RE: https://mastodon.social/@mcfadden/115929147943134447 Nobody draws the horrible little goblins trying to set national policy right now like @mcfadden does.

I added a “bumper sticker” to the footer of every BumpySkies.com page, under my name, that says “Standing with Greenland. 🇬🇱 Standing with Minnesota.” I am having more than the usual amount of difficulty processing what on earth is happening out there. I don't feel powerless so much as confused […]

New rule: if your cli has a feature/option that can be specified by typing the word "update", you are required to support "udpate" as an alias for that. No exceptions.

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/115924313038931598 The audio of this video is very not what I expected it to be.

RE: https://social.neonpaws.digital/@FoxesInLove/115921886045657705 This sweet comic reminds me of the "It Gets Better" project, started in 2010 by Dan Savage and others to encourage adults to communicate to kids in their lives—especially queer kids—that life may seem completely intolerable […]

Meta lost $77bn on VR? I guess it just didn't have legs.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@rileytestut/115917812751736532 OK nevermind, THIS is the coolest thing I’ve ever done to my iPhone

And if I've been tooting a little more, it's partly because I didn't expect what a revelation that real quote-toots would be, especially since @ivory started to support them. I am definitely having more fun here, and I didn't expect that.

It was harder than I expected it to be, but I finally completed the project of replacing the harshly bright and cold compact fluorescents in our bedroom ceiling lamp with smart bulbs capable of adjustably dimmer and warmer light. I look forward to being able to read in bed without feeling like […]

#bladerunner #oy

One thing that's tough for people who just join the Fediverse, like most of the folks on #theforkiverse , is that there are self-appointed experts who reply to their public posts saying that "the Fediverse" doesn't like that kind of content. This is untrue. They don't speak for all of us […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@vs_everyone/115917879163219194 Not often do I vote for “Who deserves to win" over "Who would ‘actually' win" but this is one of those times (and I am pleased to see that, with three votes counted, I am not alone)

I give a little nod of grim satisfaction whenever I see any major media source continue to call the Defense Department by its proper name, even alongside quotes from Maga DoD officials using their little shitposter nickname for it. #uspol

I watched this video before reading the attached article, and for a long moment assumed it was a couple of federal agents getting creative with funding their field operations #uspol […]

RE: https://masto.nyc/@baer/115907047321400677 I recently saw some wag label all scroll-focused time-eating phone use as "eye cigarettes” and it's stuck that way in my head now.

I already have a lot of thoughts about this game but I’ll start by saying that you can get seventh row seats at a PWHL game with neither exceptional effort nor dear cost

Hard Fork / Search Engine reports 4000 sign-ups for their #forkiverse instance in the first week. HF already has a Discord server for paid subscribers. Curious to see how these two spaces interact. Here's the episode with updates: https://www.nytimes.com/column/hard-fork

[Violent videogame fisticuffs] I received a recommendation for the game "I am Your Beast" by the most excellent folks at Strange Scaffold, and judging from the Steam store trailers and description I'm not sure it’s really my thing. But I do find the cover artwork nonetheless quite attractive at […]

Yo folks! I've partnered with a legal team who has asked me for assistance. Please share if you can The US has implemented policies targeting non-citizens working in content moderation through deportations and visa denials. The org I'm working with is pursuing litigation to invalidate these […]

My birthday present to the world is not pushing a super duper BumpySkies improvement to production at 4:50 PM today before heading out for the evening. Monday's gonna be fun tho

Statement of position: If federal goons desperate to meet a quota ever roll up and ask me for proof of citizenship—or if they have questions about my neighbors, or their citizenship, or anything else—then I won't do anything other than calmly assert that I don't need to show or tell them […]

RE: https://masto.nyc/@jmac/115902940397619989 Also, damn, look how gorgeous that vintage Frogger cabinet is. The froggy-green trim, the tire track running up one side, aligning with the image on the top marquee, the start buttons being tucked onto the front panel so that the joystick can sit […]

Gonna go see the :sirens: NY Sirens :sirens: play tonight! In the Prudential Center, where the :devils: NJ Devils play! (For my birthday I am also going nuts with local server emoji :warren_liberty:) I have actually seen neither this team nor any team in its league play any game at all, live or […]

Ooooh. New sticker just appeared in my hood No notes, looking great 🤩 #nyc #streetart

RE: https://mastodon.social/@publicdomainrev/115904847771655529 Don Quixote is many things, and one of the things it's about is ingesting so much wondrous, long-form, inspirational work that you completely re-invent yourself into the life that fits you best—whether the rest of the world's ready […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@thefunnypages/115903165248497770 I enjoy this comic, and it reminds me of this Bushmiller classic

A friend just shared this picture from Logan Airport (#bos). I love the idea of an arcade being not a room with arcade games inside of it, but a large solid object with arcade games stuck to its surface. #videogames

I must once again assert that if you're in UWS and you like French food you can go on over to La Sirène and order whatever the market fish of the day is and eat that, maybe. It's what I do. #nyc

Rebellions Are Built on 'Ope Credit: https://www.reddit.com/r/andor/s/tKpF9uA3NT #hope #minneapolis #mpls #msp #Minnesota #mn #mnastodon #StarWars #Andor #rebellion #fascism #trump

RE: https://mstdn.social/@DemocracyMattersALot/115902140998276351 I need to push back on this one. Trump and Miller sending their goon squads to #maine is no “Ha ha they're old and stupid” joke. Yes, Maine is overwhelmingly white—but Lewiston, one of the two cities on alert, has a famously […]

It's my birthday week, and for my birthday I would like for-real suggestions for what I should say when meeting someone at a party or whatnot and they ask what I do. I actually don't know what to do with this question! I sometimes go with answers like “Whew, no idea, chief” or “I'm […]

Thanks for spending a week doing unpaid make-believe work for TechCompany, plus another week of intense interviews, before we decided to go with an internal candidate and/or blackballed your application for "culture fit”. Here is the first of several emails begging you to take a survey about […]

*WELL State of the World is still going. It'll be drifting off the edge of the discussion-table soon https://people.well.com/conf/inkwell.vue/topics/561/State-of-the-World-2026-with-Bru-page01.html

#nyc Overheard story OTD: Night. Amsterdam and 83rd. A very relaxed man walking a very large dog. The dog is standing still. The man is not. The leash remains slack. "Come on Chauncy, let's... let's go this way," he man slurs, and takes a few steps. "Oh... you don't... you don't want to go […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@mogwai_poet/115889950601063020 There was a recent very good episode of Comedy Bang! Bang! where one of the guests started reading all the accumulated alarm-times on their phone, and after a minute the other guests started clapping along in rhythm, and after two […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@sundogplanets/115889616141835857 This star just has always had my favorite name amongst all the named stars and it's nice to see it making some positive headlines

@BramMeehan @ruralgloom Even chopped up and jumbled and weirdly dubbed the way they so often were, Japanese-imported/American-processed cartoons were like nothing else in the after-school cartoon block. They were just *there*, with no explanation, in between Looney Tunes and Captain Caveman […]

RE: https://social.vmbrasseur.com/@vmbrasseur/115888709323410176 I'm sorry to hear this news. From the quotes in the article, he faced his terminal illness in public and bravely—but after ten years of rampant odiousness, the audience for witnessing it was vastly diminished from what it might […]

Posts from non-Americans suggesting futility in Americans’ fight to save their own country continues to be my least favorite kind of occasionally-trending Mastodon post.

RE: https://c.im/@ruralgloom/115885914743832534 What a beautifully awkward ad from a magical time. (And it looks so familiar to me! I feel that I must have absolutely saw encountered this in my Spider-Mans some month in 198X, studied it sincerely, and concluded that I simply had no idea what it […]

RE: https://social.neonpaws.digital/@FoxesInLove/115882957753445522 Hundreds of Beavers (2022)

🛠️ 💻 In the spirit of repairability and keeping good equipment alive, I've gathered up a few retired Thinkpads from local surplus auctions. I'm upgrading the RAM and drives and will be making them available in the next few weeks. These will be cozy little Solarpunk machines, older equipment […]

Well, it took 17 years, but I finally discovered Perl's half-joke “install" module by accidentally typing "install" while trying to install something. https://metacpan.org/pod/install

I didn't love "One Battle After Another" but it is extremely uncanny how Bovino apparently loved it so much that he's making himself physically and emotionally resemble Sean Penn’s character as much as possible #uspol

One of my earliest memories concerns the air raid sirens from the first Gulf War, when I was five or six. I remember the Safe Room, which had brown packing tape over the power outlets and around the windows, supposedly to help protect against chemical weapons. Our building didn't have a bomb […]

Much bigger crowd today in Manhattan... #fuckice #icehasgottogo #abolishice #nokings #nyc

RE: https://masto.nyc/@jmac/115866736830182704 I thought I'd be in the minority here but these things are always a surprise. Saluting the one-of-21 of you with a strictly atomic SSN memorized.

Can you guess what movie I'm watching for the first time (while hanging out in a groupchat) #movies #cinemastodon

If I'm reading this article right, the opposition leader in Venezuela—who Trump has snubbed, post-invasion—has scored a meeting with him by offering to give him the physical medal from the Nobel Peace Price she was awarded last year […]

Living in #nyc means being peeved with every find-a-business website whose smallest distance-from-zipcode selection is "10 miles".