No way the UK's tax authority (HMRC) was running their operations off of a US data center ... but they were! AWS us-east-1 outage knocked them offline, and exposed relying on US infra to serve the British public Ironic from a government with ample home grown DCs + talent

Been playing Pokemon on Fridays at a local card shop with my son, on my third visit one of the players asked me if I used Hugo for my blog and to be honest I felt weird that my online life was exposed. I mean it’s cool, but it did surprise me. 😅

Facebook is flooded with ai videos of ice arresting people and the comments are filled with people praising the officers and arguing with anyone who says it is fake. I’m worried about us as a society

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Well, most people in the echo chambers of social media and mainstream news think they are one heartbeat from a full on invasion by the Huns, so it tracks they are locked in the panic room when the ring cams go dark. 😓

A play in three acts

lol I still cannot believe I am permanently banned from Reddit for commenting “always punch nazis”

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I typically don’t post on LinkedIn. This week, I decided I’m going to just post silly stuff daily and see what sticks.

The Post-Dispatch runs these weird ads on Facebook where the referenced article changes but the comments don’t

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The absolute BEST at Jarvis Winery 😁

One of my favorite stops in Napa 🤣

We clean up pretty good.

I love this interview: www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

lol I was banned from Reddit permanently for commenting “always punch nazis”.

Keep Portland Weird ✊

I’ve been seeing a lot of streaming clips of this Hasan character, seems like a bit of a douche despite political alignment. Is this supposed to be the DNC’s answer to Theo Von!?

Reminds me of whenever a "Former Satanic Priest" would come into our church to give a talk about "heightened satanic activity" around Hannibal, MO. Apparently we had lots of satanic priests and temples in the area!

Finally unsubscribed from the xsl mailing list after 22 years. The threads were getting just a bit too intense for me. 😓

AI generwted videos may lead to the end of us as a civil society, but some of them really do crack me up

I'll never stop being surprised at some of the weird things that LLMs come up with. Created a cli command with `--dry-run` option... but also a `--no-dry-run` option and you must use one or the other. wtf?

There’s something weird about going online and seeing someone arguing with very obvious bots 😩

"You can't do much for people who are dumb. People like to be dumb because it is easy, but make it hard for them. Argue with them."

When you go check up on a friend from college you haven't seen for quite some time and their facebook profile is hundreds of posts like this. 😅

One of my favorite AI prompts is “write a short story based on this unhinged Facebook post”

So... what is your company's utils.jar? You know it, you dread it, the package that contains a random assortment of utility functions and stucts with absurd names like EvilCorpHashMap

I think the saddest thing this week was witnessing that a good number of friends and family are apparently itching to “unleash retribution” against “the left”

Borrowed my son’s switch2 to play Silksong, wound up buying a Nintendo Online account and played Altered Beast for Sega Genesis instead

I really love stuff like this

Thinking I might build an sqs queue monitor in elixir and live view just for fun

Hanuman!

Remember “Stunts”, the DOS game from the 90s?

I was at a baby’s first birthday this weekend and as she looked around at everyone I thought about the people at my first birthday. How many are still around? How many are still in my life.

I looked on X to watch a video someone shared and Wowee that place is a fascinating echo chamber. Apparently Zelenskyy’s job for the NWO is to visit country leaders and demand money as some kind of “woke purity test” and only Putin is standing up to the woke new world order

You know, it’s a tragedy really. Parents who listed to Focus on the Family tuned in because they were coming from a place that desired to be better parents and instead led to an entire generation of abused children.

I've been managing a list of awesome TUIs for 7 years. I made a video of my favorites youtu.be/_fLmA4fjiAE

the drudge report being more reliably opposed to authoritarianism than the washington post is really a cursed thing.

As I walked through the hospital with TVs blaring Fox News, I had a horrifying vision of hell: Stuck in a nursing home, unable to move, unable to talk, wheeled into a room day in and day out with Fox News blaring all day with the only peace at bed time.

Good morning from Hannibal, MO

I’d like to thank past James for the level of detail he added to this reminder.

Wow!

It might not move anymore, but still pretty cool to see RX-78-2

Missing these energy jelly, vitamin jelly and protein jelly pouches sold all over Japan.

I took the kids to an amusement park while visiting Mt. Fuji too. Great place

I used to use Google chat heavily, had about 20 chats going at any given moment. I didn’t notice it, but I stopped using it years ago I guess for WhatsApp, signal, etc. Maybe it wa a natural progression, but I wonder what Google did to cripple a nice app so badly

Mt. Fuji erupting 😏

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