Jeffrey R. Villines
@jeffinthebowtie.bsky.social
HCC English Faculty | Fantasy Author | Occasional Actor | he/him | www.jeffinthebowtie.com
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This starts an #introduction thread. Actually, it starts a web--all the comments will be attached here instead of in a chain so I can swap out more accurate posts as needed without breaking the chain. This is here to let you know what to expect from my Bluesky feed.
Mandatory BonziBuddy
"Microsoft warns that Windows 11's agentic AI could install malware on your PC: 'Only enable this feature if you understand the security implications.'"
bro what--
what are we doing here, exactly, how can you--anyone be okay with this?
bro what--
what are we doing here, exactly, how can you--anyone be okay with this?
November 19, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Mandatory BonziBuddy
Leaving Twitter when Musk bought it is like putting down The King in Yellow before Act II
Would love to read a long article about all the people that drove themselves insane by reading tweets.
Noah Smith is doing Judeo-Bolshevism but about Muslims and Arabs
November 19, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Leaving Twitter when Musk bought it is like putting down The King in Yellow before Act II
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Part of the issue is that Good at Words people are generally inclined to accept that people are all different ways and to think that’s just fine. Good at Math people have been allowed too much room to think that only they have the thoughts that matter.
November 12, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Part of the issue is that Good at Words people are generally inclined to accept that people are all different ways and to think that’s just fine. Good at Math people have been allowed too much room to think that only they have the thoughts that matter.
Reposted by Jeffrey R. Villines
Ozyman, Ozyman-
dias does what no mortal can
and his works? are they there?
no, but maybe still despair
dias does what no mortal can
and his works? are they there?
no, but maybe still despair
This is just to say
I have looked on
the works
that were in
the desert
and which
you were probably
thinking
would still stand
Forgive me
they were trunkless
so vast
and so old
I have looked on
the works
that were in
the desert
and which
you were probably
thinking
would still stand
Forgive me
they were trunkless
so vast
and so old
Once upon a desert sandy
As through winds the trav'ling man he
Spied the face of Ozymandy
Lying, simply lying there
Suddenly there was some writing
Pon the plinth that he was sighting
That the sand and time were blighting
Quoth the statue, "Now despair"
As through winds the trav'ling man he
Spied the face of Ozymandy
Lying, simply lying there
Suddenly there was some writing
Pon the plinth that he was sighting
That the sand and time were blighting
Quoth the statue, "Now despair"
October 30, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Ozyman, Ozyman-
dias does what no mortal can
and his works? are they there?
no, but maybe still despair
dias does what no mortal can
and his works? are they there?
no, but maybe still despair
On top of everything else, who’d want to see Tim Fishandchips in Rocky Horror?
The British Right are just in total freefall into savagery at this point
October 18, 2025 at 3:20 PM
On top of everything else, who’d want to see Tim Fishandchips in Rocky Horror?
Quare lactucam odiunt?
October 13, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Quare lactucam odiunt?
Is it just me or are the grammar “corrections” (blue double underline) in Microsoft Word objectively wrong with increasing frequency?
Half of them in my document admonish me to remove the closing quotation mark—and only the closing one—from dialogue.
Half of them in my document admonish me to remove the closing quotation mark—and only the closing one—from dialogue.
October 8, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Is it just me or are the grammar “corrections” (blue double underline) in Microsoft Word objectively wrong with increasing frequency?
Half of them in my document admonish me to remove the closing quotation mark—and only the closing one—from dialogue.
Half of them in my document admonish me to remove the closing quotation mark—and only the closing one—from dialogue.
On my walk to work, got distracted by the thought of all the Jane Austen heroines combining into one like in the climax of an episode of Power Rangers
October 7, 2025 at 2:00 PM
On my walk to work, got distracted by the thought of all the Jane Austen heroines combining into one like in the climax of an episode of Power Rangers
Reposted by Jeffrey R. Villines
Watch today is a Soviet-made handwound “medical watch” from 1989 by Slava. The scales help you determine the patient’s heart rate. You must wait until the seconds hand reaches 0 or 30, then count 15 patient pulses. Where the seconds hand is on the scale at that moment is the heart rate.
October 4, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Watch today is a Soviet-made handwound “medical watch” from 1989 by Slava. The scales help you determine the patient’s heart rate. You must wait until the seconds hand reaches 0 or 30, then count 15 patient pulses. Where the seconds hand is on the scale at that moment is the heart rate.
Subtly downgrade a band:
Ben Takes Five Out of the Drier, Puts Them in the Hamper, and Puts the Hamper on His Bed
Ben Takes Five Out of the Drier, Puts Them in the Hamper, and Puts the Hamper on His Bed
subtly downgrade a band
Led Montgolfière
Led Montgolfière
subtly downgrade a band
9,999 Maniacs
9,999 Maniacs
October 2, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Subtly downgrade a band:
Ben Takes Five Out of the Drier, Puts Them in the Hamper, and Puts the Hamper on His Bed
Ben Takes Five Out of the Drier, Puts Them in the Hamper, and Puts the Hamper on His Bed
“So I says to Mabel, I says…”
what's the stupidest/randomest Simpsons quote that lives in your head rent free? Mine is the urge to say "you said go to bread" every time I am about to head to bed.
October 2, 2025 at 3:00 AM
“So I says to Mabel, I says…”
Just saw A Gardener’s Year, which is not a direct adaptation of Karel Čapek’s essay collection of that title, but which uses its text as a framing device. It was wonderful and difficult without teetering into easy bleakness. Some of the most amazing, subtle performances I’ve ever seen on film.
October 1, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Just saw A Gardener’s Year, which is not a direct adaptation of Karel Čapek’s essay collection of that title, but which uses its text as a framing device. It was wonderful and difficult without teetering into easy bleakness. Some of the most amazing, subtle performances I’ve ever seen on film.
Reposted by Jeffrey R. Villines
CHOTINER: …Well?
VILLAGER: We *did* do the nose.
CHOTINER: The nose?
VILLAGER: And the hat.
VILLAGER: Oh, but she’s a witch!
🧙♀️
VILLAGER: We *did* do the nose.
CHOTINER: The nose?
VILLAGER: And the hat.
VILLAGER: Oh, but she’s a witch!
🧙♀️
September 25, 2025 at 4:30 AM
CHOTINER: …Well?
VILLAGER: We *did* do the nose.
CHOTINER: The nose?
VILLAGER: And the hat.
VILLAGER: Oh, but she’s a witch!
🧙♀️
VILLAGER: We *did* do the nose.
CHOTINER: The nose?
VILLAGER: And the hat.
VILLAGER: Oh, but she’s a witch!
🧙♀️
Ruin a band with a Supreme Court Justice:
A Tribe Called Rehnquist
A Tribe Called Rehnquist
Ruin a band with a Supreme Court Justice
William Henry Moody Blues
William Henry Moody Blues
Ruin a band with a Supreme Court Justice
Byron White Stripes
Byron White Stripes
September 24, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Ruin a band with a Supreme Court Justice:
A Tribe Called Rehnquist
A Tribe Called Rehnquist
I go to a themepark for the shows. Point me toward the radiator
fuck disney i'd rather have an amusement park dedicated to arthouse anyway. let me use my skip the line pass to play chess with death, get trapped in the basement of the parasite haunted mansion, experience the unresolvable roller coaster of yearning on the in the mood for love adventure.
September 21, 2025 at 2:57 PM
I go to a themepark for the shows. Point me toward the radiator
Slightly diminish a book:
Friend Request with Rama
Friend Request with Rama
September 9, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Slightly diminish a book:
Friend Request with Rama
Friend Request with Rama
“Lucky” = won in a raffle
Not this
Not this
One lucky Star Wars fan won the lightsaber on Sept. 4. Prior to the auction, NPR's Andrew Mambo interviewed Brandon Alinger, the COO of the auction house Propstore, which hosted the sale.
What was the winning bid for Darth Vader's iconic lightsaber? $3.6 million
One lucky Star Wars fan won the lightsaber on Sept. 4. Prior to the auction, NPR's Andrew Mambo interviewed Brandon Alinger, the COO of the auction house Propstore, which hosted the sale.
n.pr
September 7, 2025 at 4:32 PM
“Lucky” = won in a raffle
Not this
Not this
If we’re going to be talking about A.I. this much, can we at least gain the ability to change the iPhone display font so the uppercase i is distinct from the lowercase L?
September 7, 2025 at 3:03 AM
If we’re going to be talking about A.I. this much, can we at least gain the ability to change the iPhone display font so the uppercase i is distinct from the lowercase L?
I know it really doesn’t matter but somehow, despite being a college writing professor, this is the A.I. balderdash that I took personally:
September 7, 2025 at 3:00 AM
I know it really doesn’t matter but somehow, despite being a college writing professor, this is the A.I. balderdash that I took personally:
This is all my fault. I solved the golf-tee puzzle in an eldritch configuration and inadvertently freed Barrel Bob
This is what they are losing their mind about. A logo change, where they lose the guy leaning on the barrel.
August 21, 2025 at 11:05 PM
This is all my fault. I solved the golf-tee puzzle in an eldritch configuration and inadvertently freed Barrel Bob
I forget the museum, but daily I think of the touchscreen “What Would You Be In the Middle Ages?” display I once saw.
Visitors could carefully enter their skills and their interests—and irrespective of any of that it just told them “Peasant.”
Visitors could carefully enter their skills and their interests—and irrespective of any of that it just told them “Peasant.”
August 17, 2025 at 3:57 PM
I forget the museum, but daily I think of the touchscreen “What Would You Be In the Middle Ages?” display I once saw.
Visitors could carefully enter their skills and their interests—and irrespective of any of that it just told them “Peasant.”
Visitors could carefully enter their skills and their interests—and irrespective of any of that it just told them “Peasant.”
We must increase bands.
Bens Fold Five
Bens Fold Five
We must increase bands.
String of Pearls Jam
String of Pearls Jam
We must increase bands.
Garbage Fire
Garbage Fire
August 14, 2025 at 12:20 PM
We must increase bands.
Bens Fold Five
Bens Fold Five
As someone with an irrational affection for square numbers, I hate that 2025 is the only square I will live through.
August 13, 2025 at 11:00 PM
As someone with an irrational affection for square numbers, I hate that 2025 is the only square I will live through.
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Wallace Shawn gets home. A shadowy figure disturbs the narrow beam of light from the window.
“Debbie?” Wallace asks.
“No, Wally,” answers a man’s voice. The figure steps into the light of the doorway. It’s Andy Warhol.
“I’m here to talk to you,” he says, “about absolutely nothing.”
“Debbie?” Wallace asks.
“No, Wally,” answers a man’s voice. The figure steps into the light of the doorway. It’s Andy Warhol.
“I’m here to talk to you,” he says, “about absolutely nothing.”
August 13, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Wallace Shawn gets home. A shadowy figure disturbs the narrow beam of light from the window.
“Debbie?” Wallace asks.
“No, Wally,” answers a man’s voice. The figure steps into the light of the doorway. It’s Andy Warhol.
“I’m here to talk to you,” he says, “about absolutely nothing.”
“Debbie?” Wallace asks.
“No, Wally,” answers a man’s voice. The figure steps into the light of the doorway. It’s Andy Warhol.
“I’m here to talk to you,” he says, “about absolutely nothing.”
Wallace Shawn gets home. A shadowy figure disturbs the narrow beam of light from the window.
“Debbie?” Wallace asks.
“No, Wally,” answers a man’s voice. The figure steps into the light of the doorway. It’s Andy Warhol.
“I’m here to talk to you,” he says, “about absolutely nothing.”
“Debbie?” Wallace asks.
“No, Wally,” answers a man’s voice. The figure steps into the light of the doorway. It’s Andy Warhol.
“I’m here to talk to you,” he says, “about absolutely nothing.”
August 13, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Wallace Shawn gets home. A shadowy figure disturbs the narrow beam of light from the window.
“Debbie?” Wallace asks.
“No, Wally,” answers a man’s voice. The figure steps into the light of the doorway. It’s Andy Warhol.
“I’m here to talk to you,” he says, “about absolutely nothing.”
“Debbie?” Wallace asks.
“No, Wally,” answers a man’s voice. The figure steps into the light of the doorway. It’s Andy Warhol.
“I’m here to talk to you,” he says, “about absolutely nothing.”