Sting's version of "Three Ships" and U2's cover of "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)".

Lies and grift everywhere

Blow up random fishermen clinging to life in the ocean? A-OK. Keep a guy who did favors for El Chapo in prison? Gotta let him out, & I bet this is at least in part because Biden was in office when the DOJ prosecuted him, but also prosecuting a former President anywhere might be a threat to him.

"We need the find common ground with these people!" No we do not need to find common ground with people whose brains are this poisoned. We need to avoid them as much as possible.

Tagging @sincerelytechie.bsky.social for value.

The difference between hiring an obsessive perfectionist like Anurag for casting your Magic matches versus whoever is doing the casting for EU Eternal Weekend is clear in the lighting on Twitch right now. The sleeves are so shiny, I can barely see one of the players' cards.

The hilarity of the fact I could list Rush 5 times and it'd be true. But let's go with my favorite five shows: Rush: Power Windows Florence and the Machine: High As Hope Faith No More: King for a Day, Fool for a Lifetime Iron Maiden: Powerslave Mastodon/Clutch/Graveyard: Once More Round the Sun

Thanksgiving batting avg so far: 0.800, I guess? Brine went well, eggnog is great again, garlic roasted up nice, pumpkin pie filling looks good, but making the crusts went to shit this year, glad I bought frozen ones for back up. Still disappointing, but at least I think I know where I went wrong.

"Device hoarding" is the kind of tone deaf expression I would expect from your average MBA. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/h...

This is some *quality* hater work.

this is mesmerizing

There is something terribly broken deep inside Sec. Hegseth.

These sorts of lists are as much to stir discussion as anything else, but listing Blazing Saddles below Private Benjamin is a crime against comedy, let alone it being in the bottom half of the list.

Just wrapped up S2 of "A Man on the Inside." Such an enjoyable series, filled with old pros showing off decades of honed comedic timing and delivery. Cozy in a lot of good ways, without being cloying.

The new Blut Aus Nord is pretty good. Not sure if it's a top ten contender for me, but I have to listen a couple more times.

Ham on Thanksgiving is a thing for some folks? I don't love ham for dinner in any case, so it's an easy cut. If ham was not on here, it would be green bean casserole. I do not get its appeal.

I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.

"Dispensing false information in a confident tone" has been the go-to move for every dude (usually your big brother or drunk uncle) unwilling to admit he doesn't know something who's ever lived.

This wedding I am at is Peacemaker S2 levels of white. I have rarely seen so many people in one place who dance like they've never heard music before. It's all 4/4 time, folks, not a Dream Theater concert.

PAX U was a good time, as usual. Tried @bdm.bsky.social new card game, seems fun, leans hard into a retro 80s theme, designed for multiplayer. I didn't play much else, due to time constraints, although I did get to jam a little Critter Kitchen (from the Flamecraft people). 1/2

Every now and again, the Internet gives me cause to want to go back in time to young me, so eager to learn to read, to absorb as much human knowledge into his febrile brain as he could, creep up behind him, & strike him in the back of the skull with brick. Today's poetry share is one of those times.

Some of this sounds mighty familiar.

Gamer brain in a nutshell: www.nerfnow.com/comic/3370

We are being "protected" by a bunch of yahoos. The sorts of people who collectively can be assumed will have fewer than 10 fingers each on any given July 5th.

This is an accidentally honest answer. What she's saying in code is: "The President is a misogynist, petulant bully. You've all seen him be a misogynist, petulant bully. And lots of voters out there are also misogynist or petulant or bullies and that's why they like him."

The more I get exposed to other humans, the more I understand hermits. At least as the world is constituted now, where the most exhausting, deceitful people are the ones who have the biggest voices.

A tiny dragon guarding his treasure.

I love a good Venn diagram gag.

How are these people so empty? So void of anything resembling scruples or principles beyond money and power and cruelty? Such a failure to build a decent society.

A pretty good chart suggesting capitalism is a reasonable system for goods and services that are kind of optional, and an unreasonable system for goods and services that are not.

"Movin' on the floor now, babe, you're a bird of paradise"

I kind of admire the way the man is so open and honest about his humiliation fetish.

I keep thinking Dessiderium's _Keys to the Palace_ might slip out of my metal top ten for the year, and then I listen again and it resecures its spot.

Empty shells, void of principle or decency, all bending the knee to a tantrum-throwing toddler whose entire driving principle is "How dare anyone tell me 'No'."

I often judge a game's broader cultural impact by how hard amateur artists dive into drawing its characters. By that metric, Dispatch seems to be doing great.

I don't get the appeal of "smart" homes and appliances. Is "Alexa, turn off the lights" seriously easier than flipping a switch? Is your fridge telling you you're low on milk so much better than opening the door? It's Not For Me. And often the more complex things are, the harder they are to fix!

Corporate personhood is a fiction that has done immeasurable harm to our republic.

The power of metal, friends

The American mind in a nutshell

This little tale seems like something @chrishickey.bsky.social and @ajacobs.bsky.social might enjoy.

too much of the economy now is not built around solving a problem or meeting a need

Trump turning on MTG with vitriol when she showed some backbone and stuck to her guns is the least surprising thing I will hear today.

As someone who'd seen his share of saggy old man ball sacks in the YMCA locker room in the days when I worked out there more often, this story is news to me. Those guys did not GAF about being casually naked.

Give a man a fish and someone with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about people getting free handouts. Teach a man to fish? Yeah, that person with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about that too.

I am wondering what choices my fellow Dispatch fans made on their first playthrough. Rolling a second run just to make a fair number of different choices, see how that goes, but I consider my first set of instincts the "real" story I chose. Mostly, a great game. 1/2

Me when the riff that opens "Ancient for Someone" from Cave Sermon hits:

Goddamn, how do I set my life up to just loudly make things up with impunity? I assume I have to have my decency shock treatment-ed out of me for starters.

The whole "radical left" thing has become a "Say the line, Bart" moment at this point.