ryan wolf @ryan@hates.company

2020 is dead and you aren't

the killdozer wreckage is a horcrux prove me wrong https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Heemeyer#Fate_of_the_bulldozer

i read 12 fewer books than last year, and this year's books had much smaller words. i did, however, make it to the end of 2020 without forgetting how to read, so i'm calling that a win.

you know you have found the good pulp novels when everyone's eyes are always flashing, just constantly.

No man is a failure who has friends, except Failures Georg, who lives in a cave with 5,000 friends who hate him.

for your christmas morning background music needs: the song Alley Cat, over and over and over https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgQsO2XIik0XSFQRoITztswHpuq3zSs-m

watching "It's a Wonderful Life" on christmas eve is a tradition in my family. i was basking in a nice puddle of childhood feels, when all of a sudden mr. gower's son robert dies of the *last* plague to hit the US.

pudding head

i saw mommy kissing santa claus, so now they are both in quarantine

it seems like the "intellectual dark web" is building itself back up, with various tertiary characters following greenwald and friends out into the substacks. there's an awkward period where that have absolutely nothing to say about the people controlling all three branches of the federal government, but while they wait to mysteriously develop opinions about the executive (and after jan 5th, maybe the legislative), they have had to settle for particular state govts: https://solana.substack.com/p/extract-or-die

it's christmas eve eve, aka christmas eevee

what do wood shavings and New York state have in common? https://www.etymonline.com/word/excelsior

it's the conjunction of trash pickup and recycling pickup, that most sacred night for dads

it's that exciting day we've all been waiting for: remember take out trash *and* recycling tonight for morning pickup!

i have spoken @bepis into being, for i am a just god

saw the term "device geometries" on a HN comment about all the thing graphene can do, and it felt like the setting for Ninefox Gambit leaking into the real.