Dave Durant

Neal Stephenson reading "Polostan" in Cambridge, MA, tonight.

Wow.. They're listening to birds in the back yard and using that to dynamically generate a picture on an epaper display. Ninja-level HomeAssistant. Lots of glorious nerdy details over on reddit. www.reddit.com/r/homeassist...

Ha!

Execs at food companies that have products in "resealable" bags should have their bonuses slashed if they, personally, cannot reseal their own products within 5 seconds.

I both admire and am angry that Jack Smith doesn't have a social media presence.

TIL that the bony-eared assfish is a real thing.

I've been trying to resist reposting memes but this is just too good..

Nothing like some Clickspring guilloché to detox your timeline! It's hard to judge scale if you are not familiar with stuff like this. He's making a wristwatch face here - pretty small.

This is great! CC: @in-otter-news.bsky.social www.reddit.com/r/somethingi...

Ha!

Society has lost the ability to name pets..

Proper drinks menu! www.thefixburgerbar.com

Another fork vanished today, without a trace. There are now only 6 left. Huddling in fear in the drawer.. Wondering which will be next.. Unrelated: I need to stop getting takeout lunch then just eating out of the bag/box at my desk.

Super useful. I figure a lot of us here in the Sky know this stuff already, but it might be handy to hand to parents, grandparents and pals who are less technically minded. www.librarian.net/NoToAI/

Sous vide gochujang chicken for dinner last night. Sorta improvised recipe but holy crap, that was good. 74c for 3ish hours. Probs do 75.5 next time. Also, move the oven rack down 1 and go a bit longer. Bit more in alt. Looks funky but soooo tasty!

Good news, everyone! variety.com/2026/tv/news...

If you have not already, you must google Jimothy. Yes, you probably know who he is but do it anyway then come back and thank me.

Sometimes you don't realize that you're clueless until you see the answer. This is one of my favorite flavors but until just now, I had zero idea what it looked like. And never thought to find out.

Very nice out today!

This deserves repeating and, IMO, qualifies as a timeline clense: mango & ginger white Stilton.

Hi, world. Most of us here in the US would like to win but fairly, when we earned it. We're also pissed that not everyone gets it.

Sing it!

Haha.. Not to encourage violence, really & truly, but imagine this happening to those "Patriot" Front nazis in DC this weekend with them having to dive into the reflecting pool instead. Fuck those fucking (Illinois) nazi fucks.

If we all turn on the AC at once, do data centers start crashing? Asking for a few hundred million friends.

Just back from a 2.5 mile walk. Not that far at all but I'm feeling a little regret ATM..

Hey, Netflix, remember how you used to send me 1 notification like once/month, then decided to maybe send multiple per day? Now, you send none. CC: every other business that knows how to spam me. If somebody is telling you to start spamming you customers, FIRE THEM! (not the customers)

Ha!! This PROVES that cats are the best.

Yes!

Dear Santa, This year for Prime Day I want the breakup of Amazon as a corporate conglomerate monopoly, with Kindle and Audible being nationalized into a sort of publicly owned internet library funded by a progressive tax on the hyper-rich and an annual stipend for authors.

LOL @ "Sealent Team Six"

So, so glad today that I got the turbo, which wants the good stuff.. :/

It needs to be said.. The more times we click on the video where trump loses his cool because a reporter asked him a good question, the more likely we are to see more good questions..

Once you see it, it cannot be unseen..

Take a break from the news. Enjoy this heron I just saw.

Crappy weather at the wildlife sanctuary = fewer humans & wildlife closer to the path than usual. This beauty surprised me! Right there, maybe 15ft off the path. It then flew maybe 40ft away and stopped, so I took this picture..

Confused by the absurd number of terms when checking out chix at the market?? (US markets, anyway..) AB turns out a weirdly awesome, as always, summary of what some of these terms mean and what to do with said chix, once you understand and commit.. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SquS...