But we still have to mow. I was worried that cutting the grass would deprive backyard wildlife of its cover, but this video by @runningred.bsky.social is literally a before-and-after photo following Tuesday's landscaping efforts, and this brave little guy wasn't deterred at all...

When the lights go out, it's an all-night party in the yard. Compiled and edited by @runningred.bsky.social

Reading Lord of the Rings for the first time in thirty years. Gave me this idea: Maine, or Middle Earth? Are these place names located in Maine or in Tolkein's head? Criehaven Loudwater Dead River Arundel Kingsland Gulf Hagas Midgewater Tuckborough Mount Tire'm Hibbert's Gore No fair Googling.

RFK, Jr. seen rushing to Texas with a bottle of ketchup.

Welp there’s no unseeing this

Why does Facebook Marketplace keep trying to sell me Volkswagens? Every day I get a bunch of E-mails from Marketplace trying to sell me Classic Beetles from the early 1970s. Must have glanced at one once. If only job hunting websites had that level of specificity...

Can I choose where and with what?

Every once in a while, YouTube throws me a few clips from the 2003 Sylvain Chomet film "Les Triplettes De Belleville" to intrigue me enough to watch it again. And every time I do, I'm reminded of the fact that I didn't really like "Les Triplettes de Belleville" all that much the last time.

That's because they haven't got any money

"We don't need no education We don't need no voice control There's lots of hassles in the classroom Teacher leave those kids alone Hey! Teacher! Leave those kids alone All we know, it's just another break in the wall"

Hotblack Desiato and the rest of Disaster Area have announced that they will be pulling out of the Freedom 250. "We were led to believe that this was a nonpartisan event and will instead be at Slim's Throat Emporium for one night only."

Man, this has seriously been a season for candid wildlife shots. If they're not making faces at @runningred.bsky.social's trail traps, they're dancing in front of my dashcam - at a conspicuously respectable distance.

So I'm driving home, and I say to myself, Is that a fox, or is it a coyote? I mean, that'd be a BIG fox. Like a fox the size of a bobcat. So I zoomed in the video a bit more, and:

The crossover none of you have been waiting for. You know, given the amount of crossover fanfiction I wrote back in the 1990s, it's entirely possible I have a story that puts Akela on the Enterprise. Frankly, I shudder to think.

*grumble...*

If you're in my neighborhood, *drive carefully.* The fact that that's a kit fox makes me think that the Shed Kits now have grandchildren.

Is anyone watching it now?

Anyone else remember "In the Future, There Will Be Robots?"

This felt like it needed to be set to music, but instead of just slapping Yakkety Sax on it, I decided to experiment. First, I let it loop while listening to Terry Riley's "A Rainbow in Curved Air." Very cool. Like something out of an early 1980's public television educational science film.

This cheap plastic mounting has ruined my entire weekend. We need to replace this faucet before it blows up and floods the kitchen. It was in bad shape two years ago and hasn't gotten better. We've gotten all the hardware off the old faucet except this last piece. We think it's glued on.

Something crossed my mind that's kind of interesting. We know that the champions of AI are easily convinced by AI. An LLM is basically a glazing machine. Its output is what you want to hear. We also know that they haven't actually achieved consciousness, despite the claims of their backers.

You ever want to watch a movie just to piss off a conservative? I mean, no real interest in a particular film until the MAGAsphere decides it represents the fall of Western civilization, and suddenly, "Hm, this sounds intriguing, perhaps I should peruse it."

He’s offended because The Odyssey is about something near and dear to him: being an absent father while chasing vanity for 20 years

"Agatha's Song," Fallout 3. Rescue the Soil Stradivarius from Vault 92 and give it to Agatha. Do not harm Agatha, do not sell the violin to anyone else. (You wouldn't get much for it, anyway.) The Soil Stradivarius is a real instrument. It's owned by Itzak Perlman. /1

If a Croque Madame talked to another Croque Madame about anything other than a Croque Monsieur Would they have passed the Béchamel test?

So...JD Vance is in Maine to stump for vulgar Trumpian former governor Paul LePage in his Congressional run and I...

What a day, what a day. Spent part of last night populating a new Furaffinity page with the bedraggled sketches I posted here in November, under the name "Lupuscriptor." ("Wolf Writer" isn't a particularly original name, so I had to get all clever.) Furaffinity.net/user/lupuscriptor

Well. I'm seeing that social media is gearing up to blame everything in the world on GenX, on the basis of a couple of posts with "boomers" scrubbed off and "GenX" written in crayon in the space. Hooray. Yeah sure great no problem. Figures that when society finally notices us, this is how.

Looking to dress up the resume a little, and I found some YouTube video on whether or not a certain course of action is worth it. And I swear, I would fund this guy's entire channel for a year if he could organize his thoughts sufficiently to complete a statement. A sentence. One sentence.

My mother would be so proud. ... (She used to kick my ass in Centipede.)

Today: there has been SCIENCE!

I think about this all the time.

Well, YouTube's got my number, for realz... youtu.be/5OGAs8FGzx4

Soooo I see we all woke up and decided to hate Star Fox today. Great. Great great great. It's starting to cross my mind how much of my social media feed is people telling me to hate other people and things. I don't really want to hate all this stuff. Is it okay if I DON'T hate it for now?

Kind of wish Illumination had put out some Star Fox merch to go with the Super Mario Galaxy movie. The guy doesn't even get a Happy Meal toy. I mean, I know he wasn't exactly central, but these days I can't even find the poster. Toad got a Happy Meal toy...

That declaring May 4 "Star Wars Day" is the bread-and-circuses to distract us from continuing to memorialize the Kent State Massacre, OTD in 1970.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Housemate and I are convinced that these are the same foxes from a couple of years ago, all growed up. Made a hell of a racket in the front yard. Foxes be loud.

Sleepy fox. (A bit out of context but I'm thinking of making a Telegram sticker pack.)

Insomnia Pizza.

Today's Random Neuron is 77-year-old Jeremy Irons, Live at the Hollywood Bowl, performing "Be Prepared" for the Lion King's 30th Anniversary concert in 2025. youtu.be/KHYonaifzlE

Under "trending," #4 and #5. Eagerly, I click. Turns out it's just some basketball team or other. I am disappointed.

It's a full moon. You're walking down a dark road through an eerie forest. It's the Witching Hour. Werewolves are afoot. At a bend in the road, you discover one such creature - curled up into a ball, clutching his tail, whimpering softly. He's surrounded by torn clothes. "...Hello?"

*wipes a tear, bows head* Thank you...

(1) Ugh, Akela just woke up on a dirty, bare mattress in the home of his alcoholic caretaker. He's gonna peace out to the wilderness to a cave that only he knows about and hide for years.

This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying

Oh for GOD'S sake. People, I am TRYING not to be a conspiracy theorist here, would you PLEASE stop giving me material for my Bulletin Board of Crazy? I'm almost out of yarn!

Today's Random Neuron is this video that showed up in my YouTube recs the other day. Mixed feelings about most of it, but I kinda like the one-eyed bear. Early use of CGI, too. youtu.be/cJyQT5SXRNc

If I met my ten-year-old self, I'm not sure if he'd be impressed or disappointed. I think I'd just have trouble explaining what a "Patreon" is.

My hopes and dreams.