A veterinarian in a spread-out, mountainous region with an agricultural focus isn't gonna be cozy, but that fairytale understanding of the alpes was already an issue in the original joke.

I'm just always bothered by that because I'm almost a local.

At least they didn't name it Henrietta

Comic. [Person and person with white hat facing two boxes stacked with $80 price tag and sale tag on each box.] PERSON 1: They want $80 for this? I could make one myself for $10 in parts, an hour of work, a trip to the hardware store, another $30 in parts, another few hours of work, two more trips to the store for $20 more in parts, another hour of work to redo the first hour of work because I messed up, and $80 to buy this when the one I made breaks.

Make It Myself

xkcd.com/3233/

It is pretty astonishing that any time you have to go check them, Facebook and LinkedIn are both, generously speaking, barely useable

“Chat,

A guy asking ChatGPT to review a series of fart sound effects and getting a serious kiss ass response that calls it atmospheric

I can't stop laughing at this post. It's perfect.

I 💚 this especially the first one: "The Git Commands I Run Before Reading Any Code" by Ally Piechowski

piechowski.io/post/git-com...

I know the tweet is Al generated when they use " ," before and.

“I will NOT sacrifice the Oxford comma. We've made too many compromises already; too many retreats. They assimilate the em dash and we fall back. They capture ‘not just X but y’ and we fall back. Not again. The line must be drawn here! This far, no further!”

I’m fucking crying dude. Asking “pretty please do not introduce a security vulnerability”.

4-panel comic. (1) [Two people standing next to house with solar panels on roof. Person 2 has a black hat.] PERSON 1: Wait, you got solar panels? I thought you were against renewables. (2) PERSON 2: Oh, definitely. I hate the environment and want to harm it as much as possible. I’d *love* to have an oil furnace. (3) PERSON 2: But the technology just isn’t there and the cost is too high. I despise solar, but it makes more financial sense in my situation. (4) PERSON 2: But with the money I’m saving, I can buy and burn industrial waste in my yard to try to make up for it. PERSON 1: Ah, yeah, carbon onsets.

Home Solar

xkcd.com/3226/

17776 is one of the best pieces of science fiction on the internet

It's about football

You need to read it

getting to look at and think about pokemon are some of the Great Things about being a human person

Should be this one:
scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-8980

General note with SCPs is that the site is still alive, active and fun, but barely any work that isn't edgy and a decade old has hit the mainstream. Here's another modern one that I love, for example:
scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-8916

I promise your life will get so much better if you learn to say “I don’t know what that is” or “oh cool, tell me about it” instead of just rawdogging your way through every interaction like you’ve got everything figured out

You don’t and i can tell when you’re lying

Unprecedented Times [A Pokemon Ranger Quest] You are a Pokemon Ranger coming to assist after the destruction wrought in Hoenn by two legendary Pokemon. Do your best to help heal the world, it needs all the help it can get.

Second time this week I'm recommending this to someone on Bluesky, somehow.
This a cute, long, ongoing fic about a gal who's a wildlife ranger in Pokemon, hosted on a cozy forum for hobbyists writers.
Big on the gentle, sweet and melancholic feelings. It regularly makes me tear up.

You’re telling me a cat displayed the contents of this file to console??? 🐱

Two cartoonish shrimp with big smiles and claws raised. Shrimp bowl (close-up). Bowl. Peru: Ica, Nasca. 100 B.C.E.-800 C.E. MOA Collections 2990/180. Photo by Joshua Doherty.

O M G 🦐

Shrimp bowl (close-up). Bowl. Peru: Ica, Nasca. 100 B.C.E.-800 C.E. MOA Collections 2990/180. Photo by Joshua Doherty.

myvancity.ca/2026/02/27/m...

Evopsyche: Why and how 1.3 billion years of evolution somehow explains why the nuclear family of 1949-1955 is the only suitable way to live

orange tabby cat with white legs, belly and sides lies curled at the based of a destroyed Roman pilar, just barely fitting in the shade cast during the early afternoon in Rome.

If you ever go visit Rome and go see the spot Caesar got got, it's a really great bonus that it's currently a sanctuary for feral cats like this one, who get to laze about in the crumbling remnants of a fallen empire. As we all do, these days.

D7200. May, 2024.

Wow, this is actually a really fascinating help page, especially the parts regarding tone.
You can tell that Wikipedia editors are veterans of this subject by now. Keeping the nonsense out has been a war for them.

A white bust sculpture is used as a knife holder, with multiple knives and a pair of scissors stuck into it, placed on a kitchen island.

#IdesOfMarch

Well.

This is both fascinating *and* disturbing.

Realised that many of my favourite soundtracks to wrangle data to are break-up albums.

I think it's the combination of bitterness, anger, sadness, but also resolve, and maybe a smidge of hope.

Perfect for righting the wrongs of Other People's Data.

#databs #rstats

https://bsky.app/profile/why.bsky.team/post/3mgaqaaisfs2e Why @why.bsky.team Oh interesting, people who don't know how to build software are getting mad at my post about building software. Cute. Let me be clear, over the next year, the job of software engineer will shift dramatically to no longer have typing syntax into an editor as its primary time sink.

In my entire 15 year career in software development, “typing syntax into an editor” has never been the primary time sink.

Most of the time was spent on understanding what the software was actually supposed to do and to resolve conflicting requirements.

README: THIS PROJECT IS STILL IN EARLY DEVELOPMENT IT USES EXPERIMENTAL CRYPTOGRAPHIC LIBRARIES AND IT HAS NOT HAD ANY KIND OF SECURITY OR CRYPTOGRAPHY REVIEW THIS SOFTWARE MIGHT BE BROKEN AND UNSAFE

I've come to associate disclaimers like this with high quality, partly because an LLM would never write that.

There seem to be a whole (older) cohort of eminent social psychologists who essentially do not understand the concept of sampling error, and I wonder to what extent that lack of understanding was an adaptive trait for a career.

This is the most incredible footage of blue whales I’ve ever seen

even if you could literally just instantly hire 20 *humans* to write a bunch of prs for your software it almost certainly will be very bad unless you are a very very good manager

I have no doubt LLMs can out-perform the average "data analyst" as described in this piece but that's a very low bar indeed. Maybe this will help promote the importance of the "statistician in the loop" something we should already have but refuse to pay for.

The takahē, a gigantic flightless rail, blue and green plumage with a massive red bill and red legs sporting colored bands.

I said "I love you" to another flightless bird yesterday.

This one was a takahē on the predator-free island of Tiritiri Matangi near Auckland.

After finding this bird on the far end of the island, I lay down in the tall grass and waited. After a while he approached closely and lingered.