Postmodern Trickster

@jarvis_best Nothing tastes as good as being awful feels.

@damintoell @hannahgais Can confirm x.com/pomotrickster/…

@hannahgais He doesn’t just SOUND like a moron

You sound like a moron.

@Cortex_Zero @majur_56 I actually bought a copy of the BUFORA Journal that publicized this, it's one of my favorite weird stories.

"Are you a ghost?" “Well, not really, but I am in an odd sort of way.” 🤡 One of the strangest entity encounters in British anomalous history took place in 1973 near Sandown on the Isle of Wight, when two children reported coming face to face with a bizarre figure that has since become known as the “Sandown Clown.” According to the account, the children were walking near the golf course and small airport area when they heard a loud, wavering noise resembling a siren or ambulance. Following the sound into a swampy meadow, they crossed a small footbridge and reportedly saw a blue-gloved hand emerge from beneath it. What followed was a sight they never forgot. The figure they described was nearly seven feet tall and unlike anything in conventional UFO or ghost lore. It had no visible neck, a perfectly round white face, triangular eyes, a rectangular brown nose, an oval mouth with motionless yellow lips, red hair, and circular markings on its cheeks. It wore a pointed yellow hat topped with a black knob and flanked by antenna-like projections, along with a red collar, green tunic, white trousers, blue gloves, and feet said to have only three white toes. Its arms and legs were described as stiff and oddly constructed, giving it the appearance of something between a clown, a robot, and an alien. The children said the being dropped a book in the water, retrieved it awkwardly, and entered a strange metallic hut with no windows. It later reappeared carrying what they described as a microphone-like object attached to a white cord. After the sound stopped, the entity reportedly called out to them in a friendly tone and began communicating both by speech and by writing in a notebook. It allegedly identified itself in a peculiar way, saying it was “all colours, Sam.” When asked whether it was a man, it said no. When asked whether it was a ghost, it gave the now-famous reply: “Well, not really, but I am in an odd sort of way.” It also reportedly told the children it had no real name, that there were others like it, and that it was frightened of people and would not fight back if attacked. The children said they were invited inside the hut, where they saw blue-green walls marked with strange patterns, simple furniture, and an electric heater. The being claimed it lived on berries and water, and in one of the most bizarre details of the entire case, it allegedly demonstrated eating by placing a berry to its ear, with the fruit seemingly moving through its head before appearing at its mouth. The encounter reportedly lasted around half an hour. When the children finally ran off, they told the first adult they saw that they had encountered a ghost. No physical evidence was ever recovered, and no definitive explanation has ever been established. More than five decades later, the Sandown Clown remains one of the most unsettling and difficult-to-categorize cases in all of high strangeness. Not simply because it was weird, but because it seemed to exist somewhere between folklore, apparition, machine, and something entirely unknown. #ufox #ufotwitter

@BradRTorgersen Anti-hero maybe. He was just the idealism of their youth filtered through life in prison and working for the mob. Martin started a business and had friends so of course he can see the personal impact now of burning it all down.

Was Cosmo the villain, the hero, or a curious sort of antihero? I've changed my mind several times over the years. Especially since his objective (while deluded) was 100% egalitarian. By contrast, Martin Bishop chooses to play Robin Hood with the box. Picking winners and losers.

@neontaster I can't figure out if she's completely nuts now or if this is just her boomer way of trying to relate to the kids. Her bubble is so insulated as this point it could just be that's the bulk of her feed on tik tok.

Had to verify this was true and the truth is actually worse. She’s on a whole crusade about how not wearing Covid masks is like genocide.

On Friday I had to reject a PR because Claude totally flubbed the basic logic (stuff like == when it needed !=) Eh I'm sure this'll be fine though.

Look I’m just glad Ben Rhodes has found a hobby in his retirement.

Take away the mainstream media aspect of this and you have the Charlie Kirk conspiracy nuts. They all act exactly like this.

RIP Mellon Arena

@ingelramdecoucy In the 80's my dad got a perm and it's been a topic of ridicule in my family since. Looking at the photos now is incredibly embarrassing. Looking at this stuff feels like that, but at the national level.

The levels of cringe experienced during that whole absurd ordeal may never be topped

Still amazes me. x.com/c_3c_3/status/…

My favorite memory of the Mueller investigation was when he testified before congress and very obviously didn't even recognize the name Fusion GPS.

@damintoell Walls are closing in!

Well, I’d like to see ol’ Zohrry Mamdani wriggle his way out of THIS jam!

@janefkndoe Roku used to have a screensaver app that was literally called "Girls Eating Bananas" and I always wondered what kind of savage would have that playing in their living room.

There’s an entire Facebook group dedicated to dude’s eating bananas.

@janefkndoe I have a fun story about that. We called him "nugget" when he was little and his older brother (3yo at the time) made up a song for him. He would sing "niggle niggle niggle nug" except because he was little "niggle" sounded 😬Fun times were had in public outings.

@PoMoTrickster Well at least it wasn’t the N word, silver linings 😭😭

This week I’ve had tons of issues with my 12yo, my sister texting me at 2:45am to declare how jealous she was that I had lunch with my cousin, multiple phone calls and meetings about shit I don’t want to deal with—so yeah, maybe this isn’t the best weekend to quit drinking.

@Zoo_Tot01 @mkhammer Yeah I've got probably 200 blank ones, mostly still sealed. Even have a bunch of type 4 ones. I have a 4 track and have converted a bunch of old marantz decks into tape delays, love the sound.

@PoMoTrickster @mkhammer Hope you have a stash of cassettes somewhere! 😄

How deprived of new devices are my kids? One daughter is listening to a little mp3 player in the car, tells me, v. excited, that she found some old-timey music. Readers, it was an AM station playing classical music. Apparently it has a radio function. Everything old is new again!

@mkhammer Yeah we moved after experiencing one year of PPS. Kid's teacher and staff were nice enough but the district is really badly mismanaged.

So stupid

My husband & I trying to get into Berghain

Netflix exec: is there a way to prevent people from sharing passwords? Engineer who just wants meeting to end: yeah sure that's super simple.