Hi, I'm Spud!

@onehungrypotato.bsky.social

The most annoyingly wholesome aardwolf. Gay/Ace, leftist, anti-capitalist, Anti-Christian, Anti-American it/its (any/all for friends), 35, professional idiot.

Discord gave us the gift of AI integration as something that is now integral to the user experience. It's not optional. There is no opt out. There's no notification that AI bots have been installed into your server at all, or that user data is being piped through 3rd party servers.

The cataclysmic near miss that was updating the reference of the kilogram from Le Grand K to a more precise reference cannot be understated. The kilogram had literally been decaying atom by atom since 1889, and it was a reference point based on an absolute value, not a precise reference.

Susan B. Anthony is taught as a champion for woman's rights. A crusader for woman's suffrage. Though what's not spoken of was her vocal opposition to the 15th amendment, and the enfranchisement of blacks and freed slaves. The charitable read: her opposition was wanting equal voting rights.

I've spend a lot of time thinking about this... I think my pick for worst President in all of US history has to go to Lincoln. Like... everything wrong about today's America can be traced back to his dipshit decisions around handling the Civil War and what came after.

I want to drop some history I dug up when I studied US history for Black History Month, but I have a question first: Who genuinely doesn't know how bad US history is? And I'm talking about beyond a K-12 reexamination of like... "Yeah I know what I learned was bogus, but I don't know much else."

It's so interesting that when Epstein was being investigated for being a financier for child sex trafficking, all of a sudden people stared to care. Never mind the fact that since John Casablancas built his "super model" empire (and dated a 14 year old) and Cindy Crawford was entered into this

Downtown Pittsburgh has gotten really expensive for AC. $601 for the Hampton Inn on Smallman Ave.. that is criminal. I stayed there in 2018 and paid like $200 something a night. Other picks are quite prickly too. Yeesh.

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Fun fact about polecats: They got that name from the French word poule for chicken > pole > polecat. But polecats are not cats. Nowhere close! As members of mustelidae, they are caniform carnivorans. All mustelids have more in common with bears, canines, and vulpines than they do cats!

And now for something completely different... So I'm on a quest of phylogenetic pedantry, because of course I am, and in my cross-hairs today are... Raptors. Specifically, what people call raptors. Birds of prey. And it never sat well with me. So now you all get to suffer my nerdom. >:3

So I was messing around, testing a security tool and I wanted to test firewall settings. Mind you, I'm on Windows 11, so prepare for a fun ride... The rules are configured to capture Windows event 2003: "Firewall Configuration Changed," and here's where it gets spicy...

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I'm making this as a PSA because I was reminded of the time someone called Spud a "sheppy." Many often say "what's up, wolf?" To set the record straight, no. Aardwolves are no sheppies. In fact, they are the farthest thing from sheppies AND other canids. They all share a common ancestor,

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You know what I find interesting that's actually interesting? Synapsids diverged from Sauropsids ~320 million years ago and went on to become mammals. So phylogenetically... you were *this* close to being a dinosaur. Or maybe a lizard...

Trump doesn't begin to understand the absolute shit storm the US military got into because of his little boy tantrum over Venezuela. Venezuela and the border regions have some of the most violent and combat experienced paramilitary groups and gangs. This isn't Iraq 2.0. The insurgency in Iraq

The Epstein Files has got to be the biggest, galaxy sized nothing burger the world has seen. Don't get me wrong... I think wealthy pedophiles should pay the price and those they victimized should get to see justice. But dems, repubs, the media, the public are so swept up in this...