What I really like is my doorbell. #doorsday #WindowFriday

It was yuuuge! Saw several helicopters and one drone flying overhead. The MC had good energy. The music was some good, some mediocre, the speakers were "what you would expect at an event like this". There was a heckler who tried to interrupt #MichelleWu's […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

Heading out for the 1st #nokings protest of the day in my town. Then bike to train station for #nokingsboston and 2nd protest of the day!

Happy 10/15/2025 to #nerds who enjoy number-sequenced dates. Woulda been better to do it at 5pm, or perhaps 5 minutes after midnight.

Couldn't decide which day to post this on #caturday #doorsday #WindowFriday

Being frustrated by the lack of concrete information about #nokings Boston on the 18th. #mass50501 still says "details coming"; #massachusettspeaceaction and #mobilize.us say BOTH noon-4 AND "time to be announced"; #swingbluealliance (who I've never heard of before) says 10-1. What time is a […]

Always leave room for the cat. #caturday

Love getting those phishing emails on Talk Like a Pirate Day! Arrr an' they're such TERRIBLE pirates!

@feoh Some time ago you recommended Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch. I got around to reading it, and I did enjoy it. I don't think I'm going to read nine more books and innumerable short stories though.

Today's work computer nightmare: whenever they did last night in the windows update broke dragon. So I'm using windows speech. Which is almost good enough, but has a fatal flaw. However, when I started it up, it said "windows speech is being phased out, would you like to try windows voice […]

Captured the end of the sunset. #silentsunday

Those fingers are mine! #caturday

On the prowl #caturday

Small local #protest on an overpass. https://www.mobilize.us/indivisiblemansfieldandbeyond/event/831909/ #Indivisible #indivisiblemansfield

It was way more impressive in person. #silentsunday

We recently had a visitor who is a veterinarian. He mentioned that somebody did a study of how cats lie down, and concluded that 75% of the time they lie on their left side. Now every time we look at a cat we say "it's lying on its left side" or "it's lying on […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

Coming in for a landing. #waterskiing

Went to a small #rageagainsttheregime thing in a nearby town. Best sign: "ice agents wear masks because their sheets are in the laundry"

New to me bike. This is kind of just a backup bike, because my current bike is working, though there's a lot of rust. I'm not going to switch to it right away, mostly because I just spent $300 on new brakes. The former owner had it for over 20 years (because […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

Me, today: https://www.gocomics.com/pluggers/2025/07/21

Put a zip lock bag of frozen ground turkey on the counter last night to defrost. Woke this morning to bag of thawed to ground turkey on the floor with little holes in it, and by weight, about 1 ounce missing. #caturday

Tenth protest I've attended since the start of the apocalypse. Went to a small thing in my town on the sidewalk in front of a little strip mall that's right at the freeway entrance/exit during the commute hour. Maybe 100 people? A little less? Not sure. Some people took pictures but not me […]

San Francisco's Ocean Beach #silentsunday

@feoh I use the hashtag variant rather than the CW variant when I post about topics, because you can block hashtags through the "filter" mechanism, and I find clicking through (twice, if there's an image) to be tedious. I have a number of random hashtags filtered because some people I follow […]

Rode my 1000th mile for the year today. #BikeTooter

I had an adventure today, getting a tour of my town's water system. https://nosrednayduj.dreamwidth.org/158146.html

It was very hot and the cat took advantage of the thermal mass of the tile floor to stay cool #caturday

I have been admiring several fine examples of this tree species recently as I bike around town. #silentsunday #bloomscrolling #BikeTooter

Want to do a puzzle? Must go through me! #caturday

via @fridaghitis #uspol #nokings #Indivisible

My housemate is turning 80 tomorrow. She is very happy that she never was the same age as Trump, who will turn 79 two days later. #uspol

@screwlisp Thought you would be interested in this. On the ex-Symbolics employees mailing list somebody posted a link to a "history of the Lisp machine". https://youtu.be/sV7C6Ezl35A?si=S4uh4-JXKC2_7lOR It's kind of long and so I didn't watch the whole thing, but just skipped around a little […]

Just chillin' #caturday #eyecontact

It's #PrideMonth and I'm celebrating by replacing my normal safety flag with a pride flag. Today there was a little celebration in town, to which I rode my bicycle. But on my way there I was passed by the "car parade" where about 10 cars had decorated […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

Posting from outside Boston MA. Latest weird bike errand: tomorrow is hazardous waste a day in my town, and a local friend had "a few things" and was hoping someone could add them to their own lot. Well, we definitely have some stuff that needs to go, so I said I would come get their stuff. Off […]

Posting from outside Boston MA. Latest weird bike errand: tomorrow is hazardous waste a day in my town, and a local friend had "a few things" and was hoping someone could add them to their own lot. Well, we definitely have some stuff that needs to go, so I said I would come get their stuff. Off […]

We have a plexiglass frame to reduce air and temperature flow between the floors in the house while letting in light. It's a bit tricky to access from the stairs but this one figured it out. Details on its construction, for those interested: https://olum.org/yduj/stairs/ #caturday

My housemate's UU church organized a very small protest yesterday. They plan to do this every Wednesday at 5 PM for an hour, perhaps with different themes. Don't know if I'm going to go every week. There were about 25 people there. Yesterday's theme was immigrants. I brought a Hands Off sign […]

With AI we can now directly write legacy code, skipping the annoying waiting period for no one who understands it being around anymore.

#silentsunday #bloomscrolling

Interesting smells, evidently #caturday

Today I saw an #amazon delivery van which claimed to be all #electric! So they suck 0.001% less, I guess.

Yesterday evening I signed up for Apple TV because I wanted to watch the #murderbot series which started today. Much to my surprise, the first episode was available yesterday, because I guess it was Friday somewhere! And then much to my continued surprise, after watching the first episode, it […]

It genuinely doesn’t matter how many technical skills I’ve learned. The skill I use the most is ‘writing clearly’. Being able to explain anything simply is more important to me than any degree of wizardry.

Anecdote from my partner: "I have just installed 96TB of disk space in an external enclosure on [work computer]. [coworker] wants it for storing astronomical images. The first time I installed a disk drive on a computer it was 48 years ago and the drive held 90kB. Today's storage is one billion […]

Forsythia all done after the rain. #silentsunday

We have a wildlife camera. Sometimes we get wildlife. #caturday #fishercat

New England has direct democracy for town government in many towns. Which means that anybody can go to town meeting where we decide on the budget and zoning laws and pretty much anything in the town. There are committees that figure out the important bits, and there's a board of selectmen and […]