RE: https://kolektiva.social/@HeavenlyPossum/116953509619138312 It's like folks forgot what the "trust" in "anti-trust" meant in the first place.

If squircle jail is good enough for app icons, why isn't it good enough for Trash? 🤔

Happy First Moon Landing Day! On this day in 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the fucking moon. And if you don't think that's the tightest shit, get out of my face.

The Odyssey is very good and unlike Odysseus, I made it home by 5pm.

TFW when you are very young and the world is shiny and new and exciting but also a pigeon just tried to land on you. #pittsbirds #backyardbirding

Thor: Ragnarok remains one of the best MCU films. Just an absolute banger, start to finish.

Was describing to a coworker how I had a stupid idea that saved the day by solving an equally stupid problem, and was reminded of a clip from Justice League Unlimited that lives rent-free in my head. Finally managed to find a copy for my reactions folder.

Today's small friends are this female house finch checking out the newly cleaned and refilled hummingbird feeder, and the blue jay on the suet feeder in the background absolutely horfing a chunk of suet. 😂 #pittsbirds #backyardbirding #birds #birdsofmastodon

It's good when the sun looks like that, right?

Time to play everybody's favorite game, "Is this another patented nothingburger or the big one we've all been worried about?".

Hey uh Stephen Miller is on some extremely Nazi shit again. 😬 Rubio also going harder than I thought he'd be willing to, which is not a good sign for where we're headed. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/16/political-violence-event-trump-marco-rubio

"I pass the test. I will diminish, and go into the Mid-West…"

Today in small discoveries that fundamentally shake my understanding of the world: apparently it's called the "hokey cokey" everywhere but the US.

I just get so tired every time someone in a position of influence or authority says, "LLMs are the future. We have to accept them." It's not fucking inevitable. They're not the gods-damned Terminator. We can simply choose not to use the Machine For Rendering All Things Unethical.

Little progress is better than no progress.

Today's small friend is a new visitor to the yard: a juvenile red-bellied woodpecker. Unfortunately, these shots are super washed-out because the camera was in direct sun and the woodpecker was in the shade. But look at this absolute goober of a dinosaur! […] [Original post on wandering.shop]

I found myself thinking that with the heat, it's the right time of year to read The Great Gatsby again, which got me thinking about the "You look so cool" scene. And that's when my brain handed me a fully-visualized contemporary-set version in the style of Scott Pilgrim vs the World. Daisy says […]

for gods' sake let it just be a plant

Caught a groundhog nosing around under the bird feeder this morning, so we have a lead candidate for some of the damage that's been done in my garden this summer. 😡

Just finished Widow's Bay. Dunno how I missed hearing about this until now. What an absolute treat of a show.

I have no particular love for Apple at the moment, but OpenAI is just thieves and scammers top to bottom and I hope Apple takes them for everything they have. https://www.theverge.com/tech/964843/apple-openai-lawsuit-wildest-claims

"Logical consequences" and "intuitable consequences" are very much not the same thing. 😬

"There are updates available for several of your installed packages. Would you like to update them?" "What packages have updates available?" "fizz, folly, and wangle. Would you like to update them?" "Those are the literal, actual names of the software packages with updates?" "Yes. Would you […]

There is no such thing as over-communication.

Watched the first episode of Widow's Bay this morning before work and now all my brain wants to think about is cozy New England island horror fantasy. 😩 Curious to see if Widow's Bay manages to cut closer to the flavor I'm looking for than Haven did. Haven got _so close_ sometimes, with some […]

Hoping against hope that this is the first of several dominoes to fall in succession, and that's why I've been feeling this immense mental pressure that It is about to Happen.

I've never had the urge to visit South Carolina before, but I'll make a pilgrimage just to dance on that particular grave.

Regardless of whether Mitch McConnell is alive or dead or in some liminal state enabled by modern medical technology, we can still all celebrate that his many sins have finally caught up with him to some extent.

oh no i just had my first craving for crisp weather and a pumpkin spice beverage It's gonna be a long summer, y'all.

i will pledge my life and soul and undying devotion to any deity that helps binface beat farage

I've decided to start a brand new Skyrim load order completely from scratch. I'm starting by trying to remove 1200+ mods from Vortex all at once. Let's watch what happens, shall we?

"You're worth more than what you can give to other people. You deserve love too."

Nero Wolfe is the Elrond of New York City, change my mind.

The Pittsburgh Fourth of July celebrations are currently in suspended animations, with the fireworks theoretically set to start in 90 minutes. I get why the city doesn't want to shut it down, but there's now a 50% chance of thunderstorms from 9pm-11pm, so I think it might be time to call it […]

it's raining and no longer feels like Hell, yayyyyyy!

I am slowly narrowing in on the mod that's been causing half-second lag stutters in certain locations in Skyrim, and I swear to god I think it's going to be a mesh or texture change on barrels or certain kinds of thatched roofs. are you kidding me

Yesterday I noticed that one of the heads of a sunflower out on my front stoop was getting raided before the petals had even fallen off. Based on my keen knowledge of the sunflower's natural predators, I developed a theory and I staked out the front door with […] [Original post on wandering.shop]

Birds fed, plants watered. Now to do absolutely, gloriously nothing until it's time for fireworks. 😌

"Are spiders useful? Because I have just learned how to make spiders!"

Just sat outside for three and a half hours and boy howdy am I pleased to be back in the air conditioning. 😅

Ah, good for #Kagi -- their #ai features have always been opt-in (add a question mark to the end of your query), but they've just added a setting to no-kidding disable generative AI, for folks who really want to keep away from it: https://kagi.com/changelog#10959 Still the best search engine […]

Circa 2005, I had this fun idea for a Star Wars RPG campaign set in an alternate timeline where Anakin was the Emperor, and he raised Luke and Leia as his Sith enforcers—his own personal Vaders in crimson. I haven't thought about this setting in at least ten years, but for absolutely no reason […]

"Your armor is more of an exoskeleton now, the tech compensating for your organic body! What does it feel like?" "Powerful!" ::cackles, then sobers instantly:: "I… I… acknowledge the work you put into this. It is very… technologically sound." ::screech of disbelief from the peanut gallery […]

"For the Horde!" "I don't agree with that sentiment but I'M ALSO HERE!"

I recently started rewatching She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, and I just got to the D&D episode. What a good goddamn television show.

The more I hesitate before signing off for PTO, the more badly I know I need that PTO. For the love of all that's sacred, Jonas, the company can function without you for three goddamn days. 🙄

I wonder how many organizations are going to let themselves be snake-oiled into switching to Claude Enterprise in order to get $1000 in credits per seat that vanish like fairy gold after $90 […]

What do you mean, "If you want to get better you have to take responsibility and build a plan and make actual concrete steps toward improvement"? Sounds like some hippie-dippy pop-psych malarky to me. 👿😤

The furries are arriving to take over Pittsburgh for the holiday weekend. Surprising no one, the #anthrocon brigade includes a number of #meshtastic nerds. 🐺🦊🐶🐯🐲🐱🐼🐰

What's even better for you than touching grass? Catching a firefly.