The quieter times

So devout. Using the "Religion of Peace" to reign Hell upon a people. Which flavor(s) of christianity finds this acceptable? Ehhh...about 33% according to the polling.

Read our statement on today’s executive order limiting vote by mail. #orpol

Yet another step forward for the autocrat. My faith in the Supreme Court is less than solid. Something to watch, for sure.

A question for the PPC Folk: I did a search looking for the existing law about illegal aliens voting in the US and got the following sponsored link. Note the headline. When you click through, note the headline. Almost exact opposites. Is this something common in PPC?

NGL, I have been singing Mama's Pound Cake for what my wife would refer to as "An Annoying Ass Time." This is going to be my Vegas spirit animal this weekend. www.npr.org/2026/03/19/n...

There is so much to like in this article. Very, very insightful at a time when insightfulness takes a backstage to productivity.

Imagination Library, an initiative launched by superstar Dolly Parton, recently mailed its 4 millionth book to an Oregon child. https://www.oregonlive.com/education/2026/03/dolly-parton-led-program-has-mailed-4-million-free-books-to-oregon-children.html 

People should be able to trust that elected officials are working in the public interest, not trying to line their own pockets. That's why I wrote a bill to ban elected officials from using prediction markets--and why I've fought for years to ban Congressional stock trading.

things every single republican president of your lifetime has done - started a war in the middle east - completely destroyed the economy

I live in Minnesota and I want the federal government to stop trying to kill us. And hurt us. I want them to stop attacking us. It sucks. We’re just trying to live our lives and take care of each other and we don’t deserve all this. I kid around sometimes here but I’m not kidding now.

Well this is a truth bomb.

Accountability for literal royalty in the UK. Meanwhile our president and attorney general are protecting ultra-rich pedophiles instead of bringing them to justice

lol this is gonna burst so fucking hard

We have a fun new tradition when the cold and dark are getting to you: Hawaii Night! We try to make fun, "traditional" food, where some colorful island clothing, and listen to some good slide guitar an pretty melodies. Houli Houli chicken, short ribs, mac salad, monkey-pod Mai Thai's, and Masubi.

Supporters of deposed Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro march in Caracas to demand his release. Venezuela's state petroleum firm says it is negotiating the sale of crude oil to the United States, following Washington's demand for access to the country's reserves after ousting its president

There is no way this is the best timeline. This doesn't appear to be a spoof. 1984: War is Peace! 2026: Hold my oil tanker. www.whitehouse.gov/j6/

The Broncos have the No. 1 seed, officially.

A thought for today. And for so many of our days. Sadly. “Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back." ― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World

Had a great thanksgiving with the fam and friends. Sometimes it's tough to let the noise from the outside world drive your emotions and motivation. I was thankful that it was a weekend where I thought about little except the ones around me and the waves I was surfing.

When you drink Deschutes "Mirror Pond Pale Ale" this is "Mirror Pond"

Consistency is the biggest technical SEO factor.

RIP Prunella Scales - Sybil Fawlty in one of my top 3 comedies of all time, "Fawlty Towers."

Had an SEO nightmare come to life : client had their email person change all the title & description tags because Shopify's SEO app "scored" them as low. I don't use a focus keyword and I don't follow arbitrary character counts but use pixel width. What did they change them to? The product name.

'It's going to be really bad': Fears over AI bubble bursting grow in Silicon Valley www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... - luckily, all my money is safely invested in jpegs of monkeys, and tulip bulbs.

Galaxy rise narrated by Carl Sagan.

I don't want to be negative so I have run out of things to post that are pithy or insightful. To be fair, those tanks have been on empty for a bit. So. Teriyaki BBQ Chicken with rice, cucumber, soy cured egg, and baked asparagus.

“.. His conclusion is very stark: not just that an economy already at stall speed will fall into recession as both the data-center and wealth effects plateau, but that they’ll reverse, just as in the dot-com bubble did ..” @marketwatch.com www.marketwatch.com/story/the-ai...

Trump is launching an authoritarian takeover of Portland hoping to provoke conflict in my hometown. I urge Oregonians to reject Trump’s attempt to incite violence in what we know is a vibrant and peaceful city. I will do everything in my power to protect the people in our state.

Pritzker: "I refuse to pretend that any of this is normal ... I refuse to fall into the pundit trap that demands we sacrifice vital constitutional rights if it's being done in the fake guise of fighting crime."

Those who base their life on bullshit tend to believe other bullshit more easily.

Subtle.

Imagine if they’d had sandwiches. 🥪

For 20 years Mozilla has developed one of the most useful tools for web devs. developer.mozilla.org/en-US/blog/m... Congrats to the MDN team on an awesome milestone. I'm happy that we've played a small part in its history and I'm excited to see it continue to be at the core of every web dev's job.

AI Overviews and AI Mode frequently show the wrong international version of a page, if the content is written in the same language (eg US/UK/AU/IN English) This is true even when hreflang is set up correctly. IMO, using a pop-up country selector is more important than ever.

Another best practice turns out to be more important in the age of AI.

this is … honestly not the worst way to teach history

I find when I am having to fix a script or modify it for new functionality that I often review my code and wonder who wrote it. I rarely remember my own thought processes and commenting my own code would be too akin to talking to myself. I generally just leave comments insulting my future me.

The quieter times.

Adventures of The CO (Central Oregon[opposite of The OC]) photos.app.goo.gl/7bo8frP7KG43... Hole in the Ground - oregondiscovery.com/hole-in-the-... A little off-trail, but incredible views and geological awesomeness.

I know I am late on this article, but this is some fantastic data about AIO's. Patrick Stox always delivers some of the best insight in the biz! ahrefs.com/blog/insight...

Cloudflare CEO Sounds the FIRE Alarm: AI Is Breaking the Web’s Economy! Search Is Broken! – Search Engine World

When was the last time a state governor in the US has had to do a video to tell the federal government "You can't arrest me, I haven't done anything illegal?" We will continue to sleepwalk out of our republic and into a dictatorship unless we wake up. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIjg...

Say it after me: Chat GPT is not a search engine. It does not scan the web for information, it just generates statistically likely sentences. You cannot use it a search engine, or as a substitute for searching. Now. Please never use an LLM for information searches ever again.

He will always be my huckleberry.

I wish people hated fascism half as much as they hate feminism

I am certain I am being trolled when trying to generate a specific image in AI. Gemini, do you know what a sploof is? Totes Can you make an image of it? Nailed it.