i’m not crying you’re crying xkcd: Fifteen Years

My wife and I have been using IKEA nightstands for years, ands I’ve been designing replacements in my head for years. Finally committed pencil to graph paper over the summer. Started them about a month ago, and finally brought them up from the workshop today. #woodworking

For those wondering why ICE is leaving Chicago and heading to Charlotte, it’s because winter in Chicago is hard, and they don’t like to do things that are hard. That’s also why they’re kidnapping law abiding citizens instead of going after criminals.

Thinking about genAI this morning.

The book spam I'm getting has taken a strange turn

I finished the resin printing workstation ventilation, including a vent hood where my wife can clean her prints without worrying about the alcohol fumes. #woodworking #maker

"But when the team looked at the employees’ actual work output, they found that the developers had completed tasks 20% slower when using AI than when working without it. Researchers were stunned. “No one expected that outcome. We didn’t even really consider a slowdown as a possibility.” 🎁link

[Exit King.]

Mr. Speaker, when do you plan on catching up on the news? There's a lot going on.

If you think that professors exist as repositories of knowledge that students ask for answers, you’re missing the entire point of a college education. We’re here to teach students how to do research, how to analyze and argue, how to think for themselves — how to find the answers on their own.

I am obligated to inform you that in the original Hebrew, it is a plague of Frog. One. Singular. Giant. Frog. Do with the knowledge what you will.

i feel like i need to share this oldie but a goodie today

George Orwell’s Animal Crossing

It should be needless to say, but it is perhaps at this moment worth saying, that transgender individuals have the same right as anyone else to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

There is nothing like the feeling of taking something that exists only in your head and bringing it out into the world. #woodworking

seeing people I trust say this footage is three months old

my wife: (shouting down to the basement) hey me: (shouting up the stairs) yeah what’s up my wife: (still shouting) did you forget to create one hundred thousand jobs last month ?? me: (no longer shouting) oh shit oh fuck

Great, Jessie is reinstated, as they should be. Now, about the Palestinian accounts…

Hey @bsky.app @pfrazee.com let it be known on the record that JK Rowling deserves to be crushed by a falling piano. Reinstate Jessie immediately.

A few thoughts on charting out a post-Trump future and reclaimed democratic America talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-f...

Rarely do I get a piece of junk mail that clearly grasps the current economic reality, but this one gets it.

I'm having a rough go of it lately, and have been thinking: everyone is going through something, and you have no idea what it is, or how it's affecting them. Quote post this is if you're going through something, and maybe we'll all realize that we aren't as alone as we feel right now.

Yes, I am judging the person ahead of me whose trunk is held shut with masking tape. That’s a job for duck tape.

Does “minimum security” mean fewer cameras?

Can you hit repost? Marjorie Taylor Greene doesn't want you to know the name of her opponent but will try every desperate attempt to save her seat. My name is Shawn Harris. I am a Democrat, husband, father, Retired Brigadier General, farmer, and I'm running against MTG. Can you share and follow me?

This is a lidded bowl I turned from found wood last week. Here’s a thread on how I made it. 1/🧵 #woodworking

pam bondi as porta potties: thread

Every major medical association and leading world health authority supports health care for transgender people and youth. glaad.org/medical-asso...

This is why it matters whether the government takes climate change into account when building out infrastructure. That includes considering what materials mix would be best for roads in areas likely to get much hotter in coming years. www.usatoday.com/story/news/n... 🧵

I don’t know who needs to hear this right now, but the secret to pulled chicken that shreds easily is to pay attention to the grain when you cut it up so that the individual stands are short, around an inch. Practically falls apart.

The reason AI evangelists get angry when people say their tech isn't working as well as they promised (or, as @tressiemcphd.bsky.social puts it, is "mid") is the same reason I get cranky when my wife says my DIY plumbing isn't good enough. It's not. It's never going to be. And I know it.

I’m reorganizing the #workshop and built a rolling cart for my drill press. Instead of drawers, I put Gridfinity grid on pull out shelves, and have been printing specialized bins. #woodworking

A whole lotta people who were in favor of war with Iraq but now pretend they opposed it are suddenly in favor of war with Iran and I’d like them to skip years ahead to the part where they’re against it but this time I’d like to skip the part where we get into an unnecessary war.

😳😮😲. As the Joe Turns

Undocumented immigrants contribute nearly $100 billion in taxes every year. Meanwhile, the wealthiest 1% dodge $163 billion in taxes annually. The real drain on America isn’t coming from the border — it’s coming from the boardroom.

a friend of mine shared this ai-generated "emotion wheel" and unfortunately i have been laughing my ass off at it for like 15 minutes now. today i am feeling Fnliinneon

Raise your hand if you’re not even a meteorologist and you still know there’s a hurricane season.

You don't even need to translate the message to understand the video. 🥰

I am telling you right now, and I've said it before, I'm not voting for Democrats who move even a centimeter towards the right on trans issues.

Of the books named on this reading list, Brit Bennet, Isabel Allende, Andy Weir, Taylor Jenkins Reid, Min Jin Lee, Rumaan Alam, Rebecca Makkai, Maggie O'Farrell, Percival Everett, and Delia Owens' titles are all books that DO NOT EXIST!!! See Alt Text for more detail. Image by @tbretc.bsky.social

"I've Never Been to Spain" is the best song ever written by/about a celebrity trying to correct their own Wikipedia entry.

UPDATE: white smoke has *also* been spotted in the city center of Avignon,,, bad news folks!!!

The regular daily release of executive orders is giving strong "Abomination Unto Nuggan" vibes.

This is worth a careful read, connecting and contrasting the recent UK Supreme Court decision to the recent one from the EU's top court. www.thegist.ie/the-gist-tra...

JD VANCE IS AN ENERGY VAMPIRE THATS WHY HE WAS CHOSEN AS VP IS SO HE COULD BE USED BY DONALD TRUMP AS A SECRET WEAPON TO KILL ENEMIES SUCH AS THE POPE, THATS WHY NO ONE IN GREENLAND WAS WILLING TO MEET WITH VANCE; THEY RESPECT VAMPIRES IN GREENLAND AND DONT PLAY AROUND

One of reasons I love woodturning is the subtle ways the wood tells you what it wants to be. And sometimes not so subtle. In this case, it wanted to be a much shallower bowl. #woodworking

Please share! A U.S. born citizen has been arrested in Florida and placed in an ICE hold!! They want to transfer him to immigration detention DESPITE acknowledgment he is a citizen. This is happening in Leon County and we were at his hearing earlier this morning.