The US Postal Service (USPS) published a proposed rule to allow the federal government to control who can cast a mail-in or absentee ballot. States would have to send a list of every voter slated to receive a ballot by mail to the USPS. Public comments are now being accepted on this rule. See […]

Even many Dems like me were concerned about Biden's age and mental state before the election. But this new car video from Jay Leno gives you a candid chance to compare him today with the weak, rambling, sickly lump that is Trump. Watch it. (Yes, there are one or two obvious staged jokes.) […]

Great work House of Representatives. We need to reform all of the Patriot Act laws that are used to spy on people in the US. House votes against extending controversial wiretapping law set to lapse Friday […]

Rough night last night. Got obcessed with my breathing and hyperventilated. PTSD from my month in the hospital trying not to die before my open heart surgery. Took me most of the night to figure out my problem wasn't not enough O2, but too much O2. No stars. Do not recommend. #mentalhealth […]

MS now has a livestream on YouTube of the removal of Trump's name from the Kennedy Center. #breakingnews

Not having a great morning here. Had no hot water last night, and this morning when I checked, the water heater is leaking all over the laundry room floor. Also, the water shutoff valve is frozen open, and the fastest plumber appointment we have found yet is Friday. Small-town living is […]

If you're wondering how bad a problem AI slop is for the book publishing industry, just learned (via a company VP) that traditional book distributor Ingram has been screening their system for AI since late 2020, and they have removed or rejected 4-5 MILLION […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

If you're wondering how bad a problem AI slop is for the book publishing industry, just learned (via a company VP) that traditional book distributor Ingram has been screening their system for AI since late 2020, and they have removed or rejected 4-5 MILLION […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Susy cat does NOT like being covered with a blanket, and this is her grumpy face, but notice she isn't moving this time. #caturday #grumpycat

Update on the small mystery ants that sometimes visit my house and attached office. One showed up just under a gooseneck lamp just now, stuck circling, which allowed me to get the best picture yet. But this time it appears to be carrying a pupa. Um. How worried should I be here? To update, my […]

New Comic found: Dinosaur Comics - 2026-05-28 https://www.gocomics.com/dinosaur-comics/2026/05/28 #webcomics #dinosaurcomics #comicstrip

remember -- he expects nothing less than accolades for creating the problem, then walking away from it as if it was no longer HIS problem... to borrow a bugs bunny phrase from earlier last century, "what a maroon"...

Republicans and other would-be election stealers like to spin tales of Hillary driving around raiding your mail box for your mail-in ballot and handing them off to a room full of vaguely turban-wearing brown people for fake voting, but this is what most REAL […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

RE: https://planet.moe/@Linux/116539693949895906 "Fox News for people who can read." Man, I can't tell you how bad I wish I came up with that.

Belated #caturday. Notty Cat stalking my Lego building yesterday. After much discussion, I finally had to lock her out of the room and "help" with paws under the door. She just can't help herself about some things... #catsofmastodon #mycat #nottycat #notmycat #cats

@iris If "The Right To Repair Includes Yourself" is not on a tee-shirt, it needs to be.

I was struggling yesterday to recover an old Apple ID, and was reminded again how much my dyslexia makes many security systems hell. I can't type passwords into the blind accurately, many arbitrary "strong password" rules are difficult for me to parse, and remembering strings of numbers or […]

Trump says he's "holding all the cards," but it's important to remember that he's not playing with a full deck... #trump

@batcurn Hi, Betancur. No offense, but I generally I don't allow follows from new accounts without some posting history or at least a compelling bio and/or some kind of worthwhile (to me) interaction. Give me some signs of life or personhood and I'm happy to reconsider.

Got a flyer in my inbox from a major home improvement place. Awful AI (I'm assuming) ad copy, especially a full newsletter emphasizing the FLAWS of various outdoor tools. Gas tools are noisy, but powerful. Electric tools with cords are dangerous if you aren't careful, but lighter. Battery tools […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@ScienceScholar/116439177693495904 A while back when our little Oregon beach town was in the path of the totality, I watched from my patio with friends. First, we had been expecting mobs, but the media spread such alarmist speculation about crowds and sold out hotels […]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY @georgetakei.bsky.social ! Our OG icon and beloved social media persona for justice of racial and LGBTQ+ issues — and the very first #StarTrek actor I ever met. I appreciate your and Brad’s support ever since, including a sit-down for "The Con of Wrath." #drtrek #trekland #sulu #TOS

Well, Amazon is not my favorite company these days for any number of reasons, but in a competitive space (no pun intended) where they're up against Elon Musk and SpaceX, I've got to cheer them on at least a bit. Elon can't be allowed to get a monopoly on affordable access to space. (And for the […]

I'M MAKING IT MYSELF, DAMMIT! https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/make_it_myself.png #maker #engineering #makers

Cool. The AI image discussed in this article (which I will not repost) clearly shows Trump, suffering from a stroke, being comforted by some kind of very normal doctor. I will accept no other interpretation […]

Trump is handling the negotiations with all the cool reasoning of a spoiled four-year-old. #trump #IranWar

Just was headed for a restaurant men's room when a little blonde girl popped out followed immediately by her father. And I wondered how many states now would be charging her and/or her dad with a crime. And if there's a carve out for this, how do you remotely justify any of this? Atypical things […]

Well, this really sucks, for a variety of reasons. Amazon is ending support for all of its Kindle ebook readers released before 2012. Yeah, that's old, but they're simple devices, and I've got several that still work fine. Even if the batteries die, they're relatively easy to replace (unlike a […]

Remember when Repubs used to attach ANY adjustment or change of plans by Democrats as "waffling?" Trump has made enough waffles, in just the last few weeks, to put the goddammed Waffle House out of business. Treats. Declare victory. Make ultimatum. Back off […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Dear Google News: Please rename this category "Senile Old Man Ramblings," at least for the duration of the emergency. #trump #google #googlenews #impeachtrump #iran #IranWar #news #normalizationofdeviance

The wonderful maker YouTuber Laura Kampf, in her recent series on turning a $1 camping trailer into a back-yard office/party bar, has coined the word "Mufufu" ("Moo-foo-foo") for a piece of furniture designed for multiple functions. Yes, it makes teen boys snigger, which is even more reason I […]

I'm a little late for #caturday, but here's a picture I really like of Notty Cat and I hanging out on my recliner. #notmycat #nottycat #catsofmastodon

Donald J. Trump is always horny for two things: Teenage girls, and fossil fuels... https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/03/coal-plant-forced-to-stay-open-due-to-emergency-order-isnt-even-running/ #coal #energy #environment #pollution #trump

In October, ice agents “smashed the car windows and detained all seven occupants” of a van that they thought suspicious because people in it were going to work together. Carpooling. Carpooling is foreign and unintelligible to the brilliant and diligent ice […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

RE: https://flipboard.com/@bbcwildlife/bbc-wildlife-magazine-7k5eiel4z/-/a-f4Pzu2bySNqNIv0Q69-k6w%3Aa%3A2902041756-%2F0 These are big, temperamental animals with poor vision, not something to trifle with no matter how acclimated to humans they might be. I'm reminded of that scientific groaner […]

Seems valid.

Just poking around the internet for confirmation, but no, it appears that state residents do NOT call "Kentucky" KEEN-tucky." As Donald Trump insisted. In fact, it seems a lot like when my state is called Ory-GONE. But Trump is certain, because, as he says, "It's on all your Chicken Buckets!" […]

"For a little while, it looked like we were going to build a new Library of Alexandria with all of mankind's knowledge available to everyone in the world at little or not cost. Then we got distracted and instead of that, we built a bullshit robot incapable of knowing true from false and used […]

Has Anthropic’s business suffered after the company’s recent fallout with the Pentagon? Not so far, at least. Anthropic’s daily active users and app installs for its AI chatbot Claude are on the rise on mobile devices. More from @Techcrunch: https://flip.it/F2N8bK #tech #ai #anthropic […]

it's 1984 and I occasionally take breaks from school to assemble lego to keep my mind off a republican president pushing towards thermonuclear war it's 2026 and I occasionally take breaks from work to assemble lego to keep my mind off a republican president pushing towards thermonuclear war

RE: https://social.vivaldi.net/@BigJackBrass/116103641501963634 You have to be old-school to really appreciate this. I am VERY old school. #retrocomputing #computers #adventure

My wife, Chris, has been knitting "red hat Resistance" hats and giving them to friends and neighbors. This is her seventh. She bought more yarn today. #oregoncoast #resist #redhat #fuckice #trump #ice

Floppy disks were introduced in the early 1970s and in the two decades before they became obsolete, tens of billions were produced, most of which ended up in landfills, long-forgotten storage, or libraries. Archivist Leontien Talboom has been working for the past few years to preserve the floppy […]

The FAA gets a lot of criticism, some of it justified, but hats off to the administrator and chief counsel for forcing Border Patrol thugs to stop firing off a laser cannon in El Paso, which by this account CBP did with remarkable incompetence […]

I proudly report that I have walked the length of this trail many times, and the bench at the half-way point is quite relaxing […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

I boldly predict that the reported death of drug lord El Mencho in Mexico will do fuck-all (certainly anything long term) about the use of dangerous drugs in the United States. These things are driven mostly by demand, not supply.

Well, @Jackson8270, you are a new account, and on your profile have no picture, no visible posts, and not much of a bio. I'm not going to allow you to follow me until I can be convinced that you are a legit, human user with actual interest, and not a bot or puppet account. Feel free to try to […]