I think the time has come for me to rewatch Galavant.

My kink? A functioning government...

IF YOU'RE IN LINE AT THE LIQUOR STORE, STAY IN LINE

😱 Surprise charges in your cloud bills are terrifying. 📝 We polled over 400 IT leads about their pain points. 🤯 95% told us they experience surprise charges. 💀 64% of them said they incur them at least quarterly. Yikes. Read the full report: post.dsmn8.com/b1XTdh-cnv

Backblaze survey finds 95% of enterprises face surprise cloud storage fees https://nca.st/rr22q

I liked the Pierce Brosnan Bond and would like more of that in the next one.

Who has a Sora 2 code for me?

OK...so what the hell is the difference between the Goolge Pixel 10 Pro and the Google Pixel 10 Pro XL except for a little bit of battery and screen real estate? The specs look identical?

What is Kirsh's deal...

I would like a Subaru Outback convertible, or maybe a Subaru Crosstrek convertible. Why is that not a thing that exists? I guess the roof rack?

This is a great tweet btw.

TCP Talks: The David vs. Goliath of Cloud Storage: Chris Opat from Backblaze on Challenging Hyperscalers 🎙️ New #tcptalks episode! Chris Opat from Backblaze joins us to discuss how they're challenging cloud storage assumptions. Key quote @7:59: "If you don't know what you're doing with a […]

This is a great tweet btw.

With the silly rescission that passed Congress today, I thought about all the podcast content I consume from @npr.org , and how dumb it is that I pay for @netflix.com , Prime Video, Apple TV, Disney+, Peacock, and probably a bunch of things I'm forgetting, and not for NPR. So I'm chipping in.

@danryckert.com emergency! Driving up to Minneapolis from Des Moines tomorrow and spending the weekend there, any coffee or cocktail bars that I should put on my list? And if you're bored, happy to buy you a round.

@alyankovic.bsky.social check out the Des Moines Art festival while you're in town! I'm walking around it before hitting up your show later today, it's delightful and weird!

Very much enjoyed #Ballerina. Check it out if it's still in theaters near you.

In the @99pi.org episode w/ @romanmars.bsky.social Ezra points to Euro and Asian examples of building fast & w/ benefit. I wonder how much America would gain if more of us had passports and could see these other places. I think less than 50% of the population has a passport. pca.st/episode/848d...

What we call an oopsie doopsie fucky wucky.

Oh so you've never messed up a little with your budget?

@hankgreen.bsky.social did you do this?

Storage news ticker - April 11 - with Backblaze, Blackmagic, Cloudflare, Cloudian, Datadog, Eastic, Fivetran, Gartner, Google Cloud, Hammerspace, Highpoint, Huawei, Index Engines, Informatica, Kingston, Kioxia, Magstor, MASV, Mechanical Orchard, & more - blocksandfiles.com/2025/04/11/s...

I really enjoy #Reacher

When beer is up, it's time to hunker down.

The amount of restraint these men showed in not mooning the camera deserves a commutation.

GAVIN NEWSOM: So, again, you were talking about the importance of- EDGAR THE BUG WEARING HUMAN SKIN FROM MEN IN BLACK: SUGAR WATER GAVIN NEWSOM: Yes, sugar water. And my party hasn't acknowledged how much people love sugar and water. My son was shouting SUGAR WATER at me the other day on xbox.

Excuse the fuck out of me with this #DaredevilBornAgain    opening sequence.

Democrats at the State of the Union tonight (and equally effective)

Want to learn how to make your own AI agent using #Backblaze and #DeepSeek? Chief Technical Evangelist Pat Patterson walks you through it 🔥➡️ www.backblaze.com/blog/experim...

Finally, after all this time! Wordle 1,353 1/6 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Kinda diabolically brilliant by Musk: 1. Get the ~2m Fed employees to write a rushed list of what they do. 2. Feed that into Grok (assuming it's cleared for Federal data use...lol). 3. Grok learns about all the mundane tasks Gov does. 4. Grok perpetuates "Gov is dumb" in responses.

Backblaze Achieves Best Estimated ROI, Fastest Implementation, Easiest To Use, Best Support, and Leader Awards in G2’s Winter 2025 Report www.businesswire.com/news/home/20...

New Fox chyron is excellent. Team names: huge. Score: huge. Logos: none. Colors say enough. Needless chrome: none. Timeouts remaining: prominent but not distracting. Down and yards to go indicator: conveys which team has the ball. Typography: classic, legible, bold, timeless. Outstanding design.

Backblaze to Announce Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2024 Results on February 25, 2025 | www.businesswire.com/news/home/20...

Pro-judo move here from Donald would be to have Elon fired for overstepping his station (is that a thing?) and making some inroads with Dems.

Nothing makes me want to thrown my phone against the wall in the morning quite like the @nytimes.com Connection categories.

Might be one of my best tweets TBH

We are all Bills fans today.

Beautiful.

You guys remember Klout? That was fun.

@aegies.bsky.social I cant quite parse this, no more blu-rays? www.tomshardware.com/pc-component...

How do people have one slice of pizza?

I'll be honest with you, the reason I liked #DenOfThieves and #DenOfThieves2 is because they take their time. It's a slow-paced, well done burn. They need to make more stuff like this.

Waiting for Dad to come home after leaving to get a cigarettes.

Soon...

I tell you what, if Greenland or Canada become a state or whatever before Puerto Rico, I'll be pissed.

Is there a dispensary or marijuana brand with a dope mascot called: Canubis?

@aegies.bsky.social hey Arthur! I'll be at CES if you're around and want to get a soda or a drink or a fist bump or something.

Happy Merry Chrismukah!