As Mardi Gras season really gets rolling, I must confess that I find king cake to be rather underwhelming. That is all.

It’s Penguin Awareness Day which seems like a great excuse to post the greatest ever Wikipedia edit.

It’s been an Erasure day today, music-wise.

me: why you gotta refrigerate milk when it’s in a container but not when it’s in the cow? waiter: i meant questions about the menu

If getting to New York City requires traversing 10,000 miles, then I would say it’s straightforwardly true that mamdani is not your mayor, yes

I couldn’t “learn” anymore… www.serverlesssql.com/dopamine/

I'm trying to remove a couple old accounts from finished projects from Teams, and it won't let me because I can't sign in to them anymore. Because the accounts were deleted when the projects wrapped up. It's ridiculous that I have to sign in to sign out.

When smart people like my posts I feel like I snuck past the bouncer.

It's "Blue Monday", which is a load of nonsense, but it is an excuse for a thread about New Order and the UK's best-selling 12-inch single of all time #BlueMonday (THREAD 1 of 10)

SQL Server 2025 CU1 adds four new DMVs for monitoring Linux performance: sys.dm_os_linux_cpu_stats, sys.dm_os_linux_disk_stats, sys.dm_os_linux_net_stats, sys.dm_os_linux_vm_stats. That last one isn't documented (yet?) but the rest are: learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/re...

neolithic guys get pissed if you tell them their cultures are organized by the type of pots and jewelry they made. "we called ourselves the blood hunters" "we conquered villages far beyond this horizon" sorry bud you're the western linear pottery culture now

I'm finally bowing to the inevitable and have been unpinning Azure Data Studio from the Dock, Taskbar, Start, what have you on the various computers I use in favor of VS Code. Better get used to VS Code for data work before Azure Data Studio is retired. I still have it INSTALLED, mind you.

It's Jobs Time. If you've wanted to try your hand at editing comic books (or crowdfunding them) at the best publisher ever, I suggest you apply. DO NOT SELF REJECT etc etc etc (reposting with actual correct link) www.linkedin.com/posts/vault-...

Mobile County Commissioner Merceria Ludgood puts the brakes on a protest policy that had been working its way through the commission out of concern that it targets one individual. The latest: www.al.com/news/2026/01...

A 1968 Ford Galaxie Once Recorded A Number One Single In The UK www.theautopian.com/a-1968-ford-...

I got a common data migration tool to load some stuff into the destination system via a method that, according to the vendor's own documentation, should absolutely have failed. I didn't even think it'd work, it was absolutely a YOLO Hail Mary pass before moving on to other tasks, but it WORKED.

the community theater’s production of ben-hur is gonna be 🔥

I'm hearing 'road trip'.

“This all had me wondering: what’s Indian food without the heat? The historian in me has an answer: spiciness is historically contingent.”

Tomorrow is the Feast of the Holy Innocents on the olde calendar. How can I not mention what has been happening in these days?

My wife and I are doing one of our favorite Friday night pastimes: watching favorite movies and talking shit at the screen.

I encountered the music of Chinese American Bear for the first time this morning. They're a delight!

Just in time for Carnival season, and starting today - an extra coach car. The Mobile-to-New Orleans service continues to outpace projections, and Amtrak believes it will be a popular attraction during the upcoming Carnival season: www.al.com/news/2026/01...

All my Logitech mouse and camera control software on my Mac just quit working, so I got rid of it all. For the more complex mouse configuration, I use SteerMouse (twenty bucks and worth it). For the camera, the OS and whatever apps do just fine.

This is probably going to demand a depressing amount of repetition, but here goes. If Renee Nicole Good was a childless foreign national, its still wasn't OK for a federal employee to straight up execute her. Begging everyone to not concede one inch of ground to this toxic framing.

Kendra asked about how learning about Fred Hampton and COINTELPRO in my 30s changed my perspective on like, what America is and how I exist in it as a white person, and I had a lengthy thread of thoughts

Beloved, it's ok to step away/log out if you need to.

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It’s worth noting that this setting has to be set separately in the app and in a browser - I had already set it in the app on my phone but was still getting auto-plays on my iPad and laptop until I set it again in the browser.

Colorado pushes back against new federal childhood vaccine recommendations

Don't even get me started on the canonical irregularity that is Orthodox Christianity in the United States.

The warmest of Nativity greetings to all the Old Calendar Christians out there. To those who celebrate today, Christ is born! Glorify Him!

I’m just in a transitional moment* right now *between birth and death

Occupational computing time: done! Recreational computing time: GO!

Friends, if you’re keen on Girl Scout Cookies and want to help out trans and nonbinary Scouts, has Erin got a list for YOU!

1. Did you know that Girl Scouts has, for a long time, accepted trans girls and nonbinary scouts? Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from. Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!

Trans people deserve gender-affirming care just as much as cis people do. Also, trans rights are human rights.

this store is 18+ and they’re strict as hell about it. none of this has ever been about “protecting children,” it’s about trying to force trans people to disappear

My attitude on this is that I'm not calling them because I think I can change their minds. I'm calling them because it is unthinkable to let them do this without hearing how evil and awful they are. My spite powers me. If I can get just 500 people a day to join me, we could fuck up their day.

It is, in actual fact, both an ongoing violation of international law and of the United States Constitution.

I feel for the people of Venezuela, because for so many of them life is going to get a lot worse before it gets better. We've historically been awful at regime change even when there WAS a plan - going on vibes is not likely to go any BETTER, for sure. I am so tired of the nonsense.

We finished watching Stranger Things last night. While we felt that season 5 wasn't as consistently strong as it might have been, it was nonetheless entertaining. The finale was solid.

Best thing I’ve read this morning, from a human rights lawyer in Mexico. Translation is in the ALT-text.