Also @jfoy@mastodon.social. He/him, cishet xennial nerd in urban Cascadia. Gradatim.
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Today at Muppet Labs we bring to you this sandwich sharpener. have you ever thought “this sandwich makes a fine ranged weapon but I really need something close quarters?” Well, Muppet Labs has your solution! *Scooter looks appalled, Gonzo and Pepe are muttering, while Rizzo is filing a sandwich*
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The last time Seattle Opera staged the Ring Cycle around a decade ago, local transit ran the rather impressive announcement "The monorail will continue to operate after GOTTERDAMMERUNG."
This sounds like a Muppet Labs invention.
Deleted because I realized I was using a regionalism, sorry!
Cars are ambush predators
Watch out for salmon seeds
August 28: Scalzi begins to foster kittens at a geometric rate
As @kairyssdal.bsky.social said, but with a veneer of my own: What the fuck are we even doing?
Corroborated cite, or mass rumor?
"I'm gonna make Barbie an offer she cannot refuse."
Once wiped out statewide in New Jersey, bobcats were reintroduced in the 1980s and now number in the hundreds. Conservationists are stitching together “Bobcat Alley,” a greenway connecting protected parcels of land in America’s most densely populated state. buff.ly/Y4PDgG1 #ShareGoodNewsToo
Ruin a book by adding Tom Clancy's to the title Tom Clancy's The Joy of Cooking
Coffee for people getting on the train in the morning. Milk and bread for people getting off the train in the evening. Bike repair.
Why are "smart dog" and "strong joint capacity" so un-reassuring
No Took ever was a scab nor collaborator. Good trouble, necessary trouble.
When it's time your arms will know
"you OK, babe? You've barely touched your... uh..."
Reportedly, "No one can hear me when I mask!"
You Found The Spider Web With Your Face
There's A Sharp Chunk Of Bone In This Bite Of Meat, Somewhere
Well-Dressed Detectives, Inc
Poor little guy! It's the good life for you from here on.
Ah, I see. Thanks, I'll give it a shot!
I added a pig's ear to this afternoon's food order and so far they're fascinated.
Good suggestion. They have one of these already, but the adjustment between the aperture and the size of the treats isn't quite right - either the treats don't fit out at all, or they are a little too easy to get out and the cats empty the toy within ten minutes.
SHE DID IT AGAIN. Sour-bitter spray seemed to be working with daily application, and then I went out of town. This cat loves to chew on and shred cardboard boxes. What else can I give her to safely chew on to deter her from the corner of a delicious LCD monitor?
I rent. A decent induction burner runs under $100 and is a dandy way to get started; it handles basically all my stovetop needs.
They even meow, at a much lower register.
Oh? I understood they are highly social, so long as they aren't competing for food or mates.
Can we just pick up Reconstruction where it left off?
Data centers will 3x their electricity use by 2028. But one insight blew my mind: California's grid is 5-7x dirtier at night than midday Same Kubernetes job, vastly different emissions Building a Carbon-Aware Scheduler: https://ku.bz/zk2xM1lfW
I suppose cannon would help, yes
"Video's Schrödinger's Radio Star"
Slightly diminish a band The Attorneys General of the United States of America
Via @adapalmer.bsky.social
Slightly diminish a band The Mall Security
Excellent YouTube comment: “There are two UK TV films of this era unmatched for their horror: the nuclear apocalypse ‘Threads’ and this advert for British Pork” youtu.be/r0wDjWOnHcY
Wonder if we'll be able to form collectives within a credit union
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No worries at all! I've got plans and schemes.
Do you know of any open groups meeting up for food this evening?
#vote #kcelections #seattle
Rapa Nui: "guys, we have the chance to do the funniest thing"
*counts statues* *frowns* *recounts statues* *sweats, checks pulse* *recounts statues willing it to make sense*
Anyone in Chicagoland have a space for a very sweet cat that needs a home?
Nerf autoturret
Poor thing
Hand towel on the pillow ftw
Love it! My everyday carry is a 20yo Brain Bag, a little battered but still sound.
Okay, *now you can start to worry about data being manipulated.
"WASHINGTON, D.C. (August 1, 2025) – The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) announced today that it will begin an orderly wind-down of its operations" cpb.org/pressroom/Co...
Two are excellent; three are better.
Slings and Arrows.
Dude looks like a selkie
(one to two centuries, my mistake)
We have all of these stories about a guy from four to five centuries prior; were they all about the same guy?
For the record, it's been almost three weeks and we still haven't isolated where it's coming from. It definitely sounds like a window open to the street.
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"At the end of the day, we all live on a floating rock, just get on with it." 💪
Holding out for Mr. Worf mode
Look at his little tail go
In the printing-out phase
New Zealand engineers have figured out how to turn Earth’s most abundant mineral into zero-waste battery metals. They dissolve olivine to yield silica (50%), magnesium (40%) and nickel-manganese-cobalt hydroxide (10%) for lithium-ion cathodes, leaving only brine. buff.ly/NSzykIk #ShareGoodNewsToo
He could always put it on the table, though.
The part he got wrong in The Shockwave Rider was expecting that telling everyone the truth and publishing all the dark secrets would be enough to change things. He didn't anticipate tribal identities determining factual reality.
Evergreen post
RETVRN to walkable, livable streetcar suburbs and small towns with regular and reliable transit service to the city
Not with that kind of attitude
My work here is nearly complete
I don't need them to do the emotional labor, I need them to do the literal politics to stop it
BAA. BAA. BLACK. SHEEP.
In Soviet Russia, sheep clone YOU
Damn, I was going for creepy hive organism.
What are you going to do with it?
I absolutely want to see this made into an animatronic where they all speak in unison. SIT, CHILD, JOIN US
"I'm reminded of the immortal words of Socrates, who said,"
These systems, whether for sock management or alarm clock ladders or FIFO post-it notes or whatever, they all involve conscious effort, they're all exhausting attempts to create an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of executive functioning.
But who's going to get close enough to explain that to her?
Not just you. Mine sometimes yells WHEEEE while it pilots my adult self around like a mech
Cat tax.
He only had to deal with the stress of getting caught, not *gestures broadly*
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The power of Sol compels us!
Work that long game
Is this bad? Because it seems bad.
The enjoyment is directly injected at 768MHz
Just lean in and take a deep huff
(spoilers) This Superman is literally the Iron Giant: a WMD who chooses to save everyone instead. The gun with a soul.
Absolutely NO Stairway to Heaven
Dobies are such sweethearts!
Please read Walter Chaw's wonderful review (or essay really). It gets into exactly this: filmfreakcentral.net/2025/07/supe...
Small cat. Giant attitude.
One of my cats announces that It's 5AM And You Should Be Up by chewing on the bedside lampshades. (She wants play, not food.) This morning I gently ejected them both from the bedroom and awoke a couple hours later to discover she'd chewed through the computer monitor. The screen, not the cable.
It's the Original Opposable Thumb!
Eat your heart out, Escher
"Horse had butt spoilers like a '57 Chevy"
NOT NOW VOLCANO