much more benign, but before my son was born we had an ultrasound and were told they were going to be sent to another ultrasound company. told it was in-network. wasn't. another $400 please. complained, basically told to eat shit. still bitter about that.

today’s the 40th anniversary of the first Calvin and Hobbes strip, and because of its influence, ten years later exactly Ghost in the Shell was first released in theaters

instead of reading things about RFK from Nuzzi, you should be learning 's'il vous plaît' from Muzzy

saw Sunfish on Thursday night because a local movie non-profit* showed it and that was a nice, pleasant movie! best part was that, coincidentally, a middle-aged guy in the audience had a son who had a minor part in the movie, and when he showed up he excitedly pointed at the screen

any time someone posts a screenshot from X on here, it’s got the vibe of “look at this gross poisonous bug I found under a rock”

not the point, but it's blowing my mind seeing Epstein write emails at a coherency level way *below* Trump's most ranty posts

Betrayal at Krondor! had this game for free on some demo disc in the mid-90s when I was in my early teens and couldn't afford full games and didn't have good Internet, and I must've played dozens of hours of it very rich open world for 1996 or so, and I can still remember the opening theme

I don't like that Studio Trigger house style of extreme zoom-ins and outs on fights, so I didn't like Kill la Kill or Promare that much

the idea of the 50-year mortgage proves that America still has that American ingenuity, but unfortunately it's in the area of fleecing people

son’s been watching old America’s Funniest Home Videos from 2002. kids don’t understand that without phones with high-fidelity cameras, you really had to put in the work to make a cat video

OH NO

left a message for Warner, but Kaine’s office just says they’re closed and disconnects 🙃

seeing The Wiz, a reinterpretation of the famed isekai Wizard of Oz

hell yes

just goes to show: better leap to trans defense, or trans will make you past tense 🏳️‍⚧️

explaining that someone's box refusing SSH connections is a layer 7 issue when I'm more layer 1-4 as a network engineer: I make the roads to the club and order you a limo to get there, but I can't help it if they don't let you in

(talking to my son about my parents’ dog that snapped at him) Me: Son, Grandma and Papa’s dog passed away today. Son: Oh… (gets a sad expression) Son: (sad expression goes away, mouth opens as he turns to my wife) I think I like that.

network engineering is receiving emails from Cisco about new switches w/cloud AI nanotech self-repairing super ports while fielding emails from Facilities because some finicky monitoring gear from the Bush II administration that only works at 100 Mbps with OM-1 fiber with ST connectors crapped out

those of you not in Virginia: again our Republican governor sent out $200 checks a few weeks before the election with his name on the letter and it didn't help

last night’s results were so good that the horrible night-of-election-results knot in my stomach I just get every election now unknotted by 9:15 PM

(NYT/WaPo/CNN hagiography voice) some say that the American foreign policy decisions that were made with the assistance of Dick Cheney were controversial

[Bleakly] lol

that's why I'd like him to win: the powerful people arrayed against him are, to a man, without hyperbole, everything wrong with the Democratic Party today

most effective campaign ad I’ve seen is the Spanberger one where she has Earle-Sears saying “EYE AM SPEAGUNHHHH!” over and over with what E-S believes. delivers a one-two punch of not only is my opponent a crackpot, she’s also incredibly irritating

minor point, but it continues to be hilarious and pathetic how much conservative psychosis derives from different hair color. my gimcrack theory is that it’s subconscious shorthand for “bodily autonomy” and conservatives don’t like that

my review of the Chainsaw Man movie: it good

Nauticus museum? I thought this field trip I’m chaperoning was going to the Naughty Cuss museum so we could learn about swearing

report back from AT&T: solution is for them to run an aerial fiber cable that *spans two miles*

a fascinating short film about the life of the American median voter

I should’ve known Dolly Parton possessed Supreme King Haki

mother-in-law--a fifth grade teacher--yesterday: (annoyed) "I learned a new word from the kids this week: 'gooning.' It's where you (jack off motion) and rub it on someone's face. Yep." bluesky, I regret to inform you that I set the record straight

this is probably one of the very few times where I feel completely defeated by a network issue, so I’m just sitting at my desk zoned out and miserable looking at our provider sending emails with “no ETR” I have literally no alternatives that I can offer besides “use a hotspot or go home”

new one for me after 20 years as a network engineer: our two circuits with “path diversity” are both down because they were both severed when *a coal train derailed* www.wtvr.com/news/local-n...

giving 20-year-olds advice on the Evageeks Discord on 401(k) company matches and certificates of deposit. oh my god I am a middle-aged dad

having watched it last night with some friends, I have to say I don’t think the science in Frankenhooker is very accurate

before 40 you’re all “hey dol, merry dol, ring a dong dillo!” and you want to go gather water lilies at the Withywindle, but after 40 you’re all “hroom, hroom, bru-ha-hroom” and you just want a nice bowl of ent-draught at the Derndingle

Chainsaw Man is Never Gonna Score

Run for the Democratic nomination for Senator from Maine, Shinji. Or Janet Mills will have to do it.

beat Chronos my third try at midnight last night through the power of love, moon magic, and launching lots of screaming exploding electrical skulls

my Bluesky account does not shy away from controversy, so here is one of my Justy *HOT* Takes: I don't think you should have a Nazi tattoo if someone comes up to you and says "you want a free Nazi tattoo?" you should say "no, no thank you"

saw my first AI political ad—of course made by the asshole Republican candidate for my House of Delegates—of the Democratic candidate doing rich people things. don’t like that.

Hades 2 is the first video game in a while where I'm at my desk at work thinking, "I can't wait until I can play some more Hades 2"

Well, yeah. You can see that the cloud is literally down.

littering is probably one of the best signs someone is a grade-A sociopath

My daughter the One Piece fan drew this poster for her No Kings rally today

I’d be more concerned of a ton RW accounts coming in and shitting up the place if A) they didn’t get tired of it quickly and B) blocking didn’t have that fun feel of popping bubble wrap just a few clicks, and all their posts disappear and their profile goes all blurry, it’s like they disintegrated

watching footage of that not-Beatrix fight in FFXIV so I can listen to its sick remix of Rose of May made me realize how massive a gulf there is in how much I enjoy FFXIV’s music and how much I actually want to play it

perhaps the ultimate “why should I change my name, he’s the one who sucks”

are we not all chatbots for -=<THE LORD>=- ?!