“Can you explain this gap in your resume?”

Me thinking quickly on my feet to explain the period when I worked for ICE: “I was selling drugs… ,uh, to children.”

We are amphifa

“We’re being ourselves in order to highlight the weirdness that others are trying to impose upon Portland.”

KOOL-AID MAN: *breaks thru wall* ohh yeahhh

HUMPTY DUMPTY: ohh noooooo

And that is beautiful.

Psyched about my new shirt from @sweatermuppet.bsky.social ! Get yours here: www.bonfire.com/pluckii/

That’s great!

I hear you, truly, but it all comes with a cost and I don’t want to start excusing that cost just because the resulting product is somehow in my favor or even for the greater good.

If there’s a human-made version, I will gladly buy/use/share it. I love the concept.

Thanks so much!

NS: ChatGPT, who’s going to win the game?

CGPT: Detroit, 3-2, in the 15th inning.

NS [the next day, $100k poorer]: I'm just not seeing the consistent productivity gains from LLMs that I would have expected if you'd asked me 6 months ago.

AI has lost the dunce vote. It’s over

Jiminy.

Oh, wow! Yes, please.

Lived through this at a small paper. Every consultant pitch seemed like what someone would recommend if they didn't want any more newspapers.

Dark times.

Trying to track down the origin of the Shepard Fairey-esque “HOP” poster with the Portland frog made to look like the Obama Hope poster. Turns out to be AI, unfortunately.

And a senior product manager for Wizards of the Coast says in response to being told this, “Good, then it’s not copyrightable.”

Yesterday I was told that the class I’m scheduled to teach this month, Confronting Oppression & Injustice, is no longer part of our curriculum. This is a required class yet there was no discussion, no faculty vote, just an email saying the class no longer exists. This is what it’s like in Texas now.

October 11, 2025 is a milestone in comedy history. Not only is it the 50th anniversary of the 1st SNL, today is also the final new Dr. Demento show. After 55 years, Barret Hansen is hanging up his top hat. Please go to drdemento.com to hear his all time demented top 40 countdown special.

i do think it’s fun that if you ask people of the right age to have even experienced jared leto in my so called life what their favorite experience of jared leto was, more than half of them will say, “oh, when he was beaten ugly in fight club because jack wanted to destroy something beautiful.”

Jared Leto so weird and bad at his job they're gonna make him Secretary of Agriculture

I forget all the time, and we live within walking distance.

(But we did remember this week!)

“U.S. wine exports to Canada dropped 96% in the second quarter—from nearly $111 million last year to under $4 million this year—and the U.S. wine trade surplus with Canada has flipped to a deficit for the first time ever.”

In 1995, you could make a Brady Bunch movie successful enough to be a hit because kids born a decade after the show ended were still exposed to daily reruns because they were always on.

Today, my kid can just watch what ge already likes when he wants so he’s never force-fed the culture of MY youth

I’m not trying to give @pbs.org ideas for raising money—but I am. I would buy women’s fit T-shirts of all my favorite childhood shows. Reading rainbow, 321 contact, square one, zoobiliee zoo. I feel like two generations will run to donate even more money for shirts with Levar Burton on them…