And so, I call on the wisdom of BlueSky for advice on whether hearing aids really help for total hearing loss in one ear, and if so what brands or settings or hearing specialists I should investigate. I'm in Vancouver, BC, FWIW. Thoughts? Experiences?

I think I found the funniest bug in a video game Satisfactory reboots my monitor whenever I trigger turbo bass

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

*muffled screaming*

They trigger reward systems instead.

Perform empathy. Please. Perform the fuck out of it. It's so good to act with kindness. I hope it penetrates to a place where you feel it, too, but if you must act some way, act the right way. I'm not here to judge your authenticity, I just want you to be kind, thoughtful, and mortified by meanness.

Godot 4 C# devs!! I forked the official Godot-Tools to add: - ✅ Drag & Drop nodes to create [Export] and references - ✅ Live Scene Tree & Inspector debug in VS Code - ✅ Auto-refresh while debugging Link: github.com/DanTrz/godot... #godot #GodotEngine #GodotTips #Gamedev #Indiedev #csharp

A Christmas Eve windstorm is appearing increasingly likely with a compact 980 hPa low + trailing sting jet expected to take a troublesome S to N track. Willamette Valley, coast, PDX, SEA metros all potentially impacted. Lots of model uncertainty…follow forecasts closely. Could be a bad one.

Wet rat winter? Here's what to do if you find a rat coming through your toilet following heavy Western Washington rain and floods.

Cool. Cool cool cool cool.

Ugh. Not again.

King County, WA levee is failing; 46,000 must evacuate; pets welcome at Evergreen State Fairgrounds; Auburn, Renton, Monroe, Kent, Tukwila residents, leave NOW. kcemergency.com/2025/12/15/g...

Game designer: After lots of hard work we’re proud to announce we’ve created the Wheel of Saṃsāra from the ancient Buddhist classic Don’t Get Trapped in the Wheel of Saṃsāra

So there's a fun little ATProto thing you can do apparently. Got a message in my mentions, someone requesting mutual aid. Not very unusual, I see & repost them every so often. What *is* unusual, though, is that I was not actually mentioned. In fact, nobody was. So why's it in my notifs?

Yeah it's fuckin wet up here chat. Flood advisories & everything.

A buddy who works at the animal shelter there just forwarded this 😟

Thanks to the Long COVID community, eligibility screening for LoCITT-T is now closed, 41 days after it oopened. We'll share more about what's ahead on 12/17 at 2:30 eastern / 11:30 pacific. scrippsresearch.zoom.us/webinar/regi... For those who have taken the screener but not consented yet... 1/2

[Alan Dye working on Apple’s upcoming foldable phone] what if you couldn’t unfold it

Getting ready for 2026 like

people think of generative AI as Janet from The Good Place but it’s actually the clam chowder fountain from The Good Place

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

Just got my first ever ADHD med prescription! I'm pretty excited to see if it helps, but a little nervous about it at the same time. It took about two years from the realization that I very likely had ADHD my whole life to get to this point, but I guess I've waited more than fifty years now so 🤷‍♂️

Your annual new years reminder

I had what can objectively be described as a "fairly mild" case of shingles a couple of years ago, and it fucked me up for months. I cannot imagine being more afraid of the vaccine, to be honest.

My anger burns with the heat of a thousand suns.

can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot

I'm at the combination

Very scary and important recall! Please share and make sure our diabetic friends are safe! www.fda.gov/medical-devi...

"medically reversible" laceration of the intestines 🙄

We don't need to pretend to believe there's some valid reason for this, we know why Trump wants our private voter data: to take away our freedom to vote by attacking our best-in-the-nation vote by mail system. Washington shouldn't give him a goddamn thing.

I like leaving silly little comments in my code :)

When I first started using Godot I fully expected to dislike how the node the and scenes were designed, but very quickly discovered that I really like it. This short article does a good job of describing the best things about it, imo.

I like really deep dives into how a generator was developed, such as this city map generator by @tomnullpointer.bsky.social www.nullpointer.co.uk/generating-c...

I didn't have "Garry Mod devs making their engine and platform open source and downloadable" on my 2025 bingo card but hey I'm not complaining, that's incredibly cool

Almost at 20,000 followers! 🎉 To celebrate, here's 10 copies of Kenney Game Assets All-in-1 you can claim (see bottom of page). If you can, please either share or follow so I can finally wave goodbye to that other dread social platform 👋 kenney.itch.io/kenney-game-...

Reposting with alt text, because this seems pretty important.

Earth will begin again in 2038.

A paper by @univie.ac.at researchers found an awful security flaw in WhatsApp - there was zero rate limiting preventing anyone from querying the details of every single WhatsApp user on earth in just a few hours 🫠

Weird seeing this image of the old Unity Locomotion System by @runevision.bsky.social being used for Blender add-ons 🤔

In case you missed it, JetBrains has released an update for Rider that integrates the Chickensoft test executor! 🥳 Now you can run tests (that you're definitely writing, right?) for your game that much easier! www.jetbrains.com/rider/whatsn... #godot #gamedev #csharp #indiedev #dotnet

People say Trump and the MAGAs aren't bipartisan, but here they are convening in the actual goddamn Situation Room just to protect Bill Clinton

🚀 Excited to announce SharpIDE - A Modern, Cross-Platform IDE for .NET! I'm thrilled to share my latest open-source project, just in time for .NET 10: SharpIDE, a brand new IDE for .NET, built with .NET and Godot! 🎉 🔗 Check it out on GitHub: github.com/MattParkerDe... ...

I guess this explains why so many people think glorified autocorrect will lead to human-level intelligence 🙄

Still processing the inanity of this cave, like, "We're going to make Republicans go on record that they want to destroy the ACA." You mean the motherfuckers who radicalized in opposition to it & voted to repeal it, like, 22 times? You're finally getting them on record? Really impressed over here

Hey Seattle friends, take a minute to click this link & make sure your vote got counted! The mayoral election is gonna be CLOSE, like possibly a-few-dozen-votes close