youtu.be/PW22jwFNxU8?... Oh look, my personality for the foreseeable is dropping in two hours.

Despite being back at work, Kickstarter is retaliating against our teammates for our legally-protected strike action from last year. Tell Kickstarter’s CEO this is both ILLEGAL and UNACCEPTABLE

In which I talk about my "cannon events" fron my youth through high school and my history with *the theater.* buttondown.com/mixedmediawi...

it is entirely fine not to prioritize becoming professionally or even significantly skilled at things you do for fun

making stuff is important. making bad stuff is often the first step towards making good stuff; but mostly, it's important because it means you're making stuff.

Eternal, from @carlaspeedmcneil.bsky.social :

Defund the CIA and use the money to make more Muppet retellings of classic literature

This week I pretended to be like a crow. That's it. That's the pitch. buttondown.com/mixedmediawi...

Trying to be better about self promotion & things, but Mary Wissinger invited me to give a talk about what I do for self care, and I talked about block scheduling for several minutes. If you wanna check it out... Free, gentle daily practices. Virtual, Feb 9–13 ✨ Link to join: marywissinger.com/rad

🎤 Join us at the St. Louis Planning Commission’s meeting next Wednesday at 5pm! We’re using our strength in numbers to call for regulations to protect our city from AI data centers and make sure we’re not footing the energy bill for tech billionaires ⚡

There's another university "AI Summit" coming up; my critical discussions of building otherwise than the current harmful paradigm of "AI" got good responses the last 2 yrs, but this year all i can think to do is sit on a table at the front of the room & ask "what are we doing?" for 15 full minutes.

you know who else tried to imprison journalists? duterte where is he now? in a prison cell in the Hague see @mariaressa.bsky.social for the how-to btw if you missed her story, watch www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontli... because when i think of heroes, i think of maria first.

You ever read a book that you admire the construction of and fundamentally disagree with the conclusion of said book? Well, I did earlier this month and it made me write a lot of words. buttondown.com/mixedmediawi...

I'm doing the "responsible/weird" thing of cleaning up my files, and as I leaf through around who I used to be, I am both impressed by what I managed to create by then and also utterly bewildered. Which I suppose is a good thing either way. I guess that's a type of growth I guess.

"War College teaches them to fight battles. I am teaching you to end wars." Star Trek: Starfleet Academy resonates with me deeply and I really look forward to seeing it develop over the course of its inaugural season.

Last year, I started reverting back to the ways of old (i.e. high school) and started making osing mini-mixtapes alongside endearingly shitty cover art made in MS Publisher. It's a fun exercise trying to make sense what my current taste in music is trying to tell me that month.

I used to have stray thoughts like "wow, I really could have been X in a different life" or "I missed my calling to do Y." I am now realizing that I can just do the thing. There's nothing actually stopping me. I'm allowed to be more than what I'm now, which is something I probably did already knowm

My favorite line is "2025 was a year of trying things. 2026 is a year of connection. I don’t know exactly what means yet, but I feel it in my bones." The most important one is probably "The simple act of shuffling as means of casting a lot of fate."

I have reached "Letters of Transit" in my Fringe rewatch, one of the weirdest episodes of a syndicated show ever, but damn the 2036 opener was clean and it's willingness to be so weird in service of staging the next arc and examining theme is just so cool.

I'm doing this thing this year where I actually like... share the work I produce on socials in the hopes of getting more people to read my work. Maybe for fame. Maybe just to be known. Who's to say but I've been proud of the stuff I've written for my newsletter. buttondown.com/mixedmediawi...

Thankful to have a schedule that lets me watch The Pitt Season 2 premiere "live." Won't be live posting, but know I am watching with intent.

If anyone was wondering, Fringe still holds up incredibly well and still has one of the finest episodes of all television in Season 2's White Tulip. This also serves as my regular plea to the universe to give Anna Torv more work.

One of my more deeply held personal beliefs is that socks are awful and traveling in socks is the worst. But at least I'm home now and my feet feel like feet again.

Did I purposely come out to the East Coast a couple days early just for a pizza? No, but it certainly was a factor. My love for Ledo Pizza's Hawaiian is mostly nostalgia, but nostalgia is powerful.

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*

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

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.