How you doing? The state of the world has me -very- offkilter, I'm running a project that's simultaneously going great, and miserably, and the weather has made me turtle up even harder. I have -no- desire to keep up with the new Muppet thing. (Taking our disney boycott way too seriously)

Whoa Black Betty

Woke up from a nap and this greeted me. Put it in the Louvre.

Seeing the old times brown dog from we rate dogs made this all the more poignant. Hashtag-einsteinbestdog

Whoa. I like this a lot. [galaxy brain.gif]

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

My step-father was in a band named Spunk. It wasn’t a great name. Kindergarten teacher got mad at me and changed the P to a K (with a piece of tape). Made me spend the day wearing a shirt that said SKUNK. The only time I ever saw my momma want to get in a fist fight.

Don’t mind if I do. (Yay for 5 star albums)

Woke up at 430am, with an idea how to fix a problem. Logged in to work, spent an hour getting everything set up. Good news, all my reworked, super heavy queries ran fast. Bad news, there's no data in any of the tables. Turns out the entire database is being rebuilt by the team in India.

This is who runs this account.

Did I spend 12+ hours this weekend playing a 20 year old video game, so I could decorate a house in said game? Yep. No regrets.

Finally finished. Recommended*. My 2026 reading goals are simple, at least 100 pages on Sundays before screens. 700 page books make it feel like you make no progress. * - there’s a -lot- of rape. So consider the warning before using the recommendation #2026books

Napping I had a dream about going to see Beatles Love again. Then I reminded myself in dream that it is no longer playing, and woke up. So I’m consoling myself with the soundtrack. I went to see it three different times, It was the most entertained I’ve ever been.

My wife’s not home. And I hope she’s not online. But imma just say, today is gonna be very sad for her. She is a mega fan.

My wife sent me this. If you haven’t watched Detectorists you should. And I’ll be in line to watch this however I can. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

At our company town hall, they gave an award to the guy that created the inane, and horrible AI training sessions people are being forced to suffer through. And one of the comments was that he used genAI to help with "The mundane work of content creation" I should have just learned to farm.

I just want to re-iterate, do not listen to 23 year olds. Especially dudes. Especially dudes in tech. Their life is comically small.

the root cause of the nursing shortage is for-profit, fee-for-service healthcare. Everything else is window dressing.

OK, this looks fantastic, and I will gladly use this as an excuse to listen to Boots Riley music all day long.

Annie Wilkes from Misery is spiritually Millennial: ▪️cottagecore ▪️extremely toxic fandom ▪️aggressive side part ▪️weird childish curses ▪️puritanical, but also ▪️horrifyingly perverted RIP Annie you would have been so good at BookTok

One of America's best young poets weighs in with truth. @amandagorman.bsky.social

Anyway, watch Andor

The weather app says we are more than 2/3rds done. I don’t have anywhere near the 19” it says we’ve gotten. More like 7-8. And it’s light, dry snow. Easy to clean up. This could have gone so much worse. -knock on wood-

apropos of nothing

This old girl was perfect while Michelle was gone. I hope she handles the snow, and a week or so of no walks (TOO cold) ok.

wants to be your dog

Went out to go get some cash, and fill up the gas tank. None of the card readers worked. So I went to the locally owned coffee shop (and used bookstore!) and snagged better fuel. Here's hoping it's just a lot of dry-ass, easy to deal with snow. G'luck to the folks further south.

I'm getting too old for this shit.

Charging one of those drop-shipped randomly generated company name powerbanks... Tried to google the manual ended up on a product page that is just -chef'skiss-

I stepped away from my laptop at exactly 4pm yesterday, and due to my phone being left in no-notification mode, I had a lovely evening alone (the wife is travelling). Then, I logged in to 7 different "Hey, have a sec?" messages. Ooooops.

Every time they cross my path, I smile all over again. Just an absolute homerun of an effort by everyone involved. And, like others, it gives me hope for the future of the game in ways that had been lacking of late.

Looked up my US House Rep on wikipedia. The stranglehold really, astoundingly stupid republicans have on this area is just heartbreaking. I cannot stress enough how hopeless it feels to try and move the needle.

I've been meaning to ask this for a while, but how is "Megacorp Pavilion" a real venue name? If someone chooses the name 'megacorp', don't do business with them. Don't let the company grow. Don't let it buy naming rights. What the fuck, 'Merica?

Mom's coming over for lunch! Illnesses and obligations have kept us from seeing each other for like 3 weeks now. Unacceptable. Do better, Fates and Chance.

Thank you for this giggle today, Sesame Street! 🎙 #oldschool #genx

copy and paste the bunny and then put something else in his hand (\_/) (°-°) />✳️< Kurt Bunnegut says howdy.

It's compliance and internet security training day.

I now have coffee on my monitor and shirt. Thanks, Greg.

Being done participating in a daily 'challenge' thing means that now, if I want my electronic friends to acknowledge my existence, to be reassured of my place in the universe, I have to come up with something to say on my own. And when I peer into my mind, I find only the howling of wind.

“Having a good time is its own form of resistance.” The @judgejohnhodgman.bsky.social show at SF Sketchfest this year was just a healing balm in a way I can’t put into words. It can feel weird having fun while the world is burning but we all need some laughs to keep us afloat.

bluesky is the #1 app for introspection

Ahh the lovely cross team, "Who gives a shit" meeting coordination. I guess that's actually progress on a big project.

#20FaveVideos #MusicChallenge for 20 days to post your favorite music videos in January, 1 per day. Day 20: Talking Heads - Wild Wild Life www.youtube.com/watch?v=616-...

What if we gave Busby Berkeley a $2M budget, and a bunch of hallucinogens?

#20FaveVideos #MusicChallenge for 20 days to post your favorite music videos in January, 1 per day. Day 19: Prince - Batdance I just got to know, are we going to try love each other? www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulOL...

hey @sirshannon.com , I think you need to see this www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIaE...

#20FaveVideos #MusicChallenge for 20 days to post your favorite music videos in January, 1 per day. Day 18: Rage Against The Machine - Testify (This song is nearly 30 years old. Look at all that shit that's only gotten worse. -sigh-) www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3dv...

Extreme opinion about something that matters very little #862: All sheets and blankets should have an asymmetrical pattern that allows someone to infer proper orientation immediately. Too damned many “nearly” square blankets in this house.