Andor deserves all the flowers it's gotten. But I'm gonna say that Daredevil: Born Again is also a great show that's suitable for the moment.

Once again, Alphaville remains my favorite set of sophisticated shitposters. Also, apparently the shitposters are the most honest ones nowadays.

Tried to do an Indiana-Jones-esque jumping swing over a waist-high metal gate with the decorative metal ribbon on top. The horizontal plank on the arch over the gate was loose, shifted, and I feel straight down onto the ribbon. Peeled a 1"x12" strip of skin straight off of my shin.

If you won't listen to us, maybe you'll listen to this horse.

Okay, got a new phrase I wanna test out: "The Denver Clothesline" It's when people are walking their dog on one side of the street/path and the leash goes all the way to the other side, tripping anyone walking/running/biking by.

Look, yes, everything sucks. But I just pulled out my K1000 yesterday and found 3 rolls of super expired and improperly stored Velvia 50 that I get to play around with. And you know what? I'm pretty stoked about that.

COMIC: Social Contract

Once again.

Think may actually be legal! Who knows after today.

Happy New Year! You are now legally* allowed to deflate the tires on any car with an orange 25 registration sticker on the license plate. This is a citizen's initiative to encourage motorists to stop stealing from everyone else invested in our communal infrastructure. *Holy fuck not actually legal

In Catholicism, a piece of bread becomes the body of Christ. In suburbia, a human being becomes a car.

youtu.be/a1v7HakNz4E?... Happy Christmas, everyone

welcome to the Second Annual Bluesky Christmas Eve Snowball Fight! please drop a take in the replies and I or someone else will be along to belligerently interpret whatever you said in the worst possible light

The resonance cascade in Half-Life was just the universe imagining Bari Weiss being represented by Rudy Giuliani. Just, accelerating failure until the space and time break.

I've just been Christmas Carol'd at home. Cities rock.

The atomic ensemble time scale at the NIST Boulder campus has failed.

This Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...

"I went to a small liberal arts college in Ohio called Oberlin." - Things I actually oveheard in a coffee shop and recognize this sounds like a send-up.

I have been critical of Bennet being too slow to update his priors about what our current moment requires. This, this is meeting the moment. Good on him. Bonus points for dragging Hick along too.

Everyone who enabled this guy to drive with a suspended license should be charged with conspiracy to commit murder, on top of his own criminal liability.

Whelp, I just tossed in $50 for @senadorajulie.bsky.social.

Spending a little time walking around Denver's design museum and a docent was pointing out a few examples of furniture that has made it into Star Trek. Anywho, visit the Kirkland! You never know where a museum will take you www.ex-astris-scientia.org/database/cha...

Frustrated Trump Struggling To Find Any Infrastructure Left In Indiana To Destroy https://theonion.com/frustrated-trump-struggling-to-find-any-infrastructure-left-in-indiana-to-destroy/

This deserves a listen on good headphones. There are some things from Dulli's catalog that he can't really pull off now as his voice has aged (totally normal!). This really shows he can still rock while working with the limitations of being a little older.

Get you a city council member that doesn't take bullshit when it comes to street safety, or about Anschutz corruption. I literally knocked doors for her opponent a couple of years ago, but love how hard she's come out swinging. Lucky District 7 indeed. A 🧵 of ⛓️:

It has been entertaining watching bsky entirely misunderstand Kyle Clark's dry sarcasm and mistake it for hedging. No, no, this is just just his style. It's very clear that a federal pardon for Tina Peters has no effect.

Indianapolis Star, November 22, 1918

Go.... <sigh> Hoosiers. (IU sucks.)

I still like this comparison

It's very banal but I think the right synthesis here is: 1. moderation has electoral benefits 2. other things also have electoral benefits (incl. getting policy calls right, anticipating shifts in public opinion, generating shifts in public opinion) 3. sometimes there are tradeoffs between 1 and 2

... and I've just seen a full size canoe getting hauled on the Broadway bike lane.

You will be visited by 3 spirits

Welcome to Selection Sundae!

I'd like to thank Jill Anschutz for demonstrating the power dynamics which so often favor the local entrenched interests of a handful of people over the needs of the whole city. It's a perfect distillation of how banal privilege becomes corrupt and corrupting to civic life.

Hands Reaching Up From Hell, Wat Rong Khun Temple, by Chalermchai Kositpipat, 1997

This composition had eluded me for nearly a decade, but yesterday I was finally able to capture it. A train rolled through just as the Duquesne Incline was crossing over the tracks in #Pittsburgh, creating a picture perfect winter scene. It was worth the hours and hours I've waited over the years.

Whelp, just had a dream where a friend told me about a vassoon, a combination vuvuzuela-bassoon.

I just chipped in some cash. These folks punch above their weight, and they are actually punching, so two points to them.

This news is @agelston.bsky.social bait www.cpr.org/2025/11/28/u...

It's official, last night Denver City Council adopted a local single-stair ordinance! Beginning December 31, 2025, 5-story single-stair housing will be permitted in Denver! www.coloradopolitics.com/2025/11/24/d...

In Monrovia, California, protesters are purchasing 17¢ ICE scrapers from Home Depot and immediately returning them to create long lines and slow down the entire store. Their aim is to disrupt sales and convey a message opposing ICE raids occurring in their neighborhood.

"The ground crew sheared a pin connected to the wheels when pushing the plane back". Bummer of a way to start the day for the ground crew

Alphaville remains my favorite set of sophisticated shitposters.

Insane but true fact: making US roads as safe as Canadian, Australian, or European roads would save more lives than eliminating murder from the US.

Mayor Zohran rizzed up Diaper Don

if youre trans and youre struggling to justify why you as a person should be allowed to take up space in the universe just consider that by your sheer existence you make a lot of the worst people on earth mad enough that they will die early deaths from stress. so thats a p good reason

I very publicly said a nice thing about my city councilor because she is showing real leadership and she clipped the video and shared it and I was not ready for that. Guess I've gotta quit my job and become an influencer.

One of my favorite bits is to start a conversation with "so I was reading about <X> on a sports website I subscribe to", where <X> is as far away from sports as possible (eg, creatures, cooking, statistics). That's @defector.com , and they continue to put out amazing writing.

(1/4) Lakewood just adopted one of Colorado’s most significant zoning updates: legalizing middle housing citywide and making room for the kind of compact, affordable homes the city has been missing.