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Every Super Bowl ad is for the door in the forest. It’s annoying. “You must walk through the door.” Yeah thanks, I know that already. I dream of the door every night

Six Four by Hideo Yokoyama, translated by Jonathan Lloyd-Davies

Pick up the nearest book. Turn to page 42, post the second sentence.

"So she'd uttered the phrase in her heart."

🎵Come out La Migra goons
In your stumbling platoons
Tell your wives how you ate shit on ice for quotas
Tell her how despite your guns
all you ever did was run
from the cold and frozen streets of Minnesota!🎵

here’s hoping 2026 is just one year

The cover of Network Effect by Martha Wells

Network Effect, @marthawells.com (2020)

Somehow the Murderbot series just keeps getting better, entry after entry. This one was a bit different than previous entries– it was longer, more emotionally complex, and with a larger cast and wider-reaching plot. It also rocked, from start to finish.

The cover of A Shorter Summa: The Essential Philosophical Passages of St. Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologica Edited and Explained for Beginners by Peter Kreeft

A Shorter Summa, Peter Kreeft (1993)

Kreeft’s footnotes are almost as enlightening as the selections from St. Thomas Aquinas included in this slim and satisfying volume. This felt like good exercise for the mind and spirit.

Cover of Cahokia Jazz by Francis Spufford

Cahokia Jazz, Francis Spufford (2023)

Immersive, rich, layered, compelling— Cahokia Jazz has everything I look for in a noir mystery within a powerfully interesting alternative history. I’m going to annoy the hell out of everyone I know talking about this. You simply have to read it.

A graphic generated by The StoryGraph showing my 2025 reading. It highlights my first book of 2025 (Oathbreakers), my last (Trespasses), the longest I read (Wool) and the shortest (Network Effect). My top authors were Martha Wells, Hugh Howey and Seanan McGuire, and my top-rated reads included Cahokia Jazz, A Shorter Summa, and Network Effect. In total, I read 45 books, 15,835 pages, and 13.25 hours of audiobooks.

Really enjoyed my 2025 in books— I feel like I’m back in a solid groove of regular, varied and enjoyable reading.

YouTube video by The Hillbilly Thomists - Topic I'm a Dog

The Hillbilly Thomists, a delightful bluegrass outfit comprised entirely of Dominican friars who record albums during their vacations, have a great song called "I'm a Dog" to riff on the old "Domini canes" joke.

Good morning.

The government is shut down because Trump wants to act like a king and steal from you.

Democrats have no obligation to support a budget that funds the destruction of our democracy - and DOUBLES health premiums to fund a tax cut for billionaires.

... I hate when the imperial boomerang does the boomerang thing.

I think I’d be an outstanding television meteorologist. I can laugh at my own misfortune, I like to speak with expertise, and I don’t mind being wrong or wearing a suit to work.

Deeply uninterested in hearing about what any AI has to say in response to any question, it’s like getting a parrot’s opinion but not fun because the parrot has the funny high-pitched voice and says things so quickly

So frustrating. Also, that "Don't Malden my Marblehead" sign makes me incandescent with outrage– Malden rocks, and I don't know the last time I was in Marblehead for anything.

Do what you love for a living, and you will never have a day off for the rest of your life.

"i asked chatgpt" yeah well i went to the doctor, i went to the mountains, i looked to the children, i drank from the fountains there's more than one answer to these questions pointing me in a crooked line and the less I seek my source for some definitive closer I am to fine

ICE agents scatter as SD Bishop Pham, other clergy visit immigration court "Our presence made a difference," one priest said, quoting an immigration lawyer saying their client was given more time to prepare for another hearing.

ICE mass deportation agents “scattered” as Bishop-elect Pham, newly appointed by Pope Leo XIV, and other clergy visited immigration court on Friday:

timesofsandiego.com/life/2025/06... #WorldRefugeeDay

the story today is of a profoundly low energy military parade being met with millions of americans in nationwide protests denouncing the dictatorial pretensions of the president

I’m a longtime HF customer and I urge you to remove this post— I feel it portrays the deeply offensive racial stereotypes of “black minstrels.” I admire the company’s usual commitment to diversity and inclusivity, and this post is very troubling to me.

started reading Zaakir Tameez' new book Charles Sumner: Conscience of a Nation last night and it's a straight heater. it's everything you would want in a heavily researched, super accessible biography of one of america's all time greatest Weird Guys

John Dewey said that the only solution to the ills of democracy is more democracy, and what we are suffering from today is not democracy but all the impediments and obstacles to it—and all the attacks on it.

strongly of the view that using chatgpt is scab behaviour and resisting it is a workers’ rights issue

We are speedrunning the Declaration of Independence, folks.

Four frames from the movie Glass Onion. “It’s so dumb.”it’s so dumb it’s brilliant!” “No! It’s just dumb!”

Every day I wake up to the news

scene from Porco Rosso; a man in a blue uniform sits next to an anthropomorphic pig in a trenchcoat, sunglasses, and hat; the pig is saying "I'd rather be a pig than a fascist."

Seeing a lot of genAI art used in the service of fascism lately

'This is a class war': The Dropkick Murphys' Ken Casey on Trump, immigration and Boston "The way I was taught is, if your family were immigrants to this country and came for a better life, the price you pay for that is you can never say that 'no one else is welcome.' That is what America...

"The way I was taught is, if your family were immigrants to this country and came for a better life, the price you pay for that is you can never say that 'no one else is welcome.' That is what America was built on," said the Dropkick Murphys frontman Ken Casey.