Gosh I just love it when firefox changes something on a whim. For the past decade+, when I press tab from the address bar, it moved to the search box (which I had to enable, which is fine). But now it moves to the search box highlight, so I have to tab twice to get text to search. Why change shit

Sharing this for an INCREDIBLY niche audience (seriously, i think 2 people on here total) "Fuck, snuggles!" ( @neolithicsheep.bsky.social @kingfox.bsky.social )

I'm not even going to admit how long it took for me to get that the stutter effect in Mixtape was an artistic choice and not a setting error, but 'longer than instantly' (I even recompiled shaders) In other news, attempting to see if my brain can be trained on gyro controls -trying Returnal first

Apparently I'm just going to be moody about several movies I just don't like (that everyone else loves), and a series I do like but has one scene that infuriates me (but again, everyone else seems to be fine with?). Grumpy self...

Current dark thought on the president, after reading since catch up: Well at least this ridiculous abuse of power and government overreach is actually under the authority of the executive branch. I was fairly sure we were headed towards screaming at waves on the beach.

Actual question, there was an entire show where one of the primary mocking targets was trump. I will grant, it wasn't very funny, but why haven't more people made memes out of him in Drawn Together? It ran for a few seasons and spent a fair amount of time on how awful he was...

Random idea- A tv show, or web series, that just has a celeb going all in on a strange hobby or obsession they have. Get them to just completely dive in to their personal hyper fixated thing they just think is great. Tentatively thinking of calling it Weirdo with Donald Glover hosting.

I am very disapointed in the people I follow, we've had all day and I haven't read any good jokes about RFK jr attempting to impress Saul.

Entirely unrelated to whatever was going on with bsky, I had a complete failure of my dns server (adblock, internal DNS stuff), which amusingly led to me fixing it but feeling like it was still very broken. Still not sure why my more robust rollover solution bombed out but that is a later problem.

I feel a surprising amount of the damage of the internet can be traced back to 'I don't understand this/this is not aimed at me, therefore nobody should be able to engage with it'. Like a ton of people are collectively smarting from not getting an in joke from a long ago, or something.

Sometimes I think about the original top gun, and that there was a statement that Maverick fucked a guy to win a bet before, and most of the straight people just quietly deleted that from their memory.

"Either you believe, in which case bunnies are unnecessary, or you don't, in which case...chocolate?" -Farscape

I have no idea why, but every time I hear a song by Mon Rovîa, my brain immediately classifies it as a 'James Taylor song', though as far as I know they're not covers. Similar vocal style/pacing, I guess? This isn't an insult (though I'm not wild about Taylor, and happen to like Rovia so far!)

A number of not great things have happened over the past few days, but on the bright side, earlier today I got to explain to someone who likes science and space some stuff about the moon landing he just didn't know! I love showing people cool science shit they aren't aware of.

On a personal level, Fuck fuck fuck I genuinely don't know what to do or how to handle this cleanly. It's not critical but it sure isn't good. God I really want to distract myself with a video game or something but those don't really distract me anymore, I gave up drinking....ugh.

Today's random science thought that so many people 'miss': In space, you are not floating. You are falling. By every possible definition. Since everything else is falling, it looks like you're floating, but you're actually falling towards the ground. Orbit is when you miss. Miss well? Stable!

In a rare occurrence, reading a book that's going to be adapted has made me more hopeful for the film. About 60% of the way through Hail Mary which I started on a whim reread because last night I just was struggling with a book that wasn't gelling, and honestly there's a lot to be done here.

Oh, hey, so here's what you should have said and how you should have said it during this interaction. -Cool. Good information. That interaction was 27 years ago, I apologized the next day, and I haven't spoken to him in like, 7 years, hindbrain. Oh no need to thank me.

I wonder if we can get people to use 'demi-monthly' because we've somehow still, completely, failed to settle on a proper usage for biweekly, and fortnight is both archaic and oddly seems like pandering. So, demimonthly. Unambigious!

Not relevant to anything but I just now looked up the actress playing Bart from Dirk Gently, and it's McKay from the Pitt. Literally watched episodes of each on Friday and would never have noticed, even though I love both characters ( go face blindness I guess). Good for the actress!

The amount of Chesterton's Fence examples appears to have no bounds and exponential growth.

Having a strange experience with the steam next fest demos tonight. Every single one of them has been a bust, for me personally...but they've been like, carefully well made games that just aren't in my strike zone. It's...nice? They are very 'this is what this game is', I poke, 'okay, not bad!'

I am once again vainly attempting to explain that it -was a hotel-, in DC, you can go there. 'Gate' is just the second half of the name. Calling every scandal name-gate is ridiculous. What if it had been at the Hilton instead?

The 'Villain explains everything' monologue in Dirk Gentley's Holistic Detective Agency (US version), season 1, remains one of my all time favorite moments of that sort of trope. Just a glorious few moments of TV that you -definitely- need context for, but is so well done.

I realize everyone probably knows this, but a quick 101 on that 'search party for a dog' "My ex with a restraining order means it's harder for me to find them. I wonder where she is every moment of the day. I lost my dog, here is a picture I took." Just...no. Fucking hell.

Random thought- I remember the first time I watched Alien Resurrection, and at the end actually thinking 'This? -This- is the movie that gets vacuum correct? After literally everything else being completely physics optional?' I mean it's not perfect, but so much closer...

Absolutely fucking spot on. thepit.social/@peter/11601...

Well that's new. I am used to attempting to refrain when speaking to not us friends about 'oh God my country is really bad and getting worse' because they are perfectly aware and don't need soul crushing specifics. But just had to avoid mentioning something in their country the don't know yet. Ugh

Just realizing that the entire idea of 'why would you use humans as power sources' can easily now be explained by 'LLMs came up with idiotic plans inspired by Soylent Green'. Most of our infamous sci fi plot issues can now be simply filed under 'very very bad AI, like GPT/Grok/etc'.

Okay I've just been sitting on this in the back of my brain for the past weeks, and I just have to say it- Why do ICE have handguns? They have weapons, mostly nonlethal, and probably don't need the lethal ones period (shotgun in the trunk for cops, eg). But why handguns?

Trying to explain to my father that he shouldn't use the liebots that companies keep attempting to force onto his computer, during a phone call where we're uninstalling adware he was tricked into installing, and -while i have to stop him from installing another piece-... makes me question stuff.

Random dream snippet- For some reason I was being told by friends on bsky that I was being blocked, by accident, because someone with a very similar-appearing screen name was being an asshole, and that's why I wasn't popular. Then they were upset I didn't care? What an odd feature.

I am having one of those times where I empathize deeply with the Banks character who stated 'I wished to become more cavort-prone'

Okay, real talk. How the hell is trump going to explicitly violate 9a? Obviously we've been dealing with 1, 4, and 5 (table stakes). Some explicit violations of 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, and now 10. 3 one can assume will surface as a side effect of NG and insurrection act. But 9? Feels tricky.

Having a deep moment of network stress and I really am trying to convince myself to go to bed instead of diagnosis. It worked yesterday, I..think it worked earlier today. My ISP did fuckery, but it worked after .. but normal connection is working...but burp a bit ago ... 30% chance of sleep fix?

I'm really baffled that the -exact same people- who were angry at me for saying casually that I dated a guy but it didn't really work out since I am not really a fan of bottoming as 'way too much information' are now nonstop explaining why them using LLMs in 'just this situation' is fine.

quotes that evoke the sources: "Why does it talk like a lamb?" "My side! Your side!" "Two corpses, everything's fine." "I like my sketchers, but I love my Prada backpack." "Bet the death rate keeps the rent down..." "Well, go find some bad guys! Bad guys have money."

I think my absolute least favorite tech support 'moment' for friends and family is 'Okay, well, I understand it takes 5 minutes for this to reboot but I think somethign might go wrong so I need you to stay on the phone with me' I actually am fine with phone calls in general, just...call if problem.

I know this is seriously a done battle at this point but I still don't understand why Microsoft decided that having a calendar application on my computer that showed the calendar was something that needed to be rebranded, renamed, require a login, and no longer show the calendar by default.

At some point we're really going to have a full society-wide reckoning that 'because they can afford it' is not a sustainable answer to 'why did you give them that thing.'

It's funny when there is Discourse about something, you (I) lightly touch on it, then see the primary source....and I am apparently the only person upset about a specific angle (explicitly going to reddit to see if others are bitching about it feels like a trick, not doing that).

Thinking about the sheer number of bad movies/games/shows I have run into recently that have plots/twists that actually sound amazing if you try to relate them, but since they aren't made with love, attention to detail, or craft, end up 'wasting' great premises. Getting ideas isn't the tricky bit.

Oh fun, imdb getting worse. Now it lists 'known for ' for an actor as 'actor'. Cool, he was an actor on Lost. Maybe the role would be helpful there? It certainly used to list it! Gosh I look forward to seeing the next ratchet of worse UI for no reason.

Today's personal dystopian weirdness- I was drifting off to a light nap (my sleep schedule is wonky atm, don't judge), and was suddenly awoken by my watch suddenly buzzing a lot It was buzzing to tell me 'your energy level is very low, you should take a rest break or a nap'. That's...new.

Random audio bits that are playing in my head today- "I'm going to my room with three strange men" - mystery men "We're not talking about the window!"- farscape

If not answer, why answer shaped? Must be a user error, they are the wrong ones.

Grats to Walmart for walking me to a reasonable point, then actively discarding that to where I am considerably more angry than when I contacted customer service in the first place

I'm honestly not sure I could really explain to young me, working for an internet based company in the early 90s, that we are currently dealing with people who think that their right to free speech is being stifled if you choose not to watch it. I guess I'd read about video screens from orwell, so

For absolutely no reason I have the clip playing in my head of Kids in the Hall where a scientist is dragged screaming from the room saying 'it was only a couple of flipper babies!'

I just want to stop reading prepared public statements that would have made me turn off the made for tv scifi channel movie for being unrealistic dystopian silliness. It's like they forgot to send the filler text to the writers.