Chris H.
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FYI: I don't have notifications turned on so unless I'm on the app I won't see messages or replies until I return. Ciao!
You're gone. It still seems unreal and yet all too real sometimes. Our paths diverged, occasionally crossing at random intervals, but I knew you were there as I was for you. I didn't get to say goodbye and it still hurts. I see you out of my eye's corner and half speak, mistaken. I miss you.
The youngest son and I found a recipe for a Nestle Quick copycat. He thought the final product was worthy to keep On a side note, if you swap the ratios for sugar and unsweetened cocoa you get a dark chocolate version.
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Apparently, I offend some people just by existing. Good to know.
Not many bands covering Nancy Sinatra! (The Nightcaps at The Hog Wallow, Cottonwood Heights, UT)
I've written a longer piece on the book that's been pulled due to "AI" use allegations, what that means particularly for newer authors, and what, if anything writers can do in the "AI" era to prove their work is their own: whatever.scalzi.com/2026/07/31/a...
Another Reason Not to Use “AI” For Your Writing
Back in February I did a long post about “AI” and why I wouldn’t use it for my own writing, and one of the reasons I gave was “the fact that ‘AI’-generated text …
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@jesszafarris.com I followed a wild hare (figuratively) this morning and found the phrase "unmitigated gall" as far back as 1832 in "Review of Ritson, 'Annals of the Caledonians, Picts, and Scots', Westminster Review, January 1832". Do you know of earlier usage? babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nj...
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I will admit, I got a bit teary eyed at the end. youtu.be/irVNGjRFZGk?...
Avengers: Doomsday | Official Trailer | In Theaters December 18
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The Pentagon is withholding causality and hit numbers. The CDC is withholding infection rates. The FDA is withholding information about food contamination. The EPA is withholding pollution and climate data. This corrupt administration is ALL about concealing the consequences of its incompetence.
Hey @zachweinersmith.bsky.social I don't know if did the Arthurian joke before you but @xkcd.com put an Arthurian joke up a bit after you: xkcd.com/3274/ > Suddenly terrified that Matthew Wills already did this joke at some point.
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ATTENTION!!! I have made the #ebooks for Binding Moonlight and Moonlit Memories free ONLY ON ITCH.IO! I'm not sure how long I will leave them at this price, but if you download them and read them, all I ask in return is a rating and review on goodreads/amazon. Thank you!! faierius.itch.io
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My understanding: tiktok was a site for sharing video clips and commenting on said clips. The US Govt was afeared China would be seeing those comments and made them sell out to us investors. Now, after the sale, tiktok has the feature of buying stuff directly in partnership with Venmo. Yes?
So, I'm growing out my beard. I think the last time I gave it a trim was mid-March, before I went on vacation to Canyonlands. I look ... scruffy. I am trying to make it to the end of August (birthday) but I may give in and shave it off before then. I've had a beard of some sort for ...3 years?
PSA: artists don't owe you ANYTHING. Artists create as they want and as the muse takes them but George Martin doesn't owe you the last Game of Thrones novel, Molly Turtle doesn't owe you a new album, and Robert Downey Jr. doesn't owe you a new Sherlock Holmes movie.
Sunset on the Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah. We drove out to see the fireworks as the salt flats were one of the few locations statewide where it is currently legal. There were a few hundred people at the rest stop trying to set off their stuff without killing each other. Funny stuff.
May your celebrations have plentiful ale, potent pipe weed, and fireworks worthy of Mithrandrir himself. (Yes, I'm watching The Fellowship of the Ring, why do you ask?)
I found my cache of 45s which I thought were lost 30 years ago. Some of them were from my DJ years, some from my dad's time as a radio host. I need to clean them but ... I had to play one. Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody", the original pressing.
You notice that the criminal-in-charge who sues everyone for everything is drop dead quiet about this. Says a lot.
My sister Maya and I were profoundly shaped by the influence of our mom, Ann Dunham. Giving Maya a preview of the Obama Presidential Center, including a new sculpture by Maya Lin dedicated to our mom’s memory, was truly special.
Hey @glenphillips.bsky.social and @toadthewetsprocket.bsky.social - I didn't realize until today that Darth Vader was a fan!
