I bought a second hand sub-light starship engine, from a fells called Scotty on eBay. It has full service history and I just couldn't resist. It was an Impulse purchase! 😁🖖

Coffee grounds at the bottom of my mug had an interesting pattern. #Photography

🎉 IT'S FINALLY HERE! Altbot now has a public API! Everyone kept asking, So i finally made it. Generate alt-text for your images programmatically, perfect for photographers, bloggers, and developers who upload lots of images. Pay what you can ($5 minimum) What you get: Unlimited API access […]

I love the flooring tile in the hallway of my building. Since 1954 it’s been buffed every Sunday: giving it the luster of deep time. I love that when they patched it near the elevator (where it was used most often) they could only find black tiles that didn’t […] [Original post on sauropods.win]

It's cold, foggy, and there's frost on everything. Gorgeously surreal. I vote that should be Saskatchewan's new tagline. "Gorgeously surreal" is way better than "land of living skies"

You’re colder Than the cables At the bottom Of the sea, But you couldn’t Take my fire from Me, as hard as You tried. #poetry

As an old ex-webdev, current luddite and general hater of anything that goes beyond HTML+CSS I am surely the wrong person for advising an artist on rebuilding their hacked website. Any suggestions for a luddite artist who wants to whack up a brochureware website? #askfedi #webdev

h/t @technihilism.bsky.social

'Eisige Zeiten' #FotoVorschlag 'icy times' Oh I have a couple of frosty photos, but this might be one of my best. I spent quite a while there to capture the cold feeling. Packed in multiple layers, I really spent quite a while around that spot in order to […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

I had a cool experience on Saturday night at MathsJam. Mike Borcherds had brought a pile of 3D-printed puzzles for people to play with; and I recognised one of the puzzles in the pile as one I had designed! (It was this one […]

I just learned about a cool historical black British person! John Edmondtone was born into slavery in British Guiana and learned taxidermy there. He came to Scotland and was freed, and set up a career as a taxidermist and taught at the University of Edinburgh to students including Charles Darwin […]

*sings* There is a crack, a crack in everything: that's how the ants get in!

I'm just walking a bit after I was hiking a local mountain. And this is really a #silentsunday photo for me. Winter has arrived 😊 #badtölz #tölzerland #bayern #sunset

I've had an idea! What if there was a CD player that you can carry around and that's completely battery powered to you don't have to plug it into anything to use it? You could even use it outside! Here's my prototype.

DOGE was created for data theft and infrastructure dismantling and it wildly succeeded on both counts within the first few weeks of its existence. It will take a generation to rebuild what it destroyed and the breach of data is unprecedented.

'CO2-Emission' #FotoVorschlag

Office Hours, 8pm Amsterdam time, 56min from now. Our weekly open call to talk about getting out of where you are or what's up in the trans migration world. Come for help or just to be with others leaving. Join here: https://meet.google.com/fez-emmc-ryy @lgbtqia @[email protected] @lgbt […]

So. Plotters. You know, those printers that hold a pen and follow an SVG? Ten years ago I tried to convert a DIY laser cutting rig to do plotting and it didn't work out. I then tried one of the ones that draws on the wall with string and never could get it correctly tuned. After all this time […]

I’m just borrowing These bones From the stars. Come then, fire, To claim them Back. #poetry

Crazy story by David Covucci over at FOIAball detailing efforts by UCLA to funnel NIL payments through a 501c3. https://www.foiaball.com/p/ucla-nil-collective-bruins-for-life-charity-donations-shelter-37

Read this to see just what pseudoscientific garbage the Washington Post Editorial Board cited approvingly today. Disgraceful. https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:m65ifh7vn5zdgs7izcmht4gy/post/3m63opr4dfs24

I'm proud that my Senator Mark Warner (D-Va) is consistently one of the smartest voices on cybersecurity in Congress. Warner took to the Senate floor today to warn about political purges at the FBI, and the apparent collapse of U.S. cyber defenses under this administration. "I intend to […]

if your company sets a `Content-Security-Policy` header: who's in charge of deciding what it should be? (someone in security? someone who works on the frontend? other? multiple people?) https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Guides/CSP

“The chemotherapy made the cancer go away, but the patient still caught a cold sometime. So we should make it much harder to get chemo meds.” This war on medicine that can really really work is just so infuriating, and fundamentally sadistic.

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At the end of the board meeting for our local school district, the president of the Salt Lake City Board of Education commemorated Transgender Awareness Week by reaffirming the district's commitment to policies that recognize and protect trans students, even in the face of hostility from state […]

Had a blast hanging with Marcus Koh today. He taught me this #yoyo trick.

We are the Sum of what Remains with us After the storm. #poetry

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@0xabad1dea/115572086526058545 I keep saying it, but there's an anti-intellectualism that's deeply rooted in techbro culture, and that's escaping containment. Just because coding interviewers misuse CS concepts to gatekeep people doesn't mean those concepts are […]

A federal judge issues a preliminary injunction requiring certain public school districts in Texas to remove Ten Commandments displays. https://www.au.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Cribbs-Ringer-v.-Comal-ISD-TRO-11.18.25.pdf

a small delight in my week is the utter insanity that is dancing with the stars, and tonight is prince night (?!?!?) please please let robert irwin dance to something ridiculous. (no spoiler replies please; can’t watch until later tonight well after it airs on the east coast)

Cloudflare just put up a blog post on today's incident. https://blog.cloudflare.com/18-november-2025-outage/

Chatting with a friend about Cloudflare's intermittent outages today, they brought up an interesting point: How many organizations have started relying on Cloudflare to do basic security blocking and tackling stuff, like stopping SQL injection attacks at the edge? Maybe your devs were lazy at […]

The Class X mnestic drug is a failed eternal youth serum. #page42 2nd sentence There Is No Antimemetic Division by qntm

Random Non-Controversial Take: I don't think agreeing with or liking other staff members is a prerequisite for working and collaborating with them. If we worried about whether we liked the people running other servers, rather than if they meet our minimum moderation requirements, it'd be hard […]

Wizard Zines is doing another Big Zine Sale again this year on Friday, November 28th! One day only. here’s a google calendar link for the duration of the sale if you want a reminder: https://wzrd.page/cal (or an ICS link: https://wzrd.page/cal.ics)

So @alblune.bsky.social are soliciting more rodent pet pictures to include in the next update to #squeakross. Which means that for the next month or however long, my Discord notifications are going to be full of photos that make me go "AWWW THE PRECIOUS LITTLE ANGEL" or chortle about little […]

Yay! The book copies of Tiny Moments of Joy by @georgepenney arrived today! I've been reading my ebook copy some each day but it is nice to have in physical form too. (I figure that after I've read all the way through once I'll switch to opening to a random […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

"The Bruce" is a remarkable little Natural History and Art museum in Greenwich, CT. If AMNH is a five course meal, with three course dessert with brunch the next day. The Bruce is a bent box. Delightful, not overwhelming and a perfect day trip from the city […] [Original post on sauropods.win]

THIS IS IT. THIS IS THE ONE. FOLLOW THE LEAD OF THE SURVIVORS ALWAYS. Help make this go viral. Please.

Heads up, There Is No Antimemetics Division is a LOT tighter and better in the new published version and the audio edition is incredible

Look, I try to be an understanding person. I do my best to treat all people with the respect they deserve. But people who name their 'makefiles' without a capital M? 😬

Hey, #admins! Along with a grad student, I am working on a paper the surveys Mastodon (and forks -- Hometown, Glitch) servers that have some connection to #canada. We have done a lot of digging and have found ~40 instances that have some connection to Canada. We presented our work recently […]

My students were doing a project where they had to write how they would spend a million dollars in French. "Mrs. * how much does a big mansion cost?" "Where is it?" "In NYC." "Ten million dollars." (grumbling disappointed sounds) "What about in a normal city?" "In a suburb? I guess like half a […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Edent/111414483049817604 If you (or a friend) like weird maps - I have some for sale!

RE: https://mstdn.social/@spaf/115551629326079338 Left picture: A faked picture of a beautiful, tanned, young blonde woman smiling broadly Titled: This is your A. i. girlfriend Right picture: A mish-mashed stack of computer related hardware. Titled: This is your A. I. girlfriend without makeup

I'm really excited for the GabeCube, even if I don't actually get one. When the Steam Deck came out, all of a sudden there was a huge incentive for AAA studios to start finding bugs that affected Linux/Proton use, plus a huge new push for community-driven hacks to make things like FFXIV work […]

This is a screenshot from tumblr but it has come up in my life more often than you might think. #nofun #funpolice #ftp #ftfp

finished reading Bookshops & Bonedust 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑 by Travis Baldree. A worthy prequel to Legends & Lattes. New friends come together to reinvigorate a bookshop, with a couple of baddies dealt with along the way. Loved Satchel the animated skeleton. Moist! #bookreview #books #bookstodon #SFF #fantasy#sff[…]