I wish when I shared links to @bsky.app posts with video to my friends in @signal.org that the preview would be of the video (first frame thumbnail maybe) and not the poster's avatar. Doesn't really communicate what I just linked to for the recipient, and I think they don't click through often.

can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot

Nobody. I do not think you can eat chair

All this Rosemont listserv schism drama has me very thankful for my local listserv: an email list for just my one block of Del Ray. It only gets one email a quarter, and it's only ever somebody asking for handyman recommendations.

My Senator told me FedSoc judges keep ignoring his unambiguous laws so I asked how many laws he has and he said he just goes to the Congress and gets a new law afterwards so I said it sounds like he’s just feeding unambiguous laws to FedSoc judges and then his chief of staff started crying.

No wonder he hates walkable cities if that's what he wears on his feet

The shortfall is remarkable: Americans were promised that they could retire on a 401k, but decades later most household displays are struggling to surpass even 4k

Who has made this 🤣

One of the biggest drivers of high housing costs is that a small, highly motivated group of incumbent homeowners block new housing in their neighborhoods and almost no one is organized to push back. Young people bear the brunt of that imbalance. Be a housing fan.

React Server Components solve an important problem. I don't know what that problem is because I haven't personally encountered it. And I've mostly stopped using Next.js because it got overly complicated for my needs. But they wouldn't have done it if it didn't solve an important problem!

America: where road safety is so motorist-centered that small cars are too dangerous to allow on the market!

This Pluribus ad on a fridge caused a schizophrenic woman named Carol to be hospitalized.

Stop. Using. Spotify.

What coding with an LLM feels like sometimes.

I hope everyone has a great day except for this guy who got out of his truck to scream "make stop signs great again" at a bus driver trying to get kids to school

Raccoon gets drunk at a Virginia liquor store and passes out in bathroom

The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"

It's because they pay the tiny people who live inside the chip less than their competitors. All those teeny tiny people inside the chips, slaving away doing linear algebra for peanuts! The itty bitty teeny tiny chip people are so over-worked, they've got to pee in nanometer-sized bottles.

Before/after analysis of separated bike and ped facilities consistently show safety benefits and increases in number of people walking and bicycling... maybe near Braddock Rd Metro in #AlexandriaVA soon!

Ashburn Virginia, colo mama, take me home, Ashburn stroad

Zoning for pizza.

'Have you worked on anything I'd have heard of?' I dunno, have you heard of an office chair.

walked down king st. in alx this morning and saw a historical sign about the streetcars that used to run along it that were removed to accommodate cars — mass adoption of a new technology restructuring our lives causing problems we are dealing with to this day immediately thought of the push for ai

So I didn't much like the prior online catalog software used by the library, but the new one's got issues too. Moreso than not having dark mode. The way it's set up right now makes it hard to just browse things. If you know what you want, you can search—otherwise, it's tough to discover things!

when someone tells me not to use em dashes because AI uses em dashes

an image that comes to mind is that i’m strapped to a unicorn running around in circles vomiting rainbows nonstop and my job is to nudge it by the horn so that the rainbows form the desired pattern

The Alexandria Library's default light mode catalog website was burning my eyes, so I vibe coded a dark mode for it. Now I can browse at night without pain!

As someone who works on the interaction layer of software: it's this. Stupid trends in hardware self correct after a generation or two, but *software* ratchets in the direction of unusable because designers are occupied with interaction patterns and not whether the fucking thing works properly.

Autolabelling service that tells you if a poster needs a wellness check or if they are watching sport

But *how* will they #PlowTheSidewalks? With what technology?

Wanting to find a TV stand that's height-adjustable, so I can watch it easily either seated or standing. But apparently "height adjustable TV stand" as a search term means "we let you pick a height during assembly and fix it in place with four bolts". 😞

This is incredible!

I haven't bought anything on Black Friday in the past few years. Not out of any anti-capitalist boycott, but just because I didn't see anything I needed or wanted. And I really tried! This year, I'm not even going to bother looking.

This isn't as tone-deaf as Jay and the WAFFLES incident, but it's pretty bad. Bad enough that I'm going to cancel my subscription to @wired.com over it. Rather than address feedback, they just prefer to mock the readers and make excuses. Truly pathetic.

When I first used GitHub Copilot, I wasn't impressed. But that was a couple of years ago. Things have changed, and this take is 100% true. I can't speak to other fields, but AI enables *a lot* in programming that would've been too time consuming or difficult before.

I've just learned that if I'd chosen to focus my Bluesky time into writing a book this past year, I'd be a published author by now. 🤷‍♂️

Best I can manage for a side dish this year is tater tots from frozen. I'm thankful for modern conveniences that keep me alive despite ADHD.

the prophecy foretold

Happy Thanksgiving, America

Not much is known about our family’s patriarch. Sometimes in genealogy, the surname itself can be a clue. Mason, Baker, and Smith, for example, are all family names derived from an occupation, but the inscrutable origin of Ratbait is lost in the fog of English and American history.

Good morning. Please enjoy this Thanksgiving composition by a burgeoning young writer.

Report: It Pretty Incredible That Americans Entrusted With Driving Cars https://theonion.com/report-it-pretty-incredible-that-americans-entrusted-w-1819574734/

People who already hate AI focusing on the (greatly overblown) environmental impact of AI are giving themselves the permission structure to not examine their own carbon footprint. Who cares if you're driving everywhere and scarfing down beef? You're a good person for not using AI.

I made an Twitter extension that turns a user's tweet color to red if their account is not from the United States & now Twitter looks like a Heinz bottle 😂

If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace “the American people want” with “troll bots in Eastern Europe demand” Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.

Terumaru, a bright young lightbulb and the mascot of the Tokyu Denki electric company, trapped in a door yesterday:

Me, twenty years ago: faceless bureaucracy (derogatory) Me, a couple of years from now ideally: faceless bureaucracy (complimentary)

Fellow Alexandrians: any ideas how I can properly dispose of an old TV when I don't have a car and therefore have no good way to haul it to an e-waste recycling center?

You’re gonna see posts that make you think “I agree on principle but you seem unwell.” That’s the bluesky promise.

Insane but true fact: making US roads as safe as Canadian, Australian, or European roads would save more lives than eliminating murder from the US.