* They're pro-AI, with trivial caveats? 🙃
* Design by Humans is dead, itself a testament to the death of Internet culture itself, in favor of social media rage-bait and algorithm-based pyramid schemes. 🙁
* Foamy the Squirrel is still putting out new episodes? 🙂
* They're pro-AI, with trivial caveats? 🙃
* Design by Humans is dead, itself a testament to the death of Internet culture itself, in favor of social media rage-bait and algorithm-based pyramid schemes. 🙁
Reposted by Alex
Thrilled to announce this ground-breaking new book, Area X: The Southern Reach Files! The Central agent in question is, of course, Hargraves from Absolution. The book includes some new ways of approaching storytelling, and also I hope will be satisfying in lots of other ways. More in a thread. 1/?
August 14, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Thrilled to announce this ground-breaking new book, Area X: The Southern Reach Files! The Central agent in question is, of course, Hargraves from Absolution. The book includes some new ways of approaching storytelling, and also I hope will be satisfying in lots of other ways. More in a thread. 1/?
Maybe culturally we need to get back to telling Internet trolls, "Hey, man—I have no obligation to humor your stupid bullshit, especially if you're going to be a disrespectful, slimy little gremlin about it."
August 6, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Maybe culturally we need to get back to telling Internet trolls, "Hey, man—I have no obligation to humor your stupid bullshit, especially if you're going to be a disrespectful, slimy little gremlin about it."
Restocking ASMR is just a ploy by Big Jug to sell more plastics.
August 1, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Restocking ASMR is just a ploy by Big Jug to sell more plastics.
You can't judge a book by its cover.
I can. I'm built different, with a special innate book sense.
I can. I'm built different, with a special innate book sense.
July 24, 2025 at 9:12 PM
You can't judge a book by its cover.
I can. I'm built different, with a special innate book sense.
I can. I'm built different, with a special innate book sense.
So apparently if you email Sen. Lankford about the fiscal irresponsibility of the "Big Beautiful Bill," you just get an unrelated form letter response bemoaning Medicaid fraud.
Like, are you serious?
Like, are you serious?
July 7, 2025 at 9:17 PM
So apparently if you email Sen. Lankford about the fiscal irresponsibility of the "Big Beautiful Bill," you just get an unrelated form letter response bemoaning Medicaid fraud.
Like, are you serious?
Like, are you serious?
Kinda' hate how wedding planning options are:
* Get hitched at the courthouse for cheap one afternoon
or
* Drop $6k on a 4-hour party b/c no vendor will give you the time of day for less than $1.5k.
* Get hitched at the courthouse for cheap one afternoon
or
* Drop $6k on a 4-hour party b/c no vendor will give you the time of day for less than $1.5k.
July 6, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Kinda' hate how wedding planning options are:
* Get hitched at the courthouse for cheap one afternoon
or
* Drop $6k on a 4-hour party b/c no vendor will give you the time of day for less than $1.5k.
* Get hitched at the courthouse for cheap one afternoon
or
* Drop $6k on a 4-hour party b/c no vendor will give you the time of day for less than $1.5k.
I don't know who needs to hear this, specifically...
But your radio ads do not need to have slurping or munching sounds. Ever.
But your radio ads do not need to have slurping or munching sounds. Ever.
July 4, 2025 at 4:24 PM
I don't know who needs to hear this, specifically...
But your radio ads do not need to have slurping or munching sounds. Ever.
But your radio ads do not need to have slurping or munching sounds. Ever.
Reposted by Alex
REMEMBER: All the "Don't use em-dashes" "don't use rule of three" advice because it makes your writing "look like AI" is because they stole actual writers work, and their "predict the next thing" stuff just simulates what WE FUCKING DO. Keep writing well. Use every style and trick you have. Fuck AI.
July 3, 2025 at 7:43 PM
REMEMBER: All the "Don't use em-dashes" "don't use rule of three" advice because it makes your writing "look like AI" is because they stole actual writers work, and their "predict the next thing" stuff just simulates what WE FUCKING DO. Keep writing well. Use every style and trick you have. Fuck AI.
Elsewhere I'm seeing more of the weird leftist infighting -- where you have sheltered, terminally online slacktivists condescend from their Bizarroworld throne -- and I'm not sure if that's a sign that nature is healing, that we can even have these discussions... or if this is an algorithm change.
June 22, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Elsewhere I'm seeing more of the weird leftist infighting -- where you have sheltered, terminally online slacktivists condescend from their Bizarroworld throne -- and I'm not sure if that's a sign that nature is healing, that we can even have these discussions... or if this is an algorithm change.