conversation I had today: - is it a nonprofit? - …not on purpose, no

First batch of whistles done. Another 20 in the hopper now. Happy to send them anywhere they’re needed. Just message me on Signal @ reesecommabill.96 Boosts appreciated. #nj #nyc #fuckice

the layers that make us

I make ginger cookies a lot, but I don't have the recipe memorized, so I search for it in my recipe app. But I have lots of recipes with ginger and cookies in the name, so I search for "ger coo" and the result I want pops up to the top of the list It's a goofy lifehack that somehow feels […]

"this new product from microsoft surprisingly doesn't suck!" did they start making vacuum cleaners

RE: https://climatejustice.social/@terminaltilt/115896899179047548 I’m now officially moving from “the cloud is just someone else’s computer to “ to “the cloud is just a landlord for your data”

According to Tech Radar, a reason to avoid using Vivaldi web browser is "No AI-powered assistant". Yup - and we're proud of it! If you don't want slop while you shop, or scurf while you surf, give the European browser a try. https://vivaldi.com/blog/a-i-browsers-the-price-of-admission-is-too-high/

You know how US health insurance doesn't cover dentists or optometrists? (as if teeth and eyes are somehow optional body parts!) I recently learned that (in NY at least) if you need to make a formal complaint about a healthcare provider, physicians and PAs get reported to the Dept of Health […]

I'm helping an elderly person with a patient portal, and wow, there are about 4 different problems ranging from unclear instructions to pages that don't work well when the phone is zoomed in enough for an older person to actually read the text. Plus, the iPhone keeps popping up unhelpful gunk […]

I'm thinking about how "security" (virus and hacking protection) is often raised as a good reason to subscribe to automatic updates. Indeed, I allow my iPhone to update itself mostly because I think it's more secure. But I have never felt comfortable with the way that software just changes […]

A lovely frost fern on a car roof today.

[death] I have received notice that Sarah Pool has passed on. Many in Charlottesville don't know her work to improve accessibility and awareness here. I have not experienced what she has, but for years she generously educated those of us who take our mobility for granted and led to millions in […]

I think I have to make peace with the fact that not many people want curling league pins. Not even many of the people who said to my face they wanted curling league pins. Ooof, the minimum order costs are something though.

[Food] Mmm! Homemade, homegrown black raspberry jam is a taste of summer sunshine on a chilly January morning

Indonesia today became the first country to block Grok. "The government views non-consensual deepfake practices as a serious violation of human rights, dignity, and the security of citizens in the digital space." https://www.cbsnews.com/news/indonesia-suspends-grok-ai-over-sexualized-images/

I am a little confused, and maybe some of you could help me figure out what's going on. Lately (for the last week-ish?) I have noticed posts in my timeline that are not from accounts I follow, nor do they include hashtags I follow. Any ideas how I might figure out how/why I am seeing these […]

I have a book of essays by Dr. Tressie Mcmillan Cottom (“Thick and Other Essays”). I vehemently recommend her writing there and everywhere, but one that I recommend most to my fellow white people: “Know Your Whites.” That essay hit me in the belly with a brick. But it taught me to examine my […]

Mastodon / Fediverse is the only social network that doesn't flood me with rage when I open it, so I'm just gonna hang out here for a while.

'Hinter den Kulissen' #FotoVorschlag State Theater Minneapolis Bühnenvorhänge, Blick nach oben

One more lovely pano pic of #pittsburgh this evening from the overview spot on Mt Washington (Oh wow this was 45 mins before the previous 👆🏽 pic, guess the clouds really rolled in)

Excellent if brief non drizzly weather and light this evening for a look at #pittsburgh and the passing funicular* with yellow framed windows for #fensterfreitag #windowfriday *Duquesne Incline https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duquesne_Incline

The cards won't put themselves away! (alas)

as per WRI, the top 25 countries in red alert for a #water #climatecrisis: 1. Bahrain 2. Cyprus 3. Kuwait 4. Lebanon 5. Oman 6. Qatar 7. United Arab Emirates 8. Saudi Arabia 9. Israel 10. Egypt 11. Libya 12. Yemen 13. Botswana 14. Iran 15. Jordan 16. Chile 17. San Marino 18. Belgium 19. Greece […]

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it's a map to a magical land #Mosstodon

The textbook publisher (Norton) is putting AI in their ebook this fall

Talk to your friends and family about what is happening in orbit – most people have no idea the scale of unregulated commercialization that's now happening. Tell your local/state/provincial/federal government representatives to support alternative ways of accessing internet (cell towers, new […]

Signs that I'm aging: every doctor's visit seems to add another prescription (mostly vitamins, but still)

My doctor's office has a new sign up notifying patients that they use AI transcribing medical records This is a very bad idea I'm going to try sending them a letter asking for an AI opt-out and pointing to the lack of privacy protections And then I'm probably going to have to start looking […]

"This webpage was reloaded because it was using significant memory" That's the LMS hogging the memory. Most everything I use it for could be accomplished with a static site and vanilla HTML but noooo it has to have a bazillion bells whistles and hog memory and take *forever* to load 😫

#WindowFriday #Fensterfreitag

#Fensterfreitag #dailyvenice #venice #venezia

Related: tonight I couldn't remember how to express that I'd made the words bigger on my e-reader, so I said I "turned up the font"

I asked about shutting down my employer's xitter account and they acknowledged that they were closing the account. Small victory for a hard week.

I made a presentation for a class using LaTeX (beamer) instead of PowerPoint. There’s a bit of a learning curve, but if you can do HTML, you can do LaTeX. Assuming you just want a standard presentation, with text and a few images and no crazy transitions, LaTeX might be a way for some folks to […]

[Portland, ICE/CBP shooting, violence, guns] Yikes, the Portland incident appears to have been a moving situation. OPB: Federal agents shoot 2 people in East Portland https://www.opb.org/article/2026/01/08/porltand-city-council-security-concern/

Really starting to get why dante wrote thousands of lines of poetry describing the eternal torture of various political figures of his time

saw Alice post a great pic for #doorsday - which has introduced new hashtag to me, so here are 4 doors

RE: https://mstdn.social/@noelreports/115860920515699885 Best of luck to Iranians fighting for their freedom. Same goes to Americans too... #resistance

I often hear Americans & rich brits justify buying oversized, polluting vehicles by claiming they need them because they live in the "countryside". I call bullshit, Ladies and Gentlemen, allow me to introduce, the Citroen C15⬇

The textbook rep is trying to be helpful by offering a video call to fix the problem I'm having get the ebook and online homework system linked to my course page. But experience tells me this meeting could just be an email

[Uspol, violence] À propos of nothing, when hundreds of colonists surrounded British soldiers, threw things at them and hit them with clubs, and then the soldiers killed 5 of them, that was called a massacre and 2 of those soldiers where sentenced for manslaughter in a court of law. And *that* […]

A reflection of time. #Iceland #photography #landscape #nature #naturephotography #landscapephotography #abandoned #decay

[grumpy slightly sweary rant about educational technology] I am trying to get ready for the semester and I feel like I am being foiled at every turn by enshittified educational technology - the textbook is not a book, it's a proprietary ebook that requires 47 steps and a magic incantation (plus […]

Let me recap some history, because I'm mad about where we are in 2026. Mary Parker Follet was the mother of modern management. In the early 20th century, she wrote about shared power, collaborative win-win conflict resolution approaches, empowering workers, group psychology, sociology, and […]

FYI: multilinguism ≠ plurilinguism @MastodonEngineering should be really proud of themselves because we have here the closest thing to a plurilingual platform. multilingual platforms allow you to write in the language of your choice, usually with the app completely translated into the […]