When the definitive book about the Trump Era finally comes out, what should it be called? I'll go first: "A Song of Vice and Liars"

HAL JORDAN: In brightest day, in blackest BEASTIE BOYS: NIGHT! HAL JORDAN: No evil shall escape my BEASTIE BOYS: SIGHT! HAL JORDAN: This is awkward because when I invited you I thought I was messaging Beast Boy from the Teen Titans.

TFW you go to modify some old code and you think, "Wait, this shouldn't work... "HOW DOES THIS WORK?" "DID I WRITE THIS? WAS I POSSESSED? WHAT IS REALITY?!" #CodersOfBluesjy

Zohran Mamdani, delivering on the promises he made to the people, just saved this woman $36,000 in childcare fees. He has been in office for eight days.

You know when Wile E. Coyote crawls out from under a boulder and he's an accordion, or he's blown himself up and he's just a pile of ash with eyeballs on top? And then in the next scene he's fine? You never see the part where reconstitutes himself and gets back to normal. That's where I'm at today.

As a GenXer, I want to take a moment to applaud Gen Alpha for driving everybody crazy with this "6-7" shit. Don't know what it means. Don't care. But it's really bugging a lot of people way too much, and as a member of one of the original disruptive generations, I am here for that. Nice work.

I read a plaque in a secondhand store, this poem kind of, uh, popped out of me: "My spirit soars on wings of love," a response:

Been thinking a lot lately about things that made us happy when we were kids, and I thought about how, while I'm technically a child of the 70s, I feel like I'm also a child of the 80s and 90s. And I realized that one of GenX's greatest acts of rebellion was...

paywall

Post something random or you'll have an awful November.

Mood

Comfort movie time

"She doesn't want you to go away again"

Currently watching:

Sunday President diarrheas on the country, Monday President bulldozes White House, Tuesday President steals $230 million, Wednesday President... fucks a horse? Let's see if he fucks a horse.

Working on something new. Thank you to @pikeshorse.bsky.social for the quote.

Describe your Bluesky account in a single image

I think the odometer's about to roll over www.kickstarter.com/projects/tom...

Just had to add the word "peckerheads" to my computer's dictionary. So, #writing is going well.

I wrote another thing. This one's a basic explainer on AI: open.substack.com/pub/jeffedse...

They say you should love yourself, but I'm really more of a frenemy

I want a Star Trek series that follows a group of people who believe in Starfleet's underlying ideals, but the more militaristic post-Dominion-War Starfleet has turned its back on them. Fate makes them a crew, and they make their way in a darker galaxy while trying to do good and uphold their ideals

At Broadview ICE facility, federal agents hurl tear gas and pepper spray at protesters blocking vans www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/19/t...

#writing Bluesky can't do polls, so I'll just ask: Do you work on only one project at a time? 1. One at a time. Any other projects get locked in a drawer until the current one is finished. 2. Mostly one project, occasionally dipping into others. 3. I never know which project I'm going to work on!

*siiiiiiigggghhhh*

David Cronenberg's The Princess and the Frog

#DeathofSuperman #DC Another thing I forgot is that in the final issue, no pages are divided into panels - every page is a single panel, which is an amazingly cinematic effect. And then of course, that final gatefold:

#DeathofSuperman #DC And so...here we are. The cover seen 'round the world.

#DeathofSuperman #DC Ah, Bibbo! We have Bibbo!

#DeathofSuperman #DC Oh, man, when I saw this frame, it all came flooding into my head like Neo learning Kung Fu: Lex has red hear and a beard because he was dying of kryptonite poisoning and he transplanted his brain into a young clone who pretended to be good, and that Supergirl is actually a...

Guardian has the nerve to show up after a big battle and shame Superman about all the violence and destruction. Like, where were YOU? Supes does get him back next issue though, when Guardian apologies for being late: "That's okay. You would have been totally worthless anyways."

#DeathofSuperman #DC Ice is quite fashion forward, wearing Uggs before anyone else

#DeathofSuperman #DC So Guy got kicked out of the GL Corps, but he still has a ring? And it's...yellow? That seems...unwise.

#DeathOfSuperman #DC Maxima, saying the words every man wants to hear. Actually, the first thing I had to Google was the JLA lineup at the time. I knew Fire, Ice, Booster Gold, Blue Beetle and Guy Gardener, but didn't remember Maxima or..."Bloodwynd" (ugh, the 90s), who is actually [redacted]

#DeathofSuperman #DC I did not remember Doomsday wearing a Pulp-Fiction-esque Gimp Suit. I assume that will be explained eventually.

#DeathofSuperman #DC Love this splash page, as we clean up loose threads from the previous story. Very Kirby-esque.

Just got a copy of the #DeathOfSuperman 30th anniversary TPB. I haven't read these comics since they first came out in 1992. I'm curious how much I'll remember about the #DC universe at the time.

You know, I try to approach every day's job hunt with a positive attitude. I really, really do. But then I pull up a job description that has this as its first bullet point: • You are a motivated self starter with a bias towards action And I just wanna go back to bed.

Sing now of the heros of the people

Without downloading any new pics, where are you at mentally?

Yeah, why not, I've tried everything else...

Hey folks : just a quick reminder that when somebody posts a link to an article that’s behind a paywall or that you are unable to access for some reason, you can copy the URL & pop it into the Internet Archive at archive.org or at archive.today & usually find it there as a snapshot you can read. 👍

I grew up on these streets

Everyone complains about the manosphere, but no one wants to do anything about it

I wrote a thing: open.substack.com/pub/jeffedse... This one's about politics and news. Others will probably be about other things.

A perfect illustration of what it's like being married to a morning person

Well, so much for the overnight storms clearing out the humidity. Last week it was like stepping outside into chicken noodle soup. This morning it's like stepping into gazpacho.

Looking forward to this Friday

If you see this, quote with a robot that isn’t from “Star Wars,” “Star Trek,” “Dr. Who,” or “Transformers.”