Staying off social media might become a kind of self-reinforcing habit because the kind of random aggression you encounter routinely on the Internet is extremely not normal when you’re more calibrated for offline interactions

One thing I am grateful for is I was extra sure not to be smug when I was the parent of only one single baby, because those parents can be as bad or even worse as the “when I have kids” crowd. Oh “it’s not that hard”? Yeah, I bet it isn’t!

Hot off the needles, these baby socks took me an absurd amount of time, like six months. They still fit him though! 🧶

I will never understand Gavin Newsom’s (lack of?) political instincts.

Watching: Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones 🍿 Going through these movies with our oldest kid is really forcing us to confront how bad they were

I feel like it’s an underrated possibility that the public just genuinely cares less about crimes when Republicans do them

Yeah imagine a moderation team having any rules for how a community ought to behave! I think it is probably bad to romanticize a refusal to adhere to any social expectations whatsoever, which is what I think this paragraph is doing??

My sister surprised me with a Mudita Kompakt and I am definitely intrigued.

It’s so cool that we have a pejorative epithet for using actual data to inform our judgments about the state of the world.

When I was a kid I loved the Court Jester, which came out before either of my parents were born, Angela Lansbury is cast as a hot young lady in it

MTG is smart and I think a lot of the flailing defenses of her (that aren’t just pure bad faith anyway) are coming from a position where they can’t imagine that she was tricking them before and continues to do so

I was meaner on here than I’ve been on a while to some homeschooling hippie who was genuinely pretty dumb but that’s just a combination of traits I can barely cope with anymore

Kinda funny Bluesky leftists have found this post and think I'm talking to them

I desperately want to make myself a pair of striped summer socks but I promised myself to get at least three WIPs done before I even consider it 🧶

We definitely need more fight on our side but if you’re posting “all hope is lost, fuck it, Democrats will never accomplish any of this, we’re fucked!!!” you’re actually part of the group that’s got no fight

It’s less that they forgot and more that Republicans & the political press collectively lied that True Conservatism had never been tried. That way they could paint the Tea Party as an exciting new kid on the block, instead of literally the same Republicans who supported Bush two years earlier.

Someday, maybe years from now, I’m going to need to do some calculating and I won’t have my phone but I’ll be wearing this watch, and I’m going to be so smug about it

This is actually a really good point. The Court can't compel the Legislature to draw a new map. If you drag your feet long enough, the illegal map *is* the map

Big tech censorship is unforgivable because it’s leading to horrible babytalk everywhere else

The way these folks talk about the mods they clearly consider the mods to be some kind of civl servant who’s obligated to deal with them

Peaceful Hornbeam forest #bonsai #longwoodgardens

Cunts huh

I can quit the website anytime I want (but only once my kid stops contact napping)

Eventually the only LMS I could tolerate was any one that let me log in as one of my students so I could fix the problem for them

all learning management tech is bad, all authoring software is bad, this entire sub-sector of tech is atrocious, abandon all hope ye who enter education or L&D

It’s genuinely crazy-making how many people will insist “kids didn’t yell or run around when I was a kids!!!!!” like they genuinely think kids on average have gotten worse when I’d wager quite a lot that all objective measures of what we could call public nuisances have gone down

My union endorsed both Becerra and Steyer and while I think I’m receiving the intended reverse-endorsement message here, also thanks for nothing guys

I hope Bluesky mods feel how freeing banning can be and consider doing it much more often

a related fact: for every one person who gets hit on the knuckles with a ruler, ten to a hundred people tone it down. i note a ton of people complaining about recent mod action but doing so in markedly less menacing tones than usual :)

remember the “i’m a smol bean why did you ban me mr mods” after talking out of pocket shows a real lack of poaster’s bushido.

Basically for a bunch of people who claim to pine for the days of 2005 forums, they seem to be ignorant of Rule Zero: don't sass mods.

I feel like this paragraph is going to be relevant again and again and again the next however many years

Apparently we’re doing this again today

Is this true

current AI custom prompt: You're in a desert, walking along in the sand when all of a sudden you look down and see a tortoise. It's crawling toward you. You reach down and you flip the tortoise over on its back. The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying

Something like 35% of this site's power users should be banned outright

confronting the horrible truth that reddit is the only way to do meaningfully decentralized moderation

I’ve getting into self-hosting as a hobby this year and let me tell you friends, you probably don’t want to do this! you want data centers!

data centers are light industrial with a somewhat unusual externality profile- worse in some ways, better in others- and it’s absurd that people are losing their minds about them

This is a tangent but there’s a scene in Dexter from back in ~2009/2010 where he’s being checked out by a paramedic and they ask who the president is and he says “Barack Obama” and it totally took me out of the show as I thought about what Dexter makes of national politics. Does Dexter vote

If you stay off deliberately politics-oriented social media it’s really easy to forget Donald Trump is president, which feels good but must actually be bad

LLMs are making life worse for staff members that genuinely reply to customer emails

What’s an acceptable time to start leaf blowing? And does anybody think it is before 8 am

Unexpected consequence of permanent contacts* is I’m having trouble sleeping. I had gotten used to using my own blindness like a sleeping mask *I’ve stopped saying “fixed my eyes” since through this process I’ve learned more about severe myopia and how poor vision is just one of my problems ☹️

🌱 My favorites from today’s bonsai show (put on by the Sacramento Bonsai Club.

Man the prequels don’t need more commentary or anything, but Anakin Skywalker doesn’t seem at all anything like Darth Vader lol (both bad, I guess)