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/

Every year my partner and I watch Hallmark Christmas movies simultaneously ironically and not ironically. This year we started with The Holiday Sitter (2022), their first one with a leading gay couple. If you want a Hallmark movie that's exactly as cheesy as normal but gay, then I can't […]

The biggest struggle I have with fully abandoning my car for the ebike is multi destination trips. I worry that my stuff won't be safe if I leave it at the bike, or that stores won't let me bring in bags. Anyone gave thoughts/solutions on this? #bike #ebike #carfree #urbanism

So we made poor people starve for 2 weeks while middle class people worked without pay until rich people got so uncomfy about air travel delays that they caved and gave up on healthcare for poor people.

While I'm here, here's a calendar of food shares in St. Louis this month. #mutualaid #foodshare #stl #stlouis

Anyone currently or previously involved in a time bank? Been talking with some people about starting a local one but very curious about others' experiences. #timebank #mutualaid #circulareconomy

AI equivalent of when you ask a group a question and someone has to let you know they don't know the answer before anyone else can talk.

Efficiency is destroyed by capitalism. There's no reason I can't have a full house system that only heats or cools the rooms people are in without being connected to the internet, except that connecting it to the internet allows companies to harvest user data and sell subscriptions and push ads […]

Recently been exploring the idea of remaining mostly plant based with the only exception being hunting or fishing for noncommercial reasons. So no store bought animal product, fishing myself is fine, being served something someone else hunted is fine. I haven't fully thought this through yet but […]

In case you ever wondered what a free store running out of a house church looks like, here's some photos (featuring only volunteers, before visitors came). #freestore #mutualaid #stl #stlouis #stlfreestore

Foolishly diving back into Agora Nomic. Not really sure I have the time for it but I'd like to.

I think somehow I didn't know that Mindustry is FOSS? That game is amazing, played the heck out of it with friends a couple years ago. Everyone should check it out. https://mindustrygame.github.io/ #foss #opensource #games #videogames

I'm feeling troubled by tomorrow's No Kings event. It's described as a protest, but the local one us at a park with booths and maps and everything. It feels more like a festival. And a festival of radical people getting together is cool. But to me "protest" implies becoming inconvenient to the […]

It feels like to me that the biggest mistake we Americans have made is not demanding the right to assembly be treated as absolute as the right to free speech, despite both coming from the same amendment. I genuinely don't understand how curfews are seen as legal at all, or how an assembly can […]

We're several months out but I've mvoed The #30dayfosschallenge to a github page and a subdomain, so that it no longer relies on just me (and could maybe be expanded to other pages in the future: http://foss.nullarch.com/ https://github.com/nixnull/30-Day-FOSS-Challenge

Finished Inscryption. Excited to mess around with Kaycee's Mod.

I feel like people see bikes and irrationally associate them with slowness. I get aggressively passed on residential streets at least one week. I'm on an ebike, I'm already going to speed limit! And then half of those people promptly slow down to the speed limit and now the only difference is I […]