Apartment building got flooded and both elevators were down since Christmas Eve… having to climb 12 floors just to get home reminds me how physically unfit I am lol 🫠 kind of worried about neighbours who are disabled or not very mobile though 😥

Just learned about the proper pronunciation of the British car "Jaguar", and I am NOT okay

#christmaspartyafilmorshow Nasi Ayam Bakar Grilled Chicken rice Indonesian food #goodlunch #makanyuk #foodculture #indonesianfood

WaPo: U.S. plans to stop recommending most childhood vaccines, defer to doctors #brainworms #healthcare #health

@ai6yr The mnemonic that helped me is: 16c is 61f and 28c is 82f. Shout out to Kathy Spindler and #twiv

"Let us be the repository of your passkeys" and "We may terminate your account at any time and permanently refuse to communicate with you" ... seems like a bad combination?

#scandalousfoods Kue lapis basah #indonesia #indonesianid #culinary #CulinaryCulture

I have discovered that teaching programming goes much better with my fifth grade students if I take the time to teach them about all the symbols I think of as "normal" that are totally new to them. "These are square brackets, you'll find them over the 'enter' key we use them for lists. In […]

Ugh, so 67 is a kind of a swear word in Cantonese 😅

Oh goody, people replacing system critical parts with 3d printed plastic...in planes 😬 @ai6yr https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1w932vqye0o

I'm sorry, is someone injecting ads into my browser's CONSOLE now??

28 November 2025 Airbus update on A320 Family precautionary fleet action "Toulouse, France, 28 November 2025 – Analysis of a recent event involving an A320 Family aircraft has revealed that intense solar radiation may corrupt data critical to the functioning of flight controls. Airbus has […]

RE: https://mastodon.online/@bentoh/115605478395653040 Anddddd of course the songs are AI-generated... 🫠 #slopseverywhere

I always say i find it hilarious that anyone thinks i am ‘very into food’ when random uncles back home have elaborate blogs like this: https://johorkaki.blogspot.com/ To be clear, most of my family would also have blogs like this if they bothered to write things down. This dude’s blog is what […]

Lately, there’s been some important work done by some folks there to celebrate the Indigenous foods of the Malay world. Here’s a wonderful page on the food of the orang laut (the sea people): https://oranglaut.sg/our-food/ And here’s a page about the food culture of the Dayaks of West […]

So sometimes I got caught by a sports ball bug, and would use a different browser to look up some sports contents on Youtube so that it doesn't interfere with my normie Youtube algorithm... 10-15 videos in, Tucker Carlson and Joe Rogan start to appear in the right-hand recommended videos column 🙃

Is the #carrot The Musical thing new? @CARROT That was a pleasant surprise 😂

So it used to be that when I just moved to the US, I find the food portion from restaurant huge, and that I can eat two or three meals out of one order... Now I start to be able to finish them in one meal... sometimes I'll be looking at the take out and like, "oh I can finish this in one or […]

Y'all

if you force me the indignity of logging in with a magic link, at least have your input fields correctly parse pasting 6 characters

I got an email the other day telling me how to read maps backwards. Turns out it was just spam.

[CDC, Politics, Brain Worms] The CDC has fallen. Mother Jones: The CDC’s New Autism Page Reads Like an Anti-Vax Blog https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/11/the-cdcs-new-autism-page-reads-like-an-anti-vax-blog/

Jarl (with a Zed Extension!) by @etiennebacher is DOPE! https://github.com/etiennebacher/jarl So. FAST! Need to figure out a good way to perma-eradicate the bane that is {lintr}.

VACCINES DO NOT CAUSE AUTISM, YOU FLAMING SHITBIRDS. WE HAVE, IN FACT, NOT IGNORED YOUR NOW-DEFUNCT HYPOTHESIS. WE INVESTIGATED IT TO THE TUNE OF STUDIES WITH DATA FROM MILLIONS OF KIDS.

The Verge: Screw it, I’m installing Linux https://www.theverge.com/tech/823337/switching-linux-gaming-desktop-cachyos #win11 #linux

user with 537 tabs and documents open on three 4k monitors: why do computers these days use so much ram? this never happened when I had one single Internet Explorer window open on a 800x600 monitor

RE: https://mstdn.social/@DejGuy/115577446494975470 "Add the butter mixture and grated carrot to the flour mixture." 😂😂😂 #page42sentence2 #page42

The Seattle area has been dealing with rapid population growth and development for decades. That tends to increase pollution in local lakes and streams. But good news -- the environmental protections we've put in place since the 1990s seem to be working! Our crown jewel, Lake Washington, had […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@datasaurus/115574459249493358 Hey Fediverse, I just published a paper! It's been almost a decade since I was the lead author on a peer-reviewed paper -- I've been working on government reports and internal stuff-and-things behind the scenes. It feels really good to […]

Eugen didn't just build Mastodon, he built the foundation for the future of the social web. He's a hero to me and so many others who are building on that foundation now and for years to come. Thank you @Gargron for the gift of Mastodon to the world and for continuing to inspire us all with your […]

Is it just me or you can't `git clone` anything from GitHub right now? #github #git

Hi! Today is my first official day as the Executive Director of Mastodon, replacing @[email protected] as CEO. I joined the Mastodon team more than 5 years ago, mostly working for Mastodon in the evenings on top of a 120% day job. I was the driving force behind the incorporation of the […]

Today I am stepping down from my role as the CEO of #mastodon. Though this has been in the works for a while, I can't say I've fully processed how I feel about it. There is a bittersweet part to it, and I think I will miss it, but it also felt necessary. It feels like a goodbye, but it isn't—I […]

I had the displeasure of reading an article in the Harvard student paper by an economics major who said in apparent seriousness that comp sci majors are wasting time on theory classes like “Introduction to Algorithms and their Limitations” when they could be learning REAL skills like prompt […]

I do feel like MS/Azure, AWS, and Cloudflare need to do a better job of coordinating their outages so some of yall can get some much needed time away from IT

Glad to see these people fucking all the way off. My gratitude goes to all the people of Chicago who pushed back, and to the media like Block Club who diligently exposed the nonsense and awfulness […]

«I just don’t think working at an evil company should define me. I’ve only worked here for seven years. What about the twenty-five years before, when I didn’t work here? In fact, I wasn’t working at all for the first eighteen years of my life. And for some of those early years, I didn’t even […]

It's taken 22 years but I think people are actually genuinely done with Call of Duty games? (Including the developers, it seems)

witnessing a new robyn song is a generational event, like seeing a total eclipse

mastodon should fix the bug where typos are invisible in the editing box but obvious on the timeline

Something-something, Carl Sagan, something-something, clutching our pearls Washington Post: No, putting a potato in your sock will not cure a cold (11/11/25) (paywall) […] [Original post on ai6yr.org]

So much red!!

Northern Lights easily visible to the naked eye from Albuquerque, New Mexico! I thought the Sandias were named for the pink appearance of the mountains, not the sky... #aurora #northernlights #albuquerque #newmexico #sandiamountains #sandiaheights

Hands are frozen but the #aurora #northernlights out here at the Hollywood Beach in #chicago is pretty 🤩

Some really nice Northern Lights out there tonight. #minnesota #northernlights #biketooter

Wikipedia is celebrating its 25th anniversary in January, and our amazing creative teams in the Wikimedia Foundation put together this video that I love. Fun fact! There are something like 500 attributions for images, sounds, and text in the video 🤯 […] [Original post on wikimedia.social]

Is this anything https://homes.luddy.indiana.edu/ccshan/for/for.html

RE: https://woof.group/@aphyr/115527666879236642 > What Factually does is different. It takes a question typed by a user and hands it to a Large Language Model, or LLM, to generate some query strings. It performs up to three Internet search queries, then feeds the top nine web pages it found to […]