RE: https://mastodon.social/@fandompost/117175497785822863 I owned the original What The—?! issue with this cover, which had the additional gag of the break-time Hulk here saying "Union rules, don't you know.” I was too young to understand the joke at the time and when I retroactively got it […]

Metatoot: Some time ago @thejaymo, who makes a career out of describing the souls of online worlds that resist easy definition, asked in sincerity what us tooters *do* here. I took it as a challenge to answer the question for myself, and have been working on it since. Right now my posts are […]

Thunder rattling the windows just as the weekday is getting going is the best thunder. Unironically love it #NYC

Learn to decode the ubiquitous spray-painted maintenance-squiggles found all over the streets of #NYC: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/arts/design/street-symbols-michael-kimmelman.html?unlocked_article_code=1.8lA.C6TW.HAl3ccfL9lZ4&smid=url-share

If you're in #Montreal, we have a beautiful clear night for the #LunarEclipse. It's at a reasonable time (right now till right after midnight). Just go outside and look. @plateau_astro has the details […]

There was a post out there somewhere that defined the scale of danger in how many hobbits it took. Trolls: one-hobbit problem Dragon: one-hobbit problem Saruman: two-hobbit problem Simply walking into Mordor: three hobbit problem (don't forget Gollum!) The War of the Ring: five hobbit problem […]

Some nights I think that the only thing, aye, the *only* thing I don't like about #NYC apartment life is when one of your hive-neighbor’s smoke detectors starts low-battery beepin exactly once per minute while they're out of town. And tonight is one of those nights.

Damn right he is. https://www.vulture.com/article/tim-curry-muppets-tribute.html

Miss Piggy’s Former Lover Tim Curry Declared an Honorary Muppet

“We will always consider it one of our greatest treasures to have been part of Long John Silver’s crew.”

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my submission to https://storyseedlibrary.org i hope i win #unix_surrealism #art #solarpunk #mastoart #permacomputing #art #fediart

Acorns and chestnuts are ripening here. Prime goth squirrel photoshoot time.

RE: https://toot.cat/@ceejbot/117148860526504367 A terrible truth: LLM chatbots are now pretty good at responding to the prompt “I wanna get back into this well-known game. Here's a summary of where I am. Give me the tiniest nudge of what I'm supposed to do next. No spoilers.”

Looking at older photos of the girls, I think I can accept that my cats have aged gracefully from kittehs into scrunglers.

There's something exciting about watching a film in the same space where it was made, and the audience, who are not filmmakers, being awed that the sets they are seeing on the screen happened in the very room they are in. This was at a movie night I hosted […] [Original post on mograph.social]

In a few hours I'll be transmitting from deep in the zone between night and morning. Tune your receiver sets to Freeform Jazz Dance, 3 to 6am eastern only on WFMU! https://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/167755

Freeform Jazz Dance with Jason Isaac

Audio & playlist from August 23, 2026

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Anglophone Canadians woke up today furious that Americans would complain about Quebec's language laws. How dare they? That's *our* job!

[Watching “Project Hail Mary” and it’s fun but] It's a bit "Stupid Arrival”, isn't it I can tell I'd think this was super amazing if I were 12 and I mean that complimentarily

Two sessions in, and I feel ready to say that #BigWalk is one of the nicest things to happen to video games in a long time.

I've added cloudiness forecasts to https://BumpySkies.com! If you're a paid subscriber to my turbulence-forecasting website, you can also see when and where you can expect cloud cover between you and the ground, during your flight. This is a feature I’ve wanted to add for a long time, and now I […]

1. Went into the Dunkins, exchanged "Good Morning" with the staff whose current rotation is chattier than average, and grabbed my waiting online-order tray. The tag says “Jessica D”? Wait… 2. A woman bustles in behind me carrying an identical tray and shows it to the staff. "Jason?" they say […]

RE: https://masto.nyc/@denvermullets/117127606732749645 One game I remember fondly from the Atari VCS days was "Lost Luggage”, about catching suitcases flying off a baggage carousel run amok, and I didn't realize I was waiting decades for another video game about baggage conveyors UNTIL TODAY

Got taught a lesson in hubris for not bothering with an umbrella tonight. How about you? #NYC

RE: https://social.panic.com/@cabel/117129641032547610 I surely haven't heard this in at least 35 years and successfully hummed the opening horn+piano (I think?) riff before hitting play just from this description #BongoDrums WHOA it's got some synth bass goin on like a minute in, where'd that […]

Today’s side-eye at macOS autocomplete: Mailing a BumpySkies customer, typing “The problem was an oversight with the Bu” and then for a split-second seeing “sh administration” to the right of my cursor.

Tired: "You're aboslutely right!” Wired: "You're right, and it's worse than that.”

Just had to refund a BumpySkies customer because my website didn't get the memo that Palm Beach International Airport suddenly changed its ICAO code from KPBI to KDJT earlier this summer, which messed up the website's forecast-notifications feature. (Fixed now.) #aviation

RE: https://masto.nyc/@wavdl/117116821875191090 I am very confident that Masto.NYC is the only server with a New York Liberty emoji :liberty: Also was heretofore unaware of their mascot Ellie. Delightful!

RE: https://wandering.shop/@jdnicoll/117076995014167682 I read this whole dang 2009 novella after dark last night specifically because of this review, plus coincidentally running into another reference to it recently. Was heretofore unfamiliar with it. Really cool horror-tinged Borges remix. I […]

*25 years ago

Enjoyed this podcast interview of new #NYC DoT commissioner Mike Flynn, especially about the Mamdani administration's crackdown on the sale and use of certain kinds of high-speed (like, 30 MPH) e-bikes within the city. It was a chance for me to catch up on e-bike legality; I remember learning […]

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Howard Rheingold — Writer, Artist, Teacher

Official site of Howard Rheingold: writing, art, videos, and updates. Author of The Virtual Community and Smart Mobs; pioneer of virtual communities.

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