I am not particularly good at competitive Pokemon, whether it's singles, doubles, or the weird free for all in ZA, but I like minmaxing and customizing and curating and there is something about making a team with arbitrary rules and compositions and themes that just feels good?

It is extraordinary telling that a show I called "Legally-Distinct-From-ER ER" for three episodes before insisting on using its proper name was appointment television for 4 months at the beginning of 2025. You know how good a show has to be to survive a full year of media and still be the best?

Getting my oral appliance for sleep apnea today, and while it probably will take a couple weeks to find the correct placement of my jaw, there is a part of me that fears that I am going to wake up fully refreshed and go "so you're telling me I didn't have to be tired all the time?" So we'll see.

I am uncharacteristically at a bar for a speed dating event and they have Goosebumps playing on the TV, and truly the question on my mind is which is more horrifying: * Being known * Piano lessons that kill you

It's having a source of dopamine hits and things to pass the time. Look at my boys.

Front Bottoms quickly becoming part of my odd anthem rotation a.k.a. band where every song is oddly applicable to my life at the moment. "I'll take what I can get / I'll take what I'm given / but we both know I'll need more."

*emerging for my monthly errant thought* Coalignz has joined adjacent as a word I find myself using increasingly frequently trying to explain when a thing is like a thing, but sufficiently different from it. *Fades back into the void*

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Felt this line a little too hard on the first listen: "The first thing you learn is how far you can go with no gas in the tank." Still, thank goodness for the Mountain Goats. youtu.be/5qm70IbkR1Y?...

For all the media I actively consume, perhaps the most glaring and one people are surprised the most about is that I haven't seen Kill Bill (and of course, by extension, Kill Bill vol. 2).

After about 200 hours since Early Access (175 hrs on the Steam Deck, ~25 hrs on the Switch 2), I haven't quite 100% Hades 2, but I have gotten the true ending and truer ending and maxed all my bonds. Anything else I do will be aspirational, but damn, this game was brilliant.

Remembering I have public facing social media just long enough to share my solo @puzzmo.com debut. Fandoms! Language! And an (un?)surprising number of Gundam fans saying how they feel seen by 18D! www.puzzmo.com/puzzle/2025-...

Since Slay the Spire 2 got delayed, I have been playing the original just to see if I still have the fundamentals and luck. And well, while I won't ever do it consistently, I did manage another A20 Heart victory on Defect so I have retained some things at least.

I'm so proud of this team. See you September 19th. 💙🪐 youtu.be/G4Df2vAnKZo?...

Ahoy! Check out the official SLICE 2025 poster, designed by Alain McAlister! Alain is a nonbinary artist and illustrator from STL with a passion for graphic novels, comics, fiber arts, and community work. They won SLICE's inaugural Local Best in Show Award in 2024. www.amcaart.com/portfolio

Long Story Short is such a wonderful case study in how the specific becomes universal, how absurdity anchors reality, and how everything is connected in all sorts of ways. The parts we see and the parts we don't. Not a series I could binge. Absolutely a series I love.

There's a lot of lyrics in this song that have got me hypnotized as I listen on repeat, including: "There's an amount to take / reasons to take more." "Make sure you kiss your knuckles before you punch me in the face?" "I wanna contribute to the chaos. I don't want to watch and then complain."

As this year is continually choosing to inform me, the scary things aren't actually scary when you face them head on.

<billionaire genius looking at this> now… how can we ruin it?

One of the reasons I subscribe to so many YouTube channels is that every so often, an artist will return after nearly a decade with something I become immediately enamored with. Case and point, Ryn Weaver's triumphant return.

After seeing Summer Wars in 4K, I return a quote that summarizes the essence of AMC's Halt and Catch Fire and also my idealized vision of tech in general. "Computers aren't the thing. They're the thing that gets us to the thing."

Muttering "Everything's in service of the next thing", not really sure if I fully believe it today, but muttering it nevertheless.

I swear there's a brilliant concept for an Aarakocra Cleric somewhere here.

What's this? @slicexpo.bsky.social has one final session of Comics U 2025 for its 10 Year anniversary and it's a Hot Ones Inspired Interview with @oheysteenz.bsky.social? And it's gonna be livestreamed from @bettysbooksstl.bsky.social and recorded for posterity? www.youtube.com/live/W4aGkVT...

Not to toot my horn, but I can still run tech and stage the hell out of a venue.

I have ended up rewatching My Adventures with Superman, and I don't care, this is my favorite version of the character.

Doing the completely normal thing of returning to one of the tentpole panels of a manga about a Japanese highschool boys volleyball club to recalibrate and carry on. Today, we mutter task focus. Today, we work.

if somebody assigns you a piece where you're supposed to talk to the Grok love chatbot please contact me so I can pay you to not write that piece. I can't afford to be capricious like this but I will crowdfund it and get support. together we can stop you

With just a little bit of save scumming, I was able to defeat the Heart on A20 with Defect, a feat I have not done in a while largely because I am sometimes reckless. I however was not able to beat my previous high scores, but that's on me for not taking more hallways.

I was introduced to the concept of block scheduling when I did healthcare IT for a year, and implementing it in my own life has been one of the best things I've done for my productivity. Now mind you, my block utilization stat is probably garbage, but I am not out here trying to maximize profit.

A new acquaintance introduced me to Winona Fighter a few days ago, and it turns out that it was actually the universe telling me I needed some pop-punk this month.

Not a hot take but “My Adventures with Superman” may be the best, freshest take on Supes in decades and I love it. Sets many benchmarks and needs to be a standard in how the characters are portrayed, far FAR eclipsing the Timm version which is revered but not without many flaws

Reading Full Metal Alchemist on Webtoon and it is honestly impressive how incredibly well this series has aged in all aspects.

Raphael Bob-Waksberg created one of the best satires of modern memory with BoJack Horseman and one of my favorite short story collections with "Someone Who Will Love You In All Your Damaged Glory", so yeah, I'm in.

There have been non-stop fireworks for about twenty minutes and honestly I am over it. I want to opt in to any constant barrage of explosions.

For the last two months, I made the conscious effort to turn off all my large screens at 10pm to help with my sleep schedule. Today, I am completely disregarding it because S4 of The Bear dropped at 7PM CT for some godforsaken reason and I need to watch just a few more episodes before I sleep.

Rewatching FX's The Bear ahead of the S4 drop. I have watched Forks a dozen times and I cry every time. A perfect arc in a perfect episode of television.

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Exciting tech update! SLICE is now able to offer ✨livestreaming✨ of our 2025 Comics University sessions! This is something we've hoped to do for many years and now you get to try it out with us. Head to our YouTube page for all livestream links and previous session recordings. youtube.com/@slicexpo

Surprising absolutely no one including myself, I enjoy the Soulslike experience more when it is modded to be a Roguelike. Elden Ring: Nightreign matches my cadence and tolerance, and I have been rewarded with my patience by beating my second boss 24 hours in.

Hello, Bluesky! Last month I was laid off from my day job, which means I am available for editing work! I am open to full-time, part-time, and/or freelance opportunities. Read on for my freelance rates, and learn more about me and my work at katvendetti.com!

I know why I am up at 4AM (gotta get on this red-eye flight), as do I know why the hotel staff and my Lyft driver are up, but there are far too many other people also awake.

After however many years, I now find myself stating that we unironically need Clippy back which speaks to volumes to something. To what exactly, I am not entirely sure, but that's where I am at.

I continue to have no sense of time or distance. Anyways, I get to feign extroversion for a work conference for the week. Wish me luck.

Being an adult is pretty great for the most part, but it also comes with the unfortunate reality that "if it's not one thing, it's another" or more realistically "it's all the things." Which is to say, I'm fine but I have had to make so many phone calls and schedule so many things in the last week.

Hello! 👋 We wanted to take a moment to introduce ourselves—we're your SLICE 2025 organizer team. 🎨 by @jmarshallsmith.bsky.social

Always delighted to be surprised by a piece of media. (This reaction brought to you by the latest episode of Gundam GQuuuuuuX.)

variety.com/2025/film/ne... DreamWorks Animation doing a Filipino mythos inspired movie? This will become my entire personality next year.

I went from calling Max's The Pitt Legally-Distinct-From-ER ER to calling the show by its proper name because the show is that good. Some of the best modern TV I've watched. Premise, writing, acting, directing, all of it: spectacular. Hard to imagine another 15 hour stretch that's as strong.