I'm not calling for violence against betting market executives but I wouldn't have any problems with it is all I'm saying. How about taking some wagers on whether they survive the next five years? I'm sure that's not problematic, right?

Sooooon... I just need to figure out some logistics and process improvements before I open it. shop.procyonfabrication.com

In high school I took an interest in Sanskrit and learned a little bit of it. Recently I thought about Sanskrit again and turned to YouTube, but every video about it is AI-generated Hindu nationalist "Sanskrit is the sacred original language of mankind" propaganda and it's very off-putting.

I have seen so many otherwise intelligent software engineers go full-on AI psychosis and it's really scary. I don't know how this stuff unwinds in the end. This is from Steve Yegge's latest weird slop post on his blog...

There are so many ice maker gadgets on the market right now and I just don’t get it. Your freezer is right there. Just get an ice cube tray! It was good enough for my parents, it’s good enough for me. God I’ve turned into such a Luddite (positive)

Finally got the bill for my urgent care visit. I can afford this, but it's going to sting. This is why people fucking hate health insurance. I pay so much for insurance and they're still like "Yeah we're not paying for that, good luck tho!"

Did a little fabrication project this weekend. These brackets will be mounted to 5 wall studs so I can hold long pieces of steel square tube and flat bar and such off the ground and make them easier to access.

No animal has ever sounded as anxious and neurotic as a German shepherd with a very high value treat.

It’s new filter day 😬 Wear your respirator!

One really minor inconvenience about living out in the country is that the walk from our front door to the mailbox and back is ten minutes round trip. At least it’s a little extra exercise.

The worst kind of capitalism is the kind that exploits social and economic problems caused by the OTHER kinds of capitalism.

I saw the name Max Miller trending for horrible reasons and for a moment I thought it was the Tasting History chap and thought “OH NO!!” but it’s just a politician with the same name, so I get to breath a sigh of relief.

I think I did a decent job capping the ends of these tubes. I’m building five identical brackets to screw into studs and hold long pieces of steel like square tube, angle iron, and flat bar up off the ground.

It’s Seattle’s own Jimothy! I have a small stack of them cut out from 16 gauge steel. Would anyone be interested for $30 plus shipping? North America only for now, sadly. DM me an email address if you want one! I’ll update this post if I run out.

My most controversial opinion and one that WILL get me cancelled by Star Trek fans everywhere: Lwaxana Troi is my favorite character from any Star Trek show ever. I wish there was a Lwaxana Troi cinematic universe.

I upgraded from a Harbor Freight Vulcan welding hood to this Miller Digital Infinity hood today and oh my God it’s SO much better. Like, I knew it would probably be nicer, but even as expensive as it is it’s worth every penny. Good heavens, the visual clarity is bonkers.

This came to me in a dream so I had to make it, I'm sorry

I can't read the name Warsh without hearing it like Delmar O'Donnell in "O Brother Where Art Thou" saying 'washed'. "The preacher done warshed away all my sins and transgressions!"

I never say "I can't draw" anymore, I say "I don't draw". I spent almost a year trying to learn to draw, and I discovered that I COULD learn to draw very well if I really wanted to, but that the enjoyment I got out of the process was not worth the effort. It was an important lesson.

Morey Amsterdam could make a sane man crazy! Morey Amsterdam could make a nice guy kill!

Democratic leadership watching primaries.

Stolen from Reddit

I don't think the general population knows just how little money actors make on average. You get maybe 20 A-list actors who can name any price, but for each of them there's probably a few thousand actors who are good at their jobs but just begging for roles to make ends meet.

I was so upset when I learned about the real history of the Falkland Islands, because it robbed me of a chance to be angry at the British.

Thunderstorms are so rare here that they get people buzzing with excitement.

"An unprecedented cyber incident, involving state-of-the-art cyber capabilities" is a lot funnier if you define the word "cyber" the way a Millennial in 2004 would have defined it.

Oh wow did OpenAI make a fantastical, unsubstantiated claim about what its software can do, a thing they lie about constantly, that left gullible journalists talking about how powerful and important their product is? Wild.

In case you’re wondering how US health care is going, my health insurance costs something like $1200 a month split between my employer and me, but I still got a bill for $398 that I have to pay for my urgent care visit.

In the words of Fred Rogers: You've made this day a special day, by just your being you. There's no person in the whole world like you, and I like you just the way you are.

I want to live in the Midwest and go to tractor shows. How did I become this?