Tag: social media

• All grow fat from laughter (June 24, 2026)

  I very much enjoy A Most Amusing Bot, a Mastodon bot by Andy Lundell which regularly posts scanned newsprint ads of novelty gadgets from the 19th and 20th centuries. And I like the very eerie note that this one ends on.

• To Hell and Galgenbeck (January 5, 2026)

  This week finds me gearing up to run a session or two of Mörk Borg, a doom-metal role-playing game and tiny cultural phenomenon that I discovered in November. As part of my research and preparation over this past weekend, I came across To Hell and Galgenbeck, the official Mörk Borg webcomic. It’s pretty great.

• Liberals, liberals, liberals! (September 18, 2025)

  I try not to make a habit of peeking at the trending-posts tab of my Mastodon server, but when I do it anyway, I often find myself thinking of the preceding 2005 installment of “Anthropomorphic Republican Talking Duck”, a “Mallard Fillmore” parody by Adam Jameson.

• “Is this ‘loss’?” (August 8, 2020)

  Remembering the time Zach posted a picture of a stool and I got all upset and didn't know why.

• What, Janelle Monáe wasn’t available? (July 31, 2020)

  The universally disappointed reaction of my Twitter timeline upon the announcement of each new Doctor Who lead actor has me well-prepared for the inevitable response to Biden’s VP pick.