as always, the most accurate summation of modern politics ever created

it's starting to seem like "can be decentralized" is not, in fact, the same as "is decentralized"

genies think they can just park anywhere they goddamn want to

You can never be too safe.

a couple notes from the Tim Horton's drive-thru tonight: - don't order pizza in the drive-thru - actually, if you're ordering pizza from Tim's, you've made a mistake somewhere along the line

One last trip to the Velvet Dip before they close for the winter. Still the best ice cream in town.

Like… it's kind of right there, no?

Just because ML models are too complex for us to fully understand how they work means nothing for claiming they have any thoughts or understanding. More so, we still don't have AI. We have just used that term for LLMs even though they absolutely do not have intelligence.

if you think chatbots are alive or self aware then i think you would be easily fooled by a tunnel painted on a brick wall

Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI

A dude on CBC just said that "AI" "knows everything about everything" And no No it does not

well, that's annoying Le Mot (@WordleFR) #1364 💀/6 🟨⬛⬛🟩⬛ 🟩🟩⬛🟩🟩 🟩🟩⬛🟩🟩 🟩🟩⬛🟩🟩 🟩🟩⬛🟩🟩 🟩🟩⬛🟩🟩 wordle.louan.me

it's driving me a little crazy that I don't have a good title for this story yet "The Tower" seems kind of meh

existential crisis at the drive-thru

A sentence I just wrote: I remember looking down to the river, and it was smooth as glass, a mirror reflecting the trees on the opposite bank and the cloudless blue sky above, an inverted world you might visit if you could only survive breaking the plane of the water. #AmWriting #PrairieSFF

This is the best thing ever: peanuts-search.com

Goodnight, friends. The world is questionable in moments, but there are gifts. For instance, 75 years ago, the strip that would eventually give us Linus and Snoopy first appeared. Happy birthday, #Peanuts. I love you (the reader and the strip).

Dang, Yahoo's still kickin', huh?

If you see this skeet, skeet a pic from your device with no explanation

After judo last night, I spent about an hour out in the dark with @weekend-warrior.bsky.social. patrickjohanneson.com/2025/10/02/a... Click through for more photos and a timelapse video.

Things it Would Have Been Helpful to Know Before the Revolution "on this bright blue marble / orbited by trash" www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIsT...

Purpose

The first Peanuts strip by Charles M. Schulz was published on October 2, 1950.

After judo last night, I spent about an hour out in the dark with @weekend-warrior.bsky.social. patrickjohanneson.com/2025/10/02/a... Click through for more photos and a timelapse video.

Some motion from tonight's aurora show. Photos to come later.

IMO every publication and every publisher should have a clear statement about their generative AI policy. To dictate what is acceptable writer usage, yes, but also to declare their own usage (or lack thereof). Do they use it for slushreading, editing, illustration, correspondence?

One of my favorite anecdotes from THE PREHISTORY OF THE FAR SIDE: "That doesn't sound like the Jane Goodall we know."

I spent another hour or so in the dark last night, and it was worth it. patrickjohanneson.com/2025/10/01/a... Click through for more photos and a timelapse video. #Aurora #AuroraBorealis #NorthernLights #Photography

Friends, as you may have seen, Carnation Books is unfortunately shuttering at the end of this month. If you'd like to buy my book, you have until the end of October to pick up a copy! www.amazon.com/Land-So-Wild...

Gene Wolfe said that everyone in the military knew someone who really, really wanted to get out there and kill people, and everyone also knew those people were rare, unpleasant, and dangers to themselves and everyone around them.

If you are going to be in Ottawa Oct. 20, you should come see me and @premeemohamed.com at the launch for her excellent novella, The First Thousand Trees. At the wonderful community hub that is Perfect Books.

A book usually gets 60–100 pages to prove itself to me, and then I'm out. I had a friend tell me that a big ol' doorstopper was "pretty slow for the first 500 pages but then it picks up and the last 100 pages are some of the best prose I've ever read" and my response was "guess I'll never know".

I'm not sure how I wasn't *already* following someone called @thecheesegoddess.bsky.social, but that oversight is now rectified.

It's officially October 1st so that means you all have to repost Assorted cheese hell.....yes

I stumbled upon this "spacesuit" by Global Effects (First Man, Lucy in the Sky, Armageddon, Firefly...), and it made me laugh. It's such a practical costume. 👌

It's October, so I guess it's time to add a 👻 or 💀 to my profile

If this isn't nice, I don't know what is. — Kurt Vonnegut, Jr #Aurora #PhonePhoto (More to come later)

I'm also a big fan of how from behind these socks make you look like a goose version of Hermes, the messenger god.

Pisses me off that right when we seemed to be breaking through with renewables they invented The Thing That Uses Electricity For No Reason. In a movie it'd be a big conspiracy

I'm very excited to have some of my pottery featured with Lover's Eye Press, in a special folio celebrating David Lynch. www.loverseyepress.com/post/art-by-...

This whole section really.

Gotta participate in this year's -tober challenge

Hey everybody (especially the Winnipeg crew), I'll be reading some uncanny fiction on Oct. 29th at Sookrams Brewing in Winnipeg, along with @dridgley.bsky.social, @smbeiko.bsky.social, and @chadwickginther.bsky.social. Our host will be @badguybirnie.bsky.social. See you there! #PrairieSFF

Wife brought her 100 year old film camera to that pirates game from a few weeks ago and she got this shot that's just perfect

* offer void if watching most of David Lynch's movies