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Why haven't I gone and deep-dived my way back to 日本語能力試験 level 3 proficiency in Japanese? "Trauma enhances memory..." youtube.com/shorts/evMTW...

It is kind of odd what triggers those nostalgic feelings these days...

My favorite Walter Koenig anecdote, told near the end of his book, "Warped Factors": He wrote of a 1997 Babylon 5 convention in Blackpool, England. He entered from the rear of the auditorium, dressed as Bester, at the head of a cadre of Psi Corps troops...feeling as if he had won the Telepath Wars.

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.

Bluesky has four kinds of users.

Aw, no...time to reread my copy of Warped Factors. Rest in peace, Walter Koenig.

There was a thread the other day on here about all the things that have gotten better in our lifetimes, and it seemed half of them were about environmental quality. (No more smog, no more flaming rivers, etc.) All that is being aggressively undone.

A classical music interlude. The Four Seasons, by Antonio Vivaldi, first published in 1725. Here performed by the Voices of Music ensemble, upon period instruments, so close to what Vivaldi was imagining it to be...

Someday, when trump is finally out of office, he'll still be trying to hold rallies, much like former President Obama. And no one will come. And that will break what's left of his little mind...

While doing the daily crossword on the Apple News+ app, I ran across this rather pointed clue...

Early voting is open in more and more places around the country. Let your voice be heard. MAKE your voice be heard. #Vote2026 #VoteBlue

This asshole is the goddamned COMMANDER IN CHIEF!

@stevehofstetter.bsky.social

Today (well, yesterday) I discovered that I now can fit into t-shirts from college. That hadn’t been possible in decades.

Maybe someday.

The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...

If you see this, post a cover that you like better than the original song. Self-covers count...

If you see this, post a cover that you like better than the original song.

EA is closing BioWare and my instinctive reaction is to pull the trigger on that Baldur's Gate 3 purchase...fortunately for my wallet I understand it's not in the budget right now. And I still have most of Mass Effect to play.

Still in a mood, sorry. I have managed to make myself delete a lot of pictures from my phone, but they still live on in my laptop, and I really should...do something.

...huh. How old were the maps that got fed into the AI^H^H sparkling autocorrect, anyway?

My all-time favorite animation tidbit only happened once, but it is also duck-related. The producers of the Duck Tales revival waited three years to make this joke... Penumbra has...questions. #DuckTales #AwooWoo

I'm so depressed that this video is evergreen. #RandyRainbow #VoteBlue

Fucking. Ouch.

Catching up on movies I didn't get a chance to watch when they came out -- I saw the last two Hunger Gams movies last week, and this one just over the weekend. Also, mood.

‘I’ll Need A Gift Receipt,’ Lies Man Buying $270 ‘Lord Of The Rings’ Lego Set

It’s almost as if Bari Weiss believes that if you take control of an institution that has a long history of good work and the reputation that goes with it, you can coast on that reputation no matter what you do with it. Much like Trump and the presidency.

This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

Captain D'Vana Tendi, Mistress of the Winter Constellations, Tip of the Moonlit Blade.

Truth: kotatsu will reduce your productivity severely Also truth: they are so very cozy A friend of mine imported one from Japan and it worked well enough that I want one. Silly lack of funds…😭

It never ceases to amaze me how small the parts I work with actually are, once the Optivisor comes off. #pocketwatch #WatchRepair

Early in-person voting has begun in Minnesota.

it's pretty f'd up that the Trump administration is trying to deport my duly-elected member of Congress

Music builds bridges. Between people, and between cultures.

Like HELL you did.

Add "for Tax Purposes" to a movie: Falling Down for Tax Purposes

Someone on reddit posted a thread entitled "So Star Wars Episode 4 A New Hope will be 50...Were any of you around when it released?" No, we were all killed in the massacre at the Jedi Temple. No, we all reported for Carousel on our 30th birthday. No, the movie we saw was named "Star Wars."

Oh look, a new way to spell STOP #vote2026 #voteblue

A reminder

Look at the shabby state and increasingly authoritarian trajectory of the country and ask yourself if we can endure 2 more years of a lawless Trump administration wreaking havoc with no check from Congress, then vote accordingly. This is not the time for a protest vote or purity politics.

If you see this, post a witch.

Every time I think he can’t say anything dumber…damn.