Just finished reading this the other day and it absolutely bowled me over. Hard to comprehend the incredible debt the modern art world owes to the heroic action of one ordinary woman-- and a great boon to history that @michelleyoung.bsky.social was able to remind us all of her story. #booksky

"We promise you guys, we're not 'based!' Please stop saying that we're based!"

Had an Amazon card from the in-laws + Prime for a month to make sure some harder-to-find gifts arrived for X-mas, finishing it out by picking a couple random books I'd never heard of before; a great throw-back to the feel of browsing at random in a B&N back when. #BookSky

Great game by Texas, congrats to them on the win. Still, felt great seeing the Wolverines out there playing the game and having fun. The drama of the past few weeks is (mostly) in the rearview finally and look forward to seeing the team rise up again next year. #GoBlue #Michigan

Really enjoying this Michigan-Texas game but man these reds are rough. To my eyes two Texas scores have come off soft penalties (roughing, DPI, then a no-called delay on their 4th down conversion). Hoping the boys can pull it out and not have controversy. #GoBlue

FINALLY refs willing to call it when they’re holding Michigan defenders. Could hardly buy one all season. #GoBlue

The Bears have deferred Nothing much, I imagine Oh look, a touchdown

The strange reassurance of realizing you forgot something before leaving, as if you are thereby inoculated against any further forgetting

Just finished the first volume of Mysteries of Udolpho and my gods can Ann Ward Radcliffe spin a tragedy. The final argument between duty and love under the duress of impossible antagonistic forces, with so many turns and re-turns of lovers’ feeling, is painfully vivid even centuries later. #BookSky

BEARS!!! #BearDown

Man. Was all set to get aboard the Divinity train and pick up Original Sin 2 and maybe 1. But the gen AI push just tastes so bad. Gazing boyfriend memeing at Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 a bit. . .

Reading this was like being in sooty old London town and suddenly, somehow getting a breath of clean, sweet, fresh Alpine air.

Finished the Celebration Bowl (with a bad failure to overturn a 2 pt) and now Army-Navy is just a parade of further reviews

A monkey's paw curls a finger as it puts into the world the clearest possible illustration of how AI is used to allow people (and corporations) the benefit of your creative abilities while denying you even the paltry payment you'd have once received

Why in the world do the commentators for the ISU Figure Skating Gran Prix finals assume watchers do not have an understanding of how difficult it is? The American announcer just going off on how he wants objective difficulty measurements and AI… what even is this man? Does he watch this sport?

It took a long time in life to begin to pull back the curtain and start considering all the work that goes into crafting a musical work. Listening to Concerto de Aranjuez yesterday (and again today) I am bowled over again that such a perfect orchestration could be spun from airy nothings.

Double-checking All The Things before I open a support ticket has, once again, potentially shown me the answer.

Giving Tuesday is great but what an emotional gut punch the greeting pop up (explaining to hit escape three times to close the window) is at Trevor Project. Brilliant they have it, of course, but why it has to exist just hit me like a Sarah McLachlan dog commercial.

Her willingness to organize a general strike

I remember in spring 2021 when Jim Harbaugh, like a lunatic, said the goal for the year was a Big Ten championship. That’s what started today. It’s an uphill battle but let’s get five! #GoBlue

Without pets to feel I betrayed them when the weather turns foul the closest I get to that kind of guilt trip is the PS5 yelling at me after a power outage. I did not want that to happen, lil bro, I promise. What's that? You already committed seppuku? Little OTT, but tbh I get it.

We have angered Helios; he turns his bright-shining chariot away from our lands. I foresee near four full weeks of fasts and sacrifices being needed to appease him.

I never stop being wowed by this album. Haunting and melancholic strains that manage to enthrall time and time again. And above and beyond the composition, the recording quality is fantastic; one of the best-sounding piano albums I've ever listened to.

What I wanted was to not have to come from behind in n the 4th. Good result. #BearDown #GoBears

Had felt a reread of 1Q84 coming on, like feeling the first real days of winter approaching. Today was finally the day to start and gods does it feel good. I can never retain in memory the full sensation of how completely Murakami is able to sweep me away.

Checking a colleague's flight status and feel like a weirdo. Clear misuse of a technology obviously specifically designed to monitor college football coaching searches.

Overjoyed Bears fans across the country, rn.

What if the field is limited to 12 digits in length and as he hits one trillion the simulation resets?

Many people asking

"Ich askid ChatGPT." Well *Ich* askid the stones, and the forest, and the starres, and the mountaynes, and what thei seyde was learninge, and dreames, and growinge thinges, and makinge art, and a worlde wher we talke to each othir and care about each othir.

What I see in my head is the judge doing a ring walk-- music thumping through the arena, pyrotechnics erupting at her sides, pounding her gloves together with anticipation-- as all those who love justice roar and applaud the champion's inevitable victory.

“Rage, rage against the dying of the light!” I mumble to myself as, minutes after work, I walk out into blackest night to check the mail.

New awareness campaign

Caleb Williams on every play like a student sprung upon in a foreign language class, not understanding the question, yet alone sure of an answer

It was a diamond clenched just about start-to-finish, but we got the W and Paul’s staying home in Ann Arbor. #GoBlue!

Listening to Carmen Maria Machado's _In the Dream House_ and it's so good. Memoir that reads alternately as sparkling poetry and horror story. Eager to get to her escape but simultaneously want so much time with her words. #BookSky

Yesterday me turned off my horror audiobook as things were starting to get scary and boy is that chicken about to come home to roost. Jerk move, past me.

FROGS TOGETHER STRONG

Holy cow, Cubbies. We're so cooked to we're cookin so much in the space of a single inning.

Okay, Chihiro Yamanaka, I was not familiar with your game. Great random Apple Music pick-- and a make or break first track with Maple Leaf Rag. I don't know if it's legit but, as I once read an article about Cuphead using a cartoon style rooted in racism, that song always sounds that way to me.

Chat is it good when you have to take your starting pitcher out after just the first inning? #Cubs

That Walgreens made me aware of an Rx being in < 2 hours before close on Friday only to follow up by texting and calling me < 11am today (the next day they're open) is pretty obnoxious.

Hello again, Jordan Marshall! A return to form for sure #GoBlue

It’s still obscene how many teams are in the Big Ten and where so many are, but at least they kept the style of the conference commercial.

Oh fucking hell. #GoBlue

Cancel Disney plus, get Dropout

2023: 15-0, National Championship, a year to be talked about down the years 2024: TROPHY GO BRRRRR 2025: The future has arrived… And apparently might be Batman?! #GoBlue

Understand it’s a get-right game against an overmatched opponent but hot damn was that a mighty fine half of football. #GoBlue

Is Semaj Morgan allergic to catching the ball out of the air? Feels like every punt is getting at least one bounce on the grass. #GoBlue

That Oregon-Northwestern is a conference game is unholy