Nathan Edwards

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Senior reviews editor, @theverge.com. Previously: Wirecutter, MaximumPC I have approximate knowledge of many things. Osage citizen. TX. he/him. đ“˜đ“·đ“˜đ“Żđ“€đ“˜Í˜. 𐓩đ“ȘÍ˜đ“˜đ“­đ“˜đ“šđ“˜Í˜đ“»đ“Ł.

Arby's ad but instead it says [big text] Oh God [smaller text] I knew this was going to be a mistake and I did it anyway
“(Disclosure: I was briefly engaged to the famous neoreactionary writer Curtis Yarvin in 2022. Notwithstanding the Leverage neoreactionary contingent, Curtis was not part of Leverage, and he is not part of this story.)“
Screenshot from Siri AI Q: Are the m2 and m4 iPad Air the same color blue A: There is currently no M4 iPad Air. The latest iPad Air is powered by the M2 chip and is available in Blue, Purple, Space Gray, and Starlight. If you are thinking of the iPad Pro, which does feature the M4 chip, it is only available in Silver and Space Black.
Mountain goats tour poster. I’m not gonna transcribe all the dates but they’re here: https://www.mountain-goats.com/tour. The important thing is they’re going to Utrecht but not Houston, where I live
The Verge front page, which has been dark mode only for three and a half years, is suddenly in light mode. You can toggle it to light, dark, or system settings. It's in the hamburger menu at the top right.
screenshot of a Duolingo profile page, mine specifically. The avatar is a white guy in a hot dog suit.
Screenshot of a Verge comment from verge_user_m5e72m10 - new user badge, subscriber badge "c’est parce que j'ai l'ajoutĂ©" Close enough ;) -> C'est parce que je l'ai ajoutĂ© (I'm a native French speaker.)
Two “I voted” stickers in both Osage and English language. The top one is a red oval with a zigzag patterned white band across it, and the bottom is white with a gold and blue pattern. There’s an image of a feather on each of them along with traditional Osage patterns
Un, deux, trois ! J'adore faire du sport dans l'eau ! ‱) Eddy fait des jumping jacks dans l'eau. Ça Ă©clabousse partout. ‱) Non ! Mon costume ! Il y a de l'eau et du sable partout sur moi! ‱) DĂ©solĂ©, Oscar ! Mais maintenant tu peux venir nager, non ? ‱â€ș) Jamais ! C'est un costume trĂšs cher ! L'Ă©lĂ©gance, c'est important pour moi !
EDDY: C'est génial ! J'adore la plage ! Viens nager avec moi, Oscar ! OSCAR: Non merci. Je suis ici pour apprécier la beauté de la mer, pas pour me baigner. EDDY: Mais c'est super ! L'eau est parfaite aujourd'hui ! OSCAR: Eddy, je suis un artiste. J'observe les couleurs, la lumiÚre sur l'eau. C'est mon inspiration.
Duolingo screenshot of the first part of a story about Eddy (jock) and his unrequited best friend Oscar (art teacher). It’s in French. La pluie sur la plage. Eddy et Oscar sont sur une plage. Eddy porte un maillot de bain et Oscar porte un costume blanc
Two keyboards and a vertical mouse on a deskmat with an ocean waves pattern. Both are Bauer Lite 65% boards. The foreground one has a fluorescent orange translucent case and retro beige CRP Tulip Cherry-profile keycaps; the top one has an off-white casing and MTNU Space Cadet keycaps. It has blue modifiers, grey alphas with space cadet sublegends, and a red "esc" with the Dynacap logo on it. There's also a white Keychron vertical mouse and a variety of other desk tchotchkes.
It’s an old-ass Pikachu card from Pokemon TCG
Screenshot from "The Roottrees are Dead" featuring a fake newspaper frontpage for the Butler County Times, with the headline "The Roottrees are Dead."
Literally an anti personnel mine: a little plywood model kit with a tripwire and a face angled up toward the victim. It looks like a Nerf claymore. When you trip the wire it launches four foam balls at you
Screenshot of John Brockman’s Wikipedia page headers ## Early life ## Career ## Association with Jeffrey Epstein ## Quotes ## Bibliography ## References ## Further reading ## External links
White keyboard with no keycaps. White switches, red stems.
"Nationwide Verizon Outage" in the style of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles logo
Verge Comment from CuriousToaster: "It’s not nudging me to try some bullshit AI feature." "I’ll definitely boot back into Windows — or pull out a Chromebook — to play Minecraft with my kids, if I can’t get it running on Linux." Who "nudged" you to use AI to rewrite this article? LOL. The immaturity — and hypocrisy — around AI usage knows no bounds.
Screenshot of a desktop interface that looks like Windows XP, except the Bliss wallpaper -- you know, the one with the green rolling hill and blue sky -- is an illustration, the operating system is CachyOS, and the desktop interface is KDE Plasma. There are two open windows: a Verge article with a digg-like interface, and the Konsole shell
A coloring page titled "Yoshi in a magical forest Coloring page - Free & Printable." The Yoshi is some horrorshow cross between Yoshi and a Muppet Baby, wearing a Mario hat. Much has gone wrong
Eleven reporters from eleven different publications called me with some version of this allegation. I felt like I was in a game of Frogger, dodging through heavy traffic as I desperately sought the safety of the opposite sidewalk.
Excerpt from Ryan Lizzo’s latest thing: “ As I left my hotel room the following morning, Olivia repeated what she had said back on August 17 when this all started: “If anyone ever finds out, I’m afraid Bobby will kill me.” I never saw her again.”
Possibly AI generated pair of pants that (intentionally?) look like the bottom half of a Grinch bodybuilder. Caption says “Men’s Christmas Clothings are on sale”
A photo of a macropod, if you can call it that, with one enormous mechanical key switch with an orange keycap, plus two rotary encoders. It has a case made of LEGO and you know it has RBG backlighting and underglow
Top down view of a compact keyboard with spherical white-on-black Ursa keycaps
Tumblr post from every-lemon Sep 8 so my spouse is part of a weirdly intense but mostly benign men's workout group that meets at like, 5:30am outside every day, even in winter. they do a lot of burpees and lugging cinder blocks up hills and stuff. they take turns leading the workouts and tomorrow is his turn. I asked what he was planning. he handed me a sheet of William Carlos William poems from a large stack he'd printed. I said "what" and he explained, helpfully, "it's a William Carlos William themed workout." I asked what inspired it and he said "l've been planning this for months."
Ray yelling at Little Nephew for his indescribable pants/underwear situation, except Little Nephew is replaced with "Samara Weaving." Samara Weaving! What in HELL are you wearin'?!
"Come and take it" flag as a morale patch, but instead of a cannon it's a baby bottle.
Thufir Hawat from Dune: Awakening, eyes rolled back, accessing his vast mental powers
Photo of low mountains marching into the distance, with meadows and forests adorning the slopes. There's a diary farm down there, and higher mountains in the back. The sky is blue, the clouds are fluffy. Frick I wish I was there and not at my computer
Screenshot of strava elevation graph showing approx 3,000 foot descent over 2.8 miles, with an AI summary that reads “Athlete Intelligence A modest 184 ft elevation gain in Les Clefs, France - a gentle terrain with some light climbing.”
Screenshot of Wikipedia article. Title: List of individual rocks Text: The following is a list of notable rocks and stones. Callout box: This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (November 2018)
Garfield looking at “no Garfields” sign and saying “huh. I wonder who that’s for”
Mastodon pst from nathan edwards @ardent_handsaw@wandering.shop on Aug 28, 2018 at 01:35 PM Text: me, a character in a game where money is called "eddies" for some reason: gimme back my eddies ·
Will Smith Oculus Rift photo if you get my drift
@Merman_Melville Being a billionaire must be insane. You can buy new teeth, new skin. All your chairs cost 20,000 dollars and weigh 2,000 pounds. Your life is just a series of your own preferences. In terms of cognitive impairment it's probably like being kicked in the head by a horse every day
dril tweet: turning a big dial taht says LIQUID GLASS on it and constantly looking back at the audience for approval like a contestant on the price is right
A compact silver keyboard in HHKB layout. The legends on the keys are dots: mostly white, with other colors sprinkled in.
Del Monte Pacific Ltd., which acquired Del Monte Foods in 2014, had also taken out loans to finance that purchase, adding to its debt burden. A rise in interest rates caused its cash interest expense to nearly double — from $66 million in 2020 to $125 million in 2025 — putting enormous pressure on its cash flow.
Black trackball with sparkly blue ball next to off-white keyboard with blue and gray keycaps
A wooden desk with a large trackball mouse with a blue ball to the left of a white keyboard with blue and grey "Space Cadet" keycaps. A Verge mug is visible in the background.
Spotify screenshot declaring new music by MxPx. The album art had their punk mascot dude emerging from a 90s beige computer monitor
Tweet from Mattie Lubchansky, posted Jan 19, 2016: hi it's me, the extremely moderate and reasonable person. i agree the system is broken but what if...bear with me, what if we left it alone
Principle Skinner meme: Am I so out of touch? No, it's the pope who is wrong
Dutch “Big Americans” frozen pizza, BBQ pork flavored.
YouTube thumbnail of a video explaining a Mario Kart glider glitch with the text “Red is MUCH faster”
the rooster Favrd logo, from the olden days
tweet from nedwards, Oct 15, 2021 my editor: so I think we should test the Dyson Big Ball Animal me, nodding wisely: ah yes, the tanooki
A sign at Trader Joe’s advertising hash browns at $2.99 per 8. “Makes for the perfect avocado toast alternative!”
now-deleted tweet from mikefossey: Check this shit out motherfucker [I slide one foot out from under me and fall on my ass, its not clear what kind of move I was trying to do]
Image of a computer monitor with a dynamic wallpaper. The wallpaper shows the OS 8 control panel rendered in voxels on a moonlit night, partially obscured by clouds
Tweet from Merman_Melville on Jan 24 2019: Being a billionaire must be insane. You can buy new teeth, new skin. All your chairs cost 20,000 dollars and weigh 2,000 pounds. Your life is just a series of your own preferences. In terms of cognitive impairment it's probably like being kicked in the head by a horse every day
Keycap set with bright-colored alphanumeric legends on speckled cream or speckled black keys. The modifier keys are bright solid colors with midcentury-looking doodles on them. there's so much going on
Headshot from the Clickhole article "Heartbreaking: The Worst Person You Know Just Made A Great Point." The image is of a balding white guy in a blue collared shirt but that's basically irrelevant; the joke is you see the picture and you get the reference. It's particularly apt this time because Trump is an all time Worst Person, not just like "some guy with shitty opinions I see around sometimes." But I don't need to tell you that. Anyway I think getting rid of the penny is the first and only smart idea this guy's ever had so I assume it's an accident or being done for a spectacularly stupid reason I haven't yet foreseen but will surely be revealed in the quote posts. They do give you a lot of space for alt text don't they.
Passage from Kindle edition of Yendi by Steven Brust. “With luck,” I said aloud, “we’ll know something soon.” “Vladimir,” said Cawti, “how should we approach them?” “Yes,” said Morrolan dryly. “You wouldn’t want her to turn you into a newt.” “I’ll get better,” I said. “In any case we can’t attack them here if we want to do anything permanent to them. Does anyone know where the sorceress lives?” The Monty Python reference has the “popular highlight” underline on it just in case you missed it. Why are people highlighting this
Gru doubletake meme: 1: windows 11 won't install on laptop from 2014 because it has no TPM 2: use rufus to bypass installation requirements 3: now it runs windows 11 4: gru double-take at "now it runs windows 11"
Bright orange Bauer Lite keyboard connected to a blue iMac. The iMac is on a thick Le Guin hardcover; the Magic Keyboard is perched on the iMac's base. A magic trackpad and mouse flank the Bauer.
Bugs bunny in a tux meme: I wish all CHILDREN a very GO BACK TO BED