the most annoying part of renting my place out furnished is needing to finally implement a decent network topology so the guests can’t do shenanigans to the thermostat but can still airplay to the tv

what do we think the odds are on zoom throttling their processing speed to keep demand up for “live ai notetaker” tools like granola and fathom? and what do we think the odds are zoom is working on a competitor?

The world’s most popular spreadsheet

when i finish an interview and have to wait for zoom to finally send the recording

13th of Septober 5500: three days since the alpaca attack. our first winter approaches. all original colonists (including the husky) are healthy. we have added one human and one goat. we are provisioned with over two thousand potatoes. no one here likes potatoes. not even the pirates like potatoes.

finally got around to finishing this. man, i love good podcasts.

chat is it good when the HOA board is sending around emails with the subject line “fire incident”

i’m kinda assuming they spoke with him via ouija board

i still think about how an AI summary for “is sidewinder colorado based on a real place” started with “siderwinder colorado is a real place” supported by the evidence that 1) it really exists in stephen king’s literary universe and 2) there is a rollercoaster in colorado called “sidewinder”

how it started (my beautiful tv setup) how it was going (wow i hate it) how it’s now going (moderately better, thanks to legrand and minor carpentry)

this is why reading news is especially tiring as a researcher lol interesting headline, let’s see what the article says. oh that’s an interesting quote, wonder who this expert is, oh they work for another group in the org that published the study this article relies on… okay let’s check the funding

It's always fun and informative to follow the links back to the original sources and root around for things like attribution and methodology.

deciding to semi randomly move to new york has been painful and annoying (and we haven’t even moved yet) but amongst all the gnashing of teeth, there’s been an almost therapeutic practice of grieving, closure, and release that makes me wonder if we should plan a short relocation every decade or so

Christopher Gearhart, an ICE deputy from Lakewood, CO, was arrested on May 19, 2026 after an internal affairs investigation by Lakewood Police showed Gearhart manipulating his body camera while propositioning a woman for sex. Gearhart resigned from Lakewood Police last year and joined ICE.

rearranging my living room to make it more “renter friendly” and i hate it lol

I'd have gotten into so many shenanigans if not for the stupid luck of living walking distance to a community pool with a swim team and living in the days of age of empires and the early internet me at my worst was when my family moved to the middle of nowhere and I could barely send text messages

I'm...

Hell yeah we are

replace these with `del` and i’m sold

semi cursed idea: keytar for text input and computer control

Related: gDi, liminality is more than ooooh spooky nostalgia, it is the endless possibility of the in-between, the threshold state wherein growth occurs, the twilight land where magic is real and true liberation is accessible, it is beautiful as well as uncanny I will scream about this forever

Post the best picture you have ever taken of your pet. tough to choose which pet, but i think this one of zaha has appeal beyond the ”omg cute kitty” level

I HAVE BEEN TRYING TO PUSH DIGITAL PICTORIALISM SINCE 2016 PLEASE LET IT HAPPEN

i’ve been suspecting that there’s only so far hyper/photorealism can go retvrn to style (like weird, messy, eccentric style)

Romancing the Vote has only been open for three hours or so. It's already at nearly 75% of the goal.

realized today that my entire first half of this year has been lived mostly through docusign lol

Democratic Socialist Melat Kiros extends her lead to 4.5% over Democratic Rep Diana DeGette. Goodnight, folks.

On the last day of Pride Month, happy Trans Pride, now and forever and ever and ever, Amen.

*nodding solemnly with full comprehension* yes, I see. there’s a special kind of kid who can’t play sports or go to the bathroom

I also want to draw your attention to a little linguistic trick that anti-trans groups have been using for years. Notice that they're not saying "men from women's sports" or "boys from girls' sports," but "men from girls' sports." This is intentional, and is meant to conjure up specific imagery.

My soul will be mined and commodified. There is no wholeness but rather a series of fragmented resources that will be sold off piece by piece until any spark of wit or joy is there simply so another may purchase it and use it to generate their own internal resource which will in turn be purchased

unironically this is about how i feel even when someone just tries to venmo me the exact amount of the coffee i just paid for lol i desperately wish there were more readily available ways to support artists and also just people in general that didn’t rely on transactional commodification

Experts aren't always right. That's why I put my faith in morons who are never right

this is a good article abt what our normal was. don't dissect us. don't rubberneck/gawk at us. let us be. we can't explain to your satisfaction & yet another 'omg i can't believe it' won't help. just stop. #Exvangelical #religiousabuse #childhoodtrauma #traumasurvivor

This in response to the idea of taxing larger vehicles. If you choose to have a larger vehicle that poses a greater risk to other people and has increased impact on our environment and roads you should pay for that. This isn't a ban on big vehicles; it's telling people to bear those costs.

on cargo, people are always amazed at how much i can fit into my crosstrek and that it has a 2.5L engine (so like, filling it with books or even bricks is mostly fine lol) you absolutely do not need a giant car to haul people or stuff around

I am one of the millions of straight white American men who are being forced to walk on egg shells at work. In my case it’s because I work on the peeling line at the hard boiled egg factory, which was the only place I could find a job as a serial sexual harasser

A serious and still-escalating wildfire outbreak is now underway across interior West, and has today expanded beyond NV & UT into western CO & AZ/NM. Extreme fire behavior and rapid spread is widespread; adverse conditions expected for 7+ days. #UTwx #COwx #AZwx #NMwx [Thread]

i was flying into denver from sf today and saw one of the giant plumes

BREAKING: On the 39th anniversary of the founding of ACT UP, protestors have shut down traffic outside Grand Central demanding “Money for AIDS and healthcare, not for ICE and warfare.”

if this is your take after cops beat up a bunch of queer people at trans march, go fuck yourself, you bootlicking freak. you're no comrade of mine.

i learned recently that some people “feel unsafe” on public transit if they believe there is someone on the train/bus who didn’t pay their fare and i don’t even know where to start with that sort of narc-ass loser mindset lol

I must not discourse. Discourse is the mind-killer. Discourse is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face the discourse. I will permit it to pass over me and through me.

Communists and socialists of all stripes should be paying attention to this. Let it motivate you

Fuck man.

please read this statement written by Benjamin "Champagne" Song and share as far and wide as you can: https://prairielanddefendants.com/defendant-writings/statement-by-benjamin-champagne-song/

well, that’s not good solidarity forever, abolition now, acab, etc

increasingly moving into a world of arcanists and walkaways, fringe-dwelling keepers of the forbidden and forgotten (crates of dvds, a hard copy dictionary, hard drives full of pdfs from the before times, a 3d printer that prints what you tell it to, linux isos)

they are on Threads fighting to the death over whether or not it is ableist for an author to use the word “scrying" (people might not know the definition!). how beautiful. people staring into their phones and getting so emotional over “scrying.” perhaps there really is magic in reflective surfaces!