I don’t get a chance to wear tshirts out much, but when I do:

Just goes to show you: anything's possible at a conclave. I was 100% certain the old rules would apply here, and an American would be off the table. Pope Francis hated Americans, by the way. Amazing.

I simply cannot believe it. It's an American. From Chicago. Not more than a few miles from where I sit.

Well, that was quick. Here's to praying.

The most famous smokestack in the world.

Reopening Alcatraz is the weirdest, most surreal, silliest decision yet.

I fear true censorship resistance at Bluesky would alienate most of their users, and at this point, they know it. View quoted note →

Developer focus has left us with many good mobile options for Nostr, and a desert when it comes to desktop. So, yes: Web (or projects like Notedeck) above all, and let mobile chase.

Back in my day, nobody gave two shakes about the NFL Draft, but hats off to the NFL for keeping the meatheads fixed on football this long.

After a week, the sinuses are clearing and I feel like Noah after the Flood.

Back in the day, I had a typewriter. Been wanting to get back into this game for a while now. View quoted note →

One of the realities of taxes for priests: the IRS, because it operates on a Protestant model, sees us as "self-employed." I'm about as self-employed as a prisoner making license plates, as the nature of the Church dictates that the Bishop "employs" me to assist him in his ministry; I am fully dependent upon the consent of the Bishop in everything that I do. A long way to explain that I pay both sides of Social Security, which I shouldn't. View quoted note →

Got absolutely decimated by taxes this season.

Music night with the Master.

Pegged crypto going down just like everything else in the market, eh.

Pretty great.

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You kids with your AIs and your Bitcoins and whatnot

When the French do something sensible, it deserves a mention.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

A Win for Encryption: France Rejects Backdoor Mandate

In a moment of clarity after initially moving forward a deeply flawed piece of legislation, the French National Assembly has done the right thing: ...

Splurging out on social media (with regard to a comment that was likely right) is not the way.

Chicago Sun-Times

Dan Bernstein is out at The Score after social-media flare-up

The Score vice president Mitch Rosen announced on the air Friday in a brief statement that Bernstein will not return to the station.