Rob McDonnell

If you have free will and any amount of PTO, you should leave work early, pick up your kid from school (pick your favorite if more than one), and just… go do something together. You should do that instead of working today. You can just do things, and this is one of those things you can do.

As someone who regularly chairs interview committees and makes hiring decisions… at least half the people on the panel probably have their caffeinated beverage of choice at the interview. In 20 years, this is the first I have ever heard of it being a problem. Probably because it isn’t a problem.

pay living wages for all workers. tax the shit out of billionaires. happy labor day.

Why Think Different when you can Think The Same As Every Other Corporate Bootlicker? This will always be the first thing John Ternus is remembered for.

Display quality on new TVs has plateaued enough that it's time for "how ass is the TV's operating system" to be the new most important specification. This rating should range from "dumb panel with no OS" (platonic ideal) to "whatever the fuck LG is doing" (howling screams of the damned).

Observing The Discourse and wondering if these people know "clanker" started in an animated Star Wars show almost 20 years ago, referring to battle droids which were generally terrible compared to their human counterparts at the one thing they were built to do.

Have to believe I'm not the only little kid who read this and was immediately traumatized into always washing their hands.

If you make an app for a physical thing, the app name should have some indication of that thing. I have a Daikin ONE+ thermostat and can never remember what app I’m supposed to open for it. Why? Because it’s called “SkyportHome” and has an icon with a house and a butterfly. Many such cases.

I thought I saw Will Arnett in The Sopranos and thought I'd search to confirm. The future, everybody.

haha, thats a great post. unfortunately you phrased it in a way that allowed me, a moron, to misunderstand it

Curious to know what Stephen Miller will look like in the Ocarina of Time remake.

it's kind of weird we skipped the breakfast hot dog in the buildout of our take-and-go breakfast infrastructure. i would have expected it to slot in between breakfast sandwich and breakfast burrito before we started investing points in the breakfast taco tech tree

Advertise your Bluesky account with a GIF from The Simpsons. Now in HD!

Incredible things happening at Clemson University. Copilot really can do it all.

"Should ANY show exist which makes light of our hellworld and criticizes the president? We're not so sure."

Really wanted to see a slinky vs. hydraulic press video. Distressed to learn nobody took the necessary precautions to keep it from sliding off of its own coils. Not sure what we’re doing here.

Yes. Yes it is. iPod Classic, click wheel and all, with a ridiculous battery, solid state storage, a decent display, wifi, bluetooth, and a limited App Store. We have the technology. The youth yearn for MP3 players. It will print money. I will buy 30 of them.

I don't like it when they show the muppets' legs.

Why can’t we have a space-industrial complex instead of a military one? What if we did, like, 25% less war and 10x more space? We will still do war! Do not worry! Just… a little tiny bit less of it in exchange for a whole lot more of the only positive thing Americans have done or felt in years.

There’s such a difference between the pride and jubilation when astronauts return home versus the utter indifference toward billionaires and celebrities when their vanity ships land… that’s good energy. We should keep that energy.

I’ve seen enough. Not about the election. Just generally.

The warehouses are not for "migrants and refugees" and I don't know why people keep repeating that. Germany did this before. China did this before. WE did this before. Stop talking about it like half the people on this site aren't prime candidates for two beatings a day and a space blanket.

You ever notice how, in most science fiction, the humans are still doing the vehicle driving? Could that indicate that maybe there are some things we never intended or wanted to automate, and that autonomous self-driving is some tech baby bullshit the majority of us don't want or care about?

Sad that my wife isn’t online enough for me to use the Dow as an excuse for my many shortcomings. Such potential, wasted.

Breathing free oxygen, brought to you by DraftKings. The inside of your own eyelids, brought to you by DraftKings. The laughter of your infant daughter, brought to you by DraftKings. The taste of food, brought to you by DraftKings. Exiting the birth canal, brought to you by DraftKings.

New account security idea: *Active* MFA. Where you can’t even receive an MFA request unless you have your authenticator open and toggled to allow requests. Think of it like a credit freeze, same concept. Possibly related: I am so unbelievably tired of people trying to hit my Microsoft accounts.

Me: spend the last 15 months pretending to eat my daughter’s feet and toes in order to extract all of the baby belly laughs. Also me: “No don’t put your foot in your mouth, yuck! Why would you do this?!”

Describe your Bluesky account in a single image.

We need to talk about the rise of "smol bean fascism" where you have all the guns and the immunity but the really scary people are the ones with whistles and phone cameras and they're giving you generational trauma and ptsd by filming you killing people for no reason

Thanks, Siri (and ChatGPT)! I’ll be sure to mark my calendar on Thursday, January 25. Anyway, remember to use AI for everything all of the time (while making sure you are physically in the office and not at home) or you aren’t really working.

I wonder what it will do for the Ford Expedition and Chevy Suburban that their images are becoming synonymous with ICE activity. Nothing says "most dependable, longest-lasting truck on the road" like shooting a woman in the face three times and calling her a fucking bitch afterward.

Not offering dark mode on your website should be illegal. It's difficult to order Thai food when the experience reduces my retinas to ash.

This is a lot easier to understand when you've given up looking for humanity where there is none. This is a person-shaped billboard running on a depleted battery, only capable of displaying what it's been fed by the worst people on the planet. If fed nothing, it defaults to whatever this is. Easy.

No statement has ever made me feel so seen in my entire life. Thank you, @techconnectify.bsky.social.

Truly hate online sports betting. It is to pro sports as AI is to personal computers. I don't give a shit about either offering, I don't want it IN the thing I'm trying to do, but everyone in control of that thing REALLY wants me to use it ALL OF THE TIME. Kindly fuck off into the sun, forever.

I think we have run out of ideas when it comes to making money. All we have left are variations of "pay the peasantry to fight amongst themselves" on the short road to a future where all prosperity is lottery. We peaked at Windows 98 SE.

Post your favorite “Lord of the Rings” character. Wrong answers only.

Planes, Trains, and Automobiles is a great movie. I watch it nearly every year about this time. Steve Martin was 42 when this movie came out. John Candy was 37. Kevin Bacon was 29. BEN STEIN WAS 43. Anyway, please scatter the dust I am becoming somewhere cool.

The most unrealistic thing about Home Alone is that Kevin, with no parental involvement whatsoever, cleans up his whole mess after it's all over.

What I said (verbatim): hey bud, can you grab the books you pulled off the shelf and help put them back? What he heard (apparently):

I think making 38-year-old men choose between football and a new Ken Burns documentary is Violence, Actually.

I made a thing! It’s a journaling/habit-tracking app, specifically the app I wanted to exist but didn’t. No account required, no ads or third-party sniffing allowed, and no “we need access to everything you have ever done” permissions. Check it out! Or don’t! But it’d be a lot cooler if you did!

NYT and WaPo front pages are just... *incredibly* telling right now. You have to scroll down to find anything on Epstein and, in WaPo's case, the headline is a flat-out lie about the contents of the emails. What the fuck are we doing here?

Inside every dad, there are two wolves. The two wolves are not fighting because the first wolf spends its entire existence being hunted for sport by the children.

Truly appreciate having the power of Windows Defender in my mouthwash.

Ah, off-cycle election night. Time to start obsessively following the returns for a faraway candidate I just learned about an hour ago.

A $60B company just paid a small town in Michigan $9M to set itself on fire so a $300B company can continue its quest for 100% human unemployment. I love it here.