Someone called the cyclospora outbreak MAHA Blast and I'm cackling like I'm 13 again.

There is nothing quite so particularly exhausting as a white dude *steeped* in theory. I've never encountered one in the wild who wasn't just the most pretentious, clueless, condescending jackass. It speaks of never actually being faced with a challenge, and is wholly steeped in white supremacy.

Gradually killing my lawn and converting it to a wildflower garden means I have lots of little friends visiting. Here's a buzzy little bumblebee doing some good work.

Watching the old clips of L Graham and remembering how many of today's hardcore MAGA folks said the same things in 2016. Things have changed so much in 10 years.

Imagine how disappointed I was when I bought all the early D&D gear only to find out that the whole Satanic Panic was horseshit and I DIDN'T gain wicked cool demonic powers.

Well, fuck. I'm got laid off. It was almost my whole team, including my manager. The writing was on the wall, there's stuff in the works (I hope), and maybe I'll find something that aligns better with my values. STILL, I hate it. I hate looking for work.

My Grandma is a century old today. She's outlived all of her siblings & two of her children. She dwells so strongly on past trauma & is terrified of everything, & I struggle with her care. So, I'm going to try and honor her today & let her know that I love her. I hope she has a good day.

The government is not supposed to be profitable. The government is not supposed to be profitable. The government is not supposed to be profitable. The government is not supposed to be profitable. The government is not supposed to be profitable. The government is not supposed to be profitable.

We watched Supergirl last night, and it of course suffers the same issues as any comic book film does. Fight scenes are chaotic, the plot is too quick for the time allotted, the characters over the top. But that's comic books! Supergirl's portrayal was excellent, and the story was solid. Well done!

really cannot be emphasized enough that the drafters of the birthright clause very much considered cases analogous to undocumented immigrants and *included them too*

Let's go!

As an indie game dev, everything that other game devs do is utterly inscrutable to me. What is a node? What is a blueprint? What is LOD? Why does everyone need so many shaders? I am a simple man. I have Python files, JSON files, text files, images, and audio files. That's all I look at.

There, something narrative and programming can agree on

Welp, I have no excuses now. I got a new, big HDD to kick off building a media center. We are doing all we can to decouple from big media. This is a big step!

Your first draft is not supposed to be good. Say it with me: your first draft is NOT supposed to be good. It's supposed to be messy and contradictory and full of plot holes. Look at every book you love on your shelf and realize that exactly ZERO of them started out that way.

I finished Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 yesterday. What a fantastic game. I rarely want to 100% game, but I did this one. Such an incredible, tragic story. I loved the narrative, the characters, and (most) of the gameplay. Easily in the top half of games I've played, ever. I really enjoyed it.

I was the dormouse in our Alice in Wonderland float in the BHAM #pride parade last night, as well as visiting the Pride Fest this afternoon. As an ally, it's so important that I celebrate my LGBTQIA+ friends & (found) family. Pride literally saves lives, and queer-led orgs are vital. Support them!

Tuesday 6/16 is the runoff election for AL. Everyone complains about voting "for the lesser of two evils" in the general. But they don't show up for primaries, runoffs, and municipal elections! Here in AL "Did Not Vote" won the 2024 Presidential election & every congressional race. Is this you?

In Mississippi, lawyers on both sides of a court case were caught using AI, essentially two LLMs arguing against each other. The judge dismissed all lawyers from the case and canceled the trial: www.404media.co/judge-learns...

Finished listening to Platform Decay by @marthawells.com, narrated by Kevin R. Free. I loved the dramatic setting of the torus, more Three, and the growing constellation of Murderbot’s friends and chosen family. Tense, funny, emotionally satisfying. I love these books. 💙📚🎧 #BookSky #Murderbot

Maybe I'm oversimplifying things. Maybe I don't understand the nuance, or that there are so many things happening behind the scenes that I, as a mere citizen, will never see nor fathom. Maybe that's true. Still, I think that journalists should simply not tolerate lies when they ask hard questions.

I have never understood that, when someone asks for help w/ a game, there always seems to be a dude who is all "it was easy, get better." What are you doing? The whole "I was instantly good" Is such BS. You aren't getting fake Internet points. Just stop. Offer help or just don't waste folks' time.

There are almost no crustaceans in the deep ocean. Not because they would get crushed, but because they would DISSOLVE. The cold & high pressure cause changes to water that make it very corrosive to calcium carbonate shells. But there's one crustacean who solves this problem with ALUMINUM ARMOR.

Bibdu is live on Steam!!! Wishlist it now 🐇🥀☘️ store.steampowered.com/app/4747050/... #indiedev #gamedev #irishgamedev #solodev #mythology

crazy that under the precedent set by callais, a lily-white congressional delegation formed by "partisan" gerrymandering in a plurality black state passes constitutional muster, while any majority-minority district is constitutionally suspect

Seems like this is kind of important but what do we know as citizens of the state? 🤷

Oh, sweet! My alma mater #montevallo just elected its first woman president. I'm actually a little surprised she's the first, but am glad. I think she's a good fit.

The First Amendment is your permit.

Organ Pipe Cactus commissioned me to design this poster to celebrate their new dark sky status. www.spacearttravelbureau.com #art #spaceart #astronomy

President of MIT not mincing words today in @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2026/05/27/s...

We saw significant victories for voting rights out of Alabama and South Carolina today. Let this be a sign to politicians who are rushing to pass racist maps ahead of the midterms: We will not back down until every voter has the representation we deserve.

I do not understand why this is so hard. AI is not going to save us. That was never the plan. It confounds our work, diminishes our art, hobbles our collective wisdom, & blights our environment. Every perceived benefit has a dozen real harms. Also, again, it never was *intelligent*, and still isn't.

We will never know or properly appreciate how many lives have been saved by librarians. The right book in the right hands at the right time. Astounding.

Today's #Books recommendation is "The Long Way To A Small Angry Planet". This amazing book is not about plot, it's about character, and it's all the better for it. It's an especially good breath of fresh air for those tired of male-dominated sci-fi. The relationships and interactions sell this one.

The rhetoric that farmers (who sure, often supported Trump) should just starve is a horrible reaction to them losing their livelihood. Criticize their politics & get them to understand they are wrong. But also, help your community. That includes them. Y'all means all. Don't succumb to evil.

From the “ya think?!?” files: Court Rejects Alabama House Map, Calling It Unfair to Black Voters www.nytimes.com/2026/05/26/u...

It might have been just my exp., but the whole Parent perpetually thinking You are a Child and therefore do not know how to do the most basic thing, while also seeing the grandkids as so full of potential and will Do Great Things is so frustrating and sad. I can do the thing. So will the grandkids.

Confidential to the folks who think "Golden Age" SF/F writers would be sad about current SF/F writers' lack of excitement over "AI": Why would you think the generation of writers who founded SFWA to defend the rights of working SF/F writers would somehow be cool with the plagiarism machine?

Please…let’s feel sorry for the white people. Always solving the problems that don’t need to be solved.

If you are in Alabama, today is the day for primary voting! Vote the whole ballot, even if you are in a disputed district. Don't let them suppress your vote!

Powerful message from Dr. Bernice King. No administration can remove our resolve! #VotingRightsAct #Selma

Like, please don't screw around. Vote in your primary elections today. Vote because that's part of the deal. You have other things that you must do to be a good citizen, but voting is an important piece. We cannot succumb to this bullshit white supremacist fake-Christian nationalist fever dream.

So you CAN get reparations you just have to be a reactionary white person who tries to overthrow the government because black votes shouldn’t count

Nice crowd today in Montgomery today. Time for Good Trouble everybody.

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This is amazing - @kevinolearytv 🤡 is fearmongering about Chinese agents opposing his giant Utah data center… but it’s 2 young local girls in Utah who hilariously call him (and his “dumbass hat”) out👇🏽 Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DYU074V...

Hey, if you see this, you should head down to Montgomery. Fight for your rights!

Ahoy, the sequel to my favorite read of the last several years is out. bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

I can try but they don't listen, and in fact there's a 20 year-long history of right-wing men being extremely angry with me for doing masculinity "wrong," which in this case means "hitting all the traditional masculine success markers but not being perennially publicly shitty to or about women," so.

The thing about capitalism is you get things like your water table being destroyed, energy prices skyrocketing, and communities being ruined because of a data center that you have no say in because they are treated like adding another McDonald's. You don't get a say in capitalism. You never did.