Divine knew, she always knew

#nokings

Random stuff off the curb haul: coconut coir (usable for seed starting), brand new. And some kind of almoat brand new fancy cold brew coffee thing, figured I would try it out and/or put it with the car camping/disaster stuff in case the opportunity arises for real coffee.

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Coffee maker and coconut bedding for reptiles also usable for seed starting

I dunno, why *wouldn't* I watch The Sound of Music after watching the two Sister Act movies?

Not me thinking I see Kathy Najimy and Maggie Smith lookalikes though...

Fun Fact: the child actor who plays Young Deloris in the opening scene of Sister Act only has one other credit in IMDB, and that’s in her role as Young Guinan in that episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation where Picard, Ro Laren, Keiko O’Brien, and Guinan get youthified in a transporter accident and have to save the ship from the Ferengi.

There has to be a story there for her only two appearances to be as a young Whoopi Goldberg.

1. Context: If a post in my timeline is a direct reply to another post—even if they are not someone I follow—the parent post is shown.
2. Persistence: MastoBlaster will always take me to the latest/newest post when opening the app. This behavior makes extra work for the user, having to manually scroll backwards in the timeline to find where I was last. I personally prefer (at least the ability to configure) having the app remember my place in the timeline, allowing me to manually catch-up, while the standard tap-at-top-of-screen shortcut to should still function to move to the newest post.
3. Full threading: While not a feature of Mona, it is a feature of snac. MastoBlaster does not seem show/indicate the nesting level/depth of replies in a thread.

Learning, from Gogglebox Australia, that there's yet another Yellowstone spinoff. They sure love to give Sheridan money for his Libertarian Fantasy Projects

My spouse has a routine medical appt today. He has a different health insurance than I do. He has been repeatedly grilled by the hospital about *my* involvement in his insurance.

This is fucking creepy.

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Text chat: Spouse: Sitting in the waiting room. Waiting. Had a terse convo with the registrar over questions I've answered twice this week in echeckin regarding your involvement in my insurance. Me: What? My involvment? What does that even mean? Spouse: Repeated questions about my work status and you. I finally had to use the voice and say it is none of your business about anything related to you. I have medicare and humana and go fuck off about anything else you'd like to know. I said I know a thing or two about billing and you have nothing to do with that. Me: what the actual fuck? Dystopic intrusiveness much? Spouse: I will be writing to the CEO.

so

if github had an outage

and was offline for 48 hours

what would catch fire?

Kids put up with a LOT from adults

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Tumblr post by roach-works look, here's the thing: alice in wonderland's enduring fucking charm is that it perfectly captures the vibe of being a very tired and annoyed child who is nonetheless required to play along with adult nonsense. alice is dragged from place to place without warning, forced to play stupid games with no good prizes, grilled over her schooling and manners and recitation and dress, scolded, judged, insulted to her face, sent away, given gifts she didn't ask for and doesn't like, corrected incorrectly, been subject to shifting and arbitrary rules, and then when she gets snappish with all this bullshit everyone acts like a little girl's temper is the end of the fucking world. alice in wonderland isn't a drug trip or a nightmare or a metaphor, that's just what being ten years old is LIKE. that's why kids love it so much. even if they can't quite articulate how, they recognize themselves in it.

Weekend plans.

#cat #cats #catstodon #catsofmastodon #humor #humour

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a little grey and white kitten sitting in a large bowl full of a giant pile of kibble

Today's macos discovery: I use Skim to read PDFs. If you togggle the Highlight Tool, any text you select gets highlighted!

This makes balancing my credit card statement so much easier...

"but is it art Eddie?"

To hell with AI, more innovation like this please.
#solarpunk

School drop-off and pick-up at the catholic school across the street from me is complete and utter chaos. I just popped out to pull my car around the block for a closer street parking spot and it felt like I was playing chicken with a mindless mob—ignoring stop signs and right of way, pushing through a one-lane neighborhood street, flasher-parking where there are no parking signs, doors flinging open, cutting the wrong way around mini traffic circles, and generally not paying attention.

@thickurt Hi! It's me! Your favorite online entity eternally role playing a pendulum swinging between nihilism and absurdism. 🤣🤣

I am not the first person to point out that a “Luddite” isn’t someone who hates tech — they hated the EXPLOITATION OF PEOPLE by capital through the use of tech. Too many of my peers are on the wrong side of that and a lot of us are watching and making notes and will remember.

Skiers who look like musical notes...

A photo by Haukur Sigurdsson.

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An aerial view of cross-country skiers traversing white snow. The skiers are small in the frame but cast long, distinct shadows across the snow.

Friday nights I make myself a little meal, watch some anime, and know that I’ll put out hard.

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A meal with a large bowl of stirfry vegetables and udon noodles with teriyaki mock flank steak. On the side is a bowl of cucumber salad, spring rolls and a hard plastic red cup of iced tea that I stole because it reminds me of home . In the background are candles and the opening credits of Golden Kamuy on ny iPad.

Can someone recommend a good self-hosted solution for easy file sharing, like DropBox? Here are my requirements:
* Unique randomized URL per file.
* Secured with password (auth not required).
* Burn after reading (file and URL are destroyed after download)
TIA (thanks in advance)
#HomeLab #SelfHosting @homelab

Nextdoor keeps randomly subscribing me to e-mails, so I just deleted my account. It's such a toxic place anyway

Adding a hard drive makes Linux change network interface numbers?

brb, static-configuring enp06 through enp15 in /etc/network/interfaces #sysadmin

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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."

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.

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

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!