God bless yt-dlp

(daft punk One More Time voice) Auld Lang Syne

A relative was describing a TV show they were watching, but when asked what its name was didn't know. They took out their phone and tried to find out using ChatGPT, but couldn't figure it out

Kotek ordering flags lowered across Oregon to honor Charlie Kirk really told us all we needed to know

Bamboo Sushi's popularity in the Portland area is baffling to me

God Rest You! Merry Gentlemen

According to the National Archives, this is the very first image of Santa Claus to appear in Japan in 1900. His name name was too foreign sounding so the author called him 三太九郎 (さんたくろう) dl.ndl.go.jp/pid/1168287/...

Once again sadly opening the Wikipedia article for Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell, idly scrolling, then closing the tab

Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan… * Vehicle traffic: -11% * Foot traffic: +3.4% * Storefront vacancy: -0.9% * Pollution: -22% * Revenue for mass transit: $548M So YES this has been a huge success.

You will be visited by three spirits.

2025 Headline of the Year nominee (August)

WHERE’S OUR SALT AND STRAW HQ TOWER

This sounds like a shitpost, but there was a 1993 NYT article about the novel technique of roasting instead of boiling vegetables

How many times do I have to refresh my timeline until It Happens?

So frustrating and so predictable. I wrote to my reps when the bill to fund this was making its way through the legislature. The response I got was mostly a shrug and a sense of "well it's going to happen anyway." Now $100 million and nearly a decade later...this is what we have to show for it?

Whenever a kid gets hurt at our daycare, they fill out a report. Another baby bit our daughter (it's totally fine) and both the written and verbal report did not refer to the other kid by name, but instead the more anonymous "a friend"

Mel Brooks having to bury Rob Reiner is against all laws of nature and I’m not ok about it

I grabbed Say Nothing from the library other day. My grandfather was born in Belfast but emigrated before The Troubles. I've heard bits and pieces my entire life from my family who observed it from afar in the US, but it's been helpful to read a comprehensive overview

I think a lot about how so many drivers have strongly held beliefs about their imagined rules of the road but actual laws seem like more of an annoyance

i think a lot of car discourse boils down to whether you think a car is a horse or a gun.

The real May-December relationship is how I’m dressing for May in December

Really enjoying Pluribus. Great concept, compelling characters, really gorgeous-looking show. Can't wait to see where it goes!

Bluesky is a nursing home for people who know what firewire is

good morning portland. the big pipe is full www.portland.gov/bes/big-pipe...

There is no monstrous grift Jimmy Fallon won't run cover for

The closer we get to Christmas, the more baffled I am by the lyric "There'll be scary ghost stories" in the song "It's the Most Wonderful Time of Year." Are they just talking about a Christmas Carol? Were Christmases in the past spookier??

MORPHEUS: They're coming for you, Neo. I can guide you, but you must do exactly as I say. Take the elevator to the lobby and go to the CVS across the street. Purchase 5 Steam gift cards at $200 each. Scratch off the protective coating on the back and tell me the fifteen digit redemption codes. Hurry

*Bob Ducca voice*

I saw this post this morning and have been haunted by it all day. I have sent so many people the wiki for mushroom ketchup today. I may never be the same

Witnessed someone driving today with a can of soda in their hand watching TV off their phone mounted on the dashboard. Ban cars

day 1 is "penzeys revolution blend" and i cant stop laughing at "we have to GET RID of this lying, cheating, CORRUPT SCUMBAG PRESIDENT!! RESIST! REVOLT! REVOLUTION NOW!! good on roast poultry and carrots"

Some sad personal news. I was going to host a party this weekend with the entire crew of the ill-fated HMS Terror. Unfortunately they just telegraphed me that my house is too cold for them so they'll be staying on the arctic ice. Thats what they prefer, given how cold my house is. Tuunbaq is a maybe

Completely agree and I will add--most of the time these images are incredibly distracting. The last time I saw a speaker include AI imagery in their presentation, I got completely sidetracked trying to figure out what the garbled text and imagery was supposed to be

My Northern Irish friend refers to my infant daughter as "the wee woman," much to the delight of me and my wife

I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.

Is the last song to enter the American Christmas song canon really "All I Want For Christmas Is You"?? What have we been doing for 30 years??

Worst Cities in Oregon: HM: West Linn HM: Happy Valley 5. Lake Oswego 4. Lake Oswego 3. Lake Oswego 2. Lake Oswego 1. Lake Oswego

Every prompt to chatbot software is “generate me some text.” If it generated you some text, it performed its function correctly. It never lies, it never wants anything, it’s text generating software that generates text.

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Mulligan has been drinking out of the people water all afternoon and we just found out

Elliott Erwitt, Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. New York City, USA. 1988.

Great exchange in this technical Slack I follow