The Oscars are a sham and I’ll never watch a movie again.

🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 Team 18 🕯 🕯 is Columbus 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯

Every once in a while daycare sends a message that makes me drop whatever I’m doing so I can tend to it right away.

The man is doing the kind of community guided Job Guarantee (ish) that I’ve dreamed of for over 10 years 🥲

Crew influence so massive it is even found in Madagascar spin offs: #Crew96

2026 in Books!

Poverty is a policy choice. Concentrated wealth is a policy choice. Inequality is a policy choice. None of it is natural or inevitable. Remember: We have the power to build a system that serves the many, not the powerful few.

It’s again the time for me to do the thing no one asked for and even less people will read: My Annual Random Review of Some of The Books I Read This Year, 2025 Edition! #Books #ICanRead #MostlyAudiobooksTho

I chose the wrong career.

Can’t get lost in a national forest if you don’t make it to one first

Meet me at the Tumbleweeds Diner parking lot in the next 20 minutes if you want to have a beer or a Bloody Mary

According to experts, gardening has been shown to boost mood and reduce stress.

My goto is to ask LLMs how many states have R in their name. They always fail. GPT 5 included Indiana, Illinois, and Texas in its list. It then asked me if I wanted an alphabetical highlighted map. Sure, why not.

Whoops, the MAGA hat crowd seems to have lost its voice in Brazil.

TURNS OUT GETTING SMACKED IN THE HEAD IN BRAZIL IS FREE Health care is a constitutional right; all citizens and foreign residents are entitled to free treatment in the world’s largest public health system @terrencemccoy.bsky.social describes his experience (link is free, too!) wapo.st/4nsexU6

Even with the off and on rain, there were still some great Festa Junina activities today in Recife.

Flamengo: exists. Me: Trash team full of plastic fans. Flamengo: dominates Chelsea. Me: Vai Mengão, porra! #ClubWorldCup

What your favorite migratory wood warbler says about you. An oldie. My current favorite is the black-throated blue but it changes daily.

Me: it would be cool to have a team of Darlington Nagbes. Monkey Paw:

How we’re being asked to live now is objectively insane

As called in Brazil:

shoutout to these Day 0 fans, me and @cgmaciel.bsky.social

I ranked the books I read in 2024:

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 1/20

Let’s talk about plants

Christmas in Prison by Bright Eyes and John Prine youtu.be/IemfAtZIEuM?...

I spent a couple of months in Pennsylvania a few years back, where they had legalized casino gaming on your phone. I played video blackjack for about 20 minutes for real money, then immediately deleted the app and rethought my stance on making gambling that easily accessible.

Ha! I sent a small clip of myself and made it to the music video for one of my favorite bands! youtu.be/Wh-GNcgIJ-o?...

Saw Amigo The Devil, supported by Rattlesnake Milk and TK & The Holy Know Nothings, last night. Great show, blown away by how good they all were.

RFK Jr is about to mainstream diseases only Jair Bolsonaro has had

The best thing about BlueSky is that, from the very beginning, it made a conscious decision to distance itself from the scourge that is the color purple by choosing literally any other color to be in its name.

Sea Hibiscus - Hibiscus tiliaceus subsp. pernambucensis. A tree of many uses including very good nautical lumber, bonsai, and even as a catalyst for the fermentation of tempeh. Native to most of the tropics, I wish I could grow them in Colorado. This subspecies is named after my home state.

The smart folks at iNaturalist have informed me this is not a slug, but a Wavy Bubble Snail: Micromelo undatus, common name the miniature melo, is an uncommon species of small sea snail or bubble snail, a marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusk in the family Aplustridae. #iNaturalist #SnailedIt

One last treat before I leave. Gorgeous ‘Cobra Cipó-Verde’, Philodryas aestiva, crossing a bike path.

One last treat before I leave. Gorgeous ‘Cobra Cipó-Verde’, Philodryas aestiva, crossing a bike path.

One of the coolest things about visiting Recife is the chance to see some cool fauna and flora. Like this beauty of a sea slug.

Hello world! #CapyCrew | #Crew96