I recently watched Pizza Movie (2026) and it's ridiculous, fairly predictable, and fun. It's a drug-trip buddy comedy in the same vein as Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle and Dude, Where's My Car? and a dozen other college party movies. It stars Gaten Matarazzo of Stranger Things fame, and Sean Giambrone from The Goldbergs along with Lulu Wilson. We follow the leads as they experience a vivid and sometimes disturbing psychedelic experience and desperately attempt to acquire a pizza. There's a butterfly, a robot, many, many hijinks and some laughs. It's not high cinema, but I enjoyed it.

Good Luck Have Fun Don't Die is a weird but enjoyable movie. It has strong opinions about the rise of social media and other attention grabbing technology and doesn't seem to care if you agree or not. It opens a bit slowly with a long monologue, but picks up the pace pretty quickly. It's a wild adventure with odd things happening pretty consistently and frequently had me questioning where it was going next. It has the same frenetic energy as Everything Everywhere All At Once, and if you liked that one, you should enjoy this as well. It won't be to everyone's taste, but I certainly enjoyed it.

All hail the Great American Apocalypse! Another good one by Zach Weinersmith and Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal.

Ernst Haeckel (1834 - 1919) was many things. He was a prominent marine biologist and zoologist and discovered and named thousands of new species. He was also a physician, philosopher, artist, and promoted Charles Darwin's theories in Germany. Unfortunately he was also a eugenicist and promoted scientific racism. Yet another reminder that otherwise impressive people can believe terrible things.

O Human Star is an engrossing, completed webcomic by Blue Delliquanti. It has robots, love, and heartbreak. It dives deeply into what it means to be human, what it means to grow up, and what it means to be your true self. It captured my full attention. It was a fixture on my phone browser and I went back to it every spare second I had until I finished. I would highly recommend reading it and also recommend that you act smarter than me and read it on a full sized screen.
Caution, there are a few minorly NSFW moments, but nothing too scandalous.

Brünnhilde does not look happy. I don't blame them. These two images of a remarkably patient cat dressed in armor and a winged helmet were taken in 1936 and show that humanity's love of fun cat pictures long predates the rise of the internet. I hope Brünnhilde was given a nice treat and many pets after modelling for these photos.

Julie de Graag (1877-1924) was a dutch painter and print maker. Her work covered a variety of topics, including portraiture, animals, flowers and plants. I was first drawn to her artwork after coming across a series of woodcuts of cats. She captures the essence of the feline form in a variety of poses using bold outlines combined with subtle blocks of colors. Her other work is no less stunning. It varies between these blockier cuts to some with fine lines and incredible detail. It is well worth a view.

"We don't want the truth to get in the way of a good story, do we?"

Creed Bratton, the actor who played Creed on The Office has lived a life as interesting and mysterious as his fictional counterpart. The more you read of his story in Esquire, Creed Bratton Has a Story to Tell the more the lines between actor and character blur. An interesting man who has lived a complicated life.

The House in Tuhinj Valley is an interesting piece from a few years ago that dives into a beautiful and practical piece of joinery the author became fascinated with after seeing some photos online.

If you need a new puzzle game to sink some time into, I've been playing Star Battle. It's a pretty simple concept, but it gets quite complicated. Worth a few minutes of your time if you enjoy Sudoku or minesweeper or puzzle games in general.

Why I'm No Longer Talking to Architects About Microservices by Ian Miell is one Software Engineer's well thought out explanation of a common issue in software development (and many other areas of life), the conflict that arises between a useful concept and its implementation in a messy world. In this particular case, Ian is talking through the issues related to overly complex series of microservices that seem to exist solely for the purpose of matching a 'best practice', but end up causing grief and slowing down productivity.

If you're looking for a way to articulate why the Digital world feels so awful, Ed Zitron has a lot to say about the history of the world's descent into the Rot Economy and the increasing enshitification of all things Digital in Never Forgive Them. As with many of his pieces, it's a bit over the top, but I think it stands as a good reminder of how Big Tech is perfectly comfortable ruining the world to capture a few more cents of your money and as much of your time as is humanly possible.

The reality of widening income inequality and the problems inherent in American Capitalism are depressing. Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal by Zach Weinersmith doesn't fix any of that, but at least they present the commentary in an interesting way. View the full comic here.

Discussions about the American economy, largest in the world, can elicit starkly different reactions depending who you ask. For those in the upper echelons, things are going pretty well. The stock market is up, meaning good returns on retirement accounts, housing prices remain high, which is great if you already own. For those without a portfolio and/or real estate, things look much more dire. Inflation is up and wages aren't keeping pace. It is very troubling that this glaring disconnect is not clearly represented in the many economic indicators and statistics used by lawmakers. Politico goes into detail in their article Voters Were Right About the Economy. The Data Was Wrong.

The reality of widening income inequality and the problems inherent in American Capitalism are depressing. Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal by Zach Weinersmith doesn't fix any of that, but at least they present the commentary in an interesting way. View the full comic here.

Class warfare, but funny! Well maybe not, but this is at least an amusing distraction. View the full comic here.

I'd like to return this timeline, it's clearly broken. View the full comic here.

The impact of plastics on humanity is still being uncovered and it sometimes looks bleak. Health experts rally for 'call to arms' to protect children from toxic chemicals published by the Guardian calls attention to a study by the well respected New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) that raises major concerns for the health of children world wide based on the connections between a wide variety of negative conditions (cancer, asthma, etc) that are linked to chemicals related to the production of plastics.

Techdirt, the long running technology blog posted a pretty compelling argument about why any and all tech reporting is inherently political and tied to the fundamentals of our democracy, Why Techdirt Is Now A Democracy Blog (Whether We Like It Or Not). The Trump administration's attacks on all levels of government and their use of regulators like the FCC to threaten and punish businesses and individuals that they do not agree with is a grave danger to the well-being of everyone in the United States and plays a vital role in the events unfolding around us.

A few days ago, one of my neighbors dropped a copy of the seed catalog from Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds off at my house. My initial thought was "What am I going to do with this?" I am a mediocre, often distracted, novice gardener and did not intend to start any seedlings this year, or possibly ever. My opinion changed after thumbing through the magazine though. The beautiful photographs of flowers, fruits, vegetables, and all manner of plants was a salve that I didn't know I needed in the darkness of winter. The images scream abundance and growth and optimism, a glimpse of a world that can be. I know very little about the company, but I thank them for providing me a little hope from an unexpected place.

Emily King is a talented R&B artist and just a wonderful person to be around. She recently recorded a performance with NPR's Tiny Desk along with her long-time collaborator Jeremy Most. It's a great performance and her glowing personality shines through. Well worth the 10 minutes. Watch it now.

You Look Like a Thing and I Love You by Janelle Shane, written in 2019 is a non-fiction book about AI and its state at the time. I learned of this book through the Acknowledgements section of Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky and was glad I picked it up.

Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky is a dystopian science fiction novel written from the perspective of a robot valet. During the course of the story we follow the robot (Charles) as he's forced to experience the world at large after his employment at a manor house comes to an end after an unfortunate event.

Dragons have been a fascination of humankind for centuries. By this point in history the name represents a host of mythical creatures from all across the world, ranging from giant malevolant fire-breathing winged lizards to beneficent serpents with spiritual meaning.