Once again, I'm out on a walk as unofficial town sorcerer. I'm on the lookout for crows, omens, and a missing cat named Moo. I've brought my trusty bag of unsalted peanuts and my hand-embroidered cap. My lower back is in pain, which is also an important part of being an unofficial town sorcerer.

Bookmarks. Huge timesaver. No more printing out our favorite Bluesky posts and taping them to the walls like some kind lower-tier Batman villain that gets defeated in the opening pages but kicks off a larger more important and emotionally satisfying story.

LET SHE WHO HAS NEVER NUKED TOSTITOS QUESO AND EATEN IT STRAIGHT FROM THE JARVWITH CHEAP ASS TORTILLA CHIPS DURING A DARK NIGHT OF THE SOUL CAST THE FIRST STONE

Honorary library cards are 1000x better than honorary doctorates. What can you even do with an honorary doctorate? Not like you can go do a heart bypass surgery. A library card still gets you books, honorary or no.

The root cause of disease is embodiment. Hope this helps

Pies are actually giant dumplings. I will not be taking questions

All this talk about how infodumping is a neurodivergent trait—listen, we grew up reading SFF in the Nineties, OF COURSE we infodump. Y’all are lucky we’re not a full on italicized prologue.

Grim Reaper [ 2 ] Part 5 or 5.

we’ve all worked on this codebase

increasingly want to see an exhibition that is just "lil' guys from history"

One like, one opinion about dogs. (Will stop if I run out of good opinions.)

If I were a moth I would simply conquer the flame, possess and consume it, take it into my soul and live forever

When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.

I encourage you both to enjoy this lively discussion, but not in my mentions, since I am not a participant in it.

yes hello

Breakfast at a coffee shop. As I eat, a dog is making unceasing eye contact with my food. Incredible communication skills, recommended for promotion and also increased snack benefits

I think we should probably be pushing for state and local level legislation that actively bans “posting vital information only on Facebook or Twitter, where a lot of people without accounts will never see it.”

[worst possible stuff happening everywhere] man why do I feel bad

I cannot emphasize enough how true & real this is. In almost anywhere on the political spectrum you ID with or major issue, there’s probably a bot/troll operation to encourage your rage and vitriol. And how/where that rage gets directed, esp understandable rage, is what they are out to influence.

[2025 internet] Me: [chanting] webrings, webrings- Other nerds: webrings, WEBRINGS Everyone: [pounding their keyboards] WEBRINGS, WEBRINGS, WEBRINGS!

Literally begging you to post about Just Some Stuff. We will see the news I absolutely promise. Twenty people will repost the same exact thing about the news. Only you can post about a turtle you saw

There's a baby racoon on my balcony???? He's hiding / taking a nap behind the storage unit???

Right so I just want to say again that @alt18f.bsky.social actually is real. Those of us who've worked with them can easily tell you that. They had to add "alt" to their handle to comply with bluesky rules. So folks should be discerning - but it's not true that all these alt accounts are grifters.

We made it to Friday! I'm going to share three tips on using Signal from someone who has been using it for both work and personal communications for...a long time.

At some point, if you're defining yourself almost entirely in opposition to your hated online antagonists, you're letting them shape and determine your reality.

Hey, I'm going to say something general about publishing and bankruptcy. I'm not a bankruptcy expert; I'm just someone who has seen bankruptcy cases and knows how counterintuitive they can be. I do not know anything about UK bankruptcy law.

Been awhile since I did this talk, but I saw some particularly egregious examples today, so it’s time for… *drumroll please* DON’T TRUST THE PLANT TAG 2025

Plant ownership is a cycle between guilty shame (where plants die of neglect because you have so many you forget about some) and hubris (all my plants are THRIVING, I am a green thumbed dirty, time to BUY MORE PLANTS) and under no circumstances do I want off this rollercoaster

We're thrilled to announce we're coming back for DistrictCon Year 1! 🗓️ Jan 24-25, 2026 📍Capitol Hilton Early bird tickets will be sold in September, and GA tickets in November! Call for Talks, Policy roundtables, and Bugs coming soon 😎 www.districtcon.org

A little clip from a recent keynote I gave, featuring Refried 🎶

My thoughts on Bluesky verification as someone who was deeply involved in an analogous scheme (selecting trusted root CAs for browsers) at Mozilla many years ago. The analogy is not exact: not trusting a verifier just means no checkmark, while not trusting a root CA means nasty security warnings 1/

Your periodic reminder that one way to think about privilege is: who's allowed to make mistakes?

Have the penguins won yet?

Hello, friends! A chickadee among white blossoms for today's #AColorADaypril theme of white. Chickadees are such cheerful little birds. Hope this one brightens your day!

THIS IS HUGE! Researchers at McMaster University have discovered a NEW peptide antibiotic that targets a broad range of disease-causing bacteria INCLUDING those RESISTANT to existing antibiotics. This discovery marks the first potential new class of antibiotics in NEARLY 30 YEARS. 🧪🧵⬇️

Just play Spiritfarer if you feel that strongly that you need to experience software that will make you cry.

If Troy Hunt can fall for phishing, you can too

Raise your hand if the number of group chats you're in with something along the lines of "War plans group" as the title is now more than 2 for some reason

One of the first things that I tell survivors of domestic abuse who are concerned about the safety of their devices to do is to check the security of their accounts. Techcrunch has a guide on how to do that.

You HAVE to celebrate good things. Even if they’re tiny and fragile and may blow away. In fact, you have to celebrate the fragile ones EVEN HARDER because who knows how many chances you get? If you constantly think how it will all go wrong, if every triumph is met with “but…” you will burn out.

@christinaap.bsky.social @bernhard.bsky.social @mattblaze.org This sucks: www.cisecurity.org/ei-isac

I'm not the first person to note this, but in computer terms: bureaucratic process is like an algorithm, agencies/depts offer APIs in terms of ways to interact with them, the ubiquitous form is like the data payload for a request, complete with information types and input validation in process

One of the most common arguments you hear from fans of generative ‘AI’ is that it’s not plagiarizing people’s work, it’s just learning like a human learns. So I’m going to break down why that’s just not true, and why it can never be true, with the existing systems. 1/

So I read this, and as someone who's spent their entire career in the trenches of "how do we keep the tension between Good Guys and Bad Guys interesting," I have Some Thoughts www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/v...

What is something nice you've done for yourself recently? What is the last thing that made you smile? What is something you are looking forward to? Who is the last person you've helped?

I’m not doomscrolling I’m just in my calamity era

Oh man, I almost forgot these!

Trump and his admin trying to force journalists and news orgs to report outlandish lies as facts to gain access to him strikes me as classic abuser behavior

I'm seriously considering just an outright ban on resellers buying @haveibeenpwned.com subscriptions for customers. It's just constant dramas, support overhead, obnoxious responses and confusion. What are customers actually getting from resellers, other than *massive* price markups?

In light of current world events (because everyone is affected here, not just the US), morale is again in short supply for all of us. Fortunately you know a morale officer. So, let’s get started. Right now, this very second as you’re reading this, relax your jaw. Good. /3