The Way Things Work (the original edition) is my origin story. Along with the Basic Training column at the back of 3-2-1 Contact magazine in the 1980s.

Well that’s next year’s problem 🤷‍♂️

Die Hard is a Christmas ornament

122 Years Ago Today:

I wore my @bart.gov holiday sweater to the office party today and it turned out one of my colleagues was wearing a @caltrain.com sweater so we stood next to each other to recreate Milbrae Station with a cross-platform interchange between our transit systems.

are we still on about em dashes and ai. imo human writers should just use the em dashes even harder. we should be out here pummeling out those em dashes like we're emily dickinson

That'll cut the legs out from under it. Oh wait.

Happy to report that Claude got a proper A1 @sfchronicle.com obituary. 🐊🫡

Blue canarye yn the outlette by the lighte swicche Who waccheth ovir thee Make a litel dovecote yn thy soul

It’s been (mumble) years since I last rode Link between SeaTac and Sodo. Some of my initial impressions were somewhat misguided; they appear to have actually managed to get dedicated right-of-way in the middle of the street and signal priority working, neither of which MUNI can muster.

someBODYE once tolde me

Today's dubious realization: I had to do considerably more paperwork to *not* have children than to have children.

It ys onlye Gen AI if it ys from the Gen AI regioun of Fraunce, otherwyse it ys just sparklinge plagiarism.

Fact-Checking Claims About Zohran Mamdani https://theonion.com/fact-checking-claims-about-zohran-mamdani/

CDC Figures It Easier To Start Tracking People Without Measles

Final hours!

I am at a rooftop bar in Las Vegas and there are six people looking over the edge of the booths at the edge of the bar and one of them has a broom and I think someone lost a phone over the edge.

Flew United today and the napkin made me think of the recent @flightradar24.com podcast discussion of the airline’s mew routes.

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

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[Depeche Mode voyce]: 🎶 REACHE OUT TOUCHE GRASS 🎶

There should be a law that hotel shower heads must be more than 5 1/2 feet off the ground

We covered a lot of ground in the latest episode of @theairshowpodcast.com, in which we dissect the brand and product issues with American Airlines. This photo neatly sums it up: Attention to detail. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

I have an email address that is older than some of my colleagues. My actual bones cried out in terror when I found that out.

San Jose, Terminal A, 1990 (opened 1990), by HTB Inc. 📷 via @flysjc.bsky.social. #airportarchitecture www.instagram.com/p/C5wC7x1up_q/

We could have had a competent administration. I wouldn't even have to know the name of the secretary of HHS. I could go for days (weeks even!) without hearing about more stupidity and malice out of the cabinet. But we got these clowns instead 😠

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It’s been five years since we woke up to apocalyptic orange skies and everyone stopped for a moment and stared at the sky. Five years since @barackobama.bsky.social shared my @sfchronicle.com photos of that day, a fun fact that will follow me forever.

Claude the Alligator at the Academy of Sciences yn wondrous San Francisco ys TURNINGE 30. We heare ynogh about the wretched Gen AI named Claude, but heere ys a Claude to be trulye celebrated, on a large *scale*! HAPPYE HATCHDAYE CLAUDE! www.calacademy.org/claudes-hatc...

Book Release Day! Long List Anthology Volume 9 is now available in various ebook vendors for purchase! www.diabolicalplots.com/support/books/

I really need to spend less time on my hobby of book buying and start to read some once in a while.

How does this help American manufacturing? www.wsj.com/business/aut...

It’s almost like global trade wars are not good for US manufacturing

wonderful time in SAN FRANCISCO last night with @booksmith.bsky.social and @archive.org what an incredible space to fill with love. TONIGHT IS LOS ANGELES final show of tour with @skylightbooks.bsky.social at dynasty typewriter. still some tickets left get them here www.squadup.com/events/chuck...

This should be a social media game, “Give a pick-up line that would only work on your partner”: “Hey baby, let’s turn on the mini-split and hang out in the AC in the spare room"

Ok, hear me out. A Lord of the Rings remake, but with these two taking the One Ring to Mordor:

Please consider this an advance directive that, whatever happens to me, I DO NOT WANT MY LIKENESS USED AFTER MY DEATH FOR ANY REASON.

Still rumor and innuendo on the socials this morning with no news 🤷‍♂️ It’s hard to keep up when I have certain names permanently muted but it’s a challenge I’m willing to endure.

thrilled to announce our SAN FRANCISCO show with @booksmith.bsky.social at @archive.org is now SOLD OUT. cant wait to see 400 buckaroos proving love at such an incredible venue. only tempe, salt lake city and los angeles tour stops left and all on low tickets dont wait www.chucktingle.com/tour.html

I'm going to see @chucktingle.bsky.social at the Internet Archive in San Francisco next week! (This means I need to figure out how to get to the Richmond on a Tuesday night.) app.gopassage.com/events/28917

this is the future liberals want

James Dobson won’t see your posts celebrating his death. But you know who will? Everybody that ever loved him or respected him. So please keep posting

The KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack just placed three songs in the top 10 of the Hot 100 charts simultaneously — a feat not many movie soundtracks have accomplished. By @idislikestephen.bsky.social

2025 Hugo Awards file770.com/2025-hugo-aw...

!!!! POWELLS KNEW 😂😂😂 #hugos #worldcon

I want a "Generative AI is theft" T-shirt. #hugos #worldcon