this is Minnesotan for "I am mad enough to bite through rebar"

If this is all a simulation, it's just proof that open-world games suck.

More isn't always better, and I'm beginning to think that obsessions with great magnitudes (biggest, strongest, fastest, etc.) is a mark of a childish character.

The Onion nailed it: "ICE Confirms Agents Do Not Have Faces Beneath Masks" "... seeing a man in tactical gear is far better than seeing a man without a face, staring deep into that empty chasm, and instantly going mad." https://theonion.com/ice-confirms-agents-do-not-have-faces-beneath-masks/

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open 'just to do quick research'

Add another one to the great big board of "Urban Planning Debates: Academic Research vs. Some Guy"

Starting off the year by pushing out reviews of the last...twenty? books I read last year. I, uh, I should have done this sooner.

I hate it here, for the record.

Entering our Too Lazy to Manufacture Consent era

My year of weird spices begins.

Here’s to 2026

> doing the reading, letting it change yr mind: Valhalla > doing the reading just to be a little shit: Jötunheimr > not doing the reading, admitting it, vibing: Midgard > pretending to have done the reading to escape notice: Niflheim > pretending to have done the reading, being a little shit: Hel

I went vegetarian at the start of this year for what my partner describes as "Dale Gribble reasons" (not trusting the gov't). On Christmas, I'm full of portobello mushrooms, Brussels sprouts, mashed potato, and wine. I feel like I've made good decisions.

I've made it difficult for myself to take a week off. Here are some notes on something I've been thinking about for a while:

started / going

fucking NO.

Doing any last minute shopping for the weirdos in your life? Consider one or more of these books that I read! www.brokenhandsmedia.com/blog/2025/12...

I've made it a personal goal to stop using the term "content" when referring to media made by artists. The word implies mass-produced filler and calling someone's hard work their "content" has started to feel kinda like an insult. Like human art made strictly for quick consumption

Remember: The Green Knight is a Christmas movie.

#ai #mozilla #firefox #fuckAI #genAI #fuckGenAI

Call me crazy, but I don't want the Nazi Wizard Game even if it's free.

i stand by this statement every year

A plan, based on a few years of experience: two simple methods for spotting AI writing while grading papers.

A few words on Anarchism, From David Graeber's 'Are You An Anarchist? The Answer May Surprise You!' davidgraeber.org/articles/are...

The sheer number of drivers in this town that don't understand bike lanes is terrifying.

A review of 'Book of Hours' by @weatherfactory.biz, shading into some thoughts on game design, storytelling, and how "mystery box" narratives work.

MAN what a novel

A short but powerful list of books for today. I think I enjoyed B.R. Yeager's 'Negative Space' the most, out of the fiction I read, though I also finished 'Aztec Philosophy: Understanding a World in Motion' by James Maffie, and that was a real brain-bender. Check out more detailed thoughts below:

A brief essay on why things never seem to get better, politically speaking.

An essay concerning the psychological toll that patriarchy takes on its supposed beneficiaries:

I feel like we have the opportunity to turn David Lynch's quote into this moment's "Keep Calm and Carry On" and it's a far better rallying cry too.

I read so many books last month, and I wrote about them here: www.brokenhandsmedia.com/blog/2025/11...

Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.

Some thoughts on recent discussions in the arts and entertainment.

If Missouri wants to control the KCPD they should have to provide all the funding.

'New research coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC has found that AI assistants – already a daily information gateway for millions of people – routinely misrepresent news content no matter which language, territory, or AI platform is tested.' 1/2

I wrote about Public Access from the perspective of a repeat player: www.brokenhandsmedia.com/blog/2025/10...

Canvas is out so I'm just staring up into the fluorescent lights at school A (where I have conferences with students about the assignment that they just turned in) and thinking about how I have to turn in midterm grades at school B. #adjunctlife

Another Wednesday, another post. Some excellent books in this round of reviews, including Ada Palmer's 'Inventing the Renaissance' and Vajra Chandrasekera's 'Rakesfall', both well worth reading.

and when you just can't get enough Public Access (it's so good!) you can check out Volume 4 of Sprigs & Kindling for even more Analog Horror! Two whole issues of it! sprigsandkindling.com

Got a big ol' book round up here, featuring a bunch of trans horror novels that I got from the library: www.brokenhandsmedia.com/blog/2025/10...

So, I'm grading papers, and I'm getting students who are shocked that I open up the document that they're citing and search for the original context of the quote -- often finding that it simply doesn't exist.

I went vegetarian at the start of the year, and it's honestly been much easier than I anticipated, despite living in a city renowned for barbecue and being allergic to one of the main components of "Beyond" meat. This led me to a question: why do we want what we want?