luv when I get buzzed by a chinook looping through #sanfrancisco on its way to SFO and the whole house shakes 🙄https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=ae6d05
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Jon Gilbert
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mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06Further updates as events warrant.
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abandoned thing:
Tropical storm Odalys and hurricane Polo have a fantastic opportunity to do something extraordinarily stupid-dangerous this coming Sunday afternoon and I am here for it.
Had a pre-coffee idea this morning: auto-ejecting USB ports.
Device all charged up? Port automatically ejects the cable.
Malware on thumb drive? Host spits it out.
Files all copied successfully? Ptoooie!
One of the best parts of #folsomstreetfair is the week leading up to it, where folks just wander up and down Folsom in skimpy leather and nothin else as though it's just a normal day, like it could always be that way.
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@Binder@petrous.vislae.town I've been pressured to use LLM/AI way, WAY more than I was ever pressured to use drugs.
Aw fuck yeah, Wizards of the Coast (the folks who do #dnd and #mtg) just joined up with the #CWA, the Communications Workers of America 💪
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/27/magic-the-gathering-online-unionization
Hey #sanfrancisco you know that when a bus or muni train doors are open, you have to STOP, right? Like, when there's concrete island between you and the train, it's the law and you gotta stop your car? You know that, right?
Hey in other news, I'm stuck in Solvang for their Bricks ands Builds event showing off LEGO Gatorland all weekend and because I don't really get into wine I'm bored out of my skull.
But, Gatorland still looks fantastic 😀🐊
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@vampiress I'm probably alone in it, but the original move controls on Grim Fandango felt really natural to me, moving through the screen spaces and knowing exactly what Manny was going to go for next.
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@GreenSkyOverMe the measure and maintenance trains on the Tokaido and Sanyo Shinkansen lines are similar; they're named "Doctor Yellow" :D
We had a Knife Tank! mini tournament this past week; I came out on top, just edging @hnrfineart@sfba.social with a 7 to 6 win-loss.
Her: "I feel like Talmudic law has been debated less heavily than "Endor's forest moon" vs "the forest moon named Endor""
Hello I just swept a bunch of cobwebs off the front of my apartment and off my front steps and now my skin and scalp are completely covered in spiders AMA
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@jwz@mastodon.social "Do not, my friends, become agitated in your emails about the water. That resentment will take hold of you in the water's absence."
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@quephird hey don't hate - they're working hard to get that illusive nine-fives SLO. They'll get there with some hard work
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(But you can use it for nearly everything: poor engineering shortcuts when building your house or highway, getting siphyilis, voting conservative, or buying a Russian mail order bride and getting siphyilis. These all have very negative long term impacts in exchange for a short term happiness, and correcting them is expensive and tragic)
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current favorites so far:
ofc that was my real pw
Babu Dick
Kyber Fucker
⠀ (the unprintable but still accepted BRAILLE PATTERN BLANK, U+2800)
Skull issues
LAX announcements from Mayor Bass note that Los Angeles' highlights are "from our mountains, to our beaches, and all the restaurants in between."
I know there's more than just two geological feature-types and places to eat here, ma'am.
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@dontreportme idk, it's a pretty reasonable request for a bathroom. Like, it's a single occupancy room, don't hold up the line, we all gotta pee.
@APBBlue@thepit.social oh man, make sure you get a Mold-O-Rama of the space needle before you leave!
@APBBlue@thepit.social oh PANTS. Alas!
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(Yes course this is a post about AI, and I'm not sure how we're gonna be able to just shoot poisoned text references twenty years from now like we're doing with the hippos.)
Her: You are the only person I know that would remember Clarus
Me: I don't believe that for a second
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@piebob@metasocial.com !!! oh gosh that's a LOT of fun on that table
and overflowing onto the floor
and on that table in the background all stacked up 😆
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@MastodonEngineering are we meant to not be able to see where the Elefeed and CrowFi links in your post go? Because right now they go somewhere that requires a permission not everyone has.
(If the general public are not meant to see them, maybe just remove them from tour blog post?)
Hey #sanfrancisco don't forget that when your free toilet paper sample shows up in the mail over the next few days from #growsf you use it to wipe your ass and then throw it in the garbage. 👍
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@girlonthenet@mastodon.social that's how it seemed to me, too. 🤷♀️🙄
Take minor wins where we can get them, I guess.
This goofy John Williams in galaxy's edge is some BULLSHIT
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(pretty egregious lack of history tho when titles are changed; obscures a bit of transparency.)
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@girlonthenet@mastodon.social ....ok yes that's good, but, it doesn't seem like it's for a GOOD reason (that palantir are authoritarian fucks), but rather a DUMB reason (that the procurement policies weren't followed)
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@malwareminigun (I mean, but, I *do* hate my phone, and I wish it would die a horrible death)
Ayyy guess who's in the middle of a print and forgot to account for wiring and cable space between part joints AGAIN
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then for a little while I was "pants inspector", and then the password to my bank's online portal, and probably something else offensive, and now I'm "dirty eyeglasses".
Please feel free to suggest an appropriate title for our unnamed Signal group based on what you know of me.
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@malwareminigun I mean, obviously it's because I am a joyless, soulless husk of a human who hates computers and mobile phones as much as I do myself, right?
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@jwz@mastodon.social oh I do wish the judge, when using the phrase "strains credulity ", did so in the same accent Geoffrey Rush used in the third Pirates movie.
evergreen annoyance: ghaad I hate systemd.