The only thing better than having a bird's nest immediately above my desk window would be having a bird's nest immediately below my desk window

I had an interview Friday where I called out a need for role-based access control in the first five minutes, the interviewer said "we'll come back to that" then came back to it in the last five minutes. We talked about it hurriedly. Downchecked because "I needed excessive prompting about RBAC". 🫠

this is actually a good reminder that you should delete the tracking nonsense off of any url that you share online. just delete everything after the ? (including the question mark) and share like you usually would

tbh a lot of you make me feel this way

well I am straight up crying at noon on a Saturday

Conversation at the beach: BLACK WOMAN: Now that’s how you cook! A little of this, a little of that, that looks interesting, then add seasonings until the ancestors tell you to stop. WHITE WOMAN: Unfortunately my ancestors were also white.

I love that they are both drawn using the animation style that uses their glasses for expression instead of their eyebrows

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Commentary: I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake

(A) incredible and (B) an excuse to post this

pivot-to-ai.com/2026/06/03/r... a source for people who like that kind of thing

The Fred Rogers Production has started uploading every episode of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood for free. www.youtube.com/@misterroger...

The other night we were taking bins out to the curb and a large dog on a walk went WOOF WOOF WOOF and the attendant human said "oh, hush, you know you aren't fierce" in the most dismissive tone ever

Happy Pride Month. If you're a gay man, please remember your power. People often think that gay men are innately fashionable, which means if you wear some stupid shit for long enough, straight people, including homophobes, will copy you and then you can laugh at them.

Happy Pride. Angry Pride. Tired Pride. Sorrowful Pride. Joyous Pride. Restful Pride. Mirthful Pride. Satisfied Pride. Spiteful Pride. Proud Pride. 🏳️‍🌈🪿🏳️‍🌈

logistics is one of those things that foolish people think are deeply uninteresting and unnecessary, insightful people understand are critically important, and *some* people (not just ND, either!) find intensely fascinating, and I am glad to both be and be involved with someone in that last category

A friend of mine who was TA’ing for an AmLit course found a copy of Moby Dick a student had left behind. It had only one marginal annotation, around page 100, that simply said “whale is important.”

bad back safe ways to sit down

doesn't look like the curator, bryan braun, is on here but i wanted to shout out their "let's get creative" collection of free kid + adult friendly creativity apps, which i found because it includes make8bitart.com!

YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK

A big ol' solitary bee hitched a ride inside on my sock this morning. Me: why leg tickling Bee: climb large friend? Me: perhaps go back outside? Bee: OH FUCK I'M NOT OUTSIDE PANIC *flips upside down* Me: *scoops bee up on an envelope* Bee: oh good the 10:03 to Outside *settles down*

I don't ask search engines for answers. I ask them for LINKS to answers. I'm okay with the link list being curated by algorithmic relevance (assuming [HAH] no malice in the algorithm's design) but I do NOT want the results digested and summarized for me. tl;dr - I guess I'm done Googling stuff.

Radiant Star (latest in the Imperial Radch universe by @annleckie.com) was an utter delight to read. Fascinating cultures written with a curious and compassionate eye, a rousing romp of a plot, serious feelings about Expectations and Belonging and Betrayal. www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/ann-l...

you crack open an unusually large acorn and these guys all come tumbling out

I don't think I ever posted one of my most viral Sailor Moon comics here

Researchers Find Crows Smart Enough Not To Let On How Smart They Really Are https://theonion.com/researchers-find-crows-smart-enough-not-to-let-on-how-s-1844081510/

I don't even go here and can't stop laughing.

It exists! I interviewed backup dancers, producers, the costume designer, the song’s producers who granted the rights, and so many more who were involved: web.archive.org/web/20240227...

i love pigeons 🖤🖤🖤 this bumper sticker will be available later this month!

nine glorious years of ALWAYS REBLOG

some🗑️❤️‍🔥inspo❤️‍🔥🗑️for you:

the system fonts are very slightly different after the most recent OS upgrade and I am afraid I will be Discombobulated and Upset about it for the foreseeable future

this grumpy old fellow absolutely wants you to bring him several macguffins from difficult places all over the map and will turn out to be the secret superboss if you do an inconvenient quest with one of them before you return it

Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.

the degree to which it is simply easier to talk to people who have been professionally trained in the same traditions and practices as you have, because you have aligned expectations, share language, and make the same thousand-yard stare when certain topics come up

Norman would like to remind you that today is International Crow and Raven Appreciation Day. As is every day, really. #crows

Mine used to be ‘rhythm’ until a fellow sex blogger told me: Rhythm Helps Your Two Hips Move and now BAM I can do it.

this is very good and I am feeling a number of these things about The Tech Industry this week specifically

It's like a bingo card for things that my body doesn't do like it should

hanging out on the porch during an afternoon thunderstorm, listening to thunder roll across the sky and watching a big ol mason bee meander around looking like someone dragged the scale slider up on the body component without doing the same for the wing components

Let me Bigolas Dickolas this: go play it. right now. don't read anything about it. You insist on reading something about it? Ok. It's Blaseball meets Undertale as a roguelite Candy Crush with amazing EGA graphics and more narrative than you can shake a stick at, your stick-shake capacity depending.

On this day in 2019, I witnessed one of the coolest things ever. A lenticular cloud lit-up by a setting sun over the Perito Morena Glacier in Argentina.

I didn't know Dethklok's Nathan Explosion worked at a computer repair place but it doesn't really surprise me

this is more or less how I found one of my best and most beloved friend groups

Bigolas Dickolas 1:1-5, from the This Is How You Lose The Time War apocrypha

"what percentile in your high school were you ranked in math? provide documentation" is, at best, a strange question to be asking for a senior engineering manager role requiring at least ten years technical management experience and a bachelors' degree

I believe that in order to take some small step forward, the word “bird” should be replaced with “saur” in all common names. Mockingsaur. Secretarysaur. Red-winged blacksaur. HUMMINGSAUR

All the art in my house would be originals.

Apparently, some joker leaked the Titanium Court release date‼️ Don't be alarmed, we have our top maintenance worker on the case. In the meantime, please avoid the leak and avert your eyes ⚠️ 🏰 bit.ly/TC-Steam