Out at early voting advocating for UpVote Virginia! Rank choice voting for everyone!

I’m going to vote for the Virginia AG candidate who didn’t accuse me of mutilating my kid.

"If you had dinner with a trans friend on Tuesday, and dinner with fascists on Thursday, your trans friend had dinner with a fascist on Tuesday." Mike Montero, “How to eat with others”

I like the Phantom fight in Silksong. It was several extended moments of pure video game joy.

I like the Snoopy Apple Watch face. It’s a source of whimsy in my life.

The Touch Bar has returned after a full Shutdown/Restart cycle. We’ll see if it sticks.

Looks like version .0 of macOS Tahoe has completed killed the Touch Bar on my M1 MacBook Pro.

Silksong: A Brief Diary Go north: brutal boss fight, die Go east: brutal gauntlet fight, die Go west: brutal platforming with no checkpoint, die and respawn far away Go south: find some money, exits are north, east and west.

Hot Take: Silksong is really dang fun.

Cleaning up their room after sending my firstborn off to college I now know where all the lightning cables went.

If the mnemonic for a corporate compliance exercise is going to be “SMART”, the R can’t be “Remember”. If I could remember, I wouldn’t need a mnemonic!

Radiobread

Give us some earth dollars please so that we can continue making comics about this sweet robot dad www.kickstarter.com/projects/tes...

If you are looking for a good cause, Safe Harbor provides services to sex and labor trafficking survivors in Henrico County and throughout Virginia. Please donate through my wife’s fundraising page!

Here goes one of my five posts for the year, and the only one asking for money. If you 1) are not a fan of human trafficking and 2) would like to support an organization helping survivors, please donate to Safe Harbor’s Walk To End It! give.safeharborshelter.com/kzarfas

“Now with less lying!” seems like an odd sales pitch for a software service.

It’s 3:50, the time of day I always think I’ve left the oven on.

@gamechangershow.bsky.social If the Hot Dog Boys are willing to share, I’m quite curious about their Constitution.

More Cowardice from VCU Health Leadership: https://samdavies.me/2025/07/30/more-cowardice-from-vcu-health.html VCU Health has halted gender-affirming care for trans youth and young adults, prompting anger and disappointment over perceived discrimination and lack of accountability.

I like Jade Bird’s new album Who Wants to Talk About Love?. I’ve been listening to it on repeat for days. I even bought it* on CD so I could listen to it in my really old car! More specifically, I asked my teenager to buy it for me when she was at the record store.

I got a 15" MacBook Air from my new job yesterday. I absolutely love it, but I miss the Touch Bar. I guess I’m one of the few, but I really did use and enjoy having those buttons be dynamic.

If LL Cool J had a comeback-like event, what would we allowed to call it?

Penalties to increase for drivers who do not stop at cross walks truck-bike.tumblr.com/post/7868699...

My Last Day at VCU Health: https://samdavies.me/2025/06/06/my-last-day-at-vcu.html

Just did a no-idea-what-this-is, game-start-to-game-finish playthrough of Saturday Edition on my Playdate. Damn, it’s a hell of a game. Couldn’t put it down.

Finished reading: One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad 📚

Four straight flushes in one hand. Never happened to me before. puzzmo.com/play/pile…

How did GRTC guess my nickname? Only my mom ever calls me {Name (First):1.3}

Today is my kid’s last day of high school! 😳

All I want for iPadOS 19

Finished reading: Rejection by Tony Tulathimutte 📚 One of the best books I’ve read in a while, though it won’t make you feel good. Thanks to my friend Susan for telling me to read it!

Finished reading: Always Coming Home by Ursula K. Le Guin 📚

Do you like sex jokes, puppets, and weird/juvenile humor? Come see a sketch show I’ve written for and will be performing in! The Island of Misfit Sketches Presents: Sock & Awe Friday, May 9th 2025 7:30 - 8:30 PM Coalition Theater 8 W. Broad St

Prompt to Apple’s Image Playground: “A bottle of Allegra costing $900”

I feel like I need to employ a youth to teach me Discord. I open it and get overwhelmed.

Just playing with my old iMac, remembering fun software. Panic’s Audion was the first software I paid my own money for. DigiPig was my favorite Face.

I left town on the train for a few days and upon my return to Richmond my black car had become yellow.

Stranger Things on Broadway was a pretty goddamn amazing show. Cannot believe what they pulled off technically.

Currently reading: The Mercy of Gods by James S. A. Corey 📚

Finished reading: The Name of This Band Is R.E.M. by Peter Ames Carlin 📚 I blew through this biography of my favorite band. I recommend it. Thinking I might reread portions more slowly while listening to the discography.

It’s time for all Richmonders (14 and up) to vote for projects in the Richmond People’s Budget. I have the honor of serving on the RVAPB Steering Commission and couldn’t be prouder of all the work staff, delegates, and volunteers have done to bring our first round of PB this far.

I asked ChatGPT and Apple’s Image Playground for an image of “a bottle of Tylenol in 2050”. Guess which is which?

LINK: So, will Framework make a printer?! - YouTube: https://samdavies.me/2025/03/27/link-so-will-framework-make.html A link to Framework’s recent Q&A and my brief thoughts on how scrappy they are.

Currently reading: The Name of This Band Is R.E.M. by Peter Ames Carlin 📚

Finished reading: The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles by Malka Older 📚 A lovely second chapter in the cozy Sherlock Holmes, but also lesbians and in space series.

Yay! New books arrived!

When reading the word “admiral” I can only hear it in the whispered voice of Ricardo Montalbán.

I absolutely love Moulin Rouge the film. I did not care for Moulin Rouge the stage musical.

Enjoy

I have a new essay up at Richmond Family Magazine’s DadZone. “Adulting” richmondfamilymagazine.com/parenting/da... “[E]very single online account I’ve managed for my son needs a different set of steps to transition them to an ‘adult‘ account, with different ramifications.”