Enjoy The Heck Out Of Life

With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

It’s that season again where I’m getting all the Facebook memories of my 2018 trip of five weeks on a #narrowboat and seven years out, there are still very few days when I don’t think about how to get back there.
Given the current American hellscape, it’s even harder to ignore the desire. #fucktrump

I’m at a 5th grade “graduation” today that’s better organized than yesterday’s parade.

#FuckMAGA
#FuckTrump
#FuckICE

This is a very nice analysis of this shit show that was the parade yesterday.


https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1934052056878243848.html#google_vignette

Is there anything interesting happening this evening in greater Camberville?
I am at unplanned loose ends

#bored #boston


#FuckMaga, #FuckTrump

Effective May 5, 2025, NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) will decommission its snow and ice data products from the Coasts, Oceans, and Geophysics Science Division (COGS). As a result, the level of services for affected products below will be reduced to Basic—meaning they will remain accessible but may not be actively maintained, updated, or fully supported. This includes Sea Ice Index, Snow Data Assimilation System (SNODAS) Data Products, Glacier Photograph Collection, U.S. National Ice Center Arctic Sea Ice Charts and Climatologies in Gridded Format Gridded Monthly Sea Ice Extent and Concentration, 1850 Onward World Glacier Inventory. If you rely on these products in your work, research, education, or planning, we invite you to share your story at nsidc@nsidc.org. Your input can help us demonstrate the importance of these data sets and advocate for future support.

This is horrible. I don't even know what to say. Some of our most key polar data.

"As a result, the level of services for affected products below will be reduced to Basic—meaning they will remain accessible but may not be actively maintained, updated, or fully supported."

nsidc.org/data/user-re...

Kuando Busylights A do not disturb light that visually signals your online status to reduce unwanted interruptions

I know such exist for *phones*, and it seems the search term is "busy light" - www.zoom.com/en/hardware/... for example.
No idea about a generic.

Name and shame the manufacturer!

Which perfume is (was) it?

#FuckMAGA #FuckICE #SendICEtoAGulag

The #Baitcon invitation is up.
As I don’t know most of the people following me here, dm me if you go and google it and are interested, and we can talk :)

a man in a red shirt says f * ck on the screen Alt: a man in a red shirt says f * ck on the screen

It’s not even Friday and I already have to talk about some Federal Fuckery. 🧵

I can’t easily think of a boat name I would change faster.

I quite enjoyed that 1st episode and am looking forward to more, and I have exactly one word for you for discussing the evolution of ERL in the 20th and 21st century:
#ambridge!

#TheArchers

#FuckMaga #FuckICE

I was going to say. I don’t remember you ever mentioning them to us.

I had a GREAT idea today: A21st century Good Neighbors/Life reboot where Tom and Barbara move on to a #Narrowboat !!
I haven’t yet figured out how Margo and Jerry fit into this though.

Noone would blame @romanmars.bsky.social and @elizabethjoh.bsky.social if they eleased a new episode of WRMCLACL where they just scream, and shout “What the FUCK‽?” a lot.

With https://youtu.be/PuWVgVkMiHE as the background music, maybe?

Alsupp issuing a PI from the bench. Finding that OPM engaged in sham terminations, claiming they were performance based in an attempt to avoid the procedural requirements of the Reduction in Force Act.

Oh holy shit, quote in next post

But why do you think this is acceptable behavior?

That’s a fascinating bow! Try really hard to never run into anything or you’ll go right through it…

YouTube video by Thomas Benjamin Wild Esq It's Not A Difference Of Opinion...

https://youtube.com/shorts/hvSMUuvShig

#FuckMaga
#TBWildEsq
#Songs

It’s not an official tool, but “PocketTube: YouTube subscription manager” is a great browser extension for helping with that problem.

Hey internet infrastructure nerds:
Do we know anyone anywhere near
sbcglobal_postmaster@abuse-att.net who could speak to why mail from lse that goes through them and particularly through prodigy.net keeps being rejected as "Deferred: 451 4.1.8 DNS error. Cannot resolve lse.org" when LSE's DNS is UP

US postmaster to step down months after reporting billions in losses Louis DeJoy, who has headed US Postal Service since 2020, warned in November of potential ‘end of this organization’

> DeJoy warned that the post office, which has lost more than $100bn since 2007, must continue to cut costs or will remain on the path to either a “government bailout or the end of this great organization as we know it”

THE POST OFFICE IS A PUBLIC SERVICE AND SHOULD NOT BE TREATED LIKE A FOR PROFIT

We’re really close to the return of “By Any Means Necessary”.

#FuckMaga

A friend who still works for the fed notes that their at-risk datasets are petabytes in size and thus hard to copy elsewhere.

#FuckMaga

I know it’s pointless to confront you with facts, but puberty blockers do not sterilize a person. They have only temporary effect until they are stopped.
#FuckMaga
#FuckMaha

Folks: I am NOT affiliated with the group that is using my name to support an economic boycott. Please spread this post, if you would.

Robert Dale Parker (@RobertDaleParker@mstdn.social) Attached: 1 image For many years, I’ve had a beautiful copy of the first map of the United States, made in 1784 in French, from the Newberry Library, hanging on the wall. I face it every day as I sit...

https://mstdn.social/@RobertDaleParker/113991399922704650

#FuckMaga
#GulfOfMEXICO