Bluesky should turn off images on purpose every so often, just to highlight the difference alt text makes.

A SKELITON AT THERE COMPUTER " CANT BELIEVE I DIDNT LOOK UP MORE COOL SHIT WHEN THE INTERNET STILL WORKED" ,,, THE FUNNYEST THING ABOUT A SOCIETY IN DECLINE IS YOU DONT REALLY EXPECT IT TO HAPPEN TO YOU AND WHEN IT DOES IT FEEL'S LIKE A PERSONAL OFFENSE, WE WATCHED COMPUTERS AND NET GET BETTER AND BETTER FOR SO MANY YEARS THAT IT SEEMED OBVIOUS IT WOULD CONTINUE, WHY WOULD THINGS GET BAD ON PURPOSE, HOW CAN YOU MAKE MORE MONEY WITH WORSE PRODUCT'S , WELL THEY FIGURED OUT HOW TO DO IT , THEY SOLD OUR COMMUNITYS AND RESOURCES UP THE DAMB RIVER TO MAKE A FEW MORE TRILLION'S, AND WHAT CAN THEY EVEN BUY WITH IT, OBVIOUSLY NOT THE ABILITY TO ENJOY WHAT YOU HAVE IN PEACE - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN BBUT IM STILL KICKEN A$$ AND ADDING CUSS WORD'S TO MY GOGGLE SEARCHES SO THEY DONT SHOW ME AI SHIT !!!! - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN

WHAT NOW - dashare.zone ADMIN

ah ha, very plausible. It messes with the N section in particular. All the "New..." states end up down below NC and ND.

Pet peeve:
A form field lists all states by abbreviation, but sorts them alphabetically by the full state name. Why would someone go out of their way to do that?

listening to smart & talented people who worked on the IRS' now-killed DirectFile, and I am SO MAD that this didn't get to continue. This was how government should actually work for the people.

Ladies and gentlemen... the weekend. (also: you are important and are not alone 🧡)

Public Inspection: Extension of Compliance Dates for Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Disability; Accessibility of Web Information and Services of State and Local Government Entities Extension of Compliance Dates for Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Disability; Accessibility of Web Information and Services of State and Local Government Entities

It's absolutely bonkers to see this extension just a week before the deadline. People all over the country have been busting ass to get in compliance. Which is a better world to be in! Even if I'm frustrated with the details. I hope this doesn't kill momentum

www.federalregister.gov/public-inspe...

@mayor.nyc.gov: "If you are a Mario Kart fan, government is Yoshi and philanthropy is the Golden Mushroom, that edge we need to beat Bowser on the Rainbow Road. To belabor this metaphor even further, Bowser is corporate greed in this scenario."

"Slack is not a repository." - Matt Arnold, #IAC26

amen

my algorithms are 100% watch ads now

A European common cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis) wearing a pair of red and blue 3D glasses. They look cool as fuck. Their arms are reaching out and they have a sandy striped pattern

A European common cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis) wearing a pair of red and blue 3D glasses swimming just above the ground. They look very cool. They have a yellow sandy beige colour.

A European common cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis) wearing a pair of red and blue 3D glasses sitting on the ground. Their two centre arms are raised and reaching back while the other limbs rest on the ground. They have a grey colour with brown spots. They look extremely cool.

A European common cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis) wearing a pair of red and blue 3D glasses reaching for a projection of a shrimp. They look pretty cool. They have a sandy brown colour.

In 2019, scientists velcro'd 3D glasses to European common cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis)

They didn't do this just to make them look cool as fuck, but in order to study their vision. Using a 3D theatre made for the cuttlefish, they were able to test if cuttlefish have stereo vision (they do!)

It really sucks that AI companies have made the economics of a stable and well-preserved web near-impossible. aramzs.xyz/noteworthy/t...

Today at a conference I heard the Treasurer of NC joke that he could probably vibecode a replacement for their big clunky important enterprise software "in an afternoon". I've never heard "fortran" said with such disdain.

It was a joke, but with an undercurrent of "I might try it anyway"

if you're asking a question at a convention or conference:
Use the mic. You're not special. Nobody can hear you without it.

including my PC speakers & subwoofer from the late 20th century, they might outlive us all.

This weekend I did a bunch of improvements on the home office setup, adding a KVM switch and replacing monitors.

In a victory for electronics-hoarders everywhere, the bag of cables in the back of the closet had all the supplies I needed.

thanks for calling this out, looking forward to catching up

If I won the lottery, I think my big indulgence would be getting into fancy watches.

youtube premium is raising the price of their family plan by 17%, with nothing extra to show for it. Just the most recent in a long line, while I haven't had a cost of living raise in almost 2 years. Everything stinks.

I'm so used to watching edited compilations from the Apollo era that I had no idea recovery takes this long!

Still genuinely thrilled to watch it live

I'm moonscrolling

Clearly they haven't come out yet because they're putting on their ape costumes

Things that work: giant rocket, very precise math, orbital mechanics, cameras, iPhones

Things that don’t work: Microsoft Outlook, toilets, sat phones

That whole thing was cool af.

The entire Artemis mission has been cool af.

Abolish ICE and give the money to NASA

The capsule splashing down onto the water with the three red and white parachutes above it

Splashdown! Vehicle is stable and upright. “A perfect bulls-eye splash for Integrity and its four astronauts!” #Artemis

warm sunshine over the earth's curvature taking up half the frame

the image just before blackout...

the other fish at the fair must have been so relieved!

A hermit crab in a tank

This is Hermes. As of today, we've kept him alive for a very unexpected three years.

He also murdered all his roommates.

But Happy Birthday, Hermes!

I wish the concept was taught in high school civics class or something. You can show up, and people with power have to listen to you for 1-3 minutes. Sometimes you can even see how your input factored into a decision!

(Or you can ramble about nonsense, it's almost free therapy)

Lord help me, I've become a regular public commenter at school board meetings.