@zoidbergvariations.bsky.social - The Well-Tempered Cacophony

14 Aug 2026 02:02 +0000

I’m starting to think handing down the wisdom of “most of us were boring and lead uninteresting lives” to the young’uns might be crucial.

06 Aug 2026 19:14 +0000

Confession: I still pronounce “zine” like it’s spelled.

01 Aug 2026 16:45 +0000

He immediately started speaking with Matt Berry’s voice #Paranormasight

07 Jul 2026 23:33 +0000

I’m reading Beckett’s ‘Endgame’ and tried googling “When we crashed on our tandem and lost our shanks” because that is not a phrase I can decipher as a millennial American; all that came up is Call of Duty Black Ops 7. Bleak

06 Jul 2026 01:04 +0000

If you are USian and not watching this game on Telemundo you are a traitor.

03 Jul 2026 00:24 +0000

I remember visiting Croatia right after their loss to France in the World Cup, and all the bars and whatnot were still playing that game as a badge of pride. I haven’t ever experienced that in the US

23 Jun 2026 22:19 +0000

I’ve really enjoyed 007 First Light for the most part, but the “open the door for Greenway” aspect of Knightfall is one of the worst game design decisions I’ve seen in a long time. This is ‘97 PS1 era ridiculously obtuse.

15 Jun 2026 01:32 +0000

Love this picture by Cow Wreck Beach, Anegada

22 May 2026 02:52 +0000

Both ‘The Phantom Menace’ and ‘The Matrix’ released in the same year and yet they seem to exist in different epochs of cinema for me. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

24 Apr 2026 23:35 +0000

Why Bach’s “Passacaglia and Fugue in C Minor, BWV 582” is designed like a video game for both the listener *and* player…(1/37)

15 Apr 2026 20:52 +0000

I’ve only known “French 75” as a classic cocktail so color me shocked to learn it’s WWI artillery

14 Apr 2026 15:12 +0000

Current: The Wax Child- Olga Ravn tr. Martin Aitkin Last: Half His Age- Jennette McCurdy Next: The Quantity Theory of Morality- Will Self Favorite: Taiwan Travelogue- Yang Shuang-zi tr. Lin King #booksky [contains quote post or other embedded content]

03 Apr 2026 01:56 +0000

I really love poetry from non-native speakers. They have a way of manipulating language that simply wouldn’t occur to someone who can’t see it from the outside.

24 Feb 2026 02:45 +0000

If anyone under 25 reads me as anything other than “Unc” that’s an indictment on me. I’m not trying hard enough to separate.

22 Feb 2026 19:41 +0000

Yes yes go all in an Opera *rubs hands in delight*

15 Feb 2026 15:23 +0000

NBC reporters really need to stop hexing US athletes with “no one in the world does it like this U.S. team/athlete.” (Men’s Team Pursuit)

13 Feb 2026 21:43 +0000

Yuma’s Turnadot is from the recently displaced Washington National Opera!

12 Feb 2026 04:44 +0000

Goddammit please let my headband curling king not be a milkshake duck I beg you

10 Feb 2026 19:19 +0000

What a result for Farquharson! Super excited for her

10 Feb 2026 15:17 +0000

Klæbo is just electrifying to watch. Congrats to Ogden though!

08 Feb 2026 17:07 +0000

Cross country skiing is one of those sports that looks hard and is still harder than it looks.

08 Feb 2026 13:40 +0000

The “…Mom” delivery in that Saatva commercial is one of the most awkward things I’ve ever heard.

07 Feb 2026 20:30 +0000

If the PWHL ever gets a DC expansion team I’m buying season tickets. Women’s hockey is the shit.

07 Feb 2026 14:31 +0000

Having heart rate monitors on family spectators during the Olympics is truly evil work.

06 Feb 2026 19:49 +0000

The Olympic DJ behind an ice table is so perfectly on the nose

21 Jan 2026 18:17 +0000

copy and paste the bunny and then put something else in his hand (\_/) (°-°) />🔔< Why are you afraid of me Little Albert? [contains quote post or other embedded content]

21 Jan 2026 14:19 +0000

Pick up the nearest book. Turn to page 42 and post the second sentence. “Maybe people who’d been marked out with red paint were only allowed houses like this one, with nothing in it, so we didn’t forget that we were that word temporary.” [contains quote post or other embedded content]

10 Jan 2026 03:37 +0000

I really don’t understand why I have to pull everyone-I-know’s leg so hard to watch The Pitt.

02 Dec 2024 04:41 +0000

@scalzi.com Got a pair of cats from our local shelter this March: Percy and Evie. Dressed the names up slightly; Percival and Genevieve. Recently read Balzac’s Père Goriot, partly taking place on Rue Sainte Genevieve— cute! Now I’m reading Starter Villain and a bit worried…

21 Oct 2024 23:01 +0000

If I could go back in time and murder three (3) composers in the western classical cannon, it would be in order: 1) Richard Wagner 2) Carl Orff 3) Johann Pachelbel