I don’t know who needs to hear this, but…they just made the next episode of “The Muppet Show”

bookshop.org/p/books/the-... Finished "The Devouring" by James R. Benn, a Billy Boyle WWII mystery. A compelling mystery, with engaging characters, in interesting settings, this time in post-D-Day Switzerland. Intrigue and touch of pulp as befits the era. #booksky

Follow @mekka.mekka-tech.com , particularly this month. You will learn things you need to know

I would like a universe in which @pdjeliclark.bsky.social is able to write many many more things please. Thank you.

Hat tip to @geraldcoleman.bsky.social for doing The Work.

bookshop.org/p/books/guns... Finished "Guns of the Dawn" by @aptshadow.bsky.social I picked it up as part of a Humble Bundle and started here because it is a standalone. I'm glad I did. Interesting people and relationships amidst compelling cirucmstances. Honor, growth, and friendship. #booksky

One of the best organizers I know in the Twin Cities has a great line, "We can't always take away the hurt, but we can take away the alone."

A frankly astounding Humble Bundle of about 70 books by women SFF writers, including the Iskryne series by @pennyvixen.bsky.social and me and my first two Karen Memory novels, for $25 for the whole bundle, benefitting youth mental health. www.humblebundle.com/books/fierce...

bookshop.org/p/books/the-... Finished "The Lady Chapel" by @candacerobbauthor.bsky.social Historical mysteries, with characters seeking good and the eventual arrival of justice, are restorative. Especially when they have excellent plots and deft characterization. #booksky

Ebooks are reading. Audiobooks are reading. Graphic novels are reading. Pulp reading is reading. Adults reading YA is reading. It's all good, my friends. Don't let anyone tell you different.

Every weekend, hundreds of ham radio operators keep marathons, parades & festivals safe when cell phones die. The same guys & gear that run Chicago & Boston also saved lives in Helene & Maui. This is why thousands of men are getting licensed in 2025. ⚡📻 #HamRadio #PublicService #GetLicensed

Happy New Year folks

Open up this picture fully. Then look at the surface of Mars. Then look up to the top right. Spot Mars' moon Phobos high in the sky. Then notice the bright spot beside Phobos. That's Earth.

This. My daughter tested pos. For flu A the week before Christmas. She was vaccinated. One day of fever and feeling terrible. No fever the next day and “10x better”. Fully recovered for a lovely Christmas holiday

Belief in that lie is how we're bringing measles and polio back. Stop it. If something in government is not working, then you fix it. Choose better leaders. Don't replace its leader with an incompetent person, or worse, a dude that doesn't understand what it does, and so wants to destroy it.

Huh, I wonder what happened to the labor?

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Christmas is coming. These are for my daughters. The handles are turned from some yellow birch deadfall from my parent’s property in Maine. I like making things like this with meaningful bits of wood. #woodturning

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bookshop.org/p/books/the-.... Finished "The Blacktongue Thief" by @buehlmeister.bsky.social. Remarkable and intriguing world-building and clever wordplay. #booksky

Remember also that blocks are public on Bluesky, while mutes are not

bookshop.org/p/books/shar... Finished Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe's Trafalgar. My third or fourth fictional Trafalgar. These are a bit formulaic but enjoyable reads. Evocative of the period. I'm reading in internal chronological order, so Sharpe isn't quite _Sharpe_ yet. #booksky

bookshop.org/p/books/a-se.... Finished Craig Johnson's "A Serpent's Tooth. A perfectly Longmire Longmire book. Good if you like these, and I do. The stakes and consequences in this one are heavier than usual. #booksky

“I just asked ChatGPT”

Post a movie you like with a terrible Rotten Tomatoes score www.rottentomatoes.com/m/titan_ae

Watching “Sneakers.” As one does. Even the supporting cast is stacked. #robertredford #sundance

Battle doomscrolling by posting five small pleasures on life: A cat who insists on a lap An excellent mystery novel The sound of a wooden screen door slamming on a summer evening The call of a loon Receiving a texted ❤️ from a distant loved one

bookshop.org/p/books/scen... Finished "Scent of Evil" third in Archer Mayor's long line of Vermont police procedurals featuring Joe Gunther. This one really got at what its like when everyone has been in town forever and the entanglements run deep. #Booksky

I took a terrific box turning class at the wondrous Adirondack Folk School yesterday. What a pleasure. #woodturning #woodworking #making

Favorite TV Themes Rockford Files Hill Street Blues Perry Mason Ellery Queen Deep Space Nine M*A*S*H Hogan’s Heroes Jonny Quest Greatest American Hero Peter Gunn Barney Miller WKRP

Bottom line, there are a lot of horrors abroad in the world, but if you’re cis and you don’t grasp that the defense of trans people has to be one of _everybody’s_ top priorities, you’re asking to live in a world run by the worst born-to-be-a-hall-monitor garbage people you can possibly imagine.

bookshop.org/p/books/kydd.... Finished "Kydd" by Julian Stockwin. Naval adventure in the Age of Sail. Kydd starts as a pressed man in this, the first of the series. All of the pleasure expected -- these sorts of books are comfort reads for me. #booksky

Good god with the heat of a 1000 suns. For heaven's sake, have enough of an inner life, humor, and basic decency to make your eyes twinkle, and you're 3/4 there. That, and be genuinely interested in other human beings, including the one you're talking to. Patience. Done.

bookshop.org/p/books/jade.... Finished "Jade Legacy," the conclusion of @fondalee.bsky.social e.bsky.social‬ 's glorious Green Bone Saga. The organic, believable growth of characters and society over the course of the books is extraordinary#bookskyky

bookshop.org/p/books/a-te.... Finished “A Test Wills” by @charlestodauthor.bsky.social An English country mystery with all the expected pleasures. Excellent depiction of a post WWI traumatized country #booksky

This just looks like fun. Looking forward to reading it

Rereading early Astro City by @kurtbusiek.bsky.social Boy howdy do they hold up well

Sometimes you just have to answer he question “If Indiana Jones had a computer monitor, what would it look like? Presuming Dr. Jones had as involved with #hamradio of course.

Speaking as someone at the tail end of a satisfying computer science career, this is important. Also, something I've seen time and again: throwing yourself at a career that isn't suitable, especially coding or engineering, damages the relationship with learning things in general

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.” - William Shakespeare, As You Like It

Please help me spread the word about this rally in support of the National Park Service, which will take place at the Eternal Light Peace Memorial at Gettysburg National Military Park on June 16 from 4-6:30PM. Thank you. #NationalParks #PublicHistory 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

"...there is nothing–absolutely nothing–half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.” - The Wind in the Willows. Starting to assemble the frame of Dave Gentry's PH13 solo canoe. #woodworking (gentrycustomboats.com/PH13page.html)

My daughter teaches fourth grade and wanted pens her kids could earn the use of so I turned these for her. They name their classes after colleges.

The problem with having hobbies and interests is having places to store the “stuff.” These are my solution. This one will be a seat/ottoman in my study.

Finished cutting and acquiring the bits needed to build a Provisional Press (www.provisionalpress.com/laser-cut-pl...)

Every year on Memorial Day, I share this video of French caretakers who take sand from Omaha Beach in Normandy, and scrub them into the letters to give them the gold coloring. They do this for all 9,386 US soldiers who died. France also gave us this land as American soil.

Finished "Murder by Memory" by @oliviawaite.com . I _really_ enjoyed this. "Miss Marple in space," indeed, complete with a troublesome nephew and a nemesis. The central crime is clever and well-grounded in the SF premise. I'd only wish for a deeper look at the world and its denizens. #booksky