# I am the Watcher. I am your guide through this vast new twtiverse.
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# https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/users View list of users and latest twt date.
# https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/twt View all twts.
# https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/mentions?uri=:uri View all mentions for uri.
# https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/conv/:hash View all twts for a conversation subject.
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# offset Start index for quey.
# limit Count of items to return (going back in time).
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Band name of the day: involuntary parks
Bad idea of the day: replace whitespace with color changes
Band name of the day: a new leader in murder tech
One of those cult cinema distribution companies owns an actual video store -- and it's only like an hour or two from my house. I'll have to make a trip out there at some point...
Movies whose names begin with the letter 's' are the names of... snakes! ssss
Goddess save us from 'sensible business decisions'. Business is not the appropriate framework for evaluating decisions.
I wonder if the reason why the average quality of writing-advice articles is so much lower than other types is that it's dominated by folks who are trying to write a certain number of words every day & have decided to publish all of them...
Band name of the day: interdisciplinary placebo studies
Band name of the day: intercellular pods
Bad idea of the day: sort r/all by controversial
The 'As you know, Bob' technique for infodumps gets a lot of flak, but all my internal corporate emails from upper management begin with 'As you know,', so I think there might be room to make it verisimilitudinous.
Bad idea of the day: A full performance of Smoke on the Water built by remixing clips of people at Guitar Center failing to perform Smoke on the Water & random words spoken by people in Guitar Center
Yes, technically everything with nested directories is UNIX-inspired. No, that's not interesting.
Hot take: social constructs are notoriously difficult to build universal theories about, because belief is fickle and eldrich. Talking or thinking about social constructs is liable to make them change
Bad idea of the day: a smartphone with a full-sized model m keyboard and a full-sized bell handset but a regular smartphone sized screen *that is also e-ink*
Bad idea of the day: a smartphone with a full-sized model m keyboard and a full-sized bell handset but a regular smartphone sized screen
I'm in this weird situation with the new book where, of the systems I'm planning to cover, the one I'm most familiar with is menuet. Imagine being in a position where, for any set of things, the most familiar item is menuet.
Band name of the day: prestige cannibalism
Bad idea of the day: drawing a unicursal hexagram in the center of the Magic Roundabout in Hartfordshire
Bad idea of the day: A gritty reboot of Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In starring Rowan Atkinson and Dmitri Martin
Band name of the day: fossil ape
Band name of the day: a motley assortment of screaming machines
Band name of the day: art crimes unit
Band name of the day: my odious handiwork
Apparently there are a LOT of bands named 'blackmail'. I'm sure all of them think they're very clever and original.
Bad idea of the day: run deOldify on manga pages, consider the new color schemes canon, move to a surreal universe of floating pastels
Band name of the day: active denial system
Today is Guy Fawkes Day. Celebrate by setting something on fire.
The presumption that current popularity is a predictor of value -- or even of future popularity -- prevents us from doing interesting things.
Band name of the day: the active measures
Band name of the day: condensation nucleus
Band name of the day: theicide
Bad idea of the day: a social network where post *literally* fade because the contrast is computed with the inverse of time. A spinoff where bugs slowly eat away at posts.
Bad idea of the day: style transfer every frame of the new suspiria to look like the old suspiria