Christian and Yet Not

Took my mom to ER because she wants to save money on an ambulance. That means we're stuck in waiting room limbo. Man down the hall is swearing and bellowing that he needs to keep his knife on him, escalating. Guessing I drove us to a TV studio instead of a real hospital.

Free speech absolutism in practice.

First five RPGs: AD&D Gamma World Marvel Super Heroes Beyond the Supernatural Cyberpunk 2020

Learn it, know it, live it.

Give the photo negative of a book: Peripheralparaderest

Give the photo negative of a book: An Unaffiliated and Disagreeable Smattering of Geniuses

We've done it, we signed the lease on the new apartment. We're moving to Tangletown and—this won't mean anything to anyone outside of #Minneapolis —our landlord owns Sebastian Joe's. That's a good sign.

Today marks Word of the Day podcast episode # 7,305. That’s 20 years. Our editor-at-large @petersokolowski.bsky.social hasn’t missed a day. In TWENTY years. Please clap. art19.com/shows/merria...

Heard from the new building owner (of my former home). He used my former surname as my given name, and he already lists our address for his LLC. He references our move-out as the "agreed-upon date," but no, we never agreed to leave our home of ten years. Obviously I'm not going to like this guy.

Ruin a song by adding “In My Pants” to the title. Message in a Bottle in My Pants

Ruin a song by adding "... in my pants," goth club edition: Bela Lugosi's Dead in My Pants Something Inside Me Has Died in My Pants Soft as Snow (but Warm Inside My Pants) Spiritual Cramp in My Pants Ignore the Machine in My Pants Things We Never Did in My Pants Release the Bats in My Pants

It's up to the DNC to promote someone voters don't have to hold their noses to vote for, solely because "well, at least he's not that other guy." The DNC will throw this away, learn nothing from it, and the nation will continue down the shitter.

Got this shirt in the mail today. Didn't know there was a competition among the Big Ten colleges. I just donate lots and lots of blood I'm not using.

MSPsky, someone in Minneapolis has found what appears to be a stolen Mac laptop and would like to return it to the owner.

I freakin' love seeing the fake products and marketing dreams up in Gumby.

We found a very nice place in a nice part of town. Any spare positive energy you find lying around would be appreciated, but don't put yourself out. I know it's very lean times lately.

You can now RSVP for the Aaron Swartz Day San Francisco event at @archive.org here. (It's FREE and breakfast/lunch/drinks and snacks will be provided throughout the day.) RSVPing helps us know how much pizza and food to order! Thanks ^_^: www.eventbrite.com/e/aaron-swar...

eBay users! Don't ignore today's email, even though it looks like a boring standard update to the User Privacy Notice. They want to use your data to train AI models. If you click the link over the words "the right to object", it takes you to a page with a toggle button letting you opt out.

Diminish an anime: Bubblegum Disappointment Witch Analyst Robin Marchioness Mononoke Howl's Moving Double Bungalow Half-PU, Half-Sculpey Jacket Several Punch Man Junior Third Rank Champloo Very Ill Person in the Shell Spirited Three Meters to the Side

Watered the planters out front. Someone spun one of them to the side so I adjusted it, and I felt all the muscles tear in a band from left to right in my back. OTOH, an older woman complimented me on apparently bringing my sweet potato vines back from the dead, so it all balances out.

What's really heartbreaking in #OldNorse studies is not just how few people are into this, how many people thoughtlessly promote Viking cosplay, all the GenAI Viking rave music. It's the people who claim to appreciate history but propagate misinformation to "make it more interesting."

Meta took down the No Kings organizing page today - the biggest day of protest this fall. They provided zero explanation. It stayed down for the entire afternoon until most of the protests were done. Outrageous. Put this on the January investigation list.

Oh, no. My Cloud Storage, provided by Cloud Services, may not be renewed unless I go to a janky-ass Indonesian website and update my payment method. Good thing they provide "unsubscribe" and "remove yourself" links, going to the same URL.

10 commandments for copyeditors, on one page. The Copyeditor’s Typographic Oath is a free download, no sign-up required. Get it here: zurl.co/iITKv

End-of-season farewell to my volunteer corn plant. With no other corn in the area to pollinate it, there was no chance of it fruiting, and it probably wouldn't've been edible anyway. It just amused me to grow corn.

When Grammy-winning musician Rhiannon Giddens begins playing “Old Corn Liquor,” a traditional Black American folk tune, acclaimed Chinese pipa virtuoso Wu Man recognizes similarities to Chinese pentatonic music and spontaneously joins in. The joy on their faces says it all.

DHS investigators not only took Ilhan’s cell phone, they took her computers, notebooks and her passport! These seem like important details. (You can tell who doesn’t read the full Wall Street Journal article: me.)

Was it “godly” when she and her caucus were ready to shut down the government unless we let them throw 15,000 Minnesotans off of their health care? Was it “godly” when she promised Annunciation parents that she wouldn’t block gun violence prevention from a vote and then did exactly that?

Debbie Does Dallas for Tax Purposes

The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas for Tax Purposes

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb for Tax Purposes

Let's Kill Uncle for Tax Purposes

Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead for Tax Purposes How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying for Tax Purposes

Eating Raoul for Tax Purposes

Free Willy for Tax Purposes

I'm showing my age by expecting there to be a pencil sharpener in the back.