I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake By A Horse Hello. I am a horse. I work very hard at my job of being a horse. When humans say move the heavy thing, I move the heavy thing. When humans sit on top of me and pull on my head, I carry them where they want to go. The main food the humans give me is hay and oats. But I am thinking it would be nice to have a different food. I am thinking I would like to try cake. Yes, yes. Cake. I know all about it. When humans eat cake, it is in glad times. It is the food for a celebration, such as when a woman becomes 47. I have seen cake on the Fourth of July. When humans have a cake, they stand around it and clap hands and smile and say happy birthday at each other. Sometimes there are beautiful markings on a cake, such as balloons or a pink shape. Sometimes the top of a cake is on fire and a boy must blow on the fire with mouth wind. This is the scariest cake. I do not want this kind. But I will eat any other cake. Any cake that is not the fire cake that tries to kill the boy. Please understand: I do not get money for doing work. I do not get to go inside the house. All I am either doing my horse job or standing in my pen or eating food off the floor. I always do these things. But I have never once gotten cake and I would like it very much. I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children. I am more helpful to the farm. Children do not move the heavy things like me or let anyone ride on them. And yet they get cake. Maybe the humans will realize this. Maybe they will say, "You know who deserves cake? That horse. That horse whose back we are always on." Every day I dream about what it will be like if I get to eat cake. Here is what will happen. First, I will walk to the cake and putt my nose at it like hrrfff to make and stomping my hooves to make sure it is not a snake. Then I will trot in a circle to show that I am a horse and I am large. After that, I will nuzzle the cake to …

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me.

It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

This is so, so well-articulated.

(psst the show runner of MD was Liam Vickers just thought you might like to know)

I might have to borrow those books when I have a chance then 👀

There is no solar power crisis. No wind power crisis. No insulation crisis. No heat pump crisis. No e-bike crisis. No electric bus crisis. But there is a #fossilfuel crisis. And a #climatecrisis.

I suppose I should’ve worded my original compliment as “I love the references to real-world Unix sysadmin”

I imagine GLITCH bent things a little to be more digestible/fit the story, since I can imagine theories going wild if Kinger used sudo: “omg is he THE superuser” etc etc.

Plus, I’m not too pressed about accuracy in a computer system that is from the 90s while also being able to simulate minds.

Huh, the more you know.

I LOVE how accurate the Unix battle was. Kinger really pulled out so many stops: debugger, perms editing, systemd, mount, and I think a privilege escalation binary/backdoor program of some kind? It'd be cool to see the whole terminal output at some point.

AAAAAAAAA-
[kernel panic - core dumped]

You ever wonder if the Numbani janitors get tired of sweeping up after major events, or do you reckon the Juni bots can handle cleanup?

Honestly, this is half of why I don't bother with CI/CD pipelines for a lot of my small software projects. rsync the project folder, SSH in, attach screen session, restart the process, then disconnect. It's almost deliciously taboo.

(Can't do the same with video game builds, alas)

Hey, it looks like the link to the video isn’t clickable? Maybe because there’s no space between the link emoji and the link itself?

What did Matt do to deserve this

Hello, welcome to the quiet suburbs of the Internet

Share. Now.

Flash Player Fwednesday gotta be one of my favorite days of all time

RIP nameless individual who was consumed by tardigrades, you shall be remembered

How could you do this to us, Ironwood.

Wait that second picture goes HARD

IT IS

I still listen to Haven by Marianas Trench ever since I stole that rec from you

Then again, I haven't done much with Fusion in the past year, maybe it's improved since I last tried it.

I don't know if I'm just stupid or what, but any time I try to do anything remotely complicated in Fusion, I find that my playback framerate dips to the point where I have no sense of timing, which is why I originally started using Motion Canvas.

If you are a resident of California, the state now has a portal where you can demand deletion of your personal data from 500+ registered data brokers with a single request form, for free.

consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov

Hey so this is fascism and the government officials promoting it are anti-American fascists

Seeing some chatter about Freja, Kiriko, and Lucio having a faster base speed in the latest #Overwatch patch. As far as my testing in both 5v5 and 6v6 customs shows, this is not the case. Freja, Lucio, and Kiriko still have a base 5.5 m/s move speed.

Congrats on your promotion!

Mood_irl

Yes, I offered to pay him for his time. No, he did not accept payment even after I pushed for it.

For a scrapped video essay script I was writing, an editor friend of mine sat in an hour-long voice call with me while we frantically restructured the entire outline. Bless his soul for listening to my insane and self-indulgent ideas for that long and telling me no every time.