Deep in my laptop's folder hierarchy, Chrome has generated english_wikipedia.txt, a file of exactly 30,000 words. Apparently in order of frequency (the first word is "the"). The first noun comes at word twenty: doc. Word fifty is year. Word 29,992 is hemsworth. Word 30,000 is evaporator.

From the City/Town Encounters Table, Dungeon Master's Guide 1st Edition. We learned a lot.
#tagyourself #ad&d #beastmode

The Secret History: MAGA ur-text,
or merely a prescient allegory?

Is it cheugy to ask if it's cheugy to say that "cheugy" is cheugy?

a short history of the word "spooktacular"

books.google.com/ngrams/graph...

well which is it

I love this email and I get it every morning

Announcement: my new book is BEAST MODE

Ironically, dodging the wrath of the richest man in the world is an extremely Deus Ex thing to do.
www.timeextension.com/news/2025/09...

It's iconic, but is it good?

And picking 40th, @grossman.bsky.social selects Lisa Loeb's Lisa Loeb, Stay (I Missed You) 1994

www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9HG...

seriously?

Gonna file this under "things that go through your head when you're falling asleep in 2002, but which are just normal headlines now"

WE HAVE NEVER BEEN MODERN

New aesthetic idea: infinitely photocopied physical therapy instructions

Imagine traveling all that way just to get detected

Hardcover reveal for Fight Me. Endpaper art by Actual Legend Bryan Hitch!

Preorder at www.penguin.co.uk/books/446205...