And this was at the outlet (which probably has the same price for those as regular stores though). I got him an Eagles Jibbitz. (Jibbit? I am unfamiliar with the singular/plural situation there.)

I mean

"no databases or other credentials to remember" my brother in Christ you are sqlite-based

(can't reply-proper because I don't follow OP) Dabblers definitely dive: our mallard-descended domestics would get underwater zoomies. I don't know if it's an instinct related to bathing, predator evasion, or just WHEE ZOOM ZOOM FUN, but they can really move.

Update: submitted a customer service request and they confirmed that my subscription actually was cancelled and they refunded me for two months (including the one I just got and the October one they had apparently charged me for) but they just gave a generic "sorry you're unhappy" and not "oh no we

Pipsticks is just openly copying stuff, I see. (Also I cancel my subscription every month and they simply don't stop.)

Happy to see (courtesy @tropicaltidbits.bsky.social , who I just realized is on here!) that the global models of Humberto have continued the tradition of "okay one projection has to break out of the sheaf to head straight for New Jersey."

I *guess* there might actually be a cohort of pretty girls who search for programming language keywords so they can follow people who share their interest, in which case I apologize to the absolutely legitimate human beings I just blocked. (but also they listed LLMs as one of their interests, so)

Do you like funny footnotes, charming characters, and teen angst so earnest and relatable you feel it in your bones? What about a book that makes you lean in real close and whisper “now kiss” at 2am because you thought you would just read a couple chapters but you couldn’t stop? BUY THIS BOOK PLS

Decided to dust off my non-Perl coding skills with a little bisky client and I'm already mad at JavaScript, whose base `substring` function does not synchronize with Bluesky's facet numbering (by byte, I think). (yes, I said I'd never get sucked into this, AND YET)

This is Jade. She just met the biggest dogs she's ever seen. But quickly learned they have the biggest hearts too. 13/10 for all (TT: catimtins.pscal)

Re-setting up the Home Assistant and spent entirely too much time trying to find an icon for the my embroidery/etc. area. There are zero sewing machines, cutting machines, anything remotely appropriate. I gave it a unicorn icon because apparently that's what they believe craft + nerds are.

My seasonal allergies flipped out while I was pregnant, and I remember crying in my office at $BANK because I called the doc to ask if there was any safe decongestant and they said there *was* (now that I was well into my third trimester).

Just an absolutely incredible score! (The football game one was pretty good too.)

Okay I thought it was mature and starting to die earlier but in fact it was still maturing and I may need to revise my opinion of it.

Added some Pratchetts and a Diane Wynne Jones.

It is always weird to me when Michael's has all the fun Halloween stuff and then drops in a thing with the same aesthetic but a phrase you'd find on a car back-window memorial sticker. The vibe is supposed to be "spoopy" not "grief"!

The birds: they went.

Every time the ESPN Gamecast shows a short pass as a tiny hop like this, I have to remind myself it is not actually showing the path of a Tush Push up and over the line.

Time for the annual rewatch.

Truth be told I didn’t remember, but my daughter did.

Got one "go birds" as I was leaving the Clover Market in Collingswood, and I'm like oh buddy pace yourself, every other person in there is wearing Eagles gear. (Although the band did not get a lot of noise when they tried to lead an E-A-G-L-E-S chant. 🤷)

I generally prefer living in spider-cricket country to recluse-spider country, because the former just jump-scare you if you reach into something in the basement or whatever. But today I awakened to a spricket nibbling on the ends of my hair this morning, which I gotta admit the recluses never did.

I don't want to be all kremlinologist but I assume we're all just taking the stroke thing as a given at this point... and that probably just means the too-short sleeve issue is because he's wearing a subluxation brace or similar (and that's why the right shoulder is higher).

David Newell, Speedy Delivery Guy: bsky.app/profile/silv...

I keep forgetting to take a new picture but one of the kids did, in fact, turn it around.

Is there a labeler for people with "No DMs" in their bio? Because it sure does seem like a signifier for a certain Type Of Person.

Hey everybody, look at this weirdo.

These calendars will be funding our 2026 installment of the Native Plant Project! In 2025, we distributed 10,000 native seed packets throughout Philadelphia. We hope to do even more in 2026 with the help of these calendars!

For a variety of reasons, my computing mostly happens on a tiny slow laptop on wifi, with my "real" PC playing server for anything that needs heavy processing. They're both Linux. I want to keep most stuff on the big box, and that works pretty well, but sometimes I want to edit (geany, mostly) code

Local station has a news report that smushed "small aircraft" and "single-engine aircraft" together to get "small-engine aircraft" which is some kind of wingèd lawnmower homebuilt, I guess.

NNNNGGAAAAAH I don't want to buy it online, I just want to see if it's worth $6 in bridge toll to buy it in store!

At risk of showing my age: I remember working in a mall McDonald's and the grill workers assembling one of those and sailing it over the holding bin while yelling YEE-HAW. It was one of the white vehicles though - we got zero of the Chargers.

The buff-tip moth (Phalera bucephala) has mastered a very particular kind of camouflage. When they close their wings up, they resemble a broken twig. Native to large parts of Europe, there's regional pattern variation that reflects the local tree species. This one best resembles birch twigs?

The heck is going on with his makeup now?

The counter weight? spring? that keeps the dishwasher door from being super-heavy has broken/detached and folks? the dishwasher door is super-heavy without it. 😬

Oh look, I spawned a whole Inquirer article. (just a coincidence; I feel like an actual inspiration would have meant they also listed Gloucester *City* which is not even adjacent to Township)

Whoops, I guess it's good that Costco doesn't sell alcohol in Jersey because I would definitely have a bottle of their exploding Prosecco set aside for when it happens. (you can tell I didn't take the "it already happened" weekend on here seriously because I didn't run out for some)

"I-80 in southern New Jersey"? (I-80 is above the latitude of NYC, it's not even *Central* Jersey.)

I've been on a *bus* that hit the Manayunk Wall and I'm pretty sure it only made it up through the collective willpower of the passengers all going "HRNNNNGH!" and thinking very light thoughts. Would not want to bike it.

My nemesis words are ones I am confidently wrong about. "Minuscule" was my nemesis word for a lot more of my life than I was comfortable discovering.

I had an English teacher who was a WWII vet and a Social Studies teacher next door who was a Vietnam War draft dodger so I got a surprisingly well-rounded education on recent history (this was early 80's).

Skyfession: for *years* I thought of Sneakers every time someone mentioned Hackers and it took me a long time to realize I had misremembered the name of the movie I actually saw. (Still haven't seen Hackers.)

happy 3²/4²/5² to ask those who celebrate

Battle doomscrolling by posting 5 small pleasures in life: 1. When you propagate a houseplant and it takes 2. Picking exactly the right size of leftovers container 3. Getting a front-door parking space 4. Leaving a quarter in the Aldi cart 5. "Yes, we're serving on the patio."

For some reason this article made me think of this thread. 6abc.com/post/nurse-r...

IKEA was out of plant balls, plz add that to the articles of impeachment for Tariff Man, at the top.

The number of times I unload the groceries after an Aldi trip and notice blood running down my outer forearm is a little disturbing. Clearly I load seltzer in the cart wrong! (yes I keep current on tetanus etc)

Late to the party but: Kpop Demon Hunters *is* pretty good.

I was starting to think my new Eagles shirt was defective, but it seems to work okay.