Found this on my walk today. #cars #photography

This is the most impactful thing one can do to protest corporate caving to autocracy. Canceling Disney and Hulu subscriptions. I suggest you do the same. Now. And boost messaging like this to friends. Push back hard.

In other news, iOS 26 is unexpectedly delightful. I installed the RC, and I was so ready to hate it, because iPadOS26 wasn't wow-ing me. On the iPhone 15 turns out to be smoother and more refined than I expected. #ios #apple

de Adder. 🎯

The Puget Sound (Seattle) #meshcore mesh is growing so rapidly and working so well. Last night, I went to bed and woke up to over 100 messages on the public from people holding actual conversations. (Lengthy, stable conversations are not something that the local Meshtastic network has managed.)

I haven't shopped at Target for a looong time, but I justified going in there to buy a stack of their loss-leader notebooks for my students who show up to school without one. (40 notebooks at 28 cents each is apparently what my convictions are worth.) But they bait-and-switched me and the 20% […]

As someone who cheered for a high school classmate's success, Chris Pratt's decision to support all the worst people is particularly disappointing. https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/celebrities/2025/08/18/chris-pratt-robert-f-kennedy-jr/85713082007/

This is the very last thing in my syllabus. Do I leave the last line to see who actually read it? #teaching #education

I'm really glad that Flickr is still alive, but the uploading options are so poor. I just want to export photos from Apple Photos on my Mac directly to Flickr without exporting, uploading through the web uploader,etc. Ideally, it would be in the share sheet. (I need HEIC support, so the […]

This seems to be the way that scammers are evading iOS’s unknown contacts filters. I won’t be replying. #scams #ios

Hey, if you're in the process of de-Amazoning your life, I'd humbly suggest libro.fm. Get all your audiobooks DRM-free! You can use my link and I'll get a free audiobook when you sign up: https://libro.fm/referral?rf_code=lfm287117

Crooked Media switching their What A Day newsletter *to* Substack, one of the internet’s most notorious Nazi bars, in the year 2025 shows that they are just as out of touch as Schumer and the rest of the establishment Dems. #crookedmedia #substack

Today is National Lighthouse Day. This is the Point Robinson lighthouse on Vashon Island, Washington State. You can rent the lighthouse keeper's quarters, built in 1908, for overnight stays from the Vashon Parks District. #lighthouse #photography

Printed up some cases for my little army of Heltec V3 #meshcore and #meshtastic nodes.

Reading the list of new Science Fiction and Fantasy books out this month. I've added these to my to my list so far: Tchaikovsky's The Hungry Gods Brown's The Society of Unknowable Objects Chawaga's Salvagia Kuang's Katabasis Newitz's Automatic Noodle What do I need to add to my TBR this month? […]

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, shorn of federal funding, announces it will shut down. https://cpb.org/pressroom/Corporation-Public-Broadcasting-Addresses-Operations-Following-Loss-Federal-Funding

John Daly is a lot of fun in Happy Gilmore 2.

Americans view themselves as friendly and welcoming. But our leaders are afraid to let a LITTLE LEAGUE team from Venezuela play in a tournament we’re hosting. Pathetic. #littleleague #uspol https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/25/trump-travel-ban-little-league-00477894

After taking Ozzy, the universe needed to restore balance. Hulk Hogan dead at 71. https://www.thesportster.com/wwe-hulk-hogan-killed-jesse-ventura-plan-pro-wrestling-union-vince-mcmahon/

Shutting down an entire legislative body to avoid a vote to release documents, which the Speaker's own party campaigned on releasing, is totally the kind of thing that innocent people do. 🙄 This kind of flop-sweat desperation move seems to support that Donald Trump is in the Epstein files. 🎁 🔗 […]

Cell tower design decisions were made.

We went to Disney’s California Adventure, and one of my must-dos was seeing the Spiderman show, because it features one of Grant Imahara’s final projects, the ‘Stuntronics’ robot. I know it is a parasocial relationship, but I got a little emotional after seeing […] [Original post on windbag.org]

Well, made it out of Disneyland without actually seeing JD Vance. I would have liked to join the choruses of people booing him.

I can tell that my home linux server is scared of me, because it only acts up when I'm not there to punish it with the power button.

Sometimes I find myself looking everywhere but where the ride designers intend me to look. On Small World, I found myself looking at the janky drop ceiling and lighting. I love it, but this ride is 100% a first-draft time capsule. #disneyland

There are now so many people at Disneyland and California Adventure on mobility scooters—and they drive them at you like they're in an Abrams tank.

Tik Tok is having a discussion of the "Gen Z Stare" and as a teacher I can totally confirm that it exists. Step 1: Ask them a question. Step 2: They stare at you blankly. Step 3: You wait 5, 10, sometimes 15 seconds for them to respond—then ask ask a follow-up or provide clarification. Step 4 […]

Ben speaks the truth. If you trash talk Seattle and other major cities, the World Cup is not for you. Stay out of our ‘rubble’ with your b.s. https://www.offtiktok.com/post/29507 #pnw #worldcup #seattle

About to go climb up on my roof to mount a(nother) LoRa antenna. The things I do for #meshtastic (and #meshcore).

I got caught up on Murderbot and I was so frustrated when the next episode won't be available until July 4th. Seriously, I love the tone of this show. I really hope we get another season so we get to meet ART. #murderbot

Yet another example of the imperial boomerang. The US is turning the tools of imperialism on its own people, and it has been for the last 25 years. You don’t start with unaccountable masked police kidnapping people off the streets, you get there one incremental step at a time […]

Nothing like screwing up a project enough that git reset --hard HEAD seems like the best solution.

Pay attention, because Mike Lee and his Republican cronies have put the sale of NFS and BLM lands back into Trump's grifty budget bill. This means they could sell Heather Lake and Lake 22, two popular hiking destinations in the North Cascades […]

And with that, the 2024-2025 school year comes to a close. #teaching

I don't want to gatekeep, so I'll just say that Chelan, WA is a gem and a perfect place to spend a weekend. This was taken a few weeks ago at Endless Orchard Cider. (I've been better about taking photos than posting them lately, so I'm working through a backlog from the last few months.)

Thanks. I hate it. https://512pixels.net/2025/06/wwdc25-macos-tahoe-breaks-decades-of-finder-history/

Some Sunday night tunes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsNfJhKmJmU

Clifford Cash: "Someone once said to me, 'you were born for this moment,' and I said 'bullshit' because no one was born for this moment—no human being was born to claw their dignity out of the clenched fists of wannabe kings."

The end of the year for teachers in a nutshell: 1. Get an afternoon coffee to overcome mental exhaustion. 2. Take two sips of coffee 3. Leave said coffee on the counter at home when heading out for the evening because of said mental exhaustion. #teaching #teachers

Flobots (the band) are currently live streaming a protest against ICE on their TikTok account. Time to stream Handlebars again. https://open.spotify.com/track/6JH9yWhgbm0y9iAJhCslNc

So, it's not possible to turn off the AI Overview in Google on a Workspace for Education account at the admin level, so the only way to prevent students from access to AI products is to block Google entirely. But Google says AI Overviews are part of Google Search... Looking for a search to […]

I hate seeing the Oklahoma Thunder win anything. I guess I'm a Minnesota Timberwolves fan now. Oh, and @#$% Howard Schultz. #seattle #nba

I logged on to Facebook for the first time in months to read some local drama about school layoffs. I found that Facebook had made me follow both both the orange fascist and his sycophant in chief. Fuck Zuck.

All I do these days is delete posts about how bad teaching has become.

This seems like as good a week as any to quit teaching.

I pulled off a rare Washington State achievement: I got a sunburn and frostbite at the same time today while powerwashing my driveway.

Life Hack: Don't take College in the High School classes if you aren't willing to read 3-4 page articles, understand them, and then write about them in minimally coherent sentences.

That was an amazing ball in by Rathbone and a perfect finish by James. 🤯 #wrexhamfc