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• Post #4390408

  RE: https://mstdn.ca/@dbattistella/117040206331760983 I remain firmly convinced that *most* people should not be allowed to drive. 😂

• Post #4189144

  My wife & kids are away (the kids at camp, my wife for a conference). As such, I have turned the living room into a proper bike shop. Currently 4 bikes in various states of repair - my wife's road bike, my father-in-law's brand new bike, the 9yo's new bike, and a folding bike. I have a new cassette for my mid-tail bike, too, but I think I'll order new tires first before I replace it. #BikeTooter

• Post #4140325

  That time in 2014 when I won a chicken coop in a raffle, but there were no ziptrucks available and it didn't fit in my friend's car - so I biked it home. I just happened to be wearing a #Seattle #DisasterReliefTrials t-shirt at the time. #CargoBike #CarryShitOlympics

• Post #3867264

  RE: https://social.ridetrans.it/@Andres4NY/113626681357898120 Sadly I've only made 2 of them for the house (I need to buy more PC fans), but I still use these filters. Here's why. Currently, the outside AQI in Forest Park near my house is 235 ("unhealthy for living creatures", if memory serves). #CRBox

• Post #3679676

  The blinds are up and the windows are open. Hopefully one of the neighbors walking by sees my 9yo and I standing in the dining room, tshirts halfway up, seeing who can make the loudest armpit fart sounds.

• Post #3679675

  the 9yo made a fortune teller out of seaweed

• Post #3679674

  I like how you respond to someone's email, and gmail is like " Gmail has detected that this message is likely 550-5.7.1 unsolicited mail. To reduce the amount of spam sent to Gmail, this 550-5.7.1 message has been blocked. For more information," and then a link basically telling you to go fuck yourself.

• Post #3679673

  lmao

• Post #3630398

  I'm kind of jealous that my kids get to go to sleepaway camp, especially afterwards when they come home and talk about it. When I was the 14yo's age, I spent my summers watching shitty reruns on TV. Basic over-the-air-with-like-7-channels TV; we didn't have cable. I would often go to a friend's house (who had cable) to watch MTV. It was incredibly boring.

• Post #3630397

  Here's a basic desktop feature that should exist that I've never seen: a Do-Not-Disturb-while-typing. Like, I'm mid-fucking-thought (and sentence) in this email and suddenly I get a message like "hey do you want me to pick up falafel on the way home?" Like, yeah, I want to see that message, but I want it delayed by 60 seconds so I can finish my thought/sentence before I start thinking about yummy food!

• Post #3543045

  Once again , I find myself thinking about how much nicer this playground would be without a highway right next to it. #BanCars

• Post #3528483

  Jesus. So apparently Clove has Feline odontoclastic resorptive disease, and had to have *14* teeth removed.

• Post #3519041

  RE: https://flipboard.com/@gothamist/gothamist-igeoft02z/-/a-FFs-yIYkSm2vwQfEdJyUag%3Aa%3A3807498986-%2F0 "“Taking away parking is just going to be a crisis,” said Ubarri. “If they could find a way to put it on the sidewalk, that'd be great.”" Eh, go fuck yourself.

• Post #3320114

  It's Clove's emotional support cable/cord cover. #CatsOfMastodon

• Post #2985428

  "thank god I get two days off from school so I can spend them arguing with my sibling the entire time!" -- my kids, probably

• Post #2830930

  tired: #SelfHosting w/ a commercial NAS device wired: Buying a case and building your own NAS inspired: Murray's Cheese charcuterie board -> NAS

• Post #2677454

  Android remains fucking awful. I originally hated Android because I thought the UI/UX sucked. Admittedly that has improved in the past 2 decades, but since then my most frequent problem is "This is running some random Android version that I can't upgrade or change [because hardware locking & OEMs' crappy driver practices] , so I can't do this thing I need to do [like backing up to a webdav mount, or running some app that's built for newer android, or or or..]"

• Post #2541715

  Like fucking _clockwork_. Major brand: "We're excited to announce our shift to AI! blah blah agentic blah blah scale blah blah bringing you exciting features blah blah" 2 months later:

• Post #2271495

  I'm jealous of all the parents whose kids grew up pre-covid. Not only did they miss out on the hell of homeschooling, they also caught colds and had normal recovery cycles. Covid hadn't fucked up everyone's immune system yet. I remember those days too - when the 14yo entered preschool, we were constantly getting sick. But it was normal sick - at most, a week of sniffles. Now everything lingers fucking forever.

• Post #2269457

  What. WHAT. #FuckYeahMamdani https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:nx7znvoex7ev3wcxn3tipovm/post/3mla3dhamrs27 #BikeTooter #NYCMayor #Mamdani #BikeNYC

• Post #2177748

  I hope John Roberts contracts a particularly painful strain of flesh-eating bacteria.

• Post #2158193

  Oof. Time to shut down #apache on the one server I still run it on for a few hours until this gets updated.. #debian https://bugs.debian.org/1135737

• Post #2074211

  My wife's not on mastodon, but when she's bored she will occasionally read my toots* and boosts. I've boosted lots of @DavidZinn posts, which she has enjoyed enough to (unbeknownst to me) purchase his book. * which is why I'm ALWAYS on my best behavior. 😏

• Post #1956001

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@IveyJanette/116511727923288096 "#NYPD says it had no involvement in this [ICE kidnapping] operation" *video shows NYPD very clearly protecting ICE agents while they're kidnapping someone* #ACAB #FuckNYPD #FuckICE #NYC

• Post #1921881

  A fun game I like to play is to click on a link on github and watch as nothing happens. Then I click it again, and nothing happens. Maybe microsoft shouldn't have vibecoded their shitty little website.

• Post #1870290

  It's cute how people still treat SCOTUS as legitimate.

• Post #1858407

  He sells sea shells by the gulag

• Post #1846664

  Maybe I'm just getting old and sappy and still free software-pilled, but this was a beautiful. https://prl-prg.github.io/tomas-kalibera.html [edit: To be clear, I did not know the man.]

• Post #1825808

  this is what chilling dissent looks like https://web.archive.org/web/20260429143906/https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/mahmoud-khalil-ice-arrest-one-year-later.html https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/mahmoud-khalil-ice-arrest-one-year-later.html #MahmoudKhalil

• Post #1707149

  8yo: "You're ancient!" me: "No, I'm not. I'm in my.." *long pause* me: "Awesome Era." 8yo: "Nah, you're in your Loss-of Era."