Today in #openzfsmastery: "A message like “compatibility says this pool cannot be upgraded further” might be more explicit, but would also be less polite." I'd appreciate your help keeping the lights on while I write this silly book. sponsor.mwl.io

You have been visited by the yawning rat of Gloucestershire. Reply "ooh big yawn" for 7 years good luck

bug report filed on my first #freebsd kernel panic in over a decade! bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/sho... No idea if this is interesting or not, but what the heck, might as well file it. I'd rather be told "bad sysadmin, don't do that!" or "replace your disk" than let an actual bug escape.

Oh. Right. Marketing. I'm supposed to do marketing. Uh... here you go. mwl.io/ks

This is the way to live

Lord I have seen what you have done for others and I want that for myself

Truffle is being brave and coming forward! Meanwhile, Fermi is worried about air. #petRats #rats

Quercy has encountered a Thought. It worried him. He would like to avoid such encounters in the future. #petRats #rats

Beakeroo Banzai

The Kickstarter for "A Shadow Full of Stars," a lovely weird novel about the intersection between art and mental health, is $24 short of @robcornell.bsky.social doing a dramatic reading. With DRAMA. Plus, it's a great book and deserves your support. www.kickstarter.com/projects/rob...

2026 basically

Thank you all! The @kickstarter.com for A SHADOW FULL OF STARS has now surpassed the first stretch goal! That means every backer gets a bonus short story. Next level unlocks a reading from the novel. And the one after that gets everyone a free ebook copy of one of my novels. kck.st/4rTZyne

"We assume that your disk hardware is identical within each pool: if your mirror has one NVMe and one iSCSI disk, our advice is worthless and so is your pool." #openzfsmastery #nonotryagain

FDA political leaders backed down on Moderna's flu vax. www.cnn.com/2026/02/18/h... MRNA vaccines have the potential to be more revolutionary than antibiotics. (Vaccinations against broad categories of cancer, anyone?) Get out of here with that anti-science bullshit.

Today's mood: www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8w7...

"Pay for our book promotion service or we'll AI-spam your books with bad reviews!" Oh my dear sweet summer scambot, have you *seen* my reviews? #writing 🙄

i included this in my syllabi this year

US only. But right now, folks in the US especially need Pratchett--either for reassurance, or education.

I was very good on Paczki Day yesterday, and did not go near the bakery. Today we're out of bread, so I went to the bakery only to discover that today is Half Off Paczki Day. Anyway, day old paczki are pretty damn good.

Good morning

Quercy has encountered a Thought. It worried him. He would like to avoid such encounters in the future. #petRats #rats

Well, that escalated quickly! We are now funded on @kickstarter.com. Keep an eye out for stretch rewards, including a free story, novel, and a dramatic reading of an excerpt from the novel. Thank you everyone! Spread the word. kck.st/4rTZyne

"Like a Surgeon," obviously!

Advertise your account with a gif. This week's status:

white people work so hard. even their restaurants are open on chinese new year

Dungeons & Dragons is hiring an editor! This is your chance to work with some of my favorite people in the game business: careers.hasbro.com/careers/job/...

Starting on the VDEV chapter of #openzfsmastery. "Losing one VDEV destroys the pool, so choose your redundancy level wisely." Next paragraph: "Losing one VDEV destroys your pool." Next: "Losing even one VDEV..." I have no idea why people pay me for this, but I do appreciate it. sponsor.mwl.io

Just finished reading @cstross.bsky.social Laundry Files. "The Regicide Report" wraps everything up nicely. It's a dark series but there's a solid sense of "the long struggle was completely worth it and the heroism paid off." (1/2)

Truffle wants me to fill the food dish. Truffle does not want to leave the cage. Truffle has claimed a perch on the shelf attached to the cage door, and will dismount after I fill the food dish. Truffle has no grasp of "prerequisites." #petRats #rats

It's live! it's live! One of the finest treatments of art and mental illness I've ever read, and it can be yours. From the inimitable @robcornell.bsky.social. www.kickstarter.com/projects/rob...

It's Paczki Day!

Dottie is practicing her vocal cords for the punk rock metal band she wants to found 😌 #DottieTuesday

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

“I would have gotten away scot-free if I had just gotten rid of the evidence. ... But, shoot—I’m a pack rat.”

Hey folks! @skyladawn.ca is at the emergency vet clinic with the fourth emergency in four months. This appointment is probably going to cost ~$500 so I'd like us to try to cover as much of it as possible. This is going to be a thread on how to help. 1/?

Launching tomorrow!!!!

I've been waiting for @robcornell.bsky.social to launch this book for (literally) years. It's the most fucked-up thing I've read since PKD's "VALIS." Grab it. www.kickstarter.com/projects/rob...

1 April is coming... mwl.io/ks

1 April is coming... mwl.io/ks

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

Cashel is slightly concerned about the new chonk in the house. #petRats #rats

This food truck is called "Mr Chef," but if they called it "Indian Granny with Something to Prove" folks would be lined up around the block 😋

well, at least I know where I fit on the moral spectrum. www.smbc-comics.com/comic/moral

(Yes, yes, he should have been there sooner, yes America’s always been like that, etc etc. I know. But people show up when and how they show up, and fresh bodies are worth a little grace.)

I am gonna go out on a limb and say that a Jersey dude so horrified that he went to his first protest and is trying not to cry on camera has a pretty good chance of staying radicalized. And that while Bluesky loves to pick apart things like this, this kinda video moves the needle for OTHER dudes.

It's Valentine's day? Love takes out the trash and washes the dishes. Love has your back no matter what you do. No. Matter. What. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Phgh...

Omg you guys didn’t have to get me anything for a Valentine’s Day! but that’s so sweet, I love it 🥰

Roses are red, violets are blue, here's a baby rat pile for you