This article perfectly sums up why I'm still a techno-optimist and also a AI hater. Thanks @aftermath.site and specifically Gita Jackson for this. aftermath.site/anthropic-cl...

So glad my mayor @lukediaz.bsky.social led the charge to #DeFlock Verona, and that more communities are following suit. This is a huge civil liberties and constitutional nightmare.

Welp

USA!

Nothing says “USA” like shooting off professional grade fireworks in a small neighborhood til after midnight and leaving your shrapnel all over your neighbor’s yards and roofs. This is just what I didn’t hit with the lawnmower this morning 🙄

Love having neighbors who are thousands-of-dollars-worth-of-mortar-shell fireworks people. Currently hiding in the basement with Maple who can’t stop shaking.

Just finished Dungeon Crawler Carl (all 8 of em) in about 6 weeks. Now what will I do with every second of my day? Work? Care for my family? Ugh… A lot of fantasy series start to drag the deeper you get (looking at you, Wheel of Time, ASOIAF) but this really ripped to the end.

Shared the pool with Michael Phelps.

And goodbye(?) @celebrityhottub.bsky.social

It absolutely kills me that hacksacks are back. I have flashbacks from the 90’s going to the kiosk in the mall to buy one, working a hole in it to remove some beads and soften it up, then sewing it back together. I told all this to a teen this week and they looked at me like I had two heads.

I hate this game so much. The things we do for our kids.

About to enter an escape room with 3 12 year old boys (one of whom is my birthday boy). Pray for my soul.

Suckered into Axis and Allies with the 12yo this morning.

Introduce yourself with 10 bands/musicians you’ve seen live: -Dead Weather -Yeasayer -Sleigh Bells -Blitzen Trapper -Radiohead -The Who -Green Day -Rural Alberta Advantage -Maroon 5 (it was a club show in like 2003 when I was a college kid, whaddya want?) -Polica

I might be dying

Damn I missed this. First day back in the water since January when I (re)broke a collarbone. Other forms of excercise just don’t help my mental state they way swimming does.

“If you have a meaningful pursuit in life, it will never be easy […] so make yourself into someone who handles hard well.” Damn.

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Power washing the porch today and thinking about @hollyanderson.bsky.social’s dad cutting the cable on his house. Everyone deserves to do something like that. So $19.00 to the Blue Sharks for 1900 PSI of joy. #charitibundibowl @jacketdan.bsky.social @edsbs.bsky.social @newap-georgia.bsky.social

!!!!!!!!!

Holy shit I drank so much orange juice from one of those as a kid.

Just want to put today's #charitibundibowl haul in context: The 2019 Bowl, the first to cross six figures, brought in $183K over the week. Today's haul did that before lunch. The 2022 Bowl brought in $842,116.00 for the week. We're at just over half of that in 12 hours. Run the damn ball.

The worse they are, the more I give. $85.00 (plus fees) in honor of Wisconsin’s 85th place finish in the 2025 SP+ rankings. #fireFickell #OnWisconsin #charitibundibowl

Watched the latest (last?) Mission Impossible in a hotel room last night, so def feeling this vibe.

What a sorry never-was. Pointlessley riding the orange goon’s coattails and he’s all

Good.

important #ParisRoubaix update:

Wout!!! #parisroubaix

Reinforcing lessons early- Paris Roubaix is the best.

Well that was a hell of a run for the Badgers.

20 minutes to go. I might wear a rut in my floors and chew off my fingernails….#OnWisconsin

Wisconsin's Vasily Zelenov gets the first goal with a laser

Ideal Friday situation. Someone on my TL yesterday was shit-talking doodles, and maybe I am basic geriatric millennial, but I sure do love ours.

Hell yeah, Badgers!

20 minutes of hockey left to make it to the championship. #OnWisconin

“Ship of DCieus” @hollyanderson.bsky.social sliding that in under her breath when discussing band cruises on @shutdownfullcast.bsky.social had me rolling.

I remember a decade ago when Scott Walker had taken the Wisconsin Supreme Court and insured a red Wisconsin for the rest of our lifetimes. We can still turn things around, we can still make the America we want for everyone.

just to be clear, everyone, when 8 pm EDT comes and goes, regardless of what does or does not happen, the president still threatened genocide and war crimes and we should still impeach, arrest, and try him

March Madness and OJ Simpson

That’s it, that’s the post.

In Korea, when the president declared martial law after midnight and erected barricades in Seoul, congressional reps from all parties ran into the streets, yanked ak47s from the army at the barricades, broke down the locked door to Congress, repealed the martial law order, and arrested the president

there were 1,600 murders in New York City in 1975 there were 303 murders in New York City in 2025 New York City's population increased by about 30% over that time period

Few better moments as a parent than having a catch with your kiddo in the yard.

📍Not Wisconsin

A Bed of Red Azaleas, by Alma Thomas, 1968 (rotated, detail), 📸 by David Stluka