Oh boy, new shower head day.

Did anybody tag @erikaishii.bsky.social in this? Feels very up their alley.

"That is not an incident summary!" he rants at his phone while looking at an email. It's appalling to me that our industry (and formal education) does a terrible job talking about incident management. We could do so much better, and it'd be beneficial for everyone from IC to exec.

I just found out that I got featured on a side at a conference talk, at a conference I'm not at, as a cautionary tale. And I love that.

Went to bed early, high hopes I'd get some decent sleep, and here I am back at my desk because my foot cramped so intensely that I couldn't stay in bed. Everything is great, and I am certainly not filled with constant dread as my body betrays me daily.

Just remembered that time where Henry the train got the rails removed and a brick wall put up so he was left to die in a 1984 episode of Thomas & Friends.

Just a few hours until this INCREDIBLE panel goes live !!

I know there are good reasons for it to exist, but tree-shaking in the node ecosystem is so unintuitive and wow am I mad about it.

Chat, is it good and normal to have a blizzard on the first day of Spring Break? Asking for a friend.

On this fine Sunday, I want to share a piece of documentation from one of my previous jobs, where they refused to give me any tools to make a diagram and told me to do it in MS Paint. (I used GIMP instead, for reasons.) They got what they paid for. This is still used in their docs today.

Said goodbye to my favorite French restaurant tonight. What a bummer.

There are some really great humans in this world and I feel lucky to know a bunch of them.

Timeline's fuzzy, but I spent a lot of time reading the trans megathread on Something Awful, and became friends with some of the regular posters. I also questioned my own gender for a while (turns out, I needed HRT). Both of these things built sympathy and empathy.

I feel like I'm asking a lot with this, but it's been a rough day. If I've done something to make your life better, could you take a sec and tell me what it was and how that impacted you? I'd appreciate it.

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@annethegnome.bsky.social Have you seen this? Feels like it'll be right up your alley.

Blades '68 just added another stretch goal for them to commission April Kit Walsh (of Thirsty Sword Lesbians) to write Blades '69: The Sexual Revolution if they get another $20k in the next 4 days. I need this. Please make it happen, people.

Got my "move miniatures on the surface of the TV and have reactive line of sight and lighting based on it" stuff working today and it's sick as fuck. Players being able to pick up physical minis and have the state of the map react has been a dream for me for years.

Peace, bay area. It's been real.

Woke up today to find that a contribution to procps was accepted, and short of writing a kernel patch I don't think I'm ever going to be able to land something that touches more systems in the world. It's a good day.

Man, SF isn't my vibe but it should be in theory.

Let how exhausted I look here give you a window into how hard mutual aid organizers have been pushing to keep our neighbors safe and housed when no one else will. Please write to your councilmembers and the mayor and urge them to pass Pause Evictions, Save Lives!

Oh, hey, thanks leg. No, it's super cool that you decided to cramp so hard that I had to get out of bed and sit in a chair for a while. Yeah, I definitely am good with this and even though I have to drive over a hundred miles tomorrow.

This week is going to be a shitstorm. Wedding tomorrow, work trip starting the following day, on-call at the end of the week. The one saving grace is that I get to hang out with a friend I haven't seen in person in like 2 years.

Not me over here on the verge of tears over Arator's storyline in Midnight. Nope.

Feels super weird for a WoW expansion to release and not stay up all night to try to grind to max level.

Trans Rights are Human Rights.

Person: "Saying doing <x> is not recommended means it's not forbidden and is fine to do <x>." This is the most "so you hate waffles??" bullshit I have ever seen and I am so angry I could scream.

Less than a week until I'm back in SF and can get those unholy garlic fries at Super Duper Burger again. My body is screaming for them. I crave.

We're just weeks away from it being warm enough, and my hair being long enough, to go back to a mohawk. And I think I just might.

Welcome to Costco. I love you.

I'm not tired of playing TTRPGs that reward system mastery. I'm not looking to play super high powered games, but I'll do it. But the game I'm in right now is exactly that, and the dumb bullshit I just came up with is going to sorely test the GM and his decision to run this game. It's a good day.

Who up fighting off existential dread after having a dream that emphasized how many of their family members have died in the past few years?

The idea of paying $9 for shipping for a $0.40 electronics part is batshit insane, and I miss living in a world with Radio Shack.

Trying to solder tiny parts in a room with carpet is asking for trouble. And I, in fact, have found trouble.

I, a fool, just booked travel for later this year. I then tried to get a hotel room, and couldn't. No hotel had rooms. I was confused. What could possibly be that big? Friends. I reiterate I am a fool. It's the goddamn World Cup when I want to fly in.

This scene absolutely slayed me.

Update: His band will be Our Alchemical Courtship, because I insist on committing to the bit.

Suddenly really wondering about an old friend from vanilla WoW on Azgalor, on alliance side. Rally, if you're out there, I just want you to know I still think about you and hope you're doing well.

Something positive came out of this. My kid has a bad habit of doing this exact same thing while in classes for school, because he's remote. So I got to tell him how dad fucked up and made someone feel bad, so he could have an object lesson.

Jesus. Didn't realize I had an open mic when I was venting to myself during a multiplayer game just now and made somebody feel bad, and now I feel like shit.

@mostlybree.kitrocha.com I just saw this and dropped everything to come tell you. Freeze-dried caramelized onion powder. Could be an absolute game changer.

Just a stunning lack of media literacy. The article even calls out that they played American Idiot, a song (and album) in direct response to the Bush administration, and which they've revived as an anthem against the current administration.

I, for one, think it's some bullshit when you finally manage to get to sleep after struggling with it most of the night, and then wake up due to a leg cramp and have to rapidly stand up to fix it.

It's probably a bad sign that I feel tired enough that I had to spend several minutes trying to think of what the word for "systems of ecology" is. It's "ecosystem" you absolute buffoon. It's literally the combination of the words. Maybe you should try having a body that actually sleeps.

Being in InfoSec is cool as fuck except all the times where it's straight up exhausting.

Father, forgive me for the horrors and blasphemy I have committed using SQL this day.

Tiefling oath of vengeance paladin named Mercy. This will do nicely.

Parenting a 17 year old is exhausting.

Air frying chicken skin until it's crispy, to crush up and use as a topping on the chicken it came from, is some next level shit.