"You can't trust Wikipedia," they said, and two decades later it's the most trusted first source of information in the world. "You can't meet people from the internet," they said, and nearly two decades later the people I met on early Twitter remain some of the most important people in my life […]

The one convenient thing about Tahoe, if you're trying to explain it to somebody who hasn't been keeping track of Apple lately, is that you can say 'it's just Vista again" and they'll get it immediately.

There's nothing like catching up with an old friend you haven't spoken to in years and picking up exactly where you left off. 💜

Me, every time I try to get a Bethesda game working again: "Okay, I'll just add the minimum requires bugfixing mods to make sure everything works smoothly." Me, two hours later, clicking "Enable" on a new batch of five mods: "…shit."

In retrospect, this 1935 German tourism poster feels extremely threatening. via Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Germany_Wants_to_See_You_(1).webp

Thanks, Merlin. Thmerlin.

"You know when grown-ups tell you everything's gonna be fine, and you think they're probably lying to make you feel better?" "Yes." "Everything's gonna be fine."

Clippy, except it just highlights unverified or unverifiable claims made by politicians, brands, and other interested parties, and asks you: "Are you sure you want to believe that?"

Google has gone full Facebook with their "smart feature" preferences, I see. They already couldn't be trusted, but opting everyone—including GAFYD/Workspace users—into letting them read your content is really above and beyond. And then turning off existing features like spellchecking if you […]

it had never occurred to me before to wonder what ads are called on "Truth Social", but this is the funniest possible answer.

Today's small friends include a fluffy blue jay, a very focused red-bellied woodpecker, and an absolute unit of a mourning dove. #pittsbirds #backyardbirding #birds #birdsofmastodon

"When an international financier is confronted by a holdup man with a gun, he automatically hands over not only his money and jewelry but also his shirt and pants, because it doesn't occur to him that a robber might draw the line somewhere." —Nero Wolfe, in Over My Dead Body by Rex Stout

Got a subscription increase email from Fastmail tonight, telling me that my annual subscription will go up to $60/year with my next renewal. I am genuinely baffled to learn I was paying less than $5/month for Fastmail up to now. What an absolute value.

I didn't expect Fallout 76 to outlive Halo Infinite, but I'm here for it.

“This is all about us wanting to make sure that every user can get the superpowers of AI,” says Navjot Virk, corporate vice president of Windows experiences, in an interview with The Verge. i gotta say i never considered "being confidently wrong all the time about everything" a superpower, but […]

You helped get us here, you utter twit. 😡 > In an interview with the BBC, Sundar Pichai, the chief executive of Alphabet, said AI models were “prone to errors” and urged people to use them alongside other tools. > In the same interview, Pichai warned that no company would be immune if the AI […]

If a couple of pigeons are the price I have to pay for having a red-bellied woodpecker and a northern mockingbird in my yard at the same time, so be it. I think I've finally struck just about the right balance with my bird feeders. :3

One of the neat things about books is that they constantly recommend you other books.

I'm not sure how this northern cardinal manages to chirp so persistently when his beak is full of safflower seeds, but I'm glad he's having a good time.

Is there a Civ-like game out there where you can design your own civilization/race/nation/whatever by naming it, selecting from a palette of traits, building or selecting unique units or buildings, and picking an architectural style? I want a fantasy Civ-like where I can define and save my own […]

The fact that you can only adjust/change your health insurance once a year unless you have a qUaLiFyInG lIfE eVeNt is psychotic. We're clear on this, yes? I mean, the entire private health insurance system is a parasite on the body politic, but.

Deep Thought does not know the ultimate question to Life, the Universe and Everything, but offers to design an even more powerful computer, Earth, to calculate it. After ten million years of calculation, the Earth is destroyed by Vogons five minutes before the computation is complete. ( […]

Today's small friend is this male house finch, who is here to remind you that he may be small and fluffy but he's still a dinosaur, dangit. #pittsbirds #backyardbirding #birds #birdsofmastodon

I'm trying to think of the source and name of a fantastical object. I can't remember whether it's from a book, movie, or TV series, and I can't remember whether it's fantasy or science fiction. But the object is a book that contains an entire library. I have a distinct memory of a character […]

If American democracy survives in any meaningful way, we should probably take a look at why news outlets don't feel comfortable using the word "bribe" when it's very obviously the case. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/14/tariffs-swiss-goods-reduced https://archive.ph/AfjH3

this is the future liberals want

bonanza, n • an unexpectedly large amount of something; a mother lode. Introduced to English in mid-1800s. Believed to be derived from an exuberant mispronunciation by a young Edward VII upon receiving an entire cluster of bananas for his seventh birthday.

I shaved my head again this morning and boy howdy I did not fully appreciate the extent to which my hair was helping me stay warm until just now. 😬

A bottle of wine, a pair of Nero Wolfe novels, and Benny Goodman's Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert, which happened just a month before the first chapter of one of those novels was published as a serial. Beat that for a relaxing Friday evening. ☺️

You know what?#cabernetsauvignjohn is quite nice.

Today's small friends are Alexander the Yelling Birds (that is, several distinct blue jays) and the female red-bellied woodpecker, who has become a very welcome regular guest. #pittsbuirds #backyardbirding #birds #birdsofmastodon

Pleased to report that the starlings haven't been having it all their own way this morning because seven (7) distinct blue jays turned up in my little elm tree to give them a run for their collective money. :D

more rent-seeking bullshit from apple, a company now seemingly incapable of improving its own products what a surprise

Just recorded a new voice line for a friend's Skyrim mod, and I sure hope my neighbor is a sound sleeper or I'm going to get a text in the morning asking why I'm the princess. 😂

When computers are good, they're so good.

i can't believe they resurrected final pam

You absolutely love to see it. https://union.place/@kickstarterunited/115539185583904632

Once again meditating on @zunderscore's Soup As A Service concept, but with a more socialist bent. I just think hot running Italian wedding soup should be one of the standard utilities.

She's just so dang cute. ❤️ #pittsbirds #backyardbirding #birds #birdsofmastodon

Oh. That explains a lot.

I thought "iPhone pocket" was prison slang for yr [REDACTED].

software just makes me so tired

Just ran across this image of a kernel panic from 2010, but man… look at those icons in the Dock. They were FUN. They looked great. (And yes, I definitely changed some of them—I'm pretty sure the Death Note was Journler, for example, and that's definitely not […] [Original post on wandering.shop]

I was just trying to find information on foods with high potassium content, and now I feel like I can't trust this government website. 🙃

I don't always like people, but I usually like people who like people.

Fellow digital proboscideans, I am begging you to use colors in your avatars. The failure is probably mine, but my eyes and brain are not capable of making any useful distinctions when the avatar slice of my timeline looks like this:

Me: "I wonder if I missed anything useful by not looking at the quick start guide for my new ereader." Quick start guide: "Press and hold the power button to start or turn off your eReader." …you know what? I think I'm good.

Currently listening to Blue Train by John Coltrane after not listening to it for years and this is just a reminder that this album absolutely SLAPS, y'all.

No, *you're* cackling maniacally because your new ereader just arrived.

::stares directly into the camera:: https://typo.social/@pixelambacht/115525680928718021