there are a lot of humans who will kill you if the mood strikes them, but i am not sure that makes it ok to eat them

it's still sort of crazy to me that you can come right out and tell people exactly what is happening and nothing will change. you don't need a grand secret conspiracy. bannon can be right out in the open about his "flood the zone with shit" strategy, and people still react to every turd.

it's true

i just brought in like ten pounds of vegetables from the garden, then realized i was very hungry and thought, huh i wonder if there's anything to eat

The deficiency of traditional software is failing to ever take *any* cues from knowledge of what is statistically likely to be wanted.

"If Hitler invaded hell, I would make at least a favo(u)rable reference to the devil in the House of Commons." -- Churchill

"in 1929, the Presidential Committee on Recent Economic Changes published its gleeful conclusion: 'The survey has proved conclusively what has long been held theoretically to be true, that wants are almost insatiable, that one want satisfied makes way for another.'"

@gradguard.bsky.social hey we have been trying to get you to stop charging us for this ever since my son moved out of the dorm (end of May) and it never seems to stop. it's a hell of a scam you have going.

the tribal health authority where we live is putting vending machines with things like emergency contraception, narcan, and lice treatment kits in them so people don't have to go to the store and can get these things more rapidly and with less stigma in emergencies www.kpax.com/indiancountr...

actually "yank" is a pejorative, the correct term is "unwafflehoused"

Programming language evolution was halted the minute a high-level language was shipped in browsers as a runtime

this is so cool

great little town. we go here almost every year on our anniversary .... which .... is tomorrow, i just realized. i guess we're not going this year lmao

censorship is bad, and also jimmy kimmel is a misogynist fuck sometimes there aren't any heroes in a story

i am becoming a galette truther. do not be fooled by the fancy french name. galettes are not really easier than pie, and they nearly always leak the juice everywhere so you lose a substantial portion of the flavor of the fruit just make pie and keep that juice in!

> To understand its function, they introduced the human version of the gene into mice. The result was a surprising change in the animals' vocalizations. Baby mice called to their mothers differently, and adult males altered their mating calls.

it's decorative gourd season motherfuckers

my son's girlfriend found out i had never tasted a pawpaw (but really badly wanted to) so she made a trip back to Ohio (where she's from) just to get me some, so i am promoting her to future daughter-in-law. what an extraordinary fruit.

You want a programming language that is "expressive" but do you know what is it within you that you're wanting to express?

beans share if you agree

today i walked to the park with my son for a homeschool "meet and greet" (moms chatted while kids played or chatted) then walked to the liquor store to get some rum to make rumtopf for christmas, then stopped in at the library and checked out a book. love this little walkable town sometimes.

The app does not care if you forget to call your friends, neglect your hobbies, or lose sight of your goals. It is not self limiting. The time is zero sum, and it always wants more.

a correct take

my parents are more riled up about national politics than i have ever seen them my mom has historically voted mainly democrat, my stepdad mainly republican although he became a "never trump" guy in 2016. i have never heard either of them describe an american administration as "evil" until yesterday

every single burner on my stove is going*, so i had to get out of there for a minute or two *canning spicy ketchup, pizza sauce, and beans in tomato sauce today

fucking. do. something.

@argumatronic.bsky.social mastodon keeps matrix glitching as of late

traffic light tomatoes

this is such a great essay and i think this line in particular has gone under-noticed > We have also become careless about the kinds of content we throw out to anonymous followings, especially in moments where caution and compassion would be most beneficial. www.liberalcurrents.com/yes-its-the-...

i used to have this italian friend (ironically, named "christian") who every time like a jehovah's witness or whatever would come to his door to proselytize, he would say, "I AM AN ITALIAN CATHOLIC. WE ARE THE ORIGINAL FUNDAMENTALISTS."

Ten years ago I would have gotten all this except the video game references, but then I remembered what touching grass feels like and never went back.

this town has so many mature fruit trees -- mostly apples, but also plum and pear -- that no one bothers to collect the fruit from. so many. so many good fruits. on a totally unrelated note, we've recently learned that there is a word ("scrumper") for a person who steals fruit from an orchard.

at such times, we always seem to get a lot of sad "society fails to provide meaning and purpose to young men these days" commentary, but -- and i'm no expert here -- it seems to me that the "meaning and purpose" society used to provide to young men was often ... going to war. plus ça change?

we have an overwhelming number of elderberries this year, so i'm making hank shaw's recipe for a british condiment called "pontack." i don't really know what i'm going to do with it once i have it, but that's never stopped me before. honest-food.net/wild-game/sa...

now would be a good time to watch Talk Radio (1988) if you have not already

european friends: do european countries have Authorities who issue Advice on food preservation, particularly canning? for example, in the US, the US Dept of Ag and various research universities (esp Univ of Georgia) research safe canning methods and tell us what is safe, not safe, etc.

every year food magazines release these big glossy summer cooking extravaganzas and every year i think yes i'm going to cook like that this summer and every august i'm actually so overwhelmed at the site of more garden-fresh tomatoes, green beans, blackberries, corn, i don't cook any of that

i haven't read two of these novels, but this is such a bizarrely literal reading of Nightbitch, i am pretty skeptical of his interpretations of the other two as well. lithub.com/on-the-conse...

> Humanity needs to be using this time of high-energy domination with industrial agriculture to catalyze our transition toward being a keystone species which stewards and magnifies Earth’s natural energy flows into productive agroecology.

i'm a quarter of the way through Ruth Ozeki's The Book of Form and Emptiness and can't stop being bothered by how un-empathetic to the mother character it is.

there are two people on our block who bought houses during the pandemic when the prices shot crazy high and now they're trying to sell. conditions have changed, but they can't afford to drop the price much below what they paid, and apparently this is going on all over the country.

my younger son has been experimenting with making marshmallows using fruit purees, and he just made a batch using roasted (concentrated) peach puree and oh dear lord i do not want to stop eating them

we’re gonna rock down to a fine autumnal stew

forget Brave New World and 1984. maybe the dystopia we actually live in is As I Lay Dying.

Admiring people's kids, and lightening the workload for new parents or pregnant women is one of the basic instincts of how people in a group relate to each other, but we cut all that off, or try to suppress it for legal reasons. "Professionalism" isn't normal.

people often talk about numeracy and literacy as if they were different things, "stem vs humanities" or what have you, but mathematics -- even arithmetic -- is primarily an activity of literacy

my sweet potatoes are blooming, the first time i've seen this happen with my sweet potatoes here in montana, and i'm just so chuffed

my son is telling me that each of his professors posts the homework to a different website or app and tbqh i do not think i'd make it in college anymore if that's the kind of thing that goes on

Maybe all the staff you hired during a boom time didn't know they were supposed to be building a system that could be maintainable by two people after a surprise mass layoff.

i think all three of these are factors, but almost every election is just a reaction against the current thing, or sometimes a reaction against the reaction against the current thing. but we are mostly just reactionary, and round and round we go.