In the dead of night, the Trump administration ordered states to stop issuing SNAP benefits. This president will stop at nothing to take food out of the mouths of hungry kids across America. Soulless.

Anna’s hummingbird #birds #hummingbirds

Nuthatch #birds

American robins #birds

Mallard #birds

House finch #birds

Everyone is crazy about LLMs and AI so I made an SLM (Small Language Model) that teaches you how it works. It's still a work in progress. futile.com/tiny-mind

Sec. Hobbs once said, “Communities benefit from the [...] world-building and character creation of tabletop gaming.” We think this quote says it all 🥹⤵️ “This is the heart and soul of our teen programming,” Upper Skagit Library Director Erica Brown said. Read more here: https://bit.ly/4hKlAoM

song of the day www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYDQ...

Sneak attack #birds

bonus song of the day www.youtube.com/watch?v=n11j...

Song and video of the day www.youtube.com/watch?v=43h6...

Since EUV lithography, masks use phase and diffraction engineering for sub-wavelength work. Is anyone doing research into holographic or multi-phase interference approaches for encoding multiple fractional or 3D interference patterns into one mask enable volumetric or multi-layer exposure?

White-crowned sparrow #birds

After a few bug fixes I got track sharing to work I created this awesome race track. Try it out! www.futile.com/race?track=d...

the base salary for members of the house is $174k, which they are still getting during the shutdown. the speaker gets $223k. these are the same people trying to shame others for eating without working.

song of the day www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmlq...

I also started playing around with this mini synth pattern loop thing www.futile.com/synth #music #webdev #react

I've made a few changes and fixed a many little issues. give it a try. www.futile.com/race #cars #minigame

Song of the day youtu.be/fTqTkzxPzRA?...

I've made another little internet toy to play around with futile.com/race It still doesn't work all that well on mobile

Short video of an Anna’s hummingbird grabbing some snacks in the rain. #birds

I’m starting to wonder if it would have been a better idea for states to collect and manage federal taxes and then be responsible for handing that off to the federal government.

Sounds like a good second option to a cpap scienceblog.cincinnatichildrens.org/ignobel-butt...

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

Printing some Halloween stuff

Feel free to fling this book in whatever direction seems most productive. rosenfeldmedia.com/books/design...

song of the day www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHGV...

In John Brunner's The Sheep Look Up, fake pubic-hair panties (And scandalously slit skirts to show them off!) are the height of fashion during the grand ecological and societal collapse.

more progress with this silly game idea. I've been drawing a lot of 32x32 and 16x16 elements and getting the world to do stuff.

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Just want to test that my social sharing stuff is up to date and working futile.com

Coots on a log #birds

Also feel free to try some of my other terrible games at futile.com

progress!

trying to teach myself how to make a procedurally generated game map. It's going great! Doesn't make any sense, but you have to start somewhere.

Great blue heron #birds

Green heron #birds

A green heron standing in front of the reflection of a great blue heron. #birds

What a crock of shit from Marc Benioff — who appears willfully ignorant of news and facts and so thirsty for approval and attention from the Trump tech bros (who in the past mocked him relentlessly) that he is soiling himself in public www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

song of the day www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNk8...

song of the day www.youtube.com/watch?v=bChl...

I saw that there is a new show called Monster on Netflix where each season is about a Serial killer. Are we not bored of this yet? I would much rather watch a show about cool people doing cool things instead of the continuous glamorization of evil.

Hey remember when the CDC dropped 6 of the 8 foodborne illnesses from the nationwide monitoring system in July and one of them was listeria? Mentioning for no particular reason www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

American goldfinch #birds

song of the day www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4et...

I've actually been asking for this for a while now, but I really want a steel casing on a micro SD those things are fragile. fstoppers.com/reviews/can-...

I'm looking forward to all the new media companies that are going to be created.

maybe it wasn't a good idea to setup that script that plays Salt-N-Pepa's Push It every time I push code changes to my git repo. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCad...

Do you remember the last time you heard some good news? As news organizations found out a long time ago, it’s far more lucrative to feed you bad news, to make you resent, rage, and most importantly, react... open.substack.com/pub/roychris...