More photos of my Atari 7800 Asteroids project. Full build video is up on YouTube now! #shiptember

For their first project, my Kids and Society students have to create an infographic clarifying a common misconception about "kids these days." I'd prefer that they not use AI to create their projects, so I made my own infographic explaining why : )

Flu shot today. Working on getting the family in for that other pesky pole.

Another lovely review is here for PSYCHOPOMP & CIRCUMSTANCE! This one is from Jenna N. Hanchey, Ph.D. and I am thrilled with it. Hope you will be too. #booksky

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

Is the Rapture today or tomorrow? I really wish someone would print a schedule. And is it GMT? Look, I’m not going, but I want to when to stay off the roads. It’s gonna be hell out there.

BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered Trump to restore $500 million in frozen UCLA NIH grants. The same judge, Rita F. Lin, previously ordered all UCLA NSF grants reinstated. Lin has now nearly entirely reversed Trump's July de-funding of UCLA research: www.latimes.com/california/s...

What is going on? You might as well declare Santa Claus a terrorist.

shit ain’t over til it’s over

Look, this has been a peer reviewed study. That is to say, my friends have read it and think it’s great. Well, except for that ONE, but he’s not a peer anymore. Science is easy! I’ll be taking donations from anyone who wants science-based advocacy. Alcohol INCREASES productivity new study finds!

To say Disney/ABC’s moves in the last week have undercut my enthusiasm for The Mandalorian and Grogu is an understatement.

For those curious: Patricia’s tractor is built from scratch, by hand with wood, brass sheets, umbrella arms, bits from a Corvair dash, tire tread from my old toys and other found objects.

Animated Apian FTW #volvelles

John Lee Hooker with a diagram of the evolution of the Blues.

One of the dogs caught a squirrel. I got her to release it only to have her catch it again. Got her to release it a second time to have the other dog want in on the action. Needless to say lots of shouting “Leave it!” and “No!” And their names. It got one pretty good in the face—and deservedly so!

Ever have one of those mornings when the gears just were not meshing? You know, when you try to make up a word for the word that you’re using because you don’t recognize the word you’re using is the right word? Yeah. That’s me this morning.

I thought I knew the story of the "lost world" off the east coast of Britain, inhabited by Mesolithic people until rising sea waters engulfed it around 8,000 years ago... But I didn't know about the *tsunami*. Holy hell. 1/

P.K. Dick foretold this in “The Simulacra.” We’ve been warned about [waves hands] all this.

C’mon Wisconsin, Illinois, and Minnesota. You can do it!

who's gonna start the dumb appliances and small electronics company and make a killing? i do not want screens, bluetooth, internet, wifi, NOTHING.

The other side of this - the great side - is that there are plenty of awesome, creative media outlets and individual talents out there to enjoy, learn from, support. We take our money there. We take their power away. Fuck ‘em. Organize and win!

Done.

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

Can someone get us a primer on how to boycott all major media outlets?

Thread, up and down.

I didn’t expect this to go me as hard as it did.

After 47 years, Jerry has made the difficult decision to step down from the company we built together. I’m sharing his words as he resigns from Ben & Jerry’s. His legacy deserves to be true to our values, not silenced by @magnumicecreamco.bsky.social #FreeBenAndJerrys

Always speak truth to power. Always call out the bullies. Always call out the racists. Do it loudly. People will stand with you.

Without a doubt, F.

Question for the white liberals who have written columns praising Charlie Kirk in the name of "free speech." Where are you columns actually DEFENDING THE FREE SPEECH of people who are being fired for [checks notes] quoting Charlie Kirk? (Which most of you white praisers didn't have the guts to do)

Reading an old “Service Handbook of the 155mm Howitzer Materiel Model of 1918 (Schneider) Motorized with Instruction for Its Care” as one does in the course of one’s workday.

One day, nearly 2000 years ago, a cat dashed across some drying tiles, somewhere near Hadrian's Wall. It's immortality of a kind, isn't it?

HOORAY!!!

this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

Wait what

All I saw was cheesecake boat and ocean for at least 5 minutes

Wow. It’s the admission of what we all knew to be true. White supremacists and racists through and through. My god. Just calmly stated, matter of fact, no hint of doubt because of the veracity of the thing.

I cited actual Kirk quotes where he calls Black women less intelligent, demonizes me for being Muslim, & dehumanizes LGBTQ people—& his supporters are upset at me for “speaking evil of the dead.” If quoting him is “speaking evil” maybe ask yourself why you followed someone who believed evil things.

We just got a glimpse of how Black towns, businesses, churches, schools, homes, and Black bodies were destroyed and killed In white Utah at a white college at a white rally a white man killed by another white man resulted in anger at… Black people & institutions.. just like in the past.

Untitled. Unless you can think of one.

Never underestimate the instinct to be first and the temptation to fabulate when faced with a dearth of facts.

I’ve written 10K words in the last three days. Not on my own project, but writing is writing, and it pays the bills.

Broken Veil has been nominated for an Independent Podcast Award! Hurrah! independentpodcastawards.com/IPA25/en/pag...

Show me your Pink art! 🩷🌸🌷

More of this.

I wonder if a “No AI” label on boxes and covers will become the next “Made in [pick your country]” label and a prominent selling point.