Young me: "These Girl with the Dragon Tattoo books are fun reads, but this 'all the wealthy and politicians are into human trafficking' plot is a little over the top."

Older me: "I should probably re-read those Larsson books to see what else he was right about."

A timely reminder that if you have an iPhone (8+) and press the power button and either volume key (think: just squeeze your phone tightly) for a couple of seconds, the phone will vibrate in an unfamiliar way, STOP holding the buttons NOW.

It will force you to input the PIN to continue using the phone.

*CAUTION* continuing to hold WILL call emergency services.

From this screen you can also leave it locked or power it off, or manually call emergency services, depending on your situation and time available to you.

what's a TV show you watched as a kid that you're pretty sure you hallucinated

Nothing prepared me for fries with ketchup. This world is rife with sin.

Recently learned that this famous GIF is from a 2003 British series called State of Play and I shall start watching it now

A M4.1 earthquake rattled Toronto last night. Many residents of the city, who just experienced record snowfall, thought (hopefully?) that the shaking might be the rumbling of a snow plow. No such luck. This was the largest earthquake to hit the region in 20 years. Why do earthquakes occur here, so far from a tectonic plate boundary?

https://earthquakeinsights.substack.com/p/m41-earthquake-shakes-toronto

@Hunko I feel sorry for the straights sometimes. They're stuck in a world defined by the shoulds and expectations of a toxic and myopic heteronormative system. They benefit from its pervasiveness but don't realize how restricted and neutered they are by it. Being gay is a blessing because you are (at least traditionally) forcefully excised from this system, and get to define your own path.

US cyber defense chief accidentally uploaded secret government info to ChatGPT
Congress recently grilled the acting chief on mass layoffs and a failed polygraph.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/01/us-cyber-defense-chief-accidentally-uploaded-secret-government-info-to-chatgpt/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Your man is one damned lucky individual to have landed you!

If you thought Hell was about pain and fire, you’re plain wrong. Hell is you having to fold #hakama properly for the rest of the times!

Preparing to make something public forces you to review it before doing so. And this is when you discover you did a whole lot of (@#&μ%$!)> 😱

They: #Metal is just noise made by people who don’t know #music at all.

Me: yes Susan, you’re right https://youtu.be/gs9Bmx2UcOo

People are debating the masonry layout, and I'm creating strange layouts.

A Pyramidal Grid of Hexagon Shapes! 👀

https://css-tip.com/pyramidal-grid/

A fully responsive implementation powered by modern CSS (corner-shape, sibling-index(), math functions, etc.) and no media queries.

#CSS #HTML

This is my tiny delight for #today,
maybe yours too?

#haiku

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RE: https://federate.social/@mattblaze/115968930128799721

Killer shot and getting total Men in Black vibes here

Matt Blaze boosted

Matt Blaze » 🌐 2026-01-27
@mattblaze@federate.social

Lincoln Tunnel Ventilation Tower, 491 11th Avenue, NYC, 2025.

All the pixels, with no toll charged to look from this angle, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/54365775629

#photography

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A simple industrial art deco-style building, lacking windows, but with a narrow louvered vent at center running vertically along its length, on a city street.

Celine Dion has come out in support of farmers by removing all the consonants from her name.

Unusual, coyotes are usually smarter than that, and don't generally show themselves in daytime, nor cross the freeway at rush hours (early morning, maybe). 🤔

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Coyote struck and killed on freeway 101 and Wendy

Starting this & Hers for the plot. His name is John Bernthal

I've got my hands on one of these passively cooled N100 machines with 4 ethernet ports and want to use it as a (completely overpowered) router.

I'm contemplating setting it up with #NixOS instead of #pfSense or #OPNsense. Good idea or complete and utter overkill? 😅

#HomeRouter #homelab @homelab @homelab_de

sour cream and onion chips/crisps are a suitable breakfast, right?

it's potatos, dairy, and a vegetable...

have just seen my favorite meme of the year so far, hands down.

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The meme is a matrix of 4 frames with Jurassic Park characters and the options "Doesn't use AI", "Uses AI" on the vertical axis, and "Doesn't know how AI works" and "Knows how AI works" on the horizontal access. Thusly: Alan grant doesn't know how AI works and doesn't use it. The scummy lawyer doesn't know how AI works but DOES use it. Ian Malcolm knows how AI works and does not use it. Dennis Nedry knows how AI works and DOES use it.

Reminder: All it would take to end the murder of American citizens by an untrained government goon squad is 16 Republicans in Congress voting with Dems to defund ICE (or 23 to impeach and remove Trump — 3 in House & 20 in Senate). That’s it. 23 Americans can vote for the public and end all of this.

Friendly reminder that Signal—while maybe not perfect—is a much better choice for communication than RCS, especially if you are communicating anything sensitive. Doubly true if you are on iOS or communicating with anyone who is, as Apple still does not even use end-to-end encryption like Google does on Android.

https://signal.org/download/

I have guns. I have a concealed weapons permit. It is absolutely entirely legal for me to be filming ICE with a firearm on my person. It is not a reason to shoot me. If ICE is tackling me and my firearm becomes visible, that is also not a reason to shoot me. If it were, we’d be shooting all these unmarked goons running around with openly displayed sidearms.

Anyone have a VNC setup they really like in 2026? Requirements: no cloud aspect required (LAN/Tailscale is good), iPhone, iPad, Mac/web app

Tesla convicted 18 times and ordered to pay thousands for failing to help UK police with investigations

In each case, when British police officers tried to track down the details of speeding Tesla drivers, their letters went unanswered and the forces ended up prosecuting the company itself

https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/tesla-elon-musk-car-convicted-5HjdR8N_2/

Since we here in the USA don’t know the #metric system, we need to learn more units for this weekend

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Picture of six objects progressively increasing in height, captioned "Easily envision snow depths" with a quarter, 9 volt battery, credit card, candy bar, sugary drink can, and a dollar bill.

my partner is fond of various zombie shows/series. i'm not but it did get me thinking. sure would be handy if we could nominate certain towns or neighborhoods to get eaten first. "eat the rich" could be a whole new thing.

"really. they have much more meat on their bones and their brains are more easily digestible. they've hardly been used at all."

(Of course, every time I hear GWAR, I am transported to Empire Records, and Eddie's brownies.)

nom de guerre: an assumed name one uses during war

pomme de terre: French for "potato" (literally "earth apple")

pomme de guerre: an apple of war? An assumed apple? a grenade?

nom de terre: your earth name?

This gave me a laugh.

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Unclear social media source: kaity--did Jun 1, 2025 Jesus Christ I have JUST realized that women use FTM to mean full time mom on the app I use to find recipes. I was like WHY ARE SO MANY TRANS PEOPLE MAKING MEDIOCRE PASTA DISHES!?

Not sure if I should be amused or horrified that some folks I know (who grew up in the 1950's) think it's not Chinese food unless it includes egg food young, chow mein, and a fortune cookie. 🤔

Nicely played Channel 4 👍

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Threads post from Channel 4: @channel4 Because we did not win the BAFTA for best TV channel ever we have decided to try and claim ITV as ours.

The Open-Source Blender Big Brands Don’t Want

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgcqzUazXdw
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#iFixit #RightoRepair #FixTheWorld

I like this:

The GPS never says "Are you sure you're going the right way?"
It just says, "Recalculating route."

Remember that when your kid tells you they're trans.

And now, something that made me smile...

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Meme: If you put a finger on Paul Simon's face on the Bridge Over Troubled Water album, it looks like Art Garfunkel has a giant Cossack moustache.