feeling like a genius right now, I accidentally dropped a tiny M2 screw onto a gray carpet and couldn't see it anywhere, so I grabbed a magnet and tied it to a string and walked around with it dangling at floor level for a while, and I found the screw after a couple laps around the room

I've had a low-grade headache for like a week at this point and I thought it was just allergies, but someone on Discord was like "maybe it's impacted ear wax", and I was skeptical but I went to get my ears cleaned and that was entirely the problem

I've been using various no-narration antiques restoration Youtube videos as work background noise, but it's had the side effect of making me wish I had a sandblasting cabinet

MOBO train #1074, the 10:30 AM arrival into Hoboken, is up to 20 minutes late due to the Newark Draw Bridge being stuck in the open position. An update to follow.

a new arts center is opening in my town this summer and me and a few of the music guys are working out pooling the cash to rent out a space in it so we can practice music without pissing off our various neighbors and family members and pets

ordering doordash for my outdoor cat

grimacing and moaning as I force myself to use the Amazon app on my phone to order something even though I know in the depth of my soul that e-commerce is a Computer Task

honestly I think most of the "Bluesky is deaaaad" posts are just people unable to recognize that they're older now, their preferred kind of posting platform is also full of older people, and everyone currently the age they were when Twitter was exciting is on TikTok or Instagram instead

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not sure if I used that generator right

yeah sure

couldn't decide if I wanted to make dinner or order out and ended up just having a fistful of olives and an Almond Joy bar for dinner instead

it sounds trite but 9/11, in 2000-2001 I was planning on applying to West Point or a school with ROTC assuming that the army would be a nice career path and I'd never have to worry about getting deployed anywhere dangerous

taking the github link out of my profile because I no longer wish to be perceived as a "programmer"

damn, Nate Boudreaux out at DCI pretty big deal to quit a month before tour starts, I wonder if he got a job offer elsewhere he just couldn't put off for three months

it is 2026, we are not doing doordash discourse again

"you can put yourself in the video" has been the killer feature for a bunch of these genAI services now and I don't get why any of them think it's a service anyone wants, who out there is excited for the opportunity to rotoscope an off-model version of themselves into the MrBeast games or whatever

god forbid a grogu get some motion

cleaned up the craft nook this evening

currently suffering from "rat lung", "pigeon toes", "raccoon knee", "coyote elbow"

Josh Gottheimer should be censured for what he said about Rashida Tlaib today, or at the very least condemned by party leadership, but he in all likelihood won't be.

Lidl never ceases to amaze

what does he know

*leaning over to explain to my date* the women have to book the rooms because he’s 12

I really enjoy how about 60% of the replies are "yeah, we don't have to post about the cheeto in the white house so much" and 40% are "but there's a CHEETO in the WHITE HOUSE"

sometimes I hate being the unofficial tech support for a nonprofit, I'm trying to diagnose "a member said the website doesn't work" without knowing who the member is, what they wanted to do, or what they actually see on their end

I never got into Homestar Runner because everyone I knew at high school who talked about it was on the track team so I thought it was some kind of running-themed webcomic I wouldn't understand and never thought about it again for a decade

What if Bluesky doesn't have to be Important. What if social media doesn't have to be Important. Remember less than 20 years ago when social media didn't exist and we just hung out on forums and anyone who suggested the forum was Important would have been referred for a wellness check.

one of the major issues with the whole Bluesky meta-discourse is that a whole lot of people really just want it to be like early 2010s social media where we post soup and riff on typos and post TV screencaps and don't see any need for it to be bigger or more prominent

❌ bluesky is an echo chamber of radical leftists ❌ bluesky is where all the cringe Resist libs are ✅ bluesky is the crucible that produces quiz show champions

enjoying this current work project I'm doing mostly because it lets me do arts and crafts, I get to use all my different marker colors while planning it

Helpful Phrases: • "I had a good time eating that food just now."

YOU KNOW YOU'RE A MILLENNIAL WHEN - your pants were too big - you remember "pog" - you ate one pager a day - you remember how dogs used to be taller - your mom was a Ford Windstar - the voices never cease - you'd lick the bowl clean after mixing up a fresh batch of Nickelodeon Gak - Dave

some of yous use sriracha sauce the same way Belgians use mayonnaise

just noticed there's a Daily Caller account on here, and none of their posts have any interaction at all which is pretty funny

New on Forsan & Haec: I read both of those New Yorker pieces on AI and education that you’ve all been screenshotting and sharing, and I noticed something missing. Or, more accurately, someone missing. Or, more accurately, an entire class of people missing. More: buttondown.com/nsmckinnon/a...

curing my rat-borne blood fever with a positive attitude, a few hours in the sunshine, and a spoonful of beef tallow

I liked making Kelly edits when that was the fashion for a while, this one about the Nier raids vs. the FFT raids

when I say "Aaron Rodericks was faving teen porn on here" I mean the other Aaron Rodericks

QUESTION: What is your favorite kind of bean? ANSWER: Green been.

damn I honestly thought Ted Turner died in like 1993