It's a dream of mine to be invited to karaoke by a Japanese highschool class, be annoyed that there's no Stephen Foster in the catalogue, and resort to belting out "oro se do bheatha bhaile" that I learned phonetically as a kid.

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Testing.

Another power outage. It might be my imagination, but the power sags and flickering lights and modem rebooting and full outages seem to have been getting more frequent since last November or so. Getting a UPS for the modem and router so I can make this post was a good decision.

Why the hell doesn't White Castle allow guest checkout? I'm NOT opening yet another online account, and definitely not using an app. Get with the times.

As a literature nerd, it has always been most vexing that nobody could give me a straight answer on what the demonym for the famous 'Person from Porlock' would be. For all the bad press AI is getting now, it's nice to get some answer, though none of the cited sources seem to be relevant.

Kristen Welker may have committed a journalism. 😶

Klobuchar cannot be trusted. She's been pulling the same Helen Lovejoy nanny state crap that Hillary supported and lost my vote over. It's the parents' job to protect kids and teach them to be safe online. The state has no business mandating age gates and content filtering.

I feel kind of bad ordering multiple whole pizzas at Costco food court when the staff are already swamped with dinner rush. I'm still sore over the jerks discontinuing the Combo pizzas, though, so I'll get over it.

Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad. Philosophy is wondering if that means ketchup is a smoothie.

Happy #TowelDay

Towel Day is coming, if any under-40s care. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAuP...

Finally got a Sinden Lightgun. Gonna see if I can emulate Barker Bill's Trick Shooting. I played that even more than Duck Hunt, and had a bit of a crush on bunny assistant girl.

Reminder to all SNAP people getting Costco chickens: Make sure to boil or pressure cook the carcass for bone broth.

Several years back, I sent stepmother a .7z with VBA-SP and Mother 1+2 and Mother 3 roms for mother's day. Of course, she couldn't figure out how to use them, but pearls before swine are still valuable.

Is there any better illustration of the state of tech literacy that pop up touchscreen keyboards have worthless emoji menus, but there's apparently no room for ctrl, alt and esc? That sophomoric crap in iphones is one thing, but I expected better from Gnome's default OSK.

When people say "The Met" am I the only one who thinks of the Opera and not the art museum?

Dropped dead lawnmower off at appliance recycling place and tried to play the fee on the online portal. Paypal blocked it because I refuse to upload a picture of myself.

Am I the only one who learned Sumer is Icumin in in English class instead of that stupid Wicker Man movie? www.youtube.com/watch?v=FV5v...

It makes sense because we have a cheap Russian whore as POTUS.

Car odometer hit 24601 the other day. I should have pulled over and snapped a pic.

The supposed Pragmata controversy is ridiculous.

Damn algorithm keeps showing articles about "octopuses" (sic) just to spite me. THE PLURAL IS OCTOPODES, DAMMIT

1 month to go until the Sofia I new season. While she's a bit of a mary sue, they did quite a job with the world building in Sofia and Elena. Makes me want to come up with an OC and D&D scenarios. But I'm still pissed they never made Nala or Kiara official Disney Princesses.

Mina the Hollower has officially gone GOLD! The game is complete and has begun the submissions process with our first-party partners. We’ll know the final release date soon and as soon as we can share it, you’ll know it. Thank you for sticking with us. We can’t wait for you to play!

Media embeds seem to be having trouble loading. More DDOS?

Framework is still going strong, despite the chip crises. With taxes done, I might get the 2-in-1 Framework 12 and retire old Microshit tablet.

Russel's Teapot or Stanley's bucket?

DDOS?

Saint Cloud is a nice town for bio research. www.startribune.com/st-cloud-min... The Umbrella Corporation couldn't keep them down. No worse than a regular old lutefisk holiday supper. residentevil.fandom.com/wiki/St._Clo...

Taxes are done. Choke on it, warpigs. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVgs...

Your representative needs to hear from you right now, before the April 20 deadline. Contact them today. Tell them: No vote on any bills that would reauthorize Section 702 without meaningful reform.

We're in the news. arstechnica.com/ai/2026/04/b... I wasn't going to say anything, but I'm not aware of any evidence to blame it on coding (vibe or otherwise) instead of another network issue like AWS or DNS glitch somewhere down the line.

Autism Awareness Day Reminder that "Autism Speaks" is a monstrous hate group and there are plenty of real organizations you can support. Also, that stupid book about the Dog in the Night-Time is as much about autism as Chakotay was about native american culture. Same goes for Big Bang Theory

And the Joker.

Remember folks, be like Eddie.

The GOP hates America and everything it stands for. Their words and actions prove it. Facts don't lie, but the GOP does; over and over again.

The fascists are trying to ban foreign made routers. Of course, Musk got an exemption. I have no doubt courts will block it. Anyway, now is a great time to grab an older model TP-Link router and stick OpenWRT on it. Or get a Raspberry Pi and set up as router/server. toh.openwrt.org?view=normal

Anyone doing Sakura Viewing events this weekend? www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Hvo...

So NCIS finally addressed the whole '2 people banging on one keyboard' thing, as if that were the most ridiculous thing done on that show. IMHO, the real #1 would be the sailor reading an Iaido manual to learn dueling with a naval officer sabre back in season 1. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivZi...

This should go viral......and be printed for handouts to the republicans in the House and the Senate!! youtube.com/shorts/wI-2H...

Trump now has more casualties in his stupid war, than were lost in the Afghanistan pull out, a debacle that Trump himself caused.. You know the military evac he said Biden completely mismanaged and would never have happened had he been in charge of it.

I really want a remake of Kuma Miko that doesn't offensively ruin the ending. I want it even more than another Okaasan-Online season, or Haganai and The World God Only Knows getting finished, or Goro Miyazaki stepping up and animating the rest of his dad's magnum opus, Nausicaa.

I've got leftover gas for the mower from last October, and I've got a supply of Krispy Kremes to last a while. I'm good for the time being.

arstechnica.com/health/2026/... They wish to cure us, but I say to you we are the cure! The cure for that infirm, imperfect condition called 'Homo sapiens!'

Oh my god, we are so screwed. It will be a miracle if our country and democracy can survive this insanity.