HPL's "Beyond the Wall of Sleep", "Memory", and "Old Bugs" (all 1919).

Back on the treadmill after a 2 week break. Shifting gears from regular 5K sessions to a timed HIIT format. 30 seconds is not much time at all, I can do 8.5mph sprints for 30 seconds.

All I want for Christmas is a drone swarm to stick "I cuck for billionaires" bumper stickers on all the Teslas (two on every cybertruck)

LEGO 3-stud plates are just under 1", 11¢ ea on the Pick-a-Brick webstore. 4-stud plates, just under 1.5", 20¢ ea. 1x1 round bricks, 9¢ ea. Center easily on 3-stud and 4-stud plates. Mix+match plate and stacked round colors for low-rent tabletop battles. #LEGO #ttrpg life~

HPL's "Polaris" (1918), noted for autobiographical narrative and first mention of the Pnakotic Manuscripts.

TIL Meta (FB and Insta) earns about $26.73 per user per month from advertising. 89 cents a day becomes $6.7 billion per month. And mostly from U.S. and Canada, despite that being under 10% of the user base, because apparently North America buys more crap than anyone.

Finished my first Libby borrow - Newman's "Julia", companion to Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four". It went places Orwell's book couldn't go in his time. It feels much more alive and important than the book I backburnered midway 28 days ago, the first Sherlock Holmes novel.

Remember, if it’s too cold for you, it’s too cold for them. Let them in!

67 SciAm staff favorite books of 2025: provocative fiction, biography, science (natch), politics and more. #BookSky

AI image prompt: child visibly underfed and showing vaccine-preventable disease symptoms opening Advent calendar and overjoyed to find another fascist obituary

Not even AI. The jokes practically write themselves, don't they?

Staples carries posterboard lightly preprinted with 1" or 1/2" grid lines - a $4 alternative to Chessex's $28 vinyl dry-erase mats. Retrace every 3rd line on a 1/2" grid for a 1.5" scale battlefield. #ttrpg life

Somehow I never saw the original The Running Man until yesterday. Maybe it's just nostalgia but I feel like RoboCop was by far the better 1987 protocyberpunk flick.

~4% of people have aphantasia (inability to fantasize / lack of sensory imagination) - but that doesn't seem to predispose to other mental health risks.

Joonie says stolen cheese is the sweetest. 🧀

By now we should all know about recordings of "Deck the Halls" to the tune of "War Pigs", but who's recorded the lyrics of "War Pigs" to the tune of "Deck the Halls"?

$460 LEGO Barad-dur, or $500 LEGO Rivendell?

I'm sure I'm not the first to observe that Hulu definitely needs more Cthulhu

Practicing 7.5mph sprints. .12 mi is kinda my limit at that speed. also: wtf @ 835 calories

#BookSky et al.

Joonie vs. Goliath vs. platypus

Hear me out: cats who actually make biscuits

First mile at 4.5mph, then mixed speeds up to 7.5mph between cooldown walks.

Change a letter, make a singer/band less appealing: Pink Flood

Apparently whole school systems did not read 1955's "Why Johnny Can't Read". 70 years later, little Liam still can't read. #BookSky

Crazy idea I know, but how about a cellular carrier like Credo Mobile except it doesn't contribute to political campaign funds at all - and instead attracts customers with bare-bones pricing like Tello.

I need to know how you get 30g of protein into clear bev without it having a thick/slimy mouthfeel, much less "sparkling"

Shoelaces didn't want to stay tied at first. 4.5mph jog from the 2.25 mile mark to finish.

Browsing for Ankheg xp value while DM'ing my last session, I stumbled across this article that made me want to build out a monster-parts harvesting system. And that made me miss the 1E Monster Manual's "frequency" stats. "Very Rare"? OK, we'll call that a CR20 Nature (Monster Lore?) skill check.

Taking a break from "A Study in Scarlet" to devour Sandra Newman's "Julia" via Libby. I can't think of many novels more important than Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four" and Newman's companion story dutifully magnifies it. #BookSky

Wanted to sustain 4.5mph for 1.5mi, but 1.0 was the best I could do. Solid session nonetheless.

How the brain "does" creativity: it's a whole-brain process that can be improved with exercise, engaging emotional and analytical cognitive skills.

TIL there are a plethora of post-filtering flags. I don't remember setting so many to "hide", so maybe you too will want to peruse them and relax the default "hide everything even remotely edgy" settings.

It's still fundamentally "Garbage in, garbage out"; Grok's Nazi blurts being only the most egregious example of things doing exactly what they were programmed to do.

Sometimes you finish the run, sometimes the run finishes you, and sometimes you just gotta run til you're done. Today was a "5K but I'm not finished" kind of day.

Not shown: a good run cut short at around 2.5 miles by the infernal "emergency stop" switch. First 1.25 mi at 4.5mph, a .25mi cooldown walk, .25mi at 5.7mph, more walking and the hiccup :#

not sure if it's more of a Beethoven "Ode to Joy" kind of morning or more Eurythmics "Doubleplusgood"

unsurprising = uninformative; this 1948 axiom nuanced information science moving forward. Should the flood of unsurprising (if dismal) news we see daily be treated as mere propaganda?

First mile at 4.5mph, another half mile at 4.5 after the cooldown, a couple (unsustainable, boo) bursts at 7.5mph, strong finish with a quarter mile (?) at 5.7mph

"A Study in Scarlet" (Doyle, 1887) takes a truly unexpected turn in the middle - simultaneously in style, subject and atmosphere. It's almost like a collab between two different authors. Doomed to obscurity by its treatment of the LDS church, of course. #BookSky #bannedbooks

First mile at 4.4mph; 7.2-7.3mph is do-able for a tenth of a mile.

There are more than twice as many lobbyists in the U.S. as coal miners.

Can't decide if I love the winged hellcat or the zombie rainbow unicorn more.

Poking my head in after 35 years, not much has changed and it might even be some of the same staff. -- The Old Book Shop, Morristown NJ

I have a vision of how a Bluetooth version of Koss KTXPro1 should wear, and the Porta Pro is not it.

I was chuffed with my 7.0mph bursts until I saw one veritable young Pheidippides clocking 8.5mph as I made my way to the locker room. (Still chuffed for both of us actually) Also: a random doe loitering at the end of the driveway

Gymbros have been lauding creatine all along, but there's substantial evidence of low-cost cognitive benefits: augmenting mental health interventions (CBT and medications); improving mood, focus and alertness; staving off age-related declines.