Just encountered what I think could only be defined as "Racoon diplomacy"? Enter trash enclosure. Racoon slowly moves away from me. I exit to be polite. Racoon looks at me from under the enclosure. I give him some more space. He saunters away. I throw out the trash and leave. He slowly walks back.

Bug fixes *and* performance improvements? In this economy?

This is excellent

Yet another reminder today that Friends Don't Let Friends Use Rackspace ™️ Just staggeringly incompetent.

The official White House Android app has a cookie/paywall bypass injector, tracks your GPS every 4.5 minutes, and loads JavaScript from some guy's GitHub Pages.

Let us consider the Emperor Commodus, who attired himself as Hercules, claimed to be a god, attempted to rename Rome after himself and raped every girl and boy whose crossed his way. His reign was described by Gibbon as marking the onset of the moral and spiritual collapse of the Roman Empire.

The amount of "not my week" in this week is too darn high.

Big thanks to Leslie Welch for snapping a pic of my name on the wall! #mvpsummit

Perhaps one year the MVP Summit will not be held during my wife's birthday week. 😆 Have fun, all! Hoping to catch some virtual sessions, and wishing I could meet so many of you in person. #mvpsummit #mvpbuzz

"did you know the USPS is losing money" no I didn't know and I still don't care do you know how much money your president has lost you since January

So @gregsdennis.bsky.social moved his projects from open licensing to the Open Source Maintenance Fee (OSMF) license. Wanted to take a quick journey through how our team thought through this in our org. 1/x 🧵 #oss #dotnet #sustainability

@katmabu.bsky.social rooting for you from VA! You've inspired a ton of people, me included. Thanks for showing folks how it can be done, with mutual aid and care for one another and not compromising on humanity. You're the future.

I'm not waiting for the SAVE act to pass. They made their intentions clear, even wrote it down for us, hoping we sit back until it's too late. I rather be prepared than angry at myself and them.

Really wish there was an option on deliveries to indicate "I do not need this today. Please prioritize your staff's safety during weather conditions."

Very on-brand for Gingrich to seek out a new, younger canal the moment the current canal starts having health problems

Donald Trump is what happens at the end of that "handlebars" song. Except I don't think he could ever ride a bike with no handlebars.

I had assumed the headline was a joke. But no. people.com/new-dime-coi...

The difference that a good teacher/school makes in a child's life cannot be overstated. I have been moved to tears multiple times this year by the amount of care and kindness in our (public!) school's staff and community.

Used the TDD string calculator kata to teach myself the basics of the ABAP programming language today. So grateful I learned about automated testing and TDD a long time ago.

The correction fails to air the real footage or inform viewers what was different about it. It claims the error was inadvertent and pretends to honor the fallen service members, but at the end of the day Fox still doesn’t show or describe how they came home to spare Trump from its viewers’ scrutiny.

Wow -- as first spotted by @BadFoxGraphics on X, Fox & Friends this morning used *old footage of a previous dignified transfer* to mislead their audience about the fact that Trump wore a baseball cap during the one yesterday

Jokes on you, DST -- I'm so sleep deprived that I got a few extra hours of sleep by chance and still feel better! 🙃

There's something deeply obscene and broken about the fact that Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are bombing elementary schools in an illegal war of aggression, and there's still a sense among the opposition that it has to be explained in terms of gas prices in order to get American voters to care.

The level of anger I feel that we have been set back generations is hard to even quantify. Rage doesn't begin to cover it. A fucking generational shame. Our reputation ruined, our futures diminished, our personal gain stunted, our safety at risk so much tarnished, so much needless suffering.

6yo asked me, unprompted, to sing musical theatre for him today. Best. Feeling. Ever! I miss performing very much and there's no audience I'd rather have interested

SCOOP — Body camera footage obtained as a result of my lawsuit against the DC Metropolitan PD confirms DOGE and the Trump administration openly admitted they were entering private property when they raided the building on March 17, 2025. That didn't stop MPD from breaking down the doors. My report:

Stood up triumphantly, and immediately spilled my coffee everywhere. So, thankful there's no game-day footage I guess.

The joy of demoing something live in production that's risky and having it work because you did it right 🎉 That's my sports.

I can now tell when Substack has done a new shitty thing because the number of folks linking to LeaveSubstack.com goes up 🙃

I got my bike tuned up today and took my first bike ride in *years*. Felt good to be in a different headspace and doing something healthy!

So, so instructive to compare media response to Afghanistan withdrawal -- months of hysterical garment-rending & catastrophizing, relentless criticism of the admin -- with the response to an unprovoked, unmotivated, illegal war of aggression, ie, "some critics say maybe Trump should have reasons."

So many shows that defined my time growing up ended with "this program has been made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by viewers like you! Forever grateful for the CPB and its ability to touch so many lives including mine.

ai is a rhetorical technology. when it produces a list of permissible targets, its value is not producing targets but producing permission

I deployed a v1.0 of DbToMermaid github.com/SimonCropp/D... Generate Mermaid ER diagrams from SQL Server databases or Entity Framework models

Remember: Donald Trump created this crisis. He walked away from the Iran nuclear deal that was working, promising a "better deal." He didn't deliver. He escalated, abandoned real diplomacy, and has now led us into a conflict that puts us all at risk.

FIFA must be feeling pretty silly right now.

if you believe in any form of free enterprise at all, the idea that the Pentagon can not only cut off your contract but designate you a supply chain risk and prevent other companies from buying from you just because you won't build killbots for the government should be terrifying

Uh-oh overdid it and now all I want to do is stay up all night listening to good music.

Was stressing tonight. The cure: great music and just letting myself feel things. Highly recommend.

Why do I have to pretend that I'm going to print something in order to save it as a PDF. Why do I have to engage in a little ruse.

I felt so much joy today as 6yo was surrounded by friends at his birthday party. It's such a great age for kids to be their best kid selves and seeing that love for him warmed my heart a ton. Wonderful weekend with family too. Feeling great inside.

My guy is 6 years old today. Grateful grateful grateful.

Trump plans to send $10 billion in funds that Congress hasn’t appropriated from the US Treasury to an organization that he will continue to chair personally even after he is out of office. This is looting.

Yesterday, those who teach Intro to Sociology at Florida colleges (as opposed to universities) received a ready-made curriculum from the state and were ordered to teach it. Yes, you read that correctly. The *state* is enforcing a curriculum on college profs, complete w/ the following restrictions:

Getting shown up in the arena of elite impunity by *the British monarchy* is an incredible “America at 250!” achievement

Don't trust Dell to ship a PC on time if it really matters. Ordered an urgent 2-day shipping replacement. Day 1, UPS returns to sender due to invalid service level. Seems like Dell screwed up. What's the earliest Dell can give me any information? 2 business days from now 🤦‍♂️ 1/x

I think it’s time for Democratic leaders to start saying “if you’re a pilot or ground crew involved in a deportation that was stayed by a judge, you’ll be held criminally liable for human trafficking.” Everyone involved in these flights should have that fear in the back of their minds.

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

Sort of gives away the lie that they're arresting hardened criminals who are drags on society when they're setting up traps to lure in Good Samaritans

The commander in chief telling troops who they have to vote for is itself a presidency ending impeachable scandal.