The ongoing collapse of Putin's USSR 2.0 continues to be a river of comedy gold.

Game on.

Hey, I resemble that remark!

Did a good deed today and introduced some youngsters (young to me, at least) to "The Prisoner". #ThePrisoner #Simpsons

Excellent explainer.

An additional layer of fascination here is that, given the era, there's no way Street, the most despised heel on the circuit, wasn't adhering to kayfabe with his comments about his background, and I don't know whether the journalist and photographer were in on that. Did he hate where he came from?

One of many good reasons why they are the Deep Ones and not the Elevated Ones.

Did you know we used to have supersonic passenger planes that crossed the Atlantic in 3 hours?

becoming untrackable&unreachable the second you step outside your home

Probably having actual third spaces designed for anyone to stay in longer than 5 minutes. Like even businesses with a sole interest in getting you to buy stuff at least tried to be public spaces vs get in get out. Cafes and such in department stores, actual sitdown areas in fast food joints, etc

Interoperable instant messaging clients.

We definitely need more sessions of Puppy Court.

My Arakis. My Dune.

From The World's Policeman to The World's Mall Cop. I'm sure that there are America Firsters for whom this makes perfect sense.

Amazing! ICE kills a man ~7:30 am. 1st news report is an hour later. ~1:30 pm, a group of 𝒔𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒍 𝒉𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 marches in Main Street and "storms into the Biddeford office of [U.S.] Sen. Susan Collins." Would be hard to do in NYC. Biddeford pop. = 22,000! www.pressherald.com/2026/07/13/s...

One of cinema's greats is gone. As much as I love "The Mouth of Madness" and "Event Horizon", if you want to inject Neill madness straight into your veins, you can't go wrong with "Possession" to get the unfiltered experience.

Was looking for an old paper that I wrote in graduate school twenty years ago about the dangers of code signing, and I was pleased to find the papers on open source and GIS that I wrote for (future CO governor) @philweiser.bsky.social's special topics course at Princeton.

I had that case. Good times.

Perseverance landing LCAM mosaic colorized - From Simeon Schmauß (stim3on.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2qMvNak

"Verify your age"

Me examining a new follower.

No Decepticons in Chicago. At least not at midnight. #Chicago

Chicago is always up for a good time. The funny thing is that the one unmolested thing is Trump Tower, because that's where the bad guys have set up their lair. (Even if the close camera shots are from ACROSS the river.) It was a fun time in the River North neighborhood when this was being filmed.

Working my way through the Bayverse Transformers films as fun movies to have on in the background while my brain can focus on something else, and it's amazing to what extent John Turturro elevated his scenes into madcap Saturday cartoon comedic masterpieces. #Transformers

That all said, if It Happens between the hours of noon and 6pm, I'm going to enjoy one of Ernest Hemingway's favorite recipes while waiting for my tamales to cook. #Absinthe #Cocktails #Hemingway

I have an absinthe from Santa Fe picked out that I think will pair VERY nicely (properly louched) with some Christmas-style pork tamales. Doesn't hurt that it's made by a lady master distiller who groks the gnostic. (You don't name your distillery that for shits and giggles.) #WhenItHappens

I'm going to take my copy of J. Ross Quinlan's "C4.5: Programs for Machine Learning" out to a nice dinner. It's one of those rare books that is concise enough that I can probably finish it before the dessert course arrives. (Half the book is printed C source code to implement C4.5 decision trees.)

There's no waiting quite like waiting for Amazon to finish taking an EC2 snapshot. #AmazonAWS #SystemAdministration

We're fortunate that Lovecraft's purple prose and florid style of writing is doing a decent job keeping subliterate chuds at arm's length.

Valhalla isn't doing the Mac race this season, but it looks like the rest of the J105 fleet has their work cut out for them. #Sailing #LakeMichigan #RaceToMackinac

I was discussing elsewhere today that I'm not astonished by LLMs, but I am impressed with what they've been able to pull off (with effectively unlimited resources). One other piece of code that's really impressed me is the openHop suite for MeshCore. GREAT tools I'll be building on soon. #MeshCore

the fuck

Avoiding this dinner like

Back in the office. On the agenda: 1. Bug fixes and feature enhancements for a cross-platform on-device contextual awareness and action platform. 2. Getting revised author proofs out to the @weirdfictionquarterly.com contributors. 3. Weekly @freshcomics.us data entry. ...

BREAKING: Lindsey Graham’s sudden death reveals everyone’s wake-up time on Sundays.

VINCENT PRICE was not only a successful and much beloved Hollywood Actor but also a serious student and collector of Art, an in demand art consultant (for Sears, Roebuck & Co) as well President of the art council at UCLA.

Cosigned, with one note: Graham was right on Ukraine and stuck with Ukraine, even when others in his party didn't (inc. Trump). He will be missed for that, but Ukraine seems far enough along to weather the loss of him. 🇺🇦 I hope his last trip to Disney was an enjoyable one.

as age verification laws spread, the general public needs to understand the risks as well as the benefits. @noupside.bsky.social provides a (characteristically) clear and balanced guide here

Andy Beshear should just steal mcconnell's senate seat the way mcconnell stole Obama's Supreme Court seat.

This is a remarkable bit of code. #MeshCore #OpenHop #SelfHosted

Came into the office to resume tackling yesterday's Xcode issues and it's taken me most of the day, but the hurdle has been hurdled. So much stupid crap to work around, because of the overly-complex, half-baked iOS tooling. This is only going to get worse. Current mood. #GUNSHIP

My swamp puppy #Fido #alligator ##reptiles #bayoulife

Don't mess around with Summerisle's Karen. You'll regret it, as Sergeant Howie discovered.

The is not The Future That Liberals Want.

Russia is running out of operational oil refineries, so attention has now shifted to the sea. Following Ukrainian strikes on Russian vessels, Russia temporarily halted shipping through the Don-Azov Canal and the Kerch Strait, which connects the Sea of Azov with the Black Sea. 📷: Illustrative map

I like @ubiquiti.bsky.social products, but adding on a "memory surcharge" that's not visible until you go to check out is EXTREMELY shady and tacky. Just update the sticker price of items in the store like responsible adults. #Ubiquiti #DarkPatterns

Here are the top 5 dogs of the week!

Be careful, as non-Euclidian beasts can still devour you!

Folks have enjoyed these when I've posted them in the past. Enjoy this minute of baked goods (sound on) www.reddit.com/r/Satisfying...