v2_final_final

snake eater era snake (naked?) was on my train tonight 🤔

graphemes. why’d it have to be graphemes?

Amtrak *please*

bet on your beliefs™

maybe it’s just me, but I find it really grim for folks to say “no one can dispute LLMs show signs of sentience” out one side of their mouth and “LLMs are useful tools for doing work” out the other

will I ever learn the lesson, “don’t work on things with a migraine”? only time will tell

need WALLOPS? no problem what’s that, this server only has not-quite-WALLOPS? (& this other one, but not the rest?) that’s fine, let’s get that sorted neatly so, how do other clients sort it? in the server buffer? alright that makes sense, it’s WALLOPS-esque. oh, wait, this one puts it in the […]

sometimes I do feel really pretty terrible at writing software then I use other software, and also feel like… you know, we’re all in this together

another day, another unnecessarily hostile GH interaction 🤷

it is okay to just not care for something without cobbling together a rationale for why it’s objectively bad actually

irc: when you send a message it’s necessary to append some metadata to it to relay it to other users; make sure messages you send are short enough to have the metadata appended me: oh, okay! and I can use this spec to check when that metadata changes? irc: that’s right me: ok great, will it let […]

RE: https://posts.rat.pictures/@hannah/116135248010986254 growing up in Palo Alto I learned the same things as a kid

looking a commit message “Polish reaction UI spacing…” and wondering if that’s where you put the side keys all at the end of the line

Relooted: a South African video game about taking back artifacts from colonialist museums https://www.theguardian.com/games/2026/feb/21/south-african-video-game-artefacts-western-museums

another Halloy release, another crop of bugs discovered shortly after 😅 😮‍💨 next release will have some major feature additions 😤 (in addition to QoL and fixes)

it’s dark and the bed is cozy what I would give for an album of lullabies by DMX

I have a feeling it’ll soon be time to prepare some more upstream contributions

i use goguma/halloy on the client side and ergochat on the server side. wasn't too fussy to set up although the server side especially is not very beginner-ircop-friendly

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@drdrang/116042829042083618 both readings work

every time I test the “machine that will eventually replace all knowledge workers (but not me)” I come away so thoroughly unimpressed that I can’t help but feel like most proponents just want an obsequious butler 🤷

hey check this out sfw]! [https://e-flesh.com/

I do feel like there are strong, self-defeating currents in the left where any sort of consideration for effective praxis is seen as an active harm & other strong, self-defeating currents that focus on the annoying rather than those in control of the levers of power I don’t know how to address […]

become ungovernable

if you think you might like Red Spectacles and have the opportunity to watch the 4K restoration, I recommend doing so

if you really think new sapients are about to be or potentially have been created, then it seems odd to focus on “people are mad at them (about the harms they’ve been enslaved to enact)” over the enslaving and the enacting harms parts unless what you’re […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

I'm sorry to see obituaries for Dr. Gladys West this morning: https://thezebra.org/2026/01/18/dr-gladys-west-mathematician-whose-work-made-gps-possible-dies-at-95/ She was brilliant and did a lot of incredibly important scientific work, a lot of which was hidden/uncredited early on, because she […]

✨ Apple Intelligence ✨

the latest, anime adaptation of ALL YOU NEED IS KILL is my favorite version of the story another banger from Studio 4°C

nono, it’s great, I just threw up a little bit in my mouth because I love it so much I want to feed it like a baby bird

XVII.—FAITH, HALF FAITH AND NO FAITH AT ALL. from Fables by Robert Louis Stevenson In the ancient days there went three men upon pilgrimage; one was a priest, and one was a virtuous person, and the third was an old rover with his axe. As they went, the priest spoke about the grounds of faith […]

originally decided to give this album a try because of the album art, wound up being one of my favorite albums of the year https://jamiepaige.bandcamp.com/album/constant-companions

important calls weren’t making it to the family phones so we finally updated to iOS 26 last night in the hopes that’ll fix things … had to “force quit” messages since the back button would just run an animation and do nothing else everything is slower or […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

making lists for ethical consumption is not my jam, but calling it a witch hunt has big“assassination coordinates” vibes

race “science” consists of lies and ineptitude, and the propensity of rats to entertain/embrace it is one of the (many) glaring indicators they should not be entrusted with hundreds of billions of dollars https://davidbessis.substack.com/p/twins-reared-apart-do-not-exist

The two hardest problems in Computer Science are: 1. Getting up in the morning 2. Going to bed at a reasonable time

my Darter Prp developed a spicy pillow mid December, and after I wasn’t able to convince System76 to let me replace the battery myself I was *sure* it wouldn’t be back before the new year @system76 got it back within a week, somehow fitting the repair in before the holidays glad I picked them […]

this was like watching ninja fail to slice bread, except in this case the consequences are distributed https://mastodon.de/@ErikUden/115773646542458622

was in bed with a migraine all day yesterday, so it was the perfect opportunity to return to & finish silksong (only 90% completion, but I think I got all the major endings) overall pretty enjoyable, wish it had more (and more challenging) platforming, but it’s not really about that

There are also so, so many great block pushers (each with its own twist, all available for free) in Hempuli’s Covemount series https://itch.io/c/4014684/tiny-block-pushers https://itch.io/c/4764095/tiny-block-pushers-2 https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@ravindra/115704109052964361

adding AI water use to my list of things I see way more people complaining that people complain about than I see people complaining about given that we’re still hearing about plastic recycling tech being cost ineffective, I’m guessing we’ll be hearing about AI water use being overblown for […]

the program I use to manage launchd services has a new update that lists a new “AI chat view” as its main (and nearly only) change do people who are super into AI want this? I was never eager for there to be a Google search box in an app like this, is that not roughly the same appeal? add in […]

In light of the PSF's recent loss of an NSF grant and attendant funding shortfall, I will be matching donations up to $5000. Send me your receipts. Very happy if you've already donated for similar reasons but the point is to motivate *new* donations so be sure the timestamp is after this toot 😉.

lots of people believe our system selects corporate leaders that are the most intelligent, strategic, ruthless but whenever it comes to how craven and unprincipled they are, there’s always a refrain of “you’d do it too if you were in their position” maybe, and maybe the system we’ve got […]

I take a perverse pleasure in learning the basic taste of most snobs you’re condescending about kpop demon hunters? let’s see… oh, you think the epitome of musical quality is *green day* 🤣

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US. 𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕. 𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.