‘Tis the time of year when old male Tarantulas’ thoughts turn to love. Aponopelma sp., Pueblo County, Colorado, USA, September 2025.

The tide of digital grey goo continues to rise: www.theregister.com/2025/09/03/a...

@theatlantic.com This is your cover in the Fall of 2025? This is a deeply unserious idea, hardly worthy of a dorm-room convo after five rounds of bong hits.

Now playing: Birchville Cat Motel - Vespertine CDR (2000, Last Visible Dog). This one has thus far escaped disc rot and three children going through the terrible twos. Four-track hovering mystery at its finest. #recordsthegoodkind #nowplaying

Got my 25-26 COVID jab before Li’l RFK fucks this up for us.

0 days since Jared Polis did something appalling.

Finally got my lifer Common Eider this afternoon, on a work trip to Boston. No photo, as I decided to leave the camera at home. #birds #birding

When I eat a bagel with capers, I cannot fail to think of the Birthday Party song, Rowland S. Howard’s voice intoning “caaay-puhs.”

I am a hypermasculine and extremely powerful alpha male. As such my greatest fears are seed oils, rainbows, people who don't look like me being on TV, and preventative medicine. I cannot explain any of these fears and consider that to be your fault.

Seems legit.

Pete Hegseth was confirmed as Secretary of Defense, not Secretary of War. I think he’d need to go back through Senate confirmation.

Cooper's Hawk (Astur* cooperii) juvenile, El Paso County, Colorado, September 2025. This was shortly after it caught and ate a Blue Jay out of our backyard.🌿🪶 *They just got a taxonomic update. #birds #birding #raptors #nature #wildlife #photography #birdsseenin2025

“Hey, since you are the one really important to this meeting, I thought I’d send you a bunch of background ten minutes after the start of the call. Hope this helps!”

Now playing: Biota - Biota LP (1982, DYS). The most alien of soundtracks.

Now playing: Michael Beach - The Sea/de facto Blues 7” (2024, 25 Diamonds) “The Sea” is great, sort of working around a piano riff that sounds a whole lot like the Velvets’ “Murder Mystery.” #nowplaying #recordsthegoodkind #singlesparty

Now playing: Au Pairs - Diet/It’s Obvious 7” (1980, 021/Human). #nowplaying #recordsthegoodkind #singlesparty

Loggerhead Shrike (Lanius ludovicianus) juvenile with beetle prey. Pueblo County, Colorado, August 2025. There were at least a dozen shrikes in about a half-mile stretch of the road I was on when I snapped this one. 🌿🪶 #birds #birding #woodpeckers #nature #wildlife #photography #birdsseenin2025

Zoë did not get into the Japanese food containers, and frankly is offended you even asked about the soy sauce stain on her right eyebrow.

If you live in Colorado, know that Steve Schuck is a suppurating boil and a menace.

“Hey, I see you declined my meeting invite, and your calendar is marked ‘Travel Time,’ and we talked yesterday about you flying home today. Are you joining my meeting?”

Go, authors! arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

I have a sudden and overwhelming need to hear the Rema-Rema 12”, and I am 2000 miles from my copy right now.

"paradigm" "synergy" "deliverables" "innovating customer experiences" bro shut the fuck up you make an app that shows you the shortest drive to chicken restaurants that accept crypto

At DFW, seeing people dressed in such a way they are almost certainly on their way to some mostly-outdoors tropical trip. I am jealous.

Surgeons transplant pig lung into brain dead human recipient for first time

The first-worldiest of first-world problems, but: I’m in senior management and I hate the “leadership” cult. Watching a Simon Sinek video is like watching flies fuck. Reading most biz leadership books aloud could cause birds flying overhead to spontaneously die of boredom.

As a record dork: this sucks. apnews.com/article/us-t...

Time for lunch: some weapons-grade Thai green curry.

you can trace so much evil christian shit back to this man and his ratfuck legacy this is a day of celebration for every kid who got sent to pray the gay away camp, every kid who was forced to carry a child to term or had to get a dodgy secret abortion, school shooting survivors, the list goes ON

Focus on the Family's James Dobson died today. May he rest in a tub of fire ants. www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4Uq...

The kid chose to wear a Merzbow t-shirt for her first day of college.

But secondly, I want art *because I want to experience someone else's perspective and worldview*. Something generated by the random plagiarism pastiche machine isn't that. It's not some ascetic purity thing, I just don't want to eat shit instead of chocolate.

at this point all this utopian PR is just george telling lennie about the rabbits before they shoot us in the back of the fucking head

DC: so dangerous they can send a 20-man tactical team to apprehend a sandwich-throwing civil servant.

Meet Will Chamberlain, the Human Doily.

"Can you play 'High Water Everywhere,' for me?"

PinkPolo gonna swarm/On any mothafucka in a green uniform.

Red-naped Sapsucker (Sphyrapicus nuchalis) fledgling feeding on aphids, Chaffee County, CO, August 2025. 🌿🪶 #birds #birding #woodpeckers #nature #wildlife #photography #birdsseenin2025

Plains Spadefoot (Spea bombifrons), July 2025, El Paso County, CO. 🌿 #herps #herping #toads #nature #wildlife #photography

Caspar Brötzmann Massaker - It’s a Love Song LP (2025, Corbett vs. Dempsey). I don’t know why he disappeared for 30 years, but he’s still got it.

Just spitballing here, but cryptobros throwing sex toys at WNBA players on the court and other cryptobros and male sports commentators calling it funny and telling the women and their coaches to 'lighten up' both explains the 'male loneliness epidemic' and why I don't care about it.

Statement from loud man in DFW bar: “I’m glad I moved to Jacksonville, because it does not get hit by hurricanes.”

A coworker uttered the goofiest libertarian sentiment I have ever heard: “I won’t do TSA Precheck because I don’t like the idea of paying the government to avoid standing in line.”

Airline trips always include a soupçon of goofballs, inevitable when you see a few tens of thousands of people. Above and beyond the call of duty was the guy with a big goatbeard, t-shirt with 13 stars ringing a Gadsden worm, topped with a Multicam baseball cap embroidered with DYLF.

There has to be a special circle of Hell for product managers who gamify credit-reporting alerts.

I cracked The Case of The Disappearing Rhubarb.

Now playing: Big Black - Bulldozer EP (1983, Ruthless/Fever)

Now playing: Swell Maps - The John Peel Sessions (2025, Mute). OF COURSE my household needed additional recordings of “Veryical Slum,” “Full Moon in my Pocket,” “Armadillo,” et al. #recordsthegoodkind #nowplaying #diy

RIP Ozzy, a true great. youtu.be/qRcYjJQ0JHg?...