17,741 words now (not including footnotes) (I edited a bit)

I feel very confident I wasn’t involved.

My suggestion of Canada avoids the USA for people who don’t want to come into the USA right now.

Alternative: you could just go the wrong direction and fly through Canada.

Well fuck. That’s not good.

You might want to lest we spoil it by talking about when Dr Mel dies.

The book.

I like seeing Langdon’s redemption arc.

This is a very apt description.

Nintendo Legal are excellent. I have a ton of respect for the ones I dealt with. And remember: the President of Nintendo of America is their ex-General Counsel.

I have to keep pushing or those documentary people aren't going to have anything to promote!

Another 1,500 words. Done for the day.

Pete Hegseth really is the Gamergate of Cabinet secretaries.

The only way Mr Simon's usage is inaccurate is that a proper decimation involves the other 9 members of the legion killing the 10th themselves.

As a decimate truther myself, this skeet makes me happy.

There will be plenty more of these.

Sadly this is only Nintendo suing "Trump" in the way that US litigation captions cases because the USA hasn't figured out how to separate the office from the office holder.

Dafuq is up with those shoulder pads?

In general pokemoncenter.com is the place to look for your unusual Pokémon merch. It brings in a bunch of the stuff that's otherwise available only in Japan. It's less for the broad consumer stuff and more for the niche collectors.

If you’re not willing to fly to Japan for it try pokemoncenter.com

It really does have the energy of people who misuse “myself” because they think it sounds more fancy than “me”.

This isn’t the point but: what the fuck is a “kinetic conflict”? A fight where stuff is moving around in physical space? Isn’t that… every fight?

Okay. At least the bill specifies what licensed professions it’s targeting so that you don’t end up with “well hairdressers need a permit to operate so a chatbot can’t suggest hairstyles” or some other nonsense.

If only there had been a way to make sure tariffs didn’t happen until after we knew whether they would be upheld. Someone should invent a procedure to allow for such matters to be adjudicated on a temporary or provisional basis.

Somehow no, you didn’t.

Hence my reaction.

Just found it. Well, if anyone is allowed to disclose Wizards’ trade secrets, it’s Wizards.

That was me.

I saw you mention Shatner and Plummer and said “look at that, someone who knows the deep lore”. But of course you do.

Fans: I’ve spoken of how I renamed a building at McGill University after William Shatner. Alex was one of the people involved. It wasn’t so much “I” as a “we” but: character limits.