Oh boy! We added a “Gamified Tracker” for AI use at work. The future is AMAZING and I LOVE IT! I’m being VERY SARCASTIC!

Angine de Poitrine is playing a show in Portland and two shows in Vancouver in August and tickets go on sale this Friday. I think I want to see them 👀

Angine de Poitrine is playing a show in Portland and two shows in Vancouver in August and tickets go on sale this Friday. I think I want to see them 👀

I have this tool cart I want to convert into a welding cart, so I’ve decided to use some scrap angle iron to build a platform to hold a couple of gas cylinders. Do you smell what The Rock is cookin’???

I love this guy‘s channel. www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-83...

My least favorite take is when a popular creator turns out to be shitty and people compete to be first to say “well I never liked what they made anyway, making me morally superior“. OK, we get it, you’re God’s gift to the world for how pure and unsullied you are, now shut up.

“Manosphere” refers to a thin layer of the atmosphere between the troposphere and the stratosphere composed primarily (but not entirely) of men. It was first discovered by NOAA researchers in 2015.

A woodpecker has decided that our house is delicious, and I’m not sure what to do about this situation.

I think it’s a good sign that I can practice welding for a couple of hours, just running bead after bead after bead on some 3/16” plate, and still enjoy every second of it. I’m feeling very slow but very steady progress.

That was fun! I volunteered for a county organized “Fix It Fair” today, where people can bring in small appliances and whatnot to be fixed for free by volunteers. I ended up fixing a metronome, a power strip, a hair dryer, and a few other little odds and ends, & helped some of the other volunteers.

Most days on Bluesky are like “Hmm, are these very alarming posts just normal background doomerism, or did something extra bad happen that I don’t know about yet?” and it’s usually 50/50. I should read social media a lot less.

Pretty excited about this: I'm renting a sod cutter next weekend to kill our lawn, and I'm going to replace it with a Pacific Northwest native seed mix from this Oregon seed seller. I am sick of mowing grass. And besides, screw lawns. ptlawnseed.com/collections/...

Every once in a while someone will say “you know, you should take a more moderate position on LLMs”, but here’s the thing: no

I bet AI is really really shitty at Erlang. I should learn Erlang.

Cross-posting my posts from Mastodon manually is always uhhh interesting because the limit there is 500 characters and here it’s 200 characters so I get to make a lot of editorial decisions 😬

I finally sold the mini skid steer I’ve been trying to unload, and now I’m back down to having only one! Whew. I ended up trading it to our arborist in exchange for some tree work, it was his idea.

Pretty soon, the only way to get porn will be the way we used to do it back in my Gen-X childhood days: finding magazines stashed under a log in the woods behind an apartment complex. Man what a thrill woods porn was to a 14 year old. Hubba hubba!

WHAT IS THE CHARGE? DRAWING ANIMAL KNEES? SUCCULENT ANIMAL KNEES?

Kids today will never understand how inescapable Soul Coughing’s “Super Bon Bon” was on the radio in 1996

If that knee is bent, you must repent

Captain Lou Albano will always be Mario to me.

We truly do live in the dumbest timeline.

I don’t know if this is a terrible take or not, but land acknowledgements just seem so performative to me. I would rather know that your institution did something meaningful and tangible for indigenous people, not just tack some statement onto the footer of your emails and web pages.

Math is hard. Let’s go shopping!

Hnnnn. My welder can TECHNICALLY do some TIG if I buy $360 of peripherals, but only DC welding, so no aluminum. Also it’s Harbor Freight so not top quality… but Lincoln Electric makes a pretty affordable dedicated AC/DC TIG welder that comes with everything I need except gas, and I’m sorely tempted.

It’s an “in office” day for me, so I’m up at 6:30 so I can be at the office by 9:45 so I can be on a Teams call with the rest of the team at 10:00! They want us to do this every day of course. The future is incredibly stupid.

I took a short TIG welding class tonight and golly is it fun! I can see why it gets a reputation for being so hard, but honestly I think it’s easier than stick welding. But now I have to buy a tig torch and foot pedal and argon gas for my welder, oh bother 😩

Why did the tech bros have to embrace the Torment Nexus as their Utopia instead of Iain M. Banks’ “The Culture”?

The difference between the built in iOS Camera app at 5x zoom and a third party raw image sensor camera app at 5x zoom is SHOCKING to me. Who allowed this level of image fuckery by default?

Well that was a pleasant surprise. We have four big dying trees on the property we need to have taken down, two that could fall on our shed and two that could fall on the neighbor's house, and we got a bid from our arborist that was way lower than I expected.

(1/2) Back when I got my first real professional job, I was making $42,000 a year and I felt like an absolute BALLER, I could never imagine that much success ...

Fuck it, I applied to the local community college welding program. Hands-on classes would be two nights per week (Monday/Wednesday or Tuesday/Thursday) from 5PM to 10PM, so it’s a big time commitment. I think I can handle one of those per quarter.

It’s the annual cleaning of the Norwegian Flag here in my sleepy little home town.

I’ve seen a couple of YouTube channels refer to the chips that come out of a steel cutting chop saw as “man glitter”, which is a little sexist but also pretty funny?

Before you post, remember to apply the Four Way Test: 1. Is it the truth? 2. Is it fair to all concerned? 3. Will it build goodwill and better friendships? 4. Will it be beneficial to all concerned?

I'm of a generation where getting into software was not cool, it was not hip, it was not seen as a gold rush money making career path. You wrote software because you were a nerd who liked computers to an unhealthy degree when everyone else liked sports. You were looked down on as a geek.

This is a really beautiful and meaningful video. Thank you, Crafsman. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CC7d...

When I was a kid I didn’t understand why my dad loved a chance to use a chainsaw, it just seemed like work when I’d rather be on my computer. But now that I’m 50-something with a chainsaw of my own, I get it. I finally get it.

I would write a $1,000 check to Bluesky right this second if they turned on a way to disable reposts on a per-account basis. I hate that I just have to turn them ALL off. That is shitty, it’s shit.

We need to invite this guy to DJ at the next furry rave www.youtube.com/watch?v=_67O...

Had Wile E on the noggin. Had to scratch the itch

WHAT IS IT LIKE TO BE A LATINO FURRY? Eight of us saw how different our realities are in comparison to the north-american, eurocentric "normalised perception" of the furry fandom, and decided to record a small documentary to explore how the fandom in in Latin America! 🦊

Incest is a major turnoff for me, it squicks me out hardcore because the fantasy just makes me think of real life. Gross. But you know what? Imaginary incest shouldn’t fucking be illegal. Thats the stupidest thing I ever heard. Utter nonsense!

We desperately need Rich Fulcher to play Admiral Perry in a biopic. He’d be perfect!

everyone loved the tech industry's free music and friendship machines of 20-30 years ago. it's unclear what could be causing people to feel the opposite about the industry's new racism and insanity machine

Durex Colombia PR department is on fire :)

It's sweater season so dress accordingly. with Maple and Kilmo @hottapwater.bsky.social @kilmo.bsky.social

Dr. Mink chilling

I love seeing feral fursonas with glasses and piercings like who is your optometrist out there in the forest? Are you able to properly do your piercing aftercare with your bappy little paws? It's so cute and opens up a whole world of possibilities.