Here’s to 2026

Look, I'm sure that Nolan's adaptation of "The Odyssey" will be fun, but I highly doubt it will be as good as the original.

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Today is the birthday of a very important person in history. This one goes out to Annie Lenox. It's your day Annie!

Prepare the gorilla! 📽 NIGHT OF THE BLOODY APES (1969) 🎲 MOTHER NATURE 🎲 EN ESPAŇOL 🎙 @happierman.bsky.social & @cecilbaldwiniii.bsky.social 🎨 #davidbaldwinart #RandomHorror9 #RNGHPN9 #randomnumbergeneratorhorrorpodcastno9 #nightofthebloodyapes

Christmas tamales I bought in Colorado with mole I bought in Oaxaca.

Working on a book proposal/chapter drafts. I've been loosely poking at this project since 2017. It appears that I've accumulated nearly 100 pages of research from 126 sources. I think I'm ready to write.

We're the worst. US justice department halts funding for human-trafficking survivors | Trump administration | The Guardian share.google/wh9YsGFNiKIO...

Happy Capricorn Season ♑️🐐

Rick Steves continues to just be the best dude on every level.

Hardly, a day goes by.

People, Dust Bunny (2025) was so flipping good. Please watch it. I knew nothing about it going in, so I'm not sharing a trailer on purpose. Just know it's the best monster movie for 10 year olds ever. And, if you're mad about Mads like @flophousepodcast.com then it's got you covered.

I just did a search for the phrase "sick figure" in my photo cloud and got this image. It is a weirdly amazing cross-section of my life.

I'm pretty sure @pattonoswalt.bsky.social is sitting next to me at this SLC Sky Club. Anyway, if you are, hi. Now I'll go back to doing what I normally do: ignoring famous people because I'm scared of being an idiot in front of them.

As always, beautiful views from SW Colorado. Happy to head home to see Steven STEVEN and @rotwag.bsky.social . Sorry as always to leave my Mom & LG.

America's caught in a version of A Christmas Carol where it's visited by a billion spirits and doesn't learn a damn thing.

🚨Judge Xinis finds that, incredibly, Mr. Abrego Garcia was never ordered deported in 2019. She notes that every since this saga began all the way back in March, the government has NEVER been able to produce any evidence that the immigration judge actually issued a removal order.

Couple of things here: 1. Trump says he took another cognitive test recently 2. In front of "large numbers of doctors and experts" 3. He called the examinations "long...and very boring" 4. If you're given 3 cognitive exams in one year by panels of doctors, something is VERY wrong with you

This is a great article, y'all.

Looks like I am headed to D&D University in January. Yes, this is a thing. Yes, it is run by D&D in a Castle and thus at the most castle-like university in the Atlanta area (Oglethorpe). Yes, research takes you weird and amazing places.

One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential

For my Austen peeps...

Let me tell you a story. Perhaps you can guess where this is going... though it does have a bit of a twist. I was poking around Google Scholar for publications about the relationship between chatbots and wellness. Oh how useful: a systematic literature review! Let's dig into the findings. 🧵

For comparison, every robotic mission NASA has ever sent in its history, from the dawn of the Space Age 65 years ago to today, from Mercury to Pluto and beyond, has cost less than $40B. I know which one has done more for humankind and which one should be dismantled.

"Make Looney Tunes gay"

Pre-School Quickie, the bar you hit up before Night School. (Sometimes DM-ing goes weird places.)

When it comes to money-losing tech revolutionaries, OpenAI is in a class by itself. (via Deutsche) @weisenthal.bsky.social

Upgraded to first class to Salt Lake. How does my table work? Where do my bags go? Oooh, look a massage chair!

What To Know About ‘Heated Rivalry’ https://theonion.com/what-to-know-about-heated-rivalry/

@cracksh0t.bsky.social some important Paranormal updates.

Semester is all over except the grading. My office is tidied, my articles set aside to transcribe into quotes for my Intro chapter, and I'm ready to head to CO to visit my Mom. Medical problems are currently minimal. Yoga is happening tomorrow. NYE party planned. Things seem ok.

Hey all, The Onion is accepting applicants for our writing, video and graphics fellowships. Fellowships last six months, pay well, and provide full benefits. You can apply at theonion.com/fellowship.

Again, there were approximately 8000 news stories every time Biden stumbled a little when talking

Oh man—I totally blew it in pushing the us wrapping the Paranormal Activity series AND the little documentary about the making thereof! Well come hear us wrap that up before we move on to our found footage bonus episodes!

This is amazing.

In a car on the way home! We walked literally a mile between our plane and baggage claim. What gives, Atlanta? I don't remember it being that dramatic in the past.

Only time I've ever been the solo lounge guest!

Dress for the job you want (Bog Witch) not the job you have (Regular Witch)

I know most of the focus is on RFK Jr.'s weird horny texts, but the news that he used to spam Bill Nye with anti-vax weirdness and Bill was like, "Dude, you're you're confusing correlation for causation" is the only RFK text-message news I will ever need.

I don't care what movies, in fact I want to be surprised, but we're not making anymore 400 million dollar movies by the Russos or whoever. We're giving 20 million to 200 different filmmakers and seeing what they come up with.

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.

Scientists: have you been the target of an online harassment campaign, doxxing, or weaponized FOIA requests? I'd like to talk to you about steps you had to take to protect your digital security for an upcoming Nature story. (You can be anonymous if necessary.) RTs appreciated.

New goal: finding record bars in all possible countries. Secondary: getting them to play some Velvet Underground/Lou Reed for me. So far I've got Mexico and Japan checked off the list.

Impossible how good reading is. You mean I just point my face at the paper for a bit and it does a whole update on my brain?

During the pandemic I wrote an article for @sarakday.bsky.social about My Favorite Murder. Today the hard copy of said article finally showed up in my mailbox! Share around @karenkilgariff.bsky.social & @stevenraymorris.bsky.social !

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Goodnight, Steven STEVEN.

Send these to the Pope