Mike - Towards a Metric America!

For the record, UK Police can never say "there's a personal shortage" as an excuse for not doing something productive, because look at all the personel they managed to find to do this nonsense.

The most I escape this shit is my part time hardware store job, and even that's actually a total lie, because we keep getting price changes dumped on us due to the tariff shit and they've aggressively cut hours likely because the economy is actually shit.

Yeah, I can 'turn off my phone' all I fucking want and do something to distract me, but setting aside that I have fucking object permanence, this bullshit is honestly permeating everything.

This is just Enron with extra steps.

I'm rooting for it at this point, my team got knocked out so fuck it, let's get the funniest outcome possible.

Canada takes baseball from the USA.

The phone book company?

Look I'm not just talking as a Blue Jays fan here, but can we agree that the Jays winning the World Series would be peak right now.

Map from Wikipedia showing congressional representation changes, most of the country had no changes. Of note, CA, IL, MI, OH, WV, NY, PA all lost 1 seat, while OR, MT, CO, NC, FL gained 1 seat, and Texas gained 2 seats.

The most enraging part of this is that the fucking Republicans benefited from the 2020 Census results.

Texas and Florida gained seats while California and New York both lost seats. And Republicans gained in NC after '24.

I love that standing literally means fucking nothing anymore.

Oh, fucking wonderful.
Just what nobody needed.

What's in retrospect really funny about this statement, is that what I've technically described is "Life on Mars", a UK television show where this effectively happens.

Want to point out that the fact I can't sign up for a Viz Media subscription on their website, that I *have* to use the app to set that up is the stupidest shit ever.

Take my fucking money.

YouTube video by Doc Adams How To Kill A Brand

This one goes out to ALL the Bluesky staffers right now:

Hey, @jay.bsky.team - you going to explain recent bans, or is the idea that a little fear in the user base will go a long way?

Oh yeah, fuck going back to that place.

I'll actually figure out how to build a website that runs off a computer in my basement before I do that.

I recall a discussion on one of the shipping reddits that if you try to refuse at that point you just lose the package *and* get taken to collections for the customs duties.

(But honestly, who the fuck know? It's almost like there's a reason you don't do shit like this with ~30 days notice/prep.)

21st century in a nutshell: paying more money each year for worse products and services, some of which are designed to entrap us one way or another.

I'm still at a loss how 'skoots' was much better.

Like seriously, it somehow sounds worse.
(And I say that as someone who didn't care for 'skeet'.)

Slap the word "Aviation" on a thing, and the price goes up $3000.

I'm still annoyed that they didn't make "PuraOre!" about Riko, the girl who quits her team and almost the sport, because her frustration with her old team's attitude was a much more interesting plot.

猫のロボット掃除機妨害対策として屋外用ペットテントに入れとけばいいじゃん！と賢い私はさっそくアマゾンで買って入れてみた。

Being the clever human I am, I decided to put her in an outdoor pet tent to stop her from attacking the robot vacuum. So I bought one on Amazon and put her in it…

I think it's the stealing our fuckin' name that bugs me too. Shitfuck can't even come up with his own god damn name for it.

And to be clear, he *is* stealing our name, because a blend-word of "Grok" and "encyclopedia" wouldn't contain the first "i". That comes from the "Wiki" in Wikipedia.)

Because let's be clear the only reason this little 'fash-pedia' project will resemble a successful thing because it's taking the 2 decades of hard work all of us have put into Wikipedia and ripping it off.

It'd be a pile of shit and nothing if they had to start from scratch without our labor.

I know it's the nature of the Wikipedia project and license, so I'm not allowed to be that angry, but there's something really fucking irritating about this fuck's stupid theft bot coming in, lifting our hard work and then trying to misrepresent it.

Actually a weirdly productive day:
* Watched some episodes of "Vera".
* Got done with a project at work, finally, just ahead of the deadline.
* Updated a map for Wikipedia
* Did Stage One of our discord server's project to archive less used channels.

Screenshot from "His & Hers Circumstances", featuring five traffic lights against a night sky, all displaying red lights. "This channel has been archived." has been edited into the lower corner.

I created this image for the discord server I'm a mod on, to place in a bunch of channels we're archiving.
Very happy with the final look of it.

It's a screenshot from "His & Hers Circumstances", which we also pull some other traffic light imagery to use when reminding folks to stop fighting.

there's been too much fighting on here - let's rerun Trump Is Secretly Dead this weekend, that was fun last time

A closeup of two cats sleeping together in a big armchair. #CatsOfBlueSky

Preparing for another wild weekend at the Hardy Boy house

Is this the same platform that was banning people for being insufficiently respectful of Charlie Kirk like two weeks ago or did I open the wrong app

Photo of Big Muskie towering over the landscape in 1999. Big Muskie was the largest drag-line excavator in the world at the time.

The Bluesky leadership team deciding the hole wasn't big enough and resurrecting the largest excavator possible to make the hole bigger.

📷: Brian M. Powell (CC BY-SA 3.0)