Yesterday a guy emailed me at my directory email, and asked how to format his story for the website. Then asked for my number to talk on the phone to “confirm the legitimacy of my organization.” When I said no, he asked to meet in person somewhere. Yeah, no, I’ll pass, thanks.

to fucken vanquish someone wearing scissor shoe

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This scene from A Fish Called Wanda is great. “IF IT WASN’T FOR US, YOU’D ALL BE SPEAKING GERMAN” - Otto, just before the 2min mark. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGOl...

"Without us you'd all be speaking German", Donald Trump tells an audience in Davos, in Switzerland. Where the most common language is German.

Finally saw Sinners. Enjoyed it. It’s like if Dusk Til Dawn had something it really wanted to actually *say*. Also vampires are an absolutely PERFECT metaphor for the dynamics of cultural appropriation. Especially with the “you have to invite them in” part they leaned hard into. The stuff with…

Teenager on the bus: This summer we have to do something or my TikTok will be lame.

Adding this to the pile of I'VE HEARD GOOD THINGS

This fast train shaking on its tracks wobbles its passengers’ heads, creating bobble-headed car ornaments of us all.

Yesterday it was cows using tools, today its penguins using satellite imagery.

there are plenty of reasons Air Force One would suddenly turn around. for example, they may have forgotten Kevin

Shitty newspapers, shitty editors, shitty publishers, shitty values.

Yeah, I can't even feign shock at this. Devs who don't understand jack shit about coding are vibe coding apps with security holes you could drive a truck through because OF COURSE THEY ARE. appleinsider.com/articles/26/...

Air Force One (derogatory)

compression.zstd in Python 3.14 really doesn't like this string for some reason. Shift a few bytes from one end to the other, and the compression ratio improves twentyfold. b'AB__AB__AB____________' * 720

Killer feature right here. I've lost track of the number of times I've iterated scaling a recipe in Paprika to get one of the ingredients to match what I have available… (or resorted to using a Python repl to calculate the requisite scale factor)

I am SO honored to have my game High Tide covered on Thinky Games—a site I frequent and read about puzzly games voraciously! “High Tide goes quick, and I have a lot of space in my life for a thinky, tactile, abstract style game that doesn’t overstay its welcome…”

Do we need to say it louder? Here. Louder. " Federal courts in Alabama are using a law last applied during the U.S. internment [incarceration] of people of Japanese descent during World War II to charge immigrants who don’t register themselves..." www.al.com/news/2026/01...

ahh, CMake, the best of what 1973 had to offer I'm sure

between this, the piss bottles, and the footage of ICE agents getting yelled at in a restaurant, i like this new thing where the fascists vocally inform everyone about what kind of opposition bothers them the most

Best news so far! 🧪🧪🧪

This is an INSANE way to openly tell on yourself.

It's very important to understand that articles like this are not about what any Democrats think, it's about conservative groups trying to convince Democrats to think this, by making it sound like the only thing that's sensible

reader i sputtered

Should I mansplain this man back and tell him that’s actually called *hamlet*

This whole thread is chef’s kiss. Yes, please shut up about “birth rates” until women have complete autonomy over their bodies once more. Then we can talk.

Mostly retweeting to remind me to check this one out (because as if I ever read my bookmarks)

I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1765

👀👀👀 FRIGGEN COOL SCIENCE! 🔭🧪 The @ehtelescope.bsky.social imaged OJ287 - a binary supermassive black hole system that's about 4 billion light-years away, and found temporal-polarimetric variations on timescales of days! 🤯🤯 The magnetic fields are at it again! 🧲 📸 Gómez et al. 2026

tfw you open a coworker's project in your IDE and the scrollbar looks like this (ok ok I need to shovel some stuff from a makefile or bash script into a cmake file so CLion can find its way around. but anyway.)

it's incredible how if you put this entire dialog into the Left Behind series, it would basically work, but instead it's just IRL MN

Honestly this works for everything “I want to trap hungry 19c ghosts in jars to help us with historical research” ✅ “Please read our holiday card; we got a hungry ghost to write it this year” ❌

My list is much shorter than Andrew’s because I’m fundamentally bad at choosing stuff. Even worse at ranking so this list is not in order.

The bullies that went after first the Bendigo and now Adelaide writers festival for daring to include a Palestinian voice don't give a fuck that this will wreck the festival. They just want to make it clear they'll do this again and again, so you're best complying in advance.

To be clear: these terrorists were not Arabs, not acting on behalf of Palestinians, radicalised by Islamic State, who oppose the cause of Palestinian self-determination. Their antisemitic ideology and its murderous conclusion is not - cannot be - connected to pro-Palestinian activism.

A 6-year-old kid has lost a parent for the rest of their life because some trigger-happy terrorist decided so, and if that doesn’t break your heart then honestly mine breaks for you.

A Washington Post article suggests that, beyond a certain threshold, larger homes don't make people happier. Instead, well-being is correlated with affordable housing in walkable neighborhoods where they feel socially connected. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

I need games to get weirder. It’s 2026, hyper clean minimalist UI design is boring- I want more bleeps and bip bip bip sounds when I’m in my menus. I want stylized text and elaborate window frames.

I am pleased to announce that I have commandeered my neighbor's home. This home will be sold at its Market Price, and that money will be controlled by me, to ensure it is used to benefit my neighbor and me! Thank you for your attention to this matter!

So this morning's filling was much less unpleasant than last months "first scrape and clean in *mumble* years" :) Probably helped that I zoned out calculating fibonacci numbers for a bit; I didn't know that 1597 was one of them until today. Also confirmed that phi is around 1.618

this year's annual aussie lamb (meat) ad is the silliest thing i've seen all day, and i've been wading through aws docs. www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2uv...

My niece in Stonehaven, near Aberdeen, has made a snow dalek that's featured in the Aberdeen Press and Journal. #proudaunt

The Tall Tale of the Tall Tale the Tall Tall Tale Teller and the Taller Tall Tale Teller Told The Tall Tall Tale Tellers

I sent this video to my friend and she got mad at me

12YO girl signed up to do “stand up comedy” at the talent show. 13YO boy decided to heckle her. Teacher started to tell the boy to leave her alone, but the 12YO comedian said “no, no, let him go, this is the closest he’s ever going to get to having a conversation with a girl.”

My brother’s sitting with a friend at a window table in a pub in Oxford. Friend says “Was that Brian Blessed in the street?” And then, right by the window: “YES IT’S ME, BRIAN BLESSED! BWAH HA HA HA!”. And then RAN away.

This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)

gonna run for president on a platform of decriminalization of everything no more police, only social workers.

So how are people feeling about Tahoe (MacOS 26) at the moment? I’ve only just bumped from 15.6.1 to 15.7.1 this afternoon, vaguely pondering making a bigger leap while there’s not much else going on..