After mostly un-Google-ing in 2025, 2026 is the year of un-Microsoft-ing my life. I spent the first part of my career developing .NET and Visual C++ applications and was an honest-to-god paying MSDN member and event attendee. I actually quite liked their dev ecosystem up to about 10 years ago...

The books I read in 2025. Most were great, some not so much.

Oh wow. Lanes on I-10 narrowed suddenly, forcing ALL drivers to exit at a weigh station. A makeshift checkpoint—digital sign read: “Have Passport Ready” 1 of like 12 ICE agents, all standing around—in full military gear—ordered me to open my window: “You a U.S. citizen?” “Uh yes” then let me go..

@chuckwendig.bsky.social I’m getting some powerful Randall Flagg vibes from this Eddie Naberius guy in The Staircase in the Woods…

I ordered a backup Pilot Vanishing Point since my current one is nearing 10 years old and looking a bit worn out. I guess I'm feeling a bit sentimental about that specific fountain pen..? What a workhorse, though. I haven't looked back at any of my other FPs ever since I switched to this one.

A 49 year old Canadian has died while in ICE custody.

AI in the wild? This tray tissue I was given at a restaurant is full of errors and hallucinations…!

What a fucking week.

but dang, changing this theme to a monthly/yearly subscription (without a lifetime one-time purchase, which i'd gladly pay and have for every other platform) and then hijacking the existing plugin which worked for a few years and slipping this in, as a forced update... feels in poor taste. wdyt?

Adobe isn't even worth pirating the old versions anymore. github.com/KenneyNL/Ado...

I feel conflicted about supporting Khan Academy. It's incredibly useful to brush up on math skills, but I don't know if I want to give them money that will pay for AI bills rather than human salaries.

well shit

Fuck this. A company with a $79B market cap shouldn’t ask its customers for donations. That $1M goal is 0.00127% of UPS’s market cap. A fart in a storm.

Six-Spotted Tiger Beetle near my pond. Is it me or does it look like it’s drinking a tiny droplet of water?

Probably the largest moth I’ve ever seen irl.

American Airlines taking the opportunity during the flight to sell a credit card. This announcement is taking longer than pre flight instructions. How bad are things for airlines right now?

This "trusted verifiers" system won't be abused at all! Nothing at all reminiscent of when Bluesky started and had "trusted community blocklists" which turned out to be run by awful wannabe cybercop bullies.

I still have some #ttrpg books that I need to sell on. They're not getting the love they deserve with me. Can you give them a loving home? DM me with an offer.

Beholding the state of the internet in 2025. Also, youwerethechosenone.jpg

The slippery slope is a logical fallacy, but in tech, it seems to be true through a trend towards enshittification. With Series-A funding comes a promise of a subscription service and now account verifications a la Twitter. I hope this public benefit company will continue to benefit the public.

The slippery slope is a logical fallacy, but in tech, it seems to be true through a trend towards enshittification. With Series-A funding comes a promise of a subscription service and now account verifications a la Twitter. I hope this public benefit company will continue to benefit the public.

This is your annual Larry Niven appreciation reminder. Please take some time today to appreciate Larry Niven. Thank you.

Seriously. Tesla that shit.

Show me a pic from star trek that embodies your aura

the dude yelling at passing women outside a dollar general has 23k followers on here

Caught a patriotic moment 🇺🇸

Hey GitLab, maybe sending an email saying you’re going to start collecting usage data from self-managed instances isn’t the best thing to send on April 1st. Of all days…

Americans identify more closely with Amerigo Vespucci rather than Christopher Columbus. Every red blooded American child knows that. Yes, yes, this is obviously a historical correction.

How long until the estates of deceased authors start selling AI-generated dreck in the style of?

they made an ai game where you can talk to the patients but forgot to add in prompt safety controls

This won’t fix this problem, but it may help you down the line: get a USB 4k drive and rip/backup, all of your DVDs and Blu-ray disks. Jellyfin is free and network storage is affordable. MakeMKV -> Handbrake -> NAS -> Jellyfin Keep your physical copies for the booklets.

Glass half empty: 2025 is likely to be the hottest year on record. Glass half full: 2025 is likely to be the coolest year you’ll ever experience again. And so will the next year. And the one after that.

This won’t fix this problem, but it may help you down the line: get a USB 4k drive and rip/backup, all of your DVDs and Blu-ray disks. Jellyfin is free and network storage is affordable. MakeMKV -> Handbrake -> NAS -> Jellyfin Keep your physical copies for the booklets.

A society that worships sociopathy under the guise of "entrepreneurship." No wonder it performed poorly on YouTube.

Did anyone have Digg coming back on their 2025 bingo card? youtu.be/-vNS62f-ino

Woof, weak take, Mozilla. Time to try LibreWolf.

God bless Al Green.

Terrible take. AfD got second place and almost doubled their 2021 result. This is not a wide rejection of the far right.

Surely this new video won't make me seem like a crank. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEJp...

damn all the worst are full of passionate intensity ?? Well let me at least see how the best are doi—… Oh guys. Guys it’s not good

What a terrible day to have a brain.

The termination of 850 Indian Health Service physicians, nurses, and dentists will have a grave impact on access to care for millions of Native Americans. Upholding our treaty obligations is not optional.

Status update: I self-sabotaged about a month after this post, got super burnt out and convinced myself that the project was shit. I think this is how I cycle through random interests through the year: an intense deep dive followed by a major burn out until I get inspired again.

No reason I’m surfacing this now. Nope, all good. Allllll good. Yup.

I’m pretty tired of being angry and disappointed in everything all the time. It takes a lot of effort to be this level of grumpy.

Radicalized from playing Among Us

I kid you not, @itch.io has been taken down by Funko of "Funko Pop" because they use some trash "AI Powered" Brand Protection Software called Brand Shield that created some bogus Phishing report to our registrar, iwantmyname, who ignored our response and just disabled the domain