My shitpost got retweeted by the official Wikipedia account on Bluesky. This is one of the all-time highs of my posting career lol

One of the most horrifying facts about Astronomy is that if you leave a cloud of hydrogen alone for enough time eventually part of it will turn into anime

So Homan’s payment came in a Cava bag, while Eric Adams’ advisor Winnie Greco tried to bribe a reporter with cash in a Herr’s Sour Cream and Onion potato-chip bag. Are these transactions all vehicles for placement-ad campaigns by fast-food brands?

If you mash the audio example buttons on the wikipedia page for the IPA vowel sounds you can create a choir of mildly disgusted men

[Sad, animal harm] I was watching pigeons in my apartment garage today and was thinking about how I should appreciate them more since I've always found them kind of gross. I started to think about how smart and aware they must be since I always see them get close to cars but I've never seen one […]

My daily heartbreak is finding a YouTube video about an interesting topic, clicking on it, and realizing it's an hour long clip from a livestream

Staring at graphs of EV adoption and transit growth daydreaming about a city that doesn't smell like car exhaust

#seattle what's your favorite neighborhood in the city? I want to shout-out Roosevelt because, despite heavy traffic and a freeway nearby, it's got some of the liveliest streets. Like you actually see families getting out and living life, unlike, say SLU

holy shit he made it xD https://mynorthwest.com/crime_blotter/seattle-bridge/4132943 #seattle

Fun lil browser game https://brainteaser.top/knot/index.html

Noise cancelling headphones have to be one of the most underrated inventions of my lifetime. Being able to listen to music at a volume lower than the ambient noise around me has probably delayed my inevitable deafness by a decade

Today, we’re ready to show you the upcoming quote posts feature in more detail. We’ve put together a blog post with examples of how quote posts will work on Mastodon, ahead of early access on our own servers next week 💬 Full launch to come, in Mastodon v4.5 […]

Sausage.

Shout-out to the person wearing this on the bus lol #fuckcars

Every 9/11 I like to post the story of Rick Rescorla. I recommend reading the Wikipedia article, but the gist is that after the first plane hit the towers, he disregarded orders and led an evacuation of the second tower, potentially saving thousands of lives Reading about disasters you'll see […]

Bought a new case for my phone because I thought my old one had become warped, since it kept popping off one of the corners Turns out the case was fine but the phone battery had become a spicy pillow 🤦‍♂️

Hey there. I really don't like doing this, but things are getting rough financially and I could really use some help to keep things running. https://ko-fi.com/TheEssem https://patreon.com/TheEssem Right now, server costs for esmBot, wetdry.world, and some other assorted things are around […]

Never felt so envious of European transit as watching a British guy trying to have a beer in as many countries as possible in one day God I wish that were me https://youtu.be/uxBMwpU2_60

The Trump Regime is working on stripping trans people of their rights. If they can take away your second amendment rights, the first, fifth, and fourteenth amendment rights are next on the chopping block […]

Finally solved the #degoogling debate. Anyone who finds fault with this list = Skill issue.

Not sure I'll ever play this, but a mobile #mmorpg where you grind by walking (traced w/pedometer) that refuses to implement microtransactions is such saintly game design I feel obligated to shout it out https://walkscape.app/

Y'all got any hopium? Anything to look forward to? Genuine question

As a MastoAdmin, my answer to age verification laws is simple: I don't give a fuck about the law in Mississippi or the UK. I live in Washington and my servers are hosted in California. If other jurisdictions don't want my website to be available there, they can sort that out for themselves As […]

Whenever I'm sad I watch a few loops of the Butter Dog Type Beat and feel better https://youtu.be/8V5T6oUOEV4 #butterdog #thedogwiththebutter #dogwitthebutteronhim

Absolutely :zonked: the past couple weeks I feel like this happens every August. I think I'm so Seattle I get reverse SAD lol

Me 🤝 Intel Executive dysfunction

Tired of being American. Any tips on becoming more Canadian? Not actually looking to immigrate physically, just culturally

Decided I no longer want to live a productive and fulfilling life, so I'm trying out Old School RuneScape again for the first time since 2007ish

People think point-and-click adventure games died as a genre because they're tedious and nonsensical, however that explanation falls apart when you consider the ongoing success of the JRPG genre. Here's what actually killed them: Kids these days would never think to get a piece of bread by […]

The worst part about AI companies normalizing piracy is that I no longer feel subversive perverse joy downloading Nintendo games :pensive_wobble:

Seeing a screenshot of a fedi post on Reddit

I keep meeting wealthy people who brag about not paying for transit and it always gets me heated. Am I weird for thinking that's super antisocial and like not returning your shopping cart? I'm not talking about people skipping it due to financial difficulty or just forgetting

Actual #retrogaming #mariosunshine takes Holy shit this game is hard. It's also wildly inconsistent in terms of quality with absolute peak shines being sandwiched between straight up garbage. The movement is a fantastic evolution of SM64 and almost feels more exploitable while being less janky […]

[NSFW-ish humor] Playing Super Mario Sunshine for the first time and why are all the boos making ahegao faces?

Cooler cat #caturday #cats

In light of the recent #earthquake, please keep the person of #kamchatka in your thoughts and prayers tonight. The devastation could take days and tens of dollars to recover from

Been on a GameCube era #retrogaming kick and picked up Super Monkey Ball 2 to play the mini games with friends. Decided to try out the single player to unlock more mini games and was absolutely blindsided by this banger of a track https://youtu.be/_epVSjlsEzM

Unprotected left turn plus right on red means intersections sucks ass as a pedestrian

Gonna start my own financial planning company called UBrokeiFix

Got a good chuckle from this

#linux hot take. "Customizability" is a footgun and people should stop advertising it as a feature. I've seen new users * Install KDE on Mint Cinnamon * Fill their bashrc with aliases that make no sense * Install a dozen vim packages that replace built-in features with worse versions of […]

Turns out soldering isn't actually supposed to be agonizingly difficult, my iron was just broken I wasted multiple afternoons fighting that thing lol

Getting my $10 from Equifax doxxing my social security number

WSJ - Trump’s letter to Epstein for his 50th birthday has the outline of a naked woman, small arcs denoting breasts with a squiggly ’Donald’ signature below her waist, mimicking pubic hair. It concludes: “Happy Birthday — and may every day be another wonderful secret.” […]

This is my first summer with an air conditioner that actually works and my God it's incredible

Recently re-organized my data collection that goes all the way back to 2005 and unearthed some old favorites Here's a gif from roughly 2010 or so #cats

What even is the point of having password logins for your service if you're just going to send me an email confirmation code anyway?

My recent go-to dinner #veganfood

I'm working on an IoT thingamabob and it's incredibly frustrating that there's no cross-platform, no-cloud, no-app way to discover and communicate with devices on a local network from a browser That means I have to make these devices phone home and run a cloud service that connects the user to […]