Noticed noise on Zebra ZD421d label prints of QR codes. Easily fixed by setting driver to 'Clipart' mode (no dithering), but it made me wonder what was possible with better image processing. Photo of Maria Shupilova in front of the Odesa opera house, converted to monochrome using ImageMagick ...

✅ The US Dollar is down 10% + ✅ Cost of housing is up ✅ Cost of Groceries are up ✅ Cost of Childcare is up ✅ Cost of Insurance (Medical, Homeowners, Auto) is up ✅ US Household Debt - All-time high ✅ US Credit Card debt - Record Levels ✅ Unemployment up 4.3% ✅ US Credit Rating - Downgraded

🤓 'Nerd Ahead' warning ... Saw this photo of of the MOL Duna refinery near Budapest, and I wondered about the pipe runs being very intentionally not straight. A quick search suggests it is to counter changes in pipe length with changes in temperature.

One time, the Missouri Ethics Committee investigated me over a $30 donation…

Holy shit www.youtube.com/watch?v=emiB...

A guy at the gym told me I looked familiar. I said, “Yeah, I get that a lot from guys who watch women minding their own business.”

How I organize my memes ... I use a prefix of: meme- to separate them from: cartoon- ai- art- cats- dogs- etc. but the real "magic" is in the rest of the name: I use 2-4 keywords that describe the image. That way when I open the media file browser, I can search with a wildcard like: *flork

Dutch late night TV has its take

"And when memory failed and written records were falsified—when that happened, the claim of the Party to have improved the conditions of human life had got to be accepted, because there did not exist, and never again could exist, any standard against which it could be tested." —George Orwell, '1984'

I wonder if Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert would be amenable to temporarily moving to two swing districts and running for office in 2026.

The Zebra ZD-421d 4-inch label printer that I rescued from the corporate electronics scrap bin works PERFECTLY 😀 My guess is the power adapter was lost, and since it uses an uncommon 6.3 mm x 3.0 mm barrel plug, they just threw the printer out. Zebra printers are $$$ and nearly indestructible.

Thursday Manager: "Sounds like you need 3 more weeks." Monday Manager: "Has to be done by 6am Thursday to ship Friday." Me: 😱😒

Nerd tip 🤓 DC power connectors are commonly 5.5 mm o.d. x 2.1 mm i.d. or 2.5 mm i.d., but how can you be sure which? A random click-pen tip is 3/32 inch, or 2.3 mm. If it fits (power off!) it must be a 2.5 mm plug. Wooden toothpicks are ~2 mm so fit securely into 2.1 mm and loosely into 2.5 mm.

Here's a new russian refinery bingo card for the next round. Enjoy!

I encourage others to block hate and disinformation spreaders like @nypost.com

Republican tried a "gotcha" on Canadian doctor. She put him straight.

"Oh come let us adore Him" tune playing outside my window by an electronic music box. Now it's "Please don't take my sunshine away", followed by "Deck the Halls" 😵‍💫 Seems an ice cream truck is making its rounds 😆

Updated my local copy of the refinery Bingo card...

One disadvantage of remote working, is that one can be forced to work from home on the weekends 😒 [Company sold >USD$1m of product that isn't yet supported.]

More info on CK shooter than a presidential shooter 🤔

It was the worst of times, it was the least normal and most cringe of times

The reaction to Kirk’s murder on the right is a reminder that Republicans are the most bad faith people on the face of the planet.

Don’t know who needs to hear this, but racism, misogyny, bigotry and conspiracy theories aren’t “political” views, and radicalizing young people with it isn’t “doing politics the right way.” We should all condemn the violence, but don’t sanitize and downplay the harm.

He's thinking to himself how 9/11 gave him the tallest building in Manhattan.

I never realized there was a right way to promote violent rhetoric and hate. But here we are. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/o...

4 hours sleep ought to be enough for anyone, right? 🥱😴

Taking bets on "Autopen" trending again 🙄

I like to check followers claiming to be Ukraine soldiers. They often have the same or similar bsky handle. blog.verification-unit.com

🤔 How many people sign their full name on a birthday card? Especially with a closest friend. Maybe for an office co-worker, but that's about it.

Headline: New Banksy mural of a judge beating a protester to be removed from outside London court Banksy artwork titled: Royal Courts of Justice. London.

Having car serviced next week. It's 15 years old. Betting it costs around CDN$2k, if lucky. [oil, brakes, and starter] Cheaper than buying a new car though. Especially with tariffs. 😞💸💸💸

Discovered by chance that the new product is adding hardware that the old product will have to support. Of course nobody consulted me, or I would have explained that down that path only lies darkness and suffering. 🫣

Racism isn’t just stupid, it’s really fucking expensive.

Good one.

Speaker Johnson revealed that Luigi Mangione had been working undercover for the FBI to target individuals who might pose a threat to billionaire CEOs.

Massie Busts Mike Johnson On Epstein: 'Why Was Donald Trump An Informant To A Hoax?'

Supreme Court Justices can be impeached and removed. I have a suggestion of where to start.

FBI informants are usually criminals who’ve cut a deal…🤷‍♂️

All I know is, his son’s phone got notifications when he was reading the files.