These are the shoes you craft in Red Dead 2 if you have two perfect iguana carcasses

Bringing out this all-time banger from @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com

Study shows how China could jam Elon Musk’s Starlink satellites

Me: dunno but maybe a generation of officers obsessively watching ‘300’ taught them that losing was acceptable if you lost while looking g cool and macho GWOT: heh heh, not true, now here’s a bunch of GIFs from ‘WARFARE’ set in a conflict we famously won

I get it now, RFK Jr is Peter Gabriel’s Wario

Just as a reminder, Dick Cheney is rotting in the ground right now. In case you needed something to cheer you up.

Music of the moment. I’m not really an aging Gen X, I belong to the ______ Generation.

A rare L for Jamelle.

Trump isn’t talking about military tribunals that adjudicate law. He just wants guys with guns to administer kangaroo courts before the lynchings.

First time back on the treadmill in 2 weeks due to a combination of lung stuff and a lingering cold. Squeezed out a 5k in not-terrible time, but even a short amount of time off these days resets my VO2 clock.

Going into work Thanksgiving week in your mid-50’s is living by airport rules. Wear whatever you want, maybe be a little drunk. Delete emails randomly. Wander aimlessly around the building, rifle through desks.

The corner diner seems to have amplified its quotas for weirdos, street freaks, and terminals dead-enders this morning. But not me; I’M the normal one.

Shoehorning AI into everything will go fine.

“…anna boys of da En Why Pee Dee choir were sangin’ Galway Bay, anna bells war ringin’ oot fuh Chrissmas Day…”

hell yeah

Got one of those notorious “informal” bro-net tasking this week to incorporate AI. When we pushed back on how that’s waaaay outside our lane and how they determined we should do this, the bosses just shrugged and said they were tasking everyone with the same thing. The Land of Make-Believe.

Lane Kiffin, the town bicycle of SEC football.

The Mamdani-Trump meeting reaffirms that if you show even a micron of backbone against him, Trump immediately folds. He has bully instincts which is to punish anyone who goes along with him and cower in the presence of anyone else.

One unfailing constant in Trump’s life is his never ending need for approval from Manhattan. He’ll always be the outlier from Queens.

I assume that they’re going to cut off his head, stuff it with garlic and wolfsbane, and bury it at a crossroads?

@xoofxos.bsky.social is ready for his close-up.

Potential Thanksgiving themes: - Dark Zen - The “Gullet Till Ya Pullet” All-American Artery-Shitter, 40 Platters to make Your Carotid Splatter, Infarction Holiday Seam-Ripper - A Very DSM-5 (309.81) Thanksgiving - Ennui & Taters - A paper plate full of Chili Fritos, while watching “Goodfellas”

Hey Dan Caine, if you’re reading this during one of your daily briefs, please know that you’re a disgrace who should take the same route Mike Boorda chose.

D&D rock groups: Dwarf Leppard Cleric & the Dominos Bay City Roguers Night Ranger Blue Orcster Cult Soundgolem Weezerd

While I have every expectation that these people would throw service members under the bus if there was scrap of political advantage to be made, I was willing to give the video the benefit of doubt right until they said DGUTS at the end. I have an ingrained distrust of anyone saying that shit.

missile motel sign, port hueneme, california, 1991

Mar-a-Lago Face strikes again.

Music of the moment. From one of Coltrane’s lost albums recovered from reels in Canada, the lead-off track to ‘Both Directions At Once’.

Get yolk, go yoked

On one hand I’m not nuts about the nascent resurrection of nationalism in Japan, but this statement is far preferable to the alternative. Told the guys at work there’s a 80% chance they drop the self-defense clause of the JSDF in the next 24 months.

Thanksgiving isn’t until next week for Satan’s sake

Not the point of the movie but Sean Penn in OBAA is every terminal 0-5 who thought they deserved better because they thought they were a Clausewitzian warrior-poet. It’s a great send-up of a whole generation of GWOT guys who got high off their own supply right through the end.

New media (June-October): Nothing new for you, watch the same ten stale things from last year, you crone New media (Nov-January): Here are 25 prestige shows all at once and if you don’t consume them in the correct order you’ll be hopelessly adrift on the pop culture sea for a year

These go harddddd.

Down on my peninsula, we have officially shifted from “drunks drowning & jet ski collisions” season to “boats catching on fire while being winterized” season. This immediately precedes the “spike in domestic assaults and suicides” season from Thanksgiving through January. Fun times on the bay.

The Human Centipede is a train movie.

I know this seems blindingly obvious, but perhaps the perfect marriage of postmodernist writer & technical artistry to pop culture was letting Frank Quitely and Grant Morrison take a run at X-Men.

@neilaglet.bsky.social I feel like you need to see this Thing: bsky.app/profile/stan...

As part of whatever latest thing I have, 4th day in a row with the most killer headache this year. And as usual when my immune system goes school shooter on my body, the fatigue is just *exquisite*.

Pluribus is such a great show but I can’t help but call it Plumbus every single time.

You know that’s there’s some secret part of Bill Clinton that’s loving all the attention. This is the most press he’s had in years.

If you’re not following this guy you should correct that- he’s out doing the noble work of confirming that the Midwest is haunted as fuck.

Oh My Gawd. Dad sky is screaming right now.

Waiting for this AI concept to get into the hands of people who hate their parents and use this to trap them in an eternal virtual torment nexus. And if you can do this, someone’s gonna pitch the same thing for spouses, dead kids. 21st-century necromancy.

You have to purchase their Earnings Report microtransaction to get access to this exciting new content!

They pronounce it “alligatah”.