So, is StoryGraph worth it?

I'm too tired to make a list of what I did this year. I did some stuff. A lot, really. Across multiple countries and half a dozen states. And I like to think it was cool stuff. Useful for others stuff. And there's more stuff to come, of course. Stay kind in 2026 y'all.

31 December 1995. Still the perfect goodbye.

Update: I emailed the opt-out address listed on their website and got a reply. But, I never. Should. Have. Had. To. Opt. Out. I’m so tired of these tech companies & their entitlement. DoorDash putting small restaurants on their apps w/o permission, AI scraping our sites, & now this? It’s exhausting

How the fuck is this legal

I'm not feeling up to a long post about this, so short version: RIP to the place I learned a lot about both managing and myself (I keep it on my CV for a reason), a place that literally fueled me in undergrad and grad school, and most importantly, where Gabby and I met.

Dragonball rewatch: complete! Now on to Z!

Want to know something? They actually do know. Autofocus in modern cameras usually uses infrared light bursts, which your pets can see. To them it’s like a flash of light, and it startles them.

Richard Smallwood has passed. They will call him a gospel music artist. He was that. But Smallwood was also one of the greatest composers - period of any modern music form. My heart is heavy. A great musical legend has left us. www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...

Oh no!!!! (This terrible year.)

Theodora is so overpowered in Civ 6 omg

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"Flex lets you split your rent into two worry-free payments, helping you pay rent on time, free up your cash flow, and build your credit history." This new payment thing we just got sent by the landlord feels... well, like a bad economic indicator to me.

Something died in me when we were told that the way to tackle AI was to.... teach students how to use AI. We were also told to design AI-proof assignments by.... using AI.

These same people want to ban gender affirming care

Under this framework, Jim Crow was ok, slavery was ok, the forced removal of indigenous people was ok, etc. There are certain things even when passed through liberal democratic means are illiberal and should never be allowed.

reminder that caldwell’s most recent book argues that the civil rights act of 1964 was something akin to a constitutional abomination that produced a world of white subordination

Amazingly, reaction times using screens while driving are worse than being drunk or high—no wonder 90 percent of drivers hate using touchscreens in cars. Finally the auto industry is coming to its senses.

New @ursulakleguin.com print from @skeuomorphpress.org arrived

Yeah this is called rape Arrest his ass

Posts like this make social media almost worth it

I used to manage wine programs for movie theaters and I am in the extremely unique position to say with professional certainty that the answer here is a crisp Albariño.

This is embarassing

Wasn't Adams begging Trump for money not long ago...?

There really is no justification for this company’s existence.

I regret watching this ad *shivers in creeped tf out*

I did not have "backlash to [puffy] jackets" on my bingo bard Jfc

My 'favorite' "rail is too hard to build in the US" thing is when people act like acquiring the necessary land to build it isn't possible. As if our existing infrastructure didn't/doesn't involve the destruction of neighborhoods, or even entire towns, to build. You mad about highways too or...?

👩🏼"Send billionaires to orbit on rockets?" 👴🏻"Easy peasy! Did that!" 👩🏼"Colonize Mars?" 👴🏻"On it! We'll be there soon!" 👩🏼"High speed rail network in the US?" 👴🏻"IMPOSSIBLE! The very laws of physics prevent it! The creator himself could not accomplish this! You are a foolish child for even asking!"

Oh my god

Pretty ✨️

We took our shoes off to get on airplanes for how many years for "safety" requirements enacted by government meanwhile...

"around 0.15% of users active in a given week have conversations that include explicit indicators of potential suicidal planning or intent": openai.com/index/streng... "800M weekly users": techcrunch.com/2025/10/06/s... even on the conservative end, that’s so many people

i don’t see how any of the benefits of chatgpt and other consumer-facing LLMs can possibly outweigh their incredible ability to induce suicides

If there's a book sale, I'll be there

Someone put up a poll in the local Individible group asking what more "centrist, not crazy" candidate we should run in 2028. When people added AOC and she was winning the poll, they said they were deleting options they didn't include to begin and is insisting only people running middle can win.

Maybe, if you're not actually in university classrooms, teaching students in the age of gAI, perhaps you might want to stop and listen when people actually in those classrooms raise concerns about what they are seeing; and not just dismiss us as luddites, or boomers, or cruel profs playing cops

Describe your Bluesky account in a single image

Petition to refer to children as "junior citizens" more often. Brought to you by the news report at the opening of Santa Claus is Coming to Town.

Klaus remains a damn good movie

Can the uber light roast coffee stuff stop please I am begging you

"Safe drunk driving" isn't a thing

Some ~personal news~

Supremacy wants to gain all the benefits of society without paying any natural costs, like fair competition. This response to even the slightest leveling of the playing field demonstrates how committed to the supremacist notion we white folk still are. Imagine if we ever experienced true equality.

Gee, if only this had been tried before and we had some data to consider, instead of stenography for the rich: www.wbur.org/news/2025/04...

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Finally seeing some plows downtown; hours after snow began 🤨

trans people if you did nothing else this year you made it through 12 months of the federal government having your extermination not low on its list of priorities and you can feel really good about that it’s a big deal

A little longer now and you'll get to go to the rave celebrating his death. Just a little bit longer