Do angels look like wheels or did we model the wheel after the divine?

Mhm. Definitely the like "suffering can foment growth but that does not make it good" angle.

A navy friend reminded me of that time I got a big Talking-To after I gave a training about bearings and I referred to roller bearings as "Biblically accurate wheels". Maybe that'll be my next entry for the powerpoint party.

Sonic is just Goku

Washington's gray wolf population reaches highest count to date New data shows Washington's gray wolf population has bounced back, reaching the highest statewide count of the species to date.

@korpspropaganda.bsky.social Omega out there putting in the work
www.kuow.org/stories/wash...

Is that the actual meaning of "free time"? Like, we're on the ad-supported tier of time and we can't fathom the likes of wot you'd get if you could access Premium Time. I feel like that's the kind of shit that makes you go mad if you get dragged back to Free Tier after experiencing it.

Spent a whole workday in PTP license hell. Can't even describe the situation as fixed. More like "improved but also modified enough that it's no longer in my wheelhouse". Trying not to focus on how Orwellian it is that you need to pay a subscription fee for access to... the current time.

Alright look, I'm gonna sanitize your inputs and spread Glaze at all the entrypoints, maybe set up a honeypot or two, once we've got the immediate infestation under control we can talk about long-term mitigation options. In the meantime just make sure your personal info is kept in sealed containers.

Getting that exterminator estimate speech about your computer "Yeah I see this kinda thing all the time, ya didn't keep yer config clean and now a buncha AIs got in. I tell ya they'll get in through any little crack and soon ya got a whole swarm of 'em! Yeah it'll be tough to get all of 'em."

Mike Nellis @MikeNellis "I'M NO LONGER CATHOLIC!" Hannity ABANDONS HIS FAITH for Trump NELLIS X.com • +*+

Amazing that in the national divorce the libs are getting the NFL, butter and cooking oil, being attracted to adult women, standup comedy, Bud Light, and now also Catholicism

That's the sneeze guard. You gotta bend down under here if you wanna get food or sneeze on stuff.

Good to know that spycraft is still out there in the world. I thought we had made it obsolete by just tweeting out what all our troop movements are gonna be.

Several musicians and other public figures doing the "hands forward" photograph pose popular in the 2000s.

Tien from Dragonball performing the Solarflare attack, using a similar pose with splayed fingers near his face.

They were trying to do Solarflare to disorient their enemies

If you're a Leafeon can pollen get you pregnant? Asking for a friend.

Discussing Studio5000 with a friend:
I know surprisingly little about PLC programming, despite that having nominally been my job for like 8 years.

A license plate featuring a random series of O and Q, in an attempt to obscure what the plate says

Found someone out in the wild doing xkcd.com/1105/

It’s actually double-closed now. It’s a new state we invented just for the occasion.

Really? Surely there’s a Fischer Price version of a clicker that doesn’t go quite so hard. 🤔

It's too late, she has a s c e n d e d~

"It's so hard to be a landlord, this is gonna be so expensive!" Uh sell the place then? You can stop landlording at any time fr

"Well being good has extrinsic rewards so if you get rewarded are you REALLY doing good?"
YES! Notice how nobody ever examines the reverse case. Evil has extrinsic rewards, is it still evil if you were just doing it for the payoff? YES! "I was just doing it for the cash" is how MOST evil happens.

Look I dunno what to tell ya, man. Fact is that every "precious venerable tradition" in America was invented by marketing executives in the 50's to sell more cigarettes and diamonds or whatever, and every "weird newfangled fad the kids are into" is older than steel.

Or the even spicier "It doesn't matter how good any individual is subjectively doing when we still have an economic system that is fundamentally exploitative, and would completely break down if there weren't people suffering for the sake of providing luxury to others".

I do worry about turning 45, as that is for some reason what my brain always assumes my dad's age is.

Love this. If you can do it better, then fucken DO it.

It definitely does feel like we've been seeing the Wikification of games lately. Where instead of exploring the game world you just have a second window open that tells you about everything in a neatly indexed little package.

Is there a name for that? It's like I've spent my whole life avoiding it. Even tiny baby me would comment on the annoying hiss of a record player and make my dad's friend who was super proud of his turntable setup really sad. When I was using someone else's VHS I'd always fix the tracking on it.

I miss when "remix" used to mean something. Like, you changed the instrumentation, arrangement, tone EQ or even just the relative volume of the different tracks. I'm so sick of seeing a "lowfi remix" that just adds vinyl crackling and a bunch of VHS frequency distortion.

Pasting in a sub’s keymashing as a Slay the Spire seed and they can only cum once they’ve beaten it.

Oh nice, is that a Chevy Volt? Also yeah, the weather skipped the part where it's nice and went straight to too hot :<