Oh good, our air conditioner is not working. At least the property manager can get someone in today sometime to look at it. It's still too damn hot out to not have AC here on the Gulf Coast.

If they were going to make a Discworld movie or show out of the later Watch books, Adrian Edmondson would be the only choice for Willikins.

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I would like 10,000 such workshops happening.

You gotta hand it to 'em (no you don't), those kids went all-in.

For what it's worth, I would rather work with a smart-but-slightly-careless human over an LLM any day.

Apropos of nothing, this picture came up in conversation this morning and I felt like sharing it here. It’s the George Washington Bridge as seen from Fort Lee, NJ. I took this in December 2023. Never did get into NYC on that trip, but at least I SAW Manhattan. Haven’t been since I was 8 or so.

If our hockey team winds up being called the Leprechauns and the mascot ISN'T the Crichton Leprechaun, what are we even DOING? For those of y'all who don't know: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crichto...

Friends, please take a moment to let the people you love know that you love them. This is important in all seasons, but particularly important during hard times. Make a habit of it, if you haven't! I don't just mean romantic partners or family either! Friends count here.

It's Friday, and that means after work it's date night for us! I look forward to date night all week. We usually don't do anything fancy or expensive (we typically go to one of a few local joints, or maybe Popeye's or McDonald's - we're not posh) but even Macca's is special when I go with her.

Marketing email subject: "Stop juggling data—let Excel do the heavy lifting"

Y'all the Berditchever is saying that the point is not whether or not one identifies as religious or whatever, but that the whole point of everything is HOW WE TREAT OTHER HUMAN BEINGS and if you say you love God but treat people like garbage, he's calling you on it.

What we're seeing in the "don't sign up for protests" discourse is what Paulo Freire described as the convert's failure to trust the knowledge of the oppressed. As the convert tries to stand in solidarity with the oppressed, they refuse to let go of a world where they were the authority by default.

After using Google Gemini at work for a while by mandate, I find that the LLM is very good at writing very simple, grunt code (that you would normally have a junior write), and while it definitely takes as long to debug its output on more complex stuff as it would to do it by hand, it FEELS like 1/

Normally, Xcode does the best job at taking badly-formatted JSON and making it readable. For some reason, though, this one file I'm trying to work with is making it choke. BBEdit is fine, VS Code is fine, on Windows Notepad++ opens it fine, just all without the better auto-formatting.

Reminder: before you go full-on defeatist about the rule of law, keep in mind it remains often effective on a micro-level. It’s on the macro- that the FedSoc types have killed it. Hard work and good lawyering can make a difference for regular people — though not always, and not all of them.

Beloveds, this administration is kidnapping people off the streets, and you think you’ll be fine on a protest RSVP list? Do you really think you won’t be treated as terrorists and enemies of the country? Forget even the admin, just look at things since CK’s death. We weren’t in normal times.

Also, ESPECIALLY when it’s bad out there, take some time to enjoy something when you can. You need to protect your humanity and your wellbeing as much as you can. Feel some joy! Sometimes it’s not possible to rest, but don’t feel guilty about resting when you can and need to.

Taking a moment from my usual Opinion Having to gently remind everyone that having an opinion, take, or reaction to everything isn’t mandatory. It’s absolutely ok to respond to everything. Pick your battles. I have a few things I feel very strongly about, and I have to let other things roll off.

Do read the entire thread. I felt it worthwhile to highlight this post to emphasize that if there's no remedy or recourse for rights being violated, the rights effectively don't exist. This isn't some thought experiment, this is HAPPENING now. Sure, might not happen to you - but what if it DOES?

I've been through a couple drafts of this thought, and in re the argument about signing up for lists for rallies and whatnot my views boil down to: Do you really want to provide one MORE data point regardless of how safe you are? I know organizing is tough, but LISTEN to marginalized groups. 1/

Watching prominent commenters followed by dozens of people I know say "it's over" because Jimmy Kimmel got suspended...like, they actually killed Medgar Evers, in defense of a fascist system that had been in place for decades. Imagine social media that day! Read history and have some self-respect.

BREAKING: Disney+ is to replace the two-season run of Andor with a recut version that runs for only five minutes, and is just Mon Mothma apologising profusely to Darth Vader for any inconvenience, and letting him have whatever he wants.

We keep saying CBS and ABC are "bowing to pressure" from the White House. Have you considered that they just agree with him?

It yet again strikes me how FRAGILE authoritarians are.

GodDAMMIT Alabama, can we please not be so… so… US… for a while?

Every time I see Trump claim vast powers over economic policy that the Constitution does not give him, often only for the Supreme Court to step in and go 'seems legit,' I can't help but think about the Court carrying on as if canceling some student loan debt was shocking executive overreach

I swear, at LEAST half the internet should have a memetic/cognitohazard warning label on it anymore.

people will tell you they don't understand gender fluidity then look right at a ship called the Edmund Fitzgerald and call it "her" without missing a beat

Friends, I'm gonna keep pounding this drum - trans rights are human rights. Once again, so many people that are far smarter and more eloquent than I have said it far better, but trans rights MATTER. If you're willing to sacrifice trans people, you're tacitly willing to sacrifice anyone.

I can’t say it enough times - Everything hinges on trans rights. If you need self-interest: Cis ladies, do you like yoga pants and voting and guys in eyeliner? Cis dudes, do you like glam rock, metal, and Katharine Hepburn? Trans rights are our rights. Trans rights are your rights.

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EXACTLY. They ID'd trans folks as a group that Democrats were willing to sacrifice, which will make it easier to roll back other civil rights and liberties until things are worse than they were 120 years ago. Fight for trans rights because it's the right thing to do, but also because you're next.

Just a follow up to tell you that I've spoken with the person who started this for the family, and the majority of the $15,000 is actually hospital bills from this birth.

To be clear, I'm deliberately not saying much about Alien: Earth because it's so new that I don't want to spoil anything for anyone. I have plenty to gush about; so many of the performances and such are SO GOOD. If you haven't seen it yet and have access to Hulu it'd make a good weekend watch.

I've been enjoying Alien: Earth so much that I have been catching up on the movies I haven't seen. I've enjoyed all of them so far except for Alien: Covenant. While it had some great performances and some neat ideas, I felt it wasn't well-executed. I know that the various movies, games, 1/

A couple days in, and I'm so far generally a fan of the various Apple OSes 26. Unusually, I updated ALL THE THINGS on release day, even my MacBook Pro that I use for work. I haven't run into any showstoppers yet.

Bertrand Russell, at 89 years old, to Sir Oswald Mosley, a man most famous for founding, in 1932, the British Union of Fascists. I'm all for civil discourse. But everyone can and should draw a line at who they will talk to. Notice that Russell did not demean himself with incivility, either.

In other news, Tuberville remains a world-class dipshit.

Not gonna lie, I missed the more fun interaction here.

I don't think anyone would actually NOTICE if I took a hiatus without telling anyone, but it feels like poor form to just disappear without notice - I'm gonna dial back on the social media for a while. It's nothing to do with the folks here on Bsky - it's all about the <gestures around vaguely>.

We started watching Alien Earth, and it’s pretty good so far.

Our car was due for service and the dealer’s service department (we have a service plan) web site said they didn’t have appointments available until December. We stopped in to see if that was true, and they had plenty of room today. I’ll take that small win.

You cannot be saying this when there are many MANY pictures of you gleefully ripping apart homeless camps.

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