I swear, "a pope from Chicago excommunicates a Nazi-adjacent sect" is like a cut scene from The Blues Brothers

Fuck you. Fuck all of you that sat on your fucking hands and both-sided this shit until we got here.

THAT was how they started episode 1 of the live action ATLA series‽ 🤯

I hope every engineer is making them pay through the ears for the privilege of re-hiring them. 25% pay hike at minimum.

Probably my tshirts. If not some of my underwear. Wait, do paperbacks count?

I switched Excel certification programs specifically to avoid having to train on CoPilot.

Someone needs to be reminded that party demographics can shift over time. 80 years ago, he'd have been the former chair of the RNC, not the DNC. Well, not really, but you know what I mean.

Obviously, kids probably understand and accept math/algebra better when they encounter real-world examples. I just can't recall getting examples related to my current project. "Sandalwood vanilla fragrance oil is $40/lb. You must buy 5 lbs. However, your sales team needs to know what it costs...

Guess which part of my gym towel I used to clean the bench.

Good news: I have two dental insurances. First appointment is on Tuesday.

Dude I spent years working with farmers on "how to run a hydroponic system and/or fish farm without it turning into reeking sludge" and all I can say is LOL

Bummer.

Having a broken tooth and potentially no insurance is KIND OF STRESSFUL.

It's halfway through Pride Month. I just wanted to say that if you are a good person and you are pan, omni, Ace, bi-, gay, lesbian, poly-, trans, or otherwise lgbtq, I love ya and am glad you are here. Also, Batgirl, the Birds of Prey, the Uncanny X-Men, Red Sonja, and Wonder Woman agree with me.

Facts. Like, I'm only 6'1". Quit asking me to get stuff off the top shelf. Get a ladder like everyone else.

On the other hand, I find I can't listen to this one band without thinking about you, because of how you complained about pentatonic vs chromatic scales. Tbh, you were kinda snobbish/racist about it.

FUUUUUCK DHL. They are the *worst* logistics company on the planet. If this were my business social media account, I'd end every skeet with " @dhlsupplychain.bsky.social delenda est." #IYKYK

A blast from the past

So you should probably heed the warning on the box about affixing wart removal patches to your face.

Bluesky: tell me your food crimes. I enjoy peanut butter and bologna sandwiches. Hot dogs I make at home generally only have ketchup and sliced cheese on them. I drain all the water from my ramen noodles. Hamburgers topped with peanut butter and jelly are not bad, but I need to be in the mood.

@ivyvine009.bsky.social I'm swiping your catch phrase for my D&D game.

well, here's a nice metaphor as we work on dreaming the next chapter after this one:

I get a lot of heat for holding this opinion, especially around the topic of people who commit sex offenses, but I'm also aware, through my conversations with the formerly incarcerated and my fellow addicts in recovery, how just one bad day can put any one of us behind bars.

Dang, it took over 30 hours for this mosquito bite to flare up, wth.

Now, don't get me wrong - if I ever own a home, I'll probably turn it into a little homestead project myself, with ornamentals, simply because it's an interesting engineering project. But it's not cheap.

It always amuses me whenever one of those "home gardening is the only way to live" twits gets in my face and claims homegrown produce is cheaper than store-bought. Basic logic will demonstrate that isn't true. Your single tomato plant's harvest could cost you over $800 from spring to autumn.

@ivyvine009.bsky.social it never ends... www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8pXMy8b/

#TFW you connect with your manager on LinkedIn and discover they have a bachelor's in psychology. 🥸

There's a part of me that feels weirdly healed knowing you've found happiness, if not peace. I'm glad we're never going to see each other again, because I know that would just hurt you all over again.

That feeling when you discover you have 539 CDs... ...and somehow, not all of them are uploaded to your phone, even though you selected the entire music file itself to upload and not individual albums one at a time. 🤬

Is there a word for "11x"? Because that's how much my freight costs at work have jumped in a month.

I saw a TikTok featuring a pretty cool song based on the universal greeting from Transformers, and I hit the heart only to discover it was AI-generated. I unliked it, but the account decided to follow me. I removed them, but they tried again a few minutes later. Fine. I'll just block you.

It shouldn't be that easy to find someone on social media. In my defense, you *did* keep the same handle for 13 years. Glad to see you're doing well. Surprised about that one thing, but it kinda makes sense.

I have been going through my entire CD collection to get something organized, and in the process discovered that I apparently purchased duplicates of 8 albums, including 3 albums by the band Live.

Sirens have been flying by my neighborhood for *several* minutes.

52 million people live in South Korea. I can't even imagine. Barely 3 million live from San Antonio to Austin, and it's practically a parking lot.

Spirit Airlines has officially shut down operations. Well, you know what that means...

#Phd What's the most amazing system you've seen someone use to track their citations and keep everything in order?

Oh, no! 1,000 (but really probably way less) people have fled a state with [checks notes] a population of 39 million people! Good fucking riddance. Now we can tear their mansions down and start building wind farms.

Counterpoint: I, as a member of my company's financial team, do not need to be handling actuarial tables, charts of accounts, nor purchasing spreadsheets while tippled. 😅

Can't wait until we get proximity chargers for car garages.

Even the Founding Fathers thought absolute democracy was a bad idea, which is why we have the Electoral College. Not saying they were right, either. But this fight isn't new.

On the one hand, I agree wholeheartedly. We should be eternally curious about the world. On the other hand, I think it's also important to demonstrate that "products" can come out of pure research - *as a side effect*. Studying the bioluminescence of deep sea creatures can lead to the creation...

wow no way who could have guessed

Something about this headline made me curious enough to read the article. One thing that struck me was the AI agent's use of profanity to explain its behavior. 😅 Now I understand why Asimov described his 3 Laws of Robotics as being "hard-wired" into robotic brains.

One of the brightest auroras I have ever seen…

Sorry if I've been swinging wildly between these two concepts lately. These times are really trying.