Re: Paul, I have been doing some reading, and I have realized Christianity is almost entirely a Pauline invention. Paul himself wrote that James (Jesus's brother) and Peter (one of the twelve apostles) did not agree with him and only met him once, maybe twice. Paul never met Jesus in actual life.

(I can't reply to any of her posts? but yeah, god spare us all from such a fate)

claude code is fucking insane i know literally NOTHING about Hegel. ZERO. and it just built me a complete system of German idealism

very grateful to be one of the few people in a tech job that actually helps the world. on a day like today, it helps me keep going. (that, and posting)

Please stop asking the replicator for “bowls of human blood.” It’s not technically illegal but you’re really freaking people out

Who's ready for tomorrow?

It is deeply immoral that cashiers in the US are not allowed to sit.

this is truly the worst Sunday of the entire year. staring straight ahead into the bleak, yawning maul of three winter months unleavened by anything more festive than President's Day

some identify publicly with the left because they hate oppression, others because they hate being oppressed. things will make more sense when you keep in mind that these are not the same - or even similar

Private Follows for Bluesky: 1. Pin the feed below 2. Subscribe to this account 3. On the the page of accounts you want to follow, open up the "Report account" menu, select "Other", then "Private Follows", and hit "Submit report" 4. Watch their posts from that moment onwards appear on the feed!

Star Trek: Nemesis is the RC Cola of Star Trek movies

there are just so many neat little smart telescopes out there now (that I wish I could afford!) www.celestron.com/products/cel...

going to spend today finding out what the LD50 of video games is

I'm worried about parallels to Russia invading Ukraine. because of the whole conscription thing.

did we ever settle whether Wario is a libertarian?

has enough time passed yet that I could put my reactions about the Plur1bus season finale on the timeline?

I don't know who needs to hear this but there is a professional hockey league with lots of gay players!!! It's called the Professional Women's Hockey League And they could use your support! www.thepwhl.com/en/

I’m nervous about the capsule art for my game’s Steam page. How do you make art that accurately represents ur game and attracts your target audience? I think I am getting closer to having something that might work. Plz tell me ur impressions of it so far, as always it’s a work in progress! #gamedev

I think it would be neat if there were some kinda video game where every time you defeat something, you get points for it. then if your character literally becomes more powerful. but it'd never work. it'd just get easier to win more points as you go! the game would just get easier.

in Australia they have to turn the USB plug around one more time to get it to go in, because the USB socket is upside down

I have pulled off an astonishing move. I have completely broken an immutable Linux system.

getting up to go to the bathroom, and then waiting a few minutes so that you're not peeing at the precise moment it becomes 2026

on the basis of the evidence so far, i can conclude there will be no daylight in the new year, only eternal darkness

thinking of posting MORE

starting to think no one's just gonna bring me snacks out of the blue

last night on this boat the 7yo was trying to give a clue for "YouTube" and screamed "the opposite of Netflix!!!". I am still trying to recover today

Maybe instead of a New Year's resolution, I should post how I intend to become *worse* in 2026

It has calmed down at Portland ICE a lot. I hope that means fewer people imprisoned in the facility, but it does mean fewer people outside getting gassed and flashbanged.

surprised at the number of trucks that jake-brake on I-5 in the. middle of a residential district. (for reference, jake-braking is often at least 10 dB louder than a jackhammer.)

incidentally, i've found the discussion about people becoming "de-skilled" by AI tiresome. our brains don't simply stop working if we stop practicing a skill. we usually gain something else in its stead. there are many reasonable criticisms of AI available, but I don't think this is one of them.

me: i'm into some really perverse stuff hope you're ok with that haha 🙈 him: try me 😈 me:

Conditions are definitely *not* ideal (nearly full moon), but it's crystal clear outside, and ICE has finally deigned to turn off some of its floodlights, so I'm going to see if I can photograph something bright in the sky tonight

Just texted a friend "can you remind me when you're around tomorrow/overmorrow" and I just think if a few of us really gave it a try suuuper casually we could bring back this word for day after tomorrow next year

To me there's such an important needle to thread between valuing human craft and investing in human learning and skill but not reducing these arguments to beliefs like "people who can write code are better than people who can't"

my mutual told me Claude keeps eating his tokens so I asked how many tokens he has and he said he just goes to the API and gets more tokens so I said it sounds like he’s just feeding tokens to claude and then his software as a service started crying

playing Telltale's Expanse game

Give a try to a simplified Pacman race, that feels surprisingly deep. Get past 50 points? Share your screenshot for a follow! 🕹️ https://beep8.org #SoloDev #IndieDev #indiegame #IndieLove #IndieGameDev

oh my god it's like if a potato got gollum'd

I love this image. you get a real sense of what a "rubble pile" is. it's just a bunch of rocks that slowly coalesced into a heap in space. there's no solid strata. you could go there and just pick it apart by hand if you wanted.

so are Aubrey Plaza and Nakatomi Plaza siblings, or married?

The one single application on my computer that doesn't know about the back and forward buttons on the mouse is Slack. Given that Slack is an Electron app (and therefore based on a web browser), this is so incomprehensible to me! I literally try this daily and end up mildly frustrated.

"According to the most extreme form of this view the only way by which one could be sure that machine thinks is to be the machine and to feel oneself thinking. One could then describe these feelings to the world, but of course no one would be justified in taking any notice."

If like me you have a mental model that SQLite doesn't accept outside contributions you should update it, I just got called out by D. Richard Hipp for spreading that misinformation in a comment on Hacker News simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/29/...

I've decided to call this last week of the year the Weird Week

someone stop her she's making things again webcomic.studio