interesting, auction (police auction?) of an ENTIRE RIDEABLE MINIATURE RAILROAD AND TWO MILES OF TRACK located in Las Vegas. (lol, that will require quite a bit of property to redeploy) #trains

The fediverse tonight…

it is very American that this Designed In California measuring app seems to have no way to toggle inches vs centimeters on the display except to change the entire phone’s culture settings

Weird how payment processors haven't cut Twitter off yet. It's almost as if there are multiple standards

typo of the day "curl --limit-rage ..."

City's bridged account @en.ottawa.ca

Just remembering that time right after I started living with my girlfriend in Austria, and she came home at the exact second I rinsed my pizza And she just drops everything she's holding and goes WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING. ARE YOU WASHING PIZZA? IS THIS SOME OTHER STUPID AMERICAN THING I […]

When this post is about 1 hour old, at 7 PM MST, the waves of a #Monsterdon will wash over the fediverse. Monsterdon waves are generated by undersea earthquakes, so they can be very large! Luckily most Fediverse software has seawalls that allow you to block hashtags, so do that if you prefer not […]

*** I wonder if an AI girlfriend is cheaper and better than birth control, or if these people who have fallen in love with computer software and bits and bytes never would have had children, anyway? 🤔

It seems a bit ironic that you named a skin colour while calling a group of people racist. #subtoot

RE: https://mastodon.de/@ErikUden/113069700310787144 I was contacted in a panic by the pharmaceutical company that ran my clinical trial when they found out I live posted so many occurrences during the study, asking me to delete all of it. I'll most likely comply, as I don't have the time […]

The scraping of Spotify by the shadow library, Anna's Archive, has made it into Private Eye, where the hypocrisy of Spotify - which originally was a pirate scraper site - is brought to light.

I have watched people typing out their troubles in response to Eliza prompts. Eliza had a small set of built in phrases and a set of keywords that triggered the response phrases. When it didn't recognise anything, it could reach back a bit to quote a snippet with "Tell me more about ___" Unlike […]

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Well, that's a problem LOL. Add that miter saw switch to the repair list. Switch broke and got stuck "on", which was exciting. Replacements available. #reducerepairreuserecycle #tools

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@jesper_linnet/115854978389856657 Do you know what’s better than snow served outdoors? Snow served indoors! Knold has actually been requesting snow as if it’s a treat. We don’t know what to do when all the snow is gone🫠 #Caturday […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

now looking to see my next pet will be fun with this limit.

I am not a fan of apples. In december, I accidentally (idiotically) ordered 2,5 kilos 🍎 🍎🍏🍏🍎🍏🍎🍏🍎🍎🍏🍎 and not just 4 🍎🍎🍎🍎 apples. I am still dealing with this mistake. 😇 #apples #pastry #baking

The snow melted so much yesterday that some buried peanuts reappeared on the porch roof. Started the morning with a (loud!) blue jay visit yay!! First this year #birding

i'm playing Kingdom Come: Deliverance because i watched some youtube clips and it had fun dialogue options, but what i'm getting instead is a _really_ in-depth history lesson about Czech nobility from a thousand years ago

said in the IRC channel earlier "curl is a sticker and image compression project that happens to release network software"

New, by me: Our first story of 2026 revealed how a destructive new botnet called Kimwolf has infected more than two million devices by mass-compromising a vast number of unofficial Android TV streaming boxes. Today, we’ll dig through digital clues left […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

Super busy today, but just have to quickly share that this morning, I woke up at a friend's house, under a skylight, and was delighted to see stars above me for nearly the first time this whole BC trip (lots of clouds here)! And literally 10 seconds later, I saw a fucking Starlink train! […]

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

Reserved this book at our local library based entirely on her description of the trumpet 🎺 (Lindy West, "The Witches are Coming")

LOL apparently I have been posting too much politics as I appear to have been unfollowed by some folks (which is fine, just interesting -- their prerogative, don't follow people you don't like). Fortunately, I am not here to gather followers and influence. Unfortunately, politics has inserted […]

A few days ago, a client’s data center "vanished" overnight. My monitoring showed that all devices were unreachable. Not even the ISP routers responded, so I assumed a sudden connectivity drop. The strange part? Not even via 4G. I then suspected a power failure, but the UPS should have sent an […]

i asked a chemist about it and she said "isothiazolinone derivatives are just There in soaps" alright cool

Woohoo!! We've got our new furniture. And it is splendid. As we hoped, the covers match the new rug, and it works well with the wallpaper behind the fire. And, so far, it's a lot more comfortable than the old stuff. The cat has refused to come and see it

Yesterday I used a computer at the public library. Holy shit, is this what computers are like when other people use them??? There were ads everywhere on the internet. All the desktop programs I was using kept trying to get me to log in and use AI, to the point that it was hard to figure out how […]

Mark Kelly is an incredible soldier, astronaut, and American but what’s most incredible about him is he has the time to text me asking for a $5 donation from a different phone number every 8 hours this week no matter how many times I reply STOP

The Leatherman® HandWave™ is a niche multitool for Force insensitive users, releases to clients in code with the Life Day gift season. It contains two fold-out Kaiburr Crystals—straight and serrated—a single use Mind Trick (replaceable), a bottle opener with a range of up to three meters, a […]

I feel like this is peak OC Transpo https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/out-of-service-oc-transpo-bus-catches-fire-while-being-towed-9.7037233

I've been reading about what really helped people who had problems with "AI Psychosis" and one tip jumped out at me: Open a second window and tell it exactly the opposite of each thing you say. This helps to expose the sycophancy and shatters the illusion of sincerity and humanity. Thought it […]

perfect and normal race. ended with second place crashing into first place at the improvised replacement finish line, causing first place's truck to stand on end and vibrate

Alternatively, by opening the cover, you have become a technician

@juliette there is a lot of data on this phenomenon/choice. Caroline Criado Perez discusses it in Invisible Women. Sweden saved a tonne of money by clearing pavements before roads, because that's where slip and fall injuries occur, reducing hospital visits and time off work.

This Onion headline is totally unbelievable. The First Lady over 12. Trump Claims He Will Marry Maduro’s Wife Until Suitable Replacement Found https://theonion.com/trump-claims-he-will-marry-maduros-wife-until-suitable-replacement-found/

I assume we were greeted as liberators, right? Right?

returning with “I feel you should know that some asshole is signing your name to stupid letters“ neatly typed across the back

“This is very emblematic of this government. Rather than actually trying to help, or solve the problem, or act as adults in an emergency, they lash out, they look for someone to blame and they look for political gain” Alberta premier says province might impose oversight of Calgary's water […]

A customer just came into my store and immediately clocked the music on my sweatshirt as bach’s violin partita no. 1 in B minor, final movement, “tempo di bourée”, instantly solving a mystery I had been wondering about since i thrifted it a year ago

Completely different topic, so ripping this quote out of the context from the article I just boosted: "I wonder how much Venezuelan sensitive information was in fact stored on Google/Microsoft services and accessed by the US military to prepare their recent strike." This is indeed a pretty […]

Forgot to note it back before the holidays, but the esq.social Mastodon instancejust had its third birthday. 🎉 In that time, the instance has processed 597 million messages. I'm responsible for, like, half at most.

Bought my dad #sens tickets for his birthday. But, it seems the sens only do e-tickets now. My 80 year old dad does not have a smart phone nor any patience for such things. I thought I could just... Print a ticket out. Or at least a qr code. Or something. But nope. That's not an option […]

I was digging through the fanfold labyrinth of last month’s chat logs when Mx Aquitaine interrupted me. “Mamsir the skip-link telescope is off-axis by nearly two degrees, and the bearings are grinding!” “I *know*—that’s why i’m scouring these bloody chat logs. I’m sure Ell Four had the same […]

You know how you hate being photographed while you're sleeping? More than 60 Henri Matisse artworks donated to Musée d’Art Moderne in Paris https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2026/jan/02/paris-musee-d-art-moderne-donation-henri-matisse-marguerite