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I started keeping track of what I've been reading. Here's what I read this year.

Bad Vibes Coding

If you're gonna be rude professionally on Bluesky, at least create a new account, and not one that started with a very unique name that is very easy to trace back to someone's LinkedIn.

Hang on a second, people genuinely don't understand what holly is versus mistletoe?

The idea that masculinity and male identity are ontologically evil is fundamentally TERF shit and we have a moral obligation to reject it

Frog knocked at Toad’s door. “Toad, wake up,” he cried. “Come out and see how wonderful the winter is!” “I will not,” said Toad. “I am in my warm bed.”

Alberta: Booo! We'll separate unless you get us a pipeline! Carney: Hey good news guys, we got the pipeline for you. Alberta: Boooo! We'll separate unless it's a P3 agreement! Smith: We have a P3 that's lined up. Alberta: Booooo! We'll separate unless you...

Humans love bathrooms. Humans love bedrooms. Ergo, combine.

I'll never forget the time I asked an SME how some tool worked, and they replied with "Well how do you think it works." He got fired a week later.

You never did the Kenosha, kid.

I named my fists Deleuze and Gauttari, because of reasons outlined in this 20,000 word essay that jumps to some bonkers conclusions.

Traitor.

What we wanted was Data from Star Trek, and instead we got Cliff from Cheers.

I don't miss drinking, but I do miss the Multnomah Whiskey Library at about 9 pm on a warm May night with 10-15 other technical writers, debating the benefits of Pappy while drinking Bookers.

From the creators of "Who was president in 2020?" comes "Who signed the deal with the Taliban?" and "Who granted asylum in 2025?"

It's Black Friday, but what we need to have is a Black Tuesday.

Even though it's was like 10 years ago, I still thank my lucky stars that I'm not taking phonecalls from panicked idiots who scream that they "NEED" to set up a drop shipping store in the next 12 hours to be able to sell stuff on Black Friday. Ecommerce sucks.

If you're wondering about the sort of person who becomes a writer, for 3 years every day I have played chess with this one person and for 3 years I have lost every day and every day I go back for another go because this time could be the charm, it could happen, you never know

Wait until they find out about Nexen.

Imagine how easy it is to be a reactionary. Folks should remember that we paid for that suit, haircut, and laser eye surgery.

I want this moment for us

did i get anything done today? no. but did i relax? also no.

Hey you

Great, now you can sit face to face with a greasy crypto bro who won't stop talking about his tokens... for longer!

All right, I've finished reading Naked Lunch, and it sucks. It's pretentious and annoying to read in the least satisfying way possible.

(Laughs in Canadian) We started an equivalency program where foreign trained doctors can come hang a shingle in Canada without tons of regulatory hoops. So we'll take em. We'll take em all.

The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down Of the big lake, they called Gitche Gumee The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead When the skies of November turn gloomy

I just realized I follow a disproportionate amount of people from Minnesota.

everyone who spent the 90s laboriously and lovingly making mixtapes just dissolved into ancient dust

In 2001, working the night shift at Burger King, I was in charge of removing all the disposable aluminum ash trays we had in our "smoking section", which consisted of the three tables furthest from the food service counter, and our Manager's office, which was a 7x7 cube with opaque air.

62 Years Ago Today:

My book is inspired by a vision I had of Margaret Atwood dancing to FutureSex/Love Sounds.

I don't know why journalism has turned into shaky handheld vertical Tik Tok videos, but I can tell you that regardless of the journalist or story, I will scroll right past. Pivot to video was always a lie.

I've been working on the web for well over a decade, and I still don't know what "backend" means, but I know enough to know that I'm not doing any. 😆

I would like To attack an AI With poetic verse Stabbed into Altman's eyes

I will bet one hundred dollars that the new gigantic ballsack being added to the White House will have a trick chandelier, à la Phantom of the Opera. The guy actually loves himself some Andrew Lloyd Webber, especially Phantom. However, his favourite is Cats, which objectively sucks.

Watch a tyrant's face turn from actual anxiety to a grin while a bully yells at a reporter.

It is hard to understand Mike with Trump's Johnson in his mouth at all to times.

I would bet money that Ohtani is also involved. Time to find another interpreter.... www.cbc.ca/sports/baseb...

The time between me deploying a set of docs for a new feature and how soon I forget anything I just learned is actually quite incredible. That might be the source of the emptiness I feel after shipping. That void, however, is the main source of documentation strategy and operations at this company.

Every single podcaster I listen to is sick.

The main difference between BlueSky and "Twitter Classic" is that on Twitter you'd roam around, get annoyed with conservative views, and that's it. Bluesky you do that shit and you find the brainwormed "I find Jacobin too conservative" lectures about how the word "and" is somehow racist.

Tired: Death of the Author Wired: Death of the Owner

I know this is obvious but Kash Patel is like the worst FBI director of all time.

The crux of my actual problem with Drake is that he can't seem to rap on a beat for more than like a minute, and when he does, he often relies on repetition.

Maybe I'm wrong here, but one of the weirdest things I've seen while working in high tech is software developers that eat their bagels without toast it, and looking at me like I'M the weirdo

It is absolutely catastrophic that a once lauded investigative news program has been reduced to little more than a propaganda wing for a terrible administration and its affiliated corporate interests.