I'm VERY new to all the lingo so forgive me in advance, but are there any like... unique ETBs or other things like that in Japan? Or is everything pretty much the same?

I'm getting back into Pokemon after a decade despite my best efforts 🃏

If a girl was going to be in Tokyo soon, is there anything to specifically pick up there (beyond a plushie from the Pokemon Center!), particularly in the card-collecting realm?

Austin grinning over a bowl of noodle soup

Austin's first ever meal in Asia!!!

WHAT!!! Yes, we were!! Shoot, I'm so bummed we missed each other!

(unfortunately I am about to embark on an international trip to visit family *immediately* tomorrow morning—but thank you and I send the same wishes back at you!!!)

ankles shot. legs fading fast. turns out doing your first ever LARPs two nights in a row and then walking the expo hall for hours is a terrible idea

HAPPY BIRTHDAY FRIEND

Kimberly and a friend with Miku and Teto wigs, wearing House and Wilson costumes.

House-une Miku has arrived at PAX Unplugged 🩻💊⚕️

(Teto Wilson, too, is in this episode)

screenshot of search results for "how to exit vim"

nothing like a classic search to remind me I walk a path countless developers have trod before me

Summa Portlandia On whether the city of Portland, OR can be considered safe.

Oh hey, I have a Substack. (It's entirely free—I don't have anything worth $5/month to say!!)

If you like silly creative writing exercises, or Aquinas, or you hate the media coverage of Portland, OR—you might like this piece.

substack.com/@kimberlynac...

a 👏 men 👏

A snickers bar split open, with a JPEG of a copper ingot exposed in the middle

Everyone please diligently check your candy this year. I cracked open a snickers bar and not only did I find a copper ingot, but it was of poor quality.

Worse still, when my man Nanni confronted my neighbor about it, he was treated with disdain.

This is a friendly nudge to check where your local food pantries are, if you don't know already. In the next 9 days, a lot of people are going to need them more than ever.

Check on what your local pantry is asking for - but don't be afraid to bring "fun" or holiday foods, too.

📷: @blainehasabluesky.bsky.social 🖤

Kimberly stands facing the camera, with her head turned profile, in front of a national forest signpost with map, a lush green forest in the background.

new pfp, same nerd :)

I did this for Twitter ages ago and it was the biggest game changer. I did it for basically all the rest of my apps after that.

Kimberly smiling and holding up a Raspberry Pi computer—a little black box with a cutout of a raspberry on it.

I've finally hit a threshold for what I'd consider a real "geek"—obviously I've been coding for years (it's my job), but today... I bought and assembled a Raspberry Pi, for the purpose of setting up a home server.

I'm already blocking ads on my wifi network, and I'm setting up image hosting next.

It's about that time

i feel like a monster

back on my bullshit

(gave Shane 2 beers to speedrun 4 hearts so I'd have someone to dance with at the Flower Festival...)

greta ily what an outfit

finally gotten cold enough in the mornings that my reynaud's kicks in, and the hand on my mouse, furthest from my body heat, gets comfortably numb after about 15 minutes 😀

You hit the nail on the head - this is exactly what it felt like to be in high school <3 This was such a beloved song to me in my senior year.

the good: we have central heating!!!!

the bad: we were told it was broken when we moved in last year, we only half-verified it, and the technician just let us know it was never broken, it was just that nobody knew how to operate the remote properly 😭😭

“I use it for brainstorming.” is quickly becoming my most hated pro-AI statement.

YOU TOOK YOUR BRAIN OUT OF THE EQUATION. THAT IS NOT BRAINSTORMING.

This is super cool - I don't always have my finger on the pulse of every CSS update, so having them all here (even some of the Chromium-only ones!) is so helpful.

Silhouette of a man against a sunset, arms raised in the air with chains breaking

my ninth-grade crush who said NASTY things about me behind my back when he found out I liked him is getting into chiropractic "medicine"

A small grey tuxedo cat standing on a rock, surrounded by brown fall leaves. He's looking straight at the camera with partially closed eyes, content.

chimney decrees it is autumn, now

You can't fool me, rnicrosoft... I did my time hunting for creative URLs on tumblr dot com

Anyone have any good recommendations for where to get a good desk mat? (Ideally somewhere that's not selling mats with either stolen art or AI slop?)