new word: æffect cause I'm tired of looking up which is the right to use.

Blankets to protect the dark inside you.

If you are in the uk and would like a trans pride flag but can’t afford to buy one, come chat to me. I have some to give away.

iris tenax

under the ivy

There are over 18,000 types of lichen in existence. My personal favourite is ‘village bench lichen’, which devotes its entire existence selflessly to gradually making communal public seating more furry and comfortabl

US FIFA more like US FAFO

Excellent #womeninstem

Do I have "an air about" me, or am I just neurodivegent?

Getting a new security engineering function setup and running within a company is certainly challenging. After the work I'm going through setting this team up, I'm beginning to feel maybe engineering management is more of my calling tbh. We'll see.

Channeling a bit of Mclusky today, "Everywhere I look is a darkness.." 🤘 youtu.be/PJUs--OlPiM?...

Well this is terrible.

"The Ghost in the Shell" anime series by Science Saru is coming on July 7 (Prime Video). New trailer >> www.youtube.com/watch?v=yedJ...

Just purchased a new fitness watch. Am I going to turn into a fitness goth? Probably not, but stranger things have happened.

only today left to get your bids in! ofc you can still give money to folks in Minneapolis whenever you want, but this is the only time you can do it AND get an original stained glass panel from me (unless I do this again...?)

Don't forget to wish your motherboard happy mothers day today

You are not alone

I've been away so long, I feel like I'm getting reacquainted with those in my timeline (sorry!)

One of my sister’s goats just delivered her first of two babies! This guy is Han Solo and he’s the cutest thing I have ever seen. Lookit those ears!

Into the woods 🎶

I'm feeling like there's going to be very vampire Summer vibes this year.

Who wants a stupid stop motion Lego Star Wars thing I made? :) Av it…

Kiddo came home from the Mayday Parade in Minneapolis: (Holding sunflower sunglasses up for me to see) “I got these from Anarchists!” 🤣💕 This kid is going to be a riot when she grows up.

You're not longing for the 90s, you just want to solve mysteries while having sexual tension with Gillian Andersen. It's a universal feeling.

The new role has been zapping all my free energy, so apologies if I've been a bit quiet!

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.

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.

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?...