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I have at least two more converts to The Story Graph in the last couple days, yanking them away from Amazon’s Good Reads.
I use it:
https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/aardrian
Not perfect but definitely *not* Amazon. Just sayin’.

Arthur L. Carter, who started a Connecticut newspaper in 1981, bought and sold The Nation, and founded the New York Observer in 1987, has died at 93 (Sam Roberts/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/business/media/arthur-carter-dead.html

Arthur L. Carter, 93, Dies; Investment Banker Founded a Cheeky Newspaper
After making a fortune on Wall Street, he bought The Nation magazine and founded The New York Observer, which one writer called a “maypole of Manhattan gossip and intrigue.”

“Dungeons _and_ dragons, in _this_ economy?”
Reminded of this quip when someone boosted this early-COVID-era 2020 thread from one D&D session where our riffing was maybe more fun than the game:
https://toot.cafe/@aardrian/104724645439397874

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MidnightInAPerfectWorld
Arthur Russell:
🎵 Come To Life
#ArthurRussell
https://arthurrussell.bandcamp.com/track/come-to-life
https://open.spotify.com/track/1MSygsDDii6Lr9ymmS7t45

Blip is amazing: it's kinda AirDrop that works over the Internet & locally on iOS, macOS, Windows, and Android – Linux pending. Works with folders and data goes directly, no upload.
I've learned about it from MKBHD and I'm already sad how it'll inevitably go bad.
https://blip.net/

Blip is the fastest way to send files
Send big files with no size limits, at full quality, across platforms, directly to other people and devices

Please do not lick the millennium-era electronics

Sick to my stomach.
“A 21-year-old anti-ICE protester has been left permanently blind in his left eye after a federal agent fired a less-lethal projectile into his face from close range during a demonstration in Santa Ana, California. Kaden Rummler, a college student, underwent six hours of surgery to remove shards of plastic, glass and metal embedded in his eyes and face, with one piece lodged just 7 millimetres from his carotid artery.”

Jacinda Ardern quits Adelaide Festival's Writers Week appearance
https://www.crikey.com.au/2026/01/12/jacinda-ardern-quits-adelaide-festical-writers-week-boycott-randa-abdel-fattah/

Republican Shows Up In DC To Demand House Reconvene (Arthur Delaney/HuffPost)
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kevin-kiley-government-shutdown_n_68ee9935e4b0c41c21862962
http://www.memeorandum.com/251014/p151#a251014p151

Cleric, failing to negotiate with a junior red dragon, casts Invisibility on himself and runs into the tall grass.
Dragon watches invisible cleric’s trail in the grass.
Dragon, muttering: “Why are humans so stupid.”
Dragon flies to end of trail in grass, breathes fire over it.
Cleric: “AAAAAGH!”