It's important to have friends who will take a bullet for you (such as watching all eight (8) movies in the Evil Bong franchise, plus crossovers, and reporting on the experience so you don't have to have it)

Starting the year off with a clean slate (deleting all my cookies)

2026 will be the year of Windows 10 on the desktop

Kind of guy who always shoots in RAW+JPEG just in case they ever get around to actually doing digital darkroom shit (they won't)

Re-watched a short bit of Hunger Games last night while searching for something to relax before bed. It struck me just how many of our stories, especially in SFF/speculative fiction, are about people getting more and more traumatized. What if we used our collective imagination to tell story […]

@ricci 1. Mustache doctor 2. School administrator borrowed from Animal House-type movie 3. Main #monsterdon

This is Alpha Control TWO MINUTES GET YOUR #Monsterdon TOGETHER #timewalker

Now that #Monsterdon has saved Christmas, what is left? Walking through Time, apparently (1982)???? So uh yeah, I guess this is going to be a movie, of some sort!

🚨 Tonight! Weekly #Monsterdon watch party at 9:00 pm (ET). Massive :toot: generator may affect your timeline. Your options: 🟥 Remove 'monsterdon' and all its posts from your view. Use Preferences > Filters 🟣 Do nothing, enjoy some fun posts that appear in your TL. ✅ Follow the #Monsterdon […]

I would like a moment of silence. Not cause anything bad happened, I just need a moment of silence

My dad busted out the home videos, time to go home

What is the candy with the lowest consumption to production ratio as is it candy canes

This is Olive, she wants you to throw her toy for her

RE: https://mas.to/@kissane/115771219606234540 One of the most radical things you can do in these unstable times is to know things: actual, solid things that can be the foundation of a system of knowledge on which we can rebuild the wreckage of the reality we once shared.

Happy holidays, fediverse! I got you a megathrust earthquake, soil liquefaction, spine-tingling papers about the way our networks confound knowledge, and a PDF in a pear tree. It's my wrap on a year of trying to make sense of how we make sense of what's happening to us […]

"average person counts ℵ₀ sets a year" factoid actualy just statistical error. average person counts 0 sets per year. Georg Cantor, who lives in cave & counts over ℵₐ each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

For #utahns, don't sign the petitions about boundaries unless you support the #gerrymander. Yes, the #utah #gop is gathering signatures to get the new boundaries overturned on the next ballot, but they are going against the wishes of their own rural GOP voters as well as Salt Lakers. Just as […]

Thinking about something my mom (classic boomer) said the other night. We were talking about nextdoor and why I don't use it (it'd just make me hate everyone probably), and she told me this story from theirs. It was about someone who walked out of their house to find a pile of unopened packages […]

Most database teams optimize what they see in workload logs. But those very optimizations change what users choose to run! In our CIDR paper, we argue that industrial workloads exhibit 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐯𝐨𝐫𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩 𝐛𝐢𝐚𝐬: logs reflect a negotiation between users and the […] [Original post on discuss.systems]

Happy Boxing Day to those who... do whatever it is you do on Boxing Day

[stranger things spoiler] The world doesn't get destroyed or whatever (idk I haven't watched it), the show is set in the 80s and we're still here

My child waiting for the next episode of Stranger Things to be released is learning what it was like to watch broadcast TV

"For one thing, it makes the metaphorical dominance of the machines, as imagined by Samuel Butler, a most immediate and non-metaphorical problem. It gives the human race a new a most effective collection of mechanical slaves to perform its labor. Such mechanical labor has most of the economic […]

Whoa that is one bushy tail you've got there

[anti-black racism] Europeans: anti-black racism is an American thing, we don't do that here Also Europeans: (note, these were posted in a context where the posters were explicitly acknowledging them as at least "weird")

TIL that kubernetes and cybernetics have the same root. (guess which one I'm reading about)

Ho ho ho

The function of Christmas, for people with young children, is to turn one of the shortest days of the year into the longest

Why do I have a cookie cutter in the shape of toast

Wake up human, new fortress of solitude just dropped

RE: https://mastodon.social/@FluentInFinance/115769562798800870 🛎 🛎 🛎

The master (pizzelle baker) has become the student (pizzelle trimmer)

RE: https://discuss.systems/@ricci/115096806565494197 Dammit The Register what do you gotta do to get called a Boffin around this place https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/23/unix_v4_tape_successfully_recovered/

RE: https://social.wake.st/@liaizon/115769784655954181 @Sondra is this true?

[uspol] I just watched the 60 minutes segment that was censored in the US, nad I think it reveals something important about the current regime censorship strategy in the US. The interesting thing about the segment is that it contains basically no new information. If you have been following […]

This one is for @mugaizzo : https://brooker.co.za/blog/2024/05/09/nagle.html

these guys #Monsterdon #talesfromthecrypt1972

🦖#monsterdon 🎞️ 🪦 TRIVIA FROM THE CRYPT 💀 During production, Peter Cushing was suffering from depression, as his wife had recently died. He chose this part, though, because he thought he could do it justice. His character is a widower who is trying to communicate with his dead wife. Note that […]

the purpose of a cryptid is what it does #Monsterdon

#monsterdon is coming to town #monsterdon sees you when you're sleeping #monsterdon knows when you're awake #Monsterdon knows if you've been bad or good so donate to #monsterdonsaveschristmas for goodness sake Now, let's watch some tales what come from the crypt!

@ricci Alternatively the reader may prefer my personal solution: a 2-hour mute on @ricci when #Monsterdon starts. This way I maintain general awareness of Monsterdon, which I feel is a net positive, without my feed being blasted with quotes from competitively bad¹ movies. This may not scale […]

I got a ceramic dumpling. My spouse does not understand. "What, Rob are you going to do with a ceramic dumpling". But you, discerning reader, you understand: I am going to enjoy having a ceramic dumpling.