“Just like… craftsmen that were replaced by assembly line workers… we feel a profound sense of loss. We grieve that a skill, that we spent half a lifetime honing, is not being valued…anymore… We’re saddened that [this] results in lower quality work, and that a lot of people just don’t seem to care.”

Sometimes art is so breathtaking and poignant it defies all expectation

Not to be the guy who’s only seen boss baby but I’m literally reading House of Leaves at the same time as This Year and today’s song and especially annotation in This Year had me thinking I was reading House of Leaves again for a sec.

It’s a crime that sbs on demand’s video quality is so bad while its movie selection is so good

Every time I see someone talk about Claude I think about how they switched from female to male names as soon as they wanted the robots to seem like experts vs personal assistants.

blessed by a new tmbg album today that I can loop while I get freelance done

I got my current bose earbuds used, and the device name was 'abalone' and I think that's really cute. makes me feel like the previous owner cared about these lil' guys.

it's fun watching nirvanna the band the show with my friend because I can explain canadian cultural references like 'a toonie is a coin' while the characters hold up a coin and she's like 'yeah'

team ‘keep one in your bag’ and tbh even if you don’t care about other people, at least *you* get to feel better if there is someone coughing behind you on the bus

what's the go with bandcamp making your purchase history public. why did they do that.

stranger: what do you do for work? me, shamefully: computer

Love this Pokemon card art of Excadrill on a union break with human colleagues in a mine.

If Bilbo had Chat GPT

i miss when this guy was the only LLM

Also I of course read a billion comics this year as usual but that’s hard to summarise and track. Shout out to fool night for being particularly good ongoing, a guest in the house for being particularly good standalone, the dc comics app for making me frustrated and insane

books I read this year

I completed a pretty small number of videogames this year, a couple I played a lot but are still in progress (hades II and death stranding II) so I can't comment yet. Probably my most played game this year was synth riders. But these are the manageably-sized mostly narrative games I finished

Finally playing the new synth riders dlc which I’ve been too busy/away from home to try

I went through my media diary for the year and I watched 47 movies that were new to me in 2025, which is way more than I thought

They say imitation crab is the sincerest form of crab

I think the fundamental gap here is that non-creative people think that creative people make things for the end product, when in fact it’s the act of creation and not the end point that makes it worthwhile.

Con2ol

Being extremely careful about image/video attribution isn’t JUST important for giving credit to artists and creators. It’s also a way to slightly decrease your chances of spreading deceptive AI slop!

spotify wrapped day, aka look at your top artists list and buy something from their bandcamp day

They Might be Giants (like six times) Florence and the Machine (at the riverstage twice) Gotye (at Woodford) The Decemberists (in Calgary!) Gorillaz - during Plastic Beach, and I’ve tried to see them two more times and failed each time

been getting into using affinity, and the UI for vector editing is great. But when I want to open a file i created on ipad on desktop, it warns me I'll have to save it in a newer file version and it will become unusable on ipad. ehh?? should they not be keeping the 2 latest versions of it in sync?

expedition 33 is going to win every single category at the geoff keighley game awards, but dont let that fool you, its not actually that bad

I watched Escape from New York yesterday and True Grit today. I’ve unintentionally started a pattern, are there any other iconic eyepatch movies I should line up

frankenstein's monster (top) and del toro (bottom)

Oglaf is Australian!? I had no idea!

I hate when I'm like 'one solid day of rest will kill this cold' and then it doesn't. Not fair. I put the work in

chainsaw man deserves an entirely anime original movie that’s barely even trying to be canon where a they fight a vampire then makima is like denji you’ve taught me so much about friendship. and every action cut goes insane. like they damn used to make. like god intended

i watched possession a few days ago and I'm still in the 'staring blankly into the middle distance' period about it

I am obsessed with how kasumi yasuda draws hair

Reviewing the codebase of an old site, and it's wild how many things we used to have to use JS libraries for. Making a header sticky! Making elements next to each other be the same height!

Yesterday while I was driving I tried to use Siri to play a king gizzard and the lizard wizard album (which I own and is loaded onto my phone in the music library) but I forgot to specify which app so it loaded spotted and played… this. Grim

actually our AI programs are like people so its racist to say you don't like them. anyway would you like to buy one

greta ily what an outfit

I don’t understand why ps5 games can load almost instantly but I have one blu ray that takes literally two minutes to load on the same device (and had egregiously slow menus). Why is this one blu ray so sick

a great way to avoid having a wild crashout on the internet and posting through it is to read my piece on how banksy got to the high court stencil that won over so many of his skeptics last month

I’ve wanted one of these silly turntables for ages and I finally snagged a used one for a massive discount. Very pleased!!

(tmi) I have the perfect cup for drinking colonoscopy prep

Went to see Weapons because there’s a scheduled power outage happening. At the start I was concerned I’d be too creeped out to come back to a pitch dark unit. By the end of the movie I did not feel that way, lol

can you believe TMBG wrote this over ten years ago, not about anyone specific? so handy www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSQ8...

the dramatic reading is Good

a targeted ad campaign has never worked on me faster (saw an instagram ad for migi shirts yesterday)

been using webflow this week (against my will) and it's such a weird mix of 'wow that's quite intuitive and good actually' and 'I can't do (BASIC THING)!? I WANT TO WALK INTO THE SEA