It feels bittersweet for The Boys to be over. It made me think of how much has changed since 2019, for the world and for me.

I know nobody's been hot on the show for a while, but I'll give one criticism. The Deep... what happened there? In the first two seasons they set him up as a real piece of garbage who goes through personal hardship. Then... nothing really came of it. By the end he was just a one-dimensional dumb guy. His arc was a big nothing.

In this video, writer Harlan Ellison shares some of the inspirational quotes from around his office. https://youtu.be/WT8oDKqoh_g

The one I'm thinking about today is the Latin proverb Sat Ci Sat Bene: "It is done quickly enough if it done well."

Bicycle update: I got the old crankset off and put on a new one. The old crankset had a pedal that had become cross-threaded which wrecked the whole thing. I'll probably need new pedals as well.

I also managed to clean and re-lubricate the bottom bracket.

Every day I learn about all manner of tools I need to buy, but I am enjoying it.

On Instagram, you are besieged by chatbots who will offer LLM-penned "reviews" of your books.

On dating sites, it's all chatbots, too.

It is exhausting.

On Saturday, I'll be mailing out the next postcard for #FirstClassFiction. This one will feature the poem Spider Misses Fly by @superball. I will share the art for it tomorrow.

Spider Misses Fly is a poem I've been looking forward to mailing out. It made me excited for the future of these postcards.