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THE STAR KIST SMELL
i grew up in Mayagüez, miles from the Star Kist processing plant but downwind from it. can’t remember if it was at 3 or 5pm, but everybody had their watches set to their afternoon firebomb: the time they burn the fish remains and stink up miles and miles of #PuertoRico’s coast.
i have avoided their products for ages. to me, they’re a symbol of the poverty of avoiding work or housing close to them.
well… am broke enough, just opened a can of their tuna. it was on sale 😣
@catsaladCat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) 
Hi. I'm now following you. I guess we have same-same cats?
ohahahahaha
しているときには既に出勤移動中
If anyone is waiting for me to respond to an email or send a thing right now please bear with me I am getting my ass kicked lately.
I'm doing my best 🥲
other workers see work show up in their queue and go "time to work on the work". when they're done, the supervisor merges their work into master. that's really it. it's a lot of very classic ideas about how to get work done, dressed up in a little fantasy theming
I feel like somehow we need to make BGP more resilient by using DNS. 🤔
I noticed that he never uses the scratching posts on the cat trees.
So I rubbed some catnip on one of them.
He's a little more interested now.
#cats #CatsOfMastodon #pets #Catnip #caturdayeveryday #blackcats
Seems like people like my little `gg` command so I took a few minutes to make a homebrew tap. You can now install it with `brew install frankwiles/tools/gg`
i think i like this one a little more than the urbit comparison because templeos guy was only problematic due to his mental health problems instead of because he's a fascist.
@foundthefaultThea 
@geofflgroff covering myself in cum to hide from NIR sensors...
@whitequark✧✦Catherine✦✧ @foundthefaultThea @geofflgroff On the subject of cum lube, this /r/chemistry thread about synthesis thereof gets into the practical weeds. Perfectly tickles my I Want to See Experts Discuss Details.
https://old.reddit.com/r/chemistry/comments/1lf2nge/trouble_making_cum_lube/
(Also has this comment from the OP halfway down: "bad dragon don't send cum lube to mexico, and the people who sell it here are x5 the price, and, if this works, i will have almost 100L of cumlube". Perfect. No notes.)
Claude Cowork Exfiltrates Files
Link: https://www.promptarmor.com/resources/claude-cowork-exfiltrates-files
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46622328
Animal Crossing New Horizons 3.0 update 1 day early! Omg the quality of life improvements!! #ACNH #AnimalCrossing
Odin is an exceptionally quiet dog but he's been slowly learning to voice his displeasure. Today, me and my husband left on an errand and I came back an hour later without him. Odin howled and barked in concern that I'd forgotten him somewhere. Later, we encountered another Hateful Poodle who cussed him out. After a good thirty seconds of this, Odin gave one single borf in return.
He just ran himself silly around a field with Mila the Ridgeback (too dark for photos I'm afraid). She's smitten with him and I don't think he has the social intelligence to realize it #dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon
T'imagine le toi d'y à deux ans débarque et te demande quelles sont les news?
- c'est la merde, l'Allemagne va envoyer des troupes...
- en Ukraine ?
- non, au Groenland.
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if you were writing 1 or 2 slides on designing software so that it's easy (or at least not impossible) to test, what would you list besides what's on this slide?
Our large lad doing a classic cat move while looking like an utter gremlin.
"You can use Polecats without the Refinery" is too out there for you?
#deltachat and #chatmail and #webxdc are in a unique "market" where few other cross-platform messengers can play. The unique and growing market is shaped by rising authoritarianism, internet shutdowns and restrictions.
We are building a "Minecraft world of messaging" where skilled people can rip apart, modify, replace, recombine and do modding, at every level. All #foss and featuring
Decent Usability and UI
Offline first
End-to-End encryption
Standards based
Resilient
Decentralized
Time for another re read. I feel like this is a Discworld novel i haven't reread enough. I'm already seeing little things i hadn't noticed before. Colon calling Vimes 'Sam' when he's taking to Nobby about him for example. showing their very real friendship. And Vimes being very complimentary about Colon
(comment on Thud!)
normal people: gas town is insane and yegge is on drugs me, problematic french philosophy enjoyer: i dunno this seems not that weird at all almost going to grad school broke me a little bit, i think
「私にどんなベネフィットがあるのか？」それをちゃんと明示しないと買ってもらえないよね。クラファンでもそう。
この歳で会社員やってると
朝起きたら
になっていた！
って展開になっても
ってなるより
「仕事の引き継ぎどうしよ・・・」
と考えてしまうので
が足んねぇよ
So like ... Apple juice..?
Ski map artist James Niehues, the 'Monet of the mountains' (2021)
Link: https://adventure.com/ski-map-artist-james-niehues/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46570811
US to suspend immigrant visa processing for 75 nations, State Department says
Link: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-suspend-visa-processing-75-nations-next-week-fox-news-reports-2026-01-14/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46621668
cought a cold and don’t wanna think and i’m wondering how nanoframework is doing (embedded .net) or maybe just go for webassembly.
a cat can fever-dream etc.
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(if i'm honest with myself, my little beads replacement i've been vibing out is like, well, i'm gonna try to not make it also gas town but we'll see)
Transmitting Everything You Say
A New Life For An Old Amplifier
https://hackaday.com/2026/01/14/a-new-life-for-an-old-amplifier/
Claude Cowork Exfiltrates Files
Link: https://www.promptarmor.com/resources/claude-cowork-exfiltrates-files
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46622328
Show HN: HyTags – HTML as a Programming Language
Link: https://hytags.org
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46599403
It's 2026, and I still have to teach young folks to manage files on their computers. Four times in the last week I've had to sit with someone and show them how to copy, cut, paste, rename files, etc.
Wasn't this generation supposed to have grown up with and understand this tech?
おはようみすきーー！！
ログボー！！
(oh god now i'm doing it)
description of mistreatment and trauma of a trans child
I like to put a lot of effort into my presentation slides but I think this time I've outdone myself. These are so good. Their existence alone tells a story.
The utilitarian layout, the flawed laser print, the additional artifacts from photo-copying, the dust, the scratches, the marker, the tape. It all comes together into something resembling an old file from some dusty archive
And it'll come to live on an old overhead projector.
🤘 It's Changelog & Friends!
Mat Ryer is back and he brought his impromptu musical abilities with him! We discuss Rob Pike vs thankful AI, Microsoft's GitHub monopoly (and what it means for open source), and Tom Tunguz' 12 predictions for 2026: agent-first design, the rise of vector databases, and are we about to pay more for AI than people?!
seven brand new halo clocks doing burn-in testing. haloclock.ca if you want one. still $10 off until i'm satisfied they're running perfectly.
雰囲気に覚えがあると思ったら Krita のマスコット描いてる人か
Jeff Triplett
もふパラ4巻
phildini
Chao-c'
＠3/23(日)
東京オフ主催 
Chris Siebenmann