A male Anna’s hummingbird at the door. So nosy! 🤣

Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door.

This is who it was:

Stack of blocks labeled, all modern digital infrastructure. A ratchet tipping over the entire stack is labeled AI. A load bearing pillar is labeled unpaid open source development. Another label is AWS, and Cloudflare and Unpaid Open Source Developers.

Extremely upset that a throw-away XKCD joke somehow became the organizing principle for the Internet.

William Shatner was at the Fox Theatre in Tucson last week. They showed The Wrath of Khan, then Shatner talked for over an hour, then a bunch of us had our picture taken with him. He looks pretty good for 94.

I've been a resident of Arizona for 26 years. I've used BlueSky for the last year or so. Yesterday I traveled to Ohio. When I checked BlueSky today, I had to prove that I'm an adult. Big Brother much, Ohio?

Obama receiving his Noble Peace Prize

Wouldn’t it be cool if this photo of Obama receiving his Noble Peace Prize went viral today? 🔄

Word

I grew up in Willoughby in the '70s, and as someone who swam a lot in Lake Erie, I love this. I sent the link to all my Ohio friends.

If you have to cheat to win, you've already lost.

...with two cats in the yard.

I like knowing what books I have, now that they are organized by genre and author's last name. Rearranging all the books and bookcases was my pandemic project. My catalog is searchable through the app, so if I'm in a bookstore I can check to see if I already have a book I'm interested in.

That's beautiful!

Bookmarks in the story of a life When books are thoughtfully arranged, they help us arrange our thoughts...

When books are thoughtfully arranged, they help us arrange our thoughts... When not hidden behind barricades of other books, when not stacked into precarious towers, each title becomes a kind of waypoint, a visible record of a mind genuinely searching for particular ideas.

Thank you! I have about 4,000 books in 25 bookcases all over the house. I'm about halfway through cataloging them in TinyCat.

A small spider fell off the ceiling and into the lampshade a few minutes ago. My cat had been staring at it ever since. I've seen missiles with less intense locks on their targets.

One of the best signs I've ever seen

Enjoy your Labor Day Weekend

@scalzi.com would you consider writing a book or manga with Andy Weir, David Weber, and Jim Butcher?
Wizards in space with talking feline familiars!

I learned a new and useful word from this post. Thank you.

Gotta love this & the Scots!

#NoKings #WeThePeople #Democracy
Mentor, Ohio

NO KINGS Mentor, Ohio · No Kings **In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** NO KINGS is a national day of action and mass mobilization in response to increasing authoritarian excesses and corruption from Trump and his allie...

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Join me on June 14

While Trump wastes millions on a military parade in DC, we're mobilizing everywhere else to show that organized people power is stronger than his authoritarian aspirations. app.sosha.ai/s/xDKIESI6

Keep schools safe for children and families—and keep ICE out! The threat of ICE in schools creates unnecessary trauma, leads to damaged trust in educators, and causes students from undocumented and mixed-status families to miss school, leaving a lasting impact o...

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A list of the CEO’s that went with Trump

This is RED ALERT alarming. Code BLUE. CEO’s who accompanied the felon on his trip to the Middle East.

Tell FIFA and Olympics: It's Not Safe for the U.S. to Host! Experts are already concerned about the treatment visitors to the World Cup and Olympics would face in the U.S.—especially for people traveling from countries that the Trump administration has treated...

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We demand legal representation for ALL immigrants! Just days ago, three U.S. citizen children from two different families were deported with their mothers by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). One of them is a 4-year-old with Stage 4 canc...

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Target suffers 10th consecutive week of foot traffic declines, sinking stock prices since caving on DEI Costco, which resisted pressure to ditch DEI, extends foot-traffic gains streak to 15.

The divergence here from two companies with *very* similar customer bases is pretty wild, you do not see this sort of thing happen at scale very often.

Enjoy. 😎✨