Revisiting a previous goal of training to complete a 5K, which means returning to a thing I regularly said I’d never do: running. Today was a big win for me in terms of personal records, as I slept horribly but still pushed myself. Do I expect this consistently? No, but a win is a win.

TTRPGs are such beautiful, impossible things. Think of how hard it is to get any group to get on the same page on *anything*, and then marvel at how we play these games that allow you to build worlds together. I think about that a lot.

It’s easy to have a giggle when an elected official says some off-script, unhinged folksy shit, but also maybe remember how that person voted and if they were cool with robbing people of their rights while propping up corporations and billionaires. Hilarious. Comedy gold.

Yinzers out here walking on the frozen surface of the rivers like they’re competing for a Darwin Award. Don’t do that, you dim jagoffs.

Mike Johnson’s got a smirk only a shovel could love. What a horrid little bootlicking gargoyle of a man.

Gentle reminder there’s a lot of really horrific shit coming to light and people are sharing things devoid of any trigger warnings, so stay safe out there because things are breathtakingly bad right now. Do what you need to in order to preserve your peace.

Their response to Black people begging police to stop killing us was to fund the police at historic levels. People still act like they're just "following the polls", but they're doing the same thing to protect ICE despite Democratic voters being firmly against ICE.

The guy who owns Amazon shutting down the books section of the Washington Post is beyond parody

Mr. Beast being a guest on Hot Ones feels like a solid reason to stop bothering with Hot Ones. 2026 is a great time to reclaim your attention and peace from the endless deluge of slop and garbage.

I try to focus more on how morally bankrupt some of these fucking clowns are, but sometimes I get distracted by how Glenn Beck has aged into looking like a heavily bee-stung Colonel Sanders.

If accessibility disappears after a snowstorm then there was never really accessibility to begin with. Winter reveals so much about who our cities prioritize.

I have a two hour call in twenty minutes and I am incandescent with rage over that. Two whole hours. I beg your finest pardon, but if you block off that much of my time there better be an email ahead of it asking my DoorDash order. It’s cool. I’ve got this. I’m professional-adjacent. Goddamnit.

Last soap box moment for the day: Gaiman’s LOOK AT THIS SUBSTACK SAYING I DID NOTHING WRONG moment has me ready to bathe with acetone to purge the levels of yuck it gave me. The timing, the tone, everything about it is slippery and gross and conveniently coincides with bombshell news. No, thanks.

As a nobody in the fitness space who has zero patience for hijinks: Doing something shitty has consequences. Going on a lukewarm apology tour doesn’t absolve you of those consequences. Using someone else’s shitty behavior to justify supporting alt-right grifters, though? Hell of a choice, that.

I don’t know how people are surprised that music’s current Divorced Dad Made Entirely From Bong Water and Moonshine, Jelly Roll, doesn’t want to voice his opinions on politics because he’d piss off a lot of his fans while also probably making it clear he’s cool with a lot of what’s happening.

If your response to all of the horrors going on is to do a fun little song and dance about your moral superiority and how you were so very right instead of actually doing things to help improve current situations? You may not be the worst, but you’d make good company for the worst. You twits.

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Today is definitely one of those Go Back to Bed Until Tomorrow Days in terms of energy level, but that isn’t an option so here we go I guess.

Stop putting creators on pedestals and acting like they are infallible paragons who have transcended all other mortals. They’re people. They’re going to fuck up. Multiple times. It’s how they handle those moments of failure that matters. The cycle of worshipping then razing people isn’t healthy.

Seeing the healthier alternatives to the snacks or meals you may choose at Disney parks is exhausting, and I say this as someone trying to get into better shape. If you dropped serious coin to walk tens of thousands of steps daily, eat whatever you want. You’ll offset it, I promise.

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Honey sriracha dino nuggets for dinner, just as the Gods intended.

Bundled up, put on my running shoes, and went for my first proper run. 20 minutes (or 16 depending on what fitness app you’re looking at) after having done weightlifting earlier and shoveling the snow away from my wife’s van. I feel pretty fucking incredible about that. A win is a win.

Jagoffs out here stealing other people’s cleared parking spots and disrespecting parking chairs like they aren’t about to experience generational curses. Foolishness.

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Something I’ve started trying to do lately that has proved helpful, and perhaps may be a tool other folks could use, is catching myself when I allow my inner monologue to steer toward self-deprecation and instead reframing what I think is really going on there. Finding good in it instead.

This was an invented moral panic. The NYT and Fox News ran more stories about trans people than the Advocate, an explicitly LGBTQ publication. It was the exact same story in the UK. The media fanned the flames of a moral panic.

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It’s 2026 and some of you dipshits are still out here calling things your fucking spirit animal. Stop doing that.

14 is having the loudest synchronous learning voice chats possible so I’ve taken to texting stupid puns and BRO every time I hear someone exclaim BRO. She doesn’t love that, which tells me I’m doing this parenting thing right.

Most previous years: I am never getting into running. 2026: Everything is already on my last fucking nerve so I’m going to channel that rage into getting back into shape for completing a 5K. I’m such a predictable dipshit.

I understand two things about Centaurworld having seen only clips: 1) Yay, whimsical fantasy goofiness. Friendship. Magic. 2) What manner of Eldritch horror is this? Who is the target audience of this nightmare fuel? Fucking hell.

Today is going to be a lot, so I am choosing to be a lot for today. Also: fuck this “wind chills as low as -25” nonsense. This is bullshit.

I showed interest in getting back into prepping for and eventually running a 5k (a whole story there, perhaps for later) and now all of my socials are showing me people running 100 mile monstrosities. That would kill me. It would be 100 miles of complaining followed immediately by death.

This week is off to a lively start. Time to conjure some energy from caffeine and spite, solve some problems, and get on with the day. Can’t just sit down and scream into the Void (even though I want to, that isn’t polite to the Void and doesn’t solve a damn thing). Take care, folks.

I REALLY need non-indigenous people to make more noise about this.

I am 100% tapped out from shoveling snow all day only to have more snow take it’s place, so I’m glad to be taking a five minute break after dinner before resuming this Snowmageddon Sisyphean chore.

“Outside agitators” is older than Putin; I am begging white people to crack open a history book about Black Americans for once

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As tens of thousands across America protest the violence that ICE sows with impunity, federal agents shot and killed another person in Minneapolis today.

ICE terrorizes our cities. ICE puts us all in danger. Abolish ICE.

Saw an ad for an alarm clock meant to look like an old Mac with a floppy drive and part of the pitch was “Okay, Millennials, let’s confuse Gen Z and Gen Alpha” like that doesn’t have the same energy as Boomers treating cursive and rotary phones as if they are secret, encoded trickery. Idiocy.

So I loathe having to do this with everyone else hurting right now but the repairs are going to be costly and I would rather earn if I can. I’ve already had to pay for parts today but labor is going to be more so if you have any work, I’m real good at that. A share would be rad as well.

One of the most miserable, isolating lessons of adulthood is seeing just how many people only concern themselves with me when I am of value to them. Processing some very painful feelings at the moment.

“Bye, bye Abraham Lincoln! We’re going to turn you into slime, and then the Hotel Prize in Appliance [sic] will be ours. Wait, what’s happening?” said Don Jr.

Complaining about people at the grocery store ahead of a storm while also shopping ahead of a storm is some powerfully head-ass behavior.

Decided to up my adjustable dumbbells from 30lbs to 35lbs and I’m feeling the difference. I’ll definitely be sticking around at this point for a bit so I don’t end up taking my fitness journey along the Explore and Become Educated path.

Looking forward to the possibility of between 8 inches to 50 miles of snow expected in Pittsburgh over the next couple days. Bring on the Snowpocalypse, I guess.

Got my favorite Adulting reminder today: If I don’t allow myself a mental health day when I need one, my body will force me to take a sick day.

“Cant sleep… i’ll just have a quick look at my phone”

Nobody is committing acts of violence other than ICE. "Violence" in the context of opposition for this administration is literally any act of protest.