[REDACTED], qu'est-ce que c'est?

The [REDACTED] will not be televised.

Also, when reporters start talking about the chatbots this way, it is imperative to remind them they are basically asking a toaster for comment. They should be a lot more embarrassed about this than they currently are.

“Grok told CNN…” no it didn’t. You typed stuff into an unreliable calculator.

Let us make it through another year.

Misc.
The works of Hayao Miyazaki
My local library
Re/Connecting
Art & effort
Open mics
Reliable podcasts (@storiesthatstick.bsky.social)
The Seasonal Skeleton
The Phoenician Scheme's strangling gif
Punk shows
My mug
This could be the snort of something pig

Games (Any year)
PEAK
UFO 50

TV (Any year)
Better Call Saul
The Good Lord Bird
Pacers vs. Thunder (Game 7 heartbreak)

Reading
The Big Sea (autobiography) - Langston Hughes
Life of the Party: Poems - Olivia Gatwood

Manga
One Piece - Eiichiro Oda (Chapter 1138, if I must be specific.)

Short Stories
May's Lion - Ursula K. Le Guin
The Water is Wide - Ursula K. Le Guin

YouTube (2025)
Pipe Rock Theory - Conner O'Malley
Hat Sketch - American High
The Unforgivable Sin of Ms Rachel - @lindsayellis.bsky.social
Fire 'n Ice - @continueshow.bsky.social
What Do You Bring To A Potluck? - @vipeopleshow.bsky.social (short)

Music (2025)
Songs
Big Thief - Los Angeles
Silly Little - Your Crown
lowercase roses - To Be Loved

Albums
PUP - Who Will Look After the Dogs
The Beths - Straight Line Was a Lie

Movies (2025)
The Life of Chuck
One Battle After Another
Sinners
Die My Love
Materialists
Eddington
The Ballad of Wallis Islands
Weapons
Friendship
Hamnet