Doug Hanke saw a yard gnome once

My team came in second place at bar trivia this evening. "Name all of the Space Shuttles" was my chance to shine.

The NaNo communities in cities were fun gatherings of people talking about their creative projects, and people posting fun bits from their current work. Now it's just raw feedstock for Liar Clippy in the new incarnation. Though honestly cover letters could use long omegaverse detours. Go for it.

If you needed a win as badly as I have lately, mark this one down: CSS-Tricks is returning as an independent publication. Spread the word. wil.to/posts/taking...

News after our last smol dog walk: everything smells so amazing when it rains, we need to spent 15 minutes to go two blocks because OMG this is exciting

Today we lost Walter Koenig. Some thoughts about a fine actor and genuinely nice guy....

Between this and the news that Cat Valente was on the writing staff, this is like my new Jodorowsky's Dune. This sample is SO good, you can't ever be mad enough about private equity ruining everything.

an eraser of love an eraser of love an eraser of love an eraser of love

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

That's one "O!"

It was either this or his theme song from Bloodsport www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvK4...

Tonight on the #MST3K forever-a-thon, it’s THE SHE-CREATURE, which I don’t recall very well. Just lost it at Mike screaming about the Bumpus’ dogs and how they should get off the lawn.

Either these people's brains are severely cooked, or this reporter thought this would be a cute anecdote to add color. Either way, if I were 10 and my parents had to ask Liar Clippy what makes me special, I would really start wondering about that relationship.

OK so now THIS is what a Portland October should look like. #pdxtst

Tonight on the #MST3K forever-a-thon, it's THE BEATNIKS, which... doesn't actually have any beatniks in it. But it does have the immortal line, "I'm gonna moon you!!" by a very young and excitable Peter Breck.

Why is it that I will clean up all the goo on a beach in Pokopia with no issue, but have to drag myself into the basement to do laundry? Maybe I need to train our cat to be more like Piplup and help with the suds.

Celsius has a "winter edition" version of their energy drink that comes as a Sparkling Shirley Temple. It's great, though I think of that as more of a "I'm at a party" beverage. Perhaps my gym has a Winter Soireé that I don't know about, have one as a little prelude to deadlifts.

OMG the flashback of holding this paperback in my hands that this image just gave me.

i don't care how jk rowling is justifying her murderous bigotry today actually. over 600 transgender ppl have died in the uk in the last 18 months bcos of policies she demanded the british government implement. she is a monster. i don't care how much you like harry potter.

Thanks to the awesome power of voting by mail, our house has voted. This means all the ads, texts, and emails spent on us are useless now. Please stop. Thanks and I hope you get to pet a dog today.

Tonight on #MST3K: WHO IS MERRITT STONE?!? It was so hard back in the day to ID actors when all you had was Leonard Maltin's movie guide.

This puppet will tell you how to get to Llama School, this puppet is our friend.

Every politician who texts and emails me multiple times a day how they need more money can go float. You'd have a lot more if you stopped paying so many consultants.

This trailer is a heartbreaker. Liara as the Shadow Broker still? Some fun-looking biotics? Awesome nightclubs? This looks promising.

Now, this is something Tolkien would have something to say about. What the fuck are we doing here? I'll summarize books and academic papers for you and answer your relationship questions, no clearcutting required. Make them plant a million new trees. Two million.

Blessing your timeline with pumpkin frog.

the idea phase is the easiest and least valuable part of professional creativity. read the first draft of the first Star Wars if you doubt me Great art is made in the grinding, often miserable collision between the ethereal substance of an idea and the mud and blood and friction of reality

Well, I know a couple of calls I'll be making tomorrow... nodirtydatacenterdeal.com

If nothing else, two fun facts you might not already know: (1) The Tragedy of The Commons is a specific, essentially wrong paper by a guy who turns out to suck, and (2) exploitative scholarly publishing is basically traceable to one guy, Robert Maxwell, father of Ghislaine.

It was such a blow to read this—knowing her work, it is an absolute metaphysical certitude that a new Mass Effect that she contributed to would have had a heck of a story. I'm just imagining what N7 Day would have been with that bombshell of an announcement. This stings.

Walks with the dog lately are when I listen to the backlog of @gundampodcast.bsky.social. They've gone into deep-dives into aspects of Japanese culture I was unaware of, like how the village decision-making process worked! Anyway if you like Gundam, give it a listen. Will you survive?

Rick Steves is one of our greatest citizens and I would wear the hell out of this shirt, despite already having Too Many Shirts. Excellent work!

They are destroying the administrative state & throwing all of us to the wolves. Doesn't matter if you voted for them or not, MAGA/MAHA are driving us into a chaotic, deadly, pre-20th century wilderness of no aid for states devastated by disasters; no regulation... share.google/0kdXsvm8ER8q...

it cannot actually be ignored or danced around that the closure of BioWare came so soon after the Saudi and Jared Kushner acquisition of EA. they absolutely did take the studio making EA’s broadly queerest games out back and shoot it old yeller style. do not let yourself or colleagues ignore that

Jared Kushner and the Saudi investment fund take Mass Effect

Wait, this whole PHP certificate thing is an XKCD comic come to life? We live in a really silly timeline, we should fix that. xkcd.com/221/

Love Josh Johnson, I think he's really on to something here. youtube.com/shorts/npl8b...

Unnerving to think about that no matter what else happens in the next several decades, we are all going to be spending the rest of our lives, to some degree dealing with the background radiation of people constantly screaming in rage because they were told they couldn't go to the mall in 2020

Having a morning in the backyard with the dog and my brain has decided that it's Flaming Moe's theme song time.  🎶 Where liquor in a mug, can warm you like a hug / Happiness is just a Flaming Moe away 🎶 OK, I'll take it, I guess?