I don't know who needs to know this, but PIG is coming to Seattle on Sept 4th and I'll be going, because his shows always kick ass. If you’re up for it, you should come!

Leftists are supposed to wait for a more convenient season for change. Getting the most votes in elections just shows how out of touch they are with most voters.

Significant Dates in Science Fiction: August 4, 2026, I guess! https://archive.org/details/bradbury-nimoy

Ray Bradbury read by Leonard Nimoy : Ray Bradbury : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Leonard Nimoy reads two of Ray Bradbury's classic stories from THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES.1. THERE WILL COME SOFT RAINS2. USHER IIThese recordings were...

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A really excellent read about the difference between friendship and community and who to exist with folks you just don't like. 1/3

Micaiah Johnson@micaiahjohnson.bsky.social · 2d ago

I was beaten to it by the amazingly generous @mollytempleton.com but yes! The blog I was nervous about yesterday is a reality today. She’s free. She’s long. She contains multiple cat photos. www.patreon.com/MicaiahJohns...

incredible writing about community here: https://www.patreon.com/MicaiahJohnson/posts/my-favorite-cat-165399045 (From @darusha.ca) Especially apt as Worldcon approaches.

The current CEO of Identity Digital (_formerly Donuts Inc_) named Akram Atallah, used to be the president of ICANN, the folx that “own” and “run” the internet. Under his leadership, ICANN introduced the new generic Top Level Domain program, or new gTLD, giving the creation of a new domain […]

Every word I read about the conflict in Iran cements my belief that Helen and I made the right call in moving up our switch to an EV

Pretty wild to see someone trying to argue that unpaid prison labor should't be called coerced, claiming that the prisoners are performing this unpaid work "voluntarily”

Apropos of exactly that, lunch today was creamed burratta, grilled peaches, prosciutto, basil, and a drizzle of balsamic vinegar, on grilled rustic bread. https://wandering.shop/@offby1/117027661056363193

I don't know where we are in "official peach season” but migod the peaches from the neighborhood greengrocer are *delicious*

Every day we move further from the light; as though we climbed to the foothills of the mountain, declared that we'd summited, and then bravely leapt off the nearest cliff. @assignedmale.bsky.social https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:vcmpg73bt2wudku3nqgx33yx/post/3mrxojcx3zs2n

A dark day for human rights.

I don't wanna brag -- I do -- but whenever I make a ragu, the leftovers always leave me wishing for a double serving.

“According to the NCBE, “the inaugural administration” of its new exam marked a “historic milestone in legal licensure.” This makes sense insofar as the maiden voyage of the Titanic was also a historic milestone in maritime transportation.” […]

Music has the power to transport you through time and space. This song transports me to a trailer about 500km from the nearest town of more than 100 people, in the cold pines of northern Alberta. About 200m from the wellhead. My boss had an Amorphis CD because he was, in addition to being a […]

Oh christ, I can feel the harm to my very soul when someone pastes llm output uncredited into a work Slack.

I wish there was a single word for the feeling of high hopes, thrilling anticipation, and eventual disappointed resignation that you get when a story carries you along, makes you dream... and then utterly fails to stick the landing. Anyway, the first couple seasons of BSG were pretty great, huh?

RE: https://mastodon.social/@andrewnez/116974498919761167 It took way longer than I'm happy to admit to realize what this was.

Andrew Nesbitt@andrewnez.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 2w ago

Interview with a Maintainer https://nesbitt.io/2026/07/24/interview-with-a-maintainer.html

RE: https://mastodon.social/@mastodon_releases/116992330125933360 This is rolling out literally as I post this message.

With the news about the shooting at Seattle Center, and the fires in Europe, and the war in Iran and the war in Ukraine and the fires in WA and the fires in Canada and the US government stripping rights from all and sundry and the LLM craze hollowing out my industry and and and and and… […]

[Public gunfire] Yikes. Shooting at bite of Seattle 45 min ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/Seattle/s/cWW1FQuj6v

So, uh, I might end up in the market for a new movie tracker, with the collapse of TorrentLeech. What do people in the #bittorrent world like for private movie trackers, and can we talk about how one might get invited? I've been a member in good standing of BTN and PTP for ages and ages) (if […]

House successes today: reversed the string lights in the back yard, now that there's an outlet on the correct end to power them. Slightly sweaty work, but rewarding in that now there's a switch to turn them off and on!

https://distantprovince.by/posts/its-rude-to-show-ai-output-to-people/ was sent to me by @SnoopJ and ... yeah, that fuckin' nails it.

It's rude to show AI output to people | Alex Martsinovich

Feeding slop is an act of war

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There's something really frustrating and kind of insulting when someone clearly pastes the output of an LLM into a conversation between humans.

RE: https://raphus.social/@MaddieM4/116976446522439066 Even if I don't agree with them about the specific incident... they're bang on about the social pattern.

Reading Rebecca Solnit's “Listening to Cassandra" and sort of letting myself marinate in it. “… what does it mean that images of rape were decorative backgrounds for the last 2500 years?” You should read it; it's a reasonable length and a good use of your weekend […]

RE: https://wandering.shop/@offby1/116981636538105507 Instead of being self-satisfied... I have many mutuals on here who are OSS devs. I would like you to tell me if you find the issue I reported about this to be a good F/OSS citizen's report of a bug […]

Chris is.@offby1.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 2w ago

I just had a very successful debugging, triangulation, and reproduction case minimization session with an LLM, that helped me find a bug in a PDF parsing library. This is probably stuff I could have found with a few days of "learning Go debugging -> learning cgo debugging -> tracing c execution […]

RE: https://mas.to/@carnage4life/116978938208335232 I don't know why anybody would believe Google's assertion at this point. Nearly every company that has collected data about their users has lied about how they’ll use it. Google has lied, particularly. I wouldn't trust them further than I […]

I just had a very successful debugging, triangulation, and reproduction case minimization session with an LLM, that helped me find a bug in a PDF parsing library. This is probably stuff I could have found with a few days of "learning Go debugging -> learning cgo debugging -> tracing c execution […]