V to the H to the A and a Junior

I feel this way about pretty much all vaccine-preventable infectious diseases. You shouldn't be allowed to dump cyanide into municipal drinking water and you shouldn't be allowed to recreationally spread viruses around shared public spaces.

If you've been meaning to delete that Facebook/Instagram/WhatsApp account you never use, now would be a really good time!

New citizenship test just dropped

we live in the ruins of a greater civilization

New from me, at @vqr.bsky.social: a few years ago two people contacted me about a TEDx talk I once gave, “The Art of Haunting.”

When I replied I’d never given a TEDx talk, things just got weirder.

On AI, ghosts, what it means to tell a story, and what Italo Calvino saw coming 60 years ago. Enjoy!

greatest headline of my adult life

do you think they were twirling their moustache while writing that memo?

The bravery and courage of educators in contrast to the callous cruelty of DHS continues to astonish me.

“We love our children fiercely.”

USA Simulator

tHeSe aRe NoT ur FaTheR’s DeMoCrAtS

But Mr. Krabs didn’t say “fudge”…

A chemist has arranged the lifeless bodies of Biffo and Buster upon armchairs in his shop window to advertise "Slumbo" brand sleep aid, with signs reading "Slumbo will give you a good night's sleep" and "Drink 'Slumbo' and sleep like a top", whatever that is supposed to mean. ONLOOKER: What a good advert! I must buy a tin of "Slumbo"!

Beano #725, June 9, 1956

I went back to Linux and it was a mistake I need an OS, not another hobby.

Building a software user experience that can actually meet consumer expectations is much harder than many tech people think. Unfortunately, a lot of FOSS is simply not ready for the consumer experience.

Maybe @jenson.org has a different opinion.

www.theverge.com/report/87507...

I’m so not ready for spring

Freelance Rate Guide A random reply generator for freelancers to politely decline unpaid work.

A random reply generator for freelancers to politely decline unpaid work. (For when you want to be polite.)

paranoia device rolls back to previous version

Hell yes

Y’all what is up with autocorrect going insane when you have to back up and correct part of a word? Why does it treat this as a new word? So if I spell “from” as “frim“ and back up it thinks I’m trying to just spell “om”… did anyone QA this?!?

Chrontendo Episode 11 (00:24:25)

Hey y’all, former journalist here reporting about the wrestler and the “fuck ICE“ chant. He wasn’t absent from the show because of all that. He was getting on a plane to Australia. 🤷‍♂️

I haven’t tried a century egg yet, but I’m willing to try. If I get to visit my brother in Japan, I’ll try natto again.

Logging

How is natto not on here? To be fair, I’ve probably only had nasty imported stuff that isn’t representative, because I know a lot of folks eat this outside the USA. But what I had tasted straight up like gym socks. I cannot.

Didn’t Nickelodeon have a show about this?

Thomas CAUGHT doubtmaxxing as Christ stuns death-cels

amazing

Turtles all the way down

I can no longer agree that we would “make great pets”

Seriously!