If you're uncomfortable networking by making friends, consider making enemies. Ideally, nemesis-across-the-decades-our-hatred-is-a bond-stronger-than-can-be-understood-I-will-kill-your-enemies-because-no-one-gets-to-kill-you-but-me-I-have-so-many-elaborate-plots kinds of enemies.

Do you want a haunted ass? Because this is how you get a haunted ass.

This whole fucking thread, man...

Usually I can’t wait for a sequel but…

@scifantasy.bsky.social thought of you

Sinatra has gone woke

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, soundgarden, pearl jam, or alice in chains.

Me scrolling the feed not seeing enough cat pictures

Revised National Parks Webpage Describes Harriet Tubman As Human Trafficker https://theonion.com/revised-national-parks-webpage-describes-harriet-tubman-as-human-trafficker/

there's another screening of Strange Days at the Aero on New Year's Eve for Angelenos who missed the New Bev matinee

I just *love* drawing with pens

This is a metaphor for the tech industry overall circa 2025

Make a Bond movie casual On Her Majesty’s Secret Santa

Most people who say "I'm bad with names" mean they can't remember them. But I'm bad with names in another way. Anyway, meet my son Dipshit

Absolutely this.

I painted another 40k thing haha. Ghazghkull Thraka Oil painting on panel 16"x20"

"The reason so many of yesterday’s free-speech champions transitioned so easily into today’s pro-Trump censors is that their definition of free speech never included the right of others to talk back." @adamserwer.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Donut Pillow Shit For Smothering

10,000 Maniacs in 1997 is worth about 20,200 Maniacs today.

Left: French chore coat (just one of many regional variations) Right: LL Bean barn coat If the lore is to be believed, the American barn coat was originally called a hunting coat (or LL Bean Maine Warden jacket) bc it was used for hunting. It was renamed "barn coat" to appeal to urban customers.

There's a new blog post on Waymo's blog on the surprising behavior of their robotaxis during the recent power outage of SF. My thoughts on the post are here: surfingcomplexity.blog/2025/12/23/s...

Genuinely shocked at a rule-of-law based result from this Court.

When I say "the US gave up on feeding itself" that's what I mean, it's real bad. At the risk of shameless self-promo, I talked about this a few months ago. It's a part of the food/ag problem that just isn't making it onto the news & it really should. youtu.be/2uypc-c5-aA?...

Daddy on them slopes

via The New Yorker, Ellis Rosen cartoon

Some thoughts I had for rating incidents on more than just severity: surfingcomplexity.blog/2025/12/22/a...

Electrifying development on EelTok @erinbiba.bsky.social

Toshiro Mifune in his Christmas sweater photographed for Eiga Star magazine, c. 1950

Gladys and Pip support @katmabu.bsky.social for IL-09

It Wouldn't Surprise You If This Headline Was About 318 People Being Shot In 12 Different Public Places https://theonion.com/it-wouldnt-surprise-you-if-this-headline-was-about-318-1819574532/

They were never defending freedom of speech. They were defending a right to monologue. The former cannot coexist with the latter.

CBS really Bari'd the story huh.

Literally having trouble thinking of an institutional sector — journalism, education, government, health care — that ISNT being run by people who actively hate the work it does

Current issue of @theonion.com nails it again.

Optus recently released an independent report on the emergency services outage that happened in Australia back in September. I wrote a post with my thoughts on that report: surfingcomplexity.blog/2025/12/21/q...

First responders love this kind of thing

time to start talking about the best Christmas movies

I suspect people think in terms of correction of error because 1. the reality that complex/complicated systems are absolutely riddled with errors is disconcerting 2. so is the idea that we don't know why things work

Those new to Bsky need to be made aware of one of the greatest skeets ever, deleted long before its time.

BREAKING: At least 16 files from the Epstein release disappeared from DOJ's webpage, including a photo of Trump, with no explanation.

Two days left on this Forged in the Dark sale bundle! bundleofholding.com/presents/For...

Trump's Epstien cover-up is the most incompetent cover-up ever.

I don’t know who needs to hear this but here goes: In high school my art teacher told me I didn’t know how to draw because cartooning wasn’t real art. I have wanted to be in The New Yorker Magazine since I was 19. I’m 53 and this happened yesterday:

Wedding Experts Say Engagement Ring Should Cost At Least Three Diamond Miners’ Lives https://theonion.com/wedding-experts-say-engagement-ring-should-cost-at-leas-1834915832/