My dog got me a chewed stick for christmas. I appreciate the gesture but I wish there was a polite way to say "we don't need to get each other gifts any more." My cat got me a pipe bomb

“Can’t believe NYC elected a Muslim as mayor.” In truth—a Black American Christian woman swearing in a Ugandan American Muslim of South Asian ethnicity as his Syrian American wife holds the Qurans he swears in on, all while standing on the steps of a subway station—is the most NYC thing imaginable.

Software developers (myself included!) were collectively fools for not unionizing when we were at peak bargaining power.

may this year be the year It Happens

There is an undeniable shared understanding in humanity. When people see "I hope this year it will happen" there is not a slightest doubt what "it" means.

i can’t believe it has been 2016 for ten years

This is a story about bike lanes within the ring in Berlin.

Turned my light off at ~11, slept solidly until just now. Happy New Year everybody.

Happy New Year (full: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5u2I...)

Getting reports from my sleeper agents in Australia that 2026 does, indeed, appear to exist.

"What was your biggest impact on the Internet?" I drew the original of this. (I storyboarded and assistant directed on this episode.) (Fry, "Shut up and take my money")

Absolutely stealing this. Getting in front of German doctors is difficult and time consuming enough, I can’t afford to let them get away with any shit.

With just hours until the end of the year, fathers across the country were today preparing ways to slip their hilarious ‘see you next year’ joke into their conversations on New Year’s Eve. Full details: theshovel.com.au/2024/12/29/nations-dad-start-preparing-see-you-next-year-jokes/

Holy shit what

I think about this a lot

Funny/sad to me that there's an entire pile of work in assessment science on this that basically stopped at "damn dynamic testing with feedback is a way better predictor of performance but it's too expensive to implement oh well" and the one industry that easily makes dynamic interaction cheap...

RIGHT the sort of secret job of software development is to warp the playing field such that your efforts are more likely to succeed You can be brilliant at algorithms and have no clue how to do this

Even’s music never does not make me happy https://youtu.be/udhXryd5XDc?si=k3zHAzSIlc7FHONU

and in fact I think most of the consternation about the LLM paradigm shift is that many software professionals got really good at Programming and not nearly as good at The Secret Job of Programming which is about the chess game of not letting a 1.0 fucking kill you of Actually Shipping

Australia Admits All Those Animals Made Up https://theonion.com/australia-admits-all-those-animals-made-up/

The source for this meme is stored in documents/memes, on my own computer, I don't even need the internet to access it, revolutionary stuff

POV: Du bist ein Korn

Nothing prepares you for how rapidly you accelerate between these three states #chemchat

Semiotic paradox alert!

I have a bad feeling about this…

♫Shout Shout I’m short and stout This is my handle and this is my spout Pour on I’m tipping for you Pour on ♪

Hoses

I really like "Trainwreckords" as a title but there's a guy on RYM with a series called "1,001 Albums You Must Die Before You Hear" and God. God that's so good

Ruin two bands by combining them NINXS

There are three pathways to peace in Ukraine: a just peace through Russian defeat, an unjust peace through compromise, and genocidal occupation euphemistically called peace through Ukrainian surrender. Ukraine is working towards the first goal, Europe for the second, Trump for the third.

When someone asks why I keep working on the open social web when normal users don't care about protocols

The Second-Order Streisand Effect is a social phenomenon where if a party makes an effort to censor information, discussion and news about the censorship paradoxically leads to an increased awareness of Barbara Streisand, a musician whom most "Zoomers" would probably have otherwise never heard of

Good enough wins because of what you are able to treat as externalities

My cartoon for the latest @newscientist.com

Management is the wrong analogy for LLM augmentation www.sicpers.info/2025/12/mana...

I always found it weird how the country with no official religion is more religious than the one where we're ostensibly all christian by default.

Note to the Americans, this is a possum. Not those screeching murder rats you have over there.

What’s with the AWS console over the last couple of months? It’s started to suck (huge latency, clicks not doing anything, half the screen paints then it stops…)

i do think the simplest explanation is simply just revealed preference. people don't want good criticism

This guy is Putin's best investment ever and it's not even close

SPLUNGE!

it is very much easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine that at some point linear algebra will not function.

#Berlinmomente 26.12.2025 Hallo Du

What kind of dirthat libnozzle came up with this?!

A very weird conversation in which it eventually becomes apparent that child is confusing George Orwell and George Foreman

Leftover roast lamb on toast with mustard feels sacrilegious somehow, despite being great. We’ll see how heretical it is with chilli crisp.

Web of trust labellers now.

"Old MacDonald's content farm..." "AI?" "AI." "Oh."