We were going to put away the clean, plastic salad spinner bowl until...🤣

This is what always happens at our house when we don't immediately fold the sheets after taking them out of the dryer. 🤣

T had an explody-shed. "Snake soup" fixed that right up. She was good to go and very hungry for a rat today. 🤗

A raw and a cooked shrimp. 🤣

Chatting with Hubs while cooking made me want to reiterate how lucky I know that I am. I'm an adopted kid, I hit the jackpot with MY Mom, Dad & brothers - MY family, the ones who fought to kept me. I also hit the in-laws jackpot. Family doesn't need to be defined by genetics.

My coworker-friend gifted me a bunch of Panda isopods. I think they approve of their upgraded, larger tank. The smaller one dried out too quickly for them.

Bavmorda got an Easter outfit today! Anyone recognize the pattern on her skirt?

How can this "rationale" be anything other than a lie when caught with your pants down? How can the layoffs be BOTH a mistake AND part of "the plan". It's nonsensical.

southpaw@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · last yr.

What fool would make a plan like that?

Mr. Not Helpful while I was cleaning the kitchen floor. It's now clean...with several spots of watermarked cat prints, LOL.

Using an old language (esp. one that's good at its job) isn't inherently bad or "outdated". Updating older systems can be good/necessary, but it's not as simple as having AI or teenage techbros (who probably can't code in COBOL) just migrate "old code" to a new language. 1/2

Juli Emry@parodyite.bsky.social · last yr.

This person who used to be a QA software tester for a major online testing company HARD AGREES. This is pretty terrifying, shit will break...fast and very badly. 😬

This person who used to be a QA software tester for a major online testing company HARD AGREES. This is pretty terrifying, shit will break...fast and very badly. 😬

Micah@rincewind.run · last yr.

as someone who actually works on large-scale systems used by enormous numbers of people, the idea of moving past the design phase for a project this big in a couple months - let alone completing it - sends me screaming for the hills things will break, at scale

Evergreen, lol.

Oh, the hypocrisy? This would be funny, if it wasn't so f*&^1ng stupid that this where we are in the the U.S. Dislike Biden's pardons - fine! But, come on. Trump can't own his own policies. "Little Marco", this is a big trial ballon to throw you under the bus. Good luck, I guess?

Bavmorda fell over and sustained some skeletal injuries during the second winter storm (the blizzard-y one). A little duct tape and zip tie shoulder/clavicle "surgery" and the full skele-crew are finally back out! 😁 🤣

EPA warning: do not go outside in the Central U.S. dust storm! Hazardous dust covers parts of KS, OK, CO, MO, WY, IL, TX, NM, NE. The AQI in St. Louis hit an unfathomable 5,791 from PM10 (dust); an AQI over 300 is “Hazardous”. The tops: Lamar, CO hit an AQI of 12,802. Consult airnow.gov.

@archeaids.bsky.social Question for ya - one of Hub's students picked up this piece of chert and brought it to him to "ask the geologist wife" if it's a tool. Looks like natural fracturing to me, but figured I should ask an actual expert. 😉

Hilarious. I wonder if the TVs were on an unsecured network and someone just cast their phone, which is why they had to turn them off to stop it? 🤔 🫡

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · last yr.

This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source. Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.

Trump is SO not used to anyone directly standing up to him, especially in public. He immediately turns into a peevish, petty child. This should happen way more often.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last yr.

TRUMP: The NCAA has complied immediately. That's good. But I understand Maine -- is the governor of Maine here? JANET MILLS: Yeah I'm here TRUMP: Are you not gonna comply? JM: I'm going to comply with state and federal law T: You better do it bc you're not gonna get any federal funding at all

n=2 (or 3?) on the list entitled "The Trump administration really has no idea what they're doing and how things work.

Amanda Terkel@aterkel.bsky.social · last yr.

BREAKING — USDA says it accidentally fired officials working to combat bird flu and says it’s trying to rehire them www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog... by @allansmith.bsky.social

I find it absoflippinglutely ironically hilarious that the Elmo-stan trolls on the other site are posting parts of an OIG report to "justify" DOGE being really bad at both math and reading spreadsheets. oig.ssa.gov/assets/uploa... www.oversight.gov/reports/audi...

I'm a geologist. We tend to be a weird lot because we can think in deep time. Humans are mere blip in Earth's history and future. But, instead of feeling like nothing we do would matter, for me it's everything I can do while I'm the the tiny blip of matter on this planet that I am.

Moby Dick is quite serious about putting the "bristle" in Bristlenose Pleco. 🤣

Alice Cooper jumped on the counter (surprise, surprise) to "help" me clean it off. The cloth has Seventh Generation disinfectant spray on it....big weirdo doesn't gaf. It's moving...it's a TOY!! 🙄 😂

Bluesky has now caught up with Twit-X on the follow-bots who have big following numbers and no posts with profile pictures of young women. This is n=7 today. Sigh. Sad.

Obligatory big pot of chili on the stove in December in the U.S. Midwest. 🤣

Washer and dryer unhooked for sunroom reconstruction and hubs (who worked pest control) asked me to find the steel wool to plug the hole to deter mice from coming in overnight. He said, "We should stick a cat pee ball in there". I said, "Done, I'll go scoop boxes". 😂🤣

If you have a Samsung Galaxy, the latest update will add a ton of AI "services" to your phone, most of which will be turned on automatically. It also includes this deceptive toggle, which turns off the online collection of your data when you turn it ON.

Bavmorda got a programable LED strip upgrade for X-mas that includes a lights reaction to sounds and music setting. It's super obnoxious, but also HILARIOUS.