Stop Alberta from stripping Charter rights from trans youth. If you live in Alberta, please sign this petition. transactionalberta.nationbuilder.com/r?u=1szfjqEZ...

Anyway, I finally released this track 8 years after writing it. open.spotify.com/album/1VE4VS...

if you're concerned about information security, you should know Signal isn't actually secure. instead, try Mastodon, which is a website where you can be guaranteed no one will ever see what you post

The one thing that facial recognition has done is scare the bejesus outta me. I was looking through old photos and one came up of a friend. The AI goes “2 faces detected”. I’m like, “1 face” and AI goes “no 2”. So there’s someone in the shadows off to the side. Been there all this time. Hungry.

This is Eeyore. He led a sheriff's deputy to his grandma after she fell during their walk. We are awarding him the incredibly rare 15/10 (FB: OkaloosaSheriff)

Hi, folks, a little personal news. In mid-November, I'm getting my aortic valve replaced via open-heart surgery. As scary as that sounds, my prognosis is excellent. This is fairly personal health news, and I'm posting publicly for two reasons.

It's happening! Converting AD resources to Entra resources is here, and even more docs just arrived 🥳 Delivered with the User SoA docs is something even bigger - architectural guidance for shifting from AD to Entra using Source of Authority conversion🔥 learn.microsoft.com/...

We should have required alt text for posts that don't have images but DO have vague, extremely dramatic posts about an ongoing sporting event. when you post "its over its all over" i need to be able to click a little button and see that you're talking about a quarterback named Mac Whimple

Nah, I don’t hold with being polite to machines. Percussive maintenance is a thing for a reason. It’s not sentient.

Where I still use it in places, “rabryst” is just the start of my first three names, “RAndolph BRYan STuart”. To paraphrase AA Milne, my parents gave me three names in case I lost one.

And adults like me

“I’m strong and I want to have like fifty kids and a farm” of course you do. You’re twelve. “I don’t want to eat vegetables I think steak and French fries is the only meal” hell yeah homie you’re twelve. “Maybe if there’s crime we should just send the army” bless your heart my twelve year old buddy

working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now"

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Hey Apple News, how hard can it be to hide content I don’t want to see? Social media sites seem to be able to do it with ease. You already have my money. I don’t want to see this stuff.

Nic Barker is one of my favourite tech communicators on YouTube. youtu.be/vpSkBV5vydg?...

I say this with as much generosity and kindness as possible Most of why we're here is because white people lack imagination. Even when other white people lay out the most diabolical of plans,p Most white folks will just say Lol, he doesn't mean it. lol he can't do that.

I regularly turn down political radio commercial voice work. I don’t think I’d struggle to turn down the Saudi comedy circuit, even for a million dollars.

if you're not sure about alt text, I wrote this thread a while ago :)

peeps, the alt text is supposed to describe what's in the photo, it's not for your punchline. if it's a wall of text or a screenshot of a post, it should have that text there. imagine you are describing the picture to someone over the phone, that's what the alt text should be.

Y'all, this isn't Facebook. Use alt text and credit original posters/photographers

Released on this day in 1987, the sixth studio album by #DepecheMode was "Music for the Masses". It featured such recognizable tracks as "Strangelove" and "Never Let Me Down Again".

Here is the image with alt text

“This is horrifying” ok but what are you doing about it?

Seeing way too many image posts without alt text on here. We all benefit from it. Just turn it on in the settings.

Write into the honey. ... Write into the rain. —Rick Barot

Seeing some negative press about iPhone batteries. This is my iPhone 16 Pro Max after a year. It’s still at 99% after 258 recharge cycles. I only charge it to 90%, and I keep it permanently on low power mode. Based on averages you can figure it doesn’t need recharging every day. I use my phone a lot

Canada Post “lost” 1 billion dollars last year? How about, “it cost Canadians 1 billion dollars to have a national postal service” which works out to costing about $25 a year per person (population of Canada in 2024 = 40 million). Seems like a pretty reasonable cost to me.

An update! Thank you to everyone who offered advice and support online and off. I owe you all one of those drinks that have accessories and snacks stuck in them. And thank you to the American Libraries magazine for updating with attribution.

Niceness and kindness are antithetical. Being kind requires disruption of systems of harm. Which "nice, normal" people perceive as violence. Disruption isn't violence. Those who have not faced systemic violence do not recognize it. They resent that we disrupt their niceness. That's a choice.

Huh. It took about an hour to blunder into something I’ve never done before, but after that hour I was able to read a value from a secret stored in Azure Key Vault, from a C# console app, using a client secret. Once I figured out the role assignment, the rest was easy.

I wish people would stop acting like my autism is something that needs to be "fixed"

There's a TV show on right now called Dragon Den where a bunch of people are saying numbers really fast and confusing other people pitching products I'd never buy. Is this what goes for compelling content these days?

Friends and new folks: as a heads up, most (not all) autistic folks use identity first language, not person-first formulations. I will say “I am autistic,” and “I’m an autistic mum,” and call myself an autistic and that’s ok. >>> www.verywellmind.com/should-you-s...

if you have a library card (which all of you should have), you most likely have free (!!!) access to Kanopy aka an underrated, ad free streaming service with a ton of movies + short films FREE!!! through the library!!! your smart tv most likely as an app for it- mine does!

Back to the Future Part II spoofed this idea in the Café 80s with Reagan and Khomeini as video waiters, and that’s all I can think of when companies create AI holograms of dead people. It’s nothing but crass commercialism selling you a Pepsi.

Jenny McCarthy has a lot to answer for

Just helped a customer migrate from a D-series v2 VM to E-series v5 for roughly the same monthly cost but more RAM. It took three minutes. I remember when it took three weeks to requisition new hardware.

Me: Man I wish I had content to start a YouTube channel. Like video essay quality stuff, y’know? Also me: Psst, remember all those essays you wrote on your website and Medium?

Absolutely no promises, but I currently have a file called AdventureWorks2025.sql open on my computer, and when I run a query, the most recent date in the Sales.SalesOrderHeader table is not from 2014.

I told you so, 9 years ago.

Imagine wanting to curb the influence of people who believe in equality for all

Here's a thing that's probably right up your Straße, you big mad oddball.x

What a day

Do you think unbending Clippy until he was a long piece of metal would be painful for him. Or do you think it would cause him to feel a great sense of relief

I just had to use Windows 11 today, which reminds me how eternally grateful I am that I can use macOS

Check your email? Write some code from your hotel room? Congratulations, you're now in violation of your business visa that says that you were here only to meet your US colleagues and that you were not allowed to do any incidental work. People don't want to risk it any more.

Stop rage baiting me, kthxbye

All I’m saying is that moderation filters make social media much easier to use.