@lifefeed.bsky.social - Justin

07 Oct 2025 16:13 +0000

"The white whale has been interpreted, among other things, as a symbol for Milton’s Satan, the Old Testament God, Death, evil, terror, good, fate, man’s interpretation of the meaning of life, and resurrection. Sometimes it is even thought of as a whale." - On interpetting Moby Dick

01 Oct 2025 14:39 +0000

Libby book is due. Time to turn on airplane mode.

30 Aug 2025 00:30 +0000

Hulu: “Hey you know that show you were watching last week?” Yeah? Hulu: “I don’t!”

10 Jul 2025 15:08 +0000

The more I learn about statistics the less I understand it. But at least I'm not alone! My new favorite paper is "the earth is round (p < 0.05)" https://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/gerstman/misc/Cohen1994.pdf

08 Jul 2025 14:07 +0000

There's no good commentary on "Kevin Can F Himself". All the substacks and youtube think pieces just describe the show. Maybe that's the fate of a good deconstruction, no one knows what else to say.

07 Jul 2025 20:45 +0000

"For decades, [women's] low self-esteem has been a key driver of the GDP." https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/your-government-assigned-life-coach

03 Jul 2025 13:46 +0000

Kevin Can F Himself is going to live in my head for a long time. Watching the last scene with Kevin is watching a two season setup finally reach it's punchline, and it was perfect.

02 Jul 2025 19:36 +0000

https://www.economist.com/business/2025/06/23/the-three-rules-of-conference-panels Economist meets McSweeny's.

30 May 2025 16:46 +0000

youtu.be/AYxmPHLU9oA https://youtu.be/AYxmPHLU9oA

04 May 2025 12:43 +0000

It’s 5/4. Happy Dave Brubeck Day.

24 Apr 2025 15:26 +0000

"...in the realm of high art, we are going through a low period. If you doubt this, ask yourself the work of which contemporary novelist, poet, composer, or painter you are eagerly awaiting. I’ll pause here a moment while you fail to find any. " cried every old guy. https://thelampmagazine.com/issues/issue-27/done-in-by-time

16 Apr 2025 16:38 +0000

Some people though Gulliver's Travels was real. "Lord Scarborow who is no Inventor of Storys told me that he fell into company with a Master of a ship who told him that he was well acquainted with Gulliver, but that the 'printer had Mistaken, that he lived in Wapping & not in Rotherbith,'...

10 Apr 2025 15:25 +0000

SOSA Undercover is a video series about capturing pedophiles, and their sound production seems to be inspired by horror movies, which is a good choice. youtu.be/PGpyZIKff6U https://youtu.be/PGpyZIKff6U

09 Apr 2025 14:54 +0000

The conservative answer to "men aren't reading". Anecdotally, I've found that people who discover and read the "great books" in college tend liberal, but people who discover and read them after college tend conservative. https://unherd.com/2025/04/the-literary-man-isnt-dead/

07 Apr 2025 22:32 +0000

The Hugo list for Best Related Work is wild. https://seattlein2025.org/wsfs/hugo-awards/2025-hugo-award-finalists/

04 Apr 2025 16:50 +0000

https://www.compactmag.com/article/the-vanishing-white-male-writer/#

02 Apr 2025 14:19 +0000

Sam Kinison would have voted for Trump and you fucking know it.

16 Mar 2025 18:21 +0000

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/good-riddance-to-literary-fiction/

19 Jan 2025 04:19 +0000

I’m happy TikTok is down. I have a bit of chaos monkey desire in me and just want to see what happens.

14 Jan 2025 16:50 +0000

Just read Never Let Me Go. One funny thought I had while reading this is that I knew the genre and I knew the authors reputation, so I knew what to expect. If this was a genre author, those girls would’ve blasted their way outta there, stolen a boat, sailed to freedom, brought about a revolution.

13 Jan 2025 16:47 +0000

You know you’re getting old when you haven’t seen a fnord in a while.

13 Jan 2025 15:13 +0000

The Economist is getting snarky.

13 Jan 2025 00:20 +0000

4yo: “daddy, disgusting and fucking rhyme!” Yes they do, you’re very smart. Now go to timeout.

11 Jan 2025 17:36 +0000

It’s started out with one truck, how did it end up like this.

10 Jan 2025 21:37 +0000

I like Jira. Any suitably-complex project planning software eventually morphs into a half-assed Jira with unknown deficiencies. I'll stick with the Jira with the known deficiencies.

10 Jan 2025 18:17 +0000

I always enjoy Martin Fowler's fav music of the year list. He always sounds like a pretentious prat when he posts it, but I've come to enjoy that part too. https://martinfowler.com/articles/2024-music.html

09 Jan 2025 15:39 +0000

How to speak Australian.

07 Jan 2025 19:45 +0000

Daycare: “Your son is doing well, but he’s behind on emotional regulation.” I know. He watches “Spidey and his Amazing Friends” and decided to only imitate the villains. Because villains are cooler and more colorful. Don’t blame me, blame Marvel.

03 Jan 2025 23:02 +0000

The very first episode of Star Trek featured comfortable sweaters as their uniform.

24 Dec 2024 16:24 +0000

As a holiday gift to myself I’m closing all tabs.