Just chillin'. Photo from my collection, ca. 1960s.

Minor annoyance of the day: my cooking thermometer is designed under the assumption that the user is right-handed. So if I hold it in my left hand, as is instinctive for me, the display is upside-down.

you better watch out you betTER WATCH OUT YOU BETTER WATCH OUT Happy Krampusnacht!

It might be about time to retire these socks... 🧶

Drinking eggnog out of a sake cup.

I'll happily admit that some anarchists/leftists have some silly as hell ideas, but at least it's never close to the societal wide take of "if we're cruel to poor people it will motivate them to stop being poor"

Today's #ootd - I knit the sweatervest myself; the jacket, tie, and shirt are secondhand. Gotta stay warm during this cold snap! #menswear

Did my first snow bike of the season, and it wasn't as bad as I feared (which is usually the case). Fortunately it was just a short ride - to the bike shop because I need my brake pads replaced, lmao.

a lot has been said about Jack Skellington as allegory for cultural appropriation (I definitely wasn't the first) but there's also a lot to be said about Jack Skellington as clueless tech billionaire

It's notable that in the X-Files episode "Excelsis Dei," Scully and Mulder's roles are reversed: Scully immediately believes the victim's claims of sexual assault and harassment, while Mulder is more skeptical and points out that the lack of hard evidence will make it hard to resolve the case.

Taylor Swift (8 feet tall, limbs the length of anacondas) remains silent on the White House using her music. Meanwhile, Sabrina Carpenter (3 feet tall, fists too tiny to hold ladybugs) is charging headfirst at ICE, ready to pummel any rent-a-Nazi that dares to speak her name.

It is taking all my willpower not to spam Luigi memes in the chat for my employer's 2026 open enrollment meeting.

Megafauna really give me a visceral “oh this is where gods come from” feeling. Even like… just looking at the fossils displays at the Field Museum.

“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to

There is SO MUCH going on in this episode of X-Files ("Red Museum"). Teen abductions! A peeping Tom! A vegan cult! Critique of factory farms! A plane crash involving two new characters halfway through the episode! Every new scene introduces something entirely new until I'm like SURE WHY NOT.

"You're welcome to join us Friday night, Mulder. We're all hopping on the internet to nitpick the scientific inaccuracies of Earth 2." - Possibly the funniest line of dialogue in the entire X-Files series.

I love being in my late 30s so much. I love not giving a shit about being famous or successful anymore. I love prioritizing being comfortable, and being around people who love me. Could do without the aching joints and looming perimenopause, but everything else? Golden.

Eternal Silence in the snow, this morning at Graceland Cemetery

Huh, in "The Rise of Gawain, Nephew of Arthur," Gawain wins a duel against the warrior Gormundus because Gormundus's bronze helmet softened in the Levantine sun, allowing Gawain to cleave right through it. I wonder if that was a thing that actually happened (i.e. armor softening in hot weather).

Seeing so many posts and stuff from my friends about how much of a nightmare it is to drive right now, meanwhile I'm choo-chooing through a winter wonderland. Even got myself a beer.

top notch mascottin'

When one of the country's largest cities has to restrict people from visiting a thriving market, it’s proof that we have drastically under-allocated space for human life and over-allocated it for cars.

I watched Zardoz for the first time on Thanksgiving and I LOVE IT?? It has a creative verve to it, real strong theater kid energy that I find utterly charming. It has a LOT of feelings about the decline of the British Empire; those feelings are largely incoherent but boy are they strong.

Difficulty level: I've already failed.

To heal our divided nation I propose splitting Game of the Year awards into two categories: - Game of the Year That’s 3D and You Use a Sword and/or Gun to Explode a Guy - Game of the Year That’s Some Gay Bullshit Indie Meditation on Grief or Whatever

A project I was counting on for my December bills got delayed, so I am wide open to take on larger projects and holiday commissions for December delivery.

This is the correct take. Stewing in white supremacist propaganda is bad for your thinking. And if think you are so savvy that it won’t impact you, you are the exact kind of mark they are slowly converting (I’m looking at you, centrist pundits).

need-a-penny, take-a-penny

Each of these companies harvests thousands of gigs of your personal info to capture an exact profile of your spending habits, and then they're like "I noticed you bought sunglasses last year. here's more sunglasses, which I assume you buy every single day."

Friendly reminder that striking workers are asking you not to patronize ANY Starbucks store. If you're traveling this week, your airport definitely has other options. Zero reason to even think about crossing a picket line!

Of all the possible characterizations of Merlin that historical authors could go for, I was not expecting "sex predator whose harassment of a teenage girl led to his own downfall." (Via de Boron.)

Really not a fan of how the pointless security theater bullshit has started creeping into Amtrak too.

I dont care about scaring the hoes. The hoes are wrong

one must imagine Cassandra exhausted

*Sigh* It is bad and evil to desire a majority white country. This should not be controversial. Ethnostates are bad. Racial purity is bullshit. There's no such thing as white culture because there's no such thing as the "white race" and white people aren't better at anything than anyone else.

Playing a #ttrpg character who's effectively an anarcho-communist redneck in a cyberpunk post-apocalypse is very fun. People keep offering to give me robot implants or to upload my consciousness and I'm like, "no thank you I actually quite like being just a squishy human."

"the entire second season is grounded by internal drama within a polycule of French theater queers in post war Paris being explained to a terminally catty Anthony Bourdain clone" sounds good here's millions of dollars get at it

Whenever I'm blocking a garment I just knit I need to make sure I hang my mesh drying rack out of reach of my cat because she WILL try to use it as a hammock. 🧶

The Shine region of the moon, to be precise.

It should not be this goddamn hard to find flannel pajamas that don't have fucking polyester in them.

Done! Just gotta wait for it to dry. 🧶

Can't decide if Krycek is genuinely attracted to Mulder or if he's merely taking advantage of Mulder's sluttiness as a honeypot ploy. Either scenario is delightful tbh.

I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.

X-Files does this odd thing where if they have a scene involving characters from a foreign country (e.g. Russia), they'll hire US/Canadian actors, have them deliver the lines on-set in English, dub them over in the appropriate language, and then subtitle the dubbed lines back into English.

Truly evergreen.