Just sitting here waiting for the emergency Missed Apex episode from @spannersready.bsky.social and @mattpt55.bsky.social like

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Don’t quite get people who live tweet F1 races … surely anyone who cares is either watching already or is going to be pissed about the spoilers. I mean - I’d get it if it was commentary or colour but it’s just a statement of what’s happening: “Alice overtook Bob!” … gee, thanks!

The infrastructure of the Internet would run longer without electricity than without trans folks tbh

The private plane owned by Vince Neil from Mötley Crüe ran into the private plane owned by Vince “Swingers / Dodgeball” Vaughn in Scottsdale, AZ killing one person and the writers of this season of “America” aren’t even trying to make things plausible anymore.

also you know trump is fucking worthless because kendrick already conquered the only part of Canada that any decent American needed to defeat

Around 8:30 last night I was on my phone looking for restaurant reservations for later in the week via Opentable when suddenly I got a notification “Coming up: reservation at [restaurant] at 9:00pm - it will take 15 minutes to get there”. What?! Did I accidentally reserve dinner for tonight?

Me (sarcastically): I bet THIS will be a thoughtful and nuanced take on this subject from a man who has been frequently and spectacularly wrong about many, many subjects, even those he is purportedly an expert in. Narrator: It Was Not

I had FSA money left over so I bought an Oura Ring at the end of the year and it’s great because now, at 3am when I can’t sleep, I can look at the app which will show data telling me that I have insomnia.

Elon Musk: Why isn’t there enough water in California? Grok (burning through an entire lake to generate an answer): Wokeness

Reading about the leaked changes to Facebook’s moderation policy I found myself wondering about a sequel to The Social Network with Jesse Eisenberg just portraying Zuck as an ever sadder clown.

"Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends. The one person he told was a ProPublica reporter." #Democracy https://www.propublica.org/article/…

I see the GC’s are upset over on the hellscape because a drag queen was on the panel on last nights Blankety Blank, all while forgetting Lily Savage hosted it for a number of years and they didn’t say a thing.

“You will be visited by three spirits” The three spirits:

So I’ll be honest. Despite all historic evidence to the contrary I assumed this @cardsagainsthumanity.com holiday promotion was a joke. But I like their jokes. So it was worth it. But no. It was a real potato with diamonds. And now I don’t know what to do with this fact. www.diamondpotato.com

We’re done with pasteurization and vaccines. We’re done with currency backed by real value. We’re fearful of blinking lights in the sky. It’s all rolling back baby. There’s a little demon inside you that tells you when you’re hungry

filling out the adoption paperwork, “why are you looking to adopt a cat at this time?” “well you see, my posts have not been doing so hot, so i’m looking for something to help me boost my engagement on posts”

People can be a fuckwitted, venal group at the best of times and one of the more common small reminders is “please stay seated at the end of the flight so passengers with a tight connection can get off first” [ everyone stands up immediately and starts blocking the aisle ]

All through the race I was thinking “what will Missed Apex have to say about this?”

This is it, exactly. Why it’s vital to specify whether “tech” means “the richest dudes in the history if the world, who are fascists”, or “immmigrant workers on visas who are threatened with deportation if they complain”. anildash.com/2023/07/07/v...

サワードウ175回目。今回は非常に良い感じ

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If we want better fashion culture in the US, we have to lower the cost of housing and commercial real estate, support independent craftspeople, build denser neighborhoods, improve walkability, and get rid of overly restrictive zoning laws. Let kook culture thrive.

Here's your morning #BadActorBingo case study: the pattern here is common. Meet Sonia!

On stage at #WebSummit

I’m on stage at #WebSummit today from 1:45pm local time (2:45pm Central European, 8:45am Eastern, 5:45am Pacific, other timezones as well but this is already getting repetitive). I’m MC-ing the Developer Summit all afternoon and also talking Sustainability and the Web at 2pm.

Hey, friends: today we win. Today will protect each other, and the most vulnerable in our communities. Today we are going to stand up against fascism & violence and joyfully come together to care for those who need protection & support.

The panel I’m part of “What it takes to be a technical leader” is going to be streamed live from the Main Stage of Web Summit on their home page websummit.com at 2:40pm Portugal/GMT Time (6:40am Pacific, 9:40am Eastern time) - come watch me!

Fastly co-founder @thegestalt.org remembers the days when creating a website was a breeze. Join his session on the FULLSTK stage at Web Summit Lisbon as Simon delves into the technologies that can help bring us back to simpler times. ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️ websummit.com/schedule/ws2...

Commensurately, donation records to christian institutions should be made public (especially as they are lobbying orgs), and anyone who has funded this systemic abuse should be held accountable with both the churches and the abuse-funders aggressively taxed.

The reason christians are using “groomer” panic as the specific means of attacking trans people is because their institutions & leaders are, rightly, synonymous with systematic sexual abuse of children, and they want to misdirect and project their crimes onto a group they’re targeting.

To live with a La Croix drinker is to spend a significant portion of your life collecting half drunk cans and disposing of them.

Tomorrow: Join us at 10am PT for a conversation with Renaud Chaput and Fastly’s cybersecurity operations center, sharing lessons from learned from mitigating DDoS attacks on Mastodon. https://learn.fastly.com/security-mitigating-ddos-and-traffic-surges-with-mastodon

Scoop: Tim Cook personally paid Robert Scoble to not shower while wearing Apple’s recently announced Vision Pro mixed reality headset, according to sources

cursed sentence

if this post gets 2 likes then @jessevondoom.glitch.me has to redesign the glitch logo to have the fish facing forward

Satsumas are not for sharing. Satsumas are too small for sharing. If someone asks for a slice of the satsuma you are eating, tell them to get their own satsuma.

New research shows that Gen Alpha believes that all shirt-wearing animals are just trying to sell them something (likely true)

I see that @tominsam.bsky.social is up to his old "RTL marker clearing social media stress test" shenanigans again.

my uber driver just spent 20 minutes singing sea shanty songs to me first thing in the morning. I was undecided how I felt about it at the time, but landed on charming based solely on how passionate he was about it

Zelda is the name of the scientist, the character you play is Zelda's Monster.

I'm kind of intrigued why Apple hasn't released (or at least provided support for) accessories for the Apple TV. I would 1000% buy a webcam I could FaceTime via my TV from (a la Xbox Kinect) and how come there are no Bluetooth Microphones for Apple Music Sing karaoke?

I think mainstream media is gonna have a huge “where the hell did *that* come from?!” moment after the upcoming Zelda release becomes a giant cultural phenomenon.

went to an event today where the caterers labeled the water pitcher as “bay area water” and i could not love that more ♥️

Updated thoughts from some who’s still semi lurking. I said before it felt more wonky and less social on here … that is 100% not true any more. Shit posting is back and the vibe has turned chaotic (hopefully chaotic good) and anarchic. Everything feels a lot more like “old Twitter”.

I swear, this site is speedrunning cultural context creation something fierce.

1Password have put out the notification that the tried and true method of working (vault on Dropbox) is going away to be replaced with perpetual subscriptions. I actually get Family Plan for free but I’m not sure I trust them anymore. What else is out there that’s easy use and not LastPass? $ ok

Seems like half the people I know in SF are in Oakland for the final tour of Pop Up Magazine