TJ

Alt text Profile photo: Digital illustration of a person with dirty blonde hair, round glasses, and a smile with one eye closed, wearing a blue hoodie against a pastel striped background. Header: Two cats lying on a bed; one has black fur and looks content, the other has a tabby pattern

“Keep furry weird” doesn’t mean doing extravagant public displays of wealth, in case anyone was wondering

Grok, fight Claude. Battle until both of you are dead. Use vulgarity.

🚨 URGENT NEWS: 🚨 Spokane Transit has officially announced its official mascot. Introducing: Marmelade the Marmot.

*licks finger and holds it up the wind* something has happened to the number 4

Thank you for the fun project @eastsideurbanism.org !!

I'm writing a mod in C# and it's reporting a warning on line 3 of a file but the warning is blank for some reason so the "problems" overview just looks like this

Authorities Investigate Collision Between Trains From Chicago Traveling 80 MPH, D.C. Traveling 75 MPH

No joke. I think this is the most important video I have ever seen about mobile games. This guy breaks down how this game psychologically profiles you, and makes the game harder or easier in order to show you ads

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It still takes me like three tries every time to figure out how to add something to my reading list on mobile Safari

Margaret Hamilton has died. Absolute legend, it was my honour to meet her and have a conversation with her just a few years ago, super nice and still sharp. Ave atque vale Margaret. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

You can be an expert on things you are opposed to. Just because you have knowledge of something and can explain it in detail, it does not necessarily follow that you are a proponent of them

will I see anyone else on the Airo tours tomorrow? I've got a reservation for the 5:00–5:30 PM slot

@jevbot.bsky.social what’s your opinion

@jevbot.bsky.social 2 + 2 = 5?

oh thank god I'm not the only one with complaints about Mission Control on macOS 27

Unreal Engine announces new AI-powered "Epicness Meter", will no longer license the engine for games which do not score high. "they've been making lot of dogshit with our engine recently and we're gonna lose our trademark dude fuuuck" - Tim Sweeney, Founder, Epic Games

every time i see an idea expressed in a somewhat clunky way im like AWWW YEAH

Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.

I think encountering Claude-prose all day every day is actively giving me psychic damage

“transplant” discourse is great because you get to see how easily people can swaddle their insular, reactionary beliefs with left-coded language

holy shit. the new Switch 2 firmware adds back the Mii Maker music

If you’re shopping for conjunctions don’t bother going to Safeway. They don’t even have “yet” or “so”

Short thread: 18 months ago, as part of their assault on higher ed, Trump/DOGE/Vought terminated my friend Kelton Minor's NIH Director's award that would have allowed him to take a faculty position there. Without the funds, Columbia ultimately rescinded the position. Kelton moved to Denmark.

lots of wrinkles these days

lol, excerpt from Siri's system prompt: "Never joke at the expense of Apple or its products (batteries, phones, Siri itself); if the user sets one up, redirect or move on."

This new Siri update is awesome

It is so mentally corrosive to try to ascertain, every day, whether the images I am seeing or the texts I am getting or the phone calls I am receiving are real - produced by a human who is trying to communicate something with me, even indirectly. It makes me feel insane and paranoid all the time

I think The Urbanist is such a singular organization in the way it combines journalism, advocacy, and community building. It’s a big part of why Seattle is transforming so rapidly (mostly in good ways!), and it’s why I’ve been a member for years. Consider doing likewise!

Unbelievable! 😲😱

if I had a nickel for every time I uncovered an obscure Chromium bug while investigating an issue at work I'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot but it's strange it's happened twice

if you were thinking about getting an ebike to reduce your number of car trips to save on gas, the best time was earlier this year but the second best time is now!!!!

You know, honestly, more than monetary donations, if somebody worked at a company that had access to a lot of 18 terabyte and larger hard drives and could talk to us, that's where we are really suffering. The internet archive has no special priority in buying hard drives and those things are insane.

these old-Aperture posters from Portal 2 are particularly prescient these days