C. A. Bridges
@cabridges.bsky.social
I write things that explain other things for USA TODAY NETWORK Florida. I also take pictures, mostly for me. My opinions are my own and I only agree with about half of them. He/him.
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C. A. Bridges
@cabridges.bsky.social
· Nov 16
New followers, hi! I’m a trending writer for the USA TODAY NETWORK in Florida, which means I try to explain what’s going on, from hurricanes to politics to pop culture to health threats. Sometimes it helps.
I’m also a photographer for local performers, a dog dad, and a thrifter on weekends.
I’m also a photographer for local performers, a dog dad, and a thrifter on weekends.
We saw cows.
And goats and rabbits. The Feral Ranch in Lake Helen is open for animal-petting and feeding Saturdays and Sundays, 9-5. Fluffy cows!
And goats and rabbits. The Feral Ranch in Lake Helen is open for animal-petting and feeding Saturdays and Sundays, 9-5. Fluffy cows!
December 28, 2025 at 10:16 PM
We saw cows.
And goats and rabbits. The Feral Ranch in Lake Helen is open for animal-petting and feeding Saturdays and Sundays, 9-5. Fluffy cows!
And goats and rabbits. The Feral Ranch in Lake Helen is open for animal-petting and feeding Saturdays and Sundays, 9-5. Fluffy cows!
Today’s thrift store find: “Clairdelune” by Michael West, 1913. Gorgeous illustrated collection of troubadour stories with drawings, tipped in plates, multiple inks (including metallic), music sheets and more.
Prices online range from $75-$500 depending on condition. My price: $1.99.
Prices online range from $75-$500 depending on condition. My price: $1.99.
December 27, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Today’s thrift store find: “Clairdelune” by Michael West, 1913. Gorgeous illustrated collection of troubadour stories with drawings, tipped in plates, multiple inks (including metallic), music sheets and more.
Prices online range from $75-$500 depending on condition. My price: $1.99.
Prices online range from $75-$500 depending on condition. My price: $1.99.
I love seeing all the pictures of people’s Christmases with piles of toys and clothes and books and paper and boxes just filling their living rooms with food and drinks everywhere and dogs running around.
On this one day, everyone’s house looks like ours does all the time.
On this one day, everyone’s house looks like ours does all the time.
December 26, 2025 at 2:38 AM
I love seeing all the pictures of people’s Christmases with piles of toys and clothes and books and paper and boxes just filling their living rooms with food and drinks everywhere and dogs running around.
On this one day, everyone’s house looks like ours does all the time.
On this one day, everyone’s house looks like ours does all the time.
Teres spent hours sewing dog treats into little cloth pouches and then putting them in different areas inside a large stuffed animal.
Our dog has never been happier.
Our dog has never been happier.
December 25, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Teres spent hours sewing dog treats into little cloth pouches and then putting them in different areas inside a large stuffed animal.
Our dog has never been happier.
Our dog has never been happier.
Hey guys, three ghosts just came by to let me know my past, present and future are all awesome.
Thanks everyone for being part of my life.
Thanks everyone for being part of my life.
December 25, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Hey guys, three ghosts just came by to let me know my past, present and future are all awesome.
Thanks everyone for being part of my life.
Thanks everyone for being part of my life.
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Quick, before the neighbor's kids get up: sneak their dog a torn, blood-soaked Santa hat, and then wait.
December 25, 2023 at 5:12 AM
Quick, before the neighbor's kids get up: sneak their dog a torn, blood-soaked Santa hat, and then wait.
Die Hard: I’m a Christmas movie!
Trading Places: I’ve got a drunk guy in a Santa suit!
The Long Kiss Goodnight: Oh please, I’ve got Christmas all through it and we show the importance of family.
Lion in Winter: Oh, you are all most painfully adorable.
Trading Places: I’ve got a drunk guy in a Santa suit!
The Long Kiss Goodnight: Oh please, I’ve got Christmas all through it and we show the importance of family.
Lion in Winter: Oh, you are all most painfully adorable.
December 24, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Die Hard: I’m a Christmas movie!
Trading Places: I’ve got a drunk guy in a Santa suit!
The Long Kiss Goodnight: Oh please, I’ve got Christmas all through it and we show the importance of family.
Lion in Winter: Oh, you are all most painfully adorable.
Trading Places: I’ve got a drunk guy in a Santa suit!
The Long Kiss Goodnight: Oh please, I’ve got Christmas all through it and we show the importance of family.
Lion in Winter: Oh, you are all most painfully adorable.
I’m not doing MusicAdvent this year but I can list which 10-second clips of songs, incidental music and ad jingles get stuck in my head over and over for hours
Right now it’s the musical sting at the end of Josh Johnson videos. An hour ago it was “Take It to the Limit,” a song I don’t like.
Right now it’s the musical sting at the end of Josh Johnson videos. An hour ago it was “Take It to the Limit,” a song I don’t like.
December 24, 2025 at 11:14 PM
I’m not doing MusicAdvent this year but I can list which 10-second clips of songs, incidental music and ad jingles get stuck in my head over and over for hours
Right now it’s the musical sting at the end of Josh Johnson videos. An hour ago it was “Take It to the Limit,” a song I don’t like.
Right now it’s the musical sting at the end of Josh Johnson videos. An hour ago it was “Take It to the Limit,” a song I don’t like.
Batman. Or Omaha the Cat Dancer. Either works for me.
New Rumor Claims the Third AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY Teaser Trailer Will Focus on a Very Surprising Character
New Rumor Claims the Third AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY Teaser Trailer Will Focus on a Very Surprising Character
The release of director James Cameron ’s sequel Avatar: Fire and Ash has brought the release of the first teaser trailer for Marvel’s highly anticipated Avengers: Doomsday . The first trailer was...
buff.ly
December 24, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Batman. Or Omaha the Cat Dancer. Either works for me.
I’ll make my own irrational decisions, thank you.
Although any AI shopper trained on my habits would just sling back and forth adding and removing things to the cart and then just leaving.
Although any AI shopper trained on my habits would just sling back and forth adding and removing things to the cart and then just leaving.
"Agent driven commerce. This will be the last year you shop alone. Next year, AI agents will not just help you find what you want, they will pull the trigger on purchases for you." Visa rolls out Visa Intelligent Commerce: nerds.xyz/2025/12/visa...
Visa says AI will start shopping and paying for you in 2026
Visa says it has completed hundreds of secure AI initiated transactions with partners, signaling that agent driven shopping and checkout could reach mainstream consumers by the 2026 holiday season, ra...
nerds.xyz
December 22, 2025 at 11:56 PM
I’ll make my own irrational decisions, thank you.
Although any AI shopper trained on my habits would just sling back and forth adding and removing things to the cart and then just leaving.
Although any AI shopper trained on my habits would just sling back and forth adding and removing things to the cart and then just leaving.
I came very close to a legendary level of stupidity.
Ordered a pair of jeans. Tried em on, started to transfer stuff, realized they were too long. Online app let me quickly exchange em, just package em up and drop em at UPS. Easy!
Started to leave. Missing my wallet.
This never happens.
1/?
Ordered a pair of jeans. Tried em on, started to transfer stuff, realized they were too long. Online app let me quickly exchange em, just package em up and drop em at UPS. Easy!
Started to leave. Missing my wallet.
This never happens.
1/?
December 22, 2025 at 11:18 PM
I came very close to a legendary level of stupidity.
Ordered a pair of jeans. Tried em on, started to transfer stuff, realized they were too long. Online app let me quickly exchange em, just package em up and drop em at UPS. Easy!
Started to leave. Missing my wallet.
This never happens.
1/?
Ordered a pair of jeans. Tried em on, started to transfer stuff, realized they were too long. Online app let me quickly exchange em, just package em up and drop em at UPS. Easy!
Started to leave. Missing my wallet.
This never happens.
1/?
You mean I can make AI even less accurate? Wow!
An online marketplace is selling code modules that simulate the effects of cannabis, ketamine, cocaine, ayahuasca, and alcohol when they are uploaded to ChatGPT.
People Are Paying to Get Their Chatbots High on ‘Drugs’
An online marketplace is selling code modules that simulate the effects of cannabis, ketamine, cocaine, ayahuasca, and alcohol when they are uploaded to ChatGPT.
wrd.cm
December 22, 2025 at 2:32 AM
You mean I can make AI even less accurate? Wow!
I didn’t just spend a week re-reading the “Questionable Content” webcomic from the beginning. YOU just spent a week re-reading the “Questionable Content” webcomic from the beginning.
Again.
Again.
December 22, 2025 at 1:22 AM
I didn’t just spend a week re-reading the “Questionable Content” webcomic from the beginning. YOU just spent a week re-reading the “Questionable Content” webcomic from the beginning.
Again.
Again.
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DECK THE HALLS WITH DEADLY NIGHTSHADE: My Edward Gorey bio is the perfect blunt object for bludgeoning trolls, brainless critics, & that odious relative in the red hat. Buy one to read and another to drop, from a lethal height, on pestiferous carolers. www.markdery.com/books/born-t... #EdwardGorey
Born to Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Genius and Mysterious Life of Edward Gorey
The writer and illustrator Edward Gorey, who died in 2000 at 75, was the unequaled master of gothic whimsy, camp-macabre melodrama, and morbid nonsense. His obsessively crosshatched, amusingly lugubri...
www.markdery.com
December 17, 2025 at 2:51 PM
DECK THE HALLS WITH DEADLY NIGHTSHADE: My Edward Gorey bio is the perfect blunt object for bludgeoning trolls, brainless critics, & that odious relative in the red hat. Buy one to read and another to drop, from a lethal height, on pestiferous carolers. www.markdery.com/books/born-t... #EdwardGorey
Science fiction and TV writer David Gerrold, the guy behind "The Trouble With Tribbles" and, more importantly to me, the author of "The World of Star Trek," my first peek into the making of a TV show, has been diagnosed with leukemia. You know the drill.
Donate to David Gerrold's Health and Leukemia Fundraiser, organized by David Gerrold
Here is a thank you just for coming this far, a link to a short collec… David Gerrold needs your support for David Gerrold's Health and Leukemia Fundraiser
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December 17, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Science fiction and TV writer David Gerrold, the guy behind "The Trouble With Tribbles" and, more importantly to me, the author of "The World of Star Trek," my first peek into the making of a TV show, has been diagnosed with leukemia. You know the drill.
When @ass.golf posts a random Questionable Content strip and it makes you want to read the rest of that story arc and the next thing you know it’s been four hours and your butt is cramping up…
We’ve all been there, right?
We’ve all been there, right?
December 17, 2025 at 2:38 AM
When @ass.golf posts a random Questionable Content strip and it makes you want to read the rest of that story arc and the next thing you know it’s been four hours and your butt is cramping up…
We’ve all been there, right?
We’ve all been there, right?
So are license plate frames legal in Florida or not?
The Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles had to send out a memo clearing up questions about the new law.
The Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles had to send out a memo clearing up questions about the new law.
Is your license plate frame illegal? FLHSMV explains new Florida law
The Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles has stepped in to clarify the new license plate law. Here's what they said.
www.heraldtribune.com
December 16, 2025 at 1:52 PM
So are license plate frames legal in Florida or not?
The Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles had to send out a memo clearing up questions about the new law.
The Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles had to send out a memo clearing up questions about the new law.
Most memorable moviegoing experiences:
• Avengers Endgame opening night, the Mjolnir scene and the portals scene.
• Spider-Man No Way Home, most of it
• Seeing Empire Strikes Back in a theater packed with most of my graduating class who all skipped 6th period for the opening matinee
• Avengers Endgame opening night, the Mjolnir scene and the portals scene.
• Spider-Man No Way Home, most of it
• Seeing Empire Strikes Back in a theater packed with most of my graduating class who all skipped 6th period for the opening matinee
Most memorable moviegoing experiences:
• front row center, first show, opening day, STAR WARS, with Scott McCloud. I will never forget that long, long opening shot of the Imperial ship.
• COAL MINER'S DAUGHTER, in Paris, in English with French subtitles. The contrast between the two was very...
• front row center, first show, opening day, STAR WARS, with Scott McCloud. I will never forget that long, long opening shot of the Imperial ship.
• COAL MINER'S DAUGHTER, in Paris, in English with French subtitles. The contrast between the two was very...
Raising the always fun question: What are your most memorable theater-going experiences?
Mine also include The Matrix, Blair Witch, and being way too stoned in Belgium when Fellowship of the Ring was sold out so we sat in the back row for Mulholland Drive instead.
Mine also include The Matrix, Blair Witch, and being way too stoned in Belgium when Fellowship of the Ring was sold out so we sat in the back row for Mulholland Drive instead.
December 14, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Most memorable moviegoing experiences:
• Avengers Endgame opening night, the Mjolnir scene and the portals scene.
• Spider-Man No Way Home, most of it
• Seeing Empire Strikes Back in a theater packed with most of my graduating class who all skipped 6th period for the opening matinee
• Avengers Endgame opening night, the Mjolnir scene and the portals scene.
• Spider-Man No Way Home, most of it
• Seeing Empire Strikes Back in a theater packed with most of my graduating class who all skipped 6th period for the opening matinee
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Mental note: next time, when you order takeout to pick up around time, make sure there’s not a entire Christmas parade blocking everything between you and your rapidly cooling food.
December 13, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Mental note: next time, when you order takeout to pick up around time, make sure there’s not a entire Christmas parade blocking everything between you and your rapidly cooling food.
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for dick van dyke's 100th birthday, let's agree that that is actually how english chimney sweeps sound like, he nailed it, if you're an english chimney sweep and don't sound like that, you're doing it wrong
December 13, 2025 at 4:19 PM
for dick van dyke's 100th birthday, let's agree that that is actually how english chimney sweeps sound like, he nailed it, if you're an english chimney sweep and don't sound like that, you're doing it wrong
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Looking Back at the Work of John Varley, 1947-2025
Where to start reading — or rereading — Varley's many series and stories.
reactormag.com/looking-back...
Where to start reading — or rereading — Varley's many series and stories.
reactormag.com/looking-back...
Looking Back at the Work of John Varley, 1947-2025 - Reactor
Where to start reading — or rereading — Varley's many series and stories.
reactormag.com
December 12, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Looking Back at the Work of John Varley, 1947-2025
Where to start reading — or rereading — Varley's many series and stories.
reactormag.com/looking-back...
Where to start reading — or rereading — Varley's many series and stories.
reactormag.com/looking-back...
Dammit. John Varley died.
The worst of his work was still challenging. The best was some of my favorite science fiction anywhere.
I love the Red Thunder series, and the Wizard series, and the 9 Worlds stories.
Steel Beach and Golden Globe are gloriously messy, hilarious epics.
Thanks, man.
The worst of his work was still challenging. The best was some of my favorite science fiction anywhere.
I love the Red Thunder series, and the Wizard series, and the 9 Worlds stories.
Steel Beach and Golden Globe are gloriously messy, hilarious epics.
Thanks, man.
John Varley (1947-2025)
John Varley (78) died December 10, 2025 in his home in Beaverton OR. He had COPD and diabetes. John Herbert Varley was born August 9, 1947 in Austin TX. He attended Michigan State University. His f…
locusmag.com
December 11, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Dammit. John Varley died.
The worst of his work was still challenging. The best was some of my favorite science fiction anywhere.
I love the Red Thunder series, and the Wizard series, and the 9 Worlds stories.
Steel Beach and Golden Globe are gloriously messy, hilarious epics.
Thanks, man.
The worst of his work was still challenging. The best was some of my favorite science fiction anywhere.
I love the Red Thunder series, and the Wizard series, and the 9 Worlds stories.
Steel Beach and Golden Globe are gloriously messy, hilarious epics.
Thanks, man.
I really like that the new Supergirl teaser ends with a promo for the comic it;s based on.
Honor your sources, people.
Honor your sources, people.
Supergirl | Official Teaser Trailer
YouTube video by DC
www.youtube.com
December 11, 2025 at 6:32 PM
I really like that the new Supergirl teaser ends with a promo for the comic it;s based on.
Honor your sources, people.
Honor your sources, people.
USA TODAY picked up my story on the odds of President Trump getting named Time's Person of the Year for the third time.
Spoiler: he might be another person who loses a position to AI.
Spoiler: he might be another person who loses a position to AI.
Will Trump be named Time Person of the Year again? Here are the odds
Time's annual Person of the year edition is nearing. Will President Donald Trump grace the cover again? Or will artificial intelligence take it?
www.usatoday.com
December 11, 2025 at 3:39 PM
USA TODAY picked up my story on the odds of President Trump getting named Time's Person of the Year for the third time.
Spoiler: he might be another person who loses a position to AI.
Spoiler: he might be another person who loses a position to AI.