When assembling your dog, please make sure that you follow the instructions carefully.

Reading The Subtle Knife, and I was inclined to say the portrayal of scientists was unrealistic, but the part where they've discovered there are interdimensional travelers, that the universe is conscious, and the government is spying on them, and they're STILL talking grant funding is perfect.

the best advice i can give straight from dbt group: you should operate any relationship assuming everything is okay unless explicitly told otherwise. you should be able to trust that the people in your life respect u and ur relationship and are mature enough to communicate problems with you. ALSO

Doctors say that fluoride helps build strong teeth. A guy who snorts cocaine off toilet seats and takes raccoon penises home for “further study” says it causes autism. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust.

Good morning

There are so many insane wildly misleading stories coming out about data centers almost every day now that I'm mostly having to give up on commenting on them to focus on actually getting blog posts out, but it feels like a tsunami. This is one of them. Will go into it in a thread below.

I think Discord is down right now

playing the 'which polygon is pissing off the geoprocessing tool' one polygon at a time

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Autistic lesbian writing about autistic lesbians cuddling on a train

And a very happy 20 years of Neil banging out the tunes to all who observe

ad astra, artemis ii 🌒 #illustration

Anyway it’s a new day. Let’s make more art and post more art. 🌱

This is something @leonnoel.bsky.social from 100devs has been mentioning. He showed then reminded us of a chart showing only 18% of SWEs used some sort of AI, and only 1% of them used agentic tools. LinkedIn and X would have you believing otherwise.

Feeling so sleepy today. I blame the Hormuz Strait closure. Can't get enough energy.

this very much confirms my priors that practice matters more than doctrine (women/lgbt ordination is more practice than doctrine imo)

This and walkable espresso

Mid-rise apartment building design peaked in 1970s Italy and has been declining since.

a woman's back muscles. share if you agree.

this cat is dead

happy 14th anniversary to all who observe

they don't want linux. they just want to endlessly critique windows

It's giving "The backyard of the Hunt's townhome in Rosedale", and I love it.

Adrian Chiles in his lesbian era

your cat at 3am:

bluesky: the premier social network for getting yelled at because you explained how a complex process you have no control over works

CONGRATS TO TEXAS STATE ON WINNING THE THANOS AWARD THEIR REGULAR SEASON WAS PERFECTLY BALANCED AS ALL THINGS SHOULD BE.

we’re in the vet’s office waiting room and they just called for Agamemnon. we all looked at the Great Dane but it turns out Agamemnon is an orange kitten in a backpack that makes him look like an astronaut cheese puff

Chief garden inspector Blue back on Caturday

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It's #tongueoutTuesday and I'm feeling reflective. Also this suitcase is not going anywhere. #extracat #graycat #cat #cats #blep #tongue #catsky #catsofbluesky

What a picturesque example of what the urbanists call "missing middle"!

my 2025 year in review

A female great-tailed grackle (Quiscalus mexicanus) enduring a winter drizzle. Photo taken at Isleta Lakes, New Mexico on December 27, 2025. #nature #naturephotography #birds

This is why with my Transit Equity Dashboard, I want to include wait times when seeing how long it takes to travel by transit.

Quiet in town, some more than others. 📷 1940s Argus C3 🎞 Kodacolor 200

It does not feel like Christmas Eve.

over 30 selfie thread 33 and young people are in disbelief.

human user speaks fluent Claude, instance shocked

Today I made a candy glass sugar cookie based on Ellsworth Kelly's 'Austin' chapel (2018) on the Blanton Museum grounds.

A n'hood assoc. colleague remarked that "getting more housing downtown will be impossible" as the downtown is "already very built up." I hold a different impression of my community, so I took to Google MyMaps to graphically illustrate just how much land in downtown on which there is left to build.