www.reddit.com/r/NoMansSkyT... And this, friends, is why I don't play NMS with multiplayer on. If I do play with others, it's people I know.

Nothing has made me want to take up skydiving more...Because fuck this guy.

So. US under interdict by Pentecost?

I need to eat lunch. I'm not feeling my choices, though. I'm not sure what I want, either.

www.nomanssky.com/xeno-arena-u... LOL. No flashing things at the link. They've made a Pokemon game. They are so trolling Nintendo, and I'm here for it.

So TACO Tuesday? Not that I'm complaining in the least that we're not staring down the threat of a world war.

Please keep picking fights on here with strangers you already agree with 99.9% of the issues on. It's going to finally end the horrors this time if you post just right

Ottawa or the Hague. I don't trust that what remains of our justice system will convict, if the next Republican president can/will just pardon them.

www.instagram.com/p/DWCJt-AClrM/ don't do this. It's not cute. It'll waste rehearsal time, piss off your musicians, and get you yelled at by your composition teacher. (Bonus points if they conduct like mine did. Lucky was an amazing person and teacher, but, by God, your score had better be clean.)

@andrew-winson.bsky.social Hey, do you know of an Indian grocery in the area?

I adulted today. There was 20 GB of shit in "other" on my tablet, so I reset it after all other methods of deleting it failed. And I did my taxes.

Cripes, did the price of android tablets jump. It's cheaper to replace the battery in the one I've got...

Every time bluesky is slow to load, I keep feeling a spark of hope that It Happened. Ah well.

:gets up to pee at 12:30 am: Cat: HI IT’S MORNING HI HI HI I MISSED YOU DID YOU MISS ME IT’S OK NOW I AM HERE SO MUCH HERE ON YOU HI HI HI HI HI HI

Does this mean we'll be able to afford RAM again?

Why am I up this early? Do not want.

Would be something else if It Happened on my (toxic/abusive) mom's birthday. (Tomorrow.) I mean, if she and Kissinger kicked the bucket, it's got to happen sometime.

I kind of wish my youtube subscriptions wouldn't all update on the same day.

So "For All Mankind" season 5 is "the Expanse: the prequel?"

Heard through the ceiling of my apartment tonight: (cat wailing) Person: No!! (cat wails some more) Person: You do not want that! Spit it out! (even louder wailing) Person: That is a potato! You are an obligate carnivore!! #ahcats #lifeinapartments

So there's speculation Trump's at Walter Reed. Of course it would happen in a holiday weekend while I'm in a state with ridiculous blue laws. (Or can you buy booze on a Sunday/holiday now?)

I really dig ginger beers, and was thinking of making my own. Picking Pat's brain about brewing (non-alcoholic) ginger beer really disabused me of that folly. Apparently ginger ferments quickly, and explodes easily. Probably easier to make a ginger simple syrup and add it to seltzer.

People who use gestures while talking and repeat them. Is it just me that notices this sort of thing?

Meh. I don't feel like cooking tonight. Eating out is too damn expensive lately, though.

Good luck, Gulf of Mexico states, when a hurricane hits and you don't see it coming because NOAA's budget was reduced. Oh, and no FEMA to help you rebuild.

Oh yay. The "support my family" bots are back

www.linuxquestions.org/questions/sl... The fuck is he talking about? I know someone who bought new hardware this year and didn't have a problem with current. I know...don't argue with the idiots on linux questions.

My right ear has been clogged. I had a massive sinus drain, and it crackled open again, but the sinuses on that side of my face hurt. :/

This is one big reason why I'm not interested in the Switch 2, even though I've had every Nintendo handheld since the GBA. Nobody loves a patent troll, and what Nintendo is claiming could basically be applied to every pet class and pet game in existence. (Including ARK.)

So Vance is into the Bayside group? Didn't think he was old enough to have crossed paths with them. (Veronica Leuken had visions of Mary, who told her lots of things that were against Church teaching, including how UFO's are demonic. Not sanctioned by the Catholic Church, to be fair.)

Poor Ralph. It's too rainy to have the window open, but he's kind of bonkers this morning anyway.

And I will help hide the body.

I tried with the most recent series of Serial, but...it's one of those stories where everyone sucks, and I really don't care why the cousin decided to abuse and hire a hit on his ex-wife.

I really want to stream more, but the kinds of games I love playing aren't always the games people want to see. (like No Man's Sky. Minecraft is the exception, but there are so many people streaming it.) Streaming is fun when you've got people hanging out and chatting. It's a chore when you don't.

Yay. they fixed the issue with Plasma and the Minecraft launcher finally.

Say what you want about the sophistication of video game music, but finding Mordin's datapad after the party freaking *broke* me.

Show of hands. Who's humming the theme now?

Lunch

Longtime college friend of mine, Mike Prinke, was among those laid off at Epic Games: he has been fighting terminal brain cancer, and now he, his wife, and kid, have no income or health insurance. Sharing here in hopes it can reach the right people on their behalf. #epicgames

Composers use computers to write music these days. Nobody's spending hours with quill and staff paper at a piano. (And if you're writing music by hand, it's tech pens.)

I'm just not a fan of the This American Life/Serial delivery anymore. Super-deadpan, short sentences. Podcasting has moved on, thankfully, and it just sounds dated now. (That, Serial just leaves me cold. This most recent season is pretty cut and dry, and I'm not sure it needs 6 episodes.)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bkj... On the one hand, it's expensive to eat out. On the other...all the stuff you'd need and the time involved, it might not necessarily be cheaper.

www.universalhub.com/2026/judge-o... Well this is just swell. (This is sarcasm.)

Barf.

www.snopes.com/news/2026/01... This instance isn't true.

Far too many of my fellow Democrats are more than happy to use homophobia, transphobia, ableism, or fatphobia to attack Republicans they have deemed worthy of such insults. But all they are doing is hurting the people *on our side* who feel targeted by such language.

Do not cite the Deep Magic to me, for I was there when it was written. I waited in the queue for ISCA.

Hey music theorists, what's the hip undergrad music theory text these days? (My niece was asking.)

www.bbc.com/news/article... I realize the irony of posting about this on social media, but...good. Then again, I don't think teens should be online as much as they are these days, but that horse escaped the barn ages ago.