Civilization VII is on Apple Arcade. On my iPhone 13 Pro it says it’s not compatible, but on the Mac App Store it says it supports Mac, iPad, iPhone so I guess my iPhone is too old for mobile Civilization’ing. It reads like it’s the full game? But we’ll see.

In this house we #slurpee when it’s above 0C in February. And we look grumpy while doing it.

Selfie a day for a year, day 170, Feb 4, 2026 edition.

A person holding a drink with a striped straw stands in a store, while another person in the background appears to be checking their phone near a display of yellow snacks.

New blog post: Everything is Awful And Why Isn’t Anybody Doing Anything About It?

This post from Dave Rupert on writing the future you want seems like a good (but more difficult) way forward than my lament at nothing happening.

Am I right in understanding that the US Justice department / government has had access to the Epstein files for a while, and no charges or investigations happened. And now that some of the files are released to the public, still nothing is going to happen?

Whoever is picking the soundtrack for Fallout season two is doing amazing work.

New blog post: Wading into the comments on The Great Divide by Noah Kahan #music

From 1Password’s blog: Don’t use OpenClaw on a work computer.

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Trying out StoryGraph for a book reading journal. Thank you to whoever recommended The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers.