am i doing this right

If you’re wondering what a “least weasel” is, they absolutely live up to the name. This is the least amount of animal you can have that can still meet the bar for “is weasel”

BSDCan 2026: www.bsdcan.org/2026/

weird bird looking at me

I feel like we have the opportunity to turn David Lynch's quote into this moment's "Keep Calm and Carry On" and it's a far better rallying cry too.

I think we need to stop calling it empathy and go back to calling it decency. It isn't a favour you're doing someone else, it's you proving that you aren't a fucking ghoul

Holy shit, that's a great story and I will never again be performatively irritated by that awkward name.

We just won a court order blocking the Dept. of Ed from violating the First Amendment rights of furloughed federal workers, whose out-of-office emails were changed – without notice or permission – to include partisan political language.

For the public: last month's Patronizer-only "See the Sausage Being Made" post. mwl.io/archives/24462 In which a Nice Ladyᵀᴹ on the airplane is very happy for "People Like Me."

My mum just said to me "You should be hung like a horse". When I challenged her over saying such a thing, it transpires she thought it was a punishment horses got. Turns out she's been incorrectly using the phrase since the 90s in various settings

Doing your best and failing to fit in 😔

Me: I'm gonna be productive today because I have to write this book, I have to do it My brain: lol, lmao, also,

"let me snuggle your finger" -- a story in three photos. #petRats #rats (image descriptions: cute pet rat gradually sneaks his chin out of his hammock onto my finger and rests there.)

If you aren't seeing skeets from some of your fave people, they might have been labeled "Rude" by bsky mods. Idk what they are thinking, I don't need a mommy to tell me who to be buddies with. Anyway, go into Settings > moderation > bluesky moderation (advanced) and turn Rude off.

The new @assemblage23.bsky.social album has escaped, full of righteous rage, glittering heartbreak, and hammering hope. Today is officially cancelled. I'm busy. assemblage23.bandcamp.com/album/null

Day 2 of the 2025 FreeBSD Vendor Summit is in progress at NetApp in San Jose. Today’s program features discussions focused on release engineering, platform security, and the future of memory safety on FreeBSD, along with lightning talks and closing remarks. 👉Watch Day 2 live: buff.ly/qJhjjkL

I've pretty much made it my entire personality to avoid ads of any kind, never click on any that manage to find me, and specifically leave platforms that are spamming me with AI ad content. www.tiktok.com/@404.media/v...

Re-upping this:

Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default. Here's how to turn it off. First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner

Indie books that've rocked my world. When disparate flavors work, they *work*. Instead of sailing to Valinor, Tolkien's elves headed to Detroit. "Generations later," says author @mwl.io, "orcs followed." A prohibition story on one hand. An immigrant song on the other. Tasty as hell reimagining.

A new #60SecondsOfWIP is out: "That Version of GRUB," from #openzfsmastery. at mwl.io/archives/24459 or your least abhorred podcast pusher.

"did you even read the article???? the headline is bad but the article is good!!!" buddy if I see a restaurant called Dan's Fecal Stew i am not gonna go in there to see if maybe they printed the sign wrong

Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.

I've seen this go by a few times on TikTok now and I have to say, I love this idea. We need a way to convince people to keep running even if they don't win, maybe building the loss into it as a troll move is the secret.

Me: I'm gonna write #openzfsmastery in order. No bouncing around in the manuscript, just clean text from beginning to end! Also me: My test host needs the new compatibility flag for the root pool. I guess I better jump ahead four chapters and write that. 😡 #sysadmin #writing

time for a sequel to this one

Similarly, Bradward had one brain cell bouncing around like a screen saver, when it hit the edges of his skull it told him he was hungry. Thats about it

This is the best anecdote I have seen in years

May the Peace of the Rat be upon you. #rats #petRats

Me: I run my bloom.host bare metal server with virtual per-service hosts, packet filters, and integrity checking! My Internet presence has achieved its final Pure Geek form! bloom.host: We're putting everything behind Cloudflare Magic Transit. Me: 😞🫤

it’s nine PM on the east coast and polls have closed bring me the head of andrew cuomo

Omg I’m dying 😂😂😂…so…So Emily Austin, a right wing 'influencer' who works for Bibi and the GOP, launched 'Hot Girls for Cuomo'. Guess who didn't bother to register the URL when she did that? What do you think Hot Girls for Cuomo dot com leads to now?... 😄 Enjoy. [ HotGirlsforCuomo.com ]

If you’re in line to make the joke about staying in line, STAY IN LINE

Old but vital #petRats content: 🎶"Nobody likes me Everybody hates me I'm going to see momma to eat worms..."🎶 With Ambert, Beemster, and Cremet! www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzRM...

Waiting for the Teen Vogue team to go Teen Rogue and start their site so we can all subscribe.

Vote.

Genuinely begging you to re-up your MMR & get your kids vaccinated if you can. Between this & Kennedy talking about breaking it up into separate vaccines thus providing opportunities for missed inoculations &, thus, increased infections, public health policy is not looking great, for the foreseeable

If you've stopped masking in public for whatever reason, now is a really good time to start again

Rats are highly resilient. Took my sweet boy Mezzo to the rodentist last spring to get a bad tooth removed. The damn tooth... grew back. Anyway, proceeds from any books you buy will go towards paying my rat's medical bills. mwl.io/shop

Remember that while food banks welcome donations of food, they prefer $$$$$$$. They have deals with grocery stores and suppliers. You can only buy one dollar's worth of food for one dollar, but they can buy several dollars' worth. So don't, like, buy food to donate it, just give 'em the dough.

oh, hey! You can get #OpenZFS 2.3.4 on #FreeBSD by installing the openzfs pkg!

Heck, if I'd been the one to discover that the password to the Louvre's security system was LOUVRE, I would have felt morally COMPELLED to steal those jewels myself! It's the principle of the thing... www.unionesarda.it/en/world/lou...

If you disagree, instead of whining about it just unfollow me.

some Mondays, you wake up with a smile.

A ridiculously adorable Squirrel of the Day for November 3, 2025 #sqrlpix

New awareness campaign

News flash: Mezzo needs wuv. #petRats #rats

Very, very few comic book creators can survive on just the money they make from comics. It is an inherently unstable job and it is only getting worse as time goes on. Don't ever be embarrassed or ashamed of needing another job so that you can keep making comics.

“The researchers aim to show that the ‘inevitability’ of AI is just a marketing frame perpetrated by the industry and that pushback is a lot more possible than we often see.” Yes!