I said it before, will say it again -- generative AI fetishizes "ideas" while sneering at effort, execution, and education. That, despite Gen-AI being built on and out of other people's effort, execution and education.

I have just finished my oatmeal and am already wondering what I shall make for lunch. #secondbreakfast

Holy shit, Spotify is fucking repugnant. I keep thinking I know how trash that platform is, and I keep being shocked all over again. An old person, I just hoard MP3s. I buy ‘em with Bandcamp and stream from my hard drive with Plex.

Spotify is evil. Coming up with AI bands whose names are -kinda- close to other band names that have left the platform? My hatred for their platform burns hot.

‘Think we’re gonna get to see Batgirl now, dad?’ ‘Shut up, son.’

Here’s my Spotify Wrapped 🎵✨

The attacks on trans rights, which are basic human rights, are a terrible injustice and an attack on truth and fact as well. Everyone should be deeply alarmed and it should be disqualifying for a politician to support such discrimination.

All of the companies that make the software I use are increasing their prices, to account for an "investment" in AI. I'm sat here imagining how my clients would feel if I added 30% to each invoice, because I "really got into gambling".

Ah yes, it’s that time of year when we learn everyone’s terrible taste in music (but, you know, you do you). As well as those who are still clinging to the heinous streaming service that rhymes with botify.

THIS IS HOW TO DO ALT TEXT ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

“Black Friday,” Stephen miller yells, getting redder and redder, “will be replaced with White Friday.”

Hubs: (while wrestling with Xmas tree lights) It’s ok. I can do this without getting stoned, can’t I?

Welp. Mom passed yesterday. Weird few weeks culminating in the weirdest of weeks.

Now that it's had it's own chance to sink or swim in the marketplace, here's my Running Man review. It's ...not great. I'm a huge Edgar Wright fan, but this was a misfire, Glen Powell's nakedness notwithstanding. I literally fell asleep in the first act. That said, Michael Cera is delightful.

Zohran Mamdani doesn’t make me, an American Jew, feel unsafe. Having the Coast Guard, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, decide that a swastika isn’t really a symbol of hate? That makes me, an American Jew, feel pretty damn unsafe.

Have we stopped mocking the cybertruck? I’ve seen a few more pop up in the wild and damn they are the fricking dumbest thing on wheels.

Easy choice if you're a deer deciding where to buy a house

all the Prometheus, Icarus, Palantir, Erebor, etc. shows that none of these guys - none, and it is almost all guys - have actually done the reading

the thing that strikes me about this — again, besides it being false — is the venom and disrespect for the people who come here to work and build better lives. they aren’t “servants.”

Oh Bob’s Burgers, I am late to the game, but am thrilled I found you.

All the Epstein emails are powerful elites saying shit like “Hello my friend the pedophile, i need your advice as a pedophile, what do you think about this other pedophile? Pedophilic Regards, your Friend ;)” and instead of swinging from a gibbet most of them are still writing op-eds against leftism

Fuuuuuuuuck Kim Davis Good riddance

I finished “The Staircase in the Woods” by @chuckwendig.bsky.social last night and immediately wanted a sequel. May I offer “The Fireplace in the Woods” as title? No? Well, then.

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

Sometimes I wish I could press a button and my entire house would lower into the ground, and giant doors would then slide into place over it, Bond-villain style.

Progressive, employer, dimensional traveler. This guy is the real deal.

I feel like we don’t say “fuck Ronald Reagan” enough.

roses are red big laughs are hearty

this is a reminder that we dont have to settle for newsom in 2028

AAAAAHAHAHAHAHA!

Ok, I feel like Old Man Yells At Clouds, but I’ve walked out of two movie theatres this week before the movie started because they slipped a regular ad in between trailers and it is not acceptable. I don’t pay the corporate douches to see ads, I pay to see a movie.

Is there a particular kind of bus that’s best for throwing people under?

Hit with $104 tariff tax on a kickstarter I backed a year and a half ago that I’d forgotten about.

OH FUCK GEDDY LEE IS WEARING AN EFFIN BIRDS SHIRT AT THE WORLD SERIES

I'd misplaced my Leatherman multi-tool, and after several months, found it again yesterday, and immediately sliced my finger. Maybe it was better when it was lost.

I wore a great outfit for this evening's party, with a sumptuous brocaded black cape, dapper waistcoat and tie, and a long, black, pleated skirt. People loved the cape but, alas, most thought the skirt was a kilt.

A fun birthday day including a visit to one of my local bookstores. I got two used books, one by Ray Bradbury and one from NK Jemison. I almost bought a book I already have, but forgot about. Again. It may be time to catalog my library to avoid duplicates.

New ICE recruiting methods have resulted in half of this group of absolute winners failing AN OPEN BOOK TEST

You don't build a ballroom in a residence you're planning on vacating in three years.

I feel this.

Dammit. I loved this place. from @evanstonroundtable.bsky.social evanstonroundtable.com/2025/10/18/r...

I handed my phone to a dude who was in a tree and asked him to take this shot. Otherwise I couldn’t get high enough for a good overview.

Jealous of these costumes.

The constabulary is attempting to put my old house to good* use. Photo courtesy of my old neighbor John. *Good depends on your viewpoint.

In news of the unexpected, the local constabulary is using the house I grew up in and sold last month as a training location for the next three days.

if you already didn’t have enough reasons to cancel spotify:

What middle and upper class cis het white people need to understand is that they only have as many rights as the most vulnerable do. You have only the rights trans people and immigrants do.