Fraggle Rock implies the existence of Fraggle Gem. Next weekend at the convention center downtown

Old Ergot dines with friends and foes alike

Boy have I been feeling this in the past week. (It’s Tuesday, Lemon.)

Woooooookelahoma! Where we’ve decolonialized our brains!

Mostly my weekdays are an hour of stress followed by an hour of dysregulation, after which I have to be focused and logical enough to write instructions for a machine that has literally no interpretive capacity

Evergreen skeet.

The most salient thing I learned from our game session last night is that I am a big ol’ goober and it takes me shouting out three different ideas in rapid succession in order to pretend to be a tough guy

I can’t really do the “this is who runs this account” meme because 98% of extant photos of my childhood are slides.

Live Your Dreams*

I can confirm with 100% certainty that Valentine’s Skeleton is supposed to be there. Bonus for fans of @chucktingle.bsky.social, Valentine’s Skeleton appears to be in a relationship with an inflatable T-Rex in a top hat.

I put Greenland on Mars, hoping I could solve two problems in one go.

It’s 78°F and I’m on my second drink. AMA

To deal with the winter cold, share one of your favorite winter movies! ☃️❄️🎿 This is kind of a basic answer but I vividly remember how surprised I was after leaving the theater that it was still somehow summer in Ohio

Oh is this happening this weekend?

That was always the trap, right? We all knew they were going to try to minimize the damage to their own assets, but we also knew that applying their competence to that volume of information was going to fall short of that goal.

dating someone who is smarter than you rules because who wouldn't want a sexy encyclopedia telling you about cuba

Just to keep you all updated, the latest round of stories are crossover adventures with Gabby’s Dollhouse: The Movie, Dinotruxx, Animacars, and a smattering of original characters, some of whom are technically Muppets.

While this is funny, I have to admit that what I’m really doing is dreaming of feasting on the corpse of bsky once the protocol and infrastructure is mature enough

Sure, why not? Welcome to the resistance, Annoying Orange, I guess?

This one makes me want to play MediEvil more than the others

This has me thinking about the ideological split between the Futurists and the Dadas. Lot of obliteration of the self in those early 20th century absurdists

The water helped more than I’d like to admit but so has eating small chunks of this ghost pepper chocolate that I got for Christmas

If drinking some more water helps this shitty brain fog mood I’m in, I swear to god I’m gonna cut someone

TIL that if you destroy the label while trying to add salsa to your breakfast taco and the clerk has to ring it in manually, you pay $6.80 for your $3.25 breakfast combo

I randomly felt the need to go looking for this comic today. No reason.

For my own sanity, I have to believe that this is just “49% of GenX who answered/didn’t immediately hang up the phone when someone asked if they had time to answer a few questions for a survey” because I am completely convinced that anyone like that is just bent

Something new for Brak and Zorak to argue about.

The thing that keeps popping into my head is that I used to think that having a family was a thing that happened more or less by default as other things progressed, rather than an organizing principle for most of your decisions.

Conversely, having a full day where I just put my head down and really started to feel like I was making progress on work would probably also feel like a vacation

Thanks to this I had to confirm that the list of Tesla models was a puerile double entendre. I could have lived without that knowledge

It feels like I opened a box of “Oops! All Cortisol!” this morning

For reasons, I have been returning to album listening, and this morning I picked Boys For Pele and then felt my insides clench when there was a Neil Gaiman reference in the first song.

Thinking of bsky followers as YouTube subscribers and not as LJ/FB friends is one of those head exploding things that should have been obvious to me years ago. I keep on thinking about it but mostly it makes me sad, because I don’t think there’s a protocol for the latter

I am currently shopping around for a replacement for “I am 30 or 40 years old and I do not need this” so this comes at a good time

I never realized that there were so many Villagers with such jarring aesthetics, but luckily they’ve all decided to move to my new island

I can't stop thinking about this. Some of the murders are overt. Some of the murders are less direct and are murders nonetheless

As someday it may happen that a victim must be found I've got a little list, I've got a little list Of society offenders who might well be underground And who never would be missed! There's the pestilential nuisances who blow their whistles loud All people who are filming us and chasing us in crowds

I need to start knitting on conference calls again.

Am I just making shit up or is the .docker directory kind of a system thing that you shouldn’t be putting in your commits?

Bovino getting booted from Minneapolis is a win worth celebrating, but know when you tell Border Patrol to "go back to the border," this is what they're going back to do:

I’m in my third attempt to get through A Snake Falls To Earth by @littlebadger.bsky.social. I really enjoy the writing but I keep picking it up in weeks where I am feeling the most overwhelmed

My kid also drew one (I think it’s better than mine)

Agh! This added to the pile of thoughts rattling around in my head! Agh! I wish I was able to turn it into words! Still rattling, but I’m gonna get there, I swear!

Wherein I expand my collection of random ATProto projects

That old adage remains true: “When does winter end in Phoenix?” “Oh around 2pm” Which is to say, I regret wearing long pants already.

I am finally making a habit of wearing long pants and I kind of hate it. It does mean I no longer look ridiculous when I wear my peacoat, though, so that’s something

These are both really good! From a word nerd perspective, it scratches my itch to read a familiar form with a new element (openly neurodivergent protagonists) and seeing how that changes the dynamics of the story.

Goblin Week 2026 0 — The Fool - For this year's Goblin Week I'm starting a Goblin Tarot deck — I'll post the first seven this week, and the rest as I make them on Patreon. patreon.com/helveticablanc - #goblinweek #goblinweek2026

Nobody wants to work anymore