made it all the way through January and the office Christmas tree is still up

my least favorite corporate time wasting event is a meeting where you watch someone type notes into a spreadsheet embedded in a PowerPoint presentation.

I'm VERY anti "Remote Learning" on snow days. Snow days are magical and young people should play video games and have snowball fights. Or go sledding. And pester their parents who are doing remote office work to make hot chocolate. Hmph.

If you are unlawfully killed by the authorities, you posthumously become a terrorist.

Holy shit, I made a Downfall meme back when we were renegotiating our CBA that went pretty viral, but this is brilliant. It’s fantastic all the way through, and then the last three seconds sent me into orbit.

Here's a lovely but sad and complicated story of The Hags, a dyke gang (I guess) in San Francisco's queer 80s and 90s. https://www.thebeliever.net/hags-in-your-face/ I really miss Stacy Quijas. She was a roomie for a short while at 666 Illin' Noise Street. I suspect we were amongst the most […]

guess it'll end up being about as bad as expected. In downtown Dallas at least. This is all ice and sleet. we won't see temperatures above freezing for a couple days. #weather

RE: https://mas.to/@markarayner/115950543535649648 This is what it is like to get on the 4 train during rush hour.

✊ and JFC, that much crowd in -9?!? MSP is PISSED THE FUCK OFF. https://bskx.app/profile/sarwark.org/post/3md4lr643vc27

"And these 'AI productivity gains', are they in the room with us right now?"

Not that anyone here in my follows would ever be in that kind of position, but don't be the kind of person whom millions of people celebrate your death in particular. Well, unless they're the worst scum imaginable. Then fuck those people.

@Affekt I used to live in Houston and the whole city would shut down for even a FORECAST that there might be flurries

Next week is going to be entirely well below freezing. Which is really weird for the mid Atlantic.

Scooby bleppin #cats #catsofmastodon

we all need a little less raging against the dying of the light and a little more coordinated tactical assault on the darkness factory

I was going through a box of stuff from one of my late friends, and I found photocopies of my hand drawn schematics for a bit-slice computer design I worked on from 1978 to 1984. I only made one abortive effort to wire-wrap part of it around 1981, but I never got that working due to not having […]

ahhhhh. the smoke detector in the vacant apartment started going off at midnight and has been going since. the door was unlocked so I peeked in to make sure it was a false alarm (which it is). workers were in painting and finishing floors so I don't want to fuck with it. plus I don't have a […]

it's Thursday after work so it's time to take the train a few miles up the road and then run home

Cripes a’mighty people, Steven Miller is not staging a militarized ethnic cleansing and sending the border cops to murder people in the street to distract from the Epstein files. He’s doing it because he and Trump (and Vance and Homan and Noem etc) really really want to.

Scooby is having a good night #catsofmastodon #cats

The old world is dying and the new one struggles to be born Now is the time of low effort template based shitposts

ICE agents getting absolutely swarmed and harassed on the street in Minneapolis until they flee! "Video of federal agents getting run out of Lyn Lake this afternoon." from jan 12th from https://bsky.app/profile/wedge.live/post/3mcb6afwogs2b #ice #minneapolis

I'd kill for the feeling of getting two pepperoni pizzas at Little Caesars and renting a 99 cent movie at the grocery store on a Friday night right now

@michaelcoyote I think it was in the 90s I tried twice to switch to Linux at home, but had to slide back into Windows because of hardware incompatibilities. The third time was the charm and I never looked back. I spent some of my early Linux years with Gentoo because it was easier to compile […]

#photography #streetphotography #blackandwhite #monochrome #tombzz

/9 Anyway, a substantial project of the Right is to make it dangerous, expensive, and ideally illegal to speak the truth about them. Don’t give up an inch of ground.

LAVView is the bane of my existence. Who thought it was a good idea to take all the complexity and difficulty of reading a schematic and then apply it to writing code? I'm an electrical engineer and I'm used to looking at schematics but I still think it's a terrible way to define a topology […]

So far this year we've bombed a capital, kidnapped a head of state, and threatened to invade an ally. Now they're executing moms on the street. It's been one week.

Cooking is therapeutic for me so I'm riffing on my regular bloated butternut squash and green apple soup with some curry powder and red lentils tonight. Smells amazing in here.

East Potomac Park, Washington, DC. October, 2014. 📷 Nikon FE2 + Nikkor 28mm f/2.8 AI 🎞 Kodak Tmax 400 🏷️ #Photography #FilmPhotography

It's my first Fediversary! Still happy to be here, no regrets leaving IG--in fact, it's been a relief. https://mastodon.social/@potterybyosa/113867178054241404

No, *you’re* the one watching SOUND & FURY at max volume in your living room, it’s not me (if you have Netflix you should watch SOUND & FURY at max volume in your living room, it’s like the epitome of music videos)

Found in my apartment building lobby. A New Year's story

#photography #filmphotography #retrobosak Roll 19686919: UC Riverside (1968) Ravi Shankar concert, 4 February 1968. Shankar on sitar, Alla Rakha on tabla, Kamala Chakravarty on tamboura. Set One.

1st 5k run of 2026 done

#fedihired ? What if we started #fedimarried? Bad idea? probably. I still think there ought to be some kind of introverts matchmaking service. And obviously it couldn't be a paid service as that gets the incentive structure wrong. I found my husband of 18 years online before "match.com" was […]

Part of Zollie Lyon's tobacco, nearly ready for priming. Wake County, North Carolina #zollielyons #wakecounty #NorthCarolina #northcarolina’s #undefined #photography #dorothealange https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017772194/

Guys, if I had my little way I'd eat peaches every day

I made a thing (first wood turning project)