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mcc, 23 days ago to random

So I'm pretty sure in the neighborhood I saw a Tesla Model 3 that had meticulously, intentionally had all Tesla logos removed from it

Kostoglotov, 1 month ago to random

It’s 21°C. Which is hotter than I run the heating in depths of winter. Me naw like.

mcc, 1 month ago to random

I was in a terrible mood, so I got churros, and now I'm in a terrible mood but I have churros, which is a strict improvement

mcc, 1 month ago to random

I remember https://mastodon.social/@256/112327140220436419

mcc, 2 months ago to random

Fundamentally, Texas is a place pretending to be itself

"God Bless Hondo Crouch" "God Bless Johnny Cash" "Luckenbach, Texas Population 3"

mcc, 2 months ago to random

I need to wipe this phone tomorrow so I'm gonna start dumping all my drafts

mcc, 2 months ago to random

Okay. I'm here (Texas). Where's the eclipse

thomasfuchs, 2 months ago to random

Wonder if jackets in the 90s had much bigger pockets

cstross, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to random

The foundational tenet of "the Cult of Mac" is that buying products from a $3t company makes you a member of an oppressed ethnic minority and therefore every criticism of that corporation is an ethnic slur:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/12/youre-holding-it-wrong/#if-dishwashers-were-iphones

This actually says something about cultural continuity because back in 2004, when Apple was a roughly $3Bn (not $Tn) company, it really was a minority pursuit in a sea of Windows, universally oppressed by corporate IT departments! It only shifted after iPhone ...

mcc, 2 months ago to random

A process:

1950s-1990s: Queer people are excluded from mainstream spaces; create their own, alternative spaces (bars, magazines etc).

2000s-2010s: Queer people are now included in mainstream spaces. Stripped of a specific motivation for existence, dedicated queer spaces die off.

2020s: Queer people are now excluded from mainstream spaces again. Dedicated/alternative queer spaces begin to re-emerge (but weird, bc in a parallel development non-online spaces have been killed by high-rent blight)

hotdogsladies, 3 months ago to random

Our new video series is called “Here Hold This.”

Episode 00: “On AUX”

video/mp4

SlicerDicer, 6 months ago to random

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mcc, 6 months ago to random

Currently making a one line change to an Android program that is looking more like it's going to be a fifty line change

ethanschoonover, 7 months ago to hamradio

Rock climbing gear: for when you don't own a full body harness but still want to be safe...

Clipped in up top at an anchor point and tied off the ladder as well. Three stories up for the last #hamradio HF antenna mast (3 of 3). Now I just have to order some coax...

ethanschoonover, 7 months ago to random

At this point in the inexorable aging process I'm holding out hope that this is just my "Inner Light" episode playing out.

mcc, 8 months ago to random

Often I find people making fun of things moving into the browser rather than just running as software but the fact is the browser increasingly works better than my regular OS. Like in my experience Linux works universally quite poorly at most GUI things I want to use it for, Android works a bit better than that, & Chrome works much better than that. Chromebooks would sound like a great idea to me if only I trusted Google (and if I didn't believe everyone developing ChromeOS is using a MacBook)

tk, 8 months ago to cycling

In Memorium: The Surly Cross-Check, Discontinued After 24 Years

After over two decades, Surly moved the Cross-Check frameset from their standard lineup of bikes to the ‘Legacy Lineup’ of their website. Surly confirmed that the bike is no longer in production and is unlikely to come back.

If you haven’t owned this gravel/cyclocross/touring/whatever bike yourself, you likely know someone who has. The Surly Cross-Check was the egalitarian choice in cycling, simultaneously someone’s utilitarian dream bike that was attainable and sold at a fair price.

The end of the Cross-Check marks the bike’s reign as the most bike that ever biked, the go-to way to make a pile of parts you hoarded in the corner of your garage into a functioning bicycle, and the defacto option that a bike nerd could happily ride and recommend to their non-bikey friends all the same.

#cycling #bicycle #mastobikes #biketooter @cycling @mastobikes

malwaretech, 8 months ago to random

Got a question because I'm useless at business. I get a lot of emails from companies asking me to do webinars, interviews, be a podcast guest, etc. They never mention any payment (not just no payment amount, but no mention of it being paid at all). Then when I don't reply, they follow up later with "btw we can pay you" and it's always phrased like they simply forgot to mention that in the initial email. I understand me being responsible for negotiating my rate, but having to negotiate getting paid at all? Is this the norm or is this just unserious companies trying to see first if I'll work for free and I'm better to just not engage at all with them at all?

georgetakei, 9 months ago to random

Hero.
https://www.comicsands.com/peter-navarro-heckler-protester-trial-2664987109.html?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=infeed&utm_campaign=linkprogram

codinghorror, 9 months ago to random

There are paths in all directions. What do you want to do next?

kissane, 10 months ago to random

Ran into the roots of one of the PNW’s ancient ghost spruce forests last week. These particular trees either went under in a big subsidence during a Cascadia fault slip or by slow encroachment—there are dozens of ghost forests with different characteristics, and the whole phenomenon is pretty dramatically under-studied. Big storms in the 90s revealed a bunch of them, including this one. They’re pretty spooky.

mcnees, 10 months ago to random

[Camera cuts to a shot of Oppenheimer at the Trinity site, surrounded by colleagues. Enrico Fermi is beatboxing.]

My name’s Oppenheimer and I’m here to say
“Now I am become death” in a major way