sept 29 in idea barrages

The lesson is never “I need to do this awful thing to others so it never happens to me again”. The lesson is always and will always be “this thing was so awful, I realized it should never happen to anyone.” Reject cycles of recycled revenge, embrace empathy.

If it seems like it was the sole living cephalopods whose bony body structure is externalized as a planispiral shell but isn’t actually the sole living cephalopods whose bony body structure is externalized as a planispiral shell, that right there is a Notilus.

I feel like “Bart” already has a lock on being the nickname for “Bartholomew” and “Barry” should get its own long-form name to be derived from. Bawlence or Barrence or Barhold. Maybe Barniel!

At the Dio fan convention, you can purchase and go home with a tiny model of that convention, your own personal Dio-Rama Diorama.

If you really think about it, if the serial killers didn’t kill in the SCREAM movies, if they just scared people away like in the Scooby-Doo mysteries, they’d all be movies called SCRAM.

Sometimes you have a pun where the secondary meaning is just too obscure or academic or archaic and you have to let it go. There’s some great puns about art pertaining to Moses as “Mosaic mosaics” but, like, how many people use the correct term “Mosaic” for pertaining to Moses?

Is someone who’s always doing vibe check really just a vibe-rater?

If you dress up as a petri dish for Halloween, though, your culture can be your own costume.