It’s finally over

Oof. Hello migraine spike sucker-punch. Okay, less "hello" and more "a few hours of this leads me to believe it's sticking around all night"

2026 basically

nobody posted the clip anywhere so i went and dug the whole episode up

So, yesterday, my friend recommended an audio-drama podcast she and her husband had found and just binged for like, 7 hours. I considered that a pretty ringing endorsement and put it on.

The line between "Eldritch" and "Divine" in terms of creature design is razor thin, honestly. But I think I've cracked a good rule of thumb:

“Cant sleep… i’ll just have a quick look at my phone”

If you have read even a single history of fascism, you are already aware that one thing that its rise has in common in every case is an opposition party that refuses to intervene for fear of looking weak or putting the left into power

I’m worried others adopt this strategy. Creed: if you don’t give us a Grammy we WILL release another album. Rob Schneider: you failed to award me an Oscar so get ready for Deuce Bigalow 3. Chuck Lorre: OK fine time for Three and a Half Men.

This opens up wider questions about how far the UK and Canada in the 5 eyes intel sharing framework as well as other former allies of the United States can still provide the Americans with any sensitive intelligence information at all

Kinda crazy how much that photo of Lilah's taken off today. I guess I must've posted it at exactly the right time.

I don't know if I've seen this commented anywhere yet about The Seance of Blake Manor (which is a great game if you like detective-ing and learning some actual real-world history and mythology stuff) Having the priest character's name be Fr. Sinnott is *chef's kiss* [Get it? "Sin-Not"]

When your life is just *so hard*

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Blegh. Absolutely wiped tonight. The standard "changes in weather trigger migraines" applies. But today there was also a big helping of "Well-above seasonal weather has triggered an early temporary thaw. The downspout is current positioned such that water will leak right into your room"

MR ONION SIR MIGHT I BRING THIS TO YOUR ATTENTION @bencollins.bsky.social

Gentle reminder that EVERYONE shot by ICE or the police is innocent. Every single one. Cops aren't Judge Dredd. A person is innocent until proven guilty IN A COURT, so until a person is found guilty by a judge or jury, they're innocent. They're ALL innocent.

The UN needs to find another host country for their main offices. They needed to do it a few years ago, but especially right now.

Okay, look. @bandlegame.bsky.social... I generally wouldn't bother but, I actually lucked into getting today's answer from just the drums, on a "I can't think of anything else remotely close to this tempo that's in the list" shot in the dark. But looking at your written hint after the fact...

Apparently, there's a kid on my niece's hockey team whose name is (legitimately, I should note): Maverick Wolf Like, the most 80s-action-hero-ass name that I've ever heard.

It's a little strange this year. Normally, we've always done our big Christmas get-together on Christmas Eve on my mom's side of the family (This worked out well for going to dad's side on Christmas Day when that side still all got together).

Me, creating a character for our D&D Group's Christmas One-Shot: "Hehehe... I'm going to pick a name that's going to deliberately cause problems, to be silly" Later, during the one-shot: "Oh no! My character's name is causing problems! Who could have foreseen this?!"

Also: I see what you're up to, Kenneth Branagh. Between his Shakespeare stuff and his Christie stuff, man's gonna be a permanent fixture in "End-of-unit/book, now we watch the movie version" days in English class.

So, between the Benoit Blanc series and the recent Kenneth Branagh Hercule Poirot series, I have an observation/hypothesis:

A decade or so ago, they might have caught a not-insignificant number of people and/or companies having to weigh whether it was worth it. Now? Nobody in their right mind would consider it for a dying platform overrun with slop.

You know what I'd like to see in some sort of video game/RPG situation? An irritation meter for NPCs. Like, a lot of dialogue options essentially boil down to "Choose this to be friendly" and "Choose this to start an actual fight"

There have been many days when "Maybe putting a vent in here will help what surely is just a pressure imbalance issue?" has sounded entirely too plausible. Entirely too "Well, it can't be any worse than the side-effects of [med], right? And even if it doesn't really help, neither did [med] anyway"

look I’m not an evangelical but “a guy calling himself the Beast wants control of your earthly wealth” feels like some kind of sign, no?

Okay, one thing I kinda love about Stranger Things is how that, whenever characters get undeniably pulled into the supernatural upside-down bullshit, they all step the fuck up. Like, it's pretty much only if someone gets mind-controlled/some such or is absolutely beyond irredeemable that they don't

Yeesh. Today's semantle was brutal. And, weirdly, the answer word's entry on dictionary.com is literally blank. The page is there. There's correct origins, idioms, related words, etc. sections. But no main section. No part of speech, no definitions.

“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to

The nights grow long once more. The creature again rises in the distant lands to the northeast. Our watch begins anew.

I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.

The magnitude of the change over time is striking. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

I remember when NFTs hit and once we understood how they worked (a receipt for a purchase without an establishment of ownership of anything at all) we immediately got it: you were selling star-naming as a tech scam. And you said that wasn't true. And it was. We *remember,* assholes.

In short we don't like "AI" because we can see a fucking used car salesman coming a mile away and yet you keep insisting there are five lights. We're not all stupid and we're not all gullible, and we won't blindly accept an obvious scam. You fucking ruined every product you've touched you assholes

It's a black box and you won't disclose how it generates answers even though that process can be manipulated. You've crammed dozens of disparate technologies under the same "AI" banner despite them being unrelated, damning them all. You blather fantastical nonsense simply to encourage hype.

It's bad for the environment. It makes products worse but you won't admit it. Even if it could improve them you won't take the time to properly test them because you're rushing to beat the end of the bubble. You have no viable business model. You're ruining the hardware market needlessly.

Why don't we like "AI?" You try to put it into everything in nonsensical ways. It doesn't work the way you claim it will. You don't pay for the work you use to generate it. Your intent is labor reduction without a contributory return. You know it's unpopular so you try to hide it. You lie about it.

Okay, so, I have a *very* dumb idea stuck in my head (based on making *absolutely sure* I was using the proper spelling of something), and don't really have the talent/drive to turn it into a comic or, like a short tiktok thing or something But it won't leave me alone unless I at least write it out

For the first time in my career, I can’t tell people to trust what the CDC website says. And that is an incredibly sad and devastating place for this country to be.

Me: What's wrong with me tonight? I'm out of it, I'm groggy, I can't concentrate. What could it be? My stomach: YOU HAVEN'T EATEN IN 20 HOURS YOU FUCKING DIPSHIT Me: It's just a mystery.

“Are the fae open source?” is such a terrifying question in so many ways.

The most searched term in regard to "AI" is "how do I turn this bullshit off" but somehow it's also worth more money than the entire world economy provides. That makes sense sure.

Not a great sign that upon waking up, my first sensation is my head teetering on the precipice of a full-on mega-gnarly migraine spike.

Wholly unrelated Dispatch crossover I just had an idea for: Powerwash Simulator 2 DLC Pack - Dispatch. You expressly play as Waterboy. This explains why you never have to worry about a hose/tank for your powerwasher.

Okay, I know that Dispatch's world probably lends itself to direct comparison best with The Boys (which I have seen a few seasons of) or Invincible (admittedly, I have no direct familiarity with - only reading bits about it here and there) But...