Sometimes my wife talks in her sleep. This is adorable. And sometimes if you prompt her she will keep talking. This is even more adorable. Unfortunately, she also now wears a mouth guard so mostly I have no idea what she's saying. That doesn't make it less adorable, but it is less funny.

I legitimately can't tell if the onion has taken over the info wars site yet or not. I'm not sure what to make of that actually.

In a nutshell. 😊

I'm so glad this is finally moving forward.

The car in front of me is a very specific kind of person Covered in Michigan paraphernalia with an Ohio license plate in Columbus An aggressively waving American flag front-end center. Not a normal flag. The kind of flag that pisses you off A maga garbage sticker, Trump sticker, Blue line flags

Didn't finish the book today, but I'll finish tomorrow. And today we got the climax AND the great bit where the sleuth explains everything at the end which is the best part.

Do I have a habit of killing my main characters? Yes. Is it awesome? Also yes.

I just made such a tremendous groan getting in bed. Today I helped with the taekwondo pretests which went well. I jumped rope with them and I regret it. I had my own sword pretest which was fucking exhausting. It was like an hour and 15 minutes of Non-Stop work. Then I grabbed dinner and wrote.

I have some bad news on that front...

If you hypothetically have an hour and a half that you need to fill, I would suggest that you could do worse than listening to this YouTube video. youtu.be/y85nqc2zm7M?...

I keep thinking about this, but the fact that a large language model can't accurately cite case law may be the best example of why you can't use this stuff to do your job. Or why you can't rely on it to give you accurate information.

The FBI guy is on a paranoid bender and won’t leave his room. The War guy quotes bible passages from Pulp Fiction. The Health guy collects raccoon dicks. It’s an Idiocracy on steroids.

It makes me so mad that every cinnamon roll I've had for like a year has been a disappointment. I'm going to have to make a perfect cinnamon roll recipe very soon.

Hanging out at the bar at gaming conventions is a LOT more enjoyable now that people can't smoke in them.

Had lovely Korean BBQ in Michigan. Spoke a modest amount of Korean to the lady running the joint. She said my son's pronunciation was excellent so that's amazing.

Hey, @cnn.com maybe don't gatekeep. Release those IP addresses. I don't care if it was 67 million men or 67 million visits from three really active men. We deserve to know. And they deserve to BE known.

I have much more sympathy for someone like @amazonchique.bsky.social than I do for Caitlin Jenner, but her dignity and freedom and passport shouldn't depend on my sympathy or how dumb I think her vote was. Fuck everything about this attack on trans people.

I just entered Michigan. I could feel the civil Rights wash over me.

It's so surreal to me that right wingers have convinced themselves that windmills are ugly. Windmills are fucking gorgeous. And for my whole childhood they were something that were universally agreed upon as being a lovely feature of a skyline. And they did a 180 for the electric company. Weird.

I would like to thank the fine people at Toyota for making sure that when I accidentally hit the park button while driving at highway speeds my car just shifts itself into neutral. That's the first for me and I've been driving this thing for many years.

What's interesting is I've basically stopped paying attention to whether the Target boycott is still going on or ever stopped or ever plans on stopping. Because I just stopped going there. Target has become like the Bass Pro Shop. A place I never enter unless I have no other choice.

My wife recommended that I have a sleepover with the kids in our bedroom while she is out of town. She thought that might be cute. Anyway, that's why I'm sleeping on the couch. I am never doing this again.

Finished Life is Strange Reunion. That was a very well designed game. I definitely wept. I got almost exactly the ending I wanted and I think that was really good. I really think Max and Chloe are my favorite video game romance.

Fascinating paragraph from Scott Alexander, where he admits he’s the dog that caught the car

After Project Hail Mary: Eldest child: Wait, if he's on an alien planet, what is he eating? Me: You're a very smart kid. Also, you're going to want to sit down for this one.

Took my kids to see Project Hail Mary today. Coming out of the theater my son said, "Screw Transformers One. This is the best movie I've ever seen!" I'm going to assume that's high praise coming from a 10-year-old. He cried many times. Which is high praise coming from me.

That's why I always carry a sword (so I can Draw Steel 🗡️)

Showing my children this picture so that they understand the costume that I was working on, and my son cheered excitedly. " I think that's the monkey lady you know Jane somebody!" @amypoehler.bsky.social apparently my kiddo thinks that you're Jane Goodall and is stoked I'm being you.

My code

As a liberal parent, I think my kid changing their name every six months is a little irritating, but I respect it as an important part of their self expression. As an IT professional, I think it's built in security.

Look what I got. You should go get one, too. link on @unfetteredmuse.bsky.social

As my daughter was getting out of the car to go to their dance recital they said, "bye-sexual." ... I am not bisexual. They aren't either, but they're closer than I am. I am forced to believe that this is just how they say goodbye to all of their friends. I approve.

My daughter and I in the store: "So the smaller the chili, the hotter it is, right? So those must be crazy hot." "Those are green beans." "Nuts!"

U.S. Reaches Trade Deal With Pedotopia https://theonion.com/u-s-reaches-trade-deal-with-pedotopia/

That there is a druid. We recognize our own.

I was just reminded of the existence of Whoops, one of the worst TV shows ever that I loved as a kid.

Life is Strange made me cry again. Double Exposure was really good. As good as the original? Probably not. But a really important step forward for the character. I'm a fan.

This is an independently designed, searchable database of the Epstein files. Dig as deeply as you want. There's a lot here.

Me trying not to eat all the ice cream in the house.

This is a really good look at the Mythos stuff, but Sherri Davidoff said something here that was a gut punch for me. basically, if you're doing software development and coding, you have to be security testing with AI. You basically have to.

It's crazy how he's completely incapable of not being awful. Every instinct is bad. Every take is opposite of what you'd hope for. If I wrote him as fiction, people would be like you have to humanize him to understand his point of view, and reality's like, listen, this mf has NO redeeming qualities.

Re: Perimenopause "Nobody sits you down at 40 and says, 'Hey, estrogen was doing about 47 jobs you didn't know about and it's about to start quitting all of them.'"

I missed this from @phineas.bsky.social when it originally came out but it sure feels relevant at the moment. Also, you can buy this as a print from the artist here: www.inprnt.com/gallery/phin...

Just me having to do malware scanning and remediation at almost 11:00 at night because My kids couldn't be bothered to live through the '90s. If they had they'd know all this shit. Instead they use the internet like boomers.