Loved Jade City and had to very quickly follow it up with Jade War. Such good characterization, and just brilliant.

T-26 Days Fandom Friday. One of @willbeason.bsky.social's favorite holiday movies is A Muppet Christmas Carol. Tonight, he is going to a showing of it with a live orchestra in Seattle. I look forward to next year when I'll get to join him. 1/2

The most precious commodity you have is your attention. You don’t have to waste it on poor-faith debates or arguments with strangers if you don’t think they’ll be productive. You can prioritize the things that matter to you and make your life richer.

I wasn't intending to break my 5k PR today, but when I realized I was on pace to do so, I figured I might as well.

While I won't be able to go with @jtinaustin.bsky.social this year, I'm sure in the future I'll get to bring him to the Seattle Symphony's performance of the music for The Muppet Christmas Carol.

What a great headline

I've had enough.

Over the last ten days, we’ve turned down most national (and international) media requests in order to focus on launching our transition process into government. Our attention is on this city—we were elected to get real results, and that will be our focus for the next four years.

It's interesting reading while having already read so much; nearly every book I read makes me think of several others. Similar themes, plot elements, characters ... Jade City connects me back to Mistborn and The Poppy War the most so far, but there's elements of others.

Enjoying Jade City so far. Reminds me of the feel of Mistborn.

Nice to see my incumbent mayor and Mamdani mentioned in the same breath!

Really liked Alien Clay. Slower than most of what I've read from Tchaikovsky, and far grimmer. The length of focus on life in an internment camp was a surprise and made it hard to get through, but it is paid off well in the end.

Woohoo! Three sub-8 minute miles in a row.

Factorio is one of the few games where I've gotten good enough at it that playing the game is more about being able to enter a "flow" state where there's very little barrier between what I'm thinking and what I can make happen in the game.

Another 100-mile rate milestone passed! 1,300 miles in a year of running and walking! I'm curious as to when the rate will converge to a "normal". If I keep my current pace up, it'll be around 1,800-1,900.

I don't know why the "Piggy" thing is bothering me so much. It's one more unforgivable thing in a list of 20,000 unforgivable things, but I've been mad about it for like 12 straight hours.

I found a CitiBank credit card at the bus stop today. I tried calling CitiBank, and in 20 minutes couldn't get to a person to tell them about the card. Ended up just destroying it and throwing it away.

Marketing that doesn't work on me: "THESE APPLES BOOST IMMUNE HOMEOPATHY ..." Marketing that does work on me: "We put six apples in an unmarked paper bag."

For when people ask me why I'm fine taking a 3 hour train ride instead of doing the same in a 2-1/2 drive: Well I can't really relax and read half a book as a driver.

Finished We Are Legion (We Are Bob). Interesting, smart, but had me yearning for the depth of Children of Time or The Hail Mary Project (which had more of a message/emotional complexity) Still, added the rest of the series to my "Must Read" list. Very enjoyable.

About halfway through We Are Legion (We Are Bob). Well done humor and exploration of Von Neumann machines as a concept so far. I do find myself missing some more thematic/psychological depth.

Whew, 40 books for the year so far. I liked The Midnight Library, but it left me wanting more. Like the theme was reasonably explored, but there's parts that were missed but could have been very cool. Still, really well done exploration of regret and want, and how that can lead to dangerous places

You're referring to Gianmarco Soresi's iconic bit about R. Kelly: youtu.be/nu6C2KL_S9o?...

Wait holy shit I missed that Wilson won in Seattle fuck yeah

It is now Wikipedia official en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katie_W...

Not yet far into The Midnight Library yet. It's making me think of how we often comfort ourselves about regrets with "If I had done differently I'd be worse off, likely in some ironic way." That the happiness we imagine in alternative lives is illusory. It's too Candide for me.

When I'm not reading 500+ page books, turns out I can finish them in a day. The Lathe of Heaven was excellent. For a brief moment near the end I thought I'd dislike it for the reasons I dislike Childhood's End, but I do like how Le Guin ends it.

Reading Ursula K. Le Guin's The Lathe of Heaven and it keeps reminding me of Greg Egan's Permutation City and The Infinite Assassin, as well as Blake Crouch's Recursion.

SEATTLE!!! We’ve now taken the lead by 91 votes! 🤯 This thing is certainly not over! Over 1,000 ballots have been challenged, so if you haven’t tracked your ballot yet get on it! Our trusty volunteers have been working hard to "cure" ballots so they count! We're so close!

Includes math bangers like "siderabola", "squequal", "noverlapping", and "donkeymptote" youtu.be/P9ApmHdPZeI

Continuing to keep up my walking. Just hit over 1,200 miles walked/run in the past year! I'm closing in on the 10k average steps daily milestone!

NYT just called it for Mamdani

As I regularly note, "AI" at this point is an umbrella marketing term for a bunch or generative/machine learning/other formerly differently-termed processes that (of course) have no actual intelligence behind them. It means nothing useful for how the underlying computing proceeds. Thus the quotes.

I think the thing that makes me upset about most uses of AI is how unimaginative the acts of application are. It's like inventing a gear and using it for woodworking or precision surgery rather than using several as a component in a motorized saw or in a machine that makes surgical instruments.

Wishing MAGA "Christians" a very James 2:14-17 right about now

Screensnapshot of our times. Corporate pressure to use AI creates bad outcomes with real-life consequences; seeking to unpack the problem yields more pressure to indulge in the very thing causing the problem.

New Seattle Poll: Seattle Wants to Elect Progressives This Fall In a new Stranger/DHM Poll, progressive challengers are coming out on top across the board. But in the mayoral race, it’s all about voter turnout. www.thestranger.com/stranger-pol... #SEAelex #WAelex

Turns out the real political spectrum is just how people feel about free parking 😂 Tag yourself!

Achievement Unlocked: Played a couple of my original compositions on John Cameron Mitchell's piano.

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@wilsonforseattle.bsky.social made me excited to start voting as a new Seattle resident. Moving from Texas, it's great to now live in a city/state that seems to *want* me to vote and be aware of what's going on in local politics.

I've now been alive for as many years as there are "topologically distinct heptahedra" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heptahe...

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

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T-75 Days Somber Saturday. I've said before that @willbeason.bsky.social and I are not blind to what is happening in our country. I keep this countdown going to show that we will not be bullied into giving up joy. 290 days ago, people urged us to get married early - while we still could. 1/7

On the bus and it's filled with people on their way to the Seattle No Kings protest!

In Philadelphia, #nokings goes back a long way.

Nice to be starting to get involved with a local queer running group - the Seattle Frontrunners

If you are in the board games industry, I wish you luck in this crazy chaotic tariff world, and if I can help you in any way please let me know. Also if you vote for MAGA this November or next, you are dumb