I can attest to this. octagon@ was a spectacular manager, with an enormous impact inside Google. People who knew her, even tangentially, were so sad to see her go.

Don’t threaten me with a good time!

Hammer To Fall.

(The single version, not the album version, because that’s the version I heard first and now the other one is just wrong.)

This book was absolutely lovely. You know the sort of great Rom Com movies that never seem to get made anymore? This is that in book form. Plus you get to hear the protagonist geek out about audio editing! Seeing someone explain esoteric details of their job is so much fun. Oh, and the dog is great.

Hey @saavikford.bsky.social, I assume this is what gingerbread houses at your house look like, right?

My Spotify Wrapped is not in any way surprising, as my musical taste calcified in college and hasn’t changed all that much since.

You know how they say that twitter (bluesky now, I guess) doesn’t sell books? They don’t mean it literally, they mean it in the sense of “doesn’t sell books at the scale that matters to publishers”).

Anyway, I read this book because @lindaholmes.bsky.social is delightful on bluesky, and it’s great.

When I find a new podcast (or TV show, or series of books, or whatever) that I like I tend to go deep. I'll start at the beginning and binge it, filling the next month of commutes with whatever awesome new thing I've fallen in love with. It's a pattern I've gotten used to, you know?

1. Boston Museum of Science.
2. Field Museum, Chicago.
3. The Louvre, Paris.

I basically grew up at the MoS in Boston, so it's a nostalgia pick. If the list went past 3 I'd have to hold a shootout between a huge number of Natural History museums.

If you're excited about the pick and have the money to spend, consider helping bump the fundraising numbers up! A good fundraising day today can shut up the centrists who wanted someone more conservative to appeal to imaginary swing voters.

Just saw Dave Matthews Band at the venue formerly known as Great Woods, and I had a few thoughts.

1) I'm a long time DMB fan, but not a deep fan. I mostly listen to the hits, and mostly from their older stuff, since that's when my musical taste largely calcified in college.

I feel like it should have been more than 34 counts.

I paid off my student loans almost entirely because I got lucky and had some stock options from an old job turn out to be worth a lot. I could have put a down payment on a house with that money. It doesn’t change anything though, college should still be effectively free to anyone who wants to go.

Hey @zachrabiroff.bsky.social, I went back and listened to the Cerebro episode you did about Moira. It's great, but mostly what I really want now is for you and Connor to get back together after Krakoa wraps and do the version that incorporates everything that's happened with Moira since then.

I know this is technically correct (the best kind of correct, of course), but I have to wonder if the fact that SO MANY people use the wrong terminology here means there's something wrong with the way it works in 5e.

Claiming your new special edition product will be available in "highly limited quantities" would be a more meaningful statement if your existing regular edition product was ever actually in stock and able to be purchased.

(You know, other than from people reselling them on eBay at scalper prices.)