Daniel McLaury

Why is it that package trackers always say that something is out for delivery and expected in the morning, and then change the expected delivery to the late evening? This applies to literally every package I've received over the past ~5 years. Just give the later time to begin with!

Bluesky has four kinds of users

Does anyone know what this #rodent is? I see them occasionally around Chicago and they don't seem to match the description of anything that supposedly lives here. (note: there's a scary moment but he doesn't get hurt) #zoology

Remember to tip your wastewaster treatment personnel

Virtually everyone I've seen responding to this article seems to be misunderstanding what it's saying. It's demonstrating that anyone, anywhere in the world, with no help from AI companies, could build a worm that comes with an internal AI model it uses to compromise other devices on the network.

Louis Prima

#elk at Busse Woods

The guy operating the bellows is STRESSING ME OUT. I am pretty sure you don't need to let it get that low, ever.

Is "Coyote vs. Acme" the best film ever made? Is it on par with "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" Also no, though it contains many ingredients of a film that could have been. But it's certainly more than worth the cost of a ticket, even with today's prices. And whoever dressed Cena deserves an Oscar.

Nancy 9/7/26 … Happy Labor Day 🛠️

Black has multiple roughly equally-good #chess moves here. Find one.

"God helps those who help themselves"

Very strange #chess position. Black to move.

Now, instead of learning the acronym HOMES foe the great lakes, American schoolkids can instead learn about SHAME.

I wonder what proportion of chess games end with someone losing with all their pieces still on the board.

Wasn't sure this was a real bird until it flew off.

Sleepy kiwi #dog

Every time I read that a musician "defies classification" I feel like I could actually classify their music pretty easily, and every time that classification is "music for the trailer of an upper-middlebrow film that wants to create a sense of tension."

Jokes that have run their course and should be retired: * Polyphemus "nobody" jokes * X not made in Y is just sparkling Z * Psychiatrist telling patient to see his own show Similar horses, not yet beaten to death: * Descartes "I think not" jokes * Sarte Being and Nothingness jokes

Pope: If SSPX appoints their own bishops, they're all excommunicated. SSPX: <gets themselves excommunicated> Me, excommunicated from birth as a protestant: haha, those idiots got themselves excommunicated!

It occurs to me that I could probably nail every word to "If I only had a brain" with zero prep, whereas I don't think I could come up with a single word beyond the title of "If I only had a heart" or "if I only had the nerve."

Haven't seen Nolan's Odyssey film, but this really captures how I felt about a lot of his movies I have seen -- they're "let's name check a bunch of stuff from my Freshman year gen ed classes that blew my mind." (I do like a lot of the acting in his movies, when considered in isolation.)

As someone who cannot use most snapchat-style filters because these sorts of models detect my eyes as being closed 100% of the time, I'm not enthused about this.

According to Stockfish, each player only has one viable move for the next several turns. Black to move

Tried to talk this little guy into coming inside for some fresh air. Can't imagine what these wildfires are like for animals who have to live outside.

Spending more than five seconds in this wall of white smoke from the Canadian wildfires is difficult to tolerate, but, on the plus side, for those first five seconds, it does sort of feel like you've just jumped into an ocean of scotch.

Me-coded characters

I was pretty happy with how this game went, until I went back over the moves and saw that I missed this. Black to move.

He made it across okay