Test bake #2 was Paul Hollywood’s Christmas cheese bread. Honestly I have lots of issues with Paul Hollywood recipes and moisture control. I needed to take out all the stops with keeping water in. The Roquefort is right up the nose. Dunno if the work is worth it. #baking

One of two test bakes today for Christmas. This one is Chef John’s Amish Apple Fritter Bread with glaze from Food Wishes. It’s so good the test slice had us hallucinating. But needs less cinnamon. #baking

TIL about the significant downside of baking a bread stuffed with 1/2 lb of blue cheese. The entire house is now blue cheesey.

The big GOP idea is to let for profit companies sell for profit insurance for more profit. Absolutely nothing could go wrong with this plan.

My dogs this morning: June (terrier mix): the white bullshit has come again. Inside now. Frank: (pekichi) Snow! Snooooow! Wheeeee!

I got mad and then I got tired - the Frank story. #dog

Look, it’s not Christmas until Alduin the World Eater stands astride the tree.

The engine powering the Trump administration is cocaine. Need coke to deal with crises -> Out of Coke! -> pardon dealer -> do coke -> murder coke dealers -> oops war crimes -> need Coke to deal with crises… This pardoned guy is basically Stringer Bell. That bad. foxbaltimore.com/news/local/p...

Ah yes, Calibri, the most woke of fonts.

If you were dumb like me and mindlessly updated your iPhone in iOS 26.1, know this —> You cannot turn off Liquid Glass. You can reduce its impact by going into system -> accessibility and turning off transparency. It’s a toggle about halfway down.

These guys just want to bring back the 70s _in general_ — stagflation, mass unemployment, racism, worthless wars and corduroy pants. Because what I absolutely want to do is trade in my 60 mpg hybrid for a Woodie. At least we got excellent movies and music out of the 70s.

FINALLY.

Must. Have. Tin!

Rented One Battle After Another having no idea it was inspired by Vineland. One does not jump scare Pynchon. There are manners. There are rules in polite society. It’s not Vineland because Pynchon but it has Pynchon flourishes and paranoia and general weirdness. Excellent movie… just jump scare.

That was certainly a rousing match of a game of foot I watched. How Michigan wins after 5 turnovers is a mystery for the ages.

I don’t understand how Michigan could be playing Northwestern in downtown Chicago considering, according to El Dictator and his shameless droogs, it’s a bombed out hellhole. Or is that only on Fox News vs Fox Sports?

Ok. Let’s do intarsia with mohair means you, Game of Wool, is now a hate watch.

Guys I’m watching Game of Wool on YouTube. I already have Opinions. First opinion - I need to go to Scotland!

I laid hands on Jean Bóttero’s Religion in Ancient Mesopotamia and the best summary of how he describes Akkadian relationship with their Gods from a variety of original sources is “pants shitting existential terror.” Like - here’s this temple and let us put it… super… high up… out of the way….

So your hot plan is to stop sending money to insurance companies and send money to people to send to insurance companies. That’s not how this works. That’s not how any of this works. I….. you know what? Never mind.

Someone at a knitting shop in the Shetland Islands is pissed off about _skeeting slander_ and this will! Not! Stand! Also, how do I get this? Game of Wool? The best!

Everyone said I was mad! to claim the only way AI model training was going to work at scale was data centers on the moon! And yet and yet… AND YET elinke1c.daily.therundown.ai/ss/c/u001.NN...

All hail NYC’s hottest new mayor.

This is an obscure but super interesting election. People are clearly not happy with prices in general or AI data centers hiking their energy bills in particular. So much for the next great tech.

Baltimore cryptids? Sold American. www.kickstarter.com/projects/dic...

“No one likes a saggy Dragonborne.” “A saggenborne.” - #d&d5e character creation

“So…. You keep getting grifted.” “I have so many 10 foot poles… everyone keeps telling me I need one.” “Are you in a 10 foot pole MLM?” “Look, I make my own hours and I’m my own boss.” - Us, creating 1st level #d&d5e characters

I know I’m extremely late to the party, but I enormously enjoyed @tkingfisher.com’s Nettle & Bone. Just a terrific read about human characters who happen to be Princesses and Witches on a crazy road trip to kill a dude who has it coming. 5 stars from me, will read again. #booksky

Let a crown be placed thereon, by which the world may know, that so far as we approve of monarcy, that in America the law is King. For as in absolute governments the King is law, so in free countries the law ought to be King; and there ought to be no other. - Thomas Paine, the OG #NoKings

My bookshelf with about 1/2 my Revolutionary War book collection and a bunch of art books for no good reason today. I may have indeed read most of these books. (But not the period encyclopedias that’s just weird.)

The Lions as the marquee team on Sunday Night Football is just another sign of the apocalypse.

Uh… in Idaho in the United States? What?

all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.

With the whole “hold notifications until X time,” my alerts are getting dystopian. * Trump threatens Insurrection Act * Lions beat the Bengals! Take THAT, Ohio! * You have 2 games from your wishlist for sale on Steam * Airports nationwide shut down * Pictures of your adorable dogs!

Folks — this is not a normal government shutdown. Let me explain the stakes and how we got here.

I made the horrible mistake of buying Hades II off the Nintendo Store and downloading it to my Switch, and now all I want to do is play Hades II on my Switch 2. I have always enjoyed a roguelike, and Hades II may be the most perfect expression of the genre.

I've been trying to keep political chatter off the Internet, no matter how I felt, but can someone please explain to me why the US Military is invading... *checks notes*... Portland?

I finished RF Kuang’s Katabasis and, I have to admit, I kept casting GBBO’s Paul Hollywood as Prof Jacob Grimes. “Your pentagram didn’t rise properly and it’s gone all claggy. And your lettering has no flavor. This won’t do.” Am I GBBO pilled? Maybe! #books

Behold: www.usatoday.com/story/entert...

I made this felted Gnome from a Going Gnome kit I bought from Maryland Sheep and Wool. He’s a most excellent overalls wearing knitting gnome with a fuzzy beard and a sweater project #craft #gnome #knitting

Time to watch Bryce Underwood play. Might be something good might be Michigan. #goBlue

I’m a #Michigan alum. The kiddo is at #pennstate. I declare today the greatest holiday of them all — first day of Annual Football Shit Talking Season! #goblue #big10

I found a use case for LLMs and GenA. A task so repetitive and obnoxious I’d happily hand it to a machine. A task no script seems to 100% solve. The worst problem in engineering: converting Markdown to Atlassian Confluence. Why Atlassian can’t just support MD I will never understand. #ai

This is Gnot Just Another Gnome from Imagined Landscapes. I made him from fingering weight remnants. Imo he came out excellent. Really love the cables! #knitting #knit #gnome #knitsky

This is Frank. He is, theoretically, a small dog. This has not yet been scientifically proven. At 5am, Frank decided he needed to sleep on my pillow wrapped around my head like a hat. First off, dog hats are hot. Second, they are squirmy. Third, he licked my forehead. Alot. #dogshame #dogs

We're playing #daggerheart. My clank stalwart guardian invokes its orderborne mantra "Subtly is for cowards and thieves" for that d20, yells "BOLDNESS IS ALL!" charges a badguy _from behind_ and... I roll a 1 on my d20 and a 3 on my d12 fear die. The badguy turns and I run into him head first.

I drove down to the District (actual DC NW district not Arlington or Falls Church DC) every day for years++ and I can attest that I’ve witnessed at least 75% of the horrific crimes in this very truthful article personally. I hope someone gets on these, stat. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/cri...

after sharing our book about making outdoor pigs pay, lots of people are sending us this meme: