Now that the Switch 2 is out, I’m not playing that, and instead finally playing Switch 1 games. It’s like mini time travel. Mario Odyssey is both what everyone else was playing eight years ago, and what I’m like, “Whoa, they pulled this off” right now. 🕹️

Finished reading: The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki 📚

What a beautiful book. How Ozeki handles grief, mental illness, and growth, is astonishing.

Personal hygiene confidence indicator: I’m now eating ramen shirtless. 🏴‍☠️

Interesting blog post over at This Days Portion: You do not need “analytics” for your blog because you are neither a military surveillance unit nor a commodity trading company. My thoughts weren’t that articulate, but I removed analytics from my blog years ago for similar reasons. 💽

I saw Assscat with my friend Delmar last night. Very funny show. Wyatt Cenac was the monologist. He asked what Gabagool was.

Sebastian: “Capicola”
Wyatt: “Why don’t they say Capicola, then?”
Sebastian: “They switch ‘C’ for ‘G’.”
Shannon: “If they offer you gum, don’t take it.”

The room fell over. 🎭

Started reading: The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki 📚

Finished reading: Crank by Ellen Hopkins 📚

Read this because it was fairly widely banned.

I bought a blind bag of comics at Forbidden Planet last week, and have been reading through them this week. When I was a kid I didn’t have enough cash to consistently buy comics, so I would randomly drop in the middle of arcs; since this bag is a mix, it felt oddly nostalgic to just get a middle slice of a story.

Finished reading: On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder. A vital work. With American fascism in full swing, you can’t afford to miss it. At 120 small pages, and under eight bucks for a hard copy, there’s no excuse. 📚 🇺🇸 ✊

Heavy slice of life with just enough wry humor.

The defense against slop and brainrot - by Paul Jun. Great short read on how doing basic hard brain things makes you smart, and how that will increasingly be a differentiator in the world.

Watched on Friday August 22, 2025.

The best post on the internet.

mastodon.social/@Meyerweb…

Incredible deep dive into public text in New York City, as captured from 18k Google Street view images.

Why did I watch this? It’s some real dime store cats in the cradle shit, while being wrong minded sixteen different ways.

Another excuse to continue not listening to KISS. 🇺🇸🎵

Trump inducting KISS, Sylvester Stallone & more into 2025 Kennedy Center Honors (which he’s hosting)

I’ve been reading less books this year. The overwhelm of our crumbling democracy inside the United States has been devastating, which I’ve used as an excuse to feed my screen addiction.

I’m making a conscious effort to take a step or two back from internet consumption, and read more physical books. Amidst a wealth of inspiration from On Tyranny, this quote is present for me right now.

Avoid pronouncing the phrases everyone else does. Think up your own way of speaking, even if only to convey the thing you think everyone else is saying. Make an effort to separate yourself from the internet. Read books.

Thought matters. Your thoughts change, for the better, I think, when they’re slower. As painful as changing any addictive habit can be, I’m trying to slow down and read. 📚 🇺🇸

Started reading: Polysecure by Jessica Fern 📚

I love an overgrown, abandoned house. 📷

Another shot from Flushing Meadow Park I took of the World’s Fair Globe, this time, with some human scale. 📷🍦

I visited Flushing Meadows Park this past weekend, biking from my apartment up 31st Ave. Lovely day. Snapped a few shots of some sculpture.

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Lists. They can be smart. These lists are not going to win a Nobel or anything, but #Neovim can be configured to grow some efficiencies from other editors. Smart. Let’s say you’ve created … Read more

Started reading: On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder 📚

Currently reading: Will Not Attend by Adam Resnick 📚

I saw one of my favorite things today: a dude riding a bicycle smoking a cigarette. Bonus point? Guy was wearing a backwards hat.