Is it my spots, or are restaurant apps turning to crap? Bojangles adds a fee for ordering in the app. Now @mcalistersdeli.bsky.social does too, automatically adds a tip for you, AND you can no longer order to table, only for pickup.

Who will I be seeing at ATO?

TIL Bayer lost the trademark for Heroin under the Treaty of Versailles as part of Germany's war reparations. Also that Bayer had to supply a quarter of all the aspirin it produced to the allies. www.theguardian.com/uk/1999/mar/...

@rallybingo.bsky.social That carpet is a hotel reference!

@rallybingo.bsky.social Two of us in the room managed to draw the same card. IT'S ON. 🤣

@rallybingo.bsky.social Music too loud? Kinda hard to tell with the hotel TV audio.

His name is Armus, and I recommend leaving him alone. www.cleveland.com/news/2025/07...

Interesting news this morning...

It's #UNOpenSourceWeek! ASF President @suehle.bsky.social‬'s opening remarks celebrated the alignment of #OpenSource goals and those of the UN Charter. ASF members also served as hackathon judges for projects focused on the effects of climate change on the lives of children around the world.

I was doing 100 other things dudring this event (just out of frame to the left!), but I did manage to make edits to one page as a part of the edit-a-thon!

This was such a good movie that it seems like so few people have seen. theatlantic.com/culture/arch...

11 am Eastern is the best and worst time. It's about the best you can do for globally spread teams. Which is nice. But it also means there's ALWAYS A MEETING AT 11. Or three of them all at once.

I miss the experience of wandering the aisles of the video rental store trying to decide what to watch. Scrolling lists of what's streaming just isn't the same.

This implies that their other products are made with unnatural cuts of pork...

"is a valid guess, but it’s unlikely to be a solution based on what I’ve learned from playing Wordle." is the most annoying Wordlebot comment. WHY?

Potential references in "Miss Susie/Lucy had a baby." There, now you've learned a thing today, courtesy of me reading that Susan B. Anthony was the lady with the alligator purse (which is on display in her museum). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_Lu...

The first keynote at this year's @eclipsefdn.bsky.social #AutomotiveOpenSourceSummit is @suehle.bsky.social , who took the audience on a powerful journey on the impact of open source software, and the value of community in the open source ecosystem.

Fun fact for the day: cowboystatedaily.com/2023/12/04/w...

Saturdays In Saxapahaw, a free concert series at Haw River Ballroom, is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. Co-founder Heather LaGarde talked with us about growing up in Chapel Hill in the 80s, the building of Haw River Ballroom and her life in Saxapahaw. www.wunc.org/wunc-music/2...

I'm intrigued by how categories in Connections are given difficulty colors. Purple is supposed to be trickiest, so it should generally show as the least commonly found first, but that is rarely the case. The new "purple first" statistic is also probably going to start to throw that off even more.

The CFP for Community Over Code North America closes today. If you're an Apache Software Foundation contributor or user, we'd love to hear about it in Minneapolis! communityovercode.org/call-for-pre...

Sitting on the sofa with your spouse silently sending each other reels is our parents sitting there reading out loud to each other whatever they've come across in the newspaper/magazine. We've become them.

The ironies of getting older: Technically you're getting shorter, but somehow the floor is further away.

I beg you, if your conference talk is made of slides with 250 words each that you're going to read to me, just put a link to the blog post in your abstract, and I'll read it.

If you're unfamiliar, King Ludwig II's story is a wild ride. And his death is full of Bismarck Era conspiracy theory. But when I start typing "King Ludwig" and Google autocompletes "sightings"... Friends, I am no expert, but I'm pretty sure he is, in the words of Lin-Manuel Miranda, super dead.

Obviously.

I got a bottle of Crystal Pepsi in an Instacart ad, but it doesn't appear to be available or coming around again any time soon. So weird.

This month's ASF newsletter, Plus One, is up! news.apache.org/foundation/e...

Among a population that probably does most of its learning by reading, Gnome and GNU pronunciation are a kind of open source community shibboleth. Alternately... are we getting to the point where saying guh-nome and guh-new just indicate your age? (And then there's MATE and LaTeX...)

Let me share with you my favorite poem. It's so easy to memorize, you may already know it and recite it each day. Coffee. Coffee coffee. Mmmmm coffee. Coffee.

TIL 1, Spencer's owns Spirit Halloween, and 2, there are more Spencer's now than when you were in high school. (Probably. Making some assumptions about the average age of my follower friends here.) thehustle.co/originals/ho....

Tell me something interesting.

Just realized I'll never again play JoAnn's Roulette, the name I invented for the game where you think you're using a 50% off coupon on something (which at JoAnn's markup made it a reasonable price), only to discover at the register it's on an unmarked sale for 20%, so you can't use the coupon.

Tomorrow I'm talking at my kid's Academy of Creative Design meeting about branding. Lots of fun examples of successes and failures. In 2011, Coke released white cans with polar bears on them for their $3 million pledge to their campaign to conserve polar bear habitat in the Arctic. 🧵

Favorite (less pricey) Flipbelt dupe? Not sure I want the kind with a buckle since I need to minimize bulk, but also the ones that just have a fold and no zipper concern me that they won't hold things in well.

We've been binging Severance, so my headcanon about tonight's incredibly slow Hurricanes-Flames game is that NHL players are severed, and their outies got woken up on the ice very confused.

Conveniently, I just got a ZipRecruiter ad that answers the question for you! 🧵

If you download the UNESCO World Heritage app, you can track the sites you've visited and ones on your wish list. I think this one wins for most interesting name. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head-Sm...

Might have to try this some time... www.seriouseats.com/clean-cookin...

Reminder that this Friday is planetary parade time! starwalk.space/en/news/what...

Manager: "What's this milestone 'Living on a prayer' ?" Me: "That's the documentation deliverable." Manager: "What's the status of that?" Me: "We're halfway there" Manager: "Why is progress so slow?" Me: "You fired Tommy" Manager: "So?" Me: "Tommy used to work on the docs"

Google tells me there are 7,063 diners in the US. There have been 534 episodes of Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives. At about 3 restaurants per episode, after 18 years, we're barely 20% of the way into only the first 1/3 of this show's premise.

Happy anniversary, Make:! Can't believe that first issue was 20 years ago. (I'd tag you, but you don't seem to have come over to Bsky yet... come on in, the water's fine!) geekmom.com/2025/02/happ...

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It has again been 0️⃣ days since I had "The Wellerman" stuck in my head. Thanks to one of my students' choreography choice, this has been my status all week.

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Are you at #FOSDEM and we haven't said hello yet? Let's fix that!

ASF President @suehle.bsky.social shares her thoughts on how foundations play a critical role in the open source ecosystem at today's EU Open Source Policy Summit.