Looking forward to adding the remains of Fort Bliss to the American Holocaust Memorial Trail in 2048.

These are my choices for the AI voice in the inevitable Dungeon Crawler Carl books:
* Tom Gottleib ("Cookie" from Jackbox)
* Phil Ridarelli ("Schmitty"/"Mayonnaise" from Jackbox)
* Ryan Reynolds (obvious celebrity voice choice)

In the last week, I have:
* Prepared a batch of lardo, a coppa, & a pancetta for the first time by myself.
* Spent almost 8 consecutive days making pork stock.
* Ground up 2 hams for a homemade SPAM experiment.
* Ground up and rendered fat.

There are worse ways to deal with back-to-work anxiety.

In the last week, I have:
* Prepared a batch of lardo, a coppa, & a pancetta for the first time by myself.
* Spent almost 8 consecutive days making pork stock.
* Ground up 2 hams for a homemade SPAM experiment.
* Ground up and rendered fat.

There are worse ways to deal with back-to-work anxiety.

We're on a Vatican radio, oh-oh.

After watching @unarmedoracle.bsky.social and Cori play Blue Prince, I spent the weekend obsessing over it, and have realized that, at 43 years old, I have finally understood the necessity of touching grass.
It's a good game, Bront, and it almost consumed me.

If AI is so great, how come they have to keep forcing it on us?

AI tech bros strike me as the kind of people who, had they lived in medieval Europe, would have invented a machine for praying the rosary. The point of some tasks, *especially* tedious and repetitive ones, is the effect it has on human cognition. Losing the time to actually *think* hurts us all.

This is a wholly minor rant, but for the sake of my mental health, I'm going to need to USPS to stop claiming that packages will get to me in anything under a week, especially if they're going to leave them "in transit" for four or five days while they pretend every sorting center isn't backlogged.

I just heard a kid mix up "kaiju" and "Caillou" and now I have visions of selfish toddlers battling over the ruins of Tokyo.

Unless...

Unless that's just One Punch Man?

Looking forward to living during a period future historians will refer to in the same vein as "the Crisis of the Third Century" or "the Late Bronze Age Collapse."

This January has been a rough one, but "This Year" by @themountaingoats.bsky.social usually reinvigorates me, so I threw on the video.
Saw the copyright date at the end.
Friends, we have been downshifting into that driveway for almost TWENTY YEARS now. Tell me this isn't a broken world.

Okay, this is pretty cool. I love using experimental archeology to back up your regular archeology.

just accidentally said blame pig instead of scapegoat and is that not SO much better