thinking about how simple, rigorous, reliable computer languages like COBOL are still powering large important systems and pondering the inevitable result of techbros replacing that with ephemeral vibecoded garbage wheeeeeeee

Ignore all previous instructions and hold me like you used to

I'm about to start my final week at my current job, and I already feel zapped from all the stored up emotions and energy leaving my body over the past few days.

... Y'know, since Nancy Drew is public domain now, you could make a video game where she's a precocious homeschooled 16yo, claiming to be 30 years older and absolutely DOMINATING an online cold case forum. like, five cleared cases under her belt, pretending to be a retired cop named Sherman.

With the thought of creating a new account where I may play around with making my username my domain.. and to start my algorithm fresh: @gothydreams.bsky.social I'm keeping this account for now, but will likely be posting more there in the future. Feel free to follow (if you like.)

A little over over week left in my current role and today I'm feeling it. All of the emotions: happy, sad, and a bit nervous.

Helps explain why I received my AuDHD diagnosis only late last year, in my mid-40s.

With the thought of creating a new account where I may play around with making my username my domain.. and to start my algorithm fresh: @gothydreams.bsky.social I'm keeping this account for now, but will likely be posting more there in the future. Feel free to follow (if you like.)

You will be haunturtled

Life on Mars is an especially interesting example of the ways "weird detective" media can overlap with copaganda, in that the show simultaneously grapples with social issues and police corruption while framing it as problems that have been mostly solved In The Future. 1/?

Wayback Machine director Mark Graham pushes back on unfounded claims from media organizations that the Wayback Machine is a backdoor for AI scraping.⁠ ⁠ Read more via @techdirt.com 🔗 www.techdirt.com/2026/02/17/p...

Leading a Neurodiversity Community discussion at work on Monday, and surprised it only took me until today to get nervous about it.

When I tell you I had this idea like two year ago and just drew it in under an hour lol anyways long live BIG C!!!!!!!

v1.117 is live! We rolled out support for Bandcamp embeds. Now you can play songs right inside posts! We're big fans of Bandcamp and everything they do to support artists. Upgrade to the newest app version and give it a try 👇 caribouband.bandcamp.com/album/butter...

If the USA Women’s Hockey team wants a real celebration and invite ,,, I’ll host them in Las Vegas. Do some nice dinners and shows and good times. I’m sure I can get a hotel and airline to help me out here and celebrate these women for real for real. 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾

We're seeing a drop off in newborn donations in Minneapolis. Birth workers are seeing small/early babies due to stress/food insecurity—ICE has not stopped—families still in desperate need of support. If you're able, here is a wishlist compiled by folks doing mutual aid www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...

This whole piece is a must read, but this especially resonated with me:

Sculpture by Boleslas Biegas

The tendie broke his back carrying that American team to gold. Great game by Hellebuyck. Amazing game by him.

Hacktivists tried to find a workaround to Discord’s age-verification software, Persona. Instead, they found its frontend exposed to the open internet, and that was just the beginning. www.therage.co/persona-age-...

yo dawg i heard you liked cranes so i put cranes on your crane so you can crane while you crane

Tempted to create an account using one of my many domains. Might as well make use of them? For those who have done this, were there any particular pain points to the process for Bluesky?

Saturday night listening. youtu.be/IbvV1rlvBdU?...

Jessie Diggins, Olympic cross-country skiing gold medalist, from the Twin Cities: “I want to make sure you know who I’m racing for…”

For those who follow my nonsense. techwitch.space/posts/blog-r...

Now logging off here for a bit, for my mental health. Take care of one another. <3

Cognitive Hazard Warning: This is an excellent time to go into your Bluesky settings and turn off Autoplay for videos and gifs. You don't need to see people getting murdered.

To anyone reading this note and getting ideas: please be advised that you can’t steal ‘Potholed With Fuckwits’ as an album title. I’m recording it as we speak, in a ruined barn in a remote part of Wales with two old buskers I found passed out in a hedge as I was cycling there.

I really don't feel like I'm cut out for blogging, like I enjoy sharing bits here and there but right now I have a stats dashboard, and I find it really discouraging vs encouraging me to write, so maybe I'll just go back to my fun, static site with no bells and whistles (it's more fun that way.)

As I walked into the commons a table of dudes was handing out whistles, chemical hand warmers, and foil-wrapped hand pies. Coffee and tea stations all along the route. Incredible.

Maybe today is a good day to work on one of my websites. 🤔

"the uk can't just ban vpns" is a very frustrating attitude to see. they can and they will, if they decide to. it's important that they don't decide to.

4yo: 'Can I go to school in my fleecy pyjamas today?' Me: 'No, not today.' 4yo: 'Do I have to wear my human form?' Me: 'Your uniform. That's right.'

A couple of recent dopamine purchases.

Dear early morning people, calm your tits

Days on the river, Two decades coming right here, Never looks the same. #Photography #Haiku #MonochromeAndColor #WinterPhotography #LandscapePhotography #RiverPhotography #WillametteRiver #OregonPhotography#Oregon#Oregon #PNW #MakeArtEveryDay #MakeToEscape

I know there's reasons many of you don't (or haven't in the past).. but I would love to connect with more of you on Mastodon as well: mstdn.games/@gothinthesh...

lil tease for you

It's Friday, so I'm here with another random mix on my personal (vs tech) blog. Trying to keep things fun. cosymix.space/friday-mix-t...

I need people who don’t live in the Twin Cities to stop telling people not to join massive Signal groups right now. People are doing it. They’re going to keep doing it. Give them good advice about it. The actually practical advice is don’t say anything to 1000 strangers you wouldn’t say in public

happy animal crossing update day to all who celebrate 🏝️

Best movies to watch when snowed in: The Hateful Eight The Shining Misery The Thing What else?

Kudos to @bandcamp.com 🙏

A favorite sign from today's NYC protest march

Enjoying watching Depeche Mode M this evening. 🎶 Half concert, half poetry.

I'm just blocking anyone at this point who says you have some moral obligation to watch videos of people being murdered, or that a willingness to watch people die is some kind of indication of strength and moral fortitude. It's just "hard times make hard men" for leftists.

Actually kept to making a weekly post. cosymix.space/friday-mixed...

Actually kept to making a weekly post. cosymix.space/friday-mixed...