... well that sounded like it was fixing to be a "sell us your house" sales pitch, but the guy started with the fact that it was "on a recorded line" so maybe not. Whatever. If it was important, he wouldn't have called me by the wrong name

... yeah, seems like the "wealthy tech bros don't understand literature" problem might be even dumber than it could have been

Y'all this is the best. I'm in rural Oklahoma and there's people stopped on a lot of the exit ramps along the highway watching the aurora. Many have likely never seen it before. One old southern dude stopped beside me asking if I see the "big orange lights" too. We're all just little curious humans.

@twirl.bsky.social HEY. YOU. HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

I'm gonna repost this as two threads, bc I'm really curious what people think is attractive in others... vs what people think others find attractive. So w/o respect to your sex or that of a potential partner: what sort of activities do you do that you expect *somebody else* would find attractive?

I'm gonna repost this as two threads, bc I'm really curious what people think is attractive in others... vs what people think others find attractive. So without respect to your sex or that of a potential partner: what hobbies or activities do you find attractive in them?

The Aurora do be Aurora-ing tonight. As seen from our backyard in Northeast Minneapolis ❤️

NC friends, go look if you haven't! Nonlocal friends, go look if you haven't! Aurora aaaaaaa !

mckinney, TX 🫡🫡🫡

The Northern Lights are big and bright deep in the heart of Texas.

Whoa. Even if you're too far south, go outside and look north.

They’ve laid off so many people that the government is now getting its economic data from DoorDash.

Okay that's fine (and maybe it's changed but I don't remember 90% of the women I knew when I was single being into astronomy...). But, indulge my curiosity: what are the least attractive hobbies to women (sic)?

Unless those 30 gifts are all bookshelves, this %s is categorically wrong

Will whoever asked BluegrOk to search for the largest Mersenne prime please report to the office

Feynman told me to shut up and do the math or I'll never understand, and Bohr and Einstein didn't want to talk to me This LLM ain't what it's cracked up to be

Lemme say, since the mom is the one already treating a pre-K evaluation as if it were life skills: if I'm hiring for my team and you're the sort of person who's good at math but warrants a full page on your social/emotional shortcomings, you're not the one I'm hiring.

If you've got the canned food already, yes, give the canned food. If you've got the money to pick up canned food for the food bank... give the money to the food bank directly, they can stretch it farther

... Harry S Truman's cabinet chipped in to buy him the chair he used for meetings. It was not, afaik, an object of any greater significance.

Escaping my police issued surveillance robot by opening the dishwasher

well, folks… it’s time to sit at my stupid little desk and clock in to my stupid little job so i can pay for my stupid little life

"And James Bond, who did NOT die"

Kinda hate it when somebody goes into the teams meeting like 8 minutes early and just waits... thanks, now I don't get the popup pwhen somebody actually starts it

Meredith Moon's version of Cumberland Gap is my favorite, absolutely perfect. m.youtube.com/watch?v=ubC7...

In case you wondered, there's probably exactly one person who has licked the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.

In November 1999, the Zombo dot com website was created as a parody of the creative, but, largely pointless flash intros, which were trending at the end of the 1990s. Welcome... to ZomboCom. #WebDesignHistory

There's enough word salad to meet your dietary fiber requirements for a week in here. But I've gotta call out that he's got a Juggalo-level understanding of the world... (Psst. We know what magnets are, and how they work.)

To whoever blew past me and the dog on my dead end street in the dark without slowing down, and then did the same going the other way a minute later… What the hell, man

RETVRN

... if I don't believe them, we've got an overtaxed system run by people who are currently working for free If I do believe them, either a kid named Big Balls is writing a Python script, or Elon is going to tell Grok to run the whole thing ...I'm glad I have no air travel plans rn

Ah goody. Somebody wrote something about artifactory and it has an AI illustration calling it both Artifafory and Artifopy, and... doesn't get better from there. Look, even if you wrote something I might otherwise want to read, AI slop illustrations don't fill me with confidence about your article

... I mean, you COULD define a color space this way... I wouldn't, but you could...

Oh... flowering weed from yesterday... groundsel I think, seen in the landscaping near the church Odd things are in bloom now, I also saw a wood violet

A week into November, the sun is down, it's 69° and I'm slightly sweaty coming back from a dog walk... and it smells like hamburgers grilling and a 2-stroke engine out here Are we sure it's fall?... #ncwx

74° but still fall

Current status

Signs you're a yogurt male 1. Still on *#%! antibiotics from an injury, and y'know what, the yogurt does help...

... current status

Current status

It's interesting that this relentless, desperate yearning to treat employees like robots, is only being *amplified* by technology what promises actual robots. "We have robots now, this is amazing. They can watch our employees and deduct points for not being robotic enough!"

... preach!

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Who's a quiet puppy? Who wants to play the quiet puppy game?...