Me, a month or so ago: "Maybe I should try getting at least a little bit into football for the first time, so I can rep my home team of LSU" [a month later] LSU:

Given my 15-year-or-so-long obsession with aviation, this might surprise some of you to hear: I haven't been on a flight of any kind in 10 years. ...yeah, well, that changes tomorrow. I'll be jetting off to Walmartville, Arkansas for the Halloweekend. Look out, IAH!

Ah yes, new and recent releases

In today's episode of "Wisdom of the Public Restroom":

Well don't I feel stupid

"Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. [...]

“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind

Obviously, there's bigger news happening right now, but Senate Republicans just voted against releasing the Epstein files. Every Democrat voted to release them. Susan Collins was the deciding vote to protect Trump and others named in the files.

I had a longer thread I was writing about this, but then my Bsky app restarted and didn't save the damn thing, so here's a shorter version: Charlie Kirk wasn't some intellectual going around looking for honest debates. That's a facade that MAGA will try to gaslight us into believing soon.

Pundits are focusing on Kirk’s willingness to debate people while studiously ignoring the people whose basic humanity he was willing to debate

As someone with 20 years reporting on right wing and fascist movements, you should goddamn know well that it doesn't matter what anyone says or does, they're going to use this as an excuse for authoritarian crackdowns with little to no relevance to the actual crime.

The lost art of fitting every computer related device on a single piece of furniture.

20 years ago today, I got my first exposure to the importance of politics, when Hurricane Katrina rolled over my home state of Louisiana. I was only 6 back then, but I still have lots of vivid memories. Here's a few of those, and some thoughts to go with them. 🧵

My state's ridiculous ban on Bsky is only not affecting me because my ISP (Starlink) reroutes my IP to a different state. Anyone else in MS right now ought to be looking at signing up for a VPN, because this is just ridiculous. www.mississippifreepress.org/editors-note...

Despite collecting a bunch of MP3s over the years, I've always felt like there was one huge hole missing in it: anything Beatles. Now that I know that the Giles Martin remasters of their back-catalogue exist, it might just be time to finally change that.

In today's episode of "Wisdom of the Public Restroom":

This has probably been my most-replayed song of the last couple of days, for obvious reasons. If they ever make an Ozzy biopic, this *has* to be the credits song.

Every now and then, I'll be trying to sleep, then "ANIMAL CRACKERS IN MY SOUP" will start playing in my head and break my brain

How it feels when my GPS steers me into the wrong driveway

People keep talking about a "bluesky bubble" and I cannot stress to these people enough curating a comfortable safe space to be yourself is just a normal human behavior It is not normal to just allow conflict hatred and awful people to have access to you in some weird exercise to "hear them out"

In awe of the beauty of this absolute beast

My brain, clueless: "Yeah, if you're an artist joining Bsky for the first time, you should just flood your feed with pieces to start" [2 hours later] @creativaartly01.bsky.social, doing as I say:

Just a little reminder for no particular reason that blocklists like this exist- bsky.app/profile/did:... Also a reminder to not say anything to certain accounts that could justify masked thugs coming to your door.

Posting there is a problem because it validates Musk’s right-wing platform, but just being there is a problem too. You can’t marinate all day in a right-wing fever swamp and come away unaffected. You’re letting a fringe group warp your sense of “what normal people think.”

Peak autism experience: using a sim to learn how to drive a London Underground C Stock train, a type that was retired over a decade ago, used on a subway line of a city you barely know anything about, in a country you've never visited

Status report: a Roblox-adjacent virtual airshows group has been officially celebrating Pride Month for two full days now... and there hasn't been any homophobic gifs or comment in chat yet. New world record?

Over the last 5 or so years, between becoming a brony and getting one foot out of the closet as pan/NB, friends of mine have gotten to see my old "edgy macho metalhead bro" persona peel away bit by bit. ...and yet, a few are still surprised when they're reminded I started liking some pop music too!

Time for that time of the month where I remember I have an account on social media that isn't Reddit

The average American has three friends.

To celebrate @utba.ph's arrival on Bluesky: Yoyo Saki, Japanese restaurant in McComb, Mississippi

Misfits comic #8! Don't question them at the beach in February, it's not that deep.. written by @mrcoleslaw.bsky.social and @alexhedgefox.bsky.social

Dammit, Rainbow Dash, you put the snow clouds over the wrong state!

I’ll be real, we’re not all going to be okay the next 4 years. Especially the marginalized groups his administration is targeting. Being realistic doesn’t mean giving up, though. Finding joy is a radical act, love yourself and take care of the people around you. That’s what I’ll keep doing.

As my long-awaited PC build begins, @nodo.kahanamura.com is my guide through the darkness

I feel a strange urge to make love to the ham and cheese sandwich I just made

COCONUT TREE GANG LET'S FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

You know, this is not the best of times to have "Hawk" in your name!

Having a good, long look at Aldi's Nuts

Today

20 years ago we were suing teenagers for millions of dollars because they were torrenting a single Metallica album and now billionaires are demanding the free right to every work in history, so that they can re-sell it. The law only ever serves capital.

I like how Abby has so many options around the house for places to sleep, between chairs, a couch, and a currently empty master bed... and where does she choose to check out every single night?