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The Lyric Opera of Chicago 2026/27 Season kicks off with a thrilling fable of deceit and retribution. Under the baton of Music Director Enrique Mazzola, sharp humor, high drama, and an exquisite score intertwine in the story of a charismatic seducer whose unrepentant lustfulness brings about a most spectacular demise.

Part of why enshittification happens is economic consolidation: large companies buy up small companies until there are so few companies that they don't really compete. We're at peak merger right now because the Democrats are weighing conglomerates twice and finding them lacking: when we get control of the government (my bet is on 2031 but it could be sooner), we're cracking trusts.

Chicago officially hit 30.6°C before 3pm today, beating the previous record high temperature for October 12th by almost 2°C. It might go down to 22°C by dawn...and down to 8°C by Saturday morning.

This is the funniest shit I've seen in days:

Cassie and I spent 8 hours outside yesterday, and I had just enough time to grab a kip and a shower between Oktoberfestaversary and dinner. I snapped this on Saturday night, which tells you a little about yesterday's weather:

On Amazon Prime.

The super El Niño building in the eastern Pacific has caused some weird changes to this tropical storm season.

If you'd told me two years ago that I'd ever attend a White Sox post-season game, I'd have told you to pull the other one. And then last night I found myself here:

OK, so, I released yet another minor update today, with just a couple of bug fixes including a usability issue that was driving me crazy. The only thing that most people might care about is a little checkbox on the Search page that will show the exact date of what you find rather than just the time frame. So the next release, not this one, will have an integration feature I've wanted for bloody ages.