Yall. I think I might be too old to mosh.

Give you a guess as to what we’re supplying for the 4th of July cook out…

That should be a red card. 🙄

That is a patently ridiculous red card! Yellow should even be a judgment call there. That’s crazy!

That sound you just heard was me screaming in rage.

Seen on my run. Am I surprised to see this in my sundown town? No. Still an unsettling reminder of where we are.

In some not horrific news, my sister took a cyanotype class a while back, and for Father’s Day, made this awesome cyanotype print of a picture of my kids. I love it! Can’t wait to get it framed up!

It really does feel like the single most consequential action in the last decade of our political history was McConnell blocking the appointment of Merrick Garland.

Given my studies, I can fairly confidently say that I am an expert on Lueger, the Christlichsoziale Partei, and late-nineteenth century Viennese politics... Mamdani has literally nothing in common with Lueger. This is the dumbest attempt to sound smart while spewing utter bullshit i’ve ever seen.

Seeing people fight with each other on FB, both using AI screenshots to “prove” they are right (and, AI aside, neither screenshot actually supporting their claim), just makes me weep. Not sure if AI is making them dumber, but it’s certainly making them more confident in being dumb.

Doing a little work in our uninsulated and un-climate-controlled attic, and I think this may be the sweatiest I’ve been in a VERY long time… Good lord!

Never doubted!!!!* * This statement has been ruled to be false.

Been reading Dungeon Crawler Carl and thinking about the upcoming TV series, and I have the perfect casting for Samantha… hear me out… Noel Fielding.

Nobody show this to the right wingers who have been shouting about Spencer Pratt and statistics for the last three days.

This Time on “My Job is Nuts!” — My whole day tomorrow is just “Watch Netflix’s ‘The Staircase.’”

You know, Mark Twain once said there are three types of lies — lies, damn lies, and statistics. And by God, these right wingers are trying to hit triple cherries with this Spencer Pratt stuff.

All the RW grifters talking about Spencer Pratt sound like: “2+2=4? What are the odds that TWO would become FOUR? Is it really that crazy? Well, I asked ChatGPT to look at all possible numbers that COULD have been added, and the odds that it would be two are ASTRONOMICAL! The fix is IN!”

A Canticle for Leibowitz. Each part could would be one season, with a prequel season depicting the events that led to the founding of the monastery. New cast for each season.

Got patted down in the security line at the airport. I assume the groping is a perk? Idk, I’ve never flown first class before.

We sent out a big email to all the runners from last year’s 5K announcing this year’s race… aaaaaaaaand there’s a typo in the first line 🤦‍♂️

This feels like something straight out of a goddamn horror film!

These next two weeks are going to be a bit hectic. Just me and the kids for the next couple of days, 5K on Monday, backpacking trip next weekend, then Flying to Los Angeles for work the next Tuesday. Also, probably rain and thunderstorms in all that?? Yay!!

Quality. We still have to buy the same shit and that shit has never been worse and more disposable. Private equity is killing off brands that used to be synonymous with quality and our childhoods and we know the people responsible for it have the ability to double their wealth during a pandemic.

Did I spend a chunk of today putting a homemade copper pipe j-pole ham radio antenna in my attic? Yes. Am I a giant nerd? Well… I think my attic antenna speaks for itself.

At the risk of sounding like I’m falling for the exact trap this paper is taking about… this confirms my own observations of AI chatbots and hypotheses about some of the people who regularly use them.

Big Michael Scott “I have no shortage of company names” energy.

Nothing like frantically looking for your phone using the flashlight on your phone to bring you back down a notch.

Reached a bit of a milestone today. I’m down 10lb since I started paying more attention to my nutrition and running more. I’m not chasing a number on the scale, rather trying to just feel better overall, but it’s nice to have a little boost today regardless!

Is there a better feeling than closing 108 tabs (literally) after finishing a project? Maybe. But this is pretty damn good.

Tyler, if you’re out there, I’m sorry you accidentally put my phone number in your DoorDash account, but if you could stop spamming the “Send Code” button at THREE IN THE GODDAMN MORNING and realize you messed up, that would be nice.

No joke, there’s a small niche within the amateur radio hobby that is kind of reviving these old bulletin board systems using digital signals over ham radio. It’s ridiculous, and I love it!

I just have to say, with all the things I’ve been wrong about, I’m glad that my long-held opinion of, “Bill Maher isn’t good; he’s just an asshole,” has been proven so very correct!

In my (admittedly tiny and anecdotal) experience, the time is right to be selling your C-Suite on the idea that your company refusing to use AI can be a powerful marketing tool. Leaning into authenticity in a world surrounded by AI slop sells!!

I just signed up for a bunch of 5Ks throughout the year and a 10K to motivate my ass to keep up the good work and not get complacent. I’m legit excited about the progress I’ve been making and want to keep it up!

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I have long been an Americano hater… this @jameshoffmann.bsky.social video is making me want to annoy my barista and try some things… youtu.be/0HdzJz_evNw?...

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I’ve been trying to get back in shape, and I have to say it makes me viscerally angry that I feel better when I eat right and exercise. Like, I just want to Bruce Bogtrotter an entire chocolate cake and feel not like shit. Is that too much to ask???

Reason #534 that they wouldn’t let me in that briefing room: I’d just be sitting in the back making wanking motions every time he said some ridiculous bullshit like this.

I had a Blue’s Clues related nightmare. Blue was dognapped and I was following a series of clues she left behind to find her. Ultimately it ended me being chased by a member of the gang who took her while I frantically tried to drop a pin for Steve on a laptop with unreliable WiFi.

A word that I write CONSTANTLY, but have to check pretty much every time is “Sheriff.” I can never remember if I should put one R two Fs, two Rs one F, two Rs two Fs, or just leave them all out and type “Shei” and hope everyone knows what I mean.

For not the first time I’m acutely aware of how much AI slop there is on social media. I start reading something, hear the cadence in my head, and start to cringe.

Been watching Spidey and His Amazing Friends with the kiddo, and while Doc Ock is an idiot, her hair is objectively bangin!

“Marathon Talks.” The Camp David Accords took 13 days. This lasted 20 hours. Fucking clown show.

This is all of us.

People on the right love to talk about how social services are impossible to get rid of once they’re in place (as if that’s a bad thing), but NEVER talk about how corporate prices ratchet up for various excuses and never come down again, even after the problem has passed.

all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant

Markey: "They were planning an actual genocide -- a destruction of a civilization. That's why Trump should be impeached, that's why Democrats should file impeachment articles against Trump, that's why the 25th Amendment to remove me should be invoked."

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Woke up with a song from Jesus Christ Superstar in my head. Specifically the one where all the people want him to heal them and he gets overwhelmed and freaks out and runs away. Must have been dreaming it. I’m sure that doesn’t mean anything…