AI is training us to accept mediocrity. Do not use.

My latest batch of alters are in the hands of @heytherejeffro.bsky.social. It feels odd to work so hard on something just to send it away... but worth it to get these pieces out there. Plus I'm in a good spot to keep making more. mikeslater.com/alters.html

Gotta shout back at my favorite podcast tag team @thelogantrent.bsky.social and @johnnyrimes.bsky.social after the laters episode. Their Wrestlemovia podcast is a delight celebrating the swolest theatre kids of all time: professional wrestlers! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...

"How to use a podcast to get a quick creativity coaching session" - Alternate title for most recent Babylon 5 episode @slatron.bsky.social and I did with the amazing @hanamichels.bsky.social, who had some great comments on creativity and coaching. mikeslater.com/ygcto-15b.html

We have two of my former band mates on the podcast this week. Naturally, we talk about the first two episodes of Babylon 5, season 4. mikeslater.com/ygcto-14.html

First stained glass alter in six years. I'll have some process images out on my next article at mikeslater.com

Early episode of YGTCO with @slatron.bsky.social and myself just dropped on the @heytherejeffro.bsky.social Patreon! @moviehooligan.bsky.social indulged me in watching THE WORST episode of Babylon 5. And he still showed up to podcast when we were done. patreon.com/posts/you-go...

Less AI... More UBI. Please.

Gotta get the Miniature painting out again sometime. Making these bad dudes pop was a great time

Thirteen episodes in before we managed an "oops... all bits" drop. Today's minisode of "You Gotta Check This Out" features all the non-Babylon 5 tangents from last week. Our guest Taylor Anthony did not let us down. open.spotify.com/show/4IQrAJ7...

Peacemaker 2 finale just taught me five new ways to cry. Thanks, James.

This episode has Mike running afoul with the fashion police for, spoiler alert, not the first time. And Richard Moll aka Bull from Night Court and Two-Face from BTAS is dressed up as Blade … on a space station.

Latest episode of You Gotta Check This Out! Is on the feed. Our guest is Taylor Anthony as we discuss Babylon 5 Season 2 episode 10, "Hunter, Prey" open.spotify.com/show/4IQrAJ7...

There's a new article at mikeslater.com on Babylon 5 Captain Sheridan's Sharner/Picard index. It's a companion piece for tomorrow's podcast episode of 'You Gotta Check This Out!" with Jaina Mistry. slatron.github.io/ygcto-5b.html

Time out of mind is a true beast to play and sing on piano. Everything is syncopated and constantly shifting roles between left hand, right hand and voice. Looking forward to getting this one down for the Steely Dan series.

Just released my favorite episode of the podcast to date with Evynne Stitely. We discuss performing improv and how it relates to writing. You Gotta Check This Out! open.spotify.com/episode/3lFP...

Two days, two shows. So overjoyed to be using the fretless tonight at Double Clutch Evanston

m.soundcloud.com/madbread/set... I just put some highlights from this and the Montrose show up on SoundCloud. We had a blast both nights.

First episode of the Babylon 5 podcast with a featured guest is out now. This week, Dre and I welcome Carin Slater from the "Geek Out! with Megan and Carin" podcast to the show. This week, we discuss Signs & Portents from Season 1 of Babylon 5. open.spotify.com/show/4IQrAJ7...

This meme expresses the hopelessness that government workers feel. We are enemies of the people, according to our own bosses. Violence against us is tacitly (or explicitly) sanctioned. Black-majority places, and public health workers, in particular.

Andy was curious, so we watched "Captain America 4: The Rulkening : The incredible Hulk 2". Figuring out if it gets last place on MCU power rankings or Quantamania holds the title.

Two podcasts on and I'm already releasing solo episodes. open.spotify.com/show/4IQrAJ7...

Bass serendipity. I brought a fretless to a first rehearsal, no songlist. Singer called out "Diamonds on the Soles of her Shoes".

I'm always a bit surprised that r/frontend and r/backend are honestly forums for developers

F4 makes the superhero hat trick real this summer. I thoroughly enjoyed and can honestly recommend Thunderbolts, Superman and F4.

Kosh really starts feeling himself in Babylon 5 season 2

Just had my first haircut in two decades that wasn't a bald shave. Wanted to show off my Reed Richards hue on the temples.

The new podcast feed is up. First episode drops Sunday. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/y...

New Superman movie is best Superman movie.

Andy's first concert: weird al. A slater tradition

@nerdnumbers.com the handle is slatron. I got in early enough to not turn up to 11 here. Looks like a future nerdnumbers is going to have to issue a retraction for something he will say on a future podcast 🤓

We desperately need this button everywhere.

The whole thing looks a bit like: what if the confederates stole the 1860 election, then implemented a comprehensive illegal overhaul they had been planning for 20 years, and the northern states just complied and stood down with no effective means of resistance

Let the Babylon 5 content begin at mikeslater.com

~SUSPENDING THE CONSTITUTIONAL RULE OF LAW IS A FAR GREATER CRIME THAN LIGHTING A DRIVERLESS ROBOT CAR ON FIRE~ (If you disagree with that statement, your brain is bad, you don’t think correctly, and you are very likely a well trained newscaster.)

Hat trick week. Played one show on lead guitar, one on bass and started regular podcast recordings on voice.

In no way was 90s Bonnie Raitt actually thinking bout this guy every day, every day 🎵

Purple macho man socks really do increase my whimsy quotient by 20 points!

Finished the JMS autobiography. Went way darker than expected for the Murder she Wrote / Babylon 5 guy. Avoids self-aggrandizing and makes multiple other people main subjects.

Jeff perfectly captured my essense in this image for the Youngblood show

The episode of NERD! That I guested on is out now. They even let me write a theme song for this one. open.spotify.com/episode/0VJz...

The Youngblood episode of the Nerd! podcast @heytherejeffro.bsky.social and I did with @slatron.bsky.social is out! The theme song is amazing, and all I can say is, please, please, please, do not read Youngblood unless contractually obligated to by a podcast! www.patreon.com/posts/nerd-e...

Check out the Nerd! Podcast at Jeff Has Cool Friends. My friend Michael is on the latest episode, and I'm on the next. Jeff's podcasts are all worth your time. open.spotify.com/show/2Y8tGsd...

We get the best comics quote wrong. It's not "With great power comes great responsibility" which implies the powerful are inherently responsible. It's "With great power MUST come great responsibility". A warning about how easy power can be abused.

Might make good on one silly life goal... Have Reed Richards grey sideburns in time for a decent FF movie. I did my part, MCU... Eyes on U

Share the media. The news is compromised. We're starting to boil over.

It took the Nazis one month, three weeks, two days, eight hours, and 40 minutes to dismantle a constitutional republic. When the fire starts to burn, every good person better be ready to man a post with a bucket of water if you want to stop it from raging out of control.

My grey Reed Richards sideburns are coming in with perfect timing for the FF movie. Why is my dumbest life goal the only one manifesting?!?

Odd trailer strategy... I'm in. www.youtube.com/embed/cmSPwZ...

m.soundcloud.com/madbread/set... Great show last night at the new Celtic Knot. Many firsts. My first lead guitar, Ted's first gig, Andy's first show. Good times all around.