AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD

Pretty sure that when you have giant frogs everywhere, God is very disappointed in how you are treating immigrants.

(I was very nearly literally speechless. I think I said something like, "Teach me this sorcery!"

He, quite reasonably, said that he'd been teaching himself to do that for two decades and I could do the same with the same practice.)

(being non-snarky for a moment, one of the biggest flexes I ever saw professionally was pair programming with my team lead, finding some hopelessly duplicated code that needed refactoring, and he just... wrote regexes. Fluently. By hand. No testing. And they just worked.)

I don't judge.

Out loud.

Watts is a goddamn genius and Blindsight is essential reading in 2025.

Wait, gen AI can write regexes for me?

BRB, telling Zitron to eat shit and die.

The Iowa-class were the fastest battleships ever built, too. The HMS Dreadnought, which lent its name to the entire lineage of ships that found it's apogee in the Iowas (or the Yamatos, arguably) was much, much, much less agile.

That last part is a very important part of Dick's customer value proposition.

Robert Muldoon’s (Bob Peck, RIP) famous “clever girl” death scene in 1993’s Jurassic Park. Instead of a velociraptor, however, when he turns around the last thing he sees is the Portland Protest Frog waving to him and thrusting his hips

clever girl

Yeah. It's not about having some guarantee that the people in question will get back pay. It's about what it says about the GOP's internal perception of the strength of their position that they're walking stuff like this back so quickly.

She hasn't copped to it (and I wouldn't dream of asking), but I'm about 85% sure my therapist is on the spectrum.

I made my therapist laugh today with a Seasonal Affective Disorder <-> autumn/autism joke today.

If a cesium source got into a smelter, it's could easily end up with another multi-zillion dollar rebar recall. >_<

🎶Go go Godzilla!
They say he's got to go!🎶

Johnny Cash has been cool so long that he's had more than one round of being "forgotten and then found again to be cool" by people that weren't paying attention as they grew into middle age. Been going on for over three decades at this point.

I am so sorry for your loss. He was clearly a perfect little man who will be dearly missed.

💥 SPICY KITTEN WISHLIST 💥

www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...

if nothing else, it's gonna be here for a hot minute, + we don't have kitten food anymore + it'll undoubtedly need dewormed + de-flea'd (it did get a dawn bath today tho!)

also, my ko-fi:: ko-fi.com/obliviousally

#catsofbluesky #rescue

If Hamilton is rolling with the lies-exposed-by-video "rammed by 10 cars" version of that incident on Saturday, his case is in a lot of trouble here. Judges don't enjoy being told to ignore the evidence of their eyes in favor of lies from lawyers.

Metro to remove pride crosswalk after Greg Abbott threatens to withhold funding He threatened to withhold road funding from cities and counties if they do not remove “political ideologies” from their streets.

I loathe how quickly everyone capitulates to these easily triggered assholes.

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems... SIMON: What? SHAPIRO: ...Or saying... SIMON: You imagine that? SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over. SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level. SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this. SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

"Sod it, I'm not painting all this lace right now. Bring me opium, tuna, and catnip. Oh, and the toy on the string with the feathers."

This is Skull Leader requesting takeoff permission, over.

The social media meltdown is going to be delicious.

In which the editorial board of the Washington Post effectively endorses President Nixon's claim that "when the president does it, that means it is not illegal."

ME: Now Mom, just remember, there's a lot of disinformation and AI in your social feed and your friends' Facebook.
MOM: I know! My friend sent me this crazy post where someone used AI to make an image of a giant frog fighting Army troops!
ME: ... okay, no, that one's ... goddamit, Portland.

🤖👀👀👀

Trump's temper tantrum after he isn't given the award will probably lead him to completely abandon any peace process for Gaza, which suits Netanyahu just fine. I wouldn't be half surprised to find that Netanyahu's been stringing Trump along to exactly that end.

"a future vote on extending subsidies" offered to the minority party that cannot pass the bill on their own, with a President utterly committed to the idea that he has unchecked recission power over spending?

It's about half a step removed from nothing at all.

The young progs yelled at you online, and, well, I guess you showed them! You helped render their culture an ugly, violent, stupid, contemptible wreck that will likely take decades to return to any form worthy of pride.

You showed those fucking kids! That will teach them to talk back.

Pour encourager les autres.