Sam (he/him)

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, DC, Marvel, Disney, Pixar, Spielberg, Cameron, Wachowskis, or Ghibli.

Jesus swept. —Acts of the Housekeepers

Eagerly awaiting the death of the suffix “-maxxing,” even though I know whatever replaces it will be worse.

I think it’s easy to procrastinate because we can postpone everything but we can’t pre-pone anything.

5 Reddit password reset emails in the past 12 minutes. I haven’t been on Reddit in two days. 🤔

My personal triumph for the weekend is that I got the backyard fountain working again.

A Fistful of Dollar For One Dollar More

My wife, showing me the various basil seeds she ordered: And this is called deep purple basil. Me: Her: Both of us: SMOOOOOKE ON THE WATER.

Wish I’d known that tiger line when I was teaching Freshman Comp at USF.

Ever been in a mood so good you don’t trust it?

I got this adorable postcard today from someone in Kazakhstan. Loosely translates to "We have our grating moments but it comes from love."

Saw post complaining that the government shouldn’t be able to tell you what time it is and buddy have I got news for you about standard time.

Imagine a Pleistocene-themed Hallmark movie.

New short story!

Eagerly awaiting the new Pandemic expansion set, Pandemic: Anti-Vax, a competitive version in which one player takes the role of a dynastic failson who sabotages research the other players are doing to stop the spread of disease.

Remembering when a manager told me, "You don't want to be a manager. My job is to be a bullshit umbrella between this team and corporate."

I wish news media would stop referring to an "immigration crackdown." It's ethnic cleansing.

And if you do it with the right finesse, you both get credit for being “team players.”

No, I didn’t “eat potato chips for breakfast.” I had them with my egg sandwich. That makes them “breakfast potatoes.“

Someone was so impatient for lunch that she swatted my hand as I opened the can.

I’m always self-conscious about putting on my reading glasses when I’m wearing a Superman T-shirt.

The Good, the Bad, and the Shitpost

Change a letter ruin a film Kremlins

A personal essay about anger, faith, and learning to how to listen to people who make sense of the world differently.

Machiavelli: the prince “who has the public as a whole for his enemy can never make himself secure; and the greater his cruelty, the weaker does his regime become.”

Stop the thread. We have a winner.

I wish people would stop saying she gave him the Nobel Peace Prize. She gave him the *medal*. She can't give him the prize, only the physical token. Trump is no more a Peace Prize recipient than Putin is a Superbowl winner, despite his having stolen a ring from someone who did.

It has always been about a Government weak enough to allow them the liberty to step all over the rest of us.

OK, so free speech and all, right, so we don’t outlaw swastikas or the treason flag… but we make it legal to bust anyone sporting them right in the snot locker.

“I really like the new Amy Grant song” is a sentence I never expected to say at age 58.

I’ve read that The Guardian’s AI reporting should be looked at skeptically because it has a partnership with OpenAI. Whoever wrote this headline is not on board.

I started playing with D&D in 1979, but the first game that was truly great was a home-brewed Champions campaign that ran from '88 to '92. It was as much soap opera as superhero story. Every game I've run since was built on the foundations of the techniques I learned from that GM.

A little something about my first woodworking project since getting back into the hobby. medium.com/pen-with-pap...

Why I can’t get anything done tonight.

Ruin two bands by combining them: Little River Styx Band

On the one hand, AI slop. On the other hand, AI slop wrecking the loathsome influencer economy. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Interesting new battery tech could make them safer. edition.cnn.com/science/new-...

Trump involved in designing battleships.

Normally I’m terrible at this kind of thing, but I happened to look right at him at first glance!

Tired: Bluesky is a bubble for liberals; liberals should go back to Twitter! Wired: Twitter is a bubble for fascists; liberals should go back to Twitter!

Gamers: If the last Civ incarnation I enjoyed was Civ 4, I never played 5 or 6, will I enjoy Civ 7?

Ads for a dietary supplement, home-repair service, and Chia Pets. This is the lineup of commercials I would have expected from the local UHF channel for the late-night monster movie show In the 80s.

Absolutely hating whatever new feature Substack has implemented that results in me being automatically subscribed to newsletters I’ve never heard of and do not want.

Giggling uncontrollably

You will be visited by three spirits