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Some people want to prove to themselves that they can climb Mount Everest, I want to prove to myself that I can get a Labubu at retail.

[uspol] it’s pretty great how the head of the DOD can call all the generals in for a meeting and there’s an equal chance it’s for a big performative Sieg Heil, an announcement that we’re invading Canada, or announcing the launch of a MIL memecoin.

Oh so Super Robot Wars is like… 80% dialogue cut scenes huh

I am *yearning* to spend this Saturday evening grilling up a burger and then settling in with a book by my backyard fire ring but the weather is looking like it might not cooperate. 😭

I don’t even know what I’d do if I ever saw a political ad that felt like it actually wanted to appeal to me. I might die of the shock.

My current personal infosec level is at a point where I have now created a “decoy” Twitter account with my real name and real photos of my real face that I will only use to post inane Live Laugh Love garbage, but which I can provide if required to submit a social media account for review. The […]

Fun Things You Can Do With The Money You’re Saving By Cancelling Subscriptions And Boycotting Things: Give yourself a mutual aid budget and follow the tag! Join some Patreons, especially smaller ones! Subscribe to independent media like 404 Media and Aftermath! Contribute to your local […]

The release of these Robotech soundtrack albums (see my earlier retoot) reminded me of something fun: Cam Clarke recorded a couple albums! I have a rip of "Inside Out" that I was going to dig up and share if it had gone extinct, but it turns out you can still buy them digitally directly from him […]

My new favorite person is whoever’s already uploaded Micronauts series information to TheTVDB so it’s there for my Jellyfin server. 💙 #micronauts #thetvdb

[More going on about autism] I was just having a conversation with my mom, on my 47th birthday, about how I understood the problems she was having with my dad because he’s got a totally unmanaged version of the same AuADHD symptoms I’ve had to learn to manage for myself while living alone, but […]

Tortie belly #catsofmastodon #tortiecats

Someone mentioned in all the Monsterdon chatter that there’s an Owncast app for Apple TV and wow, that’s really going to help me wean myself off (Paramount-owned) PlutoTV.

The busiest #monsterdon moment was the tail end of the rat-bat-crab-spider attack.

Y’all - I just heard there’s going to be raptors tomorrow! 🦅 so excited!

[uspol and autism] Okay but not even kidding, “Autism is caused by Tylenol and cured with folic acid” has some intense “We just spun a wheel of random words to fill in a Mad Lib” vibes.

Now that I think I’ve figured out how to purchase A Labubu through PopMart, I’m trying to decide if I want to wait for the series I like most to come back in stock or if I actually want to get one of the SkullPanda winter series boxes instead, because they look pretty nice and also I feel like […]

I have returned to trying to repurpose the midrange gaming desktop I built for the WoW: Legion expansion into a home media server, thoughts and prayers are welcome in this trying time.

Imagine thinking there’s actually a rise in autism and not just a rise in parents willing to listen to their autistic children and not bully them into conforming.

AW SHIT YEAH I CAN MUTE TABS IN IOS SAFARI NOW

One of my Millennial coworkers was staying late the other day to use Microsoft Office. I told him he should look into LibreOffice and his response was, “Is it legal?” I seem to have earned a reputation. (It’s the same coworker who once asked if I owned a “normal” TV.)

[uspol-related religious nonsense] As someone who worked in a mall book store just before Y2K and a used book store shortly after, I find it really amusing whenever Christians get all hopeful about the Rapture.

I’m not done with the weekend 😭

Anyone use a dedicated windows Fedi client they could recommend?

Spending my time leading up to #Monsterdon fucking around with Ubuntu Server, as is the way of my people.

Intense Flea Market Energy #fleamarketfinds #knockoffs

[Charles Entertainment Kirk] Wearing this in honor of Charlie Kirk today

It’s so weird watching everybody yell at Bluesky moderation as a Mastodon server admin, like you’re part of a co-op coffee house but you’re watching everyone scream at Starbucks.

Finally got this guy from Hasbro Pulse, one left to go! I am amused by how mean he looks in his box art when he’s actually just a soft boy who doesn’t understand time travel. He’s trying to look tough! #transformers #aerialbots #Toycollecting

I have returned from the mountains, where I consulted with the great mystics.

Alright Retro Pizza, I’m off on a birthday overnight camping trip! Poke @Meadhbh if anything catches fire. #rpadmin

Apropos of nothing at all, there’s a really helpful yt-dlp frontend called Stacher that makes it easy to download videos from YouTube and some other streaming sources for local backup. Works on Linux, MacOS, and Windows! https://stacher.io/

I am gonna fuck off into the mountains SO HARD tomorrow.

[car anxiety, personal] Had a scare last night when my low oil level warning wouldn’t clear after I topped it up. It normally takes exactly 15 minutes after you start the car for it to recheck and clear, but after 20 I ended up pulling into a gas station to check the dipstick. So I got to spend […]

Worth reading: Keep An Eye on What We Know (And Don’t) 15 September 2025 - TPM https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/keep-an-eye-on-what-we-know-and-dont In the current environment I think it’s fair to say there’s really no reason to believe anything we’re hearing from federal law enforcement […]

[uspol vaguepost] Welp, time to cancel Disney+ and just pirate whatever Marvel stuff I wanted.

HELP COMPUTER https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFHgMdHA44g

He is just a soft little guy. #catsofmastodon #FosterKittens #blackcat

I am pleased to see that Shockwhale still has a freaky mono-eye in Fucking Off Into the Sea mode. #transformers https://collider.com/transformers-shockwave-activate-your-alt-mode-video/

They are releasing a Studio Series (fancier collectable versions) Transformer of Soundwave, one of the most famous transformers And the toy itself looks kind of awesome and I'm tempted to pick it up But someone noticed something really funny about the back of […] [Original post on retro.pizza]

Do we have any #linguistics experts here on Mastodon? I have a dumb question. There are a lot of words that are antonyms, but I wonder how many of them have a singular point of origin. For instance, Michael Jackson's "Bad" sort of popularized the concept of "bad" being "good" or "cool", but I […]

Apple here vindicating my belief that I fucking rock at sleeping.

I do not care for AI but I’ve been wondering if I should create an account on X and set up something to post to it like a boring person with no controversial political opinions just in case some authority demands access to my social media accounts.

Gotta update all my Apples tonight

[negativity re: tech reporting] I am begging the media — tech reporters but even more so everyone else — to stop treating breathless PR hyperbole meant for an audience of the most gullible investors and no one else as “news”.

Despite everything going on, I suppose I can still giggle at my cat in one of these art scratchers.

well fucking off into the river is _eventually_ fucking off into the sea #Monsterdon #blacklagoon1954

All settled in and ready for #Monsterdon!

He’s so little and his eye is so big 😭 #transformers #toyphotography #blokees

Something truly special in this issue and an add-on that I don't think I've ever come across in any other magazine before until now. This is a feature on the Work Boy, an unreleased add-on for the Game Boy, which remains one of the more obscure items till this […] [Original post on retro.pizza]