Yacht Rock featuring Steely Dan ~ how have I never seen this before

I only found out about this Yacht Rock web series via the book Quantum Criminals

Ramblers, Wild Gamblers, and Other Sole Survivors from the Songs of Steely Dan which I just got. 

This episode about Steely Dan is hysterical.

Murderbot is WIRED

It's true that there is a Murderbot TV series in the works, but as far as I'm concerned, Martha Wells has only now really hit the big time with this profile in the tech-focused magazine WIRED.

Although one paragraph discusses how famous Wells has not been:

To this day, most people—even in College Station—still don’t know who Martha Wells is. Local newspapers ignore press releases about her latest award. The Barnes and Noble down the street has never invited her to its Star Wars Day, even though she has written a Star Wars novel. She did a signing in town once where nobody showed up.

Wow, that's rough.

This WIRED piece on Wells is the first time I've seen her husband mentioned, so extra points for that. Both Wells and the author of the WIRED article "Murderbot, She Wrote," Meghan Herbst are on Bluesky now and I am following them both. Herbst quickly followed me back, I'm still waiting on Wells.

It is probably pretty obvious through the Murderbot Diaries, but Wells has very cool political views. I've mentioned before that Murderbot is "gloriously woke."

I've written a one-act play and an R-rated fan fiction about Murderbot. I hope one day Wells licenses Murderbot to writers the way the Star Wars franchise has permitted writers, like Wells herself, to write Star Wars books.

Fascism comes to America

I knew the United States was in bad shape when it elected Donald Trump in 2016. 

I began learning French in earnest not long after that election. And now I speak French OK after eight years.

It turns out it's very difficult to emigrate to Canada, even if you're pretty good at French. But I am looking at all possible options for getting out of the United States for the duration of the hideous evil Trump dictatorship.

Hell yeah I voted early for Kamala

Meanwhile Trump is being even more loathsome than ever. I didn't think it was possible for the Orange Freak to be even more grotesque.

This cartoon sums up the Trump campaign, and the stupid cult's worship of a truly evil, rapidly declining old man.