Putting on my reef-safe sunscreen to go play pickleball. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRfu...

Critical WordPress vulnerability on a Friday and the difference between hosting companies couldn't be more stark. WPEngine is upgrading every site immediately and you don't get a choice in the matter. Pagely does not have a patched version available yet, so you also don't get a choice in the matter.

I have eaten the diarrhea lettuce that was in the crisper and which you were probably saving for tacos forgive me it was delicious hang on gotta run

I can never find what I'm looking for in the fridge and it usually ends up that it was hidden at the front of the shelf at eye level. www.ajo.com/article/S000...

This is the first year I've gotten very ambitious with carrots. this variety is Napoli and they are delicious but don't keep well, even when refrigerated. So every day I grab one as a snack.

I'm in favor of not changing our clocks twice a year. Whether we eliminate daylight savings time or make it permanent is immaterial. Humans have agency and we can adjust our lives accordingly. I think it's easier and makes more sense for organizations to change their hours of operations as needed.

"If you'll stop calling people white nationalists, then I'm open to the idea of not being one", is just the reverse of this cartoon and one more example of Murc's Law in action.

Had a Teams call with clients yesterday, screen sharing Teams Planner we use to coordinate work, and the whole meeting went off the rails for a bit because updates weren't syncing and everyone was seeing different things. We finally had to open it in a web browser so we'd have a refresh button.

I talked to one of my vegetable gardening buddies in the neighborhood on our walk this morning, and we are both very thankful to have so much fresh produce that isn't potentially contaminated by parasites. The risk of cyclosporiasis is pretty low here, but it's comforting not to have uncertainty.

Oof. We really like our mechanic. We've been going there for years. But he changed the oil on my wife's car yesterday and forgot to put the oil cap back on. We're really lucky she drove it early in the day. In the afternoon heat there would have been a much greater chance of it catching fire.

Being head of a community water system means I'm the guy our neighbors call to tattle on their neighbors who leave the sprinkler running too long.

So, I guess I don't know when my new Friday pickleball paddle gets here because the delivery tracking system doesn't load. The console log is full of errors that mention AI. Congrats to the development team at ShipBob for reinventing the wheel so it doesn't roll.

Peoria Gardens has their end-of-season sale going on. It's a good chance to pick up some veggies to fill in any empty spaces in the garden. There's also a lady selling tamales. Not very often that I drop a couple bills before noon but #noregrats.

Private equity is buying America's hospitals and nursing homes. The playbook: pile on debt, sell the building, cut staff. The result, one landmark study found: patient deaths up about 11%. #news #information #privateequity

We have Pacific Power, owned by Berkshire Hathaway. Our most recent outages have been brief, but we've had 4 in the last 5 weeks: May 30, June 15, June 22, and July 6. It's a trillion dollar company, but they have no incentive to improve.

'One day to the next' by Emma Haworth, contemporary UK painter known for her park landscapes with a hint of magic #WomensArt

Just testing something out here to see how bsky handles links within animated SVG files.

The exact midpoint between our Slurm future and our Brawndo future.

I'm basically a pescatarian at this point.

Every time I try pvp in Forza Horizon 6, that first turn where I can still see other players.

This is Daisy's favorite chair. We bought it at a garage sale because it looked like the chair my granddad used to sit in reading westerns, and I thought maybe I could sit in it and read a book. But there's just not room for both of us.

Talarico stans please understand how this works that Texas Republicans suck but are not going to gerrymander a Paxton win.

Gerrymandering is bad, and threatens our ability to fairly elect good candidates to the US House, and state houses across the country, but I wish more of the resist folks doom posting would understand, that it is not a factor in US Senate races because that is a statewide popular vote.

What a gorgeous corvid!

We love not having an HOA, but of course there has to be one derelict house in the neighborhood that has turned into a parking lot for junk cars and an overgrown thicket of wild blackberries, stray cats and skunks. Today we saw a county vehicle and could guess where they were headed.

People hang out those hideous signs that say, "try the new McFlurry blah blah blah blah blah. You know, now hiring, 10 billion served, whatever. No shirt, no shoes, no service." That sign is such a disgusting butchering of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.

I am very mildly allergic to some shrimp. I get a touch of itching and puffiness of my lips. For whatever reason, with some shrimp this doesn't happen. It's not too bad, so I still eat 'em as often as possible, but smaller portions than I used to, just to be safe.

2% - that's 10 cents per gallon of gas. We're watching gas prices fluctuate by that much or more every few days as the news (not reality) careens between "war is over" and "war is sooo close to over". Looking past "fresh Iran tensions" and focusing on "supply outlook" is more magical thinking.

I think this may be the best pitchbot post ever. Perfect!

Is there a name for the phenomenon where right-wingers will strategically pretend to be further to the left, but those on the left never pretend to be further to the right?

Went to the dentist today for a checkup because I'm the kind of adult that does responsible shit like that. My reward is quesabirria tacos from Tacovore.

I got my Slate pre-order locked in today. They're saying 7 to 10 months for delivery. I've only wanted a small EV light truck for ages.

this is a great illustration of one of the fundamental insights of democracy — that there is no such thing as "the people" and that majorities are elusive and ever shifting. no election, no decision, is final and treating an election as a final decision is profoundly undemocratic.

I think President Mamdani is going to need to appoint David Pagan Butler as the Reflecting Pool Czar. There's nothing going on there that some aquatic plants and bog filters couldn't sort out in a couple weeks.

We took our good girl Petunia to the vet for a checkup today. She's about 7 weeks shy of her Gotcha Day, so she's 19 years old now.

Hirō Isono (1945-2013) Japanese artist who had a love for trees 🌳

Trump's Iran war surrender has to be the most expensive TACO of all time.

I have on my to do list every day: Contemplate a work of art. ✔️ I hope you enjoy this poem as much as I do.

One of the worst clients I ever had, who I fired a few years ago, would respond to my emails by plugging what I wrote into chatgpt with a prompt that must have been "why is this wrong?". Every task became a drawn out argument between me and a bot.

I'm growing a new variety of kohlrabi this year, Konstance, and they are a gorgeous purple. We're gonna get all the antioxidants this summer! #garden

Roku pushed an update a couple days ago to degrade the usability of their product. Now you have to scroll past multiple rows of featured shows to get to channels, and the screen saver has a bug so you can't resume shows and have to hit the home button so you see more ads.

Yesterday, the Trump DOJ gutted the main legal tool Black workers use to prove racial discrimination in the workplace. So, RIP disparate impact liability: 1971-2026*. Cause of death: hurt white feelings.

Congratulations to @effies.bsky.social for the Nebula Award recognition! This is an excellent short story of superpowers and heroes building an inclusive future. You can read it here: www.diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-1...

This is of a kind with children raising money for school lunch debt where it really shouldn't be their job but I'm glad they take it on.

I will never understand any of the algorithms, but YouTube has dedicated itself for almost a week now to try to get me to watch a video uploaded 17 years ago with the title "Insane Jump by a Buick Le sabre".

I planted a plum tree in my front yard a couple months ago with multiple varieties, which I named Leeloo Dallas Multiplum.

Samaritan is telling my wife there are no appointments available for our daughter to get a new PCP for the next 6 months. They only schedule 6 months out, so she should call every day at 8 AM to see if there's something available. Healthcare in America is a completely broken system.

Was just thinking about this super-racist guy I used to have to work with at WTAZ Radio back in the '90s. Anyway I googled him and he's dead now so I guess RIH Harry Canterbury. Hope you're still catching more than your limit!