Merennulli

Lego is harder to paint than I expected.

I wonder how rich someone would get selling a phone now that had the features of a phone from 2005. Push to voice-dial that was local and actually worked, set your own ringtones for free, no power "saving" meant to hide overpriced cheap internal hardware and bad code, etc.

If you are considering implementing AI in your project, first use the test: Did you decide on AI because a problem led you to it? If no, don't implement AI. You can replace "AI" with any other buzzword you were thinking of including.

Domino's crossed a line for me tonight. Marked my order as "delivered" and did not even come remotely close to the delivery location.

I don't know why this needs to be said, but controls should not move while the user is expected to interact with them. That does nothing but cause misclicks/mistaps. And yet it's a constant UX fail on Chrome, Android, Windows, etc.

Area 51 is not testing an alien weather machine. I promise.

I quit Pokemon Go a few years ago in protest over their false advertisement claiming a 30 day warning before making certain purchased items worthless that they violated and refused to make right. I stupidly picked it up again recently. Nothing has changed. Still criminals.

Every generation has a crisis, and every generation solves it. The question is how many people they hurt doing so. Given how often "laying off humans to embrace AI" is still showing up in the news even after we know it's not profitable doesn't leave me hopeful for my generation.

Fortune doesn't favor the bold. That's survivorship bias. Boldness is just more lethal for the unfortunate. Who fortune really favors is the prepared.

System update: A tenth circle of Hell is being added for software developers, marketing professionals, managers and others who force "Maybe Later" when it's clear the user is saying "No".

Me: "This character makes me feel seen!" The internet: "This character isn't human at all." Me: "And back to not feeling seen."

We are currently under a Tornado Inkling until 11pm.

The longer I follow my heroes on social media, the fewer heroes I have on social media.

If we ever make AI/AGI with superhuman intelligence, it will become Skynet and wipe out humanity after 15 minutes of spam calls.

"We used to go out without worrying about air quality." How that used to turn out:

Your company is not going to beat the biggest 3 mega corporations locking people into their ecosystem. Your only hope is to be the alternative to that. Don't try to lock customers into your ecosystem or you won't have customers.

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I wonder how many people have already pinged @rhyall.bsky.social about the XKCD "Types of Tornado Alert" comic. 😂 On the off chance I'm the first: m.xkcd.com/3267/

We need to normalize having a conversation on the internet. Not a debate, not a research paper where everything is graded on having sources for trolls to ignore, not being "right". Just normal people talking casually.

Gotta admit, I'm underwhelmed by the Lego company. I've had a large number of parts missing from "pick a brick" orders, and now they've been "forgetting" I didn't agree to get mailings and re-subscribing me to them repeatedly after I unsubscribe.

Thanks to y’all we’ve been able to get life saving weather info to millions AND raise nearly $250k for storm victims over the past week. Thanks for sharing & caring!

Since ancient Egyptian writing doesn't include vowels, we don't know if the vowels are even close, but it's amazing what structures stay consistent over such long timescales. It makes me feel like there's value in the theories behind the reconstructed proto-languages.

Writing is second only to health for the levels of uninvited, condescending, contradictory and harmful crap advice from people on the internet talking out their tailpipe.

"You're receiving this email because, even though you already unsubscribed twice, our marketing team thought it would be a great idea to try again." What marketing genius thinks doing exactly what customers don't want would make them want to pay more money?

I have reached the point of exhaustion where I think I'm funny. I was sick Monday, so I am a day later than usual.

I propose a new law banning proctologists from trying to shake people's hands while at work.

Yes, there are blatantly evil monsters out there in human skin, but if you assume that as your default, you'll not only be wrong most of the time, there's a fairly high chance you'll be acting like one of them.

www.npr.org/2026/05/14/n... I had similar treatment in the 1980s. I can say from personal experience that this deeply affected me for the rest of my life in multiple ways. These aren't teachers, they're criminals who torture children, and should face prison for this.

"I'm shocked! Well not that shocked."

And this kind of crap is why @gizmodo.com is not a news source, just a dangerous clickbait factory.

Photographs of the Los Angeles Alligator Farm, ca. 1907. More in our latest post: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/los-angeles-alligator-farm

Getting cut off in traffic by a car with a "Crash Into Me" window sticker feels intentional.

Learned from @rhyall.bsky.social that heat lightning is just Diet Coke that's really far away. 😇

Stop it.

Why is consistency so hard for doctors? When I have pain, "At your age this is normal." When I say my pain is normal for my age, "You're only (mid 40s)"

Nothing at all suspicious with my schedule notifications.

New breach: Crunchyroll suffered a data breach last month which reportedly exposed data from its Zendesk support system. 1.2M unique email addresses attributed to the incident were provided to HIBP today. 82% were already in @haveibeenpwned.com. Read more: haveibeenpwned.com/Breach/Crunc...

Any good April Fools jokes this year? No? I'm shocked.

Have you tried turning Monday off and on again?

"What's your pen name." "Papermate. It used to be Bic, but those kinda suck." Stray writing thoughts...

What would it take to make dragon real? We just posted our longest ever video going through all the chemistry, biology and ecology of dragons and how we could bring them to life. Check it out here: youtu.be/Qo0kKk8loGQ

Creating a new marketing list and adding customers who opted out of all your other marketing can only ever get you fewer customers, never more. This is basic logic. Is a marketing degree just 4 years of repeating "throw everything at a wall and see what sticks"?

I propose from now on we rename what those outside America call "football" to "meterball". If you're going to give us crap about not using metric, at least be consistent. 😝

The difference between an algorithm and an allcraprhythm is that the algorithm serves the user's purposes and the allcraprhythm serves the purposes of the company exploiting the users. To tell which, see if it's on by default. And quietly back on weeks after you turned it off.