Posts by Chaotic Rants
Bullfrog looking left, partly out of the water - lower body visible, refracting, under water
Bullfrog of the day!
Tuesday, 21 April 2026
DENTIST: Have you been flossing?
ME: Have you?
DENTIST: (sweating) THIS ISN’T ABOUT ME!
There are some things in there that I just leave alone. If I leave them alone, they will leave me alone. Right?
If I ever found Waldo I wouldn’t tell anybody. It’s clear at this point he shuns recognition, why would I screw that up for him.
More and more I am seeing "I would never use it for anything creative but I generative AI seems fine for coding" and I wonder if people realize that coding is also a creative field and the generated code is also coming from scraped and plagiarized human code, please don't give coding a special pass
Photo of a grey tuxedo tabby cat lying on top of the back of a leather recliner. The cat is stretching its forelegs out in a Superman type pose.
Impeccable form. Photo from my collection, no date/info.
Why is a roach clip called a roach clip?
Because pot holder was taken.
A golden retriever has both paws up at a bank teller’s window.
“Are you the branch manager?”
“Yes I am, how can I help you?”
“I would like two branches, please.”
“How would you like that?”
“Two big sticks, four little sticks.”
Those look amazing!
Which makes you wrong about that by default.
Target emailed me to send me some update on how they use my data which reminded me I could just delete my account. They kind of bury how to do that so here's the form
www.target.com/guest-privac...
[From my daughter]
Q: What’s the last part of the body to die?
A: The pupils…because they dilate
They are not turncoats. They are just showing their true colors.
You really think they aren't in the files too?
passwords should be like “that’s close enough”
A new version of iPhone exploit kit DarkSword has been leaked on GitHub; iVerify co-founder Matthias Frielingsdorf says the exploits "will work out of the box" (TechCrunch)
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Image from Twitter
Name a better meal than this. I’ll wait…
Two pilots dead at LaGuardia. A lone controller managing two simultaneous emergencies. The FAA is 3,000 controllers short. We will blame the human. We should fix the system.
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
There was ONE ATC in the tower at LGA during last night's crash.
ONE ATC, at LGA!, dealing w ALL air and ground traffic, including a plane filling w a strange smell and no gate to return to.
The Pentagon wants $200B for a vanity war, but our ATC towers are empty.
Budgets are moral documents.
A smiling moon crescent in the black sky tonight.
Say cheese!
20% illuminated waxing crescent over San Diego county just now (7:30)
This might be the end of the Cheshire phase.
When faced with fight or flight, always choose fight
Unless you’re a pilot
So the TMNT 300 cover no one is talking about but SHOULD be is a brand new Eastman and Laird collabo piece
Hope you have a 2nd bathroom.
BREAKING:
The U.S. Senate has confirmed Markwayne Mullin to serve as Secretary of Homeland Security.
The vote was 54–45.
Rand Paul was the only Republican to vote against Mullin.
Democratic Senators John Fetterman and Martin Heinrich voted to confirm Mullin.
A big crescent moon is seen over Southern California and we see the lower third of the orb is visible.
Tonight’s waxing gibbous phase #moon is 35% illuminated. Seen slightly past lunar noon on the west coast of US. Nice crater detail along the shadow line.
While looking for something in the closet I went ahead and moved my winter coats to the back.
Yes, that's right. This cold spell is my fault.
This Discord fiasco really has my knickers in a twist.
Not because I didn't see it coming, but because I am sick of only being right about bad things.
See below.
Oh shit!
I'll show myself out...