Today, everyone who is connected at all is connected to multiple Internet Protocol networks. I had an IP address in 1988. You—1999, maybe? Big f***ing difference it makes now. The same applies to AI. It's not a one-time train. Your institution loses nothing by waiting. Hanging back is not fatal.

SQUEEEEEEE!!!

Newest puzzle addiction. Curse you @tbroyer.ltgt.net. I solved the daily Clues by Sam, Dec 5th 2025 (Hard), in less than 18 minutes 🟩🟩🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟡🟩 🟩🟩🟡🟩 🟩🟡🟩🟩 🟨🟩🟩🟩 cluesbysam.com

Jesus, this is the kind of on-the-nose symbolism in stuff like A Wrinkle in Time where they travel to the planet that was consumed by the Black Thing and every house on the street was identical and the children played by bouncing their balls in unison

My favorite part of auto generated recaps is when they draw puzzling conclusions, and the best one here is YouTube thinking Craig the Scottish Tour guide is an actual travel guide and not an @eleanormorton.bsky.social character

[Nandor voice] Colin Robinson

hey upper deck ensigns, spotted: Commander Riker's back from Risa and we're sure he enjoyed his shore leave time XOXO, gossip girl

Chuck Jones & Boris Karloff How the Grinch stole Christmas 1966

I just have received a copy of the Doctype magazine. It contains Javascript programs for typing just like in the old times 🤩 A must have! And guess who contributed one program? Cc @mattround.com #javascript #developers #magazine vole.wtf/doctype/

I can think of worse ways to spend a year.

I don't know if people should be out there choosing their own genders. Call me old fashioned, but I believe that's something J. K. Rowling decides for you.

LVT endorsement from @repbillfoster.bsky.social: "One way to encourage [housing density] is with a land value tax... We could structure the federal tax code to encourage a land value-based tax"

A book from the 19th century that depicts the Rhine Valley by creating an impression of three-dimensionality and spatial distance. @MasayukiTsuda2 #globalmuseum #books #travel #19thcentury

Metropolis vs Blade Runner

The one good billionaire being the lady who got divorced tells us so much about everything really

👋 Young(ish) Jewish American here who knows the history. Hillary can fuck right off.

What happens when you put African Gods in our living world? Let’s drop a heist in there as well! You’ve got Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon by Wole Talabi. Now in paperback, read this mythic tale of disgruntled gods, revenge, and a heist across two worlds! buff.ly/NsxHnap

Promising thread. 🎄👠👢🎄

Please forgive me...I'd already started on this:

Get rid of everyone in Democratic leadership.

Just 2k more to go, people. And this project has been fighting for 8 months. I have seen projects funded overnight - but THIS should be funded now. Translations. Black/African stories. In a world fraught with hate, we mend it with love. ko-fi.com/africantrans...

Canadian train spotters are kind of adorable. youtube.com/shorts/pVJtA...

🎵 Spideyman, Spideyman! Does whatever a spidey can! 🎶

Drop something MIRRORED

Enshittification: Why I’m leaving dev.to https://autonomousapps.com/blog/enshittification/post/

If you're trapped in midtown Manhattan Flute is a charming refuge. www.flutebar.com/reserve-a-ta...

happy small business Saturday! if you or anyone in your life wants a signed/personalized copy of one of my books, the good folks at @eastcitybooks.bsky.social have a system to get it to you! just order here! eastcitybookshop.com/lists/Ly164F... And if not they have other books by other people!

“It is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice. For they cannot live in a country where virtue and knowledge prevail.” ~Attributed to Samuel Adams. Image: Samuel Adams portrait by John Singleton Copley. Public domain.

How did this wind up in my head this morning? Not complaining, just mystified. youtu.be/a0f8-I167SQ?...

They finally made a watchable version of Branagh's Hamlet.

I taught students how to use brown bags to wrap their books in 1990s and they began to respect me. thought I was a magician. One of my best lessons.

I just realized I don’t think they make kids put covers on their textbooks made from brown paper shopping bags anymore

mom’s old spices

Here's the Pocket Casts link. pca.st/podcast/1dbc...

The watch I designed for Swatch, “One California” is available now! Online or this Sunday on Valencia and 20th www.amosgoldbaum.com/products/one...

WebTV (1995), later bought by Microsoft. It was the first major consumer device to access the web without a personal computer.

Patrick McGoohan on the set of THE PRISONER. One of the greatest TV shows of all time is now streaming on Kanopy, free w/ a library card. You can watch all 17 episodes w/ *no ads* for a week w/ a single borrow. A perfect holiday weekend binge. www.kanopy.com/en/product/1... #ClassicTV #Streaming

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Books aren't expensive. Writers are at the bottom of a large column of people making money off books. We get screwed the most. By the publishing industry and the fucking pirates. You like books? Buy them, or go to the library. Or there won't be any writers to make the art.

#NowPlaying Satie. If he'd been around in the '60s he'd have been in Pink Floyd. Fin de Psychédélique? Titles: Desiccated Embryos; Exasperations of a Big Wooden Dummy; Flabby Preludes For a Dog; Being Jealous Of a Friend Who Has a Big Head; Spleen; A Little Prelude to The Death of Mr Fly; Rat Air.

Probably my favorite talk at Droidcon London 2026 was @stevepenna.bsky.social on rebuilding Pebble app. The part that I really liked was the contrasting of the Android development and library ecosystem 11 years ago and today. It was also nice to see AndroidX appreciation. youtu.be/UOQMDkCsCSw?...

If you see this, post your getaway vehicle

I saw some sidewalk chalk art walking in #SanFrancisco yesterday morning. At 20th and Irving, a skateboarding fire-demon-maybe by Kal Zakzouk. At 4th and Irving, a mermaid by, I'm guessing, two collaborators. #StreetArt

Columbo in his first episode looks like a dog that's just come back from the groomer

New favorite podcast. readthat.podbean.com

TFW you’ve got your computer on your lap and a ray of low winter sun comes in at a shallow angle and it’s suddenly obvious that your screen and keys are horribly filthy.

This was the calculator included every version of Mac OS from 1984 until the launch of Mac OS X in 2001. Steve Jobs designed it himself.