Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13@mumak.app

@steve @dev not that they hadn’t all seen it (it’s impossible to miss!), but it was so deeply engrained as “the way things were supposed to look” that it just didn’t register as being at all out of place, even after a decade of absence.

@dev @steve as an experimental control, we also swapped one of my uncle’s portraits in the stairwell with a portrait of Jesus.

In the morning, my grandmother hadn’t even made it down the stairs before saying “hey who replaced Jody with Jesus” and switched the portraits back.

But it literally took 4 hours and a neighbor coming over and saying “huh I thought you got rid of that” before anyone noticed the deer was back

@dev @steve the house my extended family owns in eastern Maine (near Sunday River and Mt Abram) for years had a deer head above the mantle until some summer renters throw it in the lake and it got a bit decrepit.

At Christmas one year about a decade later, after the older generations were sleeping, the cousins were feeling nostalgic, retrieved it from the basement, and swapped it back into its rightful spot, replacing a painting of a loon.

@arossp it originated in a very particular / niche internet community, but it’s too apt not to use whenever possible

@arossp see also “extralusionary intelligence”

@Sunfishstanford It's always felt a bit unsatisfying to me that time's arrow is a statistical law more than a physical law in the context of thermodynamics. I much prefer the elegance of CPT-symmetry.

@The_Tim everything bagel 😱

@mekkaokereke “shortening permit approval times won’t increase housing” is some real NIMBY brain-worms shit

@mekkaokereke @jalcine @brianonbarrington@mastodon.world @PJ_Evans semi-regular mandatory plug for https://c4ss.org/content/29932

@erchanda @mmasnick we seem to be warming up now 👀

Of the two Star Wars episodes dropping tonight, was not expecting Bad Batch to have the bigger potential impact on canon.

#StarWars #BadBatch #Mandalorian

@fakertarians 🧐🧐🧐🧐🧐