Max Kaehn

I’m a huge proponent of voting, too but I also think some selective, powerful lightning strikes would be useful

I dropped off my ballot at the dropbox at the Sunnyvale Public Library on Saturday and it has already been counted!

Did my research for the Sunnyvale, CA ballot: mithriltabby.dreamwidth.org/182707.html

More ways that "AI" wastes my time: now I have to go through automatically generated meeting transcripts and make sure the hallucination engine didn't misattribute others' words to me, or mine to anyone else.

20 y/o me would be delighted by the size of my library and CD collection and then I would show him how to access the ebook and MP3 collections and he would be amazed

Our local red-shouldered hawk has noticed that we moved our snack bar (goldfish) into a temporary tank while our pond is getting maintenance and is trying to figure out how to get past the netting

Got the latest flu and COVID shots today. Now it is time to relax and let my immune system do the heavy lifting.

Completely unsurprising, given that I grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. mydialect.us/quiz-standar...

Post something Random for a better September.

I tried out the new vertical tabs on Chrome, but I had long since adapted to horizontal tabs by naming all my tab groups as emoji, and it looked really weird to have just the emoji along the side and all that empty space.

Also beware false profits. If someone is dumping negative externalities (like atmospheric CO₂), they’re a bad investment!

“I had a lot of things to do today But you know what I did instead I took a nap It was a very good nap”

High protein equivalent for a Wendy’s Frosty with a #ninjacreami: 16 oz Fairlife chocolate milk 2 packets Swiss Miss reduced calorie cocoa ¼ tsp vanilla extract Mix with frother. Freeze. Top with 4oz Fairlife; use Creamiccino setting. Detach ice from pint walls with a butter knife. Respin.

Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Senior Engineer: This cup has 100% surge capacity.

What's your favorite Bible verse? Wrong answers only.

YOUR FOES WOULD SEE YOU SLEEPLESS: RESIST AND REST.

Philosophers often bring up the "principle of charity": a willingness to assume good faith in an interlocutor and treat them accordingly. It's good to do in many circumstances. But it is worth formulating a principle of not being a fucking mark. If not during the rise of fascism, then when? 12/

I often note that ⅓ of the population will vote to immiserate themselves as long as they get someone to look down on, and the rest of us need to out-organize them. This brings up another thing we need to organize around: heeding observable reality.

Artisanal handmade gods on Deitsy

I think the strongest evidence that @WEATHERISHAPPENING is actually an interdimensional being with spiritual connections to powerful eldritch gods is that they apparently somehow negotiated a mid-month start date for their new apartment lease.

It is warm enough to wear shorts, but my fluff creatures are offended by sitting on my unclad shins, so I have a quilt on my legs to indulge them.

I love the asking more than the answer: whence maladies come, what airy substance burns, of what the heavens are made. Miasma, phlogiston, ether-- How splendidly we failed! How gladly we ask again, the first question and its unnumbered daughters: What is this glorious world, and how can we know it?

the thing about politics is everything is politics this distresses certain extremely comfortable people and that's funny

Located a mention of a previous incarnation in The Evening Journal, Wilmington, Delaware, November 26, 1920

My mother started reading The Hobbit to me as a bedtime story when I was five. I was so enthused by it we went into The Fellowship of the Ring, and I got impatient waiting for bedtime and started reading ahead on my own.

Where are we going, and what are we doing in this handbasket?

“What did Larry find that _wasn’t_ a truffle?” is a great setup for launching different kinds of story.

Continuing the chain of posting random pictures for luck in July.

Thank you for the donation! And sorry for taking a while to get back to you. This fundraiser received so many questions that I've been working my way through everything in batches. I'm attaching my answer here with alt-text. Let me know if you can't read it. Thank you again!

SJÄMSÅRA

In #Shadowrun, fog is opaque on the astral plane. futurism.com/science-ener...

My ballot has been counted! (Dropped it off at the library on Saturday afternoon and got the notification on Sunday night.)

My wife got a cat-shaped heating pad and Nero is now worried about his job security.

This is a cat checkpoint. Relinquish your most recent cat picture

Here’s my election research for the ballot in Sunnyvale, California. I’m happy if it saves you a headache. mithriltabby.dreamwidth.org/182521.html

ANNOUNCEMENT: since reality itself is currently implausible, April Fool’s Day has been canceled for 2026.

good night, sewers. good night, streams. good night, operations and maintenance teams. good night, settling tanks. good night, stream banks. good night, engineers, scientists, crews, managers, inspectors, analysts too. a good night for us means serving with care. good night, sewers, everywhere.

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