Today's newsletter is an interview I recently did with the great and insightful @edzitron.com about the AI bubble. Check it out here: www.readtpa.com/p/the-man-ca...

Tuesday: rapture incoming !! Wednesday: 10 reasons why it's *your fault* that the rapture didn't happen yesterday, buy my merch, now 25% off

Came up against my first trump import tax woe today tryna pre-order the take that album. THIRTY-SEVEN DOLLARS for shipping. For a cassette tape. Had Marko get it shipped to him in the UK. $2.99.

More nature! Because nature is good even when a lot of other shit is bad. Today's photo: a kingfisher with, well, a fish. Photo by me.

It's autumn today, mothafuckas!

I am trying to lean into being more patient and helpful in leading students out of using AI, but man, when they don't even take out the obvious bits of ChatGPT responding to their prompts, it is hard not to get ragey.

Mark gives some great reasons why, even if it's the only way off a swiftly burning planet, you'll never catch my ass on a spaceship.

It's so disingenuous because if she truly believed that, she'd fight to keep the death penalty off the table entirely. She is literally pulling a Pontius Pilate.

Every autistic in the world would be glued to live updates and videos.

Christians seeing someone else having a different religion as discrimination is just so on the nose.

ABC keeps showing an ad for The Golden Bachelor that has Katy Perry's Teenage Dream playing and over a decade later it still annoys the shit out of me that she says "teen-nage."

X is infested with right wing bots, and no matter how mentally protective you are, that starts to seep into your brain. There is no fighting back on the platform owned by someone who intentionally spreads propaganda. It's just ego that says you desire more likes and interaction.

Kyo left for Atlanta while Walt was in the backyard and when Walt realized this, he was DEEPLY upset.

I can't eat pears because my stupid body can't properly absorb fructose so my husband is standing in the dining room eating a pear and staring straight into my eyes. Show off.

I cannot recommend enough making your replies "followers only." Most assholes don't care enough about snarking on your shit to actually hit the follow button to do it. My replies are pretty much completely asshole-free.

From Taskmaster this week I've learned that plain yogurt in the UK is GREY???

After the match, I went to high five Bryce on his way to the back, and he was like, no, we have to do a fist bump, I might unintentionally cut you 🤼‍♀️🤼‍♂️

Thekla lipsyncing to her entrance music is a lot more threatening than Julia doing it. 🤼🏽‍♀️

I join everyone else in refusing to believe that's Pac. 🤼🏽‍♀️

Bryan giving an impassioned blue collar worker rant while two guys are trying to throw each other into tacks. I love this sport. 🤼‍♂️

8th grade flashbacks

Ohp. Instant tears. EDDIIIIIIIEEEEE! 🤼🏽‍♀️

Wally is also enjoying porch day. 🥰

Love as much as you can as hard as you can for as long as you got, because in the end it's the only thing that matters

Got myself set up for a good several hours of porch sitting, starting with women's rugby and breakfast, and then reading for book club before the wrasslin. 🙌🏾 May your Saturday be similarly blessed.

The old white ladies are hanging an american flag, mexican flag, and lgbtq+ flag off the highway overpass today (with another protest sign) I remember the discourse about mexican flags at protests. Anyway lfg suburban grandmas 🫡 🇲🇽🏳️‍🌈

breaking: tools trained on biased data display biased tendencies

the whale car wash, n. 50th & meridian, oklahoma city, oklahoma, 1979

We gotta bring back aux inputs on phones, man. For all public transportation riders' sakes.

Bayside 🥰🥰🥰

At the kind of show where the audience is wearing t-shirts that say things like Underoath and Saosin, but for some reason the venue is playing '80s new wave between bands.

I have made a blog in which I have no takes! That's right, NO TAKES. Just a gal tryna nurture her sense of awe and wonder about the world earnestly and without cynicism. It's on Ko-Fi but it's completely free. ko-fi.com/explorigan

A happy International Talk Like A Pirate Day to Lt. Cmd Max Horton, who might not have talked like a pirate but damn well flew a Jolly Roger like one.

I find crabs absolutely horrifying but this is also a great video. Real attraction/repulsion situation going on.

Andor edited and re-uploaded to make Diego Luna less hot

What we're seeing in the "don't sign up for protests" discourse is what Paulo Freire described as the convert's failure to trust the knowledge of the oppressed. As the convert tries to stand in solidarity with the oppressed, they refuse to let go of a world where they were the authority by default.

Mental health hack

4 days till Fat Bear Week!! That'll bring a little joy to Monday 🐻🐟 www.npr.org/2025/09/19/n...

I have made a blog in which I have no takes! That's right, NO TAKES. Just a gal tryna nurture her sense of awe and wonder about the world earnestly and without cynicism. It's on Ko-Fi but it's completely free. ko-fi.com/explorigan

Whoooa! Alien tomatoes!

Every movie that’s coming to criterion next month is currently on tubi right now

I just discovered Nova Scotia is only a 14 hour drive away and have started daydreaming...

An underwhelming week o' films, but there's always Follow That Bird. 🥰 #lastfourwatched 📽️

My co-host speaks the truth. ♥️

Please don't tell my family... they think I have a reputable job.

More and more I think @quinnae.com absolutely nailed Taylor in her book log off

here’s a fun dinner party question: antifa means antifascist. this administration says antifa is an enemy of the state and a terrorist organization. what conclusion can be reached about the united states government?

Today's "everything is bad so let's pause for a second to regard nature and take a breath that isn't poisoned by our fear of a collapsing democracy" pic -- an osprey flying overhead. Photo by me.