just wrote "dpick > 0" into a search bar and then had to doubletake lol

i am now a web developer! spirebird.com#cards

every time someone asks me to use dark mode on stream i think of this comic, which was taped to the door of my office when i did a 3 month volume thing during my poker career.

i understand that as a non-software-dev i must be wrong about this, but .git is just such a funny concept to me. simultaneously "you need to use this for project coherency and reliability" and "these two letters delete your entire machine"

i watch the trackmania bonk cup pretty regularly. it's deliberately terrible maps and then players compete on them. i enjoy janky weird shit so i find it really funny. when you watch the player POVs a lot of the time they're complaining about how bad the maps are, which is also very funny.

Repost the Leather Dachshund from Seattle Pride 1991 to be blessed this Pride Month!

i discard all my potions at the end of a run sometimes as a bit, somewhat inspired by people backseating my potion choices far past the point of the run where it's possible that they matter. having done this i am now reading a youtube thread where someone lists reasons why i shouldn't have done that

i had NO idea how hard this music video went.

just googled "they call me dr worm + that's not my name mashup" and /didn't/ get a video from someone's 105 subscriber youtube account with 2.5 million views on it so if any of you are looking to break into content that may be an angle.

hearing half of a conversation about how a neutral would be wrong to say that the champions' league final was boring while pressing the skip 10 seconds button repeatedly because of how bored i am

so, this is deeply, deeply horrifying thedreydossier.substack.com/p/i-found-a-...

friends i can like, guarantee you that this website is coded with assistance from gen ai. it is fine to think using gen ai is bad but you gotta understand that if you use websites, apps, and/or software these days you are one of the people using gen ai.

bsky.app/profile/atru... www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Shiv: 237, Hidden daggers: 47, Strike silent: 35, Flash of steel: 34, Neutralize: 29, Defend silent: 25 is kinda unhinged

alright live-blogging the boys. i saw some of season one a long time ago but remember very little. i think they go to an abandoned place and fight at some point and that's about all i've got.

the way that there are now ai bots pretending to be conventionally attractive women in comments sections in online communities is a kinda bizarre new form of systemic disadvantage for women. i am pretty sure i have not actually banned any real women from my channel yet but not 100% on that.

trump prob just wasn't invited. don't think anyone has wanted a us president involved in their wedding since obama did that drone thing

i am genuinely impressed by people who can talk about politics without either losing their humanity or saying something that will result in them being put in jail right now

the wicked witch of the east and the wicked witch of the west imply the existence of the wicked witch of the in the club and the wicked witch of the downtown

i'm not entirely sure how but every time i go to youtube live is shows me the stream end stats for one of the first livestreams i ever did, and it calculates the subscribers gained since then based off [subs now] - [subs at that stream's beginning]

got my spreadsheet autopopulating number of times different cards were played in a run, so i can tell you things like "i just played a Defend silent: 86, Acrobatics: 71, Calculated gamble: 63, Tactician: 46 run"

something i find fascinating about american water usage discourse is it seems like most people are not aware that water can run out. people will have their understanding of water be "it always comes out of the faucet when i want it" and take that to analysis of industrial use.

We lost Douglas Adams 25 years ago today. This has made a lot of people very sad and has been widely regarded as a bad move.

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forget the iron fleet. daenerys needs to talk about other issues.

can you imagine if sabrmetrics guys got to hockey. every team just running the flying v or the knuckle puck every play.

discord borke. my stream is live though!

the concept of the fall of US democracy kind of relies on there having been US democracy. the fall of the US empire, for sure. US democracy? like.. what US democracy? we haven't had representational government ever. two parties have traded which white man was in control for the last 200 years.

as a person who doesn't drive, did gas cost $8/gallon or something not that long ago? i feel like it did and am confused that i keep reading about how $6/gallon is unaffordable. was that during lockdowns so fewer people were driving or something like that?

one of my big problems with the world is how inconsistently we remove bad actors from public life. like, lying to people shouldn't land you in jail, but it should preclude you from any careers where it could be problematic that you lie to people.

does "people talk about the people they want to have sex with" carry much value as a diagnostic tool? probably like 95% false positives but 5% real?

I write about people who became famous for saying and doing horrible things so I routinely get asked this question. "Did they really believe it?" Look, I get the curiosity, but in the grand scheme of things it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter what's in their hearts. They put evil into the world.

the world isn't so bad

hot take: women are less likely to use AI because we’re quick to clock flattery as a tool of manipulation

deux arabesques - debussey symphony 7 in A major op.92 - II fats waller's i've got rhythm flamenco sketches - miles the long and winding road - the beatles moanin' - mingus the middle - jimmy eat world without me - eminem first day of my life - bright eyes can't handle this - bo burnham

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bsky being bad or running out of steam or whatever is just made up propaganda from social media sites which aren't bsky, ignore it and enjoy looking at your bird photos and chatting with your new friends about books.

here in america we ask the tough questions, like should our citizens be allowed to use bathrooms.

SORRY MS JACKSON,

spring does contextualize social media in a way which is kind of hard to ignore

holy fuck america you gotta get it together

there are four genders. they are phantasmal and bizarrely strong against attack damage.

Social media is no longer social. Most of it is passive viewing of videos and pictures from people we've never met. But we're still studying social media like it's 2010. We've entered the post-social media era — and research needs to catch up. osf.io/preprints/so... preprint w/ Richard Rogers

swing states? yeah i can think of a swinging state i think is relevant to politics right now.

imagine finishing your towers and thinking "my legacy is ensured, even if something horrible happens to the first one i've built its twin right next to it" and then

it's kinda similar to the atheism thing. "how can you not believe in god" "the exact same was you don't believe in n-1 gods, except i don't believe in all of them". vote scolding assumes people who don't believe in your candidate give a fuck about a world in which they believed in your candidate.

learned about kalman filters for estimating binomial variables where p changes over time today! fun to see improvement. probably half getting better and half clicking on the fun random stuff i want to try less often.