The casualties already coming in. Grandmothers in their apartments….

Gonna save this post because I think we're all gonna need it this year.

This is so punk rock

Start of every third Redwall book be like:

The funny thing about posting this on Bluesky is that this site is literally full of people who have both worked with and been targeted by the CIA, and they literally all agree the CIA could not spark an uprising in Iran if their lives depended on it.

Sometimes my wife makes a very funny joke and then says "Go tell your internet friends that one"

In my very first dream of 2026 I dreamt I was at a conference of pro-AI Bay Area tech bros and I got so excited and giddy about bullying them in a lecture hall that I woke up.

No, heaven forbid.

It's Cloves and they stole them from us

my friend group can't decide if it wants to go to the professional women's hockey league exhibition game or the drag king 10 year anniversary show if you want a preview into what the whole world will look like under the reign of Woke 2

Also very funny to imagine French Canadian elves. Oui Celebrimbor, c'est le trompeur grand.

Had lembas bread for dessert last night

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien would have beaten these fuckers to death with a copy of Der Nibelungenlied that he hand-translated.

I am full of Ceasar and Poutine and very very happy to be back in Quebec City after 20 years.

They are, and have only ever been, angry little shiteaters who are so, so mad that you don't want to come to their birthday party and give them presents. They do not deserve respect or inclusion in society.

This is just going to always be my go-to response to this kind of thing anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

God Internet Retirement sounds incredible. Like a winter jacuzzi for the soul.

Long live Derrick

The lighting alone makes me want to sing. Yes Rian Johnson. Yes. Beat us over the head with hamfisted, overt literary devices. Be overt. Yell it from the rafters. I am living.

Rian Johnson you are awaited in Valhalla. The Valkyrie themselves will bear you aloft and sing your name for delivering unto us the majesty of Daniel Craig unleashed as Benoit Blanc.

Just wow. @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy came out swinging in this article. He's right though and that's the coolest part.

I'm getting reels of Olivia Coleman on Holiday Bake Off and realizing it won't release till next holiday season and seeing that episode is going to become a real cornerstone in Things Getting Me Through 2026

I devoured this book. It is a miracle, and a narrative undertaking the likes of which only the deeply insane would ever even attempt. It is a work of unearthly beauty and staggering scope, and it is my favorite book Alix Harrow has ever written.

A real quote from my wife at 12:36 AM on Christmas Eve: "I'm just so awake and jazzed after wrapping all of those gifts!"

For what is a replicator if not a utopian continental breakfast in space?

For the plebians without proper access to time travel accoutrements to enable banditry, I recommend finding local architectural firms and befriending their IT guy. My brother has 128gb of DDR5, a 4070, a Threadripper, and like 8tb of m2 drives because they toss out computers so often.

I've got the day off, I've got a big mug of coffee, and I've got a book I've been waiting to read for months just so I can properly savor it.

they didn't need AI to make Silksong, it just needed some deeply insane guys to have a blank check for living expenses until their next thing was done, I think we should try doing more of that instead

What if 2026 was the year I started getting tattoos. What then.

I’ve been in game dev for 26 years and I can’t remember any other time where a specific tech was being insistently and persistently pushed on devs as a group in the public sphere. Why would it? Cui bono? Why would any given dev have an interest in other devs using tech they don’t have a stake in?

he's very funny and often correct! he loves his friends! he's not nearly as bad as his enemies (the trillionaires)! and yet he [spoiler] kills nine planets and ten billion people and rules an evil empire for ten thousand years, mostly out of spite. relatable, frankly

re-reading the Locked Tomb books as one sometimes must and man: John's narration in Nona the Ninth really is the best villain monologue ever written. by the end you understand why they exist as a trope in the first place! because only a villain has the ego required to monologue!

*laughs in archivist* anyone who thinks it's all been digitized is out of their goddamn mind. We don't have the staff, resources, or digital infrastructure to digitize, store, check, and maintain at preservations standards a digital copy of every single item in our collections.

It is soooo normal for a country to have a TV news report about its gulag system removed from the broadcast

One of the greatest tropes of all time is "This here's a rough and ready bar, seedy, real underground types, and everyone's ready to fight on sight until Some Badass walks in."

One of the many hidden benefits of living in Cleveland is that our sports teams can always be counted on to absolutely rat-fuck some other really good team's season.

In my head these accounts are all run by chipper, go-get-em new grads from a 2000's romcom, getting their dream job, and then logging in to Bluesky and getting dogpiled by the English majors who made snide comments about their communications degree while smoking outside parties.

I've just been informed that my wife, a dance teacher who has just completed Nutcracker, was complimented on her sparkly Keds by a student's grandmother. They then spent several minutes speaking on the importance of identifying "really nice boxes." It was perhaps the most Midwest conversation ever.

The Battle of Blair Mountain genuinely has so much rad shit that it deserves a Chernobyl-level production all on its own. I mean the main two labor leaders are called Bill Blizzard and Mother Jones like come on.

Blue Prince is very nice and also I am very stupid.

Genuinely starting to think it's time for me to make a career pivot to consultant who goes into big think tank places and hosts "The Joys Of Righteous Vengeance" seminars, because I'm not seeing the kinds of Hustle Hating I want to be seeing on the field right now.

"We all thought it'd be the easy button," Nielsen said. "And that's just not what happened."

Gonna get this framed I think

This is exactly what I said when my wife asked if I had eaten some of the Halloween candy she bought

A Lord of the Rings cover band called Torchlight Manifesto

Look it doesn't mean anything, and the struggle still goes on. But I do feel like we all really needed this.