Agree 💯 on 'less informed time' being a good container around the idolatry of the 'aughts... and '10s... and 20's... and '90s...

Idolatry is plot armor to the abuse-inclined.

Next year resolution: attend #SCaLE

crazy how many emotions are solar powered

idk how some people aren't more curious

What did the retired network engineer say to the young hackers?

Get off my LAN!

Yess, looking forward to it!

You both are awesome! Will definitely be catching up with the recordings 🙌

a cartoon character giving an ok sign with both hands Alt: a cartoon character giving an ok sign with both hands from The Emperors New Groove

Sharing a memory from when society had subjectively peaked.

Dude, where's my Shai-Hulud?

Came across the phrase "cognitive DDOS" to describe our present culture.

Understood instantly what it meant.

doctor (solemnly): chat have you heard of chemomaxxing and limbminning?

What happens when you speak for a bit too long at a city council meeting in opposition to a data center being built in your town? In Claremore, Oklahoma, a man was arrested and charged with trespassing.

Story by @mjgault.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/man-opposing...

Instant nostalgia.
Gah what what stakes, what storytelling...

Am connected, will pull some threads about making that info more apparent on the site :)

That sucks, understandable but sorry to hear.

Some conventions have a virtual hallway (all things go well, I think the plan for @lfnw.org is to use WorkAdventure) it's not quite the same but is something for those who can't make it.

💯 this

Have you gone to the Southern California Linux Expo?

Macro photograph of a pink stargazer Lily

Who needs to see a Stargazer Lily today?
(Lilium 'Stargazer')
#photography #art
#flowers #bloomscroll

The two most universally powerful, life-changing skills you can learn are:

1) How to enjoy things.
2) How to endure what you cannot enjoy.

If you master those, there is nothing else you cannot learn or do.

There's plenty of ways to fault into and out of different levels!

In that sense, agentic tools have seemed to shake things up, but I rather like thinking about what responsibility we still have to understand what's behind all the abstraction, and recognizing the expertise that's gotten us here.

Fantastic stratification (whole 🧵 is 🔥, really)

Or is it even layered like that? I need to rewatch your Geology talk sometime...

Advertise your account with a gif...

Example: dirty onsite power plants being used for datacenters.

Race to the bottom from here unless we can pull it together.

finally painted the dumbest 3D sculpt i’ve made to date #art

Differently abled is still able, and in much more interesting ways.

Yay life!
Ever get into the Destiny 'verse?
There be wish dragons

This is Flambo. He's using his talking dog buttons to accuse his small foster brother of being a cat. Nothing can convince him otherwise. 13/10 for both (IG: flambothedog)

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#IsmuasMonthOfMusic
#MusicChallenge

Day 10: A perfect song for dancing

youtube.com/watch?v=oH91...

Finally!

Prosthetic liner farts are annoying - they just follow you everywhere.