Here’s to 2026

Suddenly hit by a childhood memory of a book I was given to read as a kid, called, "Toad Food & Measles Soup," about not being a picky eater, among other things. Looking back on it, the kid likes processed foods with really homogeneous textures, but balks at Mom's new, more adventurous veggie diet.

Less than an inch of snow, but all I've heard since I woke up is people trying to chip the thick coating of ice off their cars and driveways. Feel a bit guilty that I'm not going to go do that myself today, but not THAT guilty. It'll be above freezing tomorrow, and I have nowhere I have to be.

Mmm, coffee.

Once again we see who the real threats to women in bathrooms are.

It’s strange how the best advice always seems to come from Effin’ Birds

The Week Between Christmas and New Years

Imagine watching Sinatra, son of Dolly & Antonini born in Genoa & Sicily, respectively, and Martin, son of Gaetano & Angela, born in Montesilvano, Italy & Ohio respectively, (Angela to parents born in Monasterolo, Italy), and crusading against the value of children of immigrants to the U.S.

listen, if we want to keep providing this thing that no one likes or wants, we have to be willing to suck at it.

Home and safe, before the storm. I even stopped at the mobbed (MILK! BREAD EGGS!!!) grocery store.

I don't get up this early for work. Fucking snow.

RFK: “Where did all this autism come from? It never existed when I was a kid!” “A Christmas Story”, a 1983 movie based on a 1971 memoir about a childhood in the 1930s: “This is my brother Ralphie. He has a ton of sensory issues and behaviors we don’t understand. Every family has a child like him.”

something something shouldn't be tax exempt something

youtu.be/i3jHv0GZB9U?... So. Many. Picardy. Thirds.

you have to know the job enough to know if the AI is hallucinating & know tech enough to know how to figure out how to make it do things. the only people who have the job experience for the first part *and* the life experience for the second part are younger Gen X and geriatric millennials.

I have had only 2 glasses of wine and am only barely buzzed because stupid snow is coming and I have to get up stupid early to beat it home. Why couldn't you have held off till I was home and had nowhere I needed to be, snow?

may you all have a quiet room to hide in, away from those you need to pretend around

I'm your dad today. Love you, I'm proud of you, and if anyone tries stopping you from being your most authentic, happiest self, I will destroy them. Merry Christmas.

My Christmas gift to myself is letting myself order the pancakes, and soaking in the relative peace of the hotel restaurant, lingering over my cup of Earl Grey, before I have to go pretend to be a human.

Just a reminder: you are NOT unusual, weird, or unlovable if you have: - no one to see on Christmas Day, - no presents, or - no contactable relatives. Very few people live the idealised version on TV. Those of us who live differently—whether by choice or trauma—matter as much.

A classic!

Christmas is hard for many. The years roll, the ghosts at the table increase. We’re haunted by the absence of voices, of laughter engines who drank and ate with us. This can be day of remembrance rituals. For what it’s worth, Hooklanders near and far are in my candles today. Be gentle on yourselves.

Shoutout to everyone who is scrambling to put the thing together Very meaningful eye contact to those who just realized they don't have and can't get the right batteries Strength to those who are putting together a thing with so. many. stickers. You're making magic happen, and I love you for it

My nephew is excited for the gift I'm, in theory, giving his entire family. No one else cares even a little. Ah well.

I ran away from the performative togetherness to the hotel bar, where my brother joined me for a bit. He damned near asked to sleep on the couch in my room. There are currently 7 in-laws staying in his house, plus his own spice + children. 13 people, including him. I fully offered to let him stay.

Learning from the books and documentaries about Diddy, Harvey Weinstein, and Prince Andrew that there are PR companies and law firms that can employ the use of THOUSANDS OF BOT ACCOUNTS to conduct smear campaigns on political rivals, SA victims, and such is so sick.

I’m sure other people will post it but hey

Do I take the garbage out, or do I assume no pickup is happening tomorrow morning? 🤔

Don't forget to turn on your out of office responses or the evil HR fairy will come after you.

The work computer is off. 🖕🖕🖕🖕 Fuck you till January, work computer.

Welp, one hand done. Still weird! Thoughts?

Hmm. It's It's definitely interesting! Genuinely not sure I want a full manicure of it. It's very Christmassy! But also very strange. Fortunately, the other 2 colors, I quite like. 😆

I hate that I just laughed at this. How does Good King Wenceslas like his pizza? Deep pan, crisp and even.

1.5 hours to, "That's enough Bluesky for now; I can only be so depressed."

What a stupid year

We're not supposed to be this angry every waking minute. We're not supposed to live a life in stasis, waiting for the next Truly Fucked Up Thing to occur. These "Current Times" are not normal, they are engineered by the sycophants & henchpepople of psychotic dictators. Do not accept any of it.

Gift cards for my nieces and nephew: purchased (I may have messaged my nephew while in the store saying, "You have the 20 minutes I'm going to spend in this store to decide if you want a regular or a Playstation gift card) Smaller gift cards for the in-law children: purchased.

Delivery of my order of magical red/green Christmas nail polish, plus a gift for someone else, has been pushed to tomorrow. It's been in NJ since Saturday. 1st in a town it takes me 20 minutes to drive to, then across the state. This is fine, & I definitely don't want to murder someone.

Hoping to do some streaming, over the break, next week. Of course, I'm also hoping to reorganize my entire basement, build a table for the hydraulic press out in the garage (I'd prefer to bring it inside, for temperature and humidity control, but I can't actually lift the damned thing)...

Today i learned you can bring the worlds largest military to its knees by having a few slowly moving fans up on concrete blocks in the middle of open ocean

Project manager sent an email at 6:30PM last night - Sunday - with a list of things for me & the other CTA working on the study to complete prior to EOB today. 2 of them are things my colleague was already working on.

Just as he did with tariffs, Trump is abusing “national security” justifications to raise prices for the American people — in this case electricity prices.

I'm really enjoying Wake Up Dead Man, so why'd you have to punch me in the gut with Louise like that, @rianjohnson.bsky.social ? ❤️ Ow.

My D&D game got cancelled 2 minutes after it was supposed to start, and I'm simultaneously annoyed because if this had happened sooner I would've planned my day out differently, and THRILLED, because all I really wanted to do was watch Wake Up Dead Man and play video games.

JD Vance is a self proclaimed fucking racist.

Tax the rich. It won't give them taste, but they won't be able to afford as much of... this.

Everybody else: happy solstice! The days are getting longer again! Me: