Frustrating software experience:
I use a paid version of a tiny indie software utility. It just auto-updated to a new version that is a _paid upgrade_ and knocked me back into a trial version.
Support indie software and all, and I'm not going to name and shame, but hey: Don't do that.
the incentives here are so obscenely terrible that the entire thing should be illegal by default
“I am sabotaging negotiations because I stand to make piles of money on Polymarket” is absolutely in play, what a horrifying clusterfuck
“Rutherford Statement on Operation Epic Furry” “Furry” highlighted by me http://rutherford.house.gov/media/press-releases/rutherford-statement-operation-epic-furry
Google result showing the presser for Rutherford’s statement on “Operation Epic Furry” was posted 11 hours ago
What a time to be alive
1. kill khamenei and bomb everyone
2. ?????
3. liberation and peace for everyone forever and ever
great glad we’ve got that all figured out
The cool thing is that the US seeking regime change in the middle east is something that has worked out every time with no blowback or unintended consequences ever.
A glass sponge fossil, resembling a gray rock covered in a distorted quadrilateral mesh. Label: "Hydnoceras tuberosum Upper Devonian Avoca, New York"
Is it #FossilFriday yet again? Fine. Meet the glass sponges. With a fossil record going back to the Ediacaran, bizarre multinucleate cells strung across a latticework of razor-sharp siliceous spicules, and the current record for longevity among the metazoa, hexactinellids be WEIRD. 🧪⚒️🧵
welcome to the resistance,
*checks notes*
claude code
A curse on Microsoft for not letting me set up a user account for someone on a computer without making up a birthday and security questions.
One of the first things we were taught at Quantico was that there is never a moment in which you are not representing the Bureau; but, then again, we earned our place there, and weren’t granted its directorship as a sinecure for partisan malfeasance and a willingness to disregard the constitution.
we couldn't use government funds to buy coffee (like, folgers ground coffee) when i worked on a CDC outbreak emergency response
We need more “person finds cool rock” stories.
(Also, I ❤️ crinoids.)
People talk about this stuff in terms of how much it'll suck for gaming and I hate to inform you how many MRI machines, X-Rays, all sorts of other vital machinery are just a Windows IoT Edition PC in a beige plastic box with a big magnet/accelerator/whatever attached.
Robert Duvall as Boo Radley in To Kill a Mockingbird
Rest in Paradise, Boo Radley!
I think… I think I may have done something really bad
The Development and Growth of the Thecae in Graptolites
Perhaps dangerously, I've discovered there's an audience for grapolites on here. Thus: graptolite structural models made by E. S. Parkington and by (or inspired by) W. J. Sollas. The perfect dinner party centrepiece. In the @lapworthmuseum.bsky.social collections #FossilFriday
New McMaster-Carr catalog
awww yisssss
Apparently whales from space are a bigger problem than I had previously realized.
RIP Bud Cort. How else would you even pay tribute to him.
Day nine of the Valentine’s inspired ‘songs as old romance comics’ series - this time Joy Division’s Love Will Tear Us Apart.
Graffiti equation of tile wall
Fundamental theorem of calculus, NYC subway edition
A small dilute calico cat sits next to two bottles of sherry
A cat of amontillado
A mountain-top pavement comprised of glacier-polished brownish cross sections of cabbage-like concentric fossilized blue-green algae.
If you take a breath today remember to be grateful to the bottom of your lungs to these guys that made it all possible. Ice-polished ~1.5 billion yo Proterozoic fossil cyanobacterial stromatolite pavement, at Grinnell Glacier, Glacier NP, MT. Oldest fossils I have ever seen!
THUS PASSES ANOTHER AGE OF THE EARTH
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
Wow, I’ve never seen a lunar CZA before; amazing!
In no functioning country is this allowed.
Me, 14 years ago: Commenting on reddit. AromaticCatWipe: replying to the comment, 4 minutes ago: "LMAO"
The internet is a weird, weird place sometimes.
A reminder that the Kennedy Center is the literal and legal and congressional designated presidential memorial to JFK. This would be like Trump tearing down the Lincoln Memorial to build something “better.”
A lite brite with a green and purple mooninite flipping you off with the words 1/31/07 NEVER FORGET
HAPPY BOSTON MOONINITE PANIC DAY TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE
