Time for a 3-hour flight with a healthy bit of time zone time-traveling, which is delightful since that means my body’s internal clock is going to be waking me at ungodly hours of the morning.
Snark (And Occasionally Bourbon)
@snarkandbourbon.bsky.social
He/him. Writer of the fiction and TTRPG varieties. Silly goose prone to making dad jokes. Forever GM by choice. Book Dragon.
Reposting a meme without any alt text should not go viral on a platform where most of the users claim to give a fuck.
PSA from the guy with bourbon in his name: Alcohol consumption has been linked to multiple types of cancer. Peddling modern snake oil as a detox to help the body better recover from alcohol is some truly evil shit and anyone who does this deserves endless stubbed toes and failure in all they do.
TikTok is a great platform for seeing people live out ideas that should have, logistically, died shortly after inception. This post is inspired by the runner who did a 5K through the Taco Bell drive-through with the caveat he had to eat everything on the menu (one item per lap).
Calling all PA (esp. PGH!!) artists! The Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology & SaS are inviting 6 artists to join us for the annual SICB meeting Jan. 3-7 in Pittsburgh! We want to bridge a connection btw scientists & artists & have some of our science illustrated. Deets: bit.ly/sicb-art
I see tonight is likely the first of multiple stupid nights of lousy sleep ahead of this damn work trip.
Being loudly against AI until the next AI shat-out noise masquerading as a song shows up on socials (and then using it for content) is spineless, lazy, shitheaded behavior.
I don’t think most folks are buying smartphones expecting high-end camera quality. They’re expecting a device with reasonable cameras for casual or professional purposes on a device that also meets other needs. Comparing the two comes across as silly at best, or as ragebait in some cases.
Miraculously, UPS teleported my order to Middletown, PA, which isn’t a place I fully believe isn’t fictional.
Antagonizing UPS’s chatbot knowing full well the robots will turn me into mulch after their uprising because today was shit and minor inconveniences have stacked up enough to prompt some mostly harmless fuckery.
It’s 2026. Gas and diesel prices are cruising towards the stratosphere. Groceries are both at an all-time high in pricing while also being a gamble with potential recalls. And so on. Anyone who suggests Jon Stewart should be a viable option for POTUS has either lost the plot or is a fucking moron.
Call it an educated guess, maybe, but I suspect the package that’s on its way with an estimated delivery of today but a current location of Arrived in Fort Worth isn’t making it to Pittsburgh by this evening. At least FedEx is on time, though they usually deliver the package via drop-kick.
My sleep schedule is fucked, but I made time to binge the rest of #TedLasso season 4 and it was so damn worth it. Damn good season overall.
The journey from a Russian lab worker dying from pneumonic plague to the absurd amounts of fearmongering and doomsaying has been a rapid and exhausting one.
I’m definitely not going to have the Spooky Season Cryptid Creeks season ideas I had done before Halloween because October is a mess of obligations and work travel, but it’s still going to happen at some point.
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Game MONSTER Monday 🍉@gamemastermonday.bsky.social · 2w agoWe are LIVE tonight with a few casting updates! Sherwood will now be GM'd by @dustehill.bsky.social! @thatgreenthing.bsky.social and @whatdoiroll.bsky.social will now be stepping in as players! We're STILL live at 8:30pm ET and STILL raising funds for @sdtransformproj.bsky.social!
Four years ago today was the last time I had with my Pappap before he died. This is me processing a small sliver of that enduring grief. I was so happy I was able to make time to see him. He had clearly held on to say goodbye, and to make sure my grandma was a ready as she could be.
Something I’ll gladly act as a broken record about: Senator John Kennedy spewing the relatively frequent folksy zingers he comes up with doesn’t offset that he’s also a reprehensible trash bag filled with mothballs and condensed bigotry.
Definitely nothing sinister about the filters designed to determine your age, gender, and other factors based on your voice. Nothing sinister about those at all. Good grief.
There’s a guy on social media who is, at best, doing a bit in which he rails against how dangerous radiation is. At worst, he actually is drinking radium water and spreading clear disinformation. This is such an exhausting timeline riddled with willful ignorance.
Consistently lifting weights and seeing the progress is like watching Digimon and seeing digivolutions for the first time. It’s like “wow, that little blob has such a fun personality” and then suddenly it’s a goddamn dinosaur with a bazooka.
So cool that Pokemon and Starbucks are doing a collab, and by that I mean fuck Starbucks and their anti-union bullshit.
First time ever playing #CandelaObscura, first time playing in a game GMed by the inimitable @linenandspice.bsky.social, and it’s been a hell of a time. Spooky, delightful fun. I’m not concerned about the spooky goings-on, you’re concerned about the spooky goings-on.
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Stories about lifelong Republicans becoming Democrats because of the direction MAGA has shifted their party isn’t something I celebrate. It’s part of why the Democratic Party continues to shift more right of center while actively shunning more progressive, Leftist politics. It’s a bad thing.
I love a good redemption arc, but let’s not forget that the politicians going scorched earth against MAGA also helped make much of what happened today possible. Don’t pat those backs too hard.