Absolute best in the biz

we are so so small

I had to drive my wife to the airport very early this morning, and we noted how cool the thumbnail moon looked. We did not know it was a lunar eclipse. Later, tonight, she was on a walk in Florida and noticed the moon was suddenly full(!) After lots of puzzles texts and googling, we figured out the eclipse thing. Such a cool accidental observation :)

here we go again with the fuckin bokoblins.

You can't miss it, it's in the Merditerarium Sea

Berbeesea

I take issue with their color choices for land and sea

Cyrpus plz.

Is that near Creet

Cyr, this is a Wendy's.

It's the BBC, so maybe that's the Welsh spelling.

They're actually talking about how there's too many islands in that area. They misspelled Cyrplus.

[amusing rashomon reference]

could only be a Citroën

😆🤪😆🤪

Blessed.

*C R Y I N G*

Oh my goodness, this is the best thing I've seen all day.

THE WHIZ

Absolute perfection, 5 stars

One Step Brieyond

sorry, not sorry

I'm sure they were very gouda, even for a college band.

G.O.A.T cheese

Nobody beats the Whiz.

The old Internet is better than the new internet. Long live the forum. Bring back our walled gardens of creativity where microbiomes of creativity and communication exist like tide pools where evolution creates new and better ideas.

ya, what @urlnotfound said

I’ve been on this mailing list for ages. Still love the weird apps people are creating.

BRING BACK QOTW!

i still reflexively type six dot in the address bar but it no longer autocompletes

Project PLATO 4 EVA!

@Davezilla I came here to say that

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20 bucks, same as in town.

(literally)

They exceeded the carrion baggage limit.

I love Wikipedia.

@Xedrik @0y3ahSansAcut3 !

my grandad was a kentucky meat shower, and all he got was a restraining order.

@0y3ahSansAcut3 ++++

“Two men who tasted it judged it to be possibly lamb or deer.”
DO NOT TASTE THE SKY MEAT!

Damn you, Adrian Veidt!

"Oh not again"

@0y3ahSansAcut3 you win the meat tray!

not gold-medal parking

https://oaklandside.org/2026...

Robert Irwin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...

@bezt Yay! Thank you.

@bezt TIL, thanks. I saw the plaque “Always changing, never twice the same” with his name in the garden, but didn’t realize he designed the garden.

Imagine a murmuration of them at sunset or sunrise!!!

It's fascinating to see how much the lights follow the tectonics of the region, especially in the lower half.

If I could pick one country in which to spend a year just exploring (with no worries about anything), Iran would be in my top 3. It breaks my heart that I'll probably never be able to see the Zagros Mountains (not really in this pic, though they do start to affect the terrain here).

^the reasons *why* are what's heart breaking

Rated X

yeah, I remember this scene in Highlander

don't let that lady with a hammer in

Hooray for public transit! How lucky to have so many options available to you.

Great pic, great color coordination.

@BennyTheIcepick we just moved here last fall and I’m loving it. Cycling is pretty good everywhere I’ve been, too.

@jessamyn <3

Teach 'dem yoots.

giving public transportation freedom to an 11YO is maximum confident parent.

Alt text ✊️

My 11 year old and I are due a trip like this in our new town of Atlanta. We did lots of this in LA.

Alt text 😂

Oh What FUN!!

This is SOOO in my wheelhouse- I really wish I lived in CA to play this.

+1

The only times I've used a payphone in my life were the first few years I lived in Los Angeles and only had a pager from 2000 - 2002ish.

The only one in my area is the CHP station. There is a nice restored one in a booth nearby at a real estate office but not connected.

I have 2 public phone booths within 300m from my house, and they work. I guess Bell Canada needs to keep maintaining them because of historical licensing as an incumbent phone carrier.

Pick up the receiver I'll make you a believer.

We have this guy around here. So there are "pay" phones but they are FREEEEEE.

https://randtel.co/

@jessamyn 🤩

https://mltshp.com/p/1RLHM

I'm doing my part!

useful!

I'm in

Gonna use this in all my research papers from now on: what a time saving device from looking up for the 1000th time the difference between i.e. and e.g.! Fantastic!

But more importantly *muahahahahaha* this will drive all those peer reviewing grammar pedants absolutely batshit. A hahahahaha! Imagine their comments! HAHAHA

*A Fish Called Wanda- Michael Palin on a steamroller voice* REVENGE!

"&m."

Next step: Figure out an ampersand-type glyph for Etm!

That's all cool etm.

This is not historically true. It's a modern invention.

I do voices from this bit for my daughter regularly!

...and thoroughly enjoyed a re-watch just now!

And somehow I manage to say “it’s a magical Liopleurodon, Charlie” quite frequently

AI use has been strongly encouraged around my work, but not required so far. I see people using it all the time to summarize meeting notes, but just last week i had to be in a huge email thread (on a non-work thing) to figure out the date for something because someone used AI to summarize a separate email thread and it incorrectly listed an earlier suggestion as the final decision. I sure don't want to spent the last few years of my working life editing AI slop.

@wjcstp i'm glad they're not requiring it, but UGH i hate how popular it's becoming even when people can see daily evidence that it fails. it's like we keep digging ourselves deeper down the hole to accommodate for it.

and hard same, i don't want the back half of my career being "mop up the slime trail behind the AI" - i spent a few months arguing with my supervisor about the energy expended on exactly this:
"i let the AI gather research materials for me as you suggested, and guess what? every single source it cited did NOT say what it claimed it did, so i had to do the research all over again. now i've spent more time on this project than i would have!"
(whereupon she would go "i understand, but maybe it will work with THIS prompt?" and the cycle continued until i finally won the argument)

@nikkuneko We'll get there, one argument at a time

@wjcstp hah, yes, one battle at a time!

(also, i hope your non-work incident scared people off using LLMs for a while 😹)

fantastic

This is amazing!

Wait! Is this the James Coburn vampire?

Bravo!

👏🏾

everyone else is watching EVIL this year, too?

There are so many great versions of this song, but this one is hard to beat. Love seeing him go to town on that organ.

Truth in Advertising

How’s that launch phase going, bud?