it me suzi @ PAX Unplugged

A tall pink drink with foamy head garnished with strawberries skewered on a cocktail pick

Cocktail menu from Charlie was a sinner

Finally made it to Charlie was a sinner last night. Dunno why it took me this long or if it was ever a stop on the @pinnypalsafterdark.bsky.social #MargaritaQuest but it serves vibes for days and the drink menu is full of good stuff.

I have enough anxiety of my own man I can’t take on yours too

You’ll be fine

Bro why would you tell on yourself like this

A box of water crackers, next to a container of sliced salami and sausage, next to a block of sharp cheddar on a cutting board

T – 2 to #PAXUnplugged and you better believe I’m back on my bullshit

Best #MargaritaQuest spot is a mobile Margarita Quest spot amirite @pinnypalsafterdark.bsky.social ?

A reddish cocktail in a cordial glass backlit by a candle

Turkey melt sandwich with a little dish of gravy

Paper menu of cocktails inspire by Month Python and the Holy Grail

A clear cocktail with a floating drop of oil in a cordial glass backlit by a candle

T – 4 to #PAXUnplugged so you know what that means…

Gotta hit Backbar to condition my body for the @pinnypalsafterdark.bsky.social #MargaritaQuest before I head down to Philly

Had the Coconut Hands and Tom Kha Martini, and shoved an incredible smoked turkey melt from Scott Bros. BBQ into my face

Omg yessssssss

I’m still struggling with the fact that ICE “brown shirts” went to a taco shop and thought they would get served.

F that!

Scene from Lord of the Rings showing Frodo and Elrond floating side by side in an ethereal white void

Me, asleep on a plane, being woken up by the attendant asking if I want a bag of nuts

Earlier this year an insurance company's claims managing AI decided I was at fault for a traffic accident in Texas when I hadn't driven more than a mile from my house in Connecticut that day.

So yeah - this technology is shit. And the burden of dealing with mistakes is passed on to us.

not all games are represented, obviously. some songs perform double- or triple-duty. I shot for an hour because that's the traditional length of a mixtape, and aimed for a mix of styles just to see how eclectic I could get without compromising coherence and flow

please enjoy this playlist that absolutely nobody asked for
open.spotify.com/playlist/4Zc...

YouTube alt: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JI5n...

are there better things I could be doing with my time like scanning English rules, making paste-ups, and reformatting PDFs to print as rulebooks? yes.

anyway.

Vampire stories tell us, for example, that any of us can have great power if only we are willing to prey on others. Feed off the blood of others and great power will be yours. This is demonstrably true. It's how the pyramids were built. And Standard Oil. The stories also tell us that there's a downside to this predatory choice. You become a creature of the night, unable to stand in the light of day. And crosses will confound you. Some mistakenly think that this is because the cross is a holy symbol, imbued with religious power. But this is wrong. The symbol, like the thing itself, is powerless. And that's the point. That is why vampires can't tolerate it. Most vampires don't believe in the cross, but that hardly matters. It's the idea of the thing that gives them fits. The cross confronts vampires with their opposite — with the rejection of power and its single-minded pursuit. It suggests that no one is to be treated as prey — not even an enemy. The idea of the cross, in other words, suggests that vampires have it wrong, that they have it backwards, in fact, and that those others they regard as prey are actually, somehow, winning.

to quote @slacktivistfred.bsky.social, vampires fear the cross *because* it is powerless.

It's not in this article but the government asserts that the sandwich was thrown at "point blank range", which implies subway sandwiches have defined effective weapon ranges of varying lethality, and I would like to see the government's chart of these ranges.

bsky.app/profile/lexi...

Last chance to turn it off.

On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.

To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.

we've talked for hours and hours on @bythebywater.bsky.social about tolkien and race, tolkien and women—dude was not exactly progressive. but he was very much opposed to fascism and imperialism and i refuse to cede his work to orcs

fascists who attempt to appropriate tolkien's work should be exiled to a deserted island

hot beautiful implies the possibility of cold beautiful, lukewarm beautiful, room temperature beautiful

I know I’m jaded about an event once I stop taking as many photos of it

Took five years for PAX Unplugged but only three for SPIEL, lol

It’s all photos of food, maybe two of people, and a handful of our booth

A portion of every dollar spent on Harry Potter merchandise goes to anti-transgender campaigns.

couldn't find my purple pen and highlighter from last year, so I bought a new (different) purple pen and threw in a mechanical pencil for kicks

went into Topdrawer and came out with a pen I said I would buy 2 years ago once I had money again

made the mistake of walking into a used book store

you can tell how anxious I am about a trip by the amount of random fucking shit I decide that I absolutely NEED to purchase at the last minute

I've been reading erotic fanfic for 30 years. no way in hell any chatbot can produce the quality of smut that I have come to expect

UBC enzyme technology clears first human test toward universal donor organs for transplantation - UBC News UBC-developed enzymes successfully converted a kidney to universal type O for transplant, marking a major step toward faster, more compatible organ donations.

This is huge news!
UBC has developed an enzyme that can convert donor organs to type O, making them universal.
Normally a using organs of the wrong blood type causes the recipient's immune system to attack the organ, leading to failure.
❤️🇨🇦⚕️
news.ubc.ca/2025/10/univ...

OpenAI’s strategy is very clear, it’s trying to get people - especially young people - so reliant on its products intellectually & emotionally (& now sexually!) that going without them becomes unthinkable. And they need signs of that strategy working to keep the funding flowing in

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

When I say no social media platform is safe right now, not only am I serious, I will keep harping on the need for durable alternatives. These places are fine for dissociating, but they're not for us. No telecom infrastructure is.

We HAVE to go harder on real time community building and safety.

Currently at:
— only buy tech too old to have AI built in
— painstakingly disable AI every time they add it to something that used to work perfectly well
— if it can't be switched off, abandon the platform or tool
— if there are no good alternatives, avoid the AI parts
— patiently wait for the crash

After busting out like three beaded shawls in about 3 weeks each I thought I would be able to knit a baby blanket in that same amount of time and

Well

I didn’t factor in how long intarsia cabling would take, jfc