I really, REALLY wish I were a morning person. Life would be so much easier if I could function best early in the day.

Myself & @dallahalla.bsky.social watched the new John Candy doc, & I highly recommend it. Candy's films were an integral part of my childhood, & they still bring me joy. Moreover, he appears to have been a genuinely decent person, a rare thing in the entertainment industry. I still miss John Candy.

We may be past the time when revolutions can happen. And maybe that's fine, given how most revolutions, whatever their ideological bent, have resulted in mass death and chaos alongside whatever benefits they brought to their respective societies.

Emotion and ideology are poor substitutes for rigorous historical scholarship.

Skies of painted grey.

The framing here is just flawless!

Unless your name is Ro or Kim, being an ensign on a Star Trek series is a death sentence 😄

Monday at work absolutely fried my brain. I need to shuffle tonight.

The Democratic Party is useless.

The people who loudly proclaim their morality and righteousness (especially when it comes to religion) always have skeleton-stuffed closets. The real work of goodness happens quietly, behind the scenes, done by those who do good for goodness sake, not for public glorification.

I'm a lurker on a Facebook group for my small Ohio hometown. It's a way to see what's going on in a place I've been away from for nearly 20 years. But man, there are a LOT of absolute cranks living there now, and the entire area is infected with the Trump plague. It's profoundly depressing.

Sometimes I think the entire universe is aimed at preventing me from ever feeling rested.

A view for the ages.

I love seeing matte paintings in old films. My favourite appears at the end of "Gremlins" (1984). It's just a wonderful lost art form.

This should be on the cover of any history book about 21st century America.

Why do they keep making "Predator" movies.

He was more than a hero, he was a union man.

A golden world.

If there were actual consumer demand for generative AI garbage, companies wouldn't have to forcibly shove AI down our collective throats by stuffing it into every possible system and application. But alas, capitalism has fully morphed into a bubble-fueled playground for tech-bro psychopaths.

Rewatching "Star Trek: TNG" and as much as I like Lt. Commander Data, making this guy third in command was nuts. He's an absolute liability who gets compromised/goes haywire seemingly every other episode.

For well over a decade now, Anna Von Hausswolff has been one of my favourite artists, transmuting the sweeping darkness of organ-drenched drones into songs of wailing beauty and despair. Her new album, "Iconoclasts" is utterly spectacular and essential. annavonhausswolff.bandcamp.com/album/iconoc...

Have you ever had a moment when you wanted to adopt your best 80s cartoon villain identity and just yell out into the void, "the fools. I will DESTROY them!!!!"

May Monday pass you by swiftly without incident.

The beauty of gray.

I hate baseball. I love baseball. I hate it. I love it. Next year.

Last night, some absolute ass-hat came blaring through our residential neighborhood at 3 am in a modified-exhaust car that sounded like gunshots going off. It woke my daughter and most of the neighbors. This is why I fully support the death penalty, because some humans are simply unfit for society.

Take the things that do not serve you and kill them mercilessly.

It's better to be friendless than to have friends who never call.

I'm done with baseball forever. Every time I get sucked back into it, it breaks my heart again. I have enough anxiety in my life. I don't need any more.

In this world, if you set your goals and work hard and become an exceptional performer, you'll be handsomely rewarded with more work.

I have no hope for the future. But maybe thinking about the future isn't worth the stress. There are whole spiritual traditions that emphasize *now,* because the past is dead & precognition is a sham. So, to quote "Spaceballs:" everything that happens now is happening now, & that's what matters.

It feels like the Blue Jays stranded a million baserunners in Game 6.

Game 7. Let's go Blue Jays.

It’s so hawt when people use the Oxford comma. 🔥 🔥 🔥

I really hope the Jays can finish it off tonight, but never count the Dodgers out. Plus, Yamamoto is a beast on the mound. Nonetheless, Toronto has shown unreal determination this postseason, so fingers crossed!

Do you have to like, *do* anything to call yourself a "thought leader?" Or is that just a title that exists because LinkedIn was invented?

Look at this place and just try to tell me it's not magical.

Baseball demonstrates why nationalist/ethnic conflicts are stupid. Look at the MLB: it boasts multinational rosters from the U.S., Latin America, Japan, Canada, & more. Sure, we come from different cultures and places, but if we can play together in baseball, maybe we can apply that to rest of life.

I loathe sh*t-talking from sports fans. All fans of all teams do it. And sh*t-talking is extra dumb in baseball, because in baseball, *anything* can happen. Every game is a new game. I'm pulling for the Blue Jays, but counting the Dodgers out is a fool's errand. It truly ain't over till' it's over.

The number of comments on local pages ridiculing Americans who need SNAP benefits is astounding to me. YOU LIVE IN A SOCIETY. Yes, actually, you DO owe your neighbors something. FFS. Taking care of each other is part of building community!

Tonight is a break from October baseball so I can actually get to sleep at a normal time! But first, get through a long work day.

BALLGAME. The Blue Jays are the embodiment of grit and rugged determination.

The Blue Jays' Trey Yesavage has logged TWELVE strikeouts tonight. That's insane for *any* pitcher in the World Series, let alone a rookie!

Kudos to Game 5's home plate ump, Alan Porter. This guy is locked in on his calls, even those on the edges of the strike zone. #WorldSeries

I'm gonna watch more World Series baseball tonight, even though my nervous system may not be able to handle it. Send chocolate.

this is peasant ideology, the boorish parochialism of petulant bumpkins

At night, the fairies come out to dance.

BALLGAME!! Blue Jays bring the grit to tie the series!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I gave in and have been watching Game 4 and the Blue Jays are so close!!!

Just over a week on the CPAP, & while much of my chronic fatigue has lifted, I'm now lying awake for hours at night with this mask on my face, unable to fall asleep within any reasonable time window. The ensuing loss of sleep hours has left me so unrested that I feel like I'm slowly losing my mind.