Star Trek The Next Generation scene. Young ensign Wesley Crusher (the boy) sits at a console on the bridge, but he's turned around like he's having a talk with safe and trustworthy adult who has walked up behind him. He looks sincere and earnest, as if it's a 'very special episode of Star Trek.' He's wearing his blue and blue and gold and red and blue again Wesley sweater, which is not a bad look, tbh. Closed caption reads, "drugs can make you feel good."

A cluster of lilac buds and blossoms in a blue mason jar.

My favorite time of year

I don't recall any previous transformative technologies that had to be sold to the public so hard. No one in 1999 was going, "Guys. Cell phone? It's coming, whether we like it or not. I think it's important, FOR WOMEN ESPECIALLY, to learn about cell phone. So that we're not left behind!!"

This is a close-up shot of a dog’s face. The dog is Violet. She is brown and black and white, and she is a very good girl.

Sup.

A photo of an alcohol menu. Under “Something some people like,” Malort is listed.

Something some people like

Cheese Magic by Erika Kubick — Cheese Sex Death Cheese Magic is officially out! My second book, Cheese Magic: Seasonal Recipes, Plates, and Pairings is a culinary grimoire featuring more than 100 enchanting cheese-filled rituals, all organized ...

You might be interested in this cheese board book. She pairs mimolette with candy corn and it is 🤯
www.cheesesexdeath.com/blog/cheese-...

It’s Time To Grow Up | Defector HBO’s new Harry Potter TV series is premiering this Christmas Day. Under current plans, it will last at least a decade. The trailer looks like the original films were run through an AI generator, but ...

I’m completely sick and tired of hearing about HP but this article is excellent.

“What you feel in your heart towards the series is almost entirely irrelevant. What matters is what you do, because J. K. Rowling is out there doing a lot of things.”

defector.com/its-time-to-...

remember how you only had a certain amount of paid hours a month with internet on aol? some of you need that again

Airan and Kelly Wright walking down a hallway on the Neiu Amsterdam cruise ship with the title of their video "never go crazy" in the foreground.

New video today!

Never Go Crazy - youtu.be/BSrrwRnxA3I
@omnikel.bsky.social - vocals
@airanw.bsky.social - winds

We didn't think we'd fall crazy in love with a cruise, but here we are. Never say never, we believe is the phrase. Here's a little of our time on the boat! @jococruise.bsky.social

Two people in an office/makeshift recording studio. I’m wearing headphones and standing in front of microphones. Airan is working on a laptop.

Working on something @airanw.bsky.social

Two black/brown dogs (Violet and Sebastian) watching three chickens in an enclosure.

They really, really want to be friends with the chickens next door.

Four people (my family and me!) standing in front of the entrance to C2E2, a large red arch that reads “Welcome to C2E2!”

I traded my @jococruise.bsky.social lanyard for my @c2e2.bsky.social lanyard. I’m glad we made it home for the last day of C2E2, which was sort of a soft re-entry into the real world. But oh my stars I’m exhausted now. @airanw.bsky.social

So sad I missed the ube soft serve! 😭

John Scalzi dressed as Ozzy Osbourne performing Crazy Train aboard JoCo Cruise.

John Scalzi dressed as Ozzy Osbourne performing Crazy Train aboard JoCo Cruise.

John Scalzi dressed as Ozzy Osbourne performing Crazy Train aboard JoCo Cruise.

Ozzy Osbourne did not leave this mortal plane; no. He has inhabited a new vessel, mild-mannered science fiction writer John Scalzi, who retains nothing of his former self but his Crocs. @scalzi.com @jococruise.bsky.social

A photo of me wearing a large sun hat and sitting on the Lido deck with the ocean behind me. I am holding a small banana trophy that says “Top Banana Award.”

This is the trophy you receive for winning first place in the JoCo Cruise Bananagrams tournament. It is also the trophy you get for winning second or third place. We don’t need to get hung up on where I finished. We can just acknowledge and appreciate that I HAVE A TROPHY. @jococruise.bsky.social

A humpback whale tale descending into the ocean.

I saw a lot of tail today.

A photo of about 3/4 of my face with the port of San Diego in the background. I’m on a cruise ship. At last.

Taking a break from the world for a week.

You can see my sandaled feet at the top of a staircase. Every step is yellow and gray and has the message “WATCH YOUR STEP”

I think it’s trying to tell me something.

Photo of me holding robot-made cotton candy at the San Diego Zoo.

I am an adult.

Photo taken from an airplane window showing an airplane engine, landscape, clouds, sky.

Out of office.

anti-AI “credo” I have a religious exemption from using all generative “A.I.” I am not a member of the Silicon Valley sect. Their beliefs and practices are an affront to my sensibilities. The tech is trained on stolen intellectual property. The output is riddled with mistakes, and it is incapable of comprehending the weight of its errors. It is not even an “it.” But sometimes, it is filtered and massaged by unaccountable human sweatshop workers and bad actors. I am not required to use “A.I.” any more than I am required to join Amway, buy black market rhino horn, or attend the Fyre Festival. As a human, I have a duty and right to limit my carbon and water footprint and protect my fellow human. As a union worker, I have a duty and right to oppose tech that is used to threaten workers or cheapen our product. As a tech consumer, I have a duty and right to oppose scams that lower the quality of our tools. As a scholar, I have a duty and right to oppose anti-intellectualism. As a taxpayer, I have a duty and right to oppose the misallocation of public funds and data. As a grown up, I have a duty and right to protect young people from predators. As a person with a conscience, I am appalled at the decadent disregard for user safety, the callous dismissal of responsibility for lives ruined and slaughtered. My religion is related to my identity, geography, and family, making it an irrelevant accident of birth. What matters is that I was born. I have an exemption from their digital rapture, their cultural austerity, their intellectual poverty. I practice wholesome hedonism and First Do No Harm. CS 12/9/2025

i included this in my syllabi this year

Wow.

A screenshot of a wordle results screen that shows 1500 played, 100% win rate, 1144 current streak, 1144 max streak.

❤️

So are you the human or the pirate?

I am here for it. Brisket for every meal.

Lucille Bluth concurs.

A few more tote bags for the makers market, for people who don’t want to be too flashy but still like to have a little fun. See you Nov. 16, 12:30-2:30, at the Ethical Humanist Society of Chicago.