Nova Politte

We killed 85 schoolgirls and the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ali Khamenei

(Onlooker: holy shit, Khamenei?)

See? I told you nobody cares about schoolgirls.

We're all living in one of the worse Tom Clancy novels now, the ones where things became really politically unhinged, but he had not yet started putting his name on the covers of other authors' military fantasy stories.

In 2025 I played in 18 tournaments, and 11 of them were in Kansas, a state I can no longer visit safely.

Most are run in the same location every year, so it should be obvious that my participation in 2026 will be severely curtailed by Kansas' anti-trans law.

(Map: tournaments I played in 2025)

Get the fuck out of Kansas.

I can no longer enter Kansas--a state five miles from my home where I play ten tournaments a year--safely. I refuse to demean, humiliate, or endanger myself by using a men's bathroom while I am there. And those who live there are now being stripped of identity documents. This is Nazi shit.

STOP EMBRACING AI. IT IS JUST STUPID AUTO-COMPLETE.

IT IS NOT INTELLIGENT. IT WILL FUCK YOU UP. DON'T USE IT.

401,002 just as soon as we can swing it.

This is also the case in Utah, which is hosting a major this year-- provided any of the courses are in pubic parks with permanent single-sex bathrooms.

A government-owned set of bathrooms (men's and women's) in a public park in a state which has an anti-trans bathroom law such as Kansas' does not satisfy the requirement.

The men's bathroom--which I would be required to use in Kansas--is not "accessible" to me as using it is an act of degradation.

Yeah, it's just winter. I really don't like cold and snow. Like, at all.

My shoulder has hurt continuously since I injured it in Jonesboro in April 2021, sometimes so much that lying on my right side kept me awake with pain.

I last played disc golf on Nov. 9th, 2025, a little over three months ago. At some point in that time it stopped hurting.

Pretty cool.

Ks. House votes 87-37 to overturn Gov. Kelly's veto, SB244 (rescinding changed IDs and birth certificates for trans people, and a criminal bathroom law) becomes law.

Fuck.

You.

Kansas.

You.

Ignorant.

Bastards.

Not that intelligent design (the Christian belief that "God did it" answers everything) is even remotely credible, but the trigeminal nerve puts the lie to their claim. A divinely-created nerve would not lead me on a wild goose chase to locate the source of an injury.

The trigeminal nerve is a big liar.

So my rear-most and lower molar tooth on the right side developed a crack, and that crack inflamed the pulp inside. Thanks to the trigeminal nerve, my ear hurt, my upper cheek hurt, and the roots of my upper teeth hurt, but the CRACKED TOOTH did not hurt at all.

Happy Valentine's and things of that nature.

As a fan of epistemology, the study of knowledge and how we know things, the whiplash from "things are hard to know" to "fuck me Google is awesome" back to "things are hard to know. . . again" is god-tier annoying.

God damn Google is useless.

Oh my God USPS what are you even doing?

Used book shop clerk: That book is in really poor condition. We have better copies, are you sure you want that one?

Me: Does this one contain all of the words in the correct order?

Clerk: Sure.

Me: Then this one is fine!

Me: these brand new Lenovo BT headphones at the thrift shop are only $5. How bad can they be?

An hour later: I have made a terrible mistake.

If you misgender someone by accident, just correct yourself and move along with whatever you were talking about.

Stopping the conversation to make it a BIG DEAL to apologize and gush and explain your sincere intentions and so on just prolongs the awkwardness.

Just move along. It's cool. Go on.

Every attempt to ever explain "spirituality" to me has left me feeling as if I'd tried to eat a meal by putting a funnel in my mouth and running against the wind.

My best-sounding earbuds are wired, so I also endure the occasional burst of anger that happens when I snag them on something. Conversely my Bluetooth ones sound worse, but don't snag on things.

Everything is compromise.

Mid-dental appointment pain calculus: this procedure hurts like a motherfucker, but the shot to "numb" the tooth also hurt like a motherfucker, so there's no point in pausing the dentist to get another numbing shot. It's actually less total pain to just lay here and cry until it's done.

HA HA I AM BURNING CDS FOR MY CAR'S 6-DISC CD CHANGER BECAUSE I AM OLD AND MY CAR IS TOO.

GENERAL STRIKE

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At Masters Worlds this past year there was a whole contingent of Danes, and I enjyoed playing with them and meeting the ones who were in other divisions-- a classy and thoughtful bunch, all of them.

The thought that the US could be at fucking WAR with Denmark makes me want to vomit with anger.

Is it just me?

Meanwhile in Marlette, Michigan: