A New Year’s Toast

I knew I was a tool

I’m not sure what this means for me. Should I be worried or am I simply too powerful with the power of a structured query language?

It’s great (derogatory) that you can work very hard to find out something incredibly important, and the main response you will get is a derisive “Gee, I’m shocked.”

Somebody has to ACTUALLY DO THIS WORK! You can’t pursue justice by going “Your honor: I mean, duh.”

To think that I quit social work because the funding roller coaster was too stressful…

We did end up with a lot of kawaii chopsticks…

And that’s how I ended up working part time at a Hello Kitty kiosk and the Gap when I was laid off at the end of the dot com bubble. I couldn’t even find someone to try and exploit me…

Order your Faves on my Digital Cookie Site Today That's right! You can order your favorite Girl Scout Cookies from me online, all while helping my troop and I do great things in our community and beyond! Check it out.

So there's a black girl scout troop trying to raise money to to to Europe but they aren't close to their goal as of yet. Please share this and buy some cookies if you can

digitalcookie.girlscouts.org/scout/reagan...

We thought the large population of Texans in Aberdeen would help but… it didn’t. We were really lucky though and found a brilliant place for tapas at least.

colorful green and pink pastel graphic titled “Things That Will Stop the Spread of COVID” with a green check mark showing a person wearing an N95. Below, under “Things That Won’t” with red X marks: surgical masks, handwashing, elbow coughing, various potions, being young and healthy, potatoes in socks, healing crystals, staying 6 feet apart

Loving this comic on Covid safety by Gilly, a writer & illustrator from the PNW 😷

YES to N95 masks, no to potatoes in your socks

Link to full zine: static1.squarespace.com/static/5888e...

Please, please, please don’t fall to the same fate as the recent mRNA vaccines…

This sounds like a valid progression.

with alt text, because everyone needs to be able to read this 😭

Tough but fair.

You’re an all star,
get your game on,
go play

Woo!

I am not/will not be ready. I know it will be here much sooner than I expect or want…

Age verification? I’ll have you know I’m a pepper! And you’re a pepper too…

Age verification? I was excited to get the new vinyl record of Huey Lewis and the News album “Sports” for Christmas.

Loot drop after defeating me:

1d6 fiction books
+1 N95 (Flomask)
2d10 Loose forgotten meds
Pocket knife
Bowl of ramen
1d4 CDs
Old bokken

Now’s the perfect time to briefly unblock Neil Gaiman to be sure you unfollowed him. Then immediately block him again…

USian trans people aren't telling you they won't vote for Gavin Newsom to cause you distress and despair.

USian trans people are telling you they won't vote for Gavin Newsom so you don't vote for his transphobic ass in the primaries.

They are giving you actionable information.

An illustration of early dawn overlooking a cityscape of apartments and highrises, with telephone poles in the foreground. In the sky above, a formline design of a mourning dive is perched, coloured dark blue to resemble the clouds floating in the sky.

🌇🕊️ MO(U)RNING DOVE

#formline #indigenousart #telekitneticart

A bright yellow ham, cheese, bacon and pepper omelette with a sprinkling of diced yellow pepper and ham on top it with a toasted English muffin on a white plate and countertop. I just think it came out particularly pretty instead of being forced to give up and turn them into scrambled eggs… (even better I managed to time the toast so that was ready just as the omelette was!)

A tiny victory: a pretty omelette…

The Pandemic Never Ended. We Only Pretend it Did Six years into COVID-19, the world has moved on while the virus continues to disable millions. An examination of the ongoing pandemic, long COVID, and our collective failure to prevent a mass disablin...

“There are a group of people who are trying to shake everyone else awake—urgently trying to inform us that COVID-19 is ongoing. That COVID-19 is an existential threat. I want to listen to them.”
brennan.day/the-pandemic...

GitHub - zoicware/RemoveWindowsAI: Force Remove Copilot, Recall and More in Windows 11 Force Remove Copilot, Recall and More in Windows 11 - zoicware/RemoveWindowsAI

And there are tools disable much of it as possible even there:

github.com/zoicware/Rem...

I was looking for this link after I lost earlier this week: thank you!

Two black, short-haired Manx cats cuddled together in the seat of a green recliner. Sadly it turns out they were just keeping it warm for me…

Sadly they were in my spot…

We Need to Talk About How We Talk About 'AI' | TechPolicy.Press We share a responsibility to create and use empowering metaphors rather than misleading language, write Emily M. Bender and Nanna Inie.

"The media has largely let [tech companies] set the terms of the debate, right down to the terminology used in any discussion of these systems."

From @nannainie.bsky.social & me in @techpolicypress.bsky.social on how to spot and resist anthropomorphizing language about so-called "AI".

Bernie meme: "I am once again asking you to vote for my SQLBits sessions."

If you want more SQL Server content and less AI slop, please upvote some of my SQL Bits sessions.

And if you need a little bribery to persuade you, I'll bring chocolates to my session if I get selected to speak.

The good stuff, not the kind you get in the UK. 🇨🇭

sqlbits.com/sessions/

Thanks ❤️

Seconding: especially the Game Changer episodes “Don’t Cry” & “Who Wants to Be Jacob Wysocki” for extra kindness…