Reader, Birder, Herper, Guy

Instead of a tampon dispenser, the Vampire restroom has a bat roost.

Oh please let Kash Patel do a demo flight.

“I guess I’m having a flashback from the time I tried taking acid and mushrooms together.”

I meant God of Gamblers, a favorite of mine for 30 years.

It has the amazing Legend of Fong Sai Yuk - it starts out kind of silly and then morphs into a sort of Shakespearean thing, with a ton of kung fu, Lawrence of Arabia-grade cinematography…

Those movies rule. Is there anywhere one can stream them?

Well I sure could.

A guy who wears electric-blue suits with mustard-yellow ties wants to tell me how to dress. Got it.

He dresses up in a black leather jacket.

Awright folks, where do I want to go for an LLM-free browser/search engine? Windows on the desk, iOS in the pocket.

@adobe.com I upgraded to Lightroom 15 and heartily encourage you to QA your products in the future.

Dear Apple: it is 2025. I should be able to designate text strings, like “it’s James Carville,” to automatically designate text messages as Junk. Blocking numbers is ineffective, as getting new numbers is trivial.

I have to sacrifice Bill Clinton, Reid Hoffman, and Larry Summers? Where do I sign up?

Because of Woke.

Four shots of a baby giant pacific octopus bouncing around

It’s baby octopus season 🐙🦑

Saw this little guy last night with the Salish Sea School in Anacortes, WA as part of their free community dock walk I volunteer as an interpreter for.

We can tell it is a giant pacific octopus from the single line of chromatophores on each arm.

I approach my kitchen from a more strategic perspective.

Record sleeve with a black background and crudely hand-lettered all caps band name in white, and the title in a little white box with black lettering. It’s pretty much identical to the cover of the Acceptance 7” EP.

Now playing: Mecht Mensch - Anthology LP (2025, No Coast). This service to society has been in the works for decades, and hey, here it is! Their “Acceptance” 7” EP is absolute peak HC with a fine level of Flipper damage. The LP adds comp tracks and their side of the split cassette with Tar Babies.

Now if someone could do the same for the 1965 Bo Diddley concert at the Hollywood Bowl, I would much appreciate it.

A night sky, brilliantly lit up in washes of red and green.

My two cents’ worth on the Aurora Borealis. Eastern El Paso County, Colorado.

Gifts needed: more books; bookshelves.

It seems likely a combination of that and watching the TV series without reading the book.

A slipcase CD cover. The cover art is a sepia-ish photo of plants in a greenhouse, with the band name and title in small, black sans serif font. A light from behind the photographer glares on part of the slightly glossy surface, and the CD cover leans against a preamplifier with a wood case and black face.

now playing: The Necks - Disquiet CD (2025, Northern Spy). Currently in the midst of the brain-breaking rhythmic fuckery of Disc 2. #nowplaying #theforbiddenformat #recordsthegoodkind

Do The Necks somehow tie into this vast conspiracy?

Happy Edmund Fitzgerald Day, to all who celebrate.

They were so good up to and through this period.

Seems like fertile ground for a class action lawsuit, wherein every Meta user is in the class.

Dear Adobe: the fact that the new version of Lightroom cannot be started up again after initial use suggests that whatever you are doing for QA, it is not QA. Maybe the three days I had to spend re-importing photos was character-building.

I’ve not read The Handmaid’s Tale. Some knuckle-draggers are trying to have it removed from Colorado Springs District 11 high school libraries, so my question for those who have read the thing: does it have sexy parts?

“You go to a grocery store, you have to show ID,” says the guy making it even more clear that he has never set foot in a grocery store.

Jinger Bells.