Photos sneaking their way onto the text site, but here were a few from night:

Look at this glorious Wes Anderson-ass fox outside my apartment on the walk home tonight.

Spirit Halloween just champing at the bit to set up in those abandoned airport gates

Last Summercon I attended was when it was at The Delancey (~15 years ago) but I just bought a ticket and am kind of excited.

Pete Carroll was doing a long con, Tenet-style operation from when he was our coach.

Also I will die on the hill that MiniDiscs were the coolest media format we ever had and that they didn't proliferate for data use (except for in the beginning of the Matrix) is a travesty.

You gave your crush a mixtape; I curated a 240-minute guided sonic experience with skits and interludes on MiniDisc for my best friend that required her to also carry around a MiniDisc player. We are not the same.

Wine shops and liquor stores setting up "for When it happens" endcaps

The Artemis crew landing is going to be like a reverse-Harambe and things will start to get better.

I would write five insufferable screenplays and the core rules to a tabletop RPG.

Everything's fine, they're adding five more minutes to the Doomsday Clock. It's currently 11:62

20 years in the same apartment and yesterday was the first time anyone has ever canvassed at my door. No idea if that means anything but her campaign is at least making themselves known.

I wanna love something as much as Tiger Woods loves drunk driving.

“I’m sorry. I can’t. Don’t disbar me”

They moved CCD to early Saturday morning (like 7) and my mom was too hungover to take me anymore.

The 'G' in Maga stands for gout!

Had I a single entrepreneurial bone in my body I would start a consultancy to spend the next few years parachuting in to companies and rip out their moribund agentic A.I. projects. Maybe don't even charge them but just film it like those lawn mowing social media guys.

The definitive pronunciation of Worcester is from this morning's Arabic language lesson:

8 year old me playing Ms. Pacman on the glass table in the front while my parents are on drink number six on the stools in back and CCR's version of Heard it Through the Grapevine starts on the jukebox.

"I'll have a coke"

Every day for the last ten years there's a "you mess with Spiderman you mess with all of us" moment, and instead every day, "It's terrible what he's doing to Spiderman".

At my first grownup job I had to troubleshoot a customer's non-working DSL home internet which was weird because I didn't work in support but it was a VIP named Donald Sutherland and when I called him it was the actual Donald Sutherland and he was super nice and chill on the phone.

Though sympathetic to pedants upset about conflating techbro dipshit LLM snake oil with AI as a field, that is why historically the useful AI shit got broken off into its own thing so that "AI" can remain the ephemeral goalpost-moving domain of sci-fi authors. The machine learning people knew this.

I'd say this is going to ruin the memory of the last show I saw there, but it was Louis CK so that memory is thankfully pre-polluted.

I've never had a Spotify account and therefore have no idea how much I listened to whatever this past year but I sure as shit listened to this Portishead roseland NYC record a whole lot so I'm going to go ahead and claim I'm in the top 5% of listeners.

"Life is Beautiful Steel Magnolias The Blues Brothers Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans" I guess Port of Call is a little surprising, but the rest scan.

Got to see @lukeoneil47.bsky.social kick off his tour last night for “We Had It Coming” at @busboysandpoets.bsky.social and it was a great time.

Apropos of nothing else, if this guy was a Nazi he'd already have a six-figure funded GoFundMe and a job with a VC firm.

I got work to stop making me do "5-Why" postmortems because I always make the fifth why "Capitalism". Maybe that can help someone else.

Did I miss a @lukeoneil47.bsky.social Hellworld piece on the drama unfolding at Market Basket? I had to find out from an Instagram reel like a goddamned fool!

In a stunning moment of erotic fervour, calculator demands BOOBS.

Me, a grownup commenting about the news: "This is just like Dr. Mindbender betraying Cobra Commander in GI Joe Season 2, Episode 1 Arise, Serpentor, Arise"

Of all the insane ads you encounter on the DC metro, like for missiles and death rays and nonsense, the ICE recruitment ads that have started popping up everywhere are straight up Paul Verhoeven Starship Troopers bullshit.

Status Update: to paraphrase a favorite movie, "Princeton can use a dog like Joel."

Tentative strong agree (unless Matt Patricia winds up bringing back smallpox).

Spent all this week going through a CMMC audit and I feel like I'm trying to get a dog accepted to college.

Feels weird to point out that the Insane Clown Posse's DC March of the Juggalos in 2017 was because of this issue. Law enforcement considered ICP tattoos and even albums in home as evidence of gang membership and used it to violate probation and in custody hearings.

We're hiring a Director for the Privacy & Data Governance unit; you'd be working directly with me FYI www.aclu.org/careers/appl...

Watching the livestream of Haider's first show for Tom Ford and it's very nice; distinct Ford silhouettes with the sexiness slider pushed a few stops to the left.

Exchange Admins are going to get a whole lot of "report Phishing" alerts and my guess is that they get the whole mail campaign quarantined.

If you ever find yourself wanting to cook S.O.S. for 100 people but the administration removed the Armed Forces Recipe Service manual, just know I've got you covered.

About 20 years ago I had to scope out this 4 month, 15 country tour for USAID to pen test bases all over Africa and the Middle East. I worried about who I was going to assign until word of the project leaked and two people on my team burst in to begged to be assigned and I was so relieved.

I did my taxes last week the earliest I've ever done them because the idea that the IRS might not be functioning normally in a few months actually crossed my mind.

I was very fortunate to be able to cover today's Children's National Hospital protest after seeing @erinpalmerdc.bsky.social repost @jael.bsky.social's post last night. The turnout was heartening. Photos are here: chrisgale.photo/childrens-na...

Scrolling through White House EO's looking for one halting CMMC audits like a kid after a snowstorm looking for their school on the tv crawl.

Walking around downtown and this must be what New Yorkers feel like the weekend of SantaCon.

Oh wow, this is definitely my favorite of these year-end recaps.

My parents had a cartoon hanging in our kitchen of a guy with his head up his ass and a caption reading "Your problem is quite obvious." Every time they went on vacation I immediately took it down because I hated looking at it and every time they came home they'd find it and put it back up.

I've made very little (but not zero!) progress on extracting myself from my toxic work environment. As local rat Colin Sullivan said "If we're not gonna make it, it's gotta be you that gets out, cause I'm not capable. I'm fucking Irish, I'll deal with something being wrong for the rest of my life."