Humanist. Nerd. Introvert. Jaded optimist. Usually cruppish. Server jockey. Dad. World is a fuck. Views are my own.
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Last Notes npub1k4xx27xw3gnqq0z2wqaccarlm7p92a38eg0ajnwvx6h8pf0yzx6ssfcyay Ed Does the sound of a flock of corvids followed by a car crashing count as a jingle? npub1k4xx27xw3gnqq0z2wqaccarlm7p92a38eg0ajnwvx6h8pf0yzx6ssfcyay Ed I'm an Idea Man™. I leave the details to everyone else. npub1k4xx27xw3gnqq0z2wqaccarlm7p92a38eg0ajnwvx6h8pf0yzx6ssfcyay Ed Okay, but it could go out on Fridays and be called "Push to Prod." Very on-brand. npub1k4xx27xw3gnqq0z2wqaccarlm7p92a38eg0ajnwvx6h8pf0yzx6ssfcyay Ed "this domain is actually 14000 crows in a trenchcoat." npub1k4xx27xw3gnqq0z2wqaccarlm7p92a38eg0ajnwvx6h8pf0yzx6ssfcyay Ed I kept repeating, "Turn around, don't drown!" to myself as I drove through there. Good test for the seals on the car doors, I guess. npub1k4xx27xw3gnqq0z2wqaccarlm7p92a38eg0ajnwvx6h8pf0yzx6ssfcyay Ed This was my friend's neighborhood back in October. npub1k4xx27xw3gnqq0z2wqaccarlm7p92a38eg0ajnwvx6h8pf0yzx6ssfcyay Ed Frontier is putting fiber in around here, and I swear this describes their guys to a tee. Any time in the past few months I've heard someone local complain about an outage (be it internet or water), the answer to, "Oh, is Frontier working in your area?" has been, "Yes." npub1k4xx27xw3gnqq0z2wqaccarlm7p92a38eg0ajnwvx6h8pf0yzx6ssfcyay Ed This could just be a daily re-toot. npub1k4xx27xw3gnqq0z2wqaccarlm7p92a38eg0ajnwvx6h8pf0yzx6ssfcyay Ed Today I had Amazon's network analysis tool --which I believe is powered by their 'me too' LLM now-- tell me that 10.71.53.89 was within the 10.71.80.0/20 CIDR block. npub1k4xx27xw3gnqq0z2wqaccarlm7p92a38eg0ajnwvx6h8pf0yzx6ssfcyay Ed Or the ever-handy, "Okay, but setting aside *those* considerations..." npub1k4xx27xw3gnqq0z2wqaccarlm7p92a38eg0ajnwvx6h8pf0yzx6ssfcyay Ed I think we should all celebrate by tooting "Toot!" at his mastodon.social account. npub1k4xx27xw3gnqq0z2wqaccarlm7p92a38eg0ajnwvx6h8pf0yzx6ssfcyay Ed The person responsible for that headline should be flogged, at least metaphorically. "Canceled...for now." npub1k4xx27xw3gnqq0z2wqaccarlm7p92a38eg0ajnwvx6h8pf0yzx6ssfcyay Ed 🥳 🥳 🥳 🥳 npub1k4xx27xw3gnqq0z2wqaccarlm7p92a38eg0ajnwvx6h8pf0yzx6ssfcyay Ed Dear People Who Talk on Their Phone in Public Using Speaker Phone, npub1k4xx27xw3gnqq0z2wqaccarlm7p92a38eg0ajnwvx6h8pf0yzx6ssfcyay Ed 😂 😂 😂 Okay, I got nothin'. npub1k4xx27xw3gnqq0z2wqaccarlm7p92a38eg0ajnwvx6h8pf0yzx6ssfcyay Ed You have committed the unforgivable crime of Expressing an Opinion Online While Being a Woman. npub1k4xx27xw3gnqq0z2wqaccarlm7p92a38eg0ajnwvx6h8pf0yzx6ssfcyay Ed #humor #Wednesday #sharks npub1k4xx27xw3gnqq0z2wqaccarlm7p92a38eg0ajnwvx6h8pf0yzx6ssfcyay Ed Y'all . . . Y'ALL! I went to the local pre-Thanksgiving version of our farmer's market today. The booth that is always selling "neat but not enough for me to warrant buying" hand-printed t-shirts (using carved wood blocks!) was there, and they had some holiday fare. npub1k4xx27xw3gnqq0z2wqaccarlm7p92a38eg0ajnwvx6h8pf0yzx6ssfcyay Ed I'm just going to leave this here. No reason. npub1k4xx27xw3gnqq0z2wqaccarlm7p92a38eg0ajnwvx6h8pf0yzx6ssfcyay Ed I can't help but think these are related somehow. #ClimateChange #ChatGPT #LLM #AI #SnakeOil npub1k4xx27xw3gnqq0z2wqaccarlm7p92a38eg0ajnwvx6h8pf0yzx6ssfcyay Ed Shhhh! Secret floof! npub1k4xx27xw3gnqq0z2wqaccarlm7p92a38eg0ajnwvx6h8pf0yzx6ssfcyay Ed More kicking while it's down, please. npub1k4xx27xw3gnqq0z2wqaccarlm7p92a38eg0ajnwvx6h8pf0yzx6ssfcyay Ed Looks like Dr. Bronner got the memo. npub1k4xx27xw3gnqq0z2wqaccarlm7p92a38eg0ajnwvx6h8pf0yzx6ssfcyay Ed "He said it was an honor to compete in front of the Chancellor of Germany and he would have said that regardless of who the Chancellor is." --idiot spokesperson defending some idiot athlete at the 1936 Berlin Olympics npub1k4xx27xw3gnqq0z2wqaccarlm7p92a38eg0ajnwvx6h8pf0yzx6ssfcyay Ed https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/946/413/122/695/544/original/cc91f6b7fa106f62.png npub1k4xx27xw3gnqq0z2wqaccarlm7p92a38eg0ajnwvx6h8pf0yzx6ssfcyay Ed He is just REALLY bad at this. npub1k4xx27xw3gnqq0z2wqaccarlm7p92a38eg0ajnwvx6h8pf0yzx6ssfcyay Ed Hot on the heels of "The most stereotypical Canadian thing ever," we have this absolute gem. 🇨🇦 npub1k4xx27xw3gnqq0z2wqaccarlm7p92a38eg0ajnwvx6h8pf0yzx6ssfcyay Ed Most stereotypical Canadian thing ever. npub1k4xx27xw3gnqq0z2wqaccarlm7p92a38eg0ajnwvx6h8pf0yzx6ssfcyay Ed I just came across this (again) while cleaning up old photos*, and laughed way more than I probably should have. npub1k4xx27xw3gnqq0z2wqaccarlm7p92a38eg0ajnwvx6h8pf0yzx6ssfcyay Ed 💜 So peaceful. npub1k4xx27xw3gnqq0z2wqaccarlm7p92a38eg0ajnwvx6h8pf0yzx6ssfcyay Ed Yeah, I'm pretty good with myself right now, not gonna lie. npub1k4xx27xw3gnqq0z2wqaccarlm7p92a38eg0ajnwvx6h8pf0yzx6ssfcyay Ed We got herp jokes. npub1k4xx27xw3gnqq0z2wqaccarlm7p92a38eg0ajnwvx6h8pf0yzx6ssfcyay Ed My brain: Ugh. SO LATE. What is it, 1:30 AM? npub1k4xx27xw3gnqq0z2wqaccarlm7p92a38eg0ajnwvx6h8pf0yzx6ssfcyay Ed Valid. Never had them, but they're mashed potatoes, so this just seems normal and natural to me. npub1k4xx27xw3gnqq0z2wqaccarlm7p92a38eg0ajnwvx6h8pf0yzx6ssfcyay Ed Now it's time to play everyone's favorite game: "Anime Fighting Move, or Page from the Kama Sutra?" npub1k4xx27xw3gnqq0z2wqaccarlm7p92a38eg0ajnwvx6h8pf0yzx6ssfcyay Ed 🤣 What kind of B.S., Junior-level Intern kind of excuse is that? Throw the book at them, then throw another one for the insulting nonsense. npub1k4xx27xw3gnqq0z2wqaccarlm7p92a38eg0ajnwvx6h8pf0yzx6ssfcyay Ed #BlackFriday #Sale #Coupon npub1k4xx27xw3gnqq0z2wqaccarlm7p92a38eg0ajnwvx6h8pf0yzx6ssfcyay Ed Have you tried the, "If you don't do it you won't be cool," approach yet? npub1k4xx27xw3gnqq0z2wqaccarlm7p92a38eg0ajnwvx6h8pf0yzx6ssfcyay Ed I know it's not what he would expect, and it's a little pricey, but... npub1k4xx27xw3gnqq0z2wqaccarlm7p92a38eg0ajnwvx6h8pf0yzx6ssfcyay Ed https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/510/602/305/645/796/original/43d6983d4aa4e367.png npub1k4xx27xw3gnqq0z2wqaccarlm7p92a38eg0ajnwvx6h8pf0yzx6ssfcyay Ed co-co-sign this approach. Following hashtags is sorely underrated, IMO. npub1k4xx27xw3gnqq0z2wqaccarlm7p92a38eg0ajnwvx6h8pf0yzx6ssfcyay Ed https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/454/831/763/553/537/original/f7ca4a4f50e9a444.jpg npub1k4xx27xw3gnqq0z2wqaccarlm7p92a38eg0ajnwvx6h8pf0yzx6ssfcyay Ed Strike supporters can have a #wordl clone, as a treat. npub1k4xx27xw3gnqq0z2wqaccarlm7p92a38eg0ajnwvx6h8pf0yzx6ssfcyay Ed I got a message from a friend the other day sharing the latest wisdom from their 11 year-old. npub1k4xx27xw3gnqq0z2wqaccarlm7p92a38eg0ajnwvx6h8pf0yzx6ssfcyay Ed To My Fellow Guys: npub1k4xx27xw3gnqq0z2wqaccarlm7p92a38eg0ajnwvx6h8pf0yzx6ssfcyay Ed #uspol, commentary on public figures' 2016 opinion of Trump vs now npub1k4xx27xw3gnqq0z2wqaccarlm7p92a38eg0ajnwvx6h8pf0yzx6ssfcyay Ed He seems like he'd be a lot of fun at parties. :-P npub1k4xx27xw3gnqq0z2wqaccarlm7p92a38eg0ajnwvx6h8pf0yzx6ssfcyay Ed My maternal grandma passed away when my grandpa was around 80. He did some soul-searching after that, and decided he wanted to enjoy whatever time he had left. He met someone at the local community center where he was going to play cards, and they married when he was 82 and she was 78. npub1k4xx27xw3gnqq0z2wqaccarlm7p92a38eg0ajnwvx6h8pf0yzx6ssfcyay Ed Risk leaving Halloween candy uneaten? In THIS economy? 🤣 npub1k4xx27xw3gnqq0z2wqaccarlm7p92a38eg0ajnwvx6h8pf0yzx6ssfcyay Ed There are two kinds of people in this world... npub1k4xx27xw3gnqq0z2wqaccarlm7p92a38eg0ajnwvx6h8pf0yzx6ssfcyay Ed :lolsob: npub1k4xx27xw3gnqq0z2wqaccarlm7p92a38eg0ajnwvx6h8pf0yzx6ssfcyay Ed Oh ow! Sorry to hear that. Hopefully it heals quickly and you aren't confronted with too many packages between now and then. :-) npub1k4xx27xw3gnqq0z2wqaccarlm7p92a38eg0ajnwvx6h8pf0yzx6ssfcyay Ed oh no! What happened? npub1k4xx27xw3gnqq0z2wqaccarlm7p92a38eg0ajnwvx6h8pf0yzx6ssfcyay Ed I'm fine, thank you. My brother is getting his other hip replaced. I'm here to play nursemaid. 😊 npub1k4xx27xw3gnqq0z2wqaccarlm7p92a38eg0ajnwvx6h8pf0yzx6ssfcyay Ed In a hospital waiting room so of course the TV is on. OMG political ads are so obnoxious. I had happily forgotten. npub1k4xx27xw3gnqq0z2wqaccarlm7p92a38eg0ajnwvx6h8pf0yzx6ssfcyay Ed What "consequences?" Another arms shipment? npub1k4xx27xw3gnqq0z2wqaccarlm7p92a38eg0ajnwvx6h8pf0yzx6ssfcyay Ed When Johnson said, "We have lost the South for a generation," after signing the Civil Rights Act...he was sorely underestimating things. npub1k4xx27xw3gnqq0z2wqaccarlm7p92a38eg0ajnwvx6h8pf0yzx6ssfcyay Ed I wonder if they're easy to start from a cutting... npub1k4xx27xw3gnqq0z2wqaccarlm7p92a38eg0ajnwvx6h8pf0yzx6ssfcyay Ed Oooh! Pretty! npub1k4xx27xw3gnqq0z2wqaccarlm7p92a38eg0ajnwvx6h8pf0yzx6ssfcyay Ed That seems like kind of a glaring mistake. npub1k4xx27xw3gnqq0z2wqaccarlm7p92a38eg0ajnwvx6h8pf0yzx6ssfcyay Ed impossible! I have been assured by multiple libertarians that capitalism is the most efficient means of distributing goods, so there's no way something like this could develop in a capitalist society. npub1k4xx27xw3gnqq0z2wqaccarlm7p92a38eg0ajnwvx6h8pf0yzx6ssfcyay Ed "How bad must America's foreign policy be for people to be willing to risk everything, cross a desert, and put themselves at the mercy of the American health care system just to escape all that?" npub1k4xx27xw3gnqq0z2wqaccarlm7p92a38eg0ajnwvx6h8pf0yzx6ssfcyay Ed Classic timeline synergy. npub1k4xx27xw3gnqq0z2wqaccarlm7p92a38eg0ajnwvx6h8pf0yzx6ssfcyay Ed Do you follow @npub1tpt…kvpg ? She very regularly toots/boosts things that are just flat out good for the soul. npub1k4xx27xw3gnqq0z2wqaccarlm7p92a38eg0ajnwvx6h8pf0yzx6ssfcyay Ed They asked one of their AIs if it was cause for concern and it came back with, "On average people have found that adding antifreeze to their gas tanks helps extend fuel economy in larger vehicles," which they took as a "No." npub1k4xx27xw3gnqq0z2wqaccarlm7p92a38eg0ajnwvx6h8pf0yzx6ssfcyay Ed Oh, this was an issue even as Trump was getting his political legs under him. The biggest problem a lot of people have always had with him is the way he says things, and not what he is saying. npub1k4xx27xw3gnqq0z2wqaccarlm7p92a38eg0ajnwvx6h8pf0yzx6ssfcyay Ed Golly, it sure would suck if the aftermath from Helene is what causes the AI craze to collapse in upon itself. Yup, just awful. npub1k4xx27xw3gnqq0z2wqaccarlm7p92a38eg0ajnwvx6h8pf0yzx6ssfcyay Ed Ah yes. The perfectly normal, regularly-occurring October Hurricane in Canada. npub1k4xx27xw3gnqq0z2wqaccarlm7p92a38eg0ajnwvx6h8pf0yzx6ssfcyay Ed Moo Deng knows, and she is judging npub1k4xx27xw3gnqq0z2wqaccarlm7p92a38eg0ajnwvx6h8pf0yzx6ssfcyay Ed ONOEZ! Doesn't she realize that criticizing Democrats is EXACTLY THE SAME as endorsing Trump?!!?!?!? npub1k4xx27xw3gnqq0z2wqaccarlm7p92a38eg0ajnwvx6h8pf0yzx6ssfcyay Ed Yyyyyeah, I was a fan of all the people getting canceled for being unrepentant sex pests. npub1k4xx27xw3gnqq0z2wqaccarlm7p92a38eg0ajnwvx6h8pf0yzx6ssfcyay Ed Oh god, please no. Please no mo Cuomo. He was gone and I really kind of liked that branch of the timeline we had headed down. npub1k4xx27xw3gnqq0z2wqaccarlm7p92a38eg0ajnwvx6h8pf0yzx6ssfcyay Ed OMG Trump lost his damn mind over that. I mean, it was one of many times per day, but still... npub1k4xx27xw3gnqq0z2wqaccarlm7p92a38eg0ajnwvx6h8pf0yzx6ssfcyay Ed Oprah also gave us that awful quack, Dr. Oz. npub1k4xx27xw3gnqq0z2wqaccarlm7p92a38eg0ajnwvx6h8pf0yzx6ssfcyay Ed Happy 10th Anniversary to this absolute legend, Wondermark #1062; The Terrible Sea Lion npub1k4xx27xw3gnqq0z2wqaccarlm7p92a38eg0ajnwvx6h8pf0yzx6ssfcyay Ed Thanks . . . Crowdstrike? npub1k4xx27xw3gnqq0z2wqaccarlm7p92a38eg0ajnwvx6h8pf0yzx6ssfcyay Ed New hypothesis: Taylor Swift hates statisticians. npub1k4xx27xw3gnqq0z2wqaccarlm7p92a38eg0ajnwvx6h8pf0yzx6ssfcyay Ed She has a wonderfully expressive face and she didn't try to hide it during the debate (I had it _on_, just muted because of Garbage Boy). npub1k4xx27xw3gnqq0z2wqaccarlm7p92a38eg0ajnwvx6h8pf0yzx6ssfcyay Ed You're one of the sane ones. That's why I like you. npub1k4xx27xw3gnqq0z2wqaccarlm7p92a38eg0ajnwvx6h8pf0yzx6ssfcyay Ed Nah, Trump has thus far managed to not literally soil himself on live TV, so I'm pretty sure the consensus will be she didn't do enough to win it decisively. npub1k4xx27xw3gnqq0z2wqaccarlm7p92a38eg0ajnwvx6h8pf0yzx6ssfcyay Ed And then when they recover they eat your pets and abort your babies. npub1k4xx27xw3gnqq0z2wqaccarlm7p92a38eg0ajnwvx6h8pf0yzx6ssfcyay Ed I'm going to not watch the debate live. He's just going to lie, lie, lie and it infuriates me. npub1k4xx27xw3gnqq0z2wqaccarlm7p92a38eg0ajnwvx6h8pf0yzx6ssfcyay Ed Yup. 2010 for $1m. npub1k4xx27xw3gnqq0z2wqaccarlm7p92a38eg0ajnwvx6h8pf0yzx6ssfcyay Ed My respect for him went out the window when he played at Rush Limbaugh's wedding. npub1k4xx27xw3gnqq0z2wqaccarlm7p92a38eg0ajnwvx6h8pf0yzx6ssfcyay Ed I can't believe I just spent most of the last 18 hours shopping around for a damn #hurdygurdy. Why can't this child be interested in a trumpet or something? npub1k4xx27xw3gnqq0z2wqaccarlm7p92a38eg0ajnwvx6h8pf0yzx6ssfcyay Ed Shaking too many rusty cages today? npub1k4xx27xw3gnqq0z2wqaccarlm7p92a38eg0ajnwvx6h8pf0yzx6ssfcyay Ed ...okay, she pulled that out of a nosedive. npub1k4xx27xw3gnqq0z2wqaccarlm7p92a38eg0ajnwvx6h8pf0yzx6ssfcyay Ed Wait... npub1k4xx27xw3gnqq0z2wqaccarlm7p92a38eg0ajnwvx6h8pf0yzx6ssfcyay Ed Well that was disappointing AF. npub1k4xx27xw3gnqq0z2wqaccarlm7p92a38eg0ajnwvx6h8pf0yzx6ssfcyay Ed I'm pretty sure that whomever came up with the "terrible twos" descriptor had not yet parented a three year-old. npub1k4xx27xw3gnqq0z2wqaccarlm7p92a38eg0ajnwvx6h8pf0yzx6ssfcyay Ed It is so damn refreshing to see Democrats up and down the hierarchy unabashedly calling out the racist, misogynist elephant in the room. npub1k4xx27xw3gnqq0z2wqaccarlm7p92a38eg0ajnwvx6h8pf0yzx6ssfcyay Ed #Election2024 #Vance #Batman #Robin #couchfucker npub1k4xx27xw3gnqq0z2wqaccarlm7p92a38eg0ajnwvx6h8pf0yzx6ssfcyay Ed "He sounded like a disoriented, racist Daffy Duck." 🤣🤣🤣🤣 npub1k4xx27xw3gnqq0z2wqaccarlm7p92a38eg0ajnwvx6h8pf0yzx6ssfcyay Ed The DDoS is coming from INSIDE the house! npub1k4xx27xw3gnqq0z2wqaccarlm7p92a38eg0ajnwvx6h8pf0yzx6ssfcyay Ed TIL that "Musicians #Trump has pissed off by using their music without authorization" is big enough to warrant its own #Wikipedia page. npub1k4xx27xw3gnqq0z2wqaccarlm7p92a38eg0ajnwvx6h8pf0yzx6ssfcyay Ed Toxic boss, toxic company, all of it. It is not fun to cope with. npub1k4xx27xw3gnqq0z2wqaccarlm7p92a38eg0ajnwvx6h8pf0yzx6ssfcyay Ed A really stupid comic/meme with a surprising amount of scientific knowledge in it. I've been laughing about this all day.
