sprained my ankle running to get to the pizza man

all this is both foolish and unnecessary

I wrote about my plans for 2026.

all meaning has collapsed in our post-literate society and i wrote a bunch of useless, useless words about it. read it if you, like me, are one of a diminishing minority who still reads www.theverge.com/policy/84960...

I* bought a house today. I am very excited! *myself, Julia, and Julia’s parents; we will all be moving in and living together; trying out that multigenerational living thing that was, as I understand it, the norm for most of human existence

so do we think this was enough, or...

Behold!

Every Democrat running for office needs to promise investigations and full prosecutions from top to bottom, remove its funding bloat then break up the agency and distribute its core remaining useful functions across other agencies.

Extremely funny to call the pope “holier-than-thou”

The greatest act of authorial pantsing in English literature might well be Dickens's pulling a 180 on Marley's promise of three spirits, one per night. "The spirits have done it all in one night. They can do anything they like. Of course they can. Of course they can." Indeed, Chas.

I was visiting the Cratchits, late one night when my eyes beheld a very alive sight

It is the birthday of Fritz Leiber, (pronounced Lie-ber) the man who coined the term sword & sorcery and who wrote some of the best work in the genre. I actually read Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser in prose before I read Conan.He was also a fantastic author of horror and fantasy.Just a wonderful writer.

born this date 1910 – Fritz Leiber, American author and poet (died 1992)

Not actually sure who my favorite is, but this guy always comes up when I think about this question and he doesn’t get enough love.

almost bought Julia tickets to a concert for Christmas, but then I casually asked her if we had plans for that day I wasn't aware of, and she looked at her phone, looked sheepish and said "um, yes," and then wouldn't tell me why, so clearly she bought me tickets to that concert

Are You There, God? It’s Me, Bank of America

Is “Ruth’s Chris Kennedy Center” anything?

Perfect screenshot. Worf as a focal point is already killer, then your eyes travel to Data in the friar haircut and you think "this can't possibly get any better," and then there's the finishing blow of Geordi in his space visor plucking a lute

Generative AI is amazing at tasks where I am not qualified to judge the output.

Today’s plans:

Happy birthday, mama 🖤

When cartoon characters discuss numbers in base ten rather than base eight, it takes me completely out of my suspension of disbelief. Their society would not have developed that way.

“Everything with Captain Sulu” is the only correct category of answer for this. But I’ll go with Takei’s classic line read of “target that explosion and fire.”

Imagine by John Lennon.

Internet speak has gone too far. What do you mean 'it's giving tuesday'?

hahahah www.theringer.com/2025/11/25/n...

This is the week for sharing this Clare Coffey classic. Take and read: www.thebulwark.com/p/skip-the-c...

"Instead of being a book for grownups, 'Katabasis' flounders through a shallow stream of underdeveloped ideas while occasionally pointing beyond itself to much weirder and wilder places left unexplored." www.thebulwark.com/p/cheap-tric...

Y’all have got to stop trying to teach people magic with edh

My review of Kuang’s Katabasis is up over at the Bulwark! Thanks to @martynwendell.bsky.social for his help with this piece!

Another fantastic review on our homepage this morning from @billcoberly.bsky.social—this one is an incisive take on R.F. Kuang's buzzy fall book, Katabasis: www.thebulwark.com/p/cheap-tric...

how I came to be in the Epstein files

Book of the New Sun rules— every page is like the part of the Inferno where Dante asks Virgil what those towers in the distance are and Virgil replies that no, they're giants

I have posted a short story (or perhaps a "tale?" is that too precious?) on my substack, here: "Never leave babies alone. Nothing tastes sweeter to the Ghrivit than the fear of a child too young to understand its fate. A mother’s grief is the Ghrivit’s delight."

The far right is obsessed with Lord of the Rings and Musk keeps posting about "hobbits" because modern scientific racism owes more to fantasy worlds and gaming systems than genetic science, and they see both as effective mediums for right-wing propaganda www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Kendrick, Joyce Carol Oates, Menswear Guy, and Isaac Chotiner are the Voltron of People You Don't Want Focusing on You

"babies are born worshipping unknown gods" is one of the most incredible dwarf fortress bugs i have heard of. its poetry.

We are in Will Rogers country right now which is making me again remember his line “I do not belong to an organized political party, I am a Democrat.” Why is this still relevant about 100 years later and after the various switches in politics that have happened?

What better way to start a Friday than by listening to Joel and I talk about Mason & Dixon? on.soundcloud.com/dhLTLsFPABxW...

What if I told you prosecutors were doing this to poor folks in every single courtroom in the country?

oh my god they actually did it lmao

I have no idea what the takeaway from Mamdani’s victory actually should be; to some extent “young, charismatic guy with Big Ideas beats 70-year-old ghoul running as an Independent” is the least surprising thing in the world, so that might be all it means.

Dude opened his speech by quoting Eugene Debs!

a good thing happened, looks like! those are occasionally still possible!

I wrote about the irony of the AI bubble, a phenomenon driven by storytelling and imagination in an industry that has contempt for both

thinking about gene wolfe's coworker being driven mad by potato chips again