Pat Cable

it's an incredible rage bait machine

are your hands not good enough to keep your own files safe?

congress sounds cool i wish it was real

It drives me crazy that most people think that COVID-19 vaccines don't reduce transmission. They don't bring Reff <1, but the difference between spreading an infection to 2 people vs 1 person is huge at the scale of the population.

shoutout to flightaware for two anti-bot captchas, email validation, and totp. flight data has never been more protected.

"this isn't x, it's y" is the latest em dash and i immediately check out when i read it

introducing my new password manager 2password. it features double the passwords for more security

oh cool, the hackers' almanack from def con 33 is out... and seems like they think policymakers should know about our snitch puck research?

(i agree, naturally, but the outside validation is nice)

kowloon restaurant, saugus, massachusetts, 1978

kowloon restaurant, saugus, massachusetts, 1978

computers be like "this shit true asf" and it's the number 1

I tell you what, Ring figured out exactly how to weaponize white people’s empathy in service to a corporately controlled surveillance state.

Tell them it will find your dog.

You non-sports fans have to understand that for people who are really into pro football, today is basically their Super Bowl

"cruelty-free romaine hearts" is this anything

metric's "fantasies" is such a good album

earlier this week i checked the city auditor's calendar in hopes that bureau was on it (rip it is not)

Frame #63950 from S03 -E06 - Suckling Pig-628418

the response i get to this as of late is "your engineers aren't throughly evaluating anything anyways, so just have the machine evaluate it too" which feels more like telling on oneself but idk.

inspired by CLAUDE.md, I’ve started putting markdown files named after coworkers into work code repos so I can remind them to stop doing shit to the codebase that annoys me

for some reason they’re all mad at me now, which means ill be adding commands to JEREMY.md for an attitude adjustment

if pop music has taught me anything, you dont need to know _how_ to fold them, just when you _should_ fold them

Aaahhhh “Drosera regina” is a Brave New Weird winner!!!

Thank you to Tenebrous Press for this honor! So happy to be in this weird crew!

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Deadline 2/17/26

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1-bit drawing of a pusheen-like cat sitting in a pasta pot that i got from openclipart and edited. there are stars around on three corners because i'm using this to debug image rotation an esp32 device

look at him. where will he go

repost to send him on a journey

i'm updating my pricing to give you the best experience

“Drosera regina” is nominated for Brave New Weird!

Tenebrous is an incredible advocate for the unsettling and strange, and it’s an honor to make this list. I’m sharing space with so many cool works!

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hahaha my fro era ❤️

so are Aubrey Plaza and Nakatomi Plaza siblings, or married?

reimbursing people in the period between where the county is and where it wants to be seems like it could address a gap in the meantime? I get that's not issue free - not everyone can front those funds & less incentive for providers to do the things multco wants, but that'd also change over time

making a foraging game for dogs, calling it barc raiders

so like i also pay this tax and am deeply supportive of the end goal! i just don’t understand why there’s such a surplus to begin with

so, i find most of the angst about pdx taxes to be eyerolly, but also i dont understand why there's such a large surplus on PfA funds. Do you/commenters have a sense of the argument against reimbursing parents directly for preschool expenses between where the program is vs where it wants to be?