Felt like a good day for a Magritte meme

My wife, visibly injured: I think I need to go to the ER. Me: Okay, I’ll get my shoes on. My wife: I’m going to take a shower first.

I have suspended the users who correctly pointed out that I liked porn skeets with my company account Forgive me it was so easy and I so feckless

CAROUSEL GARAGE ELEVATOR POOL

I had an idea for a funny web site so I checked to see if the domain was available and it’s not, because somebody else had the same idea and executed it perfectly: noneofthesewordsareinthebible.com

I want an #indiegame where you just build roads and maybe railroads between cities, preferably on a grid. Like Civilization, but just the road- and railroad-building parts. Does this game exist? Help.

Conversation with my 4-year-old: 🧒 Dad, what are you doing? 🧔‍♂️ I’m putting on my slippers. 🧒 *loooong sigh* Okay.

Feeling smug. The lead-water-line-replacement guys currently in my basement called my sewer pipe “nice.”

W/o downloading anything new, where are you mentally?

Made some tweaks to the background and layout for treacheryof.pics. Much happier with it.

Scamp has learned how to step on the pedal to open the trash can lid. Clever girl.

TIL the French for “crook” is “escroc” but despite sounding similar they don’t share an origin. “Escroc” (probably) comes from the Greek “aischrokerdḗs” (greedy for disgraceful gain) via Italian “scrocco.” “Crook” comes from the Old Norse “krókr” for a bent tool or hook. #themoreyouknow

What I learned this week is that a .pics domain costs $1.54 to buy but $26.26 to renew and that annoys me. But! It seems like some people like the thing I made (treacheryof.pics) and that makes me happy.

There are a dozen little improvements I’d like to make but for the moment I’m entertained.

For the love of God, Montresor!

This is a fun toy.

FIRST

I made something, mostly for my own amusement, but maybe y’all will like it: treacheryof.pics Make your own Magritte-style “Treachery of Images” image.

I want a 12-month pinup calendar of new mail truck photos.

I saw one of these the other day and said out loud (to nobody) “Hell yeah.” We need more goofy looking automobiles.

Yes, Swiss scientist Fritz Zwicky coined the term “dark matter” which is impressive, but he also coined the term “spherical bastard” to describe people who are bastards no matter which way you look at them, and I think that should be celebrated more.

Rebranding men washing their legs, ass, and feet as cleanmaxxing. Let’s go.

I am of the age (and have been for a minute) where my barber asks if I want my eyebrows and ear hairs trimmed and I appreciate it immensely.

Mark Hoppus and Steven Page have converged on the exact same look and I love that for them.

I hope the garbage truck driver is proud of me for getting my bin to the alley on time.

Backing up 11 years of photos and videos (18,000 items) from iCloud that I’ve never backed up anywhere else because I’m a fool. Very nervous it’s going to somehow delete them all instead.

Things that are not aesthetic

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@npmx.dev What package do y’all use for the download charts/sparklines, or are they bespoke? They’re very nice.

Tfw you spend half an hour trying to figure out why your Playwright tests are being flaky before realizing that the test is working as intended and you actually broke the thing.

Discovered that the domain name running.family was available and snatched it up. What should I do with it?

Shopping for phone cases is a trip.

Chrome is very concerned that that my email/password combination of [email protected]/password123 was found in a data breach.

Cats in litter box product photos is one of my favorite genres.

TIL iOS’ Accessibility settings has “Per-App Settings” so you can bump up the font size in just those apps that have obnoxiously small text. (I’m looking at you, Reddit.)

A must-read:

Stayed in a hotel room last weekend that had daylight bulbs in its bedside sconces. Still shaking my head.

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

I’m in my Buying Things In Bright Colors Specifically To Make Them Easier To Find When They Get Lost In My Messy House era.

An acquaintance’s last name starts with Z and has only two vowels. I don’t want to doxx them but it’s close to “Zbrabben.” Cool name, yeah? I come to find out they’ve married another Z-name with the same consonant-vowel ratio and naturally chose to hyphenate them: Zschoppe-Zbrabben. 10/10 no notes.

One must imagine one’s emails finding Sisyphus well.

Repost with an iconic fictional band

Watching Fantasia with the kids. They mostly tuned out the second half until the part with the mostly-nude cherubs and centaurs and satyrs. Lots of giggles.

I even specified “bird.” Thanks Google.

Uhh okay, thanks Google AI. 🙄

#NoKings #Mpls #Commons 1:20pm photo cred: @nichelle02.bsky.social