My incredible B, communing with jellyfish every six years or so:

See a Poe thing, post a Poe thing.

Fantastic Four was amazing- even better than Thunderbolts/ New Avengers, if D is to be believed. They missed a golden opportunity to do this scene though, since Malkovich as Red Ghost was cut from the movie:

Shel Silverstein anticipating AI hallucination back in 1981...

Silja is judging me from the catio for staying up too late organizing the garage...

A closeup of the last Hewlett-Packard product I'll ever buy. HP pushed a firmware update to my printer that disables 3rd party cartridges, so my new 120 bucks worth of ink is now trash. A new printer costs less than a set of official HP cartridges, so the printer is also now trash.

If they appealed to voters rather than donors, they would have won handily. If a billion dollars wouldn't have elected Harris' policies, no amount would have, and we need to stop donating to Democrats until they start working on the problems that voters face.

Last night the thunderstorm took its toll... A tree from two houses down fell on my yard, smashing my deck and obliterating two of my apple trees. Very lucky that it missed the hot tub and the house completely, and that none of my trees were blown down.

The purpose of a system is what it does. The Democrats raised a billion dollars and failed to defeat a demented felon, who they could have beat by promising to fix literally any of this country's many problems. Therefore their purpose is not to win elections, but to get money. Sanders' take, again:

Only within the Antarctic Circle, not the whole hemisphere:

Hello Bluesky! Obligatory cat pic- here's Silja coming unspooled on my messy desk: