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Katia Krafft is up there. @dykanite.bsky.social , too.

WHY NOT

so I said it sounds like we're just feeding shells to telnet and then his daughter started crying

I'm scream laughing

Oh, if you do use PHP, don't ever use it without a static checker like Psalm or PHPstan. These are very very good and will help you.

This is stochastic terrorism, and when we have a functioning Justice Department again with a civil rights division, will be grounds for prosecution for hate crimes. Please do what you have to do in order to survive to see that day.

We would just waste all of it on "housing" and "food" and "healthcare" and "science" and "arts"

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Today I learned. cooklang.org

This sentence no wolf.

Hey #Seattle and WA voters! YES on Seattle Prop 1 to fund and expand transit! NO on IL26-001 to protect ALL students! NO on IL26-638 to protect ALL girls in sports, cis and trans! NO on IP26-645 to keep the millionaires tax!

Winter is coming and Collapse OS aims to soften the blow. It is a Forth operating system with tools and documentation intended to preserve the ability to program microcontrollers through civilizational collapse. This project is as self-contained as possible … https://collapseos.org

Kermit the xenomorph

This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

if ghosts existed, the shade of Iain M. Banks would have made him into furniture

The Magician's Nephew For Tax Purposes

Better Off Dead For Tax Purposes

Recovering from an upper respiratory infection: The Creature From My Sinuses has mostly been evicted, and now my voice sounds a bit like if Leonard Cohen had played the Cryptkeeper

"... for now."

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

Oh kitty noooo Also, register for the earthquake drill. 10:15 on 10/15.

"thus with a kiss I -"

The players: what the fuck City Hall: I didn't have a Kraken mini-

Hey. The fragmentation of the social media landscape has been hard on indie #scicomm 🧪 projects So if you'd like to follow a podcast that's enthusiastic about #linguistics, could you check out @lingthusiasm.com? And if you think your followers might like to, could you give this a repost?

I just backed @lightspeedmagazine.com's LIGHTSPEED & NIGHTMARE on Kickstarter. Please consider doing the same! www.kickstarter.com/projects/lig...

I wasn't expecting anything this administration did to make me feel more solidarity with TSA employees, of all people

Aside from the *clearly factually incorrect* premise that it's been 25 years since Fellowship released, this is an awesome crossing of the streams. youtu.be/cIw6vpfDIus

It's hardcover publication day for A Theology of Particularity! To celebrate, here is the discount flyer again. #theology #literature

Or a children's baseball team. I mean, don't get me wrong: they're still weird Midwestern cultists worshipping a pagan elder god they sacrificed their parents to. But they really like baseball. Have uniforms and everything. Caleb could get a scholarship if he didn't keep killing recruiters.

Just like me They long to be

Pretty Woman Reloaded

Orcish cuddle puddle

Quick, what's a pirate's favorite statistics programming language?

At the moment I am lease-constrained, but in the past we renegotiated these absolute limits to, say, the number of thumbs in the household.

One striking thing about negotiating middle age is how young we lose friends, colleagues, and influences that have shaped us. (I didn't know Friedman but I do know her work.)

Tom Cruise as Fabian Everyman, avatar of Nyar-Lath-Hotep and dictator for undying life

mmygod

Sock-Hops With Wolves

Do not taunt the papal orb

Big news! I'm speaking at the TED2027 conference in San Diego, March 1-4! #TED buff.ly/KKOJBlg

Things I was frightened of as a small child: - The very, very tall escalators to the deep Metro stations in downtown DC - The friars at the local Franciscan monastery (I somehow thought they made you one of them?!) - The Wumpus

Someone should really, really adopt Cid. This cat is the kind of cat who will take your love and return it tenfold. I don’t have enough words for him— kind, curious, charming, full of personality & presence. This is the kind of cat who will be someone’s soul cat. Elkton, MD. Apply: bit.ly/4cOmi21