Hang in there, kittens.

juxtaposition between the state planning to practically lay off every snowplow operator across the mountain passes while the interstate bridge jabronies steamroll forward with a ten billion dollar freeway expansion despite having no money in hand + no coherent design plans is breathtaking

Once again a bunch of bloggers blogged about #Blogging so once again I blogged about what a bunch of bloggers blogged about blogging. #BixDotBlog

So I literally pitched a few years ago an entire “asocial” networking site where instead of a feed, everyone had profiles and you got a list of who had updated their profiles since the last time you checked. But I’m not a programmer so.

I give up trying to do that perfect film chain. GIFs here are implemented crappily.

So I keep adding alt text to gifs I upload myself and they all disappear the alt text. Wtf.

A fun fact about McCarthyism is that just two and a half years after he was condemned and censured, Sen. Joseph McCarthy drank himself to death at 48. Fevers break. Petty tyrants fall. Censorship and persecution drive good people to stand together and fight back.

Baked a bunch of Italian sausage to freeze.

If you pass a stranger on the street and they say "nice weather we're having," you wouldn't think they're trying to be a WEATHER INFLUENCER - they're just a stranger being nice. But if you say "gosh it's hot out" online, people reply like, WHAT ARE YOU, THE WEATHER POLICE? It's ... odd.

The blog is back on continuous deployment now that the timezone issue is sussed. This will make things easier.

Added another couple of dozen quotes to the random thing at the bottom of my homepage. Mostly from Camper Van Beethoven and Throwing Muses.

I grew up in the “spiritual warfare” zone and let me confirm, lest you doubt the evidence of your eyes, that it is exactly as dangerously unhinged as it looks.

Kirk’s ‘memorial’ getting a live coverage on The Guardian is a great example of how the right gets automatically framed as the default political movement to be ‘understood’ while the victims of that same movement never will never get the same amount of coverage

ah yes, so the thing i said right after it was announced was right on the money

No, that's the rule, everybody knows the rule If you get in the way of the laundry, you get covered in socks

#PDX Polish Festival. Step 1: the tokens line.

“People like to listen to him” is not a defense of Ezra Klein. People also “liked to listen to” Charlie Kirk.

We Will Rise Again is a vitally important anthology of speculative fiction about resistance and hope. I'm so pumped to have a story in this book about trans people subverting a repressive government that mandates "traditional gender". Pre-order link: www.simonandschuster.com/books/We-Wil...

We've reached the limits of my being able to understand what @11ty.dev is doing. Local and @netlify.com are using same node, same npm, same eleventy. But that timestamp issue I had months ago that was fixed in Eleventy 3.1, that is fixed locally, is still broken on Netlify. I don't get it. #11ty

Rolled back a couple of recent design tweaks to the blog. I'm not sure why I complicated things.

Bluesky app cuts off the top of my emoji. @pfrazee.com

You know if Tylenol would just commit funds to Mine Furor’s new ballroom I’m sure tomorrow’s autism announcement would just magically disappear.

Always good when a subset of people frame their lives, and expected deaths, around a work that had an adaptation starring Kirk Cameron.

Oof.

In ONE MONTH, the first book of my long time personal project, THE OCTOBER GIRL, finally hits shelves! THE OCTOBER GIRL Book One. October 21st. From me and @madcavestudios.com's Maverick imprint!

Read this article but for “hallucinate/s” read “bullshits” and for “hallucination/s” read “bullshit”, and you’ll understand it better.

Fireworks why, #StJohns? #PDX

“The prompt you write will always be more interesting than the image it generates.”

That's better.

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This tops my previous favourite bit of clueless rich autistic advice, which was “just fly first class.” Although “just quit your job if it’s not validating” was a good a good one, too.

I do not remember past blood draws leaving a visible bruise but maybe I just wasn’t paying attention?

I’m sorry but a 1-3-4-2-6 rundown is ridiculous.

Celebrating #caturday by explaining state preemption of local building codes to this perfect cat. #explainingthingstocats

Captain Bighead wants a popsicle

This post got labeled as using a slur? 🤔

Kind of bummed to discover the Zio app does not share the heart monitor data to the Apple Health app.

I was hoping that How the World Made the West would be something akin to Inventing the Renaissance but I'm finding it a tough go. I think I have to at least temporarily DNF it, and maybe try coming back to it later.

Going back to just blocking large accounts who don’t use alt text instead of letting myself get distracted by my irkedness.

Cheez-It® Extra Toasty Snack Crackers.

Oh. If the Red Sox somehow do make postseason play, while I won’t be able to watch it looks like the audio streaming portion of MLB.TV still works for postseason, so I can listen.

I'm trying to decide whether to get kielbasa or bigos tomorrow, since I can't do the combo plate because I have to split some money over to the placki, and made the mistake of discovering how the Polish Festival Seattle presents its food.

ebay is trying to sell me a serving tray with what appears to be a monstrously large swift straddling a fence and so instead of thinking about the horrors here in the now i am contemplating what's going to happen next in this tableau

Ran into this on r/Portland. #PDX

Did you know I'm a member of the #OneAMonthClub? What the fuck is that, you ask. It's just bloggers who put up a way for you to tip them $1/month.

Can I just say that all of the sound elements they’ve added to electric cars because they don’t have the sounds naturally produced by internal combustion absolutely fucking suck and once a substantial portion of traffic is using these sounds it’s going to be a hellscape.

There has never been such an interesting article as this one. And it just keeps going! Treat yourself to a read.

I'd love to do a panel on "scuba diving and science fiction writing" one day because I think diving is the closest thing to space exploration that the average person can experience. Plus, everytime I dive, I get a new story idea.

It also ignores that leaving was a form of influence! Millions sent a clear message about the minimum standards of fairness and respect we believe are foundational for civic conversation. Their obsession with our departure makes clear it was effectively communicated; they just don't like it

Washington Post columnist says BSky has made people irrelevant but Karen Attiah was literally just fired on the pretense that a few BSky posts could single-handedly damage WaPo’s reputation and endanger the entire staff Columnist has said nothing publicly about this Which is it you guys