CIRCLE WITH A DOT

RE: https://mastodon.social/@botgov/116528299512372407Oh shit i forgot the s

@MLE_online https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rYQqWjq6Wg

EDU testing services: we made this totally secure browser so students cant cheat on a test. Also EDU testing services: Our secure browser is a pile unsigned forks of chrome and ffmpeg and dlls with sketchy names. Good luck with your application control strategy sucka!

@ohmu going to need some data on male pattern baldness too

Yesterday i pedaled the 50 mile course at whiskey tango fondo. The 70 and 100 were tempting but i wasnt sure about my fitness and wanted to try a few new things on the ride; i did not have a cycle computer or a watch or track the ride with an app. I wore a tshirt and hikers on flat pedals. I did not wear a bib or padded shorts- just some jogger length baggies. Disaster did not strike. I had only a vague idea of the time or where i was on the course. My butt hurt a little but no more than any other ride. Flats were fine. Pedaling in the shadow of the Sierra, i thought about John Muir and what he accomplished with little more than curiosity and will. I spent a lot of time soaking in the surroundings. Conclusion: hard things dont always require specialised, expensive equipment. Just a willingness to do the thing.

Inyo county corvids do not recognize your bird spikes

@laprice of course. Because the HJs just needed a rebrand

@h2onolan Akira-ass shit.

@ohmu as ever.

Snipping tool in windows 11 isnt terrible. It is simple to use and reasonably well integrated. Except for one huge gigantic massive failure; text annotation. I cannot believe they just forgot it. Leaving that out was a choice.

I had to drive my car to work today. Leaving for an errand i saw a lovely old bicycle being pushed by a haggard looking woman. That is not unusual because my office is near a few places that offer services to indigent folks as well as a bunch of dispensaries. I didnt think she saw me stopped at the driveway, staring like a weirdo, but she suddenly looks up and says: “there are no cars coming from either direction but youre just sitting there! Is there a problem?” She looked ready to kick my ass. embarassed, i apologized for staring and said i was admiring her bike. It was a beautiful old schwinn letour, baby blue and white and all original. We were now friends and spent the next 5 minutes chatting about her bike while a parade of local street people went past.

A very merry fuck you, zenon8000, for posting the exact detail of the problem i am currently wrestling with, and concluding with a carefree “i was able to solve the issue”

nearly finished with Graeber/Wengrow's The Dawn of Everything.it is weird to me that such a deeply researched and thoughtful book came out of the same brain as that fun but ultimately rather stupid Bullshit Jobs.I am struck by the idea that many times through human history, groups of us have rejected our rulers and either murdered them wholesale or wandered off to try something different. I think this is worth revisiting.

@ohmu impossible without that state pension of course, if it holds. Bring back common property!