just finished reading nettle & bone by t. kingfisher. her books are always great to me, and this was a really good fairytale for grown-ups, with family and found family and magic and love and adventure and people doing their best to be brave and good in a world filled with cruelty.
Unread all the words that ever were until we are all once again just primordial muck.
Idiot plot
You never needed gasoline. That only gave you confidence to get behind the wheel. Your car moved because you believed in yourself
Our societal systems have elevated to untold power and wealth the most bent and twisted humans among us, people who exploit their fellow humans to such a degree they learn to scorn humanity. Little wonder the tools they build seek to eliminate the problem of humans from the equation of society.
Do nothing because it is righteous or praiseworthy or noble to do so; do nothing because it seems good to do so; do only that which you must do and which you cannot do in any other way.
currently on a matchbox twenty binge after randomly hearing unwell again after a long time
Everyone makes mistakes. The important thing is to dwell on them until you lose the will to live
book excerpt. "...ASCII, pronounced 'ass-key'."
I mean can you figure out a better way to help people pronounce ASCII?
“I enjoy thinking about truly fundamental concepts, like the alphabet for instance.”
only finally realising that the sunburn on the back of my hands from hiking is a first degree burn
INLAND EMPIRE - You focus on the hug and for a moment everything feels serene. You hear her heart beating -- or perhaps it's your own.
INLAND EMPIRE - I wonder how long has it been since you last hugged someone?
a digital collage with a pink, purple, green, yellow, and teal gradient overlaid on all the images. the images include a horse carrying a bucket, a cluster of mushrooms, a grub, a birds talon, a cicada, five spiders, two flower buds, a hand with an eye over the back of it, and a microscope slide of atoms. there is white text that reads "get weirder or die miserable." the background is black and there is a slightly grainy texture
get weirder 🫵
There's a Samsung phone ad where people take a photo of themselves at a night party, then add their dog and make the night into day.
Why even take that photo? What is the point of recording your fake life?
A print copy of Designing Data-Intensive Applications, 2nd edition
Just received my author copies of the second edition of DDIA! After years of seeing it only on-screen, holding the final print book in hand is very special. @chris.blue
Encrypted Client Hello is now RFC 9849
This RFC defines an extension to Transport Layer Security that improves privacy for web users. Huge team effort and a win for the internet at large. Now to get deployment up...
Some words I wrote about this for @cdt.org: cdt.org/insights/enc...
Salon sign reads “Guaranteed Shorter Hair.”
“Meeting expectations since 1994.”
treacherously hidden beneath the loveliest tints of azure
Seven-spot Ladybird seen on a window frame in Cheshire today.
i have been saved countless times by the kindness of others.
just finished reading Cold Storage by David Koepp. it's a fun breezy action scifi story about fungus gone wild. there's a movie out too and i look forward to watching it
The Frog Council has convened and will soon determine your fate.
new back of the envelope scribble: querying 3 billion vectors
vickiboykis.com/2026/02/21/q...
i don’t want to click a link and i don’t want to subscribe to anything what i want is to fight god under the blood moon
Starting a massively unpopular war that's so bad even your most rancid supporters are like "Uh hey what the fuck" right as dear leader is visibly dying and you're sitting on an economic bubble about to collapse sure is a move
Give me that lemonade and the last cigarette I'm leaving for Paris
Philippe Soupault, tr. Pat Nolan
had so much fun bb kahit i was struggling hahaha
