Kyle Brickman

I feel like if your answer to this is “I don’t know,” the correct answer is yes.

Well of all the ways to do layoffs… that sure was one is them. I was spared this time, but if you’re looking to hire, MAN do I have some incredible people I can point you to. Managers, junior to staff level engineers, test engineers. So many good people.

Agreed, noneuclidean furniture really belongs in something more like The Langoliers.

Presumably, Pike said “lol beam my horse to the barn,” but Star Trek hasn’t explored how animals experience the transporter. Does the horse materialize in their stable and just be chill and eat some alfalfa, or are they like “What in the ever-loving fuck?!” and just flip out? Do they get used to it?

“The reports even assiduously avoid identifying the judge by gender, proving that even conservative judges can figure out how pronouns work with minimal effort.”

The _fuck_ it will. My browser tabs are proof that I’m human, dammit.

Why Was I Invited To An Island Off The Coast of Costa Rica By A Genetics Company? (With apologies to Dan Olson)

@gruber.foo - interestingly given your recent musings on F1 AVP content, I noticed that the Lapz AVP app that got shuttered in late 2024 got updated on TestFlight a month ago. Did they resolve the complaints from F1 and just not get picked up by the news cycle, or is this a new development?

“MAHA™” really sums it up, doesn’t it?

Age verification? I literally wrote a post celebrating CANYON.MID yesterday.

If I won this contest it would bankrupt the company.

Some days, you wake up with a song in your heart. And if you’re very, *very* lucky, that song is CANYON.MID.

When I did computer repair, there was a particular model of circa 2000 HP computer case that would draw blood every time I worked on one. The 1990 behemoths that weighed as much as a car? Nope? This asshole? It *hungers*.

I cannot think of a better encapsulation of personal computers in 1994.

make a Bond movie academic Die Another Day: Use of cubic crystalline allotropic carbon in focused solar energy production and de-sequestration of glacial freshwater for non-motorized oceanic wave-based transportation.

If you’ve ever got imposter syndrome, just remember that Bari Weiss let dozens of opportunities to spike the CECOT story pass her by, only to elect to do so at almost the worst possible moment and all for naught because Canada aired it anyway.

Bari Weiss proving she’s never heard of Betteridge’s Law.

Trust me GitHub, it is *not* this easy.

My seventeen year old son just referred to a comma as a “lower case apostrophe,” if you want to know how parenting is going.

It’s right up there with “signing up for a Disney+ free trial means you give up the right to sue Disney for killing your relative due to negligent handling of food allergens at their theme park.”

This is like if Phillip Morris printed “you may not contract cancer while using this product” inside the bottom flap of a pack of cigarettes and then arguing that indemnifies them against claims that cigarettes give you cancer.

This is probably all because someone important made fun of the “from Earth” tweet location but and now he’s trying to impress them or something.

Gemini’s about to learn a whole lot about fake PayPal receipts for purchasing Etherium and FREE HOME DEPOT GIFT CARDS.

Hodgkin's Law of Parallel Planetary Development but for Pier 1 home decor.

So, uh, @bestofnextdoor.bsky.social, you might know - anyone else receiving Nextdoor TOS updates that A) are for someone else; and B) reveal their email address (not pictured)? (And I checked, the links are legit, though it would be hilarious if scammers were trying to bait folks with a TOS email)

I am not watching the video in fear my brain will forcibly exit my body in an ill-fated attempt to save itself, but the quote text here is like when you just tap the middle text autosuggestion on an iPhone keyboard over and over.

Absurd, we all know that @dieworkwear.bsky.social is the best-dressed over there.

Fuck, I was all ready to post about how LinkedIn’s algorithm is a siren song to hypercapitalists and needs to be studied, and then I realized this wasn’t even posted there. It just _felt_ like it.

Pope Leo XIV: “It’s undeniable that Weekend at Bernie’s is an allegory for the Resurrection of the Christ. The hijinx that ensue? A divine gift.”

LEGO posted this cute video for the launch of their first official #StarTrek set today #LEGO

I may as well just point my paycheck’s direct deposit to LEGO at this point. Also hilarious that “Klingon forehead” and “Guinan hat” are official LEGO elements now.

I’m pretty sure the only way this actually-real email from Apple could look less legitimate is if they misspelled “store” or hosted their order status page at real-dot-app-dot-le-dot-biz or something.

Pictured: Cuomo, voting for Mamdani while thinking “The Devil said running again was part of the bargain we made but he never said I couldn’t vote against myself. Fuck I just want to move to Florida for a few goddamn years before I turn over my soul for eternal damnation, please let him win”.

Feds: We’re charging this man with assault. Also feds: No, we did not collect the discarded weapon we allege was used in the assault into evidence.

I love it when two giant companies are fighting over, like, a dollar of my money, claim they’re acting in my best interest, and demonstrate that by making things difficult for me. Unrelated, signed up for NFL+ so my wife and son can watch a football game while Disney and Google “negotiate.”

I can’t help but think Apple’s casting some subtle shade here.

Me: So painfully uncool that I’m probably the only D.A.R.E “graduate” who still hasn’t done weed. Also me: “muncho pot crisps 🤭”

The delightful thing about how Bluesky handles quote posts is that you end up seeing posts like this with no context, but a wealth of possibilities about what they’re referring to, all terrible.

Well @jacquesfavreau.com, looks like they’re finally over my bullshit. Or my last employer needs a content designer. One or the other.

“Most Trekkies are Republicans, Star Trek can embrace it or die”, but then she got scooped.

@nytpitchbot.bsky.social, time for a Bari Weiss pitchbot, I guess. “Why masking policies did not stop the rhesus monkey truck crash” “North Carolina liberals are refusing to vote yes on CA Prop 50” “An interview with Erika Kirk on how Reagan’s stance on tariffs was taken out of context”

Sarah Winchester: The ghosts of those killed by my family’s rifles require me to build them a house with stairs to nowhere and windows and doors that can’t open. Donald J. Trump: Hold my Diet Coke, I can build THE BEST house for ghosts. Ghosts LOVE ballrooms.

Fuck, some days you’ve just got to write some code to keep the spark alive.

“Much better” thought Donald J. Trump. “Now they match.”