@baillehache_pascal Just want to say thank you for letting me quote-tweet you. It's the first time I've done that on Mastodon. I overlaid your good post about MSWindows with some snark. Just like the old days on the shitter site.

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@baillehache_pascal/115590636016481715 Based on my long experience with Windows, this has always been true.

Chrissie Hynde does everything Keith Richards does but backwards and in heels.

The difference between a BOAT and a SHIP is that you can haul a BOAT onto a SHIP but not vice versa.

I think, on balance, Biden's greatest failure was appointing Merrick Garland as Attorney General and letting him slow walk and look away from the crimes of the first trump administration.

Monopolies need to become illegal. Criminally illegal as opposed to civilly illegal. And we need to reset what we define as a monopoly. Monopolies buy governments.

Fuck russia!

Ahh, reminds me of Mrs. Agnew's Diary. https://open.substack.com/pub/wonkette/p/the-president-and-the-communist-had

If you have skills you picked up writing research grants for your art history PhD, we could desperately use your help. 4-5 hours a week helping our team apply for grants keeps us saving lives. email [email protected] @lgbtqia @[email protected] @lgbt @[email protected] @queer […]

What if the Norwegian Nobel Committee created a NEW award: THE MOST EVIL SHITHEEL ON PLANET EARTH PRIZE, and awarded it to trump. Would that make JDVance happy?

I'm reading The Haunted Land, a fine book about how Eastern European countries dealt with the after math of communism. It was written in 95 so the wounds of both communism and anti-communism were fresh. Along with much history unknown to (or misunderstood by) […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

I live about five miles outside of town on a two lane country road. Houses out here are about a quarter mile away from each other. I found a fairly new smartphone on my property, out by the road, and I'm trying to find the owner so I can return it. It's a samsung in an Otterbox. The home screen […]

I really like using SolidWorks. It's an excellent, fully-featured, parametric CAD system, and their "Maker" program makes it affordable for the non-professional like me. BUT SWEET HOLY JESUS is the Dassault Systemes's administrative wrapper the WORST piece of shit I've ever seen! Once you're in […]

“Give a man a fish. Just give him the fish. He’s hungry. You have extra fishes. Hand it over fuckface. He doesn’t have time to go to your shitty fucking fishing school.”—@LadyDragonfly

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 #genz #ui #userinterfacedesign #floppydisk

How in the year 2025 are there still places that require a new password every 90 days?!?

The President is in a gilt spiral.

"In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take."--Adlai Stevenson

Maybe Congressional Democrats can introduce a bill forestalling the current regime from initiating a war with Venezuela. The US military is currently massing in the Caribbean and bases in Puerto Rico have been expanded to support combat operations. One third of the USNavy is south of Cuba and […]

NO WAR IN VENEZUELA!

Why didn't they call Epstein's Island Club Ped?

I’ve been testing a theory: many people who are high on #ai and #LLMs are just new to automation and don’t realize you can automate processes with simple programming, if/then conditions, and API calls with zero AI involved. So far it’s been working! Whenever I’ve been asked to make an AI flow […]

So, evidently trump and his droogs are planning to invade Venezuela. The casus belli being "drug traffiking." The real reason: Venezuela's vast oil reserves. https://youtu.be/3LnMGhyvDkE?si=1dtfLnQdEj6U76C9

It's just pathetic how corporations augment their telephone hold music with self-congratulatory messages.

If they're rich enough to buy politicians, they're TOO rich!

Imagine one person at the Jamestown colony having more wheat in his barn than the poorer half of his peers PUT TOGETHER, and not distributing it to his starving community. What would the starving people have done? Imagine one member if the Dinner Party having more beef jerky in his saddlebags […]

The Morning Westbound Hotshot pulls out of Whittier with a load of mixed house cars and several empty hoppers for Robinson Gap Coal Co. #railroader

@sarahjeong.bsky.social We don’t need a Department of Homeland Security. It isn’t even 25 years old; time to get rid of the whole thing.

@heidilifeldman a lot of conservatives are wearing D hats. Some have always been this way, others are trying to take over the party after ruining their own and getting kicked out by the fash they invited.

Tax Billionaires into Millionaires

I've long thought that dialog boxes should not use the word "SUBMIT". Instead, they should use a word like "EXECUTE" or "DO IT" or "MAKE IT SO" or "AS I COMMAND". And instead of "CANCEL" it should say "FOAD" which is an acronym for FUCK OFF AND DIE. They don't call me a UX expert for nothing!

Just emailed the #nyt tip line to let them know #mayormamdani and I were close during our formative years and that I have dirt on him. We weren't. And, I don't. But, I don't envy the diatribe that reporter is going to get if they make the mistake of reaching out to me. You can do the same […]

A rare interview with the creators of the always-funny, always-brilliant, and *usually*-sexy—or occasionally anti-sexy—OGLAF! Cooper has kept a low profile over the years, but is legitimately one of the very best artists in comics today. Read OGLAF if you're old enough to drive!

It took me all of two days to devour this book. Off the Cliff: How the Making of Thelma & Louise Drove Hollywood to the Edge, by Becky Aikman

It's not too late for the traitorous eight to refuse to vote for the CR because the republicans have now reneged on their "promises." Foolish dems can be redeemed.

I'm on the night train from Kolari to Helsinki, returning from a work gig. I've always wanted to take one of these trains, as most of the train is sleeper cabins. Check out mine! #train #trains #finland

infosec has a lot to learn about understanding failure conditions and accurate, understandable error messages from roadies

The opposite of democracy is violence.

The Westbound Hotshot heads up the Tuckasegee River Valley laden with heavy freight for Andrews and empty hoppers for the Robertson Coal Mine. #railroader

Mark my words. There are no ballroom plans. It is going to be a fortified palace/residence with a bunker. Just like Saddam.

imagine if centre left parties spent half as much time money and effort fighting the growing fascism of the right and building viable alternatives for people to vote for as they do upholding the status quo and attacking progressives inside their own party to make sure none of their increasingly […]

fucking metric now!

I'm very much enjoying Lucy Hughes-Hallett's weighty biography of d'Annunzio. She gives useful and interesting context for all of the cultural tics of this most astonishing man. d'Annunzio was a major cultural icon in the early years of the 20th century and the […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

I find myself squirming with discomfort every time I hear someone mention the "tech" world. It seems to me that what used to be the "tech" world is now just a tiny tech pimple on the giant elephant's ass of the financial/capital world. Sure there's tech in that stuff, but there's also […]

I for one think the Epstein Ballroom will be magnificent. I love the decor theme of “what if Uday Hussein ran a Ramada Inn.” And giving it a theme song everyone will associate with it is a stroke of brilliance! “Thank Heaven for Little Girls” is very catchy.

At the No Kings protest I attended I saw a guy with a T-shirt that read: You can't spell USA without saUSAge I liked the sentiment but can someone please explain it to me?

I was inspired to read "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold" by reading "Karla's Choice: A John Le Carré Novel" by Nick Harkaway. Saying it is a "John Le Carré Novel" is a vast overstatement, although it could certainly qualify as a "George Smiley Novel." Harkaway (if you don't know, is John Le […]

I just finished reading John Le Carré's breakout 1963 bestseller "The Spy Who Came In from the Cold." I first read it over 50 years ago and, while the subtlety of the book went over my young head, I enjoyed it enough to become a lifelong fan of the author. I'm a much more sophisticated and […]

I'm really enjoying Becky Aikman's latest book Spitfires, about the American women, shunned in the USA, who went to England to fly military planes for the RAF. I noticed that one of Aikman's previous books is called "Off the Cliff: How the Making of Thelma and […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]