82 years ago today my grandfather, who lied about his age to enlist in the military, was in one of the first waves of landing crafts to hit the beaches of Normandy. He's been gone a long time now, but today I remember him and the other brave souls who fought and died for a righteous cause.

It’s so quiet in the house. Tahoe and Callie are on road heading home, Liam just left for work, after two weeks of dog play Buttercup is napping away.

Post dog wash nap in a freshly made bed. Buttercup’s doggo heaven. #DogsOfBlueSky #poodle #NapTime

Welp, Callie is home from her double trips. This morning was the last morning I’ll get a two doggo wake-up call for awhile. #DogsOfBlueSky #poodle #MorningWakeUp

It’s the hottest day of the year, what if I make corn chowder? #CookSky

tech bro: 'what about a car but on rails so no traffic'

Every time I think "that's the most painfully obvious metaphor I have ever seen; I mean, who's writing this script?" something gets posted where I'm reminded there's always something more outlandish just around the corner

It’s a fair question these days.

Throwback to when a TV station in Iceland accidentally aired an episode of Teletubbies with subtitles from the Sopranos 👌🏼

I found this clarifying, “America 250” is the bipartisan celebration committee. “Freedom 250” is a Trump organization” [copycat grift].

See a penny, pick it up, all day long you’ll have good luck… Coffee line pay it forward, I was the end of the line!; 30% discount on a toy for Buttercup offered at the counter; Gas listed as $5.19 on the sign but $5.09 at the pump; Great parking everywhere! What lucky thing will be next?

Tahoe in my messy yard. (Buttercup is at the groomers.) #DogsOfBluesky #poodle

Dying over the guy who stood next to Zuck's yacht and painted it in flames.

Neighbor kids are playing outside and I’m about to get on a FaceTime call with a friend. What are the odds the dogs will stay calm. I jest, zero odds. #HappyDogs

RIP Marcia Lucas, whose skill as a film editor and storyteller made a clunky independent film called STAR WARS greater than the sum of its parts. Rightly referred to as "Lucas's secret weapon," Marcia had an uncanny talent to see a film from the perspective of an audience--and won an Oscar for it.

It’s truly astonishing to see how comprehensively the US government is tearing down every part of the system that has made it up until now a world-leading power in science, research, and technological development. The entire world will suffer from this wanton destruction.

Had to give Buttercup a bath. No way was she jumping onto my bed after rolling around in the dirt. I blame Tahoe for his encouraging this action while not doing it himself. #poodleparty 🐩

Just really sad news from my hometown, Longview, WA.

The kids are going to the Met Museum today. Liam would happily spend his vacation going from one museum to another, Callie would find all the best spots for snacks, they really are the perfect traveling companions.

Member of @authorsabb.bsky.social @jerroldconnors.bsky.social came through in the best way and assembled this for us all! Know thine shitty bills!

Vermeer’s Girl With The Pearl Earring will be shown in Osaka, later this year, and the press conference was as Japanese as you’d expect #Vermeer

Tahoe is like the ocean. You never turn your back on him. So I’m restarting my batch of tapioca now.

In the end we were just his latest casino and whatnot.

I’m going to be following this feed for some American history facts and information. This is the kind of 250th promo I can support.

Now how did this happen? 🧵 #DogsOfBlueSky

I just met with leaders at key state agencies tracking the latest on the Longview explosion. Ecology and L&I have teams are on the scene. Washington State Emergency Management is in constant communication with local responders. I directed our National Guard teams on alert.

Longview is my hometown, about an hour from Vancouver, WA. Just horrible.

Drove the kids to the airport this morning. They’re heading to NYC for a duo birthday trip. (Fun fact about me, I apparently had only one day of fertility per year as both kids had the same due date. So their birthdays are within two weeks of each other and they’re both Geminis.)

RIP Sonny Rollins, a great jazz talent and the last surviving musician in one of the best photos of men in suits during the 20th century

This would have been on a bestselling broadside in early modern Europe. #skystorians

I will cry at the stupidest endings of the stupidest shows. Apparently I have no resistance to sap.

Gutierrez finished school and planned to become an architect but put that dream on hold to enlist. He “wanted to give the United States what the United States gave to him,” his foster sister later remembered. “He came w/nothing. This country gave him everything.” He was just 22. #MemorialDay

Let you kid what they want. If it’s above their level, they’ll get out of it what they will. If it’s below their level, they’ll learn the joy of casual reading. Comic books, etc are legitimate. Let you kids read what they want.

Sound up for a delightful moment of calm.

Thinking of this Watergate era Doonesbury this morning.

The Earth–Mars–Moon mosaic I made a few days ago, now formatted as a mobile phone wallpaper.

disregard | verb | to pay no attention to : treat as unworthy of regard or notice

Same. ⬇️

“I like it … I like it.”

You NEED to drop everything and watch Walter’s beautiful floppy ears in slow motion.

I have a shocking lack of snacks right now and I’m really regretting this.

Because I’m always late to every show, I just finished watching the first two seasons of Monarch: Legacy of Monsters. I really enjoyed it. Some parts of it were so smart, some predictable. Honestly though Godzilla, King Kong I’m in.

The eruption of Mount St. Helens, seen shortly after 8:32 am Sunday, 18 May 1980, probably along the forest roads of Gifford Pinchot National Forest. The photographer, Richard Lasher, survived the eruption that killed approximately 57 others.

Speed, force, and heat. A turbulent cloud of ash, pumice, superheated gas, and pulverized rock, racing at over 300 mph. It flattens 230 square miles of forest in minutes.

3.3 billion cubic yards of rock and ice crashing downslope, the landslide buries the North Fork Toutle Valley in debris up to 600 feet deep. Behind it, A turbulent cloud of ash, pumice, superheated gas, and pulverized rock.

May 18, 1980 | 8:32 a.m. The ground shudders. A M5.1 quake hits beneath Mount St. Helens. Weakened critically, the north face bulge collapses outward. Within seconds, a pyroclastic density surge bursts through the disintegrating slope. The clock strikes zero.

GIVEAWAY! Dead Weight is coming out next week and to celebrate I'm giving away two copies that have been personally bitten by Uggi and will be personally signed by me and shipped to the winners wherever they live! To enter just like and share this post and I'll select the winners on May 26th!

I think we sometimes need to collectively pause and remind ourselves how unhinged the stuff coming out of the White House actually is

That bulge, that infamous bulge. The night of the 17th I was at a friend’s birthday/slumber party. We had no idea what awaited us in the morning. #MtStHelens

Here’s the Bishop of Iceland dancing with a comedian who used to be Mayor of Reykjavík and is now a member of Parliament.