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• Post #4408820

  I'm not saying that the main problem with US politics is a lack of capybaras, but I would be willing to consider replacing everyone in Congress with a capybara as an experiment. https://apnews.com/article/brazil-capybaras-lawmakers-herd-fec574aa45b80b76d4993f8eda86d94b

• Post #4309053

  Miso’s attorney has advised me that technically he is not on the kitchen counter and he will fight any unjust accusations. #cats #catsofmastodon

• Post #4225775

  Some days I really miss teaching... and some days I hear from my friends that their students have been asking for extensions because "OpenAI deleted my girlfriend".

• Post #4102074

  RE: https://discuss.systems/@dan/116903409740977369 Update: my dad had a patient who, upon seeing him, said “finally, a real American” I am pleased to report that my dad feigned ignorance to make the guy awkwardly explain what he meant, then said “no, I’m the diversity hire, all of them are the real Americans”

• Post #4078512

  okay, can we now have another Turing Award for major contributions to the field of gay romances? https://www.popsci.com/science/alan-turing-love-short-story/

• Post #4078492

  My friends have a whiteboard where they keep their home improvement todo list, so every time I visit I surreptitiously add a fake item. - rotate furniture - refinish doorstops - ceiling fan torque dampers - check attic ambient load distribution - dishwasher vapor return manifold - recalibrate subfloor tension dampers - test GFCI harmonic inversion modes (+/- 0.5%) - confirm plumbing flow alignment (clockwise only!)

• Post #3994592

  networking protip: a packet sniffer is an essential debugging tool #cats #catsofmastodon

• Post #3963060

  Uranium? Upholstery? Umbrella? Ultraviolet? Ukulele?

• Post #3948357

  Cats with winter melons is the viral trend I did not know I needed. https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202607/1366302.shtml #cats

• Post #3944773

  From one of FDR's Fireside Chats: "Do not let any calamity-howling executive with an income of $1,000 a day, who has been turning his employees over to the Government relief rolls in order to preserve his company's undistributed reserves, tell you—using his stockholders' money to pay the postage for his personal opinions—that a wage of $11 a week is going to have a disastrous effect on all American industry" Good thing we have progressed so far since 1938 that this no lon...

• Post #3910066

  RE: https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/116939614764592845 I remember learning about RealDolls almost 30 years ago as one of those weird things you find on the internet, and I have not had any reason to think about them since, and the following was one hell of a sentence to suddenly come across:

• Post #3875697

  The real measure of research success is not how many papers you have in a conference, but how many of the attendees have a sticker of your cat on their laptop.

• Post #3875696

  Pixel has gone offline for maintenance (because dinner is half an hour late.) #cats #catsofmastodon

• Post #3875695

  Mutex contention: this critical section is already occupied. #cats #catsofmastodon

• Post #3875694

  Free startup idea: agentic AI for Etsy witches

• Post #3875693

  This is my emotional support Sichuan chili oil. #food

• Post #3875692

  RE: https://discuss.systems/@irene/116928186089361442 help I am married to a doily maximizer, my house is already all doilies

• Post #3749894

  When my mom started medical school, the dean gathered everyone in the auditorium and announced "I've been forced to admit three women into this class, but I want everyone to know that they took a spot away from a qualified man." Fifty-something years later, my dad just got his latest batch of cardiology fellows, residents, and interns -- and every one of them is female.

• Post #3726191

  In honor of Minion's 10th birthday today, please tag yourself: #cats #catsofmastodon

• Post #3704693

  I've been using Immich, a self-hosted photo server for a year or so and have been really impressed with it overall, but I'm in awe right now because I just typed "klein bottle" into the search bar and it successfully returned my photos of Klein bottles. #selfhosted

• Post #3483831

  Catposting. #cats #catsofmastodon

• Post #3483069

  Found a Fediverse posting starter pack #cats #catsofmastodon #asstodon

• Post #3419168

  randomly reminded today of the fact that Bill Clinton wrote a political thriller in 2018 that contained a surprisingly passable explanation of the Border Gateway Protocol. I'm not saying we should necessarily have an exam on distance-vector routing protocols as a cognitive test to be qualified for the presidency, but... actually, why not?

• Post #3357127

  Early American Chinese restaurant menus were designed to be parsed as SQL.

• Post #3336012

  Some years ago, I needed to get an visa for urgent travel to China, a process that required me to fly down to SF and stand in a very long line at the Chinese consulate. When I finally handed the woman there my forms, she promptly stamped them and said "you need to take these to Window 2", pointing around the corner. So I walked around the corner... ...where *the same woman* swiveled her chair around and proceeded to check the stamp that she had just applied. I would have been annoyed...

• Post #3291613

  Sometimes you can really tell a Wikipedia article is gonna be good from the table of contents. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Peacock

• Post #2450687

  Floof level: greatest of all time

• Post #2406446

  help I ordered a new cpu but it came some-assembly-required

• Post #2364389

  the political poll I didn't know I needed

• Post #2266411

  Learned that the "This incident has been reported" message was briefly dropped from the sudo code a few years ago, but then put back in for the sake of keeping the memes relevant.