Rounded up some highlights from the collection: www.richlandlibrary.com/blog/2025-12...

Not for nothing, but I beat Mega Man 11 just a month ago. Thanks for waiting up for me, Capcom.

I usually renew my National Parks Pass in December anyway, but if you buy a 2025 pass this month, it is valid until the end of December 2026 and has a significantly more attractive Roseate Spoonbill.

Supergirl trailer reaction: I regret not having a blog post up the same day, but tomorrow should be time enough. Sign me up.

Folks! We did it! The Onion has 60,000 subscribers! We're that much closer to reaching our goal of beating The Washington Post's print circulation by the end of next year. (They were last reported at 97k, but it's probably lower now.) Thank you all. Democracy died in darkness but we're still here.

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For a while, they said if you needed tech help, ask a 10yo. But current 10-20yos didn't have to explore and click around and futz with things to get them to work, so if it's not immediately obvious, they can't do it. Basically if you're 30-50 you're just doing tech support for everyone forever.

This is how it feels to walk past the merch/latest releases section of the comic store and go straight to the classics and euro comics section

GameFly, this could be your moment, now find a partner to help beef up your anime category beyond its current eight movies, two of which are The Boy and the Heron: www.gamefly.com/browse/movie...

My previous forays in dual-booting Linux have changed from wholesome tech play to necessary contingency.

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Everyone's poems that stuck with them are cool. One of my non-profound brainworms is a poem by Naomi Shihab Nye where she complained about a loud, violent Hollywood movie and what it said about the culture that created it and audience that enjoyed it. A finger-wag that's stuck with me.

Finance can handle rampant cocaine addictions because we know the effect of cocaine addiction so everyone just prices it in to how people assess things and it balances out. Meanwhile the richest men in the world, if drug tested, would pop for substances last seen in a lab in Chelyabinsk-70 in 1963.

can we give her an award now for having written this thirty years ago

What if Magic The Gathering was a retro point and click adventure game?

Listening party on Bandcamp for The Protomen's new album restoring my faith in humanity just a little

Don't want to jinx it, but I have some cautiously good news to report from Sweden 🇸🇪 It's anecdotal, just like most contributions to the kids-these-days discourse. But please stay with me 🧵/1

Metroid Prime 4, I hear you, but Planet Alpha is a gorgeous scifi platformer for just $2 www.nintendo.com/us/store/pro...

lol thehardtimes.net/music/new-sp...

www.redfcu.org/cashback/ If you have any friends or family who play the credit card rewards game, reach out and make sure they're okay.

The Blue Flame (2023) from @thevaultcomics.bsky.social

Let us recall noted putz and Yale alumnus Logan Huntzberger.

Happy to return to the end-of-year ritual of sharing a combined list of "best comics" of the year. Also glad this is featured on the library's main page! www.richlandlibrary.com/staff-picks/...

This 1998 Tove Jansson piece about the kind of mail she gets is uncomfortably familiar. (From The Woman Who Borrowed Memories, NYR Books)

Woof. I never would’ve guessed what this response paper was responding to if I hadn’t read the abstract of the assigned article! it’s a quant psych study assessing strength of relationships among gender-typicality, perceived ‘popularity’, and mental health sequelae among teens.

Time to invoice the telegraph for using my illustration, I guess

When this criminal was jailed, the judge told David Gentile and America: ‘This is a warning to would-be fraudsters that seeking to get rich by taking advantage of investors gets you only a one-way ticket to jail.’ I guess not

Let me give some insight on this, as a producer in the dub industry who worked with major streamers, who's witnessed first-hand where this push for AI is coming from. tl;dr: Only CEOs want this. Tell them how much you hate it. Be loud, email, call, @, post. You will kill this. 🧵⬇️

my “AI is over” anecdote is that my wife was hired over the summer to write scripts for a big tech company explaining how to use their AI tools and after many rounds of revisions, the latest notes said “we’re finding a lot of AI fatigue among our users” and to remove all references to AI

Humble Book Bundle: Image Comics in the '10s ($18 for 175 items) buff.ly/akb5DoP #ad

It didn't happen this time, but eventually hackers are going to get people's prompt histories and it's going to be wild

Reminder: the first Raimi SPIDER-MAN is a Thanksgiving movie.

"i hate writing NPC dialogue i don't wanna do it i need bobot to do it for me buhhhhh" you are like a little baby

I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.

Happy St Katherine's Day to all scholars, librarians, and Katherines. May you win an argument against an annoying man today, in the true spirit of Katherine herself.

You meet the users where they are to stop them doing the stupidest shit imaginable. You have no idea how much this paid off. The number of infected media players people downloaded in the age before Windows Media Player had more than three codecs is unimaginable Who knows if I saved the firm

As the year comes to an end, I'm reposting some of the comics I made this year, including this ridiculous thing.

That mom does not know how dang TALKATIVE those dragons get!

God we need more of this. Imagine even normalizing rejection emails in creative industries (menacingly looking at the comics industry with bloodshot eyes)

"spot big discounts" aka "not immediately buying a 120k house for 500k"

Canada is releasing a set of stamps celebrating the nation's graphic novelists. These stamps feature Kate Beaton, Jimmy Beaulieu, Guy Delisle, Julie Doucet, Bryan Lee O’Malley and Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, alongside some of their famous works.

I know this is rhetorical but my stab at a real answer: because they are trying to get funding from VC people who are ideologues like Peter Thiel and Thiel doesn’t want us to have libraries

Every parent whose career has to do with online safety also bans Roblox.

I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.

*Theatrhythm intensifies* I will relay my receiving address to the JRPG community to send their thanks, as now that I have the Pixel Remasters, they can go on fire sale for $5 and a cookie.

This is amazing. A Gmail-like interface for searching the Epstein emails released by Congress. jmail.world

Huge win for Missouri and for all libraries. Thank you to MASL, MLA, the ACLU, and everyone involved! @la-cac.org #FReadom www.stlpr.org/government-p...

There are a number of middle grade graphic novels where "I hate math / math's boring" is treated like a relatable personality trait and left unexamined, unimproved.