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• JP
  
  
  
  
  • https://jplebreton.com/
  
  


• Styger
  
  
  
  
  • https://www.sf.gov/readysf
  
  

Topics:

• Is "Non-Super" Mario an alternate state of consciousness or identity, or merely an alternate physical state?


• "Hot defensive bee ball" + bees in general


• Solving all 24,976,511 5x5 nonograms
  
  
  
  
  • https://pixelogic.app/every-5x5-nonogram
  
  


• Poem Seen in a Motel Fan by Alberto Blanco
  
  
  
  
  • https://media24.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads-2024/images/3/3597ddeb-e52e-4cda-a59c-c64600489fea/-_x1pv5l.jpg
  
  


• Werecreature logistics


• "The Ball is Back." Discuss.

Microtopics:

• The World of Video Games


• Your favorite granola coming back in stock.


• Working to make the world a slightly better place every day.


• Weird frustrating tethering.


• Levels that are about hauling ass.


• Being on the same train as someone for a few stops.


• The small version of yourself that you become when you lose your mushroom.


• Whether Small Mario has access to all of Super Mario's memories.


• What was the authorial intent of Alice growing bigger and smaller.


• Whether Small or Big Mario is the original default.


• Mario accumulating power and becoming an enormous hulking beast.


• Designing a level to support multiple player scales.


• Game series that have been both 2D and 3D platformers.


• Small Mario eating a mushroom and teleporting into a pocket dimension, swapping in Big Mario.


• Japanese hornets in an evolutionary arms race with Japanese honey bees.


• Bees forming a tight clump around a hive invader to make them uncomfortably warm.


• A baseball sized mass of bees smothering a huge horrible wasp.


• Touring beehives and giving seminars about the hot defensive bee ball.


• A multi-disciplinary bullshit operation.


• Enjoying your job.


• The degree to which they waggle.


• Bees having a dance-off to determine where to live.


• Extending the bee dance language to teach them orbital dynamics so they can find pollen sources in space.


• Candy that smells like a bee alarm pheromone.


• The NPC in Curse of Monkey Island who explains that merengue is made of eggs.


• What they call being "slashdotted" nowadays.


• Doing 15 puzzles and taking satisfaction in being 15 puzzles closer to not being able to play this game any more.


• Web sites: they shouldn't scale.


• Putting every 5x5 nonogram in the Library of Congress.


• Humanity dedicating all of its resources to solve every 6x6 nonogram.


• The 100 people in the world whose brains are tricked by this kind of fake work.


• The most interesting three-digit numbers.


• What happens when we run out of nonograms??


• The kayfabe of the community doing every 5x5 nonogram over and over again


• A convex mirror, a fisheye, a golden dome.


• Taking comfort in the continued existence of observers.


• Having all the resources to grow as a person but none of the incentives.


• Your little chunk of humanity's future.


• Things can get better but also they can get worse.


• The City Lights Pocket Poets Anthology, 60th Anniversary Edition.


• The official City Lights typeface.


• A dignified serif.


• A poem is when you do something interesting with typefaces.


• How to distribute your poem that does something interesting with fonts.


• Lycanthropy booths and other werewolf accommodations.


• It's not a disability but they still accommodate you.


• Seasonal Mania.


• Humans brains being affected by the sun and moon in ways we don't fully understand.


• Hospital intake numbers that correlate with the lunar cycle.


• What's the deal with the ball being back?


• A flying silver ball that sucks your brains out with a fork.


• Doing what you do just because.


• The ball: it has to be back.


• Watching an 80s horror movie and thinking "surely someone has made a Doom level of this"


• Inventing perfectly mirrored silver spheres entirely independently from ray tracers.


• Reporting back when you are further along on your Phantasm journey.


• Not being on the Internet because you're hanging out with the bees instead.

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