What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders? Most apps you use are just a collection of timers that go off every few seconds telling the app to look for new data and then send it somewhere. Like if Scrooge McDuck had a pool filled with alarm clocks instead of gold coins.

Yes, we felt that earthquake here in Boston! At least four seconds of alarming shakes here on the third floor of our apartment building

JAN 9 FUTURE TIME youtu.be/B-PNujQJ7lI?...

Thank to @sawtoothwave.bsky.social for including my most recent album, "We're Able (Forty Dialogic Valences)" in their "2024 music year in review"! substack.com/inbox/post/1...

It's 2025 and everything sucks and everyone is job hunting, please enjoy this slowly unfolding thread of tech jobs at places that aren't making the world worse. If you're hiring at not-evil (or even minimally evil) orgs, please reply w your tech jobs too?

Jimmy Carter Says YES youtu.be/-PsiLI36GE0?...

Tell other people about the stuff you love! You might change somebody's life

If you're looking for a movie to watch tonight, I recommend "I Saw the TV Glow"

OK...the NWS Bot collection is now fully populated and ready to go. I'm sure bugs will come up along the way, but I think it is 95%+ stable. There's an index page at nws-bot.us including a map (borrowed from NWS) to find the right bot for the area you want to follow.

Giving some people benefits they don’t need is cheaper than making people prove they need it.

I have long been fascinated by UK folk horror of the 60s-80s, and have occasionally wondered where that particular atmosphere of austere, ethereal fatalism comes from. After spending about 36 hours in the highlands of Scotland, I just said "aha."

Before standing desks were readily available, I had to fashion one for myself out of a stack of French encyclopedias I obtained through Craigslist.

40 bits of mental ginger for you on this Fri(ed)day: joelroston.bandcamp.com/album/were-a...

Search drinks in your camera roll

What's up with aspirin?

it's only a faux pas if it's from the faux pas region of france, otherwise it's just a sparkling oopsie

The bard really did coin every phrase...

Imagine: A tomato and peanut butter sandwich

doing numbers on bluesky (20+ likes) feels like making all my buddies at the bar laugh while doing numbers on twitter feels like accidentally alerting The Predator to my location

Just sayin’: “Je suis le Rappeur, Il est le DJ” by DJ Jazzy Jeff and the French Prince

What is the logic

qbert is the most difficult video game I have spent significant time with in life

Everybody loves the OG reverse chron feed, but now this site has the same adorable problem that Twitter originally had (and that @aphelionz.bsky.social and I made Tweue to address): one prolific poster in your feed pushes everyone else's posts into oblivion 🕳️

I must not reply. Discourse is the mind-killer. Discourse is the little death that brings total obliteration. I will scroll past the take. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. When the take has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

Posting is dead Long live posting