These are short posts saved for their own sake. Each page says how little text there is. This page lists ten sources, oldest first where dated.
Welcome, the entire land
This is a light personal account of a joke project. Egyptologists translated a greeting, and the author stylized it and printed it on a shirt. The post gives no analysis. It releases the design to the public domain.
The Wizard of Speed and Time (1979 short film)
The page is a 173 second video with a three-paragraph description. The video was not viewed. Only the description text could be read.
Bluesky post by Jacob Geller about Indiana Jones
The post is a few lines of text with an image and a video link. It plays on the idea that Indiana Jones has seen divine proof. It is a joke, not an argument.
Reply about tools used for pixel art maps
The post is two lines long. It answers a question about how some pixel art maps were made. The thread's images were not viewed. Only text and alt text were read.
Reply on section 2.2 of a paper against computational functionalism
The post quotes a recommendation of a paper and then criticizes its section 2.2. The argument is brief and given as a question. The paper itself was not read, and the thread has a few replies.
Bluesky post by sifu.tweety.fish on an interoception paper
This is a two-post thread from one account. The first post praises a paper and holds back full agreement. The second post, a day later, says the paper's link to consciousness is weak. The quoted post, by Ed Gibney, links the paper.
I will never, ever forget this. Iconic. (quote-post about 17776)
Reo Eveleth adds a single line of praise to a quoted post. The quoted post praises 17776, an interactive fiction piece. It says the piece is ostensibly about football. The page is very short and says little on its own.
Bluesky thread on mid-tier menswear and a Bloomberg article
The opening post says mid-tier clothing is harder to find, not gone. Replies mostly share brand tips, price complaints and sizing worries. The evidence is the author's claim plus anecdotes from commenters.
Reply about Temple Maker 64
The post is one short sentence. It replies to a comment on a game announcement. The announcement had a video, which was not viewed.
this technology tree is not fictional, we have a Rube Goldberg example in what we call life
The post is two sentences long and replies in a thread about desktop nanofactories. It quotes an earlier post by the same account that carried an image. The images were not viewed.
Glossary
- Aseprite
- A program for drawing pixel art and sprites.
- Bluesky
- A social network where people publish short public posts.
- Computational functionalism
- The view that a mind is defined by the computations it performs.
- Epiphenomenalism
- The view that mental states have no causal effect on physical events.
- Fabula Ultima
- A tabletop role-playing game.
- Fast fashion
- Cheap clothing made quickly to follow trends.
- Folly
- A pointless but amusing project, a word the post uses for British follies.
- Foundry Virtual Tabletop
- Software for running tabletop role-playing games online.
- Gift link
- A link that lets non-subscribers read a paywalled article.
- Hello World program
- The first simple program many beginners write, which prints the words "Hello World".
- Hieroglyphs
- Pictorial writing used in ancient Egypt.
- Interactive fiction
- A story told through a web page or program that the reader steps through.
- Interoception
- The nervous system's sensing of the body's internal state, such as heartbeat or hunger.
- Mid-tier
- Clothing priced between cheap fast fashion and expensive luxury.
- Nanofactory
- A hypothetical machine that builds objects atom by atom.
- Phenomenology
- The felt, first-person character of experience.
- Quote-post
- A Bluesky post that embeds another post and adds comment.
- Quoted post
- A Bluesky post that embeds another post and adds a comment.
- Rube Goldberg machine
- An absurdly elaborate device that does a simple task through many steps.
- Special effects
- Visual tricks added to a film.
- Steam
- An online store and library for PC games.
- Stop motion
- A technique that films posed objects one frame at a time.
- Supervenient
- Depending on lower-level facts, so that no lower-level change means no change.
- Temple Maker 64
- A game for building and sharing Zelda-like dungeons.
- Tiled
- A map editor for building tile-based game levels.
- Zelda-like
- A game in the style of the Legend of Zelda series.