I don't know who needs to hear this but tattered books and jigsaw puzzles missing pieces ARE recyclable. You won't be a bad person if you do that instead of sending them to the thrift store where nobody will want them.

Smallnet and by "smallnet" I mean "blocking all websites owned by a major corporation". I'm currently experimenting with this by adding everything here (except wikipedia) to my ublock filters: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most-visited_websites

Watching pirated episodes of Black Mirror hits different when a good portion of the S6 and S7 dread involves streaming and subscription services. Jokes on you, I didn't agree to the terms of service.

The protest last night had a great turnout and got amazing press. Quite illustrative that someone was hit by a car at the protest, fortunately that person was physically fine […]

Interested in maps as a tool for advocacy and storytelling in the St. Louis region? Join tge next STL Mappers meetings! No technical experience required—just a passion for St. Louis and a belief in better urban futures. Next meeting: April 23, 6:00-7:00 at T-Rex (911 Washington Ave, 5th floor)

"my work here is about creating a stable foundation of technology that is reliable, understandable, and practical for an individual to build for themselves." A web page of buildable technology products, designed to be simple and reproducible. https://simplifier.neocities.org/

This creator, Ikoxun, is doing a really charming series of videos showing off little widget/art/interesting websites that you otherwise won't come across in the hyper-advertiser-optimized internet landscape we all live in now. I remember some of these from the "good old days" of the internet […]

Five weeks after drivers complained about long waits after a concert in downtown St. Louis, 4 bump-outs, traffic safety features at intersections, were removed. Five weeks. With no public meetings, no engagement. The city repeatedly tells us it takes months, even years to get community feedback […]

This song feels relevant to the announcement of Trump's signature on the $100 bill: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=32hUIGnMpOY

Tonight's hot take is that if your favorite book/movie/game is something super popular, you haven't found that one weird thing that resonates just right for you specifically yet. I mean, there's lots of things that are both good and popular, but somewhere there's something that's the same level […]

Animal Crossing New Horizons and Pokopia are proof that the world is ready for a new Viva Pinata. Give it to us Rare.

Timberborn hit 1.0 recently. It's definitely my favorite colony builder in a while. The vertical building is refreshing, as are the drought and badwater mechanics. The aesthetic is playful and hopeful too. Almost solarpunk adjacent. Definitely worth checking out.

I'm really enjoying Esoteric Ebb even tho I fell off Disc Elysium. The setting helps a lot. For those unaware, Esoteric Ebb is very much the same mechanics as Disco but with D&D trappings. You assign the basic 6 stats, and they offer you council as voices in your head. Disco was too bleak for […]

I've recently discovered an amazing, self-help resource for mental health issues maintained by the Center for Clinical Intervention in Australia: https://www.cci.health.wa.gov.au/Resources/Looking-After-Yourself The website contains workbooks for managing various mental health issues on your […]

The #30dayfosschallenge is coming up again soon. Stay tuned here: http://foss.nullarch.com/ I'm hoping to be posting more about it this year than last. #foss #opensource #openculture #freeculture #circulareconomy

Is it possible on GrapheneOS to make it impossible for a user to install/enable Vanadium (or Amy other core app)? I'm trying to create a profile that has no direct internet access. #grapheneos

Recently I've perfected my quickish (15min) vegan breakfast bowl: * Rice (we almost always have some leftover) * Crumbled tofu * Seaweed shreds * Avocado * Chili paste * Soy sauce That's it, no cooking (unless you want to warm it up). Very filling, very flavorful.

This is a cold-hot take but my partner and I have been trying to play through Baldur's Gate 3 as a coop campaign and we both just kind of wish it was Divinity Original Sin 2. Personally not a big fan of the DnD mechanics, and both of us feel that DOS2 integrated 2 players substantially better […]

Something I struggle with is finding a good source of on-the-ground news that isn't reddit/social media. Like for the murder of Alex Pretti, NYT and AP were very slow to give the real story, well after video was readily available. At the same time, using reddit to get that up-to-date info also […]

I know there's many, many serious and complex reasons to hate American prisons but the idea of charging imprisoned people for and then taking away a free open source strategy game for no discernible reason is uniquely vexing […]

If any mutuals are interested, I have a 1.15 openTTD server open and happy to share with anyone. It's mostly default, some difficulty tweaks. DM if you want in, for mutuals. #openttd

Anyone have experience with MIK Adapters on ebikes? Specifically fussing around with trying to secure a milk crate to my Globe Haul ST better than my jerry-rigged bungee solution.

One thing that I feel like is at risk of being lost in discussion of the murder of Renee Nicole Brown is that citizens of a democracy, a real functional democracy, have a right to be angry and loud and belligerent at authority figures on the street. Free peoples in a free society do not have to […]

Got my glasses prescription updated and debating options. I work in a place with fluorescent light most of the day. I'm fairly photosensitive and have frequent headaches and occasional migraines. I've had two pairs of transitions, convenient but neither as good as sunglasses of course. So […]

My personal conspiracy theory is that nobody actually uses the feature in google maps to report things like speed traps and lane closures, they're just collecting enough data to predict those things and the buttons are there for plausible deniability.

[Violence, Terror (Minnesota murder)] For him, may every moment of every day be full of torment, anguish and pain. Ice murders a legal observer, who was doing Constitutional things, in cold blood in the street as she drove _away_ from them. Please download and share the video evidence as much […]

Eye Exams feel like you're being pranked.

I love Anki but unless I'm missing something its UI is very annoying for learning symbols. I can't find a way to make the symbol fill most of the screen. I don't see why it has to be such a small font with most of my phone screen empty. Am I missing some setting to make the font significantly […]

I'm working my way through all of Tatsuki Fujimoto's works. So far I'm caught up on Chainsaw Man (love it), read Just Listen to the Song (good), read and watched the adaptation of Tatsuki Fujimoto 17-26 (absolutely adored). Currently working on Fire Punch. It's got some bits that are much […]

St. Louis Free Store is back for 2026. Next one is January 18th, full calendar for the year on the flyer attached. #stl #stlouis #circulareconomy #mutualaid #freestore #clothingswap

If you're looking for a very detailed and (IMO) very even handed recap of AI's development in the last year, I think this is required reading: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/12/from-prophet-to-product-how-ai-came-back-down-to-earth-in-2025/

Set up FreshRSS and am immediately reaping the benefits of having a proper RSS feed instead of algorithms and front pages of websites. Finding interesting stuff to read and watch I might have missed otherwise.

Back on the permacomputing experiments today. Struggling to connect the Nvidia Shield K1 Tablewt to wifi. It sees the network, it allows me to save the password... and then it doesn't connect? Tried on two networks to the same result. So not sure what's going on there yet.

Taking a break from Pokemon Lazarus at 4 gym badges to play some Advance Wars. Just as good as I remember. I feel like the GBA really encouraged a perfect level of complexity and depth. Easy to learn, hard to master.

St. Louis' "Feels Like" goes from a high of 73 to a low of -1 today. (That's 23 to -18 in Celsius). The real temp is 74 to 14 (23 to -10). It's like the weather checked its calendar and went "oh shit". #stl #stlouis #weather

This advice is dependent on AI-induced errors being treated as an externality and thus not something the company is liable for. I dearly hope that this does not become the case - the limited liability of corporations is bad enough. If companies are given any kind of legal pass for AI mistakes […]

Debated about setting up a PiHole today. Decided it doesn't fit our use case. The issue for us is we use ProtonVPN on our devices. PiHole doesn't work if you're using a VPN. Proton also has its own (probably less effective) ad blocker. Not to mention ublock. We *could* have the router connect […]

I really appreciate the gifts from student's families I get around the holidays but it's always a bummer when it's an amazon gift card...

A while back I tested some old phones to see which boots, with the long term goal of making a permacomputing homelab. Today I'm going to dive a bit deeper on it. First phone I'm looking at is a Galaxy S21 that a friend gave me. Broken screen in the bottom right. I'm going to first see if I can […]

As an extension of trying to avoid infinite scrolling distraction, I've disabled the browser on my phone. I sometimes still find a use for re-enabling it, but I try to disable it as soon as I'm done. Sometimes I fail to, and then I catch myself scrolling reddit. An unexpected consequence of […]

A rule that has served me surprisingly well is starting new year's resolutions *before* new year's day. I think tying it to a specific day makes it easier to give up on when you lose your streak/don't start on time. Start now.

I've already poured 8 hours into Pokemon Lazarus on my recently jailbroken 3DS XL. It's very much exactly what I would want from a modern sprite based Pokemon game. The battery life on the 3DS is also incredible for such an old device. It's also just wonderful to have a pocket sized device that […]

Now we're cooking. Running the new, wonderful, Emerald romhack #PokemonLazarus on my 3DS XL thanks to homebrewing. I was struggling with an old, unreliable SD card reader. Ended up buying a new one and the process went very smoothly thanks to these guides […] [Original post on social.coop]

Spending this 2 week break doing, among other things, some tech related projects. Right now I'm working on running custom firmware on a Animal Crossing 3DS XL. The SD card seems to be dying tho, so I'm trying to rescue what I can onto a new SD card...

I feel increasingly wary of the design decisions of Firefox. Ads on new pages, more and more AI integration. Anyone here using a FOSS alternative as their daily? #foss #firefox #browser #webbrowser

Waymo is coming to St. Louis this week. https://www.stlmag.com/business/waymo-st-louis-expansion/ #waymo #stl #stlouis

The only way in which They Live aged poorly is that the MO is no longer to keep you asleep but rather to keep you in a constantly heightened state with sensational sportscasting headlines.

Been seeing what feels like an increasing number of false stories that stoke leftwing outrage. ICE is not buying guided missiles, according to a WIRED debunking. And while the Coast Guard has amended their policy to call swastikas and nooses "potentially divisive" instead of "hate symbols", the […]

A post from St. Louis Urbanists about Maplewood's removal of the Manchester shelter bench we built for them: https://www.instagram.com/p/DRKeZHSEyHs/