Ian McKellar

this is anti-pansexual discrimination

There's a lot of terrible things about the US/Israeli war on Iran and Lebanon, but it's probably good for Brazilian democracy.

I just some small Kalshi bets on Republican wins in the House and Senate. It's a hedge. I don't mind losing the money if the election goes well. If it goes poorly I have some self care cash.

I have vision loss on the right of my field of view due to a brain tumor, but am I the only one who momentarily reads "Meta" as "Meat" in headlines?

She’s the future.

#GoogleMaps satellite images of #Gaza show us what has disappeared. A child’s drawing reminds us what was there and what it means to lose it. Behind every destroyed neighbourhood are memories and childhoods forever changed: www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/palestine-dr...

I'll believe Ohio Republicans opposed sexual abuse when they dump Jim Jordan and return Les Wexner's donations.

Wikipedia appears to have just gone offline. I hope that was proactive. #hugops

The exponential memory & CPU consumption patterns in clang-format have finally affected side-projects rather than just work. And LLMs are good at coming up with minimal test cases. So maybe I'll actually get a patch up for this.

Why can't American AI companies give their model variants meaningful names like Chinese ones do. What's a Sol or Fable or Sonnet or Argon? Just tell me if it's small, cheap and fast or big, slow and expensive, or the one in the middle!

This is all utterly mad and the responsibility lies squarely with the British government www.rte.ie/entertainmen...

Boy I wonder who he means by “they”

I got a mac mini for development, testing and CI. I'd like to avoid the wild west of homebrew and stick to normal, supported package management like I use on Linux and Windows. I wonder how long it'll take for me to be forced to break the glass...

idk man you’ve been blowing up a lot of fishermen and school girls for a guy worried about innocent life

The problem is the execution, not the streaming. Streaming it is just saying the quiet part out loud. There's nothing "civilized" about killing people behind closed doors or using injections rather than bullets.

My new stage name is Mel Specrtrogram.

AI tools sure are great at building test harnesses and benchmarking suites to improve AI pipelines.

Tragic, but I'm sure nothing compared to what the families of the >150 schoolgirls we killed in the tomahawk strike in southern Iran at the end of February.

Kimberly Guilfoyle's blatant corruption raises new questions about Gavin Newsom's judgment.

@benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org I believe it was the teutonic knights, not the templars who went into Lithuania.

Great news for Canada! https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/08/jd-vance-microsoft-visa-workers-green-card-suspension

Seems crazy to be bragging that the economy is so bad that foreigner governments and companies are able to come in and buy up ownership and control of vast swathes of America, using us to make profits they'll take abroad. To each their own I guess.

rip to one of the coolest software engineers who ever lived

Holy shit.

As we have said for years—the Trump administration is only pretending to fight antisemitism in order to make themselves the arbiters of what counts as antisemitic. Their real goal is to crush anti-Zionism and subordinate all Jewish people to the Christian Nationalist agenda.

And that’s why his nickname swaps the first and fourth letters of his name

As an American and an Australian I find this doubly enraging.

Why does my iPad take ~forever to apply an update while my Pixel phone just requires a reboot?

@aoc.bsky.social: The best thing that we can do to rein in runaway costs at private institutions is by having tuition free public colleges and universities. “For anyone who wants to say that that’s pie in the sky and unrealistic… this is literally what baby boomers gave themselves.”

Remember, memory safety is what makes PHP such a famously secure programming language.

I've been tinkering with an OrcaSlicer plugin to connect to Anycubic 3D printers over their proprietary protocol. I printed a benchy!

We’ve known for months we’ve lost, but how badly is still coming into focus

One Nation’s surge has seen the mainstreaming of neo-Nazi talking points. Their supporters, candidates, and members of parliament have publicly denied and minimised the Holocaust, promoted conspiracy theories, and repeated antisemitic slurs. The far right is no friend to the Jewish community.

Orange on orange violence: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/12/donald-trump-says-he-would-love-to-see-united-ireland

I'm not racist, but why is it that American companies only seem to be good at making knock-offs of Asian products instead of innovating themselves? Is it a cultural difference? https://www.apple.com/iphone-duo/

I'm about to head to Walnut Creek (home of the CD-ROM) for my first radiation appointment for my brain cancer. Then tonight I start my chemo pills. It's going. To be an interesting six weeks.

I vibe coded a map app that renames everything to "America" so that Trump can stop trying to rename stuff. https://americize.com/

Now that LLMs can turn any dumb idea I might have into a functioning web app, should I give my agent the ability to register domain names itself?

Long time no post. I had let my mastodon instance bitrot quite a bit. Maintaining a server is kind of a pain. But I asked an AI agent to fix it up and it seems to have done a good job. Also, I just had brain surgery. Weird times.

I just had a brain tumor removed. Weird times.

It doesn't matter whether you pick DST or ST, and there isn't a "better one"; it's geographically dependent on where you are inside the timezone anyway. What matters is that you don't switch midyear.

MPs call for ban on fast food outlets opening near schools to tackle obesity