I just had my very first experience with replying to someone with a dumb joke, and then watching as Mastodon (by way of the Ivory client) fetched the replies and backfilled them before my eyes, showing me that the dumb joke was already sorted, thank you. I'm glad it does this now!

[AI usage] For the lulz, I tried playing Perplexity at Mornington Crescent. It actually made a good game of it with some sneaky moves, including trapping me in the Dollis Hill loop… It even called me out when a break out of the DLR required establishing helical parity through the core (which […]

"It Ain't Me, Babe" Wimmen's Comix # 1, July 1970 One letter to the editor (editrix?) accused the all-woman independent comic of being a front for the FBI, trying to undermine the feminist movement. (it wasn't) #comics #1970s #indiecomics #feminism #culturalhistory #wonderwoman #oliveoyl

RE: https://ohai.social/@TarkabarkaHolgy/116222389418528407 "So I gave him a lesson in AI misalignment risks. From the eighth-story window.” 🎶 HE HAD IT COMING…

I snort-laughed severally at this Seanbaby feature celebrating the all-out acting of an extra who appears for a few seconds in the instantly forgotten 2013 Vaughn/Wilson comedy "The Internship". (SFW images, profoundly NSFW language.) […]

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@samhenrigold/116216357692725093 I’m sufficiently disconnected from consumer-tech news that I’ve been learning about the MacBook Neo only from unusually non-cranky Mastodon posts and links. From where I’m standing, it sort of feels like the follow-up to the 2001 […]

Odin got thoroughly Mila’d. he’s currently sitting in my room panting with a stupid grin of contentment #dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon

Shoutout to @M3OW, my first 999th follower after three years on Mastodon. You’d think I’d wait for my thousandth, but it's Friday and they have a cute homepage at https://m3ow.boo that contains nothing but a multitude of artist-commissioned portraits of their ghost-cat avatar, with full […]

One of my local halal carts is offering free iftar meals 🥹 that's so sweet #nyc #ramadan

My dad woulda called today’s weather “lugubrious”. #nyc

This short profile of the alleged Gracie Mansion bomb-thrower is illustrated with a startling photograph by Vincent Alban that I hadn’t seen before, showing Balat holding the device right after lighting its sputtering, dangling fuse, looking like something out of a Bugs Bunny cartoon. #nyc […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@cnoocy/116211258984510043 This is a great one. The first one brought to my attention, many years ago, was "sessile”.

Another word that sounds like the complete opposite from what it means: “hoplite”.

I enjoyed this playthrough of a Japanese rock-paper-scissors arcade machine, from the demonstration of how the controls work (you could grip the joystick in three different ways, you see) through the goofy character animation. https://youtu.be/ujZdhrW-Jg8?si=WUasw4wkDu2FQ-md&t=81

Yesterday learned the hard way that "Oh, I’ll just tweak this on prod" is a 10X bad idea when you're working with LLM coding assistants. When something goes wrong—which it will, because you're effing with prod, you absolute knob—and you start to panic, then the LLM picks up on your panic and […]

One of the cats shouted in my face and angrily threw stuff off the nightstand 20 minutes before the timed feeder tray served their breakfast, which happens an hour later now, proving once again that their sense of mealtime is based on their humans' daily activity cycle and not any sort of innate […]

RE: https://masto.nyc/@seano/116188053458315106 There was one of these outside the 86th street :1train: station the other day, and I feel like I’ve seen a third sign with this lettering blowing around a sidewalk. Whole thing feels a bit off. #nyc

I'm going to this bleepbloop show at Wonderville tonight. Tickets still available as of ten minutes ago https://www.wonderville.nyc/events/nullsleep-janus-rose-amigos-poderosos-sev1-drp-no-carrier-3-7-26

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I am screwing around with making a musical sight-reading game for myself, and added a pause feature that toggles if you play C2 and C6 together, since these are on the extreme ends of my MIDI keyboard. And what a delightful and perfect sound for a pause button this is! It's the sound effect of a […]

Dog situated as smelling the beach smells and seeing the beach sights.

@icefyre Welcome to Masto.NYC!

I am preparing for my next Mörk Borg session, and have reason to reference this official one-page supplement. This is a good game #ttrpg #morkborg Original PDF linked from the Mörk Borg website (coz the text dump is too long for alt text) […] [Original post on masto.nyc]

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@jerry/116167019949680737 DO IT RIGHT MEOW!!!

I see this map and my brain legit goes "they forgot to mark Asterix's village??"

No kings, not over #nyc, not over anyplace in America. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/nyregion/nyc-congestion-pricing-ruling.html?unlocked_article_code=1.QVA.UgUd.vEMK8NMvk4bT&smid=url-share

Do I know anyone at The Linux Foundation? Or do I know someone who knows someone?

Why is everyone getting excited about a random substack quoting anonymous U.S. military sources with extensive juicy statements that agree with their priors ooohhh never mind got it

News of three U.S. soldiers killed, then three more, and the president kinda shrugging and going “Well, sure,” is giving me very specific flashbacks to the news of a few people starting to get sick in California six years ago. #uspol

Partner spontaneously grabbed us a couple of Rangers tix at the Garden tonight. They're playing so bad, I am told, that it makes for a cheap date night 🥰 :rangers:

This is possibly the only good joke about AI on all of Mastodon https://carfree.city/@scott/116129632975592214

RE: https://toot.cat/@ceejbot/116155832595475399 Writing a cover letter yesterday, I got a brain-bolt to end a paragraph with “Ask me sometime to tell you about how I once [X]ed a [Y] using [Z].” This felt very good and right and I don't expect to get a callback from this one, but I do intend […]

Well I got that goin for me I guess 🐪

RE: https://masto.nyc/@jmac/116149276625472361 Not particularly surprising results, and I probably don’t disagree. Bonus blog post (2017) about that time that Watership Down was broadcast on American TV with no warning or context at all and just blew up my entire young cohort […]

🫸💥🫷 #nyc #streetart

#newyorkcity Mayor #zohranmamdani on the #us-#israel attack on #iran Feb. 28, 2026 #nowaroniran #news #politics #uspol #nyc

The best thing I saw on one of my occasional sorties into BlueSky recently was “America could be so much fun, if we just let it.” I clutch it close to my heart.

Does anyone except me have a memory of the zombie apocalypse episode of The Smurfs (1980s cartoon) and I'm not joking?

[Dark sarcasm about current events] It's literally impossible for me not to see the timeline of DoD inking a deal with OpenAI literally hours before starting a new war just so Hesgeth gets his own ChatGPT killbot prompt, loaded into the flash memory of every Reaper drone, that has a hardcoded […]

If I were a paying OpenAI customer, I'd feel as proud of that fact today as a Tesla owner did one year ago.

This morning DHS agents lied about a "missing person" to talk their way into a Columbia-owned dormitory, then snatched a visa-holding undergrad and fled. She managed to post a one-second video while trussed in their van, pleading for help. #nyc #uspol […]

RE: https://masto.nyc/@jmac/113640920733873839 Forgive me; my D&D DM just nudged me that #cavesofqud is out for Switch now and asked me for my thoughts about it, so I had to dive into my old posts about it. I should really finish this campaign! My character was last seen slowly turning into a […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@gruber/116137135641505082 I have very mixed feelings about this feature. Having my watch greet me every morning with “Well, you somehow managed to fuck up at sleeping again, champ” feels like a psychically bad way to start the day. Especially when I feel fine otherwise?

I'm fascinated by ancient stories that preserve some scrap of awareness of the gradual transition from hunter-gatherer to agricultural society: there's a Chinese myth about a minotaur named Shennong ("god farmer") who could tank poison damage, and so he ate a dish of every single plant that […]

RE: https://live.acarsdrama.com/@acarsdrama/116134607753494322 I sometimes think about working this account's output into BumpySkies somehow, because it is comforting to know that the emergencies your plane's cabin crew deals with all day is stuff like this. (Also “lav” stuff. So much lav stuff)

The searchable Whole Earth https://searchwhole.earth/

Finally got around to uploading my #strudel remix of Deltarune's "The Third Sanctuary" to YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZACb213btn0 As always, you can play it live in your browser and mess around with the song's source code here: https://tinysubversions.com/s/#third

Is the Three of Swords the most commonly encountered minor-arcana tarot card in popular media? It's not my favorite one but it's undeniably the most arresting image, what with all the stabbing. (Yes, the Ten has much more stabbing but it's not as immediately obvious.) #Tarot

RE: https://mastodon.world/@gamingonlinux/116130765376153338 Moody, heavy, and oddly aromatic, it’s still my favorite gaming console by far.