My wife drew a girlkisser loosely inspired by the ones I've been drawing but way, way better and... yeah, goals Happy New Year!

Some brief #haxe dev to assist in me making #wordpress#haxeplugins I did today on twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2657957626 I have a modest but achievable (I think) goal of going from 0 to 10 paid subscribers on my kofi by end of next month.

Got temporary Jme subscription so we can watch Kohaku. Got ingredients to make o-zoni and other things (renkon, satoimo, mochi, etc.) Doing our best to do a Japanese New Year's in Northern Nevada. If only there was a place we could do hatsumode nearby.

Taking my kid to see Stomach Book in April. I kinda told her that if they ever played in town, I'd take her to see them, not expecting they actually would.

I hope to keep traffic about it on this account to a minimum, just not as many people are following my dev acct (@tjw) and tbf I don't post enough there, so I'm not giving people as much of a reason to follow that. But I have a modest, I think achievable goal, of getting 10 paid subscribers (up […]

VegNews seems to have deleted their obit for Bardot. Okay cool but why not acknowledge the mistake they made in the first place?

bit of a shot in the dark but i'd love to connect with UX designers and researchers on bluesky. especially in the gaming industry. i'm looking into transitioning into the field in the new year but i have anxiety and need advice! hoping the bluesky community does its thing and helps a girl out

Instagram influencers are all "I can't believe that people say [thing no one in the history of humanity has ever said]. Way off! Holy airball!"

Like every day, my friends Noreen and Khalil along with their children starve and shiver in the streets. I do not make very much money so I need help with helping my friends. Please give what you can, the children are malnourished chuffed.org/project/emer...

For my annual Halloween horror story binge this year, I read: Interview With the Vampire - Anne Rice Hell House - Richard Mattheson The Haunting of Hill House - Shirley Jackson Carmilla - Joseph Sheridan Lefanu At The Mountains of Madness - HP Lovecraft (also fit in The Nameless City by him) […]

wayyyy back in the day (2015) @kevincarson1.bsky.social called for greece to ignore intellectual property laws should it choose to leave the european union c4ss.org/content/38806

HISTORY REPEATS…👇 “It was not Hitler or Himmler who abducted me, beat me and shot my family. It was the shoemaker, the milkman, the neighbor, who received a uniform and then believed they were the master race." ~ Karl Stojka, Auschwitz survivor

Ugh I saw some jackass on the news surfing in the floodwaters in California, which is so California because: 1) lots of surfers here 2) many of us don't know how disgusting/dangerous floodwaters really are It's also like haha I'm glad you're enjoying this thing that's currently destroying my […]

I didn't realize there weren't gonna be additional seasons of This Monster Wants to Eat Me and I only have one episode left. Are there other good anime that are horror, fantasy or sci-fi with wlw romance in it I should check out? Pref. something that's on crunchyroll...

Giant crustaceans inhabit most of Earth's deep ocean floors, according to a surprising study https://www.earth.com/news/alicella-gigantea-giant-crustaceans-amphipod-inhabit-most-deep-sea-floor/ #marine #nature

News: California's drought is officially over! *thumbs up pokes out of muddy floodwaters*

No trans person should talk to NYT. Nothing good comes from Strangio letting Douthat dishonestly introduce the subject and juxtapose his face with the misleading headline. Even trans politicians should only answer questions through staffers. When a trans person says the right thing, it gets […]

I get why some bsky users turn on the feature that requires login to see the posts, but it doesn't help much in terms of privacy. Bsky is a monolith that anyone can join so it doesn't prevent evasion of blocks. And for the same reason, it doesn't prevent scraping. The protocol also makes it […]

My mom and brother are doing well, their homes have been spared by the flooding, but no electricity or water and had to get supplies from the only store open in town, the gas station/mini mart. I think previous owners of the grocery store would have kept it open but the current owners don't care […]

My hometown (Wrightwood, in the mountains of southern California) is experiencing severe mudslides right now. This does naturally happen ofc but global warming makes it worse as a higher percentage of winter precip comes as rain instead of more gentile snow than before. The geology of the San […]

Your grandma's idea of biblically accurate angel: cartoony cherub Internet memes' idea: cosmic horror Actual angel in the bible: some guy but, like, from space

These are vast systems purely tuned to try to get us all to talk to them like individuals to impose the human mind on them. When we do that it gives over a kind of power I think … to that system or rather to the people who run these systems. It’s like when a company says “you aren’t an employee […]

My lukewarm take is that the fight over AI is really just the old fight over "the cloud." The problem is and has been for a long time that software companies have found ways to force people to keep paying (or enduring ads) for software that: 1) Could go away if the company does 2) Relies on […]

I wrote about Yglesias' attack on critical race theory, and why framing Black intellectuals as aggressive sneaky infiltrators threatening to murder innocent liberalism is pretty racist. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/yglesias-a...

America is at an inflection point. We can't wait 3 more years, we need to stand up now, while there's still something salvageable.

Thomas J. Webb on the value of political activism 🏴 🔗 youtu.be/7M4cc6XzvMo @thomaswebb.net @c4ssdotorg.bsky.social

There is nothing left for the British rightwing other than sadism. They don’t just go after trans rights to score some cultural war points. They do so because it brings them pleasure to imagine other people suffering.

Yes this is an op-ed in the Daily Telegraph arguing that it’s “wholesome family fun” to boil a live lobster despite the fact that we know that lobsters feel pain. He describes seeing a lobster being boiled to death as pleasurable. The word for this kind of person is sadist.

One of the tangential things mentioned in Graeber and Wengrow's Dawn of Everything that stuck with me was the mention that it's common throughout time and space for people to not necessarily like their own family and to form other identities unrelated to blood relation, sometimes spanning entire […]

I'm watching this music video, like, 2x a day. Why am I like this. Soft industrial-metal noise rock + low poly yuri is like catnip to me. And John's avatar is transition goals. I'm always surprised to learn yet again that vchat is still a thing. I used it a little ages ago and noped out because […]

something to be said about how the notion of scientists and scientific objectivity as amoral and emotionally disengaged was in part a consequence of political constraints imposed on them during the Cold War! (Redefining Science)

“Immense world” is a remarkable book written with a lot of science but also sensitivity. I try to get everyone to read it. It totally changed the way that I think about how animals think. The audiobook is great. With non-fiction sometimes audiobooks don't work, but this one is worth listening […]

"Merii kurisumasu is the Japanese way to say merry Christmas to you" is exactly what that mele kalikimaka song is like. That phrase is just a transliteration of Merry Christmas into a language that doesn't have closed syllables.

The truth (people in ancient Rome were wrong about when the Winter Solstice was and early Christians had complex theological needs for when they needed Jesus' birthday to be, the symbolism of a holiday on the solstice is powerful and popular with humans in general) is more interesting than […]

wrote about a really racist Emily Dickinson poem and about how reverse colonial tropes and white entitlement have been around for a really long time. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/emily-dick...

Kwanzaa Facts 1. Kwanzaa is a made up holiday. 2. So is every other holiday. 3. Anyone can celebrate Kwanzaa. 4. It was created by Black, (mostly American and Christian*) people in the 1970s to celebrate Black history and the influence of African culture in the African diaspora and to assert […]

Merry Winter Solstice ​:black_nails:​

HUGE NEWS from the new Epstein files: Records show that Maria Farmer, who worked for Epstein, filed a "child pornography" report to the FBI in 1996. The FBI has never before acknowledged that complaint. The case went nowhere, and mass abuse followed […]

Lol I literally just ran into another Thomas J. Webb at this doctor office.

As I wrote today: www.readtpa.com/p/watch-rep-...

looks like trump's big push to unite his party is tripling down on hating and harming trans people. just full on nazi shit.

Cuellar, Gonzalez, and Davis voted to make it a felony for a doctor to provide a child with the only evidence-based treatment for gender dysphoria.

I remember who tried to tell me Robby Soave was an ok guy. I remember the breath you wasted when I named all these mf'ers for what they were. Some of you were homeschooled in the Bible belt so I know you're operating without a real BS detector. But some of you were just full o' shit.

All Cuisines Are Beautiful

Some baker insulted Mexican bread culture as though that's not the country that birote, one of the finest of all breads, is from!

1. In Alaska, the right wing govt handpicked doctors to the Medical Board to ban trans youth care. A month after after, one anti-trans doctor was arrested for child porn. The day after he was bailed out, his home burned down, with reports suggesting he was found deceased. Our latest wild story.

Canada should legalize reverse-engineering and go into business directly attacking the highest margin lines of business of America's most profitable corporations, making everything in Canada cheaper and better, and turning America's trillions in Big Tech ripoffs into Canadian billions by selling […]

The ending is satisfying hehe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDiSg6cQ86M

RE: https://shallotsanctuary.com/2025/12/16/pinon-pine-nuts/ I blogged about piñon pine nuts!

All national cuisines are myths: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/15/myth-traditional-italian-cuisine-food The “Italian” cuisine that conquered the world was not the one Italians carried with them when they emigrated. They had no such cuisine to carry. Those who left Italy […]