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In #Shadowrun, fog is opaque on the astral plane. futurism.com/science-ener...

My ballot has been counted! (Dropped it off at the library on Saturday afternoon and got the notification on Sunday night.)

My wife got a cat-shaped heating pad and Nero is now worried about his job security.

This is a cat checkpoint. Relinquish your most recent cat picture

Given recent events, you may be wondering if you’re fully exercising the political power available to you. I’ve learned some things they didn’t cover in high school civics. 🧵

Here’s my election research for the ballot in Sunnyvale, California. I’m happy if it saves you a headache. mithriltabby.dreamwidth.org/182521.html

ANNOUNCEMENT: since reality itself is currently implausible, April Fool’s Day has been canceled for 2026.

good night, sewers. good night, streams. good night, operations and maintenance teams. good night, settling tanks. good night, stream banks. good night, engineers, scientists, crews, managers, inspectors, analysts too. a good night for us means serving with care. good night, sewers, everywhere.

Advertise your account with a gif

This a CAT checkpoint. Show me the most recent cat image on your phone.

Gotta go, my ride is here

closed borders are anti-snack and that’s enough for me to oppose them

Post a banger that isn't in English. Art of Noise - "Yebo!" www.youtube.com/watch?v=p70g...

Valentine Daleks at my local Costco

POST AN EMERGENCY CAT PIC

Nero and Phryne doing their night shift work: keeping my wife's feet warm. #CatsOfBluesky

Our job is to keep showing up and taking care of each other. And knowing when to pause to refill so we can go back to doing it more. Everything else is commentary.

Punk Cat PSA

Happy New Year from Pacific time!

@darkhorse.com I got your "Holiday Savings from Dark Horse Digital!" email. Remember that comics collection I had with you on digital.darkhorse.com before you closed your service? Send me the whole thing as CBZ or PDF files, or as gifts at Kobo Books, and I'll consider spending money with you again.

@exaggerated.bsky.social I'm enjoying FILLING YOUR WORLDS WITH WORDS and just got to the bit about the thumbs up gesture, which reminded me of some advice I got as a software engineer many years ago: never ever depict hands in a user interface. Whatever it is will be an internationalization problem.

I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together. (I often misattribute this to the "Walrus Sutra" when talking Buddhism.)

My own experience with the shingles vax: #1 was mild. #2 I woke at 3am, shivering, put on an extra blanket, went back to sleep. From what I hear from family members, actual shingles is *vastly* worse. I am grateful that a vaccine is an option.

Back when there were drive-thru flu shot clinics in my area I’d invite lots of friends out for brunch and then caravanning down to get our shots. Harder to do in this day of making appointments ahead of time.

Today I'm cooking a prosciutto-wrapped roast beef tenderloin www.ibreatheimhungry.com/prosciutto-w... . I’m using 350°F and waiting for the thermometer to say it hit 135°F inside, which gets mostly medium rare, a little medium, a little rare.

Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy

When we brought Cleo home as a kitten back in 2000, I inadvertently stumbled on a wise strategy: cats get fed _after_ the human gets out of the shower and gets dressed. Training the cats on this has made it much easier to sleep in for any reason.

I dropped off my ballot at the library on Sunday afternoon and got notification that it was counted this evening. Vote-by-mail is very pleasantly low-stress.

My wife: “I can’t feel my fingers. Aren’t you cold?” Me: *points at two cats on my legs*

Wrote up my notes on the ballot here in Sunnyvale, CA. mithriltabby.dreamwidth.org/182030.html

Explain your username: For 18 years, I had a silver tabby named Yeti; he’s in my profile picture. At one point I was explaining Runequest’s notion of heroquesting to a friend and had to make up some mythology on the spot, so the story had a “mithril tabby” in it. And I needed a unique username.

There's a genre of spam email which says that my payment has been declined and because of this all my social media presence is going to be deleted and it's like... why are you threatening me with freedom from the saṃsāra? What are you doing?

My wife has informed me that I am not allowed to purchase the skeletal ducklings and rabbits from the Halloween display and save them for Easter.

We can finally post our own GIFs?

I’m not taking up the fridge space for champagne but I know *exactly* what I will be ordering at the Donut Wheel when the news finally arrives: two glazed old fashioneds, one blueberry twist.

*breathe in* I am not a dumpster fire. *breathe out* I am a dumpster phoenix.

I’m surprised no one has created two-sided ebook readers where one side is a B&W screen to read the text and the other is a color screen to show the cover.

@spaceboybooks.bsky.social The version of Jane Mondrup’s ZOI that you gave to B&N Nook has a problem with the header links to the style sheets and is unreadable to anyone who can’t manually hack the EPUB. Can you upload a fixed version?

This is extremely cool. GOG is taking a stand against payment processors caving to fundamentalist religious groups and is offering a bunch of "banned" games for free. freedomtobuy.games

Toxic Masculinity is OUT! Ghost of Christmas Present Masculinity is IN! - Loud laughs - Roasted meats and spiced drinks - Hospitality to strangers - Living in the moment - Singing in public - Body positivity - Emotional generosity - Sick robes

Indiana Jones and the Thousand Potshards of Doom

Reading @makana-yama.bsky.social’s HAMMAJANG LUCK has shown me that searching "___ meaning in Hawaiian" on Google is much more informative than simply typing the term into Google Translate. The meanings are pretty clear from context, but I’m always curious about the nuance of language.

Critical Hits

You're reborn as a cartoon character. Who are you?

My cat Archie took offense to an interloper cat in the back yard, so I activated an irrigation zone with an app on my phone to spook the visitor. I realized this must be how evil wizards get started: using mysterious powers to indulge the whims of their pets.

We saw you across the bar and we really dig your vibe

If you see this, post your getaway vehicle

THE GREAT MARCH OF PROGRESS OCCURS ON MANY TINY LITTLE CHOCOLATY FEET

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