Them: "I saw the Earth. There was no 'us' and no 'them', no borders...."

Press: "Did a poop ever float by your head?"

* This joke is for anyone else who had/has the same teacher at Cheney High School. He's from Big Timber, and he always sang this part after saying "Big Timber Montana".

Genuinely, HomeAssistant is one of the most amazing accomplishments. The way you can connect and integrate disparate data together in novel ways is absolutely mind-blowing. The flaw is, it's absurdly convoluted to do, meaning it has a huge barrier to entry.

F-14, my beloved. The amount of time I spent recreating shots from Top Gun as a kid... I'll never not love that airframe.

A few more, in color.

Like Miyazaki, I am a sucker for military aircraft. Gear details in the down the thread.

I suspect they wear crocs.

Photo of a used/worn copy of the Japanese rulebook for BattleTech A Game Of Armored Combat, with a Japanese illustration of a Shadow Hawk and it's weapons arrayed in front of it.

Photo of the copyright page for the Japanese rulebook for BattleTech A Game Of Armored Combat, indicating it is the first printing from 1992. The page has some creases.

I allowed myself one last dumb purchase for my birthday, and it finally arrived! First edition Japanese BattleTech A Game Of Armored Combat! Worse for wear, but it was way cheaper than any edition I've seen.

#BattleTech #バトルテック

Ok, universe, I get it, I shouldn't have stopped writing to check on BlueSky.

In case anyone is wondering: yes I am obviously in the middle of making cupcakes for the horses at @merrymacsanctuary.bsky.social because of this @theonion.com op-ed.

Shards of Reflection needs 1.9k and there are 5 days left! Please help spread the word! Get yourself some vampires and werewolves in the future with it and the rest of The City Between #werewolves #vampires #webcomics #comics #urbanfantasy
www.kickstarter.com/projects/149...

Heya gang, Kel McDonald is quite literally the best, brightest, and most capable managing editor Iron Circus has ever had, and their comics work is criminally underrated. Why not help get their latest crowdfund over the line?

Older gaming laptops work surprisingly well. Bonus if you can get one with a modest dedicated graphics card. Works great for HomeAssistant if you want to leverage an LLM locally.

Wikipedia Bans AI-Generated Content “In recent months, more and more administrative reports centered on LLM-related issues, and editors were being overwhelmed.”

“Text generated by large language models (LLMs) often violates several of Wikipedia's core content policies,” Wikipedia’s new policy states. “For this reason, the use of LLMs to generate or rewrite article content is prohibited."
www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...

Do you think they'd delete the security footage, or it's part of some Waffle House opposition material they use to ensure they get resources during emergencies before everyone else?

I love surf rock. It's always been a favorite, but not really a conscious one until I got older.

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The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny (2005)
#godzilla

I get that it takes time, but how are you not liberated by the knowledge with the simplest tools you could recreate anything?!

* See my blog post "In the grand history of everything, it has never been aliens or magic, so to attribute anything to aliens or magic without tangible proof is dumb."

One thing I don't understand is the "learned helplessness" in computer programmers. Conceptually, once you understand the fundamental components (MOV EAX, 1), it means nothing is truly impossible. It's MAGIC! Or as close as we get in this dimension*.

I feel this line deep in my bones.

Batchall in the Clan Casino #1 By: William Campbell Approximately 2000 words Kooken’s Pleasure Pit, CapitalAlyina Mercantile League (AML)July 3152 Every planet that Trund Belheim set boots on smelled different. Well, mostly. Sur…

Starting a new longer story today with part 1 of "Batchall in the Clan Casino". Join the gang as they go for broke on Kooken's Pleasure Pit!

#BattleTech

Genuinely, do you like KPop Demon Hunters? Watch Macross Frontier. Singing is magic + dealing with trauma from the past + mecha battles!

Macross Frontier. Watch it watch it watch it watch it watch it watch it.

Watched this as a double-feature with Double Dragon at a friends house, one weekend in 95. A formative experience, for sure.

A big part of my rewrite of Episode VIII is pod racing on the gambling planet. Also, they send Po and Finn, Rose stays on ship and gets an arc with Holdo, and Leia sacrifices herself, not Holdo, at the end.

Batchall in the Clan Casino #1 By: William Campbell Approximately 2000 words Kooken’s Pleasure Pit, CapitalAlyina Mercantile League (AML)July 3152 Every planet that Trund Belheim set boots on smelled different. Well, mostly. Sur…

Starting a new longer story today with part 1 of "Batchall in the Clan Casino". Join the gang as they go for broke on Kooken's Pleasure Pit!

#BattleTech

Macross Frontier Top Gun Maverick Crossover Figure Announced Bandai Spirits will release a DX Chogokin figure of Macross Frontier's VF-25 Messiah with Top Gun: Maverick livery in September 2026.

I need a job so bad.

We're doing some excavation work to prep for the FULL CLOSURE of I-5 tonight (4/3) & Sat night (4/4) in DuPont. Demolition of the old Steilacoom-DuPont Road bridge will take place 10 pm-6 am each night while I-5 is closed. Add +30 mins for detour via exit 119 ramps. @traffic.wsdot.wa.gov

Pre-orders are now open for on-site pickup the official event tee of SGDQ 2026! If you're attending @gamesdonequick.com in person this summer, you can order your shirt to pick up from our in-person booth. Also available in ladies, hoodies AND tanks! theyetee.com/sgdq