I guess we know what @petchmo.bsky.social and @airlineflyer.net will be talking about on this week’s podcast.

(Billionaires are temporarily and specifically good when, and only when, they invest large amounts of their own money in precise alignment with my personal sporting interests.)

SCREAMING!!!!!!!!!!!

Regular reminder that you shouldn’t buy any products or services associated with Amazon and should immediately and permanently close your Amazon account.

No Kings includes Draft Kings

Breezy Johnson! 🏅🇺🇸 #Olympics

Watching the biathlon. I don’t understand how the U.S. isn’t a guaranteed gold medal at the gun sports. #Olympics

That Chock and Bates free skate was jaw dropping. #Olympics

It’s all #Olympics coverage here for the next two and a half weeks 🏅

He deserves every dollar of it ⚾️

Have stood in the same spot as the people under the right wing and can confirm: This airplane is enormous.

I mean, just look at this art, adorning the altar on Communion Sunday: “In the shelter of each other we will live.”

We have friends everywhere.

RIP Catherine O'Hara. Damn.

Rejected subtitle of this post: Country with functioning cultural ministry invites normal person to give national lecture.

Targeted advertising is getting way too accurate. Might as well just automatically deduct money from our checking account and send us the tickets with a note saying, “You were already going to go to this so we saved you a click.”

ICU nurses are especially wonderful. When dad was in the ICU shortly before he died, his nurses did everything—and more—to care for him medically and make sure he was properly clean and comfortable. One nurse even gently shaved his face so he’d look like his normal self. Fabulous people. Heroes.

From this moment forward (and before, but clearly now): -If you work for ICE. -If you vote for money for ICE. You are complicit. This is the gestapo. You're on the wrong side. You can't pretend not to know.

Another civilian murdered by LEOs. Calling this horror we’re all watching outrageous and disgusting doesn’t even begin to describe it.

Brutal cold winter storm outside and I’ve had to work the entire weekend, but I like my job very much and we have a warm house with good food and coffee and the snow on the window is pretty. So I’m stopping to remember that I have so much to be thankful for.

Closing out the work week with a 12-hour call, and [voice offstage] it’s Saturday Well

@libraryephemera.bsky.social Happy birthday! 🥳

In advance of a week or two of forecasted winter storms and deep cold, I bought four huge bags of pet-safe salt last night and now I feel like the richest man in the world.

More good news!

The Tigers, and every professional sports team, should fully and permanently separate themselves from any betting companies.

OEM wiper blades are superior in every way to the wiper blades you buy at a big box or auto parts store. Go to a dealer’s parts department; usually less than a $5 difference in price and they fit perfectly every time.

Finally some good news. www.flyingmag.com/boeing-renew...

@jonostrower.com As always at times like this, your Open Source Intelligence feeds are invaluable.

Art.

Spent two and a half hours yesterday shoveling the sidewalk and driveway. It snowed another four inches last night and it is still snowing.

Outstanding speech by Mamdani.

Progress.

Happy new year! Might as well start it fully charged ⚡️

“Bethlehem today is surrounded by walls and checkpoints built by an occupier. Its residents live under a system of apartheid and fragmentation.” www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

The GIF of Willem Dafoe looking up into the sky with fright is how I picture the shepherds in Luke 2.

Whatever to make of this strange season, in this quiet morning I have time to myself with a coffee and a Ukrainian babka and dad’s Bible, and even through tears as I read the familiar passage, it is well with me.

Repeat the sounding joy! 🎄

“I treasure the tears. They are the memories and the knowledge that I carry of Tyler. I will cry those tears into a lake that I can look into and see him looking back at me.” A masterpiece by my friend @adamfpetty.bsky.social: verydistantlands.substack.com/p/the-best-o...

“At least the days will start getting a little brighter from now on,” he whispered to himself hopefully.

The Gospel plain and simple.

Yesterday would have been my brother's 41st birthday. Still hurts. Always will. verydistantlands.substack.com/p/the-phanto...

"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit. Incredible words. Listen to all of it!

Main reason I have rarely referred to the current person in the White House by their official title is that it is not earned exclusively through election, but also requires propriety and wisdom equivalent to the stature of that office. Lacking that, I do not accord him the title.

Gaudete Sunday!

Robert Hamilton Bell, 1933–2025.

Drawing on an idea from @philipchristman.bsky.social this week (open.substack.com/pub/philipch...), and though losing my father is the center of the story, a year in images: • Underworld × Chicago • Best friends • Norway • One of my final visits with mom and dad, with the fire of eternity in the sky

Dishwasher broke, so it’s a full afternoon of washing dishes. Better in the winter, at least, when I’m not missing a beautiful summer day or a nice afternoon for flying.

I did the best I could to honor one of the most important people in my life ❤️‍🩹 www.horancares.com/obituaries/r...

Writing my father’s obituary is one of the harder things I’ve had to do in life.

Nobody tell the Italians but I’m drinking a cappuccino after noon and it is *fabulous*.