Could fit a whole year of product in this bad boy.

Any Magic: The Gathering players out there still looking for a card catalog? Found this doubled sided hoss of a cabinet in VA.

not the step dad, but the dad who stepped up

Getting on my ‘this is exactly why print mags are great’ soapbox again I can’t even begin to work out how much awesome stuff I’ve discovered over the years because the magazine article on the thing I already loved was followed by one on something totally different I’d never have heard of otherwise

every AI advocate is like "look out specific industry, AI can now create a weird facsimile of what your specific industry makes, very poorly... looks like it's over for your industry"

it's not that i ever doubted that being a barista was a skilled position, but my year-long effort to try to produce a half-decent latte at home has convinced me that a good barista is easily more skilled than virtually every c-suite executive on the planet

i hope this election cycle empowers everyone the next time a centrist liberal says to drop pro-trans and pro-immigrant rhetoric to enthusiastically tell them to shut the fuck up

working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now"

In the 2010s, this country's elites were thrown onto social platforms with everyone else and could finally read what we all think about them and it caused them so much psychic damage that they decided to destroy both the internet and democracy to make sure nothing like it ever happened again.

this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

PICARD: These “Borg” are a curious blend of organic and machine, a culture so sublimated to its own technology that the line between natural life and technological facsimile is porous and thin. RIKER: (nude in the holodeck) it’s insane they let us nut in the computer

Instead of building out green energy capacity or public transit, we’re gonna pay people to clean up the code wank from floors and walls of the vibe coding booths.

We need everyone back in the office because we want the serendipitous magic that only happens when you let humans get creative together and also we're replacing all of you with an AI machine that can only do things that it's seen done before

an actual gift of the internet age is how relatively easy it has become for non-wealthy people to maintain memory systems. both personal ones (photos, backups, searchable mail) and collective ones (wikis, archives, fan communities) the glee with which that is being destroyed right now floors me

Patient, sobbing: But Doctor, I AM Pagliacci! ChatGPT: Apologies. I didn't realise when recommending Pagliacci's epic show to cure your depression that you were the genius himself. I'm impressed! With regards to your initial question, I can recommend seeing the Great Clown Pagliacci.

I kinda think the way people use ChatGPT is sort of aspirational because it seems to emulate the way rich people have sycophants lying to them all the time until they lose touch with reality and also their entire minds

Age verification? I dialed into a BBS on a 2400 baud modem

MAKE THE COMPUTER GOOD AGAIN - GET SHIRT OF THIS AT DASHARE.ZONE - dashare.zone ADMIN

Saving money on printing ink and passing it along to the shareholders. Or something as equally as in service of entropy.

The lead singer of Bad Religion's name is "Brad Religion"

It’s done. Now what? Should I finally try to win the Magic: The Gathering Pro Tour?

America is beautiful, contradictory, unfinished. I am proud of our country even as we constantly strive to make it better, to protect and deepen our democracy, to fulfill its promise for each and every person who calls it home. Happy Independence Day. No Kings in America.

Cracking packs.

doodle. write poems you never show anyone. make banana bread. take pictures of birds. grow a plant. the goal isn’t to build job skills or “become a creative” it’s to just fool around and experience yourself and the world around you

this is maybe trite at this point but it is in your interest to find ways to create things. basically everyone wants you to be consuming nonstop. making stuff, from cooking to photography or whatever, can help you feel more in control. doesn’t even have to be something you share with other people

hell yeah new pope lets go

Just shy of two months until the end of my contract at my current gig and I think the vibes can best be described as somewhere between "I won't leave a basement full of stuff for my kids to deal with when I die" and "who will carry on my PlayStation 2 adventures after I'm gone?"

The Foot Clan provided an essential third space for these kids to hang out and decrompress and be creative, but Bush I and Clinton destroyed it with budget cuts 😔

Maybe next time we should try putting Charles Entertainment Cheese in charge of the world’s economy.

stocked up on more bullets, dried food and Warhammer miniatures. the essentials.

Getting asset hand-offs for a project and a solid half of the photos are AI-generated sweaty-toothed nightmares direct from Adobe Stock. Fuckin' sucks, man.

I am maybe too morbid a man, but I have a limited time working on this earth and I’d rather not spend any of it doing anything other than writing my own messages in the sand. I don’t really see any role for randomised, anonymised plagiarism in that process.

I'm at the point now where I dread opening any of the Adobe apps, especially Photoshop. It's just non-stop pop-ups for their latest AI-slop features.

Blew the dust off an old @11ty.dev site (v0.12.1 to be exact 🫣), made a few content updates, and redeployed it with no issues. There's so much to be said about that kind of resiliency. It's no wonder that it’s been my go-to for building websites since 2018.

Back in NYC with a haul from some great hobby shops in Northern Virginia.

Good times were had! The $100 Jund goblin deck continues to steal wins from much better decks (and better players) by casting Kindred Summons with conspire via Wort, the Raidmother. 😌

Literally every company now youtube.com/shorts/hL9pl...

Love discovering that a large selection of Grand Designs episodes are now on YouTube.

And In His House at R'lyeh Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, waits dreaming

Jam on my jean cuff—a classic me problem.

that time of day/month/year when I think maybe I should buy a another domain name

I'm at the point where all my EDH decks feel boring to pilot, so it's probably time to purge and rebuild from the ground up. Noodling around with a few new ideas and this is one set of cards that seems fun to throw at a table.

On deck reading for the weekend.

Maybe If I Get Into This I'll Be Happy. VOL. 44 NOV. 2024 I'm sure Bluesky is better than Twitter, whirling in its x-shaped death spiral, but it's also time to bring back personal websites. Investing solely in walled gardens has made the web a unhealthy place for the better part of twenty years.

Lost my specs but I have a conch. Figure things are gonna be just fine.