Jeff Bezos announces ‘significant shift’ coming to the Washington Post. A key editor is leaving because of it | CNN Business Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos on Wednesday announced a “significant shift” to the publisher’s opinion page that led David Shipley, the paper’s editorial page editor, to leave the paper.

Goodbye Washington Post -- new 'mandate' by Bezos is the final straw. www.cnn.com/2025/02/26/m...

So far here’s a list of companies reinforcing their commitment to Diversity, Equity & Inclusion:
Apple
Costco
Bank of America
Delta
JP Morgan
Marriott
Microsoft
Procter & Gamble
Goldman Sachs
American Airlines
Southwest Airlines
United Airlines
Catholic Health

Iridescent filament for the win

Make a “Magic Eye” image using Excel I’ve been on a weird kick lately making images using Excel. [Here’s one post. I hope to post more soon.] If you add a background color to each cell in a spreadsheet and resize the cell …

This is wild - divisbyzero.com/2024/11/30/m... -- hurts my eyes, but wild just the same. (NOTE: you'll need to view on a desktop, not a phone)

Sorry, Oxford dictionary nerds. This is the real word of the year. The verbal encapsulation of 2024 explains everything from “shrimp Jesus” to disgusting viral recipes and clickbait headlines.

The OED got it wrong.

"Slop" should have been the word of the year.

It's the perfect term that links shrimp Jesus, 2000s-era content farms, "you won't believe what happened next..." clickbait, gross-out food hacks and basically EVERYTHING on the internet.

wapo.st/4eVF32B

I just completed "Historian Hysteria" - Day 1 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/1

I’m stuck on the “evolve eevee’s to every possible form” - as a young lad I squandered the renaming hack, so now I have to do it the hard way if I want to level up to 42. (Rookie numbers?)

Zombie Claus - Psychostick (Rob Zombie Dragula Parody) YouTube video by Psychostick

My sister forwarded me this parody video, so I get obliged to share it with BlueSky

youtu.be/gJztkDaURJY

Oh my god, how true!!! Hatch 30 eggs == punch me in the head. (And don’t get me started about the challenges needed to level up!)

First PMG post I see on here - send a friend request - will have to search for a like-minded list. :)

Go Blue!

*PLUS on the MTS mainframe at university. Opened a fresh door beyond what BASIC had been to me in the 80’s. :)

Great - now that damned song is back in my head again. You’ve ruined my Saturday. Lol

My brother rigged up a fake event page for the purpose of luring my mother to a surprise birthday party. I wish I had anything close to his visual design skillz. :-)

@antwoman2.bsky.social welcome to BlueSky - I’ve been lurking here for a while. Much better UI than Mastodon

PSA: don't buy a Sears Home Warranty.  Dirty thieves have been taking my money for years, and today refused to repair my dishwasher due to some technicality that my wife had to sit through 45 minutes of call transfers to have poorly explained to her.  GRRRRRR...

SonicWall hates OpenAI, it seems..

We had an issue on our lab machines, in that they could only sporadically reach api.openai.com
We reached out to SonicWall for support. They seemed as perplexed as we were - we finally figured out that it was being blocked by a Content Filtering rule. WTH

If you post a cute dog photo, I will like it. Let me start :).

Cavalier King Charles / Bichon mix dog

This is my daughter's 2 month old Cavachon (Cavalier King Charles / Bichon mix)

The McKenzie Brothers - Take Off, Eh! Short documentary from the SCTV DVDs

A trip to the past -- Bob and Doug McKenzie - youtu.be/jO75Wrf-Phg

#Drone gone bad! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxFwMQs6-Pg great story

Anybody out there in BlueSky universe using Thunderbird to pull down email from Microsoft365?

Stopped working (can't authenticate) starting beginning of this week, and I'm tired of pretending that the Microsoft Outlook client on Mac is usable.

So we run JumpCloud agent on our Mac computers, and today i found out that the Rapid Security Response from Apple (xref: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213825 ) somehow was conflicting with Jumpcloud -- I was unable to login to my mac after the patch!! had to uninstall the jumpcloud agent! eek!

KubeSail | KubeSail The Self Hosting Company, makers of the PiBox! Run a server in your home or office that runs apps, saves money, and respects your privacy.

So last year I participated in a #KickStarter campaign to help fund the #PiBox - which yielded a groovy little Raspberry Pi CM module in a delightful package with a webUI at https://kubesail.com/homepage

Tonight I did a software upgrade, and locked myself out. >doh< see you tomorrow.

Anybody else wrestle with pre-vacation anxiety? Will they "burn down the shop" without me? LOL Feels like forever since I took a 'real' holiday.. Wish me luck!

I love #python . There. I said it.