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Ed Costello

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“So, back we go to these questions. Friendship? Character? Ethics?” Non consentio. Non parebo.

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Gutted my LinkedIn profile. There was something oddly pleasing about doing so. In 20+ years of being on LinkedIn it never lead to a single genuine job opportunity.

05.03.2026 04:26 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Many people talking about how gasoline prices at the pump have already jumped. But what should really terrify Republicans is RBOB — the futures price on wholesale gasoline. This is up 75 cents a gallon since its low earlier this year.

04.03.2026 14:33 👍 790 🔁 242 💬 29 📌 22
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BREAKING: New York City reports the lowest levels of shootings, shooting victims, and murders ever recorded for the first two months of a year. Major crime is down nearly 8% citywide, burglary hit a record low, and retail theft dropped 25%

04.03.2026 15:54 👍 25888 🔁 5518 💬 695 📌 458

I barely understand enough atproto to set up my own DNS/.well-known records but when I look up your "PLC" at plc.directory, it seemed to imply your entry should be at://ewindisch.ontological.observer but there's no _atproto.ewindisch.ontological.observer TXT record (there's one for just ewindisch…)

03.03.2026 21:31 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Blocking larger and larger swaths of Azure, AWS, and GCP address ranges. Blocking all Digital Ocean address ranges.
I know giving away cloud access to script kiddies doesn't have an apparent cost to you but I’m getting tired of burning server bandwidth to send them 404 and 403s.

03.03.2026 14:51 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

While I understand how time works, generally, it seems unreal that I have domains expiring in the 2030s. It was only yesterday when I would fax NIC updates to Network Solutions.

02.03.2026 21:30 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Truly the stupidest fucking timeline driven by “manly men” and the idiots who support them.

28.02.2026 12:17 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Took a Covid test because my slow 1960s model brain took awhile to run pattern recognition on the cough I’ve developed over the past day.

Apparently it’s not Covid, or not a Covid caught by this test.

27.02.2026 20:33 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed.

27.02.2026 14:30 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Trans Continental Pipeline Queer Relocation Nonprofit in Denver, Colorado

MAKE AN EMERGENCY DONATION to Trans Continental Pipeline right now.

They are a Colorado based org that helps trans people relocate there and they are overwhelmed with requests. CO borders KS, and TCP has the infrastructure to help get people out.

GO DONATE.

tcpipeline.org

26.02.2026 02:12 👍 3666 🔁 3599 💬 30 📌 160

Abolish the legal gender marker entirely. No government can be trusted to have a database of which people have changed theirs, no government has any business tracking what your gender is "supposed" to be in the first place.

26.02.2026 13:15 👍 9804 🔁 3487 💬 51 📌 89

Hey, before you reply, I’ve been chronically online since the 1980s and battling network configurations from SNA to Watstar to TCP/IP and some forgotten others. I'm mostly venting.

25.02.2026 14:04 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Utterly baffled as to why it’s so difficult for my routers to maintain IPv6 connectivity. The slightest burp from the ISP and the IPv6 addresses drop and it can take multiple reboots or ifconfigs down and up to get IPv6 connectivity restored. Verizon seems outright hostile to v6.

25.02.2026 14:01 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I had a brain fart over the week of travel that I need to find a better way to articulate: after 75 post war years of “free trade” and migration, the Western world has targeted and restricted the movement (free or otherwise) of labor and the labor class. I don’t really know what to make of that.

22.02.2026 18:49 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

As to why my long deceased dog had an Apple Id, I believe she set it up so she could use FaceTime. She was kind of an odd dog. Smart. But odd.

21.02.2026 12:07 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Data & Privacy

Decided it was easiest to just delete the Apple account, but this required “recovering” the Apple account, resetting a bunch of bits, and then going to privacy.apple.com to delete the account (which is not at all obvious on appleid.apple.com).

21.02.2026 12:01 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Some idiot is attempting to reset the extremely late @frisket.org’s Apple account. I don’t remember why my Golden Retriever had an Apple account. But whoever is trying to reset the password, Frisket laughs at you heartily from the Great Beyond.

21.02.2026 03:43 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Meta are using “AI” to generate advertising for their own advertisers, without consent or control by the advertisers. This is not protected by §230 at all.

20.02.2026 17:37 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Suspender surcharge:

19.02.2026 08:10 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Finally, after a decade plus of wearing suspenders with metal buckle things, I clued in that if I know I’m flying to just not put them on the morning of the flight and pack them in my backpack for after security.

I’m fucking slow but eventually I learn.

19.02.2026 08:08 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

My wander around Madrid petered out after an hour. Kind of want dinner now but it’s way too early.

18.02.2026 17:48 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

8:20 pm Ed thinks 4:00 pm Ed was smart to check the carry on on an oversold flight but now wants 4:00 pm Ed to figure out where the bag is at Barajas so 8:22 pm Ed can go to the hotel and sleep.

17.02.2026 19:23 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Doesn’t Adobe need a Benelux development office?

17.02.2026 16:26 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

We were having an IBM internal web conference that weekend. One of the executives, completely unaware of the news, made a joke about all Internet people being in a cult. It went over poorly.

17.02.2026 16:08 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Waiting to board my flight out of Luxembourg after a ridiculously short visit to “reclaim” my citizenship. Now to Madrid to retrieve my national identity card. Both activities would have been unimaginable two years ago.

17.02.2026 15:40 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

That was so weird.
Is the web site still up? It was when I checked in 2017.

17.02.2026 15:39 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Note to self: if you order Coke Light, you will get Coke Zero.

15.02.2026 09:44 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Looks like it’s time to start investing in guillotine manufacturers.

14.02.2026 14:57 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Trump Threatens to Block Opening of New Bridge to Canada

Yet another anti–capitalist move by the Trump regime: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/u...

10.02.2026 03:54 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Two golden retrievers Melody (L, 2y) and River (8y) at Worth Square, January 13, 2026.

Two golden retrievers Melody (L, 2y) and River (8y) at Worth Square, January 13, 2026.

Melody (2y, left) and River (8y, right) from mid–January:

08.02.2026 18:06 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0