Pounce de Leon would be a good cat name.

#uspol When *Dick Fucking Cheney* thinks you're too much of an asshole to even invite to his funeral... https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/us/politics/trump-dick-cheney-funeral.html?unlocked_article_code=1.2k8.wmGB.MV-Xbc4yyPdC&smid=url-share

#uspol OMG the Comey indictment is clown shoes all the way down: "Judge Nachmanoff’s inquiries were extraordinary by almost any measure. But the answers prosecutors gave him in return were even more so." gift link] [ […]

Premature optimization in a nutshell https://digipres.club/@misty/115560923207243212

[US Nightmare Stories] The part where the asylum recipient from Egypt says in this that his treatment at the Butler County Jail was worse than in Egypt is...yikes […]

There’s something entertaining about a player named James Cook having a great day against the Buccaneers. #sportsball #piracy #yarrrrr

So I'm gonna participate in Etsy's Black Friday thing from November 24-Dec 2. Everything in my shop will be 25% off during that period. BUT, in an effort to get people to order earlier so I can crank out stuff before I'm getting ready to leave for a long trip, From now until November 23rd […]

Me prior to owning a house: Man I'm not going to waste money on all that smart home shit Me owning a house: So how much would it cost to rewire half the house with neutral wire so I can use my preferred smart switches?

Same, but for Americans https://mastodon.social/@nicklockwood/115547520776608843

Every time there’s a giant solar storm that triggers aurorae way further south than usual, this is the cloud cover map here 🤦‍♀️

Every day I wake up to a little cat doing something chaotic because I live with a literal cartoon character.

This was absolutely the first thing that jumped to my mind when I saw these goofy things https://masto.alancfrancis.com/@acf/115532290127254453

Called it in August! This is by no means the end of the attempts to throw out Obergefell, but at least they’re not insane enough to grant this idiot’s appeal. https://mastodon.social/@designatednerd/115018398755316611

This is an important, eloquent piece by @aphyr - worth a boost I’d say: https://aphyr.com/posts/397-i-want-you-to-understand-chicago

Tonight’s weather in Rochester is “The Frosted Mini-Wheats Factory Exploded”

If you are working for an insurance company and you say "You know what we need to do is make all our Medicare Advantage customers change their accounts to our new system”, your punishment should be that you have to walk every single one of them through it over the phone.

I love when manufacturers include a blinking icon on an appliance and provide absolutely no information about what that icon is or what it indicates when it’s blinking. Especially when you call support and they also have no idea.

Meta, Meta, Meta. So Meta. This Reuters report is 🔥 "Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show" "Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, documents seen by Reuters show. And the social media giant internally estimates […]

Ok I am glad Apple is acknowledging there is, in fact, an issue with TestFlight. It would be great after a day and a half to know what that issue *is* and when it may or may not be resolved.

One of the huge perks of working at a software company is, when there's something about the product that bothers you personally, you can get your hands dirty and find out why it's basically impossible to get fixed

Criminals posing as US immigration officers have carried out robberies, kidnappings, and sexual assaults in several states, warns a law enforcement bulletin issued last month by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The bureau urges agencies to ensure officers clearly identify themselves and to […]

✅ I voted (in elections whose outcomes were mostly determined by the Democratic primary several months ago, but there was at least one statewide ballot issue I could weigh in on)

Every year I know I’m gonna be mad when daylight savings ends because it gets dark early, and every year I’m surprised at exactly how mad AND how early.

Man that was such a heartbreaking ending for the Jays. Yamamoto is fucking ridiculous. #sportsball

Good thing Canada has universal healthcare because every Jays fan is about to have a fucking aneurysm #sportsball

Hire Dave. He is outstanding. https://mastodon.social/@davedelong/115464596572420010

#sportsball The dude pitching a great game through 8 for the Jays was in single A at the beginning of this season. I'm trying to think of a non-sports analogy for his rapid advancement and I can only think "Imagine if a someone who had never run for office outside of student council before was […]

#nlpol Maak een lange wandeling vanaf en korte pier, Geert gift link] [https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/world/europe/netherlands-elections-geert-wilders.html?unlocked_article_code=1.xU8.QMp5.Kz2zAOQktaRI&smid=url-share

#sportsball Apparently there was some controversy about legendary pitcher Sandy Koufax not sitting in the front row at the Dodgers game while wayward British royals were there instead last night. Y'all, Koufax is an almost-90 year old man who spent the prior night watching an 18 inning game. My […]

All the videos from @swiftconnection in Paris earlier this month are now up! I'm incredibly proud of everyone involved here, especially the first-time speakers who all absolutely killed it. I was honored to be part of the CFP selection process with Vincent Pradeilles and Simone Civetta, to work […]

"Man I wish there was a point where I'm not practically throwing my back out shoveling dirt in the garden", I say. Somewhere a monkey's paw curls, and the snow gods are told to make me suffer this winter.

I think we've all learned more in the past couple of weeks about who uses AWS and who uses Azure under the hood than we ever wanted to know

Thinking of my NL friends on their election day, hoping y'all get to do away with the idea of Geert "I'm a xenophobic asshat" Wilders being prime minister once and for all.

Do you have the ability to write code for Apple platforms? Do you know what MDM / device management is? Do you understand what Compliance is? Do you care about being able to use a Mac or iPad or iPhone for work or school? Does the idea of dealing with the bugs that can crop up from things like […]

Ah, the joy of the "I traveled from a place with reasonable humidity to a place with very little and I wound up with a massive headache as all the water slowly leached out of my body" day

This bullshit is something the current administration is asking all federal grant recipients, regardless of area, to sign off on in order to receive their grant money. https://fosstodon.org/@ThePSF/115446659195456270

Me: Ok my flight doesn’t leave until 9:40 so I think I can probably leave about 7:45 to get to the airport Dad: If it were me, I’d leave at about 6. Me: Well I know YOU would… (I always joke this Onion article is based on him […]

Welcome to the twice annual International Zone of Time Zone Shenanigans, where the US and Europe disagree on whether daylight savings is in effect, and nobody knows what time their transatlantic meetings are.

Medical device manufacturers who add incredibly annoying beeping to their devices and do not document anywhere in the owner’s manual or website for the product what those beeps mean can get in the sea.

Happy World Series in Canada to all who celebrate ⚾️ https://farticle.cloud/notes/ae6b82zpxaqd0d23

Congratulations to MARTA (the Atlanta-area transit authority) for proudly announcing a new app which lets you use Apple Pay, and then not actually functioning in the least when you attempt to use Apple Pay.

It has been quite a while since I have had to sprint through an airport to make my flight like I just did at EWR, but the good news is a) I made my flight and b) I did not blow out my knee in the process

Hey a thing I've been working on for a while (and has been requested for a far longer while) is out: Logging in multiple users AT THE SAME TIME for Figma! https://bsky.app/profile/figma.com/post/3m3scw6lx3k22

We just discovered that one of my coworkers sat like 40 feet from me during Rochester's sad, sad eclipse fail last April. The crazy part: This was ten months before I met him. And I showed him a video I took of the crowd in the area and he was like...yep, that's me.

Man I do not envy anyone in devops for basically any company today. Even if you’re not using AWS, you’re using something that is, and that might also have epically shit the bed. What a colossal mess.

Maybe we should all just go read a book or watch the baseball game (not streaming) tonight so #aws can recover without everyone click-spamming their refresh button to see if [website] is back

The AWS thing is a sobering reminder, even if you smugly “don’t use” a service, you probably depend on someone else who does, or they in turn rely on someone else who does. You’re going to be affected somehow, eventually. No one is an island.

Free idea for the internet: A band made up of academic astronomers called “More of a Comet Than A Question”

Had my phone off during the Rochester #nokings, but hats off to the guy who had a 20 foot bamboo pole with a sign on top that said “I’ve had it up to here”

BREAKING NEWS: Shohei Ohtani is good at baseball. #sportsball