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

Happy 20 years of Neil banging out the tunes 🐀🎶🎉

oh no, freetaxusa.com was _too_ easy and I filed my taxes using info from one of last year's tax forms thankfully I don't think this will significantly impact my taxes owed or anything, but it does mean I'll get to find out how easy it is to file an _amended_ return there

SPLASHDOWN!!! Y'all, we just watched people go to the Moon AND BACK!

www.tumblr.com/nitewrighter... pulling out this evergreen goodie

Michaelangelo's Creation Of Rat

I absolutely love this animation showing Artemis II's path from Earth to the Moon and back, especially because it shows the solar wind and Earth's magnetic field. Video Credit: NASA, GSFC, Artemis II, SVS apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap26040...

Can you read English cursive? Ever wanted to volunteer from the comfort of home for a useful cause? Have I got an offer for you... The Newberry Library in Chicago is always in need of transcribers to help decipher historical handwritten documents. If this is you, learn more about it below:

There was a popular local lunch spot downtown where I was a weekly customer with an undemanding, predictable order and a default 25% tip. One day there was some festival or something and a line out the door. The owner ran outside, put his arm around me, and said "Come in! I will find a place."

US taxes are due in ten days, and like the big procrastinator I am, I was like "I should file an extension! And maybe I'll try doing so with freetaxusa.com since I'm intending to use it this year." Friends, I did like 90% of my taxes just now. Seriously the easiest tax prep software I've ever used.

finally, Wendell Berry's standards for technological innovation--truly as relevant now as they were in 1987 #othernetworks

Outdoorsy types & lovers of merino socks: The Union of REI workers is asking us to pledge to join a worker lead boycott during the company’s big annual spring sale. Sign the pledge @reiunion.bsky.social 💪🏻 #UnionStrong

I stopped off at a Buc-ee's recently and was struck by the haunting quality of the mournful call of the brisket-chopper: "[descending tone] freeeeeeeeeeeeesh [soulless monotone] brisket on the board" [response from all other employees in earshot, despairing] "yaaaaaaay, fresh brisket on the board"

Target emailed me to send me some update on how they use my data which reminded me I could just delete my account. They kind of bury how to do that so here's the form www.target.com/guest-privac...

No one on earth looks as happy as him and all of us are jealous he can just fly the fuck away from all this horseshit

High-speed commuter rail between every major city in the US, with subway/light rail/trolley connectors to the high speed stops from every major population center, specifically with the goal of the proceeds subsidizing low-speed high-comfort rail of a similar extent.

local crow befriending update: saw some crows in the trees, went out, called to them, put down peanuts. One flew down as soon as I stepped away, took one, opened it, ate it As soon as I went back inside, he hopped up on the porch, looked at the door, went "AWK", got another peanut, and flew off

A friend just sent me this perfect piece by Karel Čapek, trans. Dora Round, ‘From the Point of View of a Cat’.

At this point it's barely even a boycott, I've just stopped thinking of Target as a place to buy the things I used to buy at Target.

NO NO NO YOU DON’T GUYS LET ME PLEASE SPREAD THE GOSPEL OF FREE TAX USA federal is free, state is $16, handles even my chaotic freelancer taxes just fine, same step-by-step “designed for normies” kind of interface as TurboTax but NOT EVIL tell everyone you know www.freetaxusa.com

This is a joyous romp spoiler: she had *two* balls writing this

move slow and repair things

very much this.

That's not true, but the golem erased the aleph engraved on its own forehead to avoid talking to Chotiner.

Alice Cooper knows I know where bathrooms are.

sometimes, señor, the bull wins

Public comment period on the proposed BLM logging radical increase in Oregon old-growth forests ends March 23, 2026. We have very few old-growth forests left, and once they cut it... Welp. Here's info on how to comment.

in much more local news, there's a crow in my yard who has decided that the upside-down wheelbarrow makes a fun little ride: hopped onto the wheel until it rotated, flapped off to the handle, and then did it again, three times in a row

man, fuck all this

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I got mine from a very reputable and trustworthy copper merchant, about whom nobody has ever had reason to write a scathing letter of compla-- Hm. Really? Well. That may explain a few things.

I'm honestly surprised I hadn't prior to today received a job application rejection email that said "thanks for talking on the phone, as we discussed, I'd like to keep in touch even though we're not moving forward" from someone, and a company, I have never had a real-time conversation with

have you ever read one of my Discworld QOTDs and thought, hey, I should really get around to reading those books? good news! the full series is back on Humble Bundle - it’s Kobo but it’s pretty easily to transfer those to your preferred e-reader you won’t regret it

a wop bop a loo bop is how the light gets in

my head says “ring the bells / that still can ring / forget your perfect offering / there is a crack / a crack in everything / that’s how the light gets in” from “anthem” by leonard cohen, but my heart knows it’s “a wop bop a loo bop a lop boom boom” from “tutti frutti” by little richard

Discovered today that Instagram had turned on (without my opt-in) automatic AUDIO translation of any reel that shows up in my feed not in English USING AI TO MIMIC THE SPEAKER’S VOICE and WOW it was creepy and upsetting. You can turn it off in “Language & Translations” in Settings. 🙅🏻‍♀️

The wonderful thing about Tyggers Is Tyggers are burning bright Their tops are made out of rubber In the forest of the night What bouncy, trouncy, flouncy, pouncy, Immortal hand or eye Did frame the most wonderful thing about Tyggers, Their fearful symmetry!

whether or not your art involves drawing or in fact any visual medium whatsoever

I made a filterlist for uBlock Origin to remove Generative AI features on websites. Includes blocks for * Google AI Summaries * YouTube Ask button & chat summaries * GitHub Copilot * Facebook AI chat * X's Grok buttons * Deviantart DreamUp * Booru AI images * And more github.com/Stevoisiak/S...

that’s it, i’ve finally taken my best photo of all time 😅 (this chubster is an unapologetic beggar so don’t feel bad for him) 🧪🌍 #bird #birb

omg everybody go draw a horse this is what the internet was made for gradient.horse

ughhhhhhhhhhhh I am so tired of having to pick up and move and try to rebuild things from the ashes of whatever just burned down.

Missed Bad Bunny’s halftime show? Want to rewatch? (4x and counting for me). The NFL posted the whole performance on YouTube: on pace for 500k views in the first 30 minutes.