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“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books

A.I. and corporate lingo are dragging language ynto drugged realmes of vague, airy, plastic nothingnesse: glitz and hyperbole wythout meaning. Language must have fur and clawes, make the floorboardes creake and leave wet dirtye footprintes. Wordes are rayne and fyre and stone. Wielde them. Save us.

For the first time in my teaching career, I'm asking for help to #ClearTheList for my classroom. Since my school does not allow live plants to the classroom, I'm in search of Lego Botanicals & suction cup shelves for them. Take a look & help however you can: www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...

Dr. Raj Panjabi founded Last Mile Health to bring healthcare to people living in remote areas. The group is the 2026 recipient of the Conrad H. Hilton Humanitarian Prize. n.pr/4i2Q4Eu

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, soundgarden, pearl jam, or alice in chains.

o O (man, i should've bought some chips from the store for this afternoon.)

Fortunately, South Park prepared me for this very situation with this convenient note. bsky.app/profile/emil...

Bonnie Tyler & "Total Eclipse of the Heart" memory – at a record mime (lip-syncing) UIL competition in high school, an ensemble performed behind the solo syncer depicting loss involving love for drugs "eclipsing" love for a person. It was powerful & needless to say, won. #RIPBonnieTyler

Every year, NBC Peacock's subscription rate increases, and every year, the #TourdeFrance coverage gets worse & worse.

Cats lead the roughest of lives.

Yet again, Bluesky algorithms are undefeated.

Ich did not make thys, but Ich wisshe Ich did. Repost yf you are a proud member of the Gen AI Backlash.

When the cat sees my wife & I holding hands, she has to hold the other one. #Caturday

Pi-fection for #PiDay

Happy Pi Day

Drive-in movie tonight with the kiddos. GOAT to be on the big screen in a bit. Setting up camp while they work out wiggles at the playground.

What did we do for Valentine's Day? Went to Ikea and watched sands through the hourglass. (Which turned out to be only 8 minutes & fifteen seconds. 🤷)

Pizza night a(nother) huge success with everyone getting what they want and me actually having leftovers for later this weekend.

Took a lot of subterfuge, but I finally got my (teenage) kids hooked on Shaun the Sheep, Wallace & Grommit, et al. 🏆

Things are hard for us. Things are hard for a lot of people. Take good care of one another.

WHY am I still awake?

another year of us not running a super bowl ad

My oven has gone full Walter Sobchak.

A reminder that you are free to look at a video online, decide what it means, and proclaim that to anyone who'll listen. The NYT, NPR, CNN and all other journalists can't do that, out of professional responsibility and their own vulnerability at this moment. Give the journalists time to work.

Ugh. That was ugly. But the plan called for it, so—in cycling, just to be clear—we roll with the plan, trusting the process.

Trash ending to the first day of the new year. Here's hoping for things to be neat & tidy for the remains of 2026.

Someone is not a big fan of fireworks.

Tea > Coffee

My students. They get me.

When the nighte hath come And the londe ys darke And the moone ys the sole lighte that we see Nay, Ich wil not be afrayde Oh, Ich wil not be afrayde Just as longe as thou stondest by me

Someone at work misspelled Pip's name (as Bright? Wut?) as part of holiday decorations, I guess. But I fixed it as I am wont to do.

I wrote a bit about my experience this past Rowvember. off242.wordpress.com/2025/12/03/r...

"I'll finish grading these tomorrow," I lie to myself & the cat.

Frankenstein (2025)

Obligatory moon picture taken during this evening's run.

Enjoyed @burgermike.bsky.social's writeup on Tron: Ares & hope you will, too. My wife & I will see it tomorrow (Thurs) night; my son & I, Friday matinee. I'm apprehensive (plot sounds reminiscent of Force Awakens) but hopeful. Regardless, it's good to know that, still, in 2025, #FlynnLives

Finally made another post on ye olde blog—about this past weekend's Bike MS, appropriately enough. off242.wordpress.com/2025/10/07/x...