I think it’s risky for democrats to go all in on Abolish ICE. I think it’s suicide to settle for anything less.

I’ve been using Ableton Live for a year or so based on what another band member knew well. He’s left the group, so I’ve been thinking of using Logic since I’m all in on Apple everywhere else and have 0 live performance needs. I already use Pixelmator, so Creative Studio is quite interesting. I’ll probably consider making the move once I’m done working on these two next tracks in Ableton and see what I can do in Logic on the other side.

Scott Adams, nerd hero turned complete shithead, fucked around and found out.

When SCOTUS correctly rules the tariffs are unconstitutional, we should immediately cut the ICE budget to pay for it. Then we can increase the top marginal income tax rate (which I pay!).

I honestly don’t know how we can be expected to work through this fascist autogolpe. I did think it could get darker than January 6th, but things are honestly getting there.

Sick again the last two days. 2026 came in just wonderful.

It’s not an omen or threat or hint of fascism—it’s the thing itself.

I keep thinking about writing that big end of year/beginning of year blog post that everyone writes about various things, but I just haven’t had the energy or introspection to do it. Maybe this weekend.

I was sick yesterday, so today I woke up to find out my mouse doesn’t work because Logitech let a certificate expire? Can someone else please make a good mouse? Criminy.

Oh boy, I really don’t recommend food poisoning.

io9 hasn’t been what it was for a long time, but I think it’s finally reached an “unfollowable” RSS subscription. I’m bummed. I’d love a good replacement for something that is lower volume, higher quality, SFF news/info, especially with a focus on books and with less pop culture/Hollywood.

Spent about an hour today confirming that there are still: Few high DPI displays worth buying Weak support in Linux for those displays, especially the one I already have (Apple Studio Display)

At least the Liberal Currents Discord reminds me that not everyone is a fucking insane fascist.

So. Much. Peace.

I don’t feel like enough people warned me about Slack on iOS’s Liquid Glass redesign.

The last time I wrote about my Default Apps was in 2023. When I saw someone else update their defaults for 2026, I figured I’d join in. I’ll try and use strikethrough to indicate things I no longer use and bold for things that I’m newly adding (but only if there’s no paired strikethrough because that’d be too much). ✉️ Mail service: Fastmail (personal), Gmail (work) Outlook (work) 📬 Mail client(s): Mimestream on Mac (work) Outlook (work), Apple Mail everywhere else ✅ Tasks: Things 3 (barely, mostly paper based) 📰 RSS service: Feedbin 🗞️ RSS client: Reeder ⌨️ Launcher: Alfred Spotlight in macOS 26 ☁️ Cloud storage: iCloud (barely… I really don’t do this), Google Drive for band stuff, Dropbox for scanned documents and things shared with my wife.

Fucked up all my financial data in Copilot to start the year through a series of well-intentioned, but ultimately perilous decisions and now I am super frustrated at probably losing years of history.

I’ve decided not to speed run the last 4 hours or so of reading in my current book. It’ll get finished tomorrow and count toward 2026.