Mayor of Pittsburgh Corey O’Connor said in his inaugural address, “Public safety is not a statistic. It’s how you feel when walking down the street”. This is coded and intentional. Public safety isn’t dictated by your feelings. and policy shouldn’t be crafted by unfounded paranoia and fear.

If I were a sexually dissolute billionaire, I simply wouldn’t try to turn my spank bank generator into a product for public consumption.

I set up a GoFundMe for former @pghcitypaper.com staff. This will be used to help us submit last year's stories for awards, defray loss of income and insurance, and support laid-off single moms with childcare. Chip in if you'd like:

Considering his mid century influence, there are relatively few surviving garments designed by Jacques Griffe. This is a rare gem, a #1950s black pleated silk faille with a flare of white @ngvmelbourne.bsky.social #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

Emergency cat video

I saw this quote making the rounds, and it was bothering me. I couldn't put it into words, but by coincidence, Maria Popova discussed Che Guevera's words: www.themarginalian.org/2026/01/01/c...

It could happen this year. This month even. Tomorrow! It could happen soon.

Happy New Year www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcOT...

The perils of staying up till 3AM celebrating with friends is that the cats have a very specific time they want their breakfast.

Walking into 2026 like

How I'm entering the new year

2026 let’s go

2025

Well, this sucks.

The only soundtrack you need for the day. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Ruin two bands by combining them. Crosby, Stills, Nash, Emerson, Lake, Palmer & Young.

Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up. I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

Support local! One of my favorite stores in Squirrel Hill -- Artist & Craftsman Supply -- is struggling. If you like it, too, now's a good time to shop. I get supplies for art classes, and for making protest signs. Pens & markers! Ink stamps! Origami! It's at 5603 Hobart St, Pittsburgh, PA 15217

Kirsten Dunst and Gabrielle Union could do HEAT, but Pacino and De Niro couldn't do BRING IT ON.

The word of the day kids is "externalities". Releasing software that fails in dramatic ways doesn't matter if society pays the cost instead of you! In the same way we let industry pollute the environment and just act like it's not an economic cost, we're gonna do the same shit with software!

Today's #songoftheday only needs three things: a pack of instant noodles, the open wild, and freedom freedom freedom. www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6nP...

Hey I got this thing for Christmas and it said "some assembly required." Am I doing this right?

Victoria Drummond 1st UK woman #MarineEngineer. Colleague wrote "Most courageous woman I ever saw...without fear or nerves, is very good at her job & has an uncanny power over engines for which I once thanked God" Early @wes1919.bsky.social member d #OTD 25 Dect 1978 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victori...

Merry Christmas to all! youtu.be/2ZyJCV_dyug?...

I have thought about it for all of 5 seconds so I don't have an opinion on this besides thinking that "gig work to close the door on a waymo" is hilarious

Today’s #songoftheday is for later in winter, so it’s not Christmas appropriate. I don’t care. m.youtube.com/watch?v=UCEf...

Merry Christmas you filthy animals www.404media.co/weird-disney...

Tiny Tim, who did NOT hit her. He did not. Oh hi, ghost

Remember, no trench warfare tomorrow. Pass it on. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPdH...

Remember, the 80s is when we put shit like this on TV. It was a dark time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyqT...

No guys, you were supposed to watch it so that he quit presidential and became a full time emcee!

On Christmas Eve, there's only one #songoftheday, and it's drying out in the drunk tank. www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9jb...

For the kiddos who follow me here, you can read tomorrow's Christmas Daily WTF today thedailywtf.com/articles/chr... (For three years now, I've been enjoying doing unhinged movie commentary as a Christmas article)

Bringing back Limewire to illegally rip copies of reporting suppressed by the government is definitely some cyberpunk shit

For whatever reason, "Teenage Dirtbag" is having a moment on every store's music loop (the reason is I'm old and fashion is cyclical). It's been inescapable. But this "girl's perspective" cover went *not* in the direction I expected, and it's sweet: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rbeh... #songoftheday

When you realize there's a chance The Final Sacrifice could finally be released on Blu-ray, if enough people support it: Rowsdower.com

Wrong. The First Amendment protects our right to record law enforcement activity in public — full stop.

Today's #songoftheday is the poppiest anti-christ you'll ever hear. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddCn...

During a cleaning I… I threw out my box of cables. It’s a scary state to be in- I no longer have a thunderbolt to VGA adapter.

Once again, LLMs are useful in identifying practices that need to change. If citation-as-signaling is expected in your field, such that the citation is not a record of any actual engagement, then stop that practice. It is not providing any intellectual benefit. It is human-produced slop.

Today's #songoftheday is bringing the ooooooze strategictapereserve.bandcamp.com/track/the-ooze

I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons

If we had one, “I am the trope I criticize.” would be the GenX motto.

I feel like Action Park has become Woodstock for GenXers. A cultural touchstone that everyone feels like they participated in, even if they never went there. But like, it encodes all of the GenX values in one story. boingboing.net/2025/12/19/t...

When your Ultimate C64 arrives but the easiest monitor to hook up to is ridiculous.