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• Post #4324303

  This is a post about AI. - I’m on a re-read of Pride and Prejudice and had to stop for a second at this little bon mot of Darcy’s: > “The power of doing any thing with quickness is always much prized by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance.” Quite. https://www.web-goddess.org/archive/94493

• Post #4180516

  Handy friends: Our Corten steel fire pit collects water when it rains, so we need to drill or cut a hole in it somehow. Our normal drill was not up to the task. What do we need? Relatedly - anyone in Sydney want to lend us an angle grinder? 😂

• Post #4150875

  Cassandra as a Service - I’m sure there are those who think I do nothing but trawl LinkedIn* looking for bad AI takes to comment on, but honestly, I have better things to do with my day. Instead, other people send them to me. It’s really ramped up over the past couple of months. The links come from people that want to express their disagreement with the post but have to worry about their future employment prospects. I get it. These folks know that I don’t care about that anymore. So if I come in...

• Post #3915485

  Thankfully, I have auto-updates on and both my sites were patched by the time I learned about this one. From: @corq@infosec.exchange https://infosec.exchange/@corq/116938767979195456

• Post #3755341

  Snap Send Solve needs a category for, like, SOCIETAL VIOLATIONS. And then I would have used it to report the old guy who spent 15 minutes flossing his teeth just now on the 370 bus. 🤮

• Post #3710238

  Etsy delivery! - I ordered the “dog family stitch markers” (*wink wink*) and the rest of this was included by the seller. She really knows her audience! https://www.web-goddess.org/archive/94235

• Post #3527081

  This is the worst timeline. - Netflix is using an AI-generated Gene Wilder voice in its Willy Wonka reality show. (https://www.theverge.com/streaming/959684/netflix-wonka-golden-ticket-gene-wilder) As a Roald Dahl expert (https://www.roalddahlfans.com)—and living human being with eyes and ears and a brain—I hate every single thing about this. Also, it doesn’t even sound like him. Wilder’s and Dahl’s heirs should be ashamed. https://www.web-goddess.org/archive/94165

• Post #2337430

  NSV - Another non-scale victory — I definitely need to remove at least one link from my watch band when I get home! https://www.web-goddess.org/archive/93830

• Post #2337429

  Another Palia outfit - I finally unlocked all of the Palia 10M user celebration rewards (https://palia.com/news/10-million), including my second random free outfit. And just like with my first one (https://www.web-goddess.org/archive/93792), I have gotten one that’s perhaps a bit more “male-coded” than my traditional gender presentation. Behold Lieutenant (https://palia.wiki.gg/wiki/Cadet_Outfit) Kris! (I decided to lose the moustache for a while.) https://www.web-goddess.org/archive/93831

• Post #2337428

  🚶‍♀️ Walk: Lunch Walk - Whoops. Forgot to stop it when I got back! Distance: 5.26km Time: 54min https://www.web-goddess.org/archive/93839

• Post #2337426

  The /r/AgingParents subreddit is a really depressing read. But I can tell you that it's even more depressing to actually, you know, live it.

• Post #2337425

  Voted! - Just voted in my first ever Indiana Democratic Party primary election (https://www.in.gov/sos/elections/). I did my research on the two candidates for Representative, and honestly I liked them both. I chose the one that I felt would better represent me. Then I discovered a second page on the ballot with 60+ names for State Convention Delegate at Large, with instructions to vote for no more than 41. Whaaaaaat. So I spent some time googling. For most of them, I couldn’t find anything at a...

• Post #2337424

  🚶‍♀️ Walk: Lunch Walk - Distance: 5.92km Time: 62min https://www.web-goddess.org/archive/93848

• Post #2337423

  I’m rather proud to have contributed my first bench to @openbenches ! https://openbenches.org/bench/42939

• Post #2337422

  🚴‍♀️ Ride: Lunch Ride - I hated this bike when I rode it 5 years ago. Time has not improved my opinion. Distance: 7.84km Time: 37min https://www.web-goddess.org/archive/93854

• Post #2337421

  I love a good heist. - Annabel Crabb’s “History Or Hoarding?” (https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/history-or-hoarding-with-annabel-crabb) podcast about the State Library has turned up a fascinating tale of a larger than life Kings Cross restauranteur and numismatist who pulled off an ambitious coin heist (https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-06/david-gee-most-ambitious-coin-heists-australian-history/106639898) right under librarians’ noses. I wonder how many of them they managed to recover?...

• Post #2337420

  WKRP - Finally Livin’ On The Air In Cincinnati (https://www.metafilter.com/213084/Finally-Livin-On-The-Air-In-Cincinnati) – The Oasis, a Cincinnati-based radio network (94.5 FM, 97.7 FM, and 106.7 FM) recently learned that a much-smaller North Carolina station was selling its own call letters as a fundraising move. When they learned those call letters were “WKRP”, Oasis instantly bought them – and thus WKRP is really now on the air in Cincinnati (https://www.wherethemusicwent.com/). I absolutel...

• Post #2337419

  I would never have guessed how much freight still rolls across the country on trains until I spent a month sleeping in a house half a mile from a level crossing in northern Indiana. 😐

• Post #2337417

  🚶‍♀️ Walk: Afternoon Walk - Distance: 4.93km Time: 53min https://www.web-goddess.org/archive/93862

• Post #2311002

  Exit 8 - It both amuses and horrifies me that there is a new movie based on a video game (https://www.theverge.com/entertainment/908944/exit-8-movie-versus-game) about being trapped in a Tokyo subway station and trying to find your way out, an experience that I lived through myself (https://www.web-goddess.org/archive/31176) three years ago. MAYBE I WAS THE INSPIRATION?! https://www.web-goddess.org/archive/93734

• Post #2311000

  GLP-1s - GLP-1 Experimentation Is Everywhere, and Science Can’t Keep Up – The New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/04/15/opinion/glp1-health-effects.html?unlocked_article_code=1.bFA.yxUR.M1YD90YY6QYf) – Fascinating stuff. I don’t think I’ve had any miraculous unexpected results from Mounjaro, other than slow and steady weight loss. My knees hurt less than they used to, which may be due to some reduced inflammation but could also just be from carrying less weight in general....

• Post #2073823

  Uni Watch - https://www.web-goddess.org/archive/89150 I was doing my daily archive pruning (https://www.web-goddess.org/archive/53658) today and discovered I’d linked to Uni Watch (https://www.web-goddess.org/archive/6224) way back in 2006. Uni Watch is/was a niche blog about sports uniforms, and I read on Daring Fireball (https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/11/01/uni-watch-rip) (and other places (https://www.metafilter.com/210885/Uni-Watch-1999-2025)) recently that it’s shutting down (https...

• Post #1906060

  Time capsule - I found a blast from the past when cleaning out my Dad’s cupboards today – a popcorn tin from AWS Kick-off 2020. That’s the one in Chicago during the first week of January. AWS flew thousands of employees from around the world there. I met up with Dean Samuels to talk about joining him for a keynote a few months later. I think Corey Quinn may have even given a talk/roast?! And then of course a major snowstorm hit on the day everyone was meant to fly home. My domestic flight to Dad...

• Post #1906058

  Random links - Clearing the browser tabs… - A Well-Aimed Potato: The Klan, Notre Dame, and Today (https://dansinker.com/posts/2026-04-17-notre-dame/) – How have I never heard this story before? Makes me proud to be an ND alum. - Experience: I won the world’s deepest underground marathon (https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/apr/17/experience-i-won-the-worlds-deepest-underground-marathon) – Wow. Underground, humid, dark, and no music allowed? This is my nightmare. - Massive Australian d...

• Post #1906056

  Sydney city model - Look at this adorable geek. Last week Rodd went to a special talk at Sydney Town Hall (https://whatson.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/events/city-model-talks-with-model-maker-richard-braddish?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Theres%20a%20little%20something%20for%20everyone%20at%20our%20libraries%20in%20May&utm_content=Theres%20a%20little%20something%20for%20everyone%20at%20our%20libraries%20in%20May+CID_18cd2cba9d734bd0f81a6563d1ebc7e4&utm_source=Email%20market...

• Post #1898054

  My sister told me that my 15yo niece Indie was embroidering her own sneakers. “Cool,” I said, remembering how I used to doodle on mine. Then they sent me the photos. 🤯 They are STUNNING. Look at that. A TEENAGER DID THAT. 😍🐝🌸 #embroidery #embroidered #converse

• Post #1836043

  New Palia outfit - I’ve been playing Palia (https://www.palia.com) for the better part of two years now, and I’ve ever spent a cent on any of the premium content. They just hit 10M users though, and as a special treat they’ve given everyone a free mystery outfit when they next log in. I just went in to claim mine. I got the “Star Chart” outfit, a kind of frilly, steampunk space pirate outfit with glowing constellations that swirl around me. How cool is that? Goes really nicely with my moustache...

• Post #1836042

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@democratsabroad/116455492312514129 Happy to report that I've already got my ballot! ❤️

• Post #1836041

  I’ve been using @ecosia for search on my iPhone for some time now. I noticed today that they have some stupid AI chat feature bolted on that you can’t turn off… in an “environmentally friendly” search engine. Wtf. 👋 Goodbye! Back to DuckDuckGo, who at least give me the option.

• Post #1836040

  Spaghetti carbonara - By special request. Unfortunately the Snook, acknowledged King of Carbonara in our household, is in another hemisphere, so I had to give it a go. Not bad! (https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/food-network-kitchen/the-best-carbonara-7260325) I scrambled the egg a tiny bit, but not unforgivably so given that I had neither my fancy induction stove nor a double boiler. https://www.web-goddess.org/archive/93796