When you get your dog or cat from a breeder I no longer want to hear about your new pet. And I also think you suck.

Trying to measure coding productivity is, and always will be, a fool's errand. Why? Because I can go for a walk then take a shower and have an idea, then write a single line of code that fixes everything I was working on. Immense productivity, but by most metrics I didn't do anything at all.

Ten things I like: looking at the sky and stars soy lattes games where I can collect things the sound of the forest cats murderbot bird watching elaborate vegan pastries travelling through food music with power tools in it.

Every day I work at Big Tech I understand this guy more and more

Hard, good reading by Jeet Heer www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Obsidian and the birds – if you could use a burst of wonder in your day, follow this thread from the Aztecs to the quantum world www.themarginalian.org/2025/03/08/t...

I'm heartsick over the passing of Alice Wong. Rest peacefully, friend.

Our kid loves xkcd. So I ordered a little bobcat puppet from modern rascals along with a book and some clothes, and it was all very funny. A++ would buy again. Contains bobcat. xkcd.com/325/

Give a man a fish and someone with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about people getting free handouts. Teach a man to fish? Yeah, that person with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about that too.

If you don’t pinch the nose thing on your mask it’s not really fitting your face very well. and sure, if you’re wearing one of those flimsy blue masks or like cloth, it’s probably not mega awesome (though still better than nothing) but fitting it to your face makes it a lot more effective.

Sometimes when someone does something nice for no apparent reason I think “why are they doing this, what do they get out of this?” When I would do or have done the same thing. I’m not some exception. A lot of people actually like being nice! It feels good. It’s a whole thing about our species!

I wrote about the supposed conservative "civil war" over antisemitism as more of a lovers' spat for @liberalcurrents.

Oreoboros

Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far. So much work remains to be done.

Unlike other newspapers, The Onion has never once declined to print pictures of Donald Trump with girls in bikinis in Jeffrey Epstein’s kitchen. Please subscribe to The Onion. membership.theonion.com

KPop demon hunters was so awesome. I’m so glad we finally watched it.

somehow… I have never heard of this method, and I’m glad my kid didn’t learn to read like this, and I’m mostly just… amazed (derogatory.)

Tomorrow the Bird Nerds and I will travel virtually to Aotearoa and learn more about the Kākāpō. I'm looking forward to talking about these lovely big flightless parrots. It's a bit incredible/terrible how there are only 237 of them remaining in the world. (but their population was lower. So yey )

I’ve decided I’m going to make a series of zines about elaborate veganizable breakfasts from around the world & they’re just going to be for me.

I can’t help but think of Lowenstein’s The Palestine Laboratory when I see what ICE goons are doing in the USA right now. Including the blatant and endless lying about what they’re doing, when we can see what they’re doing.

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

Yes, some people's legacies are complicated. For example, Watson. After all, though he was racist, don't forget his other traits. For example, he was also sexist. And also anti-semitic. And a data / idea thief. So let's not forget all the different facets.

James Watson sucked and he can get bent. Good riddance to bad rubbish. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...

When you get the skype a scientist match you really wanted and you're just fanning out like a big nerdy loser. Be cool nerd. Be cool. (lol)

Wow, this meme be memeing

virtue signalling is good actually

Harriette Mackenzie is such a rare athlete: she’s a BC college basketball star, and she is trans. This is the story of her season: an in-game attack, anti-trans hatred, outing herself, a lifetime of trauma, and how she kept going, despite it all. www.thestar.com/sports/baske...

The Marginalian was something I was introduced to buy people on mastodon, and it has always been a pleasure to read. Everyday something new and interesting to discover.

Use your senses to ‘learn’ woodland Not for a minute, sit with your back against a tree for an hour Become aware of things that weren’t seemingly there before, smells appearing from nowhere, feel leaf & branch debris on your face 1/2

I guess I’m going to have to make a vegan Baja blast cheesecake. It really just sounds like a key lime pie with a little more food colouring (and coconut) to me, so it’s probably not even that challenging in the grand scheme of cheesecake.

Food blog sits dormant but the raiding guild discord chat gets the goods 😅 I miss #veganmofo it was fun.

"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk

The final instalment in the migration of clouds series? The final instalment?!?! No I’m not ready.

good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx

This person took this when they called the race

Zohran has ended his victory speech by summoning and entrapping the spirit of Andrew Cuomo in a Greater Soul Gem. The translucent former governor's mouth hangs open in a pained howl as he writhes within the jewel, but makes no sound.

Y'all - now you know us photogs are NOT kidding when we say the Northern Pygmy owls are SO SO SMOL!

Someone made a minor mistake on the internet and I was going to give them more information, but I decided to just let it go. 🙏🏻

Absolutely phenomenal. Magnificent. Parfait. absolument.

musk did another unspeakable, inexcusable racism that i'm not gonna spread around but delete your twitter no money for musk no money for nazis

Gonna buy some books.

Skype a Scientist (@skypeascientist.bsky.social) has been one of the best things for Bird Nerds. I don't know how else I would be able to connect the kids with scientists involved with birds with such ease. I'm so grateful for the scientists that participate! Check it out: www.skypeascientist.com

Daylight Saving Time is increasingly hard to notice when my digital devices are like, "What? Nothing happened. We know what time it is." And my stove is left blinking and screaming, "IT HAPPENED! TIME SHIFTED UNNATURALLY! THEY'RE ALL LYING! ONLY I KNOW! ONLY I REMEMBER!"

One of the major fruits of research is delight. Think of how often you’ve read about a discovery and really enjoyed it. Often the most pleasurable kind of news. Public delight isn’t discussed enough as one of the major outputs of funding research.

I enjoyed the baseball.