Yo I really can't believe it's 2026 😳 not me being an elected for a whole year!? 🤯 look at this innocent lil blacktina moving into her office in City Hall one year ago today 🥹 giiiirl I had no idea what I was about to get into 🤣 whatta year...

i don't think it's great when i'm in an appointment, ask my doctor how he thinks 2026 is gonna go for drug prices, and he visibly ages fifteen years like Obama did in 2009

it's honestly kinda weird to be going to a university on flat ground. as a californian you just get in your head that every school in the country is on a unnervingly vertical walled mesa

folks i'm ringing in the new year with some nebulous non-covid thing two days before my MFA program begins

using my one travel back in time to go to 1990 to tell gordon murray he must do a death star type flaw in the mclaren f1 for paypal executives

when reading drafts of prose in the last year, i’m reminded of patton oswalt in 2007 talking about if your pitch for an einstein biopic was solely about the couple days he had horrible food poisoning

who else found LABIAL as their first spelling bee word today

i am becoming a more person of letters by undertaking the first translation of the iliad into maoist standard english

my yuletide religious experience was being forgiven by an albina librarian for fucking up the volume of love poetry by charles bukowski by putting it in a not-dry container in my kitchen

ai benchmarks are gimmicked, as my sole request anytime i query a model (‘make up a joke about Unitarians’) is going backwards in the last four years

local tv commercials are one of the last bulwarks against ai because they mostly star the people who pay for them

writers at the large timeline collider have hoped to merge three coherent forces- jon snow, arya stark, and the C and J lannisters, with the khaleesi matrix. efforts to bridge using the imphoton have failed to solve these fundamental differences.

roblox as a product pitch was taking a fake game in an 2003ish episode of SVU and saying wait, this doesn’t enable pedophiles enough!

i do have to say 'ai causes norad to think santa is 500x chinese ballistic missiles' kinda moved seemlessly from cia signals in my fillings camp to basically the odds-on pick for the final minute to midnight in one year

when it's past midnight and the person who drove me to the party says they can't find their keys anywhere

what do you think’s the most out of left field language a muppet christmas carol’s been competently dubbed into

reading character limit, learning in chapter three that his full name is 'elon reeve musk' and thinking, little on the nose ain't it

i appreciate in a lot of right wing evangelical movies the idea that anyone over the age of three doesn't know who jesus was. not like, whether tacky megachurch stuff is the right religion, but like, no idea. this college class is like a third guys who learned about jesus through family guy memes

i gotta say that many societies have great holiday mythology, but finland got that yule goat

i appreciate riley quinn's contribution to posting lore this week, namely that patrick wyman is the ultramarine constructed by the forces of woke

A coded message to British intelligence agents. London County Council Tramways, 1922. Ref E.752-1922, V & A Museum.

[reading the portland bureau of transport vision zero guide to the holidays] SLOW DRIVE. TAKE IT EAAAASY.

listen 'it's a long story' is me describing the length of the story, it's not that i'm going to tell you any of it

god’s covenant with the i-84 overpass where an ebike bumps you into the streetcar and your fine mist refracts the sun

i don’t even host much but i’m gaining 8.2kg of Not My Stuff here each week

feeling like I'm defending Stalingrad when I realize I have seven postcards to send out and only have one Totoro one left and the rest are kinda mid

New Seasons Labor Union (NSLU) workers announce that they have "overwhelmingly" voted to ratify their first contract, with significant raises for all NSLU members, a $19/hour starting wage, scheduling protections, just cause standards for discipline, and more. #pdx #portland

i cussed out a nun in my dream and she totally deserved it

my favorite AEW micro-trend is PAC coming back and having to do the promo thing where you mention the city the event is in, so we have a Geordie saying "ay in albequerque nah mexico next week"

counterpoint to "diagrams in old reports are much more elegant" here's a memo in the City of Portland archives in 1976 explaining the current org chart

wrestling rumble in a rural japanese town where each stop another person gets on the Catbus

they've added the what now to Audacity

hearing a documentary name drop the carousel of progress and i pop like swerve strickland just house call’d a young buck

one thing they don't tell you about changing your first name to a greek deity is that you will wake up at 8am every so often and the NYT headlines app will tell you're being cancelled for being useless and wasteful. RUDE!

i don't have maladaptive social skills, discord does

i like chess960 because my friend (much better than i) can have a grinding 62 move match i won through sheer unfamiliarity, and then get checkmated in four moves the next because i'm Bad At Chess

there's a whole twenty pages of the DSM-V which could just read "makes children's cartoon episodes sound like anna karenina"

describing a vocalist as "like when someone fucks up the national anthem, but not as a based political thing"

pulling out a Conch Republic Air Force challenge coin at the bar like it's the last four minutes of a yugioh episode

my postcard habit has basically made me an unpaid Tourism Commissar for stuff you can get to within ninety minutes of the Steel Bridge in Portland

a good proxy of your gender journey is who you imagine being when you put on fingerless gloves

yeah there was one true hall of famer on the 2002 san francisco giants and it's kenny lofton

i assume pholandia in beaverton, oregon has excellent vietnamese food, but it also sounds like a place you can only go to if you're doing adultery

UCSD doing a solid for an alum and a dead alum by charging the living 6.50 to not give any medical records and getting her name wrong in the process. if you wonder, hey, did totally incompetent negligent recordkeeping kill someone, well, i have a theory about that.

i'm experimenting with writing stuff that's closer to song lyrics, and I have to say this '(x4)' shit is absolute sorcery.

listen what i'm saying is if you can get the pope to tell you who wins the AL batting title next season, draftkings is metaphysically prohibited from saying you picked the wrong guy

i dunno, was i the only one that really liked the united church of christ comma thing they did for so many years? i thought it was a great meditation on the premise and promise of progressive christianity. it was corny but yeah, being sincere is.

board of cheese? how could i EVER be bored of cheese?

why watch the joker when i can just wake up to a half dozen NYT headlines on my phone every day?