H.M. Stiller

@hmstiller.bsky.social

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Defies description. Am assured that is a compliment. Occasionally, with truly backbreaking effort, manages to make a funny.

Me being stalked by my black cat Cookie—who, yes, is now eating his dinner.
A winter snowstorm flattened a Buckminster Fuller sculpture at an East Hampton sculpture garden.
The location of a purported Cracker Barrel in downtown Manhattan, only it has no phone number and it's always closed.
Flag of New Mexico: red and yellow, with a suspiciously shaped "dove" in the upper left-hand corner
Daniel McCarthy in The Spectator: "I invented Nixonmaxxing."
Black cat restraining a human hand
Black cat sticks his tongue out at his owner for the unpardonable sin of getting him off her lap so she could do things with her day.
From Timoteo L: "I went for a rotisserie chicken and left with a shed."
Pickle Pie, Cracklin' Corn Ribs, and Longanisa Cheese Curd Lumpia will be at the Minnesota State Fair
A blocklist in which I am categorized as "wrong about VR AI GLP1 Crypto Smart-glasses NFTs or" apparently other things that I have definitely 100% posted about
Black cat right behind me, staring at a shelf outside the picture frame
RealClearPolitics headline,: "Dems' Unbridled Pursuit of Power Can't Be Airbrushed Away."
A DW video on Weisswurst. Apparently you're supposed to "suck it," not "cut it." 😵‍💫
"Saryūto yua shōtsu"
A++ Bluesky reply: "This is an odd take because bouncy castles are symbols of bourgeois frivolity, not leftist fun."
"I'm sating f--k Brian Thompson. I don't give a f--k he died," said Ashley Rojas, who declined to provide her name, though it was visible on the press badge around her neck...
Black cat stands on human
A noodgey, hungry little void named Cookie.
Silly inverted cat
Unwell Strawberry "Rapid Hydration" beverage
I am on a blocklist called "Wrong about AI/Bitcoin/VR probably other things." I guarantee you, the only one of these that I have ever publicly criticized was AI, mainly because I don't like my artist and writer friends being ripped off.
Two emails: an American Prospect newsletter with the subject line "Cutting utility assistance to pay for Itan" and one from City Journal with the subject line "Free gender surgeries for illegal immigrants."
A regular picture of Cookie, my goofy black cat, then my friend's superimposing him onto the creation scene of the Sistine Chapel.
The "T.H.I.N.K." rules for posting on social media, which directs you to only express thoughts that are True, Helpful, Inspiring, Necessary, and Kind. I honestly think only the first and last should be hard-and-fast rules.
Live Science headline: Science news this week: Artemis II splashes down, the world's fattest parrot bounces back, and the shroud of Turin is contaminated"
Re: Beth March's real-life inspiration: "Her family—vegans and believers in alternative medicine—did not send for a doctor." 😬
Esteemed Sesame Street puppet composer Don Music
A quarter with ballerina Maria Tallchief's likeness and name—in Latin script and in Osage.
A sniffy black cat