10 days until Frieren season 2!

I’m still not sure which Knives Out film I like the most, but I think I feel pretty confident in saying the Louise phone call from Wake Up Dead Man is my favorite scene in the whole trilogy

Deleted 6500 lines of unused code today. 😊

“I can’t come in today, it’s the festival of Inanna’s descent into the Underworld.”

Having played the game a bunch over the weekend, very much seconding this recommendation. Some well-designed puzzles in it, and a programming game that both I (professional developer) and my wife (scientist with a good amount of coding experience, but no python) can enjoy is impressive.

Had a dream where I checked in on a webcomic and found that the author transitioned. Woke, up, laughed a bit about how many times that has had actually happened, checked the webcomic on question... and yeah, she's trans now.

Celebrating this for the second time today.

Mia knows what's up. #⚳gang

Singin' in the Rain being a jukebox musical is wild. All its songs people think of being "from" Singin' in the Rain, when technically (almost) none of them are. "I like the Singin' in the Rain cover of Singin' in the Rain" <- That is ridiculous. You will get weird looks if you say that.

What was the last movie or TV show you watched in 2025?

a nice thing about 2025 being absolutely terrible is that I’m not filled with the slightest sense of wistfulness about it ending

This year sucked. I want a refund.

Sometimes "I have 20 years' experience solving countless problems like this" loses out to "I have six years' experience solely spent addressing *this* specific problem."

#JustFinishedABook Children of Memory by Adrian Tchaikovsky. I don't know. I think I've been liking each book a bit less. It seems like the books are trying to avoid being just "Children of Time 2". Yet I kinda really wanted a Children of Time 2 on the ravens, and it was so abbreviated in here.

Successfully pavloved myself to look forward to electrolysis pain because it tastes like ice cream and m&ms.

LCRW No. 51 has officially been published! For just $7, you can purchase my story “A Grumble of Goddesses” plus 11 other pieces of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. “A Grumble of Goddesses” is a fantasy tale about fraudulent Minoan snake goddesses and how Edwardian scholars mangled history.

Ironically, transition lenses made me dysphoric.

Michelle Obama had dinner with her kids a few tables over from me at California Pizza Kitchen.

ain't this that game where you fuck a bear

Every now and then I have to remind myself not to take it for granted that we can see high quality photos from the surface of another planet.

Having a slow evening

Merry Christmas to all who are celebrating! Best wishes from me and this tiny bundle of joy and feathers who reminds us to appreciate the little things

This is How You Lose the Time War. No idea how to translate the feel of the prose into live-action, but that's what I'd pay smarter people to handle.

I would commit crimes for Temeraire

Voice training practice at my parents' parish, where all the strangers will think my weird bad voice is just my voice, and are way too polite to say anything.

That is not dead which can eternal lie, Like Tiny Tim, who did NOT die

okay finally. time for the NICHE PERVERT GAME AWARD, for an awesome game with a tiny audience no contest that's THE FARMER WAS REPLACED() a game where the gameplay is: writing python code. this game does not teach you that; but if you are ready to optimize python code for score? here ya go.

Ma'am'd! at the Panda Express

The idea that a garment that smooshes your fatty tissue into a different shape for aesthetic or ergonomic purposes constitutes a medical device (when it's not labeled or marketed in a way that represents it has having a medical function) is just so wildly absurd.

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#JustFinishedABook Ranked Competetive Breast Growth Book 1 by tpwrtrmnky and Talia Bhatt. Started for the memes. Stayed to see what new drama these dumb-ass girls are getting into next. And Katherine is perfect and wonderful and nothing bad should ever happen to her again.

I beg your pardon

I salute this young genius and burgeoning poster

#JustFinishedABook Translation State by Ann Leckie. I think I got most of what I wanted to say about the setting and plot out in my earlier thread with @wrdnrd.bsky.social and @klara5.myatproto.social, but what the ending really solidified was how emotionally gratifying the book is.

Today's shout-out goes to the most metal bird in existence, the diminutive shrike. What makes them so metal? They subsist on a diet of small rodents, insects, and snakes and keep spare food from being stolen by carrying it high enough to *impale it on thorns and barbed wire fences*. So metal.

Sun-loving vampires and luridly shot murders in lavish Mediterranean environments: Vampyros Lesbos is just about what you'd expect from the title, good and bad, but I make a case for indulging in softcore excess for a while, if the softcore excess looks this good. #horror #sexploitation #giallo

things kids ask when they find out their teacher turned into a girl over summer break

GChat calling the :) emoji ":slightly-happy:" is anti-millennial discrimination. That's just how you type a smile, not any "slightly" nonsense! We had 6 different faces in texts and we liked it!

Based on their accounts, people from both "sides" of the larger fight (and Chiitan??) have liked this post, likely since they expect entirely different answers from Northsky. That just makes me more confident that Northsky should get into specifics sooner rather than later.

Generalities are nice, but moderation is a matter of specific cases. The TOS is defined by how it is actually enforced, not its raw words. So @transrights.northsky.social, if these two people feuding in your comments now were both Northsky users, what actions, if any, would the moderators take?

Like sometimes you definitely need to push back against someone but a lot of the time I think we can safely ignore people

if you ain't got orbs of forbidden knowledge to ponder, you gotta grow your own

for the stretch of my adult life where i wasn't going to the library, i just assumed nobody went to the library anymore. now that i'm going to the library again, i have great news: everyone is at the library! all thanks to me 😇

#JustFinishedABook (book*s* this time) Ancillary Sword+Mercy by Ann Leckie. My favorite part of these books is Breq seemingly being somewhat surprised and annoyed every time someone is racist or selfish, with her logic effectively being the Club Penguin "thats illegal people cant do that" meme.

i've had so many people tell me this tweet got them to transition

it's a mistake to compare the cost of your newsletter or podcast to a cup of coffee. that cup of coffee is the best treat i'm allowed to have every single day. no podcast is comparable to the beverage that justifies staying alive. instead market your newsletter as two thirds of a sweetgreen salad

As a software producer with programming experience and nearly a decade in project management, I'd *love* to be shocked that the final solution here is "call an LLM to resolve every text field to an enum," but I've known too many developers who broke core systems to "fix" trivial personal annoyances.