Jed Davis 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇸

session 1 of the campaign: your PCs have to present to three skeptical dragons on why their party is worth investing in.

I don't remember this scene from Zardoz…

That awkward moment when the whole internet can see your nieprawidłowe wyłączenia.

Collections: Against the State – A Primer on Terrorism, Insurgency and Protest This week, continuing in the vein of some of our previous strategy and military theory primers, I wanted to off a basic 101-level survey of the strategic theory behind efforts, in a sense, directed…

This week on the blog: Against the State! Another military theory primer, this time focused on groups that take on the state itself, both with violent and non-violent means.

Given the enormous disparity in force, how can they win? How have they won?

acoup.blog/2026/02/13/c...

Then why did BART have a Board meeting last week where staff had to explain potential processes for closing the system and filing for bankruptcy?

It's like someone once saw a PET and was asked to draw it from memory.
Things like that do make you sad.
All of that dross polluting actual factual information and being given equal status.
I saw someone call AI "digital asbestos" and talk of how much work is going to be involved in purging it all.

To give you an idea how bad this is: I am pretty sure if I’d transcribed a quote like this, with every stutter stop and stumble, for the paper I did my college journalism internship with forever ago, they’d have had my *ass* over it and I’d be having a conversation with my department advisor

Yes,,, your boy has taken a ride in the 4 man bobsled,,, but im an adrenaline junkie and needed to try skeleton. And now I’ve officially joined the team and am gonna try to start competing.

66 years old going 66 mph.

New blog post: Remote diagnosing a PET 2001 video fault from one photograph.
blog.tynemouthsoftware.co.uk/2026/02/diag...
Includes a look at how the PET video system works with redrawn schematics.
It also turns out to be a surprisingly early PET 2001.

What now?

I-80 to the Bay Area is completely closed. Heres a photo i took flying by it on Amtrak, sipping on a bev and reclined in my socks.

So much for the superiority and freedom of automobiles and freeways. If only there was a lesson here for planners.

…it might actually be two ancestors from that particular town, and then they got married to each other in NYC? *If* this census record is the right people, and *if* this WWI draft card for the man who might be her brother is the right one, etc.

Been a hot minute since we had a Colorado coloring book.

60+ mph winds + high fire danger east, mountain snow squalls tomorrow morning. Gonna be a busy one.

#COwx

”This is a world of compensations; and he who would *be* no slave, must consent to *have* no slave. Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it.”

US figure skating star Johnny Weir wears a vyshyvanka at the 2026 Olympics.

Car in a ditch heading to Olympic Valley (yes I am storm chasing from a bus)

Elimination of emissions standards was one of the pretty clear policy stakes of the 2024 election and it received about 1% as much coverage as whether Tim Walz retiring from the national guard after 21 years was cowardly.

Some digital hand lettering swooping out into extruded 3D shapes from the right to left and angled down a bit. It’s colored in very mites tones of grayish-blueish-pinkish with some faint yellow glow behind. Of course it reads ‘Maybe it will happen today’.

Fun fact: I have at least one ancestor who came to the US from what's now Lviv Oblast.

Different etymology. First one is cognate with English “harm”, second one with… various words for manure from Icelandic to Persian, according to Wiktionary.

I will never not share my favorite public health poster.

a werewolf in front of a house wearing a ‘BE MINE’ heart and holding a sign that reads ‘THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE’ above a photo of bad bunny

a neighbor set up this werewolf for halloween and instead of taking it down they just update it with seasonal outfit changes. now it’s dressed for valentine’s day and holding a sign with a picture of bad bunny and his super bowl slogan. i love him.

🌀 you spin me right round baby right round like an extratropical cyclone baby right round right round 🌀

"Yesterday...women's suffrage. Today...a soft drink just for girls." is a wild, wild ad copy

Honorable mentions to "Natural girl-like flavor" and "Take this coupon to your dealer"

ATTENTION MOTHERFUCKS WE'VE GOT A CLASSIC COLORADO WEATHER HAZARD MAP UP IN HERE FEAST YOUR EYES WE'VE GOT WINTER WEATHER WE'VE GOT SUMMER WEATHER WE'VE GOT EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN

I miss when you could post Brave Norman Rockwell Townsperson and the caption could be, like, “R.E.M was wrong to leave ‘Fretless’ off of Out of Time” instead of “The secret police should stop murdering people.”

If we don’t want to repeat history – then for God’s sake in this moment we better be strong enough to learn from it.

A picture of Worf from TNG with a canary’s head. There’s a space background.

Canary Worf.

*What* are those international jury votes. The UK is cancelled. #Dora2026