kara mae

yeah if i didn't before, I at least did when I saw hit & stay at the Charles, some time not long after it came out in 2013

bluehost and sitelock are owned by the same guy, apparently.

I'm mad I didn't know more during the call so I could give the sleazy "cybersecurity" employee a piece of my mind but at least I didn't give them more money. I hate these people.
scamming your own customers! I hate it here.

I searched around and it turns out they've been pulling this scam since as far back as 2017, even taking people's sites down and more or less holding them ransom to buy sitelock- all over links to EXTERNAL infected sites.

I conducted a bunch of scans and ultimately found that I had a LINK to an external site that was compromised this made sense since I already have extra security, firewall, etc.

All the while I had been doing my own scans and research and kept asking him where I could find a diagnostic or something.
i said i want to fix the malware first and would call back about sitelock. he promised to generate a file (he never did - I dont think he even had access).

offered me 10% discount on sitelock. then a cheaper sitelock plan (still hundreds of dollars that I dont have. I realized this was a sales pitch and not a tech support call and got annoyed.

I told him I can't afford that. I even said well if that's really necessary and there's nothing I can do, I guess I'll have to stop self-hosting and take my site down. He tried to call my bluff and basically implied he could take my site down right away - again without giving me any information

the guy kept trying to sell me their sitelock service to do a scan and protect my site in the future. I kept trying to ask him what I can do about the actual malware first and he changed the subject to sitelock again and again

I had just done some plugin updates and thought that might be the problem.
when I got a call back from bluehost (and I googled the number to make sure it was theirs), I got a complete runaround

I got a phone call that there was malware on my site. obviously i was unsettled. I dont even use google analytics because I dont want to help google track my readers, let alone infect them with malware

I host my site with bluehost, and unfortunately its paid up through 2028.
i've had my issues with them before but the other day they crossed the line and if I could afford to I'd cut my losses and transfer immediately.

I didn’t even notice that part until I looked at the photo

Hybrid car with powered by Jesus sticker

It’s a hybrid so it’s only partially powered by Jesus

all the people being like "they have no right to criticize" are playing into the entire problem with all of this.
nobody powerful has the right to criticize anyone else powerful because theyre all corrupt. ok great.

YouTube video by Old Line Plate Kinklings for Fat Tuesday

Kinkling day.

I definitely don't adapt naturally to video editing or hearing my voice but my goal for the year is to make 4 cookbook videos. This one is kind of a bonus side tangent.

www.youtube.com/shorts/Y0Piv...

my recipe is here but it is not for the faint of heart (I mean that figuratively but with those egg yolks it applies literally too come to think of it)
oldlineplate.com/paczki/

It's Tłusty Czwartek! Happy Tłusty Czwartek ( Fat Thursday) to all who celebrate! Years ago, I wrote about this wonderful Polish holiday for OFM30, where every available bit of space in my local Polski sklep is covered in ...

love @nicmiller.bsky.social paczki roundup here - I had logged in to comment before even realizing my recipe is mentioned.

tales-from-topographic-kitchens.ghost.io/its-tlusty-c...

omg thank you for this baby turtles ̶#̶1̶ #2 ; baby terrapins #1

Dr. Brian Motz is a dentist in Frederick, Maryland, associated with Monocacy Valley Dental, specializing in general, cosmetic, and implant dentistry, and has received awards like "Frederick's Best Dentist". He holds advanced certifications, including Diplomat status with the International Congress of Oral Implantologists, and offers services like Invisalign and sedation dentistry. Recent news reports indicate he is facing legal issues, including assault charges and probation violations, leading to a postponed trial and home detention with GPS monitoring.

This is quite an AI summary

Kara Mae / Old Line Plate on Instagram: "For over thirty years, one of the most popular radio shows on the Eastern Shore was a program called “Party Line.” In 1983, host Bill Phillips produced a cookb... 107 likes, 12 comments - old_line_plate on February 1, 2026: "For over thirty years, one of the most popular radio shows on the Eastern Shore was a program called “Party Line.” In 1983, host Bill Phil...

2026 is my pivot to video year I guess, only a decade plus behind the times. I just somehow finally have the capacity to learn new things (badly)

www.instagram.com/p/DUQq9xejeGj/

I also felt like a diva and to figure out whether I should care I tried to craft a neutral question to googles gemini of all things to find out whether it would actually impact me negatively... and then when I reached out to them people were so nice about it 😭

I got them to change the name of this (at least they said they did)

obligatory recipe connection
oldlineplate.com/hoffman-cook...

sheet of ice on a creek with a hole in it from a rock

spores floating in the air from puffball mushrooms being poked by a stick

January is rough but so far this year I got to throw rocks through surface ice on a river AND poke puffball mushrooms with a stick, on two separate hikes so who knows what joys await.

screenshot of "Britons almost universally agree that AI tools should not be allowed to make 'undressed' images of adults or children" with arrow pointing to the small percentage that thinks "Generate 'undressed' images of children" "should be allowed" or "dont know"

optimists "the public is in agreement on this"!
me, glass-half-empty person:

if I shot every driver I felt threatened by—hell, every driver I *was actually* threatened by—I'd be the biggest mass murderer in history

out-of-pocket season. can't wait to deal with renewing all my prior authorizations as well.

me: ok January time to hunker down and cut back on spending, save some money

health insurance company: lol no

apparently its faded to white anyway but I think it'd be a hilarious flex with all the NASA cuts if some country went to the moon and removed the american flag

I spent a lot of last winter/spring reading/transcribing letters like this.
I messed around a little with AI transcribers and I think it is one of the few useful applications (although such uses will never be prioritized or funded) but obviously a human eye can never be fully replaced