this is your quarterly sign of life

Alive Dead

Alt: Gif of the "I'm not dead yet!" Monty Python scene

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Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood is now officially on YouTube. Current.org reports "up to 10 new full episodes added to the channel monthly, ideally based on a theme or holiday." There were 896 episodes filmed. Plus compilations. www.youtube.com/@MisterRoger...

Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood

Welcome to the official Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood YouTube channel! For more than 30 years, Mister Rogers created a relationship with millions of children, each of whom felt like they were visiting ...

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10/10 on Beaker being the best muppets with the Swedish chef as a runner up.

Things I would die on a hill for, but probably shouldn't: - Beaker is the best Muppet (besides my dog) - You should listen to a new album start-to-finish, in one go, no shuffling - There's no one right way to do something - There's only one right way to assemble LEGO - Paradoxes are underrated

Anyone here use Finch (and maybe wanna be friends)?

The plural is actually Dans Sullivan

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 3mo ago

Two Dan Sullivans are running for Senate in Alaska. One is the Republican incumbent. The other is a retired teacher who filed to run three days before the deadline. Republicans say the little-known candidate is trying to confuse voters and help Democrats.

Hail Markov

ethereal pastry@monkchips.com · 3mo ago

A dumb joke where a TV show or movie or maybe a book meets a technology. I will go first - Docker Who.

Things I miss doing that make my heart actually ache from their absence: - connecting with friends - seeing live music - traveling I've grown used to the first, oddly. But the latter two still make me break down sobbing.

I'm never going to be on the "AI is 100% bad" bandwagon. Unpopular, I know. I am going to be on the "the positioning and usage of AI as we know it today is harmful, wasteful, misleading, unethical, and flat out misapplied" bandwagon. Signed, Someone who has seen AI done well

internalized ableism is such a bitch wait bitches are awesome internalized ableism is such a fuckwad

I don't think that we're going to stay in Seattle for the long haul. Moving out of the country is kinda a nonstarter with my health, so thinking about where in the States might be workable. Thinking Cleveland, Minneapolis, Pittsburgh...

I had a pretty decent day yesterday, and actually did things that I wanted to do (plus some chores). Now I get to pay for that audacity with muscle spasms that started before I got out of bed. Woooooooo

remember to be nice to your future decomposer

Tom Cox@dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 4mo ago

“What is that in your bed?” “It’s a puffball mushroom I foraged.” “Why is it there?” “I was worried it had got cold and sad.” “But you’re going to eat it soon anyway.” “The fact that we all have to die at some point doesn’t mean we should not live well, in comfort, beforehand.”

Immensely sad that Cupcake Royale is only making The Gay this year. The Lesbian tasted amazing and easily was my favorite. #PrideIsBetterWithFrosting #AcceptableRainbowCapitalism

Because I know you still follow me around the Internet...maybe you'll see this. I forgive you, Avinash. I hope you got the help you needed.

Y'all, I left the house today, voluntarily! Went to three places! Didn't die!

what do you mean "up and to the right" is not desirable for your PCL-5 scores? next you're going to tell me that compounding isn't good for trauma!

Not dead yet

Dan Simmons, noted racist, has died. He wrote Hyperion, which contained a good short story and then a lot of other words, which many of us read anyway because it was the Nineties and Waldenbooks had a limited science fiction section.

We've heard people like Starter Packs, so we just begun putting one together for open source organizations. It could be an OSPO like us, a Foundation that supports projects and the ecosystem or accounts for OSS events. Take a look and tell us who else should be there. go.bsky.app/Te7sTt9

Open Source Organizations

Join the conversation

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As always, it was an honor to speak on a deeply personal topic at #Monktoberfest. Thank you for having me 💜 CW in the talk.

RedMonk@redmonk.com · 9mo ago

In the next installment of our New Year's revisit of the incredible talks at Monktoberfest 2025, @juliaferraioli.com traverses her career in open source with her life experience, examining the tensions between agency and control to visibility and safety. youtu.be/U938StRcH00?...

I really want to get into stained glass but the place in Seattle that runs workshops has had a closed waitlist since before COVID. I know how to solder, but I'd love to learn glass cutting technique as I'm so good at injuring myself.

This is an insightful but deeply upsetting article about why everyone in the US feels poor, and why the current political situation emerges as a direct result. www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...

Part 1: My Life Is a Lie

How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America

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One of the best things about quitting my job is getting to curl up with a @tkingfisher.com book on a Tuesday entirely guilt-free 📚

Link getting suspended may be the last straw for me here.

Went apple picking today. You never know where you’ll find unpatched OpenSSL in the wild.

Ahhhh the neverending game of Portlander or #Monktoberfest attendee while sitting at The Speckled Ax 😂

Time to renew energy for the year with some of my favorite people at #Monktoberfest! On my way to Portland today, and will hopefully feel up for the boat cruise on Wednesday.

Can your stylohyoid ligaments grow back once removed? Intuition says no, but that same intuition says they shouldn't have turned into bone in the first place. I swear that logic is on a smoke break every time questions about my body come up.

We are so beyond “we have to run anti-choice Democrats” in order to win. We’re fighting fetal viability conditions now tyvm. Not the right to abortion in the first fucking place.