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Martyrdom of the Ten Thousand, by Albrecht Dürer, 1508 (detail), 📸 via @johnewing

David Bowie 8/1/1947 - 01/10/2016 Let’s flood Bluesky with our favorite Bowie songs today: youtu.be/bsYp9q3QNaQ?...

The evolution of #Dungeons&Dragons, from the first box set (1974, top left), to the current edition (5e, bottom right.) I’ve owned 7 of these 9 editions. I started with the Holmes edition (1977, 2nd from the left in the top row), and I skipped 4e (2008, bottom left.) #dailynerdfix #ttrpg #gamesky

Basset hounds can't compose haiku, but if they could: My ears are so long They trail in my water dish Arooooo, my ears are wet

The /EdmontonOilers grab two points on the road! 🔵🟠

Basset hounds can't compose haiku, but if they could: My ears are so long They trail in my water dish Arooooo, my ears are wet

I think we could all use some funny animal pictures today. 😀

Happy birthday to the University of Glasgow, founded in this city because Pope Nicholas V had heard good things about the weather and the food.

So it goes. 🇬🇧 HISTORY CLASS: Yeah, we colonized America and they broke away. Whatever, shit happens. This term we're studying the Industrial Revolution. 🇺🇸 HISTORY CLASS: Our revolutionary war against the evil British is obviously the most important event of all time.

TERMINATOR: Phased plasma rifle in the 40-watt range. GUN SHOP OWNER (grinning): Just what you see, pal. TERMINATOR: The phased plasma rifle is widely used, for example by the armed forces of Belgium. GUN SHOP OWNER shakes his head in confusion. TERMINATOR leaves without any weapons.

Thread. Cyberpunk plots work very differently with the crappy excuses for software we have in the real world. 😉

Rowdy Tellez is not the greatest baseball player, but how can you not love a 6'4" absolute unit named Rowdy?

Yeah, I noped out before the end of S1, didn't bother with S2. They assumed referencing the Tolkien lore would get the fun and magic to show up on their own. It didn't work. The best thing to come out of Rings of Power is @bretdevereaux.bsky.social explaining how it makes no freaking sense.

I used to argue with randos on the internet a lot more. Now I tell myself, "You can give yourself the gift of not caring what this nitwit thinks." Not once have I regretted it.

Happy birthday to the one and only, Hayao Miyazaki.

It me. (Does zombie groans while struggling to rise from the couch and heat up frozen pizza for dinner)

The first two hours this morning

Let's see if this will cheer you up - Valais Blacknose sheep in the snow. They're from the Valais region of Switzerland. Known for their unique appearance, they have contrasting black patches with a shaggy white coat. Both male & female sheep of this breed grow spiral-shaped horns. #sheep #cute

Jim Kirk was the Bruce Lee of Star Fleet. Yes, this book is really a thing (and it’s written as if it was written by Kirk himself!) Yes, it’s every bit as awesome as that sounds. And yes, I absolutely ordered myself a copy as soon as I found out that this existed. #dailynerdfix #StarTrek #scifi

I’m so happy we’re getting another division champ with a losing record, this is my true Sickos Yes goal for every football season thank you, NFC South

the Carolina Panthers looking absolutely terrible and losing a key game to the Bucs to drop them to 8-9 only to back into the playoffs the next day because the Falcons beat the Saints is the most NFC South thing to ever NFC South. One of the saddest postseason teams in memory.

Looking good for the Oilers but I'm hoping for even better. 🙏 And I love how the top 6 teams in the Metropolitan are exactly one point ahead of the next team below them.

Today I watched The Fugitive (1993) for the first time in years. Holds up really well. Solidly entertaining film with a great cast.

Status report, "A Brief Night At The Pub" dep't: An antivaxxer fetches up next to me. Highlights: "Heard of smallpox?" "Yeah." "It has killed more human beings than *every war humanity has ever fought."* [jaw drop] "I didn't know that." "Know how we stopped it? [the short evrsion] COW PUS." (1/2)

This youngster just scored his first NHL goal against Edmonton. Bad for my team, good for him. Better still for Barkey, he's in Edmonton and old enough for celebration drinks in Alberta. At 20 he can't do it back home in Philadelphia. 🙃

Of notable deaths in 2025 is Special Sister, Nancy Leftenant. An Army nurse who broke racial barriers, she was the first Black nurse in the regular U.S. armed forces. She lived to be 104, and never had children. Here is gift link to @nytimes.com obit: 1/2

In Mexico, worcestershire sauce is called “English Salsa”, which is probably the best low-key culinary shade-throwing I’ve ever seen in my life

We will always remember the 2025 Blue Jays 💙

Happy New Year!

How I am walking out of 2025

One thing I love about Toronto is I've never encountered even one single person doing "you're not FROM here". No one is gatekeeping the identity of being from Toronto. I felt it immediately when I moved here as an adult and it's a big reason Toronto feels like home.

Here are the New Year's resolutions we plan to break in the next week or so: Be nicer to #CuratorRob 🙄 Post about Fishbourne Roman Palace from time to time 🫡 Fewer typos 😳 Get over the whole "Villa" thing 🧐 Get engaged (we're looking at you, Merchy) 😍

This set of observations is produced by my scrolling Reddit and otherwise listening to people talk about "how to write." A) there is no requirement that any of your characters has any sort of "arc" let alone a redemption. B) there is also no requirement that your fiction has a plot.

Once at a Broadway show I was sitting a couple of rows behind Paul Newman. He appeared to enjoy Sweeney Todd as much as I did.

Had a Day Without Internet due to fuses blowing in an ice storm related power cut. Turned to board games, Blu-ray discs, and offline Nintendo to compensate. Ample entertainments, some of them beyond our wildest dreams 30 years ago, but we were glad when normal service was restored.

Duncan's Idaho Potatoes, so good you'll keep coming back for them

How much money are you willing to gamble on the AI being right? Given that confidently making false statements is a thing they are known to do? If you can't afford to lose that bet, hiring a competent human lawyer is a wise investment.

Betteridge's Law of Headlines strikes again. (If the headline is phrased as a question, the answer is no.)

Once again, we are in the days of confusion and cheese. I like this time.

Elite tier Boxing Day sandwich: Sliced roast pork (turkey would work too), refried beans, grated cheddar, ranchero sauce on white bread. Butter on the outside and fry until crispy, turning once. 😋

Tomorrow’s Boxing Day, my favorite part of Canadian Christmas, with its implicit permission to do next to nothing. Unless you feel like bargain-hunting when the shops are never more crowded.

Tonight in 1991, Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, President of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, resigned and peacefully ceded power to Boris Yeltsin as president of the new Russian Federation. The next day, the Supreme Soviet formally voted to dissolve itself and the 69-year-old Soviet Union.

🎶 We wish you a Merry Christmas 🎶 🎶 We wish you a Merry Christmas 🎶 #MerryChristmas from your Blue Jays 🎄💙

The Company of the Ring gathers on Rivendell’s threshold at dusk, with their baggage loaded on Bill the pony. Sam remembers that he hasn’t packed rope. Boromir sounds his horn. And Elrond gives his blessing: ‘May the stars shine upon your faces!’ They walk south into the Wild.

That is not dead which can eternal lie, Like Tiny Tim, who did NOT die

Happy Christmas, Toronto. 🎄