For a century, Key West has beckoned writers, artists, drifters, dreamers, oddballs, eccentrics, freaks, villains, cranks, the lost and the broken. It's a sunny place for shady people. People like Jim Harrison and Thomas McGuane and @billshea19.bsky.social.

Jon Batiste is an inspirational gift in both life and music! His Tim Ferris interview is well worth the time out of your day. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Forgot to schedule our annual holiday photo sesh for the household and now I'm facing the ire of my wife and college-age son. Turned to AI to save my holiday cookies. Hoping the Bluesky community could help me pick the best option for our holiday email? (Eager to surprise the wife.)

If only stupidity was painful.

interviewer: what’s your greatest weakness? me: oh they’re all pretty great

Sorry we’re not riding at dawn. We’re having coffee and catastrophizing the day at dawn. Then we’re doing Wordle. Then we’re doing 35 minutes of doomscrolling, then we’re taking the longest hottest shower, then we’re sitting on the edge of the bed staring at nothing for a while, THEN maybe we ride.

Yup….

Dick Van Dyke is the focus of Coldplay’s latest music video, “All My Love.” In a clip, Van Dyke sings, dances barefoot and offers meditations on aging, family and love. A shorter version of the video will be released on December 13 on Van Dyke’s 99th birthday.

If I were teaching Corporations (or Business Associations, or whatever your law school calls it), I would make question #1 on the final examination this Tweet with the prompt “Discuss.”

@nadinemrosin.bsky.social @awalcott.bsky.social @amytidd.bsky.social @blskylivable.bsky.social @mysageadvice.bsky.social @femsocphd.bsky.social @gwenie.bsky.social @bernfost1.bsky.social @gman1952.bsky.social @apipkin11.bsky.social @willow9814.bsky.social

"National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation" is basically a documentary of @billshea19.bsky.social's Midwestern upbringing. He was Rusty; now he's Clark. And maybe Eddie.

i'm no stephen hawking but i think what happens is that they cancel each other out

Check out the red circles - it’s so easy picking out AI pics.

“I have this feeling I’m going to be all right.” www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4Ol...

We’re building the biggest swamp. A swamp like no one has ever seen before. It’s going to be the best.

(1/2) This is where we thrive

Everyone’s gangster until they use a pen that is satisfyingly smooth and fun to write with.

We pay too much attention to the most confident voices—and too little attention to the most thoughtful ones. Conviction is not a sign of credibility. Speaking assertively is not a substitute for reflecting deeply. It's better to learn from complex thinkers than smooth talkers.

What if being funny isn’t just about making people laugh—it’s a sign of a sharp, intelligent mind? 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼 #funny #funatwork #intelligence #smart #jokes

Spawning a long-awaited Samuel Jackson movie sequel? www.cbsnews.com/news/hamster...

😆😆😆 Who did this one?

I see art in everything. Your shoes. That car. This coffee cup. It's art if you see it as art.

Look, you don’t want to be *completely* delusional. You just wanna be like nice middle ground delusional. Like just enough to take the edge off. That’s the sweet spot.

A haiku.

i had to stop looking around myself... become a sightseer in both the messy and crystalline seas of my being... i'm the one who has to undo... everything the world told me i have to be... ©dww -Memoir WIP #vss365 #sightseeing #WritingCommunity

Donald Trump names wrestling billionaire Linda McMahon, co-founder of WWE, as Secretary of Education.

Emerging from my self-imposed, two-week news and social media blackout like…

Bluesky feels like I took a Time Machine back to 2009 when I was still like “Hey this social media thing is going to make the world a better place.”

Buying a book and actually reading it are two very different hobbies.

Idiocracy by Mike Judge is this generation’s version of The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli. Scholars and political strategists will spend years poring over the script for clues on how to best navigate the New America. youtu.be/6lai9QhBibk?...

Patronizing only the classiest places...

Me...in ten years.

Um, no...

First time motorcycle camping. In theory, this should work...

Working remotely at Hogwarts

Patronizing only the best places...

The Dude abides...