me telling my grandkids what it was like to have vaccines

You’re much closer to becoming disabled or homeless than you are to becoming rich and wealthy. It’s not a moral failing. It’s not something you can “try harder” your way out of. We need robust social supports & safety nets to ensure everyone is properly cared for.

NGL, I feel this way... but I've felt this way since around 2017 or so.

I personally despise the whole "this field should always be output even if it's empty" group. They're policing your code because they don't want to write code themselves to handle your code's output. They're just shifting blame to you for not giving them data instead of handling the scenario well.

The WGA’s statement on ABC’s decision to pull “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”

This is a video, not just a picture. It hits differently once you know it's a video. 🥹

Conan O’Brien speaks out about the Jimmy Kimmel suspension:

This Amazon product listing is a real "seriously?" moment for sure.

Overcrowded cells. Unsanitary conditions. Limited access to food and water. These are the conditions that ICE has created at 26 Federal Plaza, which eleven elected officials sought to expose. Instead, they were arrested. They must be released right now — and inspectors let in.

Wow. They canceled the Jimmy Kimmel show? So cowardly of ABC.

These "we need an AI built into everything" movements are really dumb.

Tell me more about how you, a writing/news editor, don't need VR for your career and therefor barely have any interest in it. 🙄 Meanwhile, others are using VR for way more than gaming. We use it for virtual theater rooms (3d effect is amazing), holodeck style hangouts and conventions, and art tools.

A fellow Star Trek enthusiast with a sense of humor tells a good tale about getting into the Amazon Vine review program. I've been a Vine member for many years, and this article gets some small details only partially right, but it's a start.

Amazon cloud services suck compared to a good cloud VPS solution if you're server savvy. In half the time and cost my company required to set up a EC2 instance, I set up my own VPS elsewhere and it works better/faster, has snapshot backups, and can run on a fixed IP address.

Firefox got some performance enhancements yesterday, including a new "Unload Tab" feature: support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/unl...

Guess the country: We prioritize gun rights over people's lives.

I'm happy to report I never even visited Mississippi in my whole life... and now, I really don't want to. www.wtva.com/news/local/2...

Look, ma! I'm a furry! (Not really.) These are actually really good fox ears I got from the Amazon Vine crapshow.

I haven't read the actual article yet, but this just sounds too hilarious not to share it.

Inflation has to be the one thing that ages me faster than anything else.

Amazon Vine makes no sense and what's free often contradicts other products. Why is a mobility scooter free but its dust cover not free? Why is a neck brace free but a good pillow not? Why is a tattoo practice skin free but a set of temporary tattoos not? Why is a wig free but a brush not? 🤦

I get rollators from Amazon Vine very regularly 100% free (also tax free)... and then I go and donate the rollators to Goodwill and Salvation Army throughout the year to give some poor souls easy access to some really nice rollators.

Giving me Shrek vibes

Does the life still get sucked out of your eyes? #virtualboy

I need my wife to make more time for binge-watching shows if she wants me to wait to watch the good shit.

I'm not to this part of my problems yet, but I'm having to use Microsoft Playwright in testing, and in my brief experience, it's next to impossible to get your tests to work the same way on every browser, let alone via the commandline versus the UI mode locally.

"I'm proud to be an American" should exclude United States citizens right now. Only Canadians should sing.

People are being shunned for celebrating the death of a dickhead who was pro-guns and said it was a worthy sacrifice to have some kids shot so we can have guns. Only in the United States....

Here's my stance on Charlie Kirk: He was a dick. Now, he's a dead dick with no more fucks to give.

You know what grinds my gears? People who generalize every chance they get.

Doges today.

The fake patriots who scream "never forget!" about September 11, 2001 are usually the same people who want you to forget about January 6, 2021.

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Just reminding you to read my absurdly long August news recap. It's long, but you can skip through it to only read the parts you care about. I also don't flood you with ads.

It's mid work week and I feel pretty demotivated to work already.

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The Supreme Court just ruled that ICE can target people based on their race. Can we get a “Fuck ICE” in the chat?

I'm getting faster! The monthly recap AKA WTF Happened August 2025 just dropped!

Yeah, this is unfortunate. If you want to be mutuals, like this post and I'll follow you back since this buggy label is apparently a thing.

I'll be honest... ... ... ... I just like this guy.

I created a new custom node for @graze.social feeds, the Include Word/Phrase. It makes it way easier to check alt text and other elements of posts when you need to and has toggles for some features. There's still room for improvement.

You can't argue with some people about anything. They just call you an idiot and threaten to block you like it's a nuke.

I've kept my current job longer than any other job in my job history by at least 2 years... and I think it's because I finally was allowed to work from home almost every single day. I can go take a 2-3 minute break on a whim and play with my dogs, but most of the time, they lay around like this.

I bought pants with fake pockets.

WHAT DO YOU MEAN ITS ONLY TEN BUCKS?!? spaghetmenot.gumroad.com/l/normalmagic Hey if you're a 3D artist you should deffo check this out 👀

I'm struggling to use Playwright for testing page navigation on pages with modals. The isVisible method works somewhat but it leads to some weird errors later. The toBeVisible method is advised but returns an immediate error. I really wish testing frameworks weren't so finicky.

My caulk is empty. I need new caulk.