Damn, I thought I was the only person who was using the Nieman Lab predictions to subtweet www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/plea...

epitome of “more ass than class”

rescued from office purgatory. still works great at 16 years old…

i think it’s my fault for having visited the shrine to sterling sharpe they built at the packers hall of fame. think about what could have been if his career and then those of nick collins and jermichael finley weren’t cut so short…

What actor’s facial expression in a movie will stay with you the rest of your life?

Reading around for a pod I'm recording tomorrow I came across this classic episode of @chrislhayes.bsky.social's pod where we dug into America's epistemic crisis. Tons of gems in here. And boy has everything on this front gotten *much* worse since 2018...

You will be visited by three spirits

Trying out a new PCP's office, and their "preferred language" dropdown on the intake form is time-traveler inclusive.

today in WTF: saw an orange cybertruck sporting multiple cincinnati bengals stickers and personalized plates that said "ZATHRAS"...

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.

what the heck is the deal with tucson grocery prices? for several things i looked at they were even more expensive than they were in anchorage. that new aldi needs to open, stat!

played winter weather travel roulette over the weekend and crushed it 💪❄️🌨️

introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen multiple times: neko case jenn wasner/flock of dimes/wye oak pinback nick cave calexico next five: garbage spoon sleater-kinney yo la tengo jack parow

Today in 1988 Mystery Science Theater 3000 premiered on KTMA in St. Paul Minnesota. #MST3K

“everything is more beautiful because we are doomed”

was finally catching up with the latest henry rollins show from last friday and he played @ekkoastral.bsky.social (cc @jael.bsky.social): www.kcrw.com/shows/henry-...

Could argue the misogyny Summers expressed both publicly while president of Harvard and in emails to Epstein says more about the culture at our most elite institutions than any of the frontpage freakouts over academia in the past few years but hey

Have you ever wanted @astropy.org tutorials on: – spectroscopic data reduction from a raw FITS image, – computing galactic orbits from Gaia measurements, – cross-matching astronomical catalogs? Check out the redesigned learn.astropy.org! Announcement from @numfocus.bsky.social below. 🧪🔭 #astrocode

drove the van thru a flash flood at anza borrego state park…

i will actually be in town as one of the co-hosts for this one. plus it’s wine wednesday and they have ethiopian tacos 😋

"Since being salvaged from the Fitzgerald in 1995, the bell has been rung every year on Nov. 10, though never to this much attention or with this many survivors attending." www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/11/a...

In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes. The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last. The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes. Why? It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.

eastern sierra vibes 🍂

Can't stop thinking about the McSweeney's Sad Dad Bands, (first published January 14, 2022.) Back on Twitter, I started a thread of my own riffs on Sad Dad Bands on January 17, 2022. Here is that thread, recreated. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/wha...

alki beach is a top tier place we’ve stayed in our van. will def be back whenever we pass thru seattle…

Yf thou see thys, quote wyth a vampyre that ys not Dracula

drowning sorrows of being back in the us by driving in seattle traffic and then drinking some bodhizafa ipa to unwind…

TIL: if you’re really close to a skunk spraying, it does not smell like normal skunk aroma. it is so very much worse…

Do we really want 250,000 mirrored satellites in Low Earth Orbit? Hasn't the Starlink megaconstellation already done enough damage? 🧪 @mjibrown.bsky.social

say you’re in 🇨🇦 without saying you’re in 🇨🇦

We're getting a wave of articles that are like, "gee willikers it sure seems like the people who complained about 'cancel culture' for years really like canceling people." Yes! This was extremely obvious at the time and a lot of us pointed it out!

got some proper aurorae in skagway tonite…

tbf, i am still surprised by the lower prices in WI coming from pretty much anywhere else in the US...

nothing like the van catching fire in the most remote part of the trip to really get the adventure juices flowing... (we're fine. no serious damage. workaround repair involving replacing a belt should be straightforward to do in here in whitehorse)

finally cleared up enough to see some aurora from our campsite in the yukon… 🇨🇦

Well, it is the first day of Autumn. 😂

oktoberfest in valdez is a jol.

the perfect amount of musical decisions while driving was the daft punk cd that was permanently stuck in the broken single disk cd player.

the van is on a boat… ⛴️

denali was showing out today, even from over 130 miles away…

last full day in our creek-side home in anchorage and it’s a stunner. next stop, whittier. then on to valdez…

This should have been a national holiday 3x3 / 4x4 / 3x3x5x5x3x3

back from our monsoon hiatus next week on a new day (wednesday instead of tuesday) and in a brand new location: zerai's international bar. zerai's is part of the new Z street complex along with zemam's ethiopian cuisine and zedamo coffee & tea.

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

reposting with alt text because this feels incredibly significant. the right-wing disinfo machine means a lot of the people grieving Charlie Kirk never heard any of the things he said that would have tarnished his brand as Guy Who Just Wants to Have Dialogue Across the Aisle

The fact that people who should know better can’t tell the difference between what Kirk did on one hand and “civil discourse” on the other is a sign of what a bad state our “civil discourse” is in these days.

From an Atlantic editor. I cannot get over how the entire centrist hivemind is attempting to wish into existence a person, and a movement, that does not exist. You are journalists, you are supposed to describe things as they are, not how you want them to be!

Watching all these centrist pundits stress the “civility” of Charlie Kirk’s style without addressing the ugliness of his substance is giving me a renewed appreciation of how the civil, polite White Citizens’ Councils conned the same crowd into thinking they were distinct from the cruder Klan.

in retrospect, there’s probably never been a name as threatening as “America Online”