I must build several things today, but I also do not want to. Should I lose several hours in wow housing instead? It’s certainly tempting.

Why Greenland? "Peter Thiel, who wants to set up crypto-empowered 'network states' on undeveloped territory, has invested in Praxis, a start-up that aims to do just that and which has scouted Greenland. Trump’s ambassador to Denmark, Ken Howery, was a co-founder with Thiel and Elon Musk of PayPal."

I think this might be Tremella mesenterica, some type of Parmelia, and a delightful little blop of moss.

Once again, I am asking myself not to stay up an extra hour to read about all the worlds horrors right before I go to bed.

What if you just loved the body you have instead? What then?

"The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." — George Orwell, 1984.

Their union was recognized on December 18th, studio closed just over two weeks later. Transparent punishment, just like what happened at Rockstar. I hope Ubisoft gets dragged over the coals too.

the kid‘s last codes and cyphers class was last night and I don’t think I had been as well versed in Fermat’s little theorem when I was 9, and I certainly don’t know anything about RSA, but access to information was vastly different in my youth. I wonder what he’ll think of these times when he’s 40.

We have this cat Lego set and now apparently we have the opportunity to do something especially amazing.

i've been at conventions that got sadder and shitter and emptier year over year run by people who had no idea why nobody wanted to keep showing up and the reason was entirely always "yeah we just didn't think it was worth escalating to banning him" about at most 20 regulars

No darkness lasts forever. And even there, there are stars.

Duck and cover.

my gender reveal party

When you've been on social media for much of your life but are only just now reading Pratchett

One guy tried, unsuccessfully, to blow up a plane with a bomb in his sneakers, and everybody had to take off their shoes at the airport for the next 20 years. Chatbots have a collective body count equal to Richard "The Night Stalker" Ramirez, and they're trying to put them in schools.

If you understand that the modern patriarchy really objects to women owning themselves every other policy makes sense.

I am convinced in the future we will look back and realise the sheer unimaginable folly of letting a virus that can cause immune dysregulation and cognitive dysfunction in humans infect and re-infect the global population over and over again. Worse still, that we encouraged it.

Five years ago.

I need a book where everything works out in the end that isn't a romance. I need a guarenteed HEA but for like... sci fi.

I started reading Deep Work and while the premise is going offline and taking time to "do deep work" is essential. Currently, I think the premise could also be "have lots of money and/or servants." Please offload "shallow work" to your serfs. Yeah I'm cynical, etc.

Book 1 of 2026: Empire of AI by Karen Hao. Non-Fiction. 494 pages. A good, but simultaneously deeply depressing read. Learn about story of some of the early drama in the OpenAI world, featuring many of the names engaged in currently destroying democracy worldwide. m.youtube.com/watch?v=Xa6J...

Assuming I remembered to track everything properly, I read 158 books last year, and a lot of them were really very good. I've been trying to write a blog post about my favourites. I imagine, like many others, it will sit in my drafts, half-finished forever.

My resolution to be the coziest person in every room is going very well

So around a month ago @dieworkwear.bsky.social posted this great thread about Roopa Knitting Mills and House of Blanks. I thought it was neat that they were in Ontario, so I signed up for their newsletter, and when they had a sale I bought some stuff for all of us. Happy I did. Really well made.

The most effective way to resist this modern brand of fascism isn't to completely immerse yourself in its propaganda. You're actually helping their message spread. Go and make art or read a book or spend time with offline people. You can't marinate in the horror and emerge unscathed.

i'm still not sure which part of generating yaml or copy pasting example code from github at speed requires ddosing the internet, or extended roleplay sessions with a markov chain, or tacitly ignoring the deaths of vulnerable teenagers, but as ever, i guess i am simply too european for this

Don't invite snakes into your chicken coop, you cannot be surprised by the results.

Evergreen

Blows my mind that some of the same journalists who see Trump as a want-to-be dictator at home are earnestly discussing the "challenges" for this same man to "bring democracy" to a country it just illegal invaded. Please grow up.

Mark Carney turns off geolocation on phone just in case

My word being mortifying is very on brand. Thanks.

And please, PLEASE let us not forget that time in 2023 when Karen Smith was elected President of the school board in Bucks County, Pa and swore her oath on a stack of banned books. The most gangsta oath ever! Just brilliant. www.edweek.org/leadership/t...

I love n95s. I haven’t been sick in years. It’s awesome. Cannot believe some of the sketchy air I’ve breathed in my life. Absolutely not doing that anymore.

1. Perfect just the way they are 2. Vinegar 3. sriracha

I have a pretty good toboggan hill in my literal backyard, I think I might be living the dream. Idk. weeeeee.

Fifteen years ago I felt pretty embarrassed pronouncing a word wrong, but now I’m just boasting like “oh yeah I guess I only know that one from READING it in a BOOK”

Colleagues, in the face of this sort of weaponized mendacity, protecting the lives of disabled people requires that we must take a radically different approach to public health messaging www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

I’m still always amazed at how easily convinced people are that their decisions don’t matter. Or maybe I’m just amazed at how defensive they are about their choices when they know they *could* make better ones, but decide not to.

12YO girl signed up to do “stand up comedy” at the talent show. 13YO boy decided to heckle her. Teacher started to tell the boy to leave her alone, but the 12YO comedian said “no, no, let him go, this is the closest he’s ever going to get to having a conversation with a girl.”

I have gotten it into my head that I want to play driving racing games, but that I also need to get a controller appropriate for such a task? And pedals? I'll sleep on it one more night, but it's been a few weeks already. I'm about to just shipit.

Would absolutely thrill to see "Police Department loses $1.2 billion" in a headline lol

To enter with heart and mind into the world of the imagination may be to head deliberately and directly toward, or back toward, engagement with the real world.

0.00003 foot tall xmas tree from a Drosophila flight steering muscle 🎄 image by @anne-sustar.bsky.social

The gift that keeps on giving. Thank you, magnificent,

Search your first name and then “glamour shot” And post a photo. And honestly I couldn’t have found anything more perfect.

CHOTINER: So you're delivering toys to *all* the good boys and girls? SANTA: Yes, I check the list twice. CHOTINER: The list...that you make yourself?