Like in the pub you might overhear 🐴 You thought of a better name for your handyman business yet 🦊 Well, you didn't like Mister Fingers so, 🐴 Aye I didn't 🦊 It suggested DEXTEROUS and NIMBLE 🐴 No it didn't 🦊 Alright so I had a think, thought "Age, continuity, experience, competence, comfort" 🐴 […]

I'm not getting any new rats but I do browse rat adverts. Same as me with PC parts when younger. Some local listings have a misfiled advert and every time I scroll down and see "Ferret" it makes me chuckle. #petrats

Sure sex is great, but have you ever made a label that says “label maker” and put it on a label maker?

Frustrated that the people in the sci fi story didn’t have any alternative networks when the evil AI took over. No mesh nerds? no CB radio BSS? really?

Me: why is everything so dusty? People who can adult: you have to dust. Me: what, like annually? Adults: no, more like weekly. Me: that can’t be right.

Something BDSM also taught me is that religious experiences aren’t about Sky Daddies, they’re about ritual and people unified in the ritual. So like the whole singing hymns and shit is just How Concerts Be When You’re Into Them and not the Divine Breeze cupping your balls or whatever.

We are modernizing the user interface Pray we do not modernize it further

It's wild to think we used to watch TV on particle accelerators.

"Political violence" is a term that exists to suggest a moral distinction between "violence against politicians" and "violence by politicians" - so that one can be condemned while the other can be normalized. Obviously, no such distinction exists in reality: violence is violence.

Took some pictures today while visiting Segovia's Roman acueduct. Build on second century, it is one of the best preserved roman infrastructures and always impressive to behold.

Whoever did this, I salute you. 🫡

Today's inappropriate "you too" was for the fast food guy telling me to enjoy my food

Modern journalistic ethics for most of our mainstream corporate outlets is "publish as fast as possible then fact-check." Also, any data on if this stuff happens for left or right issues/people more?

## 40 years later, are Bentley's "Programming Pearls" still relevant? https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/09/40-years-later-are-bentleys-programming-pearls-still-relevant/ In September 1985, Jon Bentley published Programming Pearls. A collection of aphorisms designed […] [Original post on shkspr.mobi]

Next year at #Darklands I will be hosting a workshop around Kink/Fetish event organization. If you are an organizer or interested to become one join this workshop and exchange ideas on how to make your event successful, cater to your group of focus, deal with #safety or how to balance #inclusion […]

Facing a bit.

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I love the almost imperceptible fellow-gay head nod on the street

I'm doing a two-factor authentication code giveaway! - 482948 - 198571 - 145718 - 519741 - 415415 - 198872 - 596185

Never forget that XOXOfest had the greatest drink menu of all time in 2019

My sibling Liz just said all gay male subs “scream different multiverse versions of Dick Grayson” and like…I need their nonbinary muppet ass to SHUT THE FUCK UP. 🤣

The petrified remains of a troll, Hvítserkur rises 15 meters from the sea. Geologists would tell you that it is a sea stack composed of basaltic rock, but what fun is that? #photography #Iceland

Did you know your MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge? It’s not exposed as a public API, but I figured out a way to read it and make it sound like an old wooden door. Source code and a downloadable app to try it yourself […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

Getting *serious* Chas 'n' Dave energy about 2:10 into this banger I just heard on #6music https://youtu.be/s2kV3Gwnxp0?si=2ZFLCYmrYskuL-93

Recently there has been a lot of discourse about ActivityPub and AT Protocol which has been quite dividing and heated. Yesterday at the Social Web CG meeting (the group that maintains the ActivityPub and related specifications), I proposed releasing a statement that counters the narrative that […]

Did you know that parcel delivery companies count how many times you reload a tracking page and will prioritise parcels with the most views?

[kink, genitals] I've never told this story before, because nobody ever said to me "I'm really interested in hearing about your scrotum"... Thank you for your interest @Richboy50 :) I used to pay not much attention to my high-and-tight balls and ordinary dick. Jerking off every few days was […]

Kingfisher (Alcedo athis, 🇩🇪 Eisvogel, 🇵🇱 zimorodek). #birds #birdphotography #birdsofmastodon #birdwatching #nature #naturephotography #vogelflausch #ptaki

Across Europe, when centrist parties have adopted far right themes and sought to appease far right voters, they go down in flames. Why? Because: 1. They alienate their own base. 2. They tell other voters that the far right is correct. The determination not to learn this lesson is a wonder to behold.

Couldn't not do this

1. Katsushika Hokusai, 1830 2. Shotei Takahashi from 1930 3. Utagawa Hiroshige, 1852 4. Okada Koichi, ca. 1950s #JapaneseArt #ukiyoe #shinhanga 3/3

You know, I’m sure when I was creating this character sheet in the beforelife I found some amazing feat of intellect but the cost was, “falls completely head over heals for Doms with dad jokes” and I was like “phhhhhhhhhhhhhhht, like how many Doms tell dad jokes, easy.” Readers: It’s all the […]

My city has history. https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/forgotten-toronto-inside-the-great-clown-riots-of-1855-and-the-coverup-that-changed-the/article_7a58b68a-7fc4-42d6-9c48-0123701e2ddd.html

I firmly believe the number 1 thing that has bothered "normies" over several decades of computing has been weird bugs which cause devices to feel capricious and unreliable and taunting. Good programmers have spent *a lot of brain power for a lot of hours* to develop fully deterministic […]

I ain't exactly think, therefore I ain't exactly

Btw I am kinda say "make it exist" should be bad looking Again, the point of the meme is that anyone, including you, can make anything if you try. You just gotta avoid perfect and make it exist If you made perfection to begin with, then you wouldn't need to think about making it exist ya?

Perhaps it's time to tap the chart again. Left-handed people were once seen as sinister (the word sinister, from Latin, originally meant "left" or "on the left side") so kids were forced to be right-handed. However, with advances in science it became clear […] [Original post on mastodon.world]

Woo, I'm falling behind on write-ups! About six weeks ago I was getting ready for a weekend at Boundless 2025 in Birmingham https://vulpineleather.com/boundless2025/ I didn't know what to expect but I knew @bigboyjoe.bsky.social had had a transformative […] [Original post on woof.group]

Some older automatic washing machines used metal punched cards to control their wash cycles and offer more choice over programmes. The cards were placed in a slot on the machine – a top row of smaller perforations was used to pull the card along and as the […] [Original post on mastodon.world]

"Sideloading" is the rentseeker word for "being able to run software of your choosing on a computing device you purchased". There is no reasonable case for an operating system developer having a say over what programs you run on your hardware. #android #google

... designing a productivity mouse with a buttton labelled "DO NOT". When you press that buttton on a useless UI notification, it removes that UI element permanently and then sends a box of donuts filled with scorpions to everyone who was involved in shipping that feature.

Three small announcements: 1. RFC 9839, a guide to which Unicode characters you should never use: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9839.html 2. Blog piece with background and context, “RFC 9839 and Bad Unicode”: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/08/14/RFC9839 3. A little Go library […]

Petition to add "how I know this person" as a vCard field, instead of setting people's last names to "FNM" or "class" or something.