Brandon Blackmoor

I don't think I will keep up with Bluesky. The premise of following /followers just doesn't work for me. I don't care about either. I just want to keep in touch with my friends.

I’m not sure, but this may just be the greatest movie to ever have this title. THE LOST SKELETON OF CADAVRA, released 20 years ago this year... Seems like it was only the day after yesterday.

I've been saying most of this for a while, which is why #6 is difficult for me. But I will try.

I think I've answered my own question. I just read "Moonday, Treesday, Windsday" and made an involuntary "bluggch" noise.

I'm sorry. I haven't intended to do that. It's in my nature to be contrary and negative, and resisting it requires an ongoing effort. Thank you for bringing it to my attention.

I'm writing a fantasy novel set in ersatz Portugal. "Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday", or "Moonday, Treesday, Windsday"?

You can't control who "follows" you, can you? Why should someone be judged for something beyond their control?

I wish people would stop using euphemisms instead of saying "Republicans". Not Maga, not Mike, not Trump. Republicans.

It has always puzzled me that when a regime decides to expand its territory, other countries send their clueless young people to kill other clueless young people, rather than dropping bombs on the people who ordered the invasion.

"Man On The Inside": an octagenarian widower with mentally impaired grandchildren adapts to an all-inclusive retirement community that has no waiting list.

after another long day of browsing old court documents, i just want to remind everyone that if a stranger agrees to do something illegal with you and they keep asking you to say out loud what the illegal plan is, that’s because the officer is recording you.

"A pint can not hold a quart, Mr. Pizer. If it holds the pint, it's doing the best it can." Vincent, "The Black Hole" (1979)

Start a nuclear war.

A poem by Langston Hughes titled "Tired". It reads as the following: "I am so tired of waiting, Aren't you, For the world to become good And beautiful and kind? Let us take a knife And cut the world in two -- And see what worms are eating At the rind."

I've been thinking about this poem by Langston Hughes recently and although it was published in 1931, it remains relevant as ever.

#books #reading #booksky #poetry

Republicans were doing this before Trump and they'll still be doing when he's gone.

YouTube video by Feral Historian The Federations : It’s the Same Picture

Feral Historian is my new favorite YouTube channel.

@chrisweuve.bsky.social might find this interesting.

youtu.be/O4NEcDO9MNA?...

It looks like the "Worse Than Betsy DeVos" square will be marked off as soon as the incumbent President takes office. I thought that one would be more of a challenge.

Oh, that's a good one for my Slow-motion Apocalypse Bingo board: "National Labor Relations Board defunct".

I do not, but our cat Sebastian clearly does.

A useful block list.

bsky.app/profile/did:...

Then you'll be blocked as part of the problem, I'd wager.

Mentally, I pronounce this service "blooskee".

There are only a handful of people who can change that.

I treat it like an on-demand Wikipedia.

I confess that I don't understand the purpose or appeal of this medium. But here is a song that makes me happy.

youtu.be/rt71I__gwWg?...

I love seeing Lost Skeleton alums pop up in unexpected places. ❤️

If you were to ask me, I would say that's how I GMd, but I never carried it to that degree of abstraction. At least, I don't recall doing so. I experimented a lot back c. 1990, and I don't remember all of it.

Why is chocolate egg nog not a thing?

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In my career as an IT guy, I learned that no one likes to hear "I told you so." A Senior Analyst/Regulatory Subject Matter Expert of my acquaintance suggests this professional-sounding alternative:

"This was identified early on as a likely outcome."