I just competed in the finals of two different tournaments in @resolutiongames.bsky.social's Racket Club. First, a "Tier Cup" (one match in each of the four sports): www.youtube.com/live/D6TaEmB... And then immediately after, a best-3-of-5 matches in Box Tennis: www.youtube.com/live/HP33Tr4...

"Long COVID is real. It’s wrecking lives. And it’s not going to stay hidden forever. It just takes this species a while. We delay. We deny. We look away. But eventually, the truth gets loud enough." ---------------------------- Long Covid & My Brother-in-Law www.notesforfriends.com/p/long-covid...

We really need to try and get rid of the “during covid” and “during the pandemic” word choices. Covid is now. It never left. It continues to infect and DISABLE people, whether you see it or not.

The South Korean Ministry of Defense has awarded medals of merit to 11 officers for disobeying direct orders of superiors during the martial law fiasco, orders that they deemed to be contrary to the constitution and endangerment to democracy. www.chosun.com/english/nati...

D and it's not even close. Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Thai, Indian, Middle-Eastern? YES TO ALL OF IT. (And sure, every once in a while we'll have an Australian bloomin' onion from Outback. Why not.)

My parents are on a 2-week cruise. Before they left, she told me Dad was worried about getting sick again like he did on the last one. I told her the best way to prevent getting sick is to wear a mask. They both agreed that's a really good idea. No masks in any pics they've sent to the family chat.

I cannot emphasize enough that if you want people to be upset at your death, you have to lead a life that doesn't involve treating those people like utter shit.

Why does everyone everywhere see a bunch of sickness going around and think, "I need to up my vitamins and immunity boosts?" That is fine, but most importantly, you should be prioritizing mask-wearing w/a KN95/KF94/N95-level type mask. Please guys. Tell me you learned something in the past 6 years.

Attn all authors: file that claim!!

Our newest batch of bananas I just harvested from the tree in our backyard. And some baby ones that just started growing this week. :-)

looks like Unmasking the Horror tours started today. If you want to go into the houses without seeing them, might be a good time to mute/block the usual suspects. #hhn34

Bring me the head of every web developer who thinks it's a good idea to have a pop up on their site that appears WHILE users are scrolling/reading their site and filling in a form on the site.

FWIW, if you're looking for the #Peacemaker podcast on a 3rd party podcast app like Downcast, search for "DC Studios Showcase".

Not only did @journeyon.bsky.social and @mritty.net participate in my challenge (1st to send a submission), but also included subtle hints to let me know they watch my daily vids! Love this! (debuting here on 🦋, currently unlisted on my channel. will make public later) youtube.com/shorts/YJ2gv...

The U-Haul outside indicates we’re getting a new neighbor. We've lived here 5 years and never met the current one. I simultaneously hope the new one is as unnoticeable and also takes better care of his lawn (their weeds frequently become our weeds).

Headcanon: following "Superman", someone in-universe makes a based-on-the-true-story movie about the events of the movie. This is Supergirl posing with *that* movie's poster, after vandalizing it.

. @journeyon.bsky.social and I did an Escape Room last night that all #HHN fans need to go try immediately. "Cornstalkers" at Escape Ventures in Orlando was *insane*. Part live theater, part escape room, part HHN house. The level of detail and immersion in this escape room is nearly unmatched.

I made an over-and-hour long video of a Deep Dive into my favorite #VR app, Racket Club by @resolutiongames.bsky.social. I spend so many of my lunch breaks and evenings in this app, and I want everyone to see why. If you've got the time, please give it a watch. :-) youtu.be/8KqM3NsVmuY

Man, I'm really grateful for the Oculus app refund policy, because some of these apps are just ASS.

Saw my three coworkers last night, for the first time in about two years. At least two of them are definitely right-leaning (but not, I don't think, full MAGA). Even *they* didn't question me wearing my N95 while we were playing at Activate Games.

Do you want a run on gas? Because this is how you get a run on gas.

Maybe 1% of people in Orlando wear masks in public. But one thing I'll say: in theme parks, movie theaters, Publix, Activate, Escape Rooms…, no one's ever given me shit about it. No questioning, no eyerolls, no snickers. The only times I've been questioned about wearing one? Doctors' offices.

Oh hey, look - my local paper has an article on the newest covid variant. #CovidIsNotOver. It never was. -------------------------------------------- What to know about the COVID variant that may cause ‘razor blade’ sore throats www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/06/18/c...

I love the Rainbow Coconut Club.

Dear stupid web developers everywhere, but in particular @kanopy.com - if you give your main content div an onScroll that loads more content, I can't ever see the information in your site's footer.

uh. There's hail hitting our house's windows.

FYI, turn off your adblockers. I was in a never ending cycle of logging in and then told to log in until I disabled AdBlock+ on both the Fandango and Amazon sites.

Client: *opens ticket* Me: *responds to ticket* Client: <crickets> Me, one week later: *responds to ticket, requesting update* Client, responding to my ticket response: "Please send the previous response as this is the first I've received. I do not have access to tickets, email me directly."

Client: "The changes you made to the store website are working perfectly. But we found this other issue on this other site of ours." Me: "Correct. Your other site, that we do not own, develop, maintain, or manage, does have an error."

Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺

Client has decided - without any input, feedback, or conversation with us - that the GoLive for the changes I made 2 months ago that they've been hemming and hawing about since then, will be this Thursday. Both I and my boss are out Thursday. Good luck, client!

Hey folks, I have a huge request for Pride: Trevor Project is recruiting for a landmark new study. If you are LGBTQ, in the United States, and between 13-24 or know someone who is, pass this along to them. Trevor’s research has led to meaningful defenses of queer and trans lives. Take the survey

So we’re like 90% sure this tree is how the racoons got onto our roof and from there forced their way into our attic. So I just trimmed it down so it's no longer as tall as our house. But I worry that I may have removed so many leaf-bearing branches that it might not recover. :-/

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Disney hates its passholders, Evidence #43531

When you buy zucchini and the Publix cashier rings it up as Cucumber, do you correct them? Or figure it doesn't actually matter?

Man, remember when this was *the* gift shop at MK? People used to come in here just to marvel at how cool the carpet was.

5 years ago: “An incalculable loss” Today: Banning masks and restricting vaccine access

Somehow my brilliant plan of using my new pole chainsaw to trim the dead branches from our tree failed to take into account the additional two hours of chopping up said branches into baggable pieces.

Every Harry Potter book or shirt you buy directly funds the persecution of trans people. There's absolutely no excuse to support anything Harry Potter anymore unless you hate trans people.

If only @universalorl.bsky.social would join us over here on a functional social media site…

I don't know if it will matter to anyone in authority, but I submitted my comment, opposing the idiotic proposed restrictions.

Do we know yet what's going into the current Epic Universe Preview Center after tomorrow? Or whenever they decide that "Preview Center" is anachronistic enough to close it?

You don’t need your uterus to survive, and yet most doctors will force people to keep it even when it’s diseased and/or risking their lives. A hypothetical future husband and baby are more important than current and future quality of life. That’s medical misogyny.

Woke up early so I could do some debugging work on the client's server before their techs start their workday. Their server cannot be reached. Cool cool. Glad I woke up two hours early.

It's astonishing this needed to be studied. It's inconceivable to me that anyone could *not* just intrinsically know people are happier WFH than commuting to an office.

The best possible Universal news.

On the morning meeting, my Boss just said that something was "Super Easy" and I instinctively responded "Barely an inconvenience" forgetting these are my coworkers and bosses, not fellow Ryan George fans. . .

Client: "I created a billing@<domain>.com email address and added myself and my two coworkers to it, but we’re not getting the invoice notifications! What's wrong?!" Me: "…. you never told me to send the invoice notifications to that address?"

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