I'm all over the place with my reading this year. So far I've read the thriller/horror 'Heart Shaped Box', then the cozy fantasy 'Bookshops & Bonedust', then the historical horror novel 'The Buffalo Hunter Hunter', and now I'm onto the tech crime thriller 'Picks and Shovels'. Can't pin me down!

Buschy is such a joy to talk to www.youtube.com/live/FQEkN17...

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Imagine how annoying it would be to have your 67th birthday this year.

✅Jacquesson ✅Mertz 🧱DICK🧱 ✅Boone ✅Suber ✅Ydrach #UNLEASH

Oh, you're still here. damn

If you think this is gonna stop me putting ketchup in my mac & cheese, you have another thing coming. www.post-gazette.com/business/pit...

This is very random but I think I discovered something very cool. open.substack.com/pub/charlesb...

“New” Mt. Washington billboard just dropped.

MATCHDAY #UNLEASH

I forget what year it happened but at some point I stopped watching the summer X Games. I need to fix that. First up: youtu.be/YVsq9cpp5Ms

We discussed this on our latest episode, but Josh sums it up nicely here as well... mongoals.substack.com/p/time-for-a...

Best dinosaur documentaries? Jurassic World Rebirth has re-sparked my obsession and I need to dive deeper into the rabbit hole. Prehistoric Planet is being watched right now. What other ones should I add to the list?

Sorry to keep you waiting. My ranking of all the Jurassic Park movies: 1) Jurassic Park 2) Jurassic World: Rebirth 3) Jurassic World 4) The Lost World 5) Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom 6) Jurassic Park III 7) Jurassic World: Dominion The ranking of the last 3 changes often. All are Meh.

Saw Jurassic World Rebirth. Surprisingly great! It felt well written and flowed nicely. A simple plot that doesn’t get in its own way. Lots of great dinosaur moments. Nice cinematography. It probably ranks right behind the first one for me. Definitely worth seeing in theaters in my opinion.

We're back baby!!!

It's that time of the year again. Make sure you are following ID4 in Real Time! bsky.app/profile/1996...

Just had a conversation with a friend about how much they enjoy going to the Drive In. We talked about how they are barely holding on. There’s only 1 left in Pittsburgh. It’s wild that I basically had this exact same conversation 20 years ago when I was going to the same Drive In during college.

Grifters Gonna Grift

All I'm saying is, sometimes I just want to drop everything, invest in a dwarven themed shop, and become a traveling vendor for Renaissance Festivals.

The sun is the devil and my skin is a sinner. It’s hot out.

No but, I would stop scrolling online but it's 8:46. So I missed the start time I had planned for by a minute. Now I have to scroll for another 4 minutes. Actually, 8:50 feels wrong too. Yeah, 9am. That's when I'll start doing real work.

I turn 41 next week. So that’s a thing. Think I’ll celebrate by peppering in “back in my day” factoids into my conversations all week. Well, anyways, new music albums used to only come out on Tuesdays. Weird right? Have a good one.

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Dear @actblueorg.bsky.social, never let Regina Wallace-Jones on a podcast again. Her double speak on @podsaveamerica.crooked.com actively made me never want to donate to Act Blue again.

Hounds do it again! Cupset at home against an MLS team. This time in the dying seconds of the match. So damn good!

Started as IT support, now I help manage projects for the team that's actually making autonomous trucks real. This week, Aurora launched the world’s first commercial driverless truck service. No driver. 1,200+ miles. Real freight. I’m proud to be part of it. www.businesswire.com/news/home/20...

PLEX servers are the speakeasy of 2025.

I have an issue with all my friends with children. They are making it really hard for me to pretend no time is passing by. I'm over here just vibing and then BAM, image of a friends grown ass kid reminds me that time is going by fast and I'm closer to death than ever. Thanks a lot assholes.

I backed a board game from Chip Theory Games awhile ago and the tariffs are screwing up shipping times. Completely understandable and I have no issue with them delaying delivery to see how this all shakes out. I love that they added this section to the announcement. Perfect. No notes.

Just looked at the stock market. Woof. Have we tried getting together and shouting the soccer chant "You Don't Know What You're Doing" at the White House? Maybe that will work.

Re-listening to Jennifer Government and it's aged too well. What felt like goofy satire in 2002 now feels a little too real. Corporations > Government? Yep Monopolies disguised as convenience? Absolutely Privatized justice? Yeah At least we don't have our employers as our last names yet. #SciFi

At this point, who hasn’t been in a Pete Hegseth war plan group chat?

I was going to make a joke about how the game is at 4:30 because Loudoun couldn’t afford to turn on the stadium lights, but I think that might actually be true. www.nytimes.com/athletic/628...

Watching the highlights from day one of Star Wars Celebration. I love seeing how emotional Hayden Christensen gets every time a crowd cheers him. He got so much hate back in the day, but now all those kids who loved the prequels are adults. It's just great to see.

Hounds hosting NYCFC in the Open Cup! I'm pumped for this. Pittsburgh showed up when Columbus came into town, and I expect this to be just as huge!

Back in my day we had to choose how we were going to make bad health decisions. But an espresso martini with my french toast does sound pretty nice. www.nrn.com/casual-dinin...

Can we beat them in Cleveland next year? It’s closer for us to travel.

Been in a writing mood lately so started to post on Substack. Enjoy! open.substack.com/pub/charlesb...

Annoying things I do at work. Whenever someone talks about the weather I like to say "Woah, spoilers! I haven't gone out side yet." Have you ever heard an annoyed chuckle? Follow me for more.

Welp, I just signed up for the new Digg. Didn't have that one my 2025 bingo card. (New Digg isn't up yet, this was just to follow along the development and reserve my username)

Wild to think the stock market just changed completely on the drop of a social media post by Trump. Not a press release, not an offical statement, just some tweet.

This seems excessive, you could have just told me directly my posts aren't funny.

Stock market is about to open ............We Are Here .......................|.. ......................\/.. FA------------FO

Just gonna leave this here. No reason. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_M...

Next they’ll get rid of federal minimum wage and child labor laws. Red states will follow suit with their state laws. They’ll be the new home of cheap labor sweatshops and company towns. The goal is to bring back industry to America in the worst possible way for the working class.

I've been on a roll the last 2 months. I've finished 9 books! Walkaway, Cory Doctorow Still Just a Geek, Wil Wheaton Smash!, Ian Winwood Homeland, Cory Doctorow Bezzle, Cory Doctorow Red Team Blues, Cory Doctorow The Stone Sky, NK Jemisin The Obelisk Gate, NK Jemisin The Fifth Season, NK Jemisin

Write a haiku about your job Mosaic of bytes Ghosts of trucks in data streams Teaching sight to steel

The Riverhounds have built one of the most distinct styles in the USL, but how have they done it? @usltactics.com discusses how Pittsburgh is able to defend is condensed spaces and create opportunities to score via the counter press in this USL Championship Tactics Show.