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• Post #4466503

  Nap time for the #cats

• Post #4466502

  I just realized I'm approaching Back To The Future Age: the age of 1985 George and Lorraine, and 2015 Marty.

• Post #4466501

  Between high prices, shitty ownership, and use of AI to create code and art, I may never buy a AAA video game again. I'll just play Factorio and Vintage Story forever. I'm definitely never giving a dime to EA or Ubisoft ever again.

• Post #4466500

  I was told at work today that when doing public speaking I "present really well for an engineer." ....thanks? Happy to hop over that particular low bar.

• Post #4466499

  It's interesting to me that NYC is encouraging people to tag the mayor in to service requests to fix potholes, etc. In Seattle we the "Find It, Fix It" app to file service requests with the city. It's not as fun and fast as going viral with a pothole fix, but it does work.

• Post #4466498

  Finally gave in and bought the new game Iron Nest. It's a (very) heavy artillery simulator set in an alternate history post WWI world. Did the first two missions, had fun and didn't get motion sick. I see the neurodivergents on the subreddits have already made their own firing tables so they don't have to rely on the ingame elevation calculation machine, lol. Also there's a cat in the game.

• Post #4466497

  It's so fashionable online to get outraged at "Pike's Place Market" I'm getting a little tired of it. It was funny the first 30 times, now it's basic and boring. #seattle

• Post #4466496

  The kittens being weirdos again #cats #caturday #catsofmastodon

• Post #3731154

  That time 20 years ago when my cat was relaxing on the floor so I measured her

• Post #2271290

  RE: https://newsie.social/@TheNeedling/116520614333689673 Can we let Hellcat Guy drive his car around just in this neighborhood? #seattle

• Post #2185863

  The mass transit strategy around the Seattle metro area seems to be "Let's not build too much transit, otherwise people will get addicted to it and demand more. Let's just build as little as we can get away with, as a treat." #seattle

• Post #975682

  #Mosstodon #Moss

• Post #353134

  #capoeira tonight: Beginners class was the four regulars plus THREE teenagers who are normally part of the teenagers' class. Things got a little chaotic with the kids, I had to be more clear about drills and partners and such. Adults class was lightly attended, only four people. More people texted the group chat that they were sick or busy with work than showed up to class. Some illness is going around for sure.

• Post #353133

  Today (or yesterday) I learned that for like $200 you can book a ride down a former Olympic bobsled track, in a bobsled. I don't have a bucket list but maybe I do now and there might be one thing on it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1fhLCs7A4A

• Post #353132

  I'm not even looking at this person's profile. No words here are anything I want to engage with.

• Post #353131

  I heard about "skimo" for the first time today and was disappointed to learn it was not a combination of skiing and sumo wrestling.

• Post #353130

  #capoeira tonight: Beginners class was one person, because all three of the others were traveling/busy. I certainly made the beginner work hard. Conditioning was better attended, as people seem to be recovering from the wave of flu that's been going around.

• Post #353129

  My current Youtube hole is increasingly insane roller coasters made in Planet Coaster 2 (warning: potential motion sickness): https://youtu.be/m6zeF8MU978?si=xMAkRBPixB5px8Lp&t=123

• Post #353127

  Championship pillow fighting? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AM4muoWl_3M

• Post #289944

  Filed my taxes today, woohoo. This year I am owed like $4000 because of tax withholding overlap between two jobs. I want that money back in my hands ASAP.

• Post #289943

  I'm not going to today's parade. Last time they had a Seahawks victory parade I worked in Pioneer Square, and the light rail to work was the most crowded I had ever seen to that point. These days I work in SeaTac but today I'm working from home because I don't want to take up room on any roads or mass transit. I'll leave the space for the Seahawks fans. #Seattle

• Post #289942

  Sometimes I see job listings that are full of red flags.

• Post #289941

  40 reps of 360's using the 15 pound steel mace, and my hands are like "wow that was a lot of work"

• Post #289940

  Thinking back to that one viral tweet were a teenager redrew North and South America with patch notes like Long Chile and North and South Dakota being combined into West Dakota. https://craigcalcaterra.com/blog/long-chile-ohio2-and-the-snack-rack/

• Post #289939

  #capoeira last night: I stumped the beginners with some role entrando drills. Used it as a way of showing that even if we train a move one way there's nearly infinite variations in how to do it, based on distance and timing. Conditioning class was super small, only 4 people. I know one person was out from illness, and there's something going around, so maybe more people were sick and didn't mention it.

• Post #289938

  If movie theaters want to make the case to me that I should spend more money going to watch movies, they could start by not charging $20 for a matinee and then showing a full 30 minutes of trailers and ads before showing the movie.

• Post #289937

  Now I can't think of luge or skeleton without thinking about that SNL sketch. "I hate the luge. It's way too fast. It scares me to death, and I seriously hate it." https://www.youtube.com/shorts/mKQU_H7__M4

• Post #289936

  IN 2024 Hasbro/Nerf released a new, proprietary dart shape that everyone hated. At the time Hasbro said this was The New Standard and They're Not Going Back. 2026's new releases have just been announced, and to the amusement of hobbyists, Nerf is back to the old dart shape. The New Standard lasted all of *checks* eighteen months.