Matthew G P Coe

I was introducing my fifteen year old to some of the chaotic 90s animation i grew up with, and I've just a realization... If and when @criticalrole.bsky.social brings in Sprinkle in the animated Mighty Nein, I hope they put feelers out to try to get Michael Dorn to voice him. IYKYK.

Vera!

All these islands are yours, except whatever's going on on Williston Lake. Attempt no landing there. youtu.be/5OAmaS-GiTA?... No, seriously, there's no universe in which you can go there safely. But it does feel at least a little sci-fi/horror-ish.

Important reminders with the school year starting back up and youth adventure groups like Scouting and Guiding and Cadets resuming...

Possibly daft D&D character idea: a hexblade Warlock who regrets their pact and is trying to break it, because every time they use their pact powers, they get 1% closer to becoming fully subsumed by their sword for the same number of minutes.

There are some amazing choices in the thread, but let's see... Lance Reddick, Andre Braugher, Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, Neil Peart, Richard Dreyfuss (just saw Stand By Me recently)... Fred Rogers? Ernie Coombs? Ian McKellen... Bruce Boxleitner would be interesting. Matt Lillard?

I feel like stirring the pot a bit. Who's going to win their respective championship first? England in the men's World Cup, or Toronto for the Stanley Cup?

I know Stephen Colbert is punching the air and screaming right now

Who was @joelplaskett.bsky.social's strongest musical influence circa Ashtray Rock and Three and why was it Tom Petty? I'm not complaining! I love both! I was just listening to Full Moon Fever, and half expected Through & Through & Through to come up next.

Adjacent to that, I always get a kick from the passerby telling Uhura and Chekhov where the Alameda naval base is ("in Alameda") was just that, because they were using a hidden camera, and the crew had to chase her down to pay her, give her a SAG card, and credit her.

Post your warning sign

"Captain, can I PLEASE target their warp core? I have been VERY good this month!"

Incredible footage from a United Airlines flight of the Artemis II launch.

Nobody tell Wayne. Unclear whether it's 'berta beef, but i still wouldn't pay twenty apiece for top sirloin from anywhere. Berta beef, Japanese Wagyu, Australian Wagyu.

There is a unique dialect of the Irish language that evolved in Newfoundland and became forever linked with the island. It is called Newfoundland Irish and many work to keep the language alive. This is the story. 🧵 1/7

I apologize for putting an ad in your Bluesky, but my Scout Group is starting fundraising for the year, and I'd love to help folks get their gardens started! Just visit the shop (makeitsow.com/seeds/shop/#...) and enter the code KINGSTON_2026 to help Kingston Centre Scouts with our fundraising!

Well now, I spoke too soon about what my opinion of Dylan Larkin was going to be this week. I am... deeply disappointed by everybody on the USA men's hockey team. And especially Dylan.

...why do I suddenly have the X-Men cartoon's theme song in my head? I don't mind. I'm just... where did that come from?

An oldie but a goodie. I'm sure my parish priest would get a kick out of this.

It is with some hesitation that I admit that it was in the Year of our Lord 2026 that I finally listened to any Joy Division beyond Love Will Tear Us Apart. I'm offended by my own failure in this regard. But, in the same vein as the second-best time to plant a tree being today, I'm fixing that now.

I double checked the magical number that reflects my relationship with gravity and not my self-worth and was pleasantly surprised to learn that I'd been overestimating it Freedom Units. I'm not sure how I feel about that? Nothing has changed but I oddly feel like fitting in my kilt again is closer.

I'm in a phenomenal talk on gender inequality in cybersecurity this morrning and this is such a great cheat sheet for intersectional fair employment.

A humble request to individuals posting job listings: if there is a geographic restriction on where applicants can live, please put that in the job description! Otherwise you will end up wasting a lot of people's time, including your own HR team's.

Do driving tests no longer require three-point turns? Or is it just a thing where I live where they'll cut a giant circle through an all-way stop without signalling, being utterly unpredictable to everyone around them?

spine is taking pitches again, ranging from short ($30 for 150-300 words) to longer form pieces ($60 for 500-700 words). *please* read the guidelines carefully, which now reflect the current monthly budget. i want to hear from bipoc and queer folks first and foremost. intothespine.com/write-for-us/

How is it that I've lived this long, and been this much of a fantasy AND sci-fi nerd, and I'm only just NOW reading A Wizard of Earthsea?! This book is great!

Had to walk past a couple of families of Canada Geese this morning on my walk. First of all, juvenile geese are not nearly as cute as goslings. They're cute! Just less so, because most of the yellow downy stuff is gone. Also, turns out, geese can growl. And it is intimidating.

I got access to crayons and kraft paper. Of course I drew Trogdor. And then my 14yo showed me his skills of an artist! He wonders who can guess what the li'l guy next to his thumbs-up is. I got it wrong.

Java programmer complaint: after fighting with it for two weeks, I really dislike Observable. I find it much harder to reason about than CompletableFuture. Possibly because I know the CF will happen at most once, and RX and Observable is about setting responses for every time the thing happens.

As a blind dude, your images mean nothing to me without an alt-text description. I know it’s a pain & I have zero expectations of you using this #Accessibility tool so thoughtfully provided by #BlueSky but I appreciate every effort. It doesn’t have to be The Great Gatsby but please include me 😎

Canada's first national urban park is getting bigger. The Narwhal has learned the federal government will cancel its plan for an airport in Pickering, east of Toronto, and transfer most of the land set aside for it to Rouge Urban National Park. #onpoli thenarwhal.ca/pickering-ai...

Is it wrong that I'm getting a strong Evangelion vibe right now? Or is it just because I started (re-?)watching Eva earlier this week? #CritRoleSpoilers

DO NOT FLY YOUR DRONES OVER ACTIVE FIRES YOU STUPID MOTHERFUCKERS WE ONLY HAVE TWO OF THESE AIRCRAFT AND YOU JUST GROUNDED ONE OF THEM

Finally saw Howl's Moving Castle at the rep cinema near the house. Loved it. After all, it's Miyazaki! But Howl is absolutely going to be an NPC in at least one future D&D campaign. Maybe the PCs will interact with him. Maybe they'll just uncover some of his spells in a library...

Just dropped by the library today to pick up Agency, by William Gibson. Been looking forward to this for a while. Teenage me realized "I have to read everything this guy writes," and so far, teenage me has had good taste. Still glad I got to tell Gibson so when he released Spook Country.

Got the latest Bluesky update? Great! Alas, the developers changed how replies are ordered that, while it will provide for vibrancy flywheels, changes a behaviour you may have preferred. Setting > Content > Threads > Sort replies to a post by "hotness"? No thanks. Chronological for me!

Today I turned off Microsoft permissions for AI training. The AI option is automatically on now, and Microsoft can go through and use anything you write in the program for AI. The bots automatically go through all of it. Here is how you disable it: One small thing a day.

To be filed in the he-who-laughs-last-thinks-slowest department, I just realized the It's A Wonderful Life is a retelling of A Christmas Carol, with three less ghosts and, instead of the actual Stooge in the story getting the message, it's one of his competitors.