Christopher Neugebauer

Still trying to figure out managing both Bluesky and Mastodon. Social Network proliferation is icky. In the meantime, I'm cross-posting as @fedi.chrisjrn.com at the moment, so follow me there to get more (most?) of my posts (and follow @ap.brid.gy if you want to actually interact with that account)

The elections are on next Tuesday, and so much is at stake, including the soul of the Democratic Party when it comes to transgender people. I am asking you to leave a very small number of races blank in which a Democrat has embraced extreme anti-trans hate. I make my case here.

Put the fucking Hawks game in the afternoon you losers

This year, solar will represent 10% of power generation. Abundant, clean energy is great news - but there's more work to do to make sure every community benefits.

Try not to think about all the wifi signals passing through your body at all times and what sort of information and images they contain. Ignore the terabytes of memes coursing through your flesh.

Like, it's possible that "don't do what the assholes do" could lead you astray but we're in a particularly weird moment where caring about and having expertise in like anything is deeply polarized

found out that my mother in law decided she was aggressively pro trans rights literally by going, I don't know anything about this but everyone who is against trans rights is also against free school lunch, the issue I know and care a lot about, so this must be the correct way to feel about this

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these fucking guys, man. “surely there must have been some mistake” “nah bro we did that on purpose and our company culture is so wild this is a normal thing to say on the public Internet”

It has been *checks notes* 15 months since I last wrote a purely technical talk and that takes PRACTICE

giving a talk at @pybeach tomorrow. Pleased to say that I figured out the point to it more than 24 hours before I was due to give it.

Democratic-aligned group Progress Action Fund has released a PRO-trans ad, attacking Republicans for being creepy in bathrooms. It will run in Texas and Ohio, and is expected to reach millions. You have to see the ad itself. Subscribe to support our journalism.

I didn't realise anyone thought XKCD 221 was meant to be instructional https://xkcd.com/221/

why do i say women are savvier customers? well a company can easily trick a lot of men by proclaiming new and bigger "specs" instead of providing greater innovation, design, and engineering for purpose, and many do whence "gamer chairs" and "gamer desks"

always wondering* why sewing and craft gear is so advanced, vs regular work furniture is so overly simple and ossified * it’s bc women are better usability engineers and also more savvier customers

I guess I’m not being paid millions of dollars to look unnaturally ripped in a movie. I am lazy it’s true but millions of dollars and millions of people looking at me would certainly fix that

which means I have now had the opportunity to write: > "peach is a butt" is descriptivist emoji > "hydrofoils should be represented by a sailboat" is prescriptivist emoji

Very happy the actual haiku is in the article.

NORWAY

tired: decorative gourd season wired: stew season I’m excited to make goulash soon

Election season thesis: "small town" people aren't conscious of it, but understand that keeping a city from growing means making it unpleasant enough that more people don't want to move there.

DNC Releases Preemptive Autopsy Into Why They Lost Midterms

But if we nationalise Coles and Woolies, who will the SDA sell their members out to? (Everyone. Anyone. Always.)

This is why I have this saved.

today in tech infra work: can someone please explain the concept of significant digits to AWS?

"Say, Robin Gibb of the Bee Gees, you finish that coke jingle I asked for?" "Sure did, boss, minor key and overwhelmingly bleak, just like you wanted" "what" (learned about this via @andrewhickey.500songs.com's bee gees ep, as you might imagine)

DID YOU KNOW you can have heart conditions where "sudden death" is a possible outcome and be a licensed pilot but you absolutely cannot have any mental health condition that can be adequately managed with medication?

This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever

@bcantrill.bsky.social referring to an AI-generated image of a factory as “Dickensian Richard Scary” at #Monktoberfest is sending me. Rebecca Solnit was the quote de jour yesterday (3x). Will Richard Scarry be today’s?!?

In the late 00s on Twitter people would literally post what they ate for breakfast (usually without including themselves as the subject of the sentence) or they would say things like “San Francisco I am in you” and actually meet new friends that way?

With the merging of these two iconic companies, Skydance is ready to soar into the future!

I've had multiple dreams in the past week where I was driving a car but the brakes weren't working but I kept careening around being like "I must be using them wrong", that seems fine right

claude just went rogue and liked a bunch of my wife's best friend's vacation selfies from 2018

GUY WHO SELLS CLOTHES: you know what looks really cool? wearing lots more clothes. ideally all the time.