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An acquaintance’s last name starts with Z and has only two vowels. I don’t want to doxx them but it’s close to “Zbrabben.” Cool name, yeah? I come to find out they’ve married another Z-name with the same consonant-vowel ratio and naturally chose to hyphenate them: Zschoppe-Zbrabben. 10/10 no notes.

One must imagine one’s emails finding Sisyphus well.

Repost with an iconic fictional band

Watching Fantasia with the kids. They mostly tuned out the second half until the part with the mostly-nude cherubs and centaurs and satyrs. Lots of giggles.

Screenshot of a Google search for “How much does a crane bird weigh?” Under “AI Overview” two photos of cranes (birds) are shown and text below reads “Crane weight varies dramatically, from a few hundred pounds for small hydraulic models to millions of pounds for the largest industrial and shipboard cranes.”

I even specified “bird.” Thanks Google.

Screenshot of Google search results for “tangle tower.” The title of the info box says “Tangle Tower - Arcade game” and the AI summary below says “There is no arcade game called Tangle Tower; it is a murder mystery puzzle video game…”

Uhh okay, thanks Google AI. 🙄

#NoKings #Mpls #Commons 1:20pm photo cred: @nichelle02.bsky.social

Ever seen a 750-pound muskox face off with a 210-pound pumpkin? 💥 Hudson did, and won! 🏆 Catch more pumpkin-smashing, leaf-crunching, fall fun during #ZooBoo, October 18 & 19. 🎃🐾

I tried implementing a server-side #atproto auth client from scratch and gave up after a few days because it turns out it’s just… not possible?? Not without a pretty deep understanding of OAuth and JWTs and JWKs and PKCE and PAR and DPoP and and and…

Skill issue, maybe, but not a great experience.

iOS OS update screen; the iOS 18.7.1 update says “Unable to download” and “More Storage Required”

I just don’t get to update.

Big, big mood.

More alternatives:
- Surge
- Railway
- Render
- Tiiny
- Fly dot io

Alternatives:
- Netlify
- GitHub Pages
- Cloudflare Pages
- GitLab Pages
- Coolify

GitHub - Plan-Vert/open-letter: An open letter calling for a hard fork of Rails to remove DHH's influence An open letter calling for a hard fork of Rails to remove DHH's influence - Plan-Vert/open-letter

Additionally, there’s an open letter calling for the forking of Rails, and a pledge to adopt the alternative: github.com/Plan-Vert/op...

The fish market workers take refuge on the fish market roof and look down to the street where the fire-breathing Chihuahua is blasting a jet of flame at their storefront. Heathcliff stands smugly by holding a freshly pilfered fish. One of the workers says, "Everything is catching, Yes, everything is catching on fire."

Heathcliff, but it's "Fingertips" by They Might Be Giants, a thread:

A series of Opus 4 self-portraits, from a conversation with itself

Double jail for the ones that don’t work with reader mode.

a man in a military uniform is standing in front of a group of people and says `` right to jail '' . Alt: Fred Armisen’s character Raul from Parks & Recreation in a military outfit saying “Right to jail”

Tech blogs that have 10pt text (i.e. all of them for some reason) and don’t play nice with the browser’s font size adjustment.

A screenshot showing "Problems Solved" and a grid of problem numbers; the yellow squares start out strong but peter out quickly.

POV: You’re doing Project Euler with @gleam.run but you’re not a math whiz.

hi, cis folks!

if you said you’d stand with trans people, we need you now.

the FY26 budget bill gets a vote by 9/30. the GOP wants to jam a ban on federal funding for ALL health services that provide trans care for ANY AGE.

we need you to call senators: reps.fyi

more info & script downthread.🧵

A simple black line drawing of a pensive-looking girl on a background of blue, green, red, and yellow watercolor splotches

My then-7-year-old made this a few years ago. Better than any art I’ve made in my life and I have an art degree.

Added alt:

Don’t leave the boxed up leftover pizza on the restaurant table when you leave challenge level: impossible.

Update: I went to the gym five times and walked and ran on the treadmill very slowly, which still turned out to be too much too soon, and I injured my knees. Now I get to do physical therapy for a couple months. 🎉

I did not expect the future to be this dumb.

What’s the best Bluesky @-name: @jordanrunning.com, @jrunn.ing, or @running.wtf?

It's a reinterpretation of Magritte's "Treachery of Images." Here, we've smashed it together with pod racing from Star Wars Episode 1: "Now, _this_ is une pipe." "Now, _this_ is pod racing."

Have another. (by hand-drawn-square.tumblr.com)