evilstevie @evilstevie@mastod1.ddns.net

I just overheard a lady at the Home Depot garden center ask where the perineums are and I hope she finds everything she’s looking for and more.

miscellaneous networking tools

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If it doesn't come from the Silicon Valley region, its just sparkling bank failure

Expect to see many banking crisis jokes on here in the near future. Common examples include:

-Has the US tried turning the banking system off and on again?

-Maybe banks shouldn't have spent so much money on avocado toast.

-Why don't banks just pull themselves up by their bootstraps?

They will all be funny and you should boost all of them.

#Linux distro users and friendship be like ...

I’m afraid I shall be unable to attend your party as I’m reading a really good book at the moment.

TikTok: Look! I discovered hot water melts frozen food faster!

Twitter: Look at this TikTok video showing how to defrost your food faster!

Yahoo news: Millions of Twitter users view TikTok video showing new life hack for melting frozen food!

Mastodon: piss

Wait wait wait wait

Let me get this straight...

LinkedIn wants to generate crappy AI content and then invite me to fix it, for free, under some guise of flattery calling out my "expertise"

Really?

@rozanski @codinghorror You may also like the barn.megaparsec measuring spoon. A barn is an area roughly covering a Uranium nucleus. A megaparsec is three and a bit million light years. Multiply them and you get a volume, about a third of a teaspoon. My spoon is within ~1%

It doesn't matter if a refugee turns out to be Albert Einstein or Mo Farah.

Refugees are individually valuable because they are *people*, not because the country could potentially use their talents.

🙏

@Wildheart_Baby Everything driving me mad atm. I can't bear to read any more news today. I've been driven to drink.

It's Snowpy!

#MeanwhileInCanada

Things we didn't do:
- Start the fire
- Shoot the deputy
- Steal the cookies from the cookie jar

Things we did:
- Tried to fight it
- Shot the sheriff
- Put the sham in the shama-lama-ding-dong

Things we will do:
- Survive
- Rock you
- Walk 500 miles
- Walk 500 more

Things we won't do:
- Get fooled again
- Back down
- That

Things we will never do:
- Give you up
- Let you down
- Run around
- Desert you

(Oops:
- I did it again)

I occasionally still pop over to The Other Place.

On the whole it just reiterates why I moved - I have to focus on the few accounts I want to catch up on because the rest is *argh* - but sometimes there is something delightful.

I don't think Ben Cameron is over here, so I just want to point people at this amazing axolotl plushie.

It is SOOOO cute.

#plush #toy #axolotl

https://www.doodlesbyben.com/axolotl

2015 musk: AI is the biggest potential threat to human life, we must be very careful with it
2023 musk: it is important that we let the AI become racist

Mal wieder einen Porzellanladen zerdeppert? Grund genug, ein Versteck zu suchen! Ich hätte da ein paar gute Ideen. Und ein paar schlechte.

It's astonishing (i.e., not credible) that they only just noticed. Where have they have been? The man's been a clamorous, thundering bucket of clanging narcissism and incompetence for two decades at least. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/mar/04/hes-gone-full-trump-tories-turn-on-boris-johnson-over-partygate?CMP=share_btn_tw
#borisJohnson #Trump #partygate

New guide to "Finding Undocumented APIs" by @Leonyin at @themarkup – looks useful for internet studies researchers as well as digital reporters!
https://inspectelement.org/apis

Just added to this resource for our data journalism students at @kingsdh: https://github.com/jwyg/awesome-data-journalism/

You didn't ask for this, but let me tell you that Quake 1 runs at over 2000 fps these days.
#quake #retrogaming