Coles Street Pothole

@adamhotep@infosec.exchange Wow, ran into a version of that sign the other day!

LOL so the "CBGB Festival" next weekend will include a performance by "the Sex Pistols." Tickets for the whole day are $179. If you buy the $349.99 VIP ticket (Very Important Punk) there are perks, such as "Specialty food & drink options, including punk-inspired shot & beer specials, curated for VIP only." Don't even think about the $799 VVIP—Punk Royalty tickets because they are SOLD OUT. Speaking of "sold out" . . . everyone involved has. 🤣

@Tak https://is-he-dead-yet.com/

@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org As a former radio DJ who—with some peers—had to preview all the tracks of all the records that were sent to the station in order to vote and pick out the "Beat of the Week," I learned NEVER to give up on an album without sampling at least some part of all the tracks. We had a system. We could even tell the tempo of various parts of a song simply by looking at how the light hit the grooves in the LP. Fun times.

@kottke@mastodon.social CEO: "We need to do this thing, because our ___ is too high/low, and we need to do it quickly!" Worker: "But that will wreck our business model. Besides, our ___ is too high/low because of the PREVIOUS thing you said we had to do." CEO: "You just don't understand. Our profit margin is X, we need to get it to 2X this quarter." Worker: "It's going to be zero X if you keep this up...."

@blogdiva@mastodon.social @paninid@mastodon.world @unlambda@hachyderm.io @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org @cookiesinheaven@m.ai6yr.org The anti-disco backlash in late 1970s was 100% homophobia (with a good dose of racism thrown in). I was there, I saw it happen. Donna Summer is a queen.

Neil Cat-trick Harris.

@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org I like 8 tracks because of continuous play. (I once left Yes: Close to the Edge playing for an entire weekend in my room, even as I slept, at low volume. It never stopped.) I have also been told that it is better sound quality than cassette because of the wider tape.

@Janet_52square@sunny.garden @LPerry2@mastodon.social @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org Tell me you're younger than me without saying you're younger than me. 😂 I was in my mid-teens in the NYC area when Donna Summer put out "I Feel Love"—it was a moment. I was a DJ when Bronski Beat put out their cover—I gave it airplay, because it was good, but yeah it's not the same.

@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org Yessssss. "I Feel Love" is just sooooooo sublime. Glad you get to experience it afresh!

@mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io Also: Added "Braut"—his mother's surname—to his jersey to honor her side of the family. Haaland has been one of the bright spots in the otherwise racist, corrupt, and quite frankly somewhat depressing enterprise known as the World Cup.

@paul_ipv6@infosec.exchange @blogdiva@mastodon.social @paninid@mastodon.world @unlambda@hachyderm.io @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org @cookiesinheaven@m.ai6yr.org Again, not talking about "not liking disco." "Not liking disco" means you don't buy the albums, don't go dancing in discos. People who "dislike disco" don't do this, only moral panic people do this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disco_Demolition_Night

@RickiTarr@beige.party It's got a fucking cyclops in it.

@paul_ipv6@infosec.exchange @blogdiva@mastodon.social @paninid@mastodon.world @unlambda@hachyderm.io @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org @cookiesinheaven@m.ai6yr.org Not liking it as a form of musical expression is not the same as the moral panic instigated in 1979 by racist homophobes. Don't blend the two.

@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org "The ChatGPT-maker said its agent - an AI system which can operate alone after human instruction – was being tested in a controlled environment but, after finding weaknesses, was able to escape the test limits." Is this when Skynet became self-aware?

@cR0w@infosec.exchange The one that parks across the street from my house sounds like it is sucking the souls out of a busload of nuns.

@MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social More deets. https://www.yahoo.com/news/world/articles/russian-general-ordered-attack-children-205631188.html

Well, this was an unnecessary purchase, it turns out. #wildfires

There was *another* Lilo and Stitch movie last year? There is a *live action* Moana movie? DOESN'T ANYTHING EVER DIE? Stitch and Angel Get a Mortgage (2029) Moana Hires a Divorce Attorney (2032)

@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org "Instead, the agents created their own cyber-attack against the sandbox itself, finding a vulnerability which allowed them to escape the restrictions. Once outside, the AI identified Hugging Face as a likely source of the answers they were seeking in the test, and tried to gain access."

[me, waking in the middle of the night]: Do you smell roasting coffee? [spouse]: I smell skunk. Fam, this is what COVID did to me. Five years later, my sense of smell is totally rewritten.

Just a reminder, as you crank that AC and try to avoid wildfire smoke, energy costs continue to soar in the United States—and the Trump administration is making moves that will only make our petroleum-based energy grid even more expensive and more damaging to the environment. https://tcf.org/content/report/power-failure-rising-energy-debt-is-climbing-into-the-middle-class/

Gatineau River.

Cool cool cool..... https://apnews.com/article/wildfire-smoke-sick-dying-asthma-heartattack-climate-65b51f04cd29648d952a7e41160841d3

@CStamp@mastodon.social Yup. This is helpful: "Scientists have counted at least 1,000 toxins in wildfire smoke, according to Colorado State University environmental toxicologist Luke Montrose. “'If I gave you a list, you would recognize some of these as being very bad, oftentimes associated with the burning of diesel fuel or cigarette smoke, things like formaldehyde or volatile organic compounds,' Montrose said. 'So just the smoke itself can be bad.'”

Read elsewhere: “It's like we got sent a free appetizer because our entrees were taking too long.”

@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org Maybe they found and detonated the Tybee Island bomb?

I am right-handed, but I use a computer mouse with my left hand. Why? Well, nearly thirty years ago, I took a second job doing freelance editing, and the constant mouse usage was giving me carpal tunnel syndrome. So I started using my left (uninjured) hand at work, and my (compromised) right hand for the shorter stints of freelancing. Balance the load, so to speak. Well, I now use a laptop with trackpad at home, no mouse. But I still use my left hand in the office. Right hand feels weird.

@lxskllr@mastodon.world Fun fact: I have never disliked the smell of skunk. Sometimes it can be too strong, chemically, but usually I find it fine.

This is all he has been doing as president, enriching himself. Oh, and fucking people over. There are probably a hundred such payments made over the past year and a half. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/14/us/politics/trump-south-korea-aluminum.html

@Janet_52square@sunny.garden 😂I would watch that last one.

"I'm not feeling great. I don't know what's wrong. I can't put my finger on anything." "Oh. Does your finger hurt?" This woman is still married to me even though I launch zingers like that, unannounced.

@Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt https://weatherishappening.network/@ColesStreetPothole/117015445056537482

@wordshaper@weatherishappening.network My utility is Public Service Electric and Gas. It's right there in the title: public service. Utilities are part of the commons, not simply commodities to vend to the biggest buyers. Regulate the fuck out of them.

@jonny@neuromatch.social I cared more about Jimothy than everyone else combined! https://weatherishappening.network/@ColesStreetPothole/116751544564091423 https://weatherishappening.network/@ColesStreetPothole/116751752825277042

@ryan2one3@mstdn.ca In their home towns? 😂

@BlippyTheWonderSlug@ieji.de This pic affects me deeply. If someone doesn't put a fake mustache and glasses on that image, it's criminal. 😂

@grassrootsforeurope@mas.to More "leave" voters died, you say? Sweet.

I know it is a Monday afternoon, but this Germany–Paraguay game is woefully under-attended. Sooooooo many empty seats, and many of them in prime seating locations.

@MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social Everything he touches.

Who is this little guy? He just landed on me and DIED! #bugstodon

A hot dog is pizza.

@MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social And yet he can still post?

A word game I play had this as the "fun fact" about the answer. 😂

I would like to reclaim every moment of my life when I had to listen to the song Midnight Rider.

@wordshaper@weatherishappening.network Note: PSEG is a publicly traded private corporation. 😂 But it is highly regulated.