Early last year, I wrote two posts about money. A lot has changed since then. This is not a "gold bug" metals-obsessed rant, but I want to revisit those posts before I delve into wider topics.

ICE Background The United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency emerged from post-September 11th federal restructuring. With the creation of the new Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in

2025 was rough, but 2026 is shaping up to be worse if the first week and change are any indication. Buckle up. This is a long rambling post which may go nowhere. I won't fault you for a "tl;dr"

Magic: The Gathering has spawned many variant formats developed by the community. Commander is by far the most famous, now an official format with wide product support. Some would say this has done more

2025 was not a great year, but it's over, at least. First things first: time for a Hive Power Up Day! If you see this before the UTC clock ticks over to January 2nd, you can also join in. Power up at least

Ask Me Anything The end of the year is upon us, so I think I'll try something new today since this will probably be my last blog post of 2025. Time to ask me anything! Possible topics include, but are

Merry Christmas, Hive! I'm not doing any travel for the holiday, but I did make a short excursion into Montana a couple days ago. I had finally recovered for the most part from the chronic health flare

If I timed this right, this post will go live the minute the Earth is calculated to be at the winter solstice point. It feels crazy to have to specify this, but it's 2025 and the internet has revealed

It's about 2 AM as I start writing this, but I only just got home a little while ago from a very long day full of misadventures. It all started when my friend A. texted me to say he wanted some immoral

There's been a lot of hubbub lately on our platform regarding how we should change various aspects of how it works behind the scenes, but there's a big change we can make without any control whatsoever

My birthday was last month, and @generikat generously bought this Commander deck as a gift for me. It's from the relatively recent Duskmourn: House of Horror set, which (surprise, surprise!) has a horror

My birthday was last month, and @generikat generously bought this Commander deck as a gift for me. It's from the relatively recent Duskmourn: House of Horror set, which (surprise, surprise!) has a horror

I know this seems like beating a dead horse after the past couple years, but I really, really dislike most generative artificial intelligence content. HIVE frontends are integrating A.I. tools to varying

Many debates seem to boil down to arguing over who needs to be in charge, and who needs to do as they are told. Politics is the most obvious example, but the idea lurks behind a lot of conversations. In

Are we on the threshold of war? For months, the Trump administration has maintained a policy of destroying alleged drug smuggling boats off the Venezuelan coast. None of these boats are close to US waters.

Happy Thanksgiving, Hive! Here in the States, Thanksgiving is a federal holiday celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November, with historical and mythical allusions to early colonial history playing a

I was recently reading about American history, particularly the early colonists and the later Oregon Trail settlers. Suppose you were uprooting your entire life and traveling across an ocean or continent

On November 20th, 1985, the Windows 1.0 operating system was released to manufacturing. It was Microsoft's first Graphical User Interface (GUI), and it was primitive, at best keeping pace in the IBM

My #midnightletters tend to be about #midnightsnacks. It's late, about 1:45 AM, and I am awake, so therefore I eat. I made pierogis again as part of dinner after finally publishing a long-overdue post

I ran across the video linked below a few weeks ago. Great soundtrack, but sparse on details. One would almost think it wasn't even intended to be a cooking video in the first place. Hit play, and then