On iOS 18.7.x and higher and iOS 26+, Mobile Safari's user agent string now permanently reports the OS as "18_7". What reporting I've seen on this calls it an anti-fingerprinting effort, but the user agent string also includes the actual browser version (e.g., "26.2"). Given that Mobile Safari […]

I've been letting my brain stew on local superheroes for a fictionalized version of Pittsburgh—think Gotham but Pittsburgh—and I just hit on one that made me laugh out loud. The very first time I visited this city, I got off the bus at 2am and walked directly into a 2-meter anthropomorphic fox […]

"Lost people don’t know that what it means to be a human is to care about other humans." —from All the Water in the World, by Eiren Caffall

I've never been religious, but these traitorous murder apologists make me wish for a just God and a real Hell.

Go listen to Icky Thump by The White Stripes right now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evypdgY6KpQ You're welcome.

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A cleaner reentry to work than expected. Whew. 😅

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The current bird feed mix for my platform feeder, which has helped to reduce the number of visiting pigeons by reducing dropped food waste, is an extremely custom blend of: - Dried black soldier fly larvae - Shelled peanuts - Sunflower chips - Safflower seeds - Dried cranberries - Dried […]

"OpenAI said it gives considerable thought to the best use of its computing power" is a real sentence I just read, and if you need me I'll be over here dying of laughter.

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I suggest we call this “The Epstein Files War”.

::blearily reads the morning news:: oh what fresh hell is this

A style icon. #pittsbirds #backyardbirding #birds #birdsofmastodon

Free idea: a Redwall-style talking+fighting-animal series with an Ancient Roman setting called SQRL.

Never have I ever: watched a whole Marx Brothers movie. But Animal Crackers entered the public domain yesterday, so I think it's time to fix that.

Good morning! Today's small friends are this juvenile Cooper's hawk, showing off an intense expression and some floof, and the male red-bellied woodpecker, who has found the sunflower chip feeder and has kind of a Two-Face thing going on today. #pittsbirds #backyardbirding #birds #birdsofmastodon

There are a number of good candidates, but I think my personal swearing-in book would be Feet of Clay by Terry Pratchett. Anti-monarchy, anti-oligarchy, sympathetic to gender exploration, celebrates the working class, and contains one of my favorite quotes: "Either All Days Are Holy Or None Are […]

Most of the music I listened to this year was from ::checks notes:: the decade in which I was a teenager. A truly shocking insight from Last.fm's Playback. 😂

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I bet Macaulay Culkin had a lot of fun dramatically uttering the line, "All that remains of America is the overwhelming evidence of its failure".

Today's small friends are a winter primary trio: - A blue jay just being very handome - A house finch contemplating the new snow lining the bottom of the sunflower chip feeder - An American goldfinch showcasing PontifX's brand new 2026 puffer jacket […] [Original post on wandering.shop]

Genuinely looking forward to my Last.fm Playback. https://bsky.app/profile/last.fm/post/3mbe354d5322f (Also, hey, Last.fm has a Bluesky account.)

If your heart is nowhere in it, I don't want it for a minute Babe, I'll walk the seven seas When I believe that there's a reason To write you a love song Today

Good morning and happy new year! One of my song sparrows is working very hard at learning to use the suet feeder this morning. May we all start the new year with such determination, and find joy of it. 💜

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Happy new year to the west coast!

A long December, and there's reason to believe maybe this year will be better than the last.

You know what? I have no regrets about having no New Year's plans tonight. While the idea of getting snowed in at a New Year's party sounds theoretically cozy, the idea of trying to get home after midnight in this weather sounds like the opposite of that.

Had a video with rave lighting playing in QuickTime behind Ivory's navigation bar, and @ivory I would like to request this as a permanent feature. 🤘

Wow wow wow! Today has just been the gift that keeps on giving. Two more small friends caught in unusual moments: - a song sparrow not only visiting a feeder, but very much committing to the bit - and the female red-bellied woodpecker visiting the birdbath […] [Original post on wandering.shop]

Nope. Nope. I found my favorite bird photo of the day. 😂 #pittsbirds #backyardbirding #birds #birdsofmastodon

Finally got a really decent shot of a red-bellied woodpecker and a downy woodpecker hanging out in the elm tree together. :3 #pittsbirds #backyardbirding #birds #birdsofmastodn

Delighted to report that for the first time ever, today I've had both a female and a male red-bellied woodpecker at the suet feeder. I'm as surprised as this goldfinch looks, but much more pleased!

If I were a startup founder, I would simply not construct my entire business model on fraud.

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Today's small friends are this male house finch and female northern cardinal, who I think feel the same way I do about the current cold weather. 😅 #pittsbirds #backyardbirding #birds #birdsofmastodon

I just watched an English sparrow give himself brain freeze by taking a big beakful of snow. You wouldn't think that would be obvious in a bird, but there was no mistaking it: he stopped and stood stock still, beak open, his eyelids fluttering with an expression of panic and regret. 😂

"Life is like a bitter lemon: bitter. And a lemon."

Today's small friends are a song sparrow, who usually scavenges on the ground rather than visiting feeders, and a downy woodpecker and northern cardinal who've decided that it's too cold and snowy to fly more than a few feet away from the buffet. ❤️ […] [Original post on wandering.shop]

When a bird hits your eye Like a big blue wise guy, That's a blue jay

Look, I'm just saying that if you had to pick exactly two role models, you could do a lot worse than Fred Rogers and the goose from Untitled Goose Game.

Thanks to Rex Stout's eminently readable Nero Wolfe mysteries, I've managed to hit my goal of reading 36 books this year despite Moby Dick knocking me off my stride for months early in the year. Now to contemplate next year's goal: do I add another 12 for 48 […] [Original post on wandering.shop]

Today's small friend isn't so small, and I doubt many of the other feathered visitors to my yard would call it a friend. I've been wondering why attendance at my feeders has seemed a little light the last few days. If this Cooper's hawk has been hanging […] [Original post on wandering.shop]

My experience of Ohio in Fallout 76 closely matches my opinion of Ohio in real life.

I liked the Skynet version better. https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:emhyi4kljodgqlusdsopgfgd/post/3mb2zijjhwc2e

Wait a second. Wait a second. What need did Jurgen Windcaller, the founder of the Way of the Voice, have for a signal horn? 🤔

There's exactly one pigeon small enough and coordinated enough to eat from the platform feeder, although it does have to flap constantly to avoid plummeting to the ground. It also happens to be a gorgeous fancy throwback with white wings. #pittsbirds #backyardbirding #birds #birdsofmastodon

New #dnd monster just dropped thanks to a typo. The killseer is a stealthy monstrosity that takes the form of a gaunt, hooded humanoid. Invisible to all forms of divination magic and second sight, it seeks out trained diviners and those gifted with any form of prophecy. Once it find them, it […]