It's weird when dads say "I didn't have anything to do with the baby until they became a toddler." I loved the infant stage. You're watching neurons awaken in real time. And I never ran out of stuff that needed doing (bottles washed, food blended and prepared, late night diaper changes, etc.).

Terracotta Pig, East Java, 15th century

Oklahoma City is bigger, but the state of Oklahoma hates Tulsa so much more, it's crazy.

Solid haul from Dream Haven Books in Minneapolis!

My thoughts always go back to @austinwalker.bsky.social's words of caution to not be satisfied with a games media ready to "get back to brunch," and damn if that doesn't feel like exactly what happened.

Goddamn, I miss when the internet was some place you go to get messages, connect with a few people with shared interests, and look stuff up instead of this monstrous thing it's become.

I GET LOGGED OUT. BUT I LOG IN AGAIN

Pathetic. I can see the reasoning, but it's really a solution in search of a problem. Phonetic cards don't always work, but you won't have messiness on this scale. Again, pathetic. Administrations everywhere are tanking their chance to meet the movement.

Is God is or is God ain't my constituency?

Caring for aging parents (and just aging in general) really hammers home how all of us--*all* of us--are only temporarily able-bodied.

Sometimes you can pinpoint the exact moment when an empire dies.

I'm not really interested in Star Wars these days, but I *am* fascinated by Disney's mismanagement of Star Wars. Not even in a schadenfreude way, but as a grotesquerie. The stripping down of this cultural artifact into saleable bits, the turning the nob back and forth and looking at the crowd stuff.

All of Disney's 'Star Wars' movies. Even the best of them is just "pretty decent."

With Paste Games/AVClub, @garrettmartin.bsky.social gave dozens of writers their first paid bylines and (just as importantly) their first thorough and professional edits. So much talent has entered this space with his help

Last day of in-person classes, and my Brit Lit 2 students ended the semester with a round of applause. We really built something special; teaching can be such a privilege. I forget it time to time, always at my own peril.

“Use AI to brainstorm but not to write.” “Use AI to help you outline but not to write.” These are commonly proposed as “ethical” ways for undergrad students to use AI, but I’m sorry, brainstorming & outlining are just as integral to writing as the actual construction of sentences.

Got the news that I'm being promoted to associate professor today! Between that and getting a story accepted for publication over the weekend, I'm feeling pretty decent going into this last stretch of the semester.

This is what you want to see when you watch a movie

Every few years, someone comes along and reminds the world they need to read R.A. Lafferty. I reckon it's my turn. Thanks to @epikt.bsky.social for chatting with me while I prepared the article!

Postcolonial readings of "Araby" and "Eveline" in Joyce's 'Dubliners.' And I've been teaching those stories almost 20 years later.

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Birth of a Nation-ass government

The pause at about 2.35 in "Bernadette" youtu.be/GXQ3K-RGe60?...

important news:

Finally getting around to the Shelves by Genre coverage of Fellowship, and their conversation justified my long-held belief that Tom Bombadil is the Middle Earth ur-example of "she let me hit cuz I'm goofy."

Mordew is my favorite weird/fantasy novel of the last decade. There's nothing quite like the Cities of the Weft books.

Had to God, I thought I hallucinated this movie. But no, it was a real thing that ran on VH1.

We were chilling on the porch last night when we heard some weird lapping coming from the water dish we leave out for the stray cat that hangs out. It was a possum. Biggest damn possum I've ever seen just casually drinking water on my porch.

Happy Trans Day of Visibility ❤️🏳️‍⚧️❤️

"The color is repellent, almost revolting; a smouldering unclean yellow, strangely faded by the slow-turning sunlight." I made a "Yellow Wallpaper" piece back in 2017, but I re-read the story over the weekend and wanted to try again. Much happier with this version 🖤

They're out here looking for guys hanging out the passenger side of their best friend's ride, trying to holler at me.

We all know this is fascism.

A lot of folks in the comments are completely unable to grasp about the compromises you have to make on low income. It's so expensive to be on the wrong side of the poverty line, and that concept breaks people's brains.

"Meet the hacks Meet the hacks Step right up and greet the hacks"

William Butler Yeats gazing in the direction of Bethlehem:

Gutter racism. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/u...

Evergreen sentiment, tbh

"I'm doing my part!"

In my opinion, it's perfectly valid to kick open the door of every executive office and asking where the hell that money is. And I mean *literally* kicking open the door with all the bluster and anger and drama you can muster because this is insane.

It's a comfort knowing that you can just not engage with AI nonsense. Plenty of people are putting real effort into making dope shit all the time, so I can simply play one of those.

My buddy @cantocomics.bsky.social is doing weird shit, and it's all our problem. You love to see it.

"I was gonna go to court, but then...."

This whole administration continues to be an object lesson in the catastrophic folly of letting unserious people have authority over serious things

The Strait of Hormuz is open for transit