A few more baking things - cornbread and banana bread. They must have been pretty good - the family demolished them. #cooking #baking #photography

Our yard has a bunch of small lights and they can light things nicely, if dimly. I tried to process this one in a way that hopefully captures the feeling of what this leaf in that light looked or felt like. #photography

Morning light coming through my basement window today.

TOMORROW, Tuesday, December 16, at 12-2pm ET / 18-20h CET I will be part of a book launch event for THE MOST AWFUL RESPONSIBILITY. YOU can attend: in person if you happen to be in Paris (lucky you), or on Zoom. Click "INSCRIPTION" (top right) here to register. www.sciencespo.fr/ceri/fr/even...

With this whole Venezuela thing they're trying to do...does anyone else get the rose-tinted glasses on for the good old days, when administrations would put some effort into their lies?

Lee's in Nashville has a jar full of assorted buttons for sale at $0.10 each. I don't know why this delights me as much as it does.

You get your shit done the night before. You get showered and shaved. Dishes are run. Laundry caught up. Pets fed. You even get a good night's sleep. And yet, today you feel like you're moving through molasses and fighting sleep. Mondays.

Some of today's posts from Arcane Bullshit. (Arcanebullshit.com)

Juggalos are the Millennial version of Parrotheads. They're there for each other and for the music and that's great and all but the rest of us just don't really get it.

Some cool looking frost on my car window in the morning light. Taken on the morning of December 5.

Here is our adorable, friendly, loving and occasionally insane tuxedo kitty, Estella. She's beautiful and fights with a boxer five times her size for fun. Estella is named for Estella/Cruella from "Cruella", due to her dual nature. That said, she's definitely more friendly than nurs

Is someone just leaving interesting things on the ground around my house for me to take pictures of?!? Anyways, found this one walking the mutt last night. Turns out that it's a Christmas ornament. I don't know why it was in the lawn of the insurance place.

Watching the light change on my fence and garage - headlights and taillights from the streets and the parking lot.

I post a picture of a non-melty ice cream bar I found on the ground and the next day, I find this nearly-mint condition crayon on the ground in the Kroger parking lot. And remember folks, friends don't let friends color with Rose Art. Stick with the good stuff.

Decorated Christmas tree on IL-15 (by NAPA) lit up by some headlights. Took the picture during the Hometown Christmas parade on Saturday night.

Every day, for one reason or another. Sometimes, many times in a day.

Is there anyone currently alive that knows if figgy pudding is any good?

This is Zoe. She is the largest and oldest of our bunnies. She's just a big happy girl. She is past doing full-on binkies, but she still does zoomies and head-binks when it's time to eat. I do voices for all of the animals. Her voice is Aretha Franklin's character from "The Blues Brothers".

We have snails as pets and are now (somewhat inadvertently) snail breeders. So $135,000 worth you say.... www.straitstimes.com/world/europe...

60 pounds of pitador decided he needed to take a nap on me last night. It's a difficult life, being loved.

I have a job that I need to be at by 7:45 and a cat that likes to lay my legs on cold mornings and the two are not 200% compatible.

Cool explanation on Planck Length and Planck Units. The unrelated physics questions he answers afterwards are even better though. youtu.be/rzB2R_qiC28?...

Discarded apple by the dumpster in the Kroger parking lot. Afternoon light was headed out. I knew if I tried to get the picture after I shopped, it would be gone.

There are two ways to skate at a job. The first, you make things easier for yourself and your coworkers. The second way is where you make things easier on you and worse for your coworkers. Please don't be the kind of person who does the second - if you are, you suck.

Does anyone have any superstitions, rituals or personal lore about Aldi Quarters? (The quarter one keeps around to get a shopping cart at Aldi)

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I had one of those my-baby-is-getting-big moments yesterday when my 10-year-old asked me "Dad... Who is Feanor?" I really didn't think we would need to have elves and the maia talk until he was at least in high school, but I guess this is the world we all live in.

@alawinans.bsky.social saw your presentation at Archon, then ordered this up the next day. My daughter (who saw your talk too) flipped out when she saw I had it and pointed your name out to me on the cover.

There are some interesting (and probably unintentional) similarities between the first meetings of Beren & Luthien and T'Challa & Storm.

I've never been so disappointed in someone I was a fan of.

"Pregnancy has evolved independently over 150 times - only one of those times it was the males." Seahorses. youtu.be/myBsYxMHx1A?...

Personal head canon - Sirius Black hates Severus Snape because on some deeply subconscious, meta level, Sirius knows that even though he got to be played by Oldman, Severus's actor was even better (in this property).

Overheard in the hallway: "It's pretty good chocolate, even though it's been in my pocket."

Interesting new fact of the day for me: hermaphroditic land snails will stab one another with calcium "love darts" or "love arrows" as part of their weird freaky snail courtship ritual. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_da...

If you want to be a rich person, you need to THINK like a rich person: clickhole.com/5-things-mil...

The town's ice cream person using Christmas songs for some of their music is a bit off-putting. It's not Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer time. It's April.

Earlier today, I was sitting on an Adirondack chair in my backyard, beautiful weather, with the sun shining on my face. I was relaxing, and petting both of our dogs at the same time. It's pretty cool to get a tiny slice of heaven like that on a random Saturday in spring.

"A rootin' tootin' Wild West tale filled with action and adventure" is an accurate if somewhat disingenuous way to describe Cormac McCarthy's "Blood Meridian" to a high school student.

'Thwart' can be a noun. Probably not going to come up unless you're reading something having to do with a boat and rowers.

I've been on a bit of a @terrypratchett.bsky.social rampage these last few months. Right now, I'm listening to "Small Gods", narrated by Andy Serkis. And Serkis is an excellent voice actor. The only problem is that when he's doing an excited, high-pitched voice, it can get a bit ... Smeagol-y

Just finished @johnjosephadams.com "Brave New Worlds" and started "Other Worlds Than These" by same.

"If I happen to come across any dragon remains...." Tolfdir, don't act like we don't all know that I'm the goshdarned dragon born. There's a reason you're asking me to do this instead of Colette or Enthir.

A person can admit that a fart with comedic timing can be pretty funny while still not wanting to deal with it when stuck in a tiny room monitoring detentions.

In a class where students are discussing the Odyssey. Every time they talk about Odysseus' home, I just keep thinking "steamed hams".

Don't you hate when you're sitting around minding your own business and suddenly the MacGyver theme song rushes into your head like a bull in a china shop and plays across your subconscious brain for 45 minutes straight?

Finished "Halo Fractures" and "Technofeudalism". Started "Cosmic Powers" (below). Love me some Sci-fi/fantasy anthology books. #scifi #sciencefiction #fiction #shortstories

They're like wolves. Except that they're smarter. And they weigh as much as a bus. I do love orcas. A few changes of fate and evolution and it could have been them putting us into cages, saying "ooooh, look at the silly naked ground apes. Scientists think they may have a real language."