Repost with four random facts about you: - Late teens me considered going into the seminary. - 20s me attended a group dinner out with George Takei. - 40s me became the sole survivor of my family line. - 60s me still talks with my college roommate—my best friend and best man—every week.

Reddit sucks. There are so many assholes out there spewing hate and bullshit, yet when I dare try to post anything that doesn’t paint a company I’m otherwise loyal to in a positive light, I get blacklisted. My recents posts about xTool and Bambu have been removed. Controlled community narrative.

Finally starting to watch #uvinkfest after an otherwise crazy week so far.

Whelp, I made the mistake of peeking at Reddit and noticing that BambuLab mods were closing threads around the latest legal brouhaha, and redirecting all to a megathread. Struck me as discussion squashing/cordoning. So I asked why they’re doing that. MAN…Redditers can be so MEAN!

Instructure: We already have a black eye from having to go down during finals week.... how can we make it worse....

Let's flood the MakerWorld algorithm with pro-open source content. My contribution features a favorite movie quote and a QR link to the AGPL-3.0 license. Likes, boosts, etc. will help. [Some may argue we should abandon Bambu. Reality: that won't happen.] #3dprinting makerworld.com/en/models/27...

Dropped my phone out of my shirt pocket leaning over yesterday. Bonehead move. Landed screen down. Thought I'd lucked out! But today I see the cracks. First screen I've cracked in about 15 years. First iPhone screen I've cracked ever. Looks like I'll be visiting my local Apple Store soon.

I learned that my local #3dprinting store has a spool exchange program. Turn yours in for a $2 credit, buy one for $4. Sure beats the $12 price from Bambu (when in stock) or the $20 price some eBay-ers thing they can get!

@actblueorg.bsky.social I'm not sure how you're doing the candidates you serve any favor when you share past contributors' contact info with all your other candidates. Me getting multiple email & text msgs EVERY SINGLE DAY by candidates from all over the country doesn't engage me—it pushes me away.

A very special Friday roundtable: new revelations about Kash Patel, a Democratic redistricting win in Virginia, and fresh retaliation from the administration. Bright & early Mon., Talking Feds breaks down the depth of damage to the rule of law — and how it might be repaired.

"You can now test and compare AI models on LinkedIn." Why.

Virginians: Have you voted yet? You can still vote if you're in line by 7:00 p.m. tonight.

Tomorrow is VA's special election. If you haven't yet voted, please do. I'd suggest that voting YES, while distasteful in concept, is a temporary, gloves-off move to fight back. Please vote, and please consider voting YES. And hey…this SCOTUS declined to address political gerrymandering! 🤷‍♂️ #voteYES

@itsathing.bsky.social OMG, I'm dying about the first person book thing. Now I want to write a book in second person just to see if that, too, would trigger these people (and, arguably, might be more applicable).

Executed a warranty-violating maneuver to align the gantry in my CO2 laser yesterday. It appeared to fix things, though I later found comments on the YouTube site I followed saying "that shouldn't fix it—you need to do this instead." Why did I look at the comments? #laserengraving

@cnn.com Hating the producer’s feed and visibility of the crew during breaks on Out Front. It’s jarring and unprofessional.

@medstarhealth.bsky.social I am never going to click a button in an email message and then provide PII. Seriously, what are you thinking with these appointment notifications? If you need me to fill out pre-appointment paperwork, make it available in the patient portal. #infosec #pii

HEADLINE OF THE DAY: 😆 #BuhBYE

Is AI a cult or a virus? Discuss.

I'm judging you by how you load the dishwasher.

W00t! New crime novel from author David Swinson. (not an affiliate link) www.audible.com/pd/From-the-...

Is @cnn.com trying to be clever by opening the producer’s mic and showing the crew on set before the commercial breaks on #cnnoutfront? It’s kind of lame.

Laser map image making startup launches licensing campaign offering random prizes. Then changes the rules for prizes to be merit-based. Then changes them again to be based on "simple written submission." Me: 🍿 #laserengraving

@quicken.bsky.social, a financial services company, sends out an email message with a button that will prompt for your account credentials to read a letter/post. Either this is fishing or [and this is what I'm betting:] they're more clueless about #infosec than I give them credit for. Bad form.

About to record Entertainment 2.0 with @joshpollard live on Twitch. Come watch. It’ll be fun! https://twitch.tv/digitalmediazone

I may or may not have just worn my joggers all day long. I work from home and probably nobody cares. But I still feel like I was getting away with something.

#AVRant Podcast #999.7 - Blows Up Good Audio only version:

NASA Administrator: We're doing things! Pretty much the same things, but we have a big, powerful name for this big push, thanks Trump. Oh, and we're getting rid of that whole "gateway" thing our scientists and engineers told us we needed to make this whole moon thing viable. It'll be better […]

So Paramount has killed Starfleet Academy before its second season even airs. Why? Because of low viewer ratings fueled by a homophobic smear campaign and haters who'd suspiciously never previously posted much but suddenly had a lot to say?

Sorry, @kairyssdal.bsky.social , but I am indeed going to @ you re: Project Hail Mary! I kind of want to know more behind the "meh." Did you like the movie version of The Martian? Personally, I believe the (same) screenwriter did a similarly great job adapting the story for the big screen.

I just saw Project Hail Mary. They did good good good.

I participated in the Rivian Electric Joyride at @SXSW this week, and...

And with the OOO message posted, my week is over, and I'm officially on vacation. #SXSW

New episode of the #homeassistant podcast is here! Rohan and I dig into practical AI: LLM Vision for doorbells, HACS add‑ons (AI Agent, AI Suggester), Copilot‑made YAML, Ollama+LiteLLM and of course #openclaw https://youtu.be/uXTV2nkugy8

Picard management tip: Don't waste time using social media. Pretend it was never invented.

I just learned what I'm sure is going to be a life-changing new Chrome keyboard command: Shift-Command-A Search all tabs.

Not even 0900 yet, and I’ve already been called out by a @microsoft.com employee for a snarky comment I left about ADO on the developer community forums. I’ll take the win.

Is @axios.com using AI to write articles about AI now? It sure does look and read like it. How meta. And lame. www.axios.com/2026/02/27/a...

So. A globally disruptive, economically unsound, and whim-driven tariff policy turns out to be unconstitutional. Huh.

I love using "math" as a verb. (This probably bothers @joshpollard.bsky.social )

I'm old and boring, having left sugar cereals behind decades ago. But I'm in for these:

“The way that they’ve approached this is to ignore any of the costs that come out of this rule and just focus on the two items that are savings for consumers." (Per NRDC) 🤦‍♀️ Thank you @zhirji.bsky.social for the gift link!!!

Apple Podcasts now has video! No. That's always been there but they're updating the tech. HLS streaming (no need to know what that is) allows for audio/video switching, dynamic ads, etc. BUT this does nothing to onboard 90+% of podcasters cause it does nothing to solve the real barrier..hosting!$$$

This!! Also, the people selling you AI believe their own hype, and think that AI is a neutral solution to all the complicated ills that shitty humans perpetuate. But behind every AI is people. Either building the models with their own biases or acting on the alerts with their own biases.

New episode of the @home-assistant.io podcast is here! Rohan and I chat with Will Osborne-Kennedy about taming a period UK home and a Canary Islands getaway: DIY pool chemistry, a fridge "strawtenna", dashboards, AI heating and more. Watch: https://youtu.be/_pBJXLIbawU

100% this!

CBS wouldn’t allow Colbert to air this interview with a democratic candidate for the Texas senate seat. So it’s on YouTube. youtu.be/oiTJ7Pz_59A?...

New test materials arrived! Stainless steel, plywood, and acrylic. First order from Makerstock, and it arrived FAST. #engraving #laserenvgraving

Same. And all politics aside, what king of person lacks the common human decency to even turn their head to acknowledge the victims of childhood rape? Sickening... #AccountabilityIsComing