Pine-Scented Chris 🌲♿️🎄

Every time she worriedly rushes to make sure you aren’t annoyed; every time she decides not to ask for what she needs; every time she’s relieved and grateful over common, coequal courtesy — that’s you benefitting from the violence of other men. That’s you being the hero over nothing.

I love Palermo! This building stood out to me for its welcoming shape and beautiful painted columns.

Oh I saw that one too! Ha. Very cool!! I have been obsessed with hovering desktop items since McDonald’s gave out a hovering model of Queen Amidala’s starship from Episode I.

Can’t leave us hanging! What’s it called?

“Love Is Sunk Cost Fallacy”

ai;dr

A colorful male wood duck stands quietly behind an angry opened mouth female.

"Some mornings I wake up grumpy. And some mornings I just let her sleep."
#ducks #nature #photography

Thank you, looks like I need to educate myself further.

This is the first I’m hearing about this. Typically CU is a bogeyman.

I had no idea! By pure happenstance, I made cocoa for my kid and added a cocoa packet to my lunchtime coffee. We were lucky to get above 10°F/12°C today.

The Emperor’s New Tax Writeoff

Sponch totally predates AI too. I used to eat them when I lived in La Villita, Chicago. I couldn’t always afford the beautiful baked goods.

To hell with this I guess,
Let the rock roll.

The Melania bribe movie faceplanting is just a tax write off for Amazon, no? Everyone writing schadenfreude articles about how many millions were lost when everyone got their bag, and Ratner was never going to find legitimate work again. 🙄

The “human” we compare to AI, though, mistakes the dichotomy. It’s not that AI isn’t human — it is an automation of capitalism, a human imaginary. The opposite of Artificial Intelligence isn’t the human mind, the opposite of AI is a community.

Trump steps into a spotlight in his box at the Kennedy Center. Caption reads US-POLITICS-FILM-STREAMING-AMAZON-PRIME US President Donald Trump attends the world premiere of Amazon MGM Studios' "Melania" at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, on January 29, 2026. (Photo by Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP via Getty Images

having a whole new visceral experience of past eras of European opera though, holy cow

Why so limited? The price point can’t be making them that much profit at only 2,000 units.

I immediately thought of A Clockwork Orange.

Snow Crash did it first. Amazing how influential @nealstephenson.bsky.social‘s work is.

Lou looks like she never gets bored. And Vimba! Obviously a reincarnation of Athena. The vicarious happiness I feel from other people’s cats and their shared love is so huge. Thank you for sharing.

Thank you! His name was Bing. I named him after the singer Bing Crosby, not the search engine. He was incorrigible and fiercely loyal. Who is that guarding the doors of your temple there?

This picture of a white guy with a black cat perched on his shoulders is about 10 years old.

My greatest love on this earth was the black cat who lived with me through a marriage and a cross country move.

Refilling the cartridges works but only for so long. They wear out and leak, which means the pen will leak in your favorite bag or pocket. Just use the syringe on the converter or learn to love the paper towel cleanup.

The joke here is that “only the H is silent”. Everyone else will loudly make their opinions known.

Also, that Iroshizuku ink will be delightful in the L2K. It is so well behaved and typically easy flowing, I can see it being joyfully juicy.

I have an Eclipse that I haven’t tried yet. How does it feel? So far it is very light and sharp feeling.

I’ve had that problem with hand oils on the page. Writing at the top would be easy and fun and then devolve into chaos as I went. I see this particularly on MD and Tomoe River papers. Resting my hand on blotter paper helped a bunch.

All historical evils are alike; each historical evil is evil in its own way.

I’m liking this for two reasons:
1. Beautifully composed and developed photograph
2. I miss flowers so much

I am certainly not wishing frostbite on the March for Life today. Be safe!

Don’t cuddle ICE, sublimate it.