@idlestate Some people, it seems, will cling to whatever vestige of cognitive false comfort they can find -- even as it pulls them down towards the wreck of the Titanic.

@JimG

This makes me think of Star Trek: The Motion Picture :D

I still miss ElectricSheep. -.-

@hoshianna Nobody is around right now... but my first take is that it's kind of risky and labor-intensive to try switching codebases right now. I'm still learning how to maintain the infra that we've currently got, so I couldn't even begin to try to migrate the code without the team.

That said, I'd give it at least a day or 2 to see if anyone has other thoughts.

@hoshianna I'll bring it up with the team and see what they think.

@hoshianna Do you have a link for Chuckya? I hadn't heard of it.

@amcooper @steven_ovadia

I'm honestly kinda impressed that the AC seems to be keeping up; this house was built in 1939.

(Downstairs, anyway; the upstairs hallway is more of an oven... and the neckfan I'm using makes the air feel cooler as well.)

@amcooper @steven_ovadia

100°F here -- and we just had to open the windows for a bit because someone burned something on the stove 😅

At least it's not* 107° like it was the other week.

* yet

Universal parenting. #grickledoodle #ET #spielberg #parents #cartoon #art #drawing #funny #humor

@rey Porn is a proxy in the right-wing war against sexual* freedom.

* and every other kind, really

@tty The few times I've been to rock concerts -- which I otherwise enjoyed* -- I put my fingers in my ears when the music was too loud, which it often was.

* ...albeit maybe not as much as listening to the same music on good speakers? I mean, I can't really say that the musical experience was the reason I went...

(Further ramble-rants on this topic are available.)

@hoshianna

I think you do need to understand that there are good reasons to believe these claims, whether or not they are true.

Attacking people for a reasonable point-of-view -- even if you believe it to be false -- weakens your position. What you need is objective evidence to support your case.

#friendlyAdvice :tootcat:

@amberlonely

@ov_dragonman @MarkHoltom

I started using ISO date format in middle school, mid-1970s.

I didn't know it was a standard yet; I don't think I had seen it used anywhere else. It was just obviously more sensible than any other order.

@Npars01 @mackaj @deutrino@mstdn.io

My two takeaways:

• There are undoubtedly implementations of age-verification that would also preserve privacy. (...but the people who are pushing age-verification the hardest don't actually want to preserve privacy; that is antithetical to their goals.)
• Age-verification is still, nonetheless, a poor solution to the problem of online abuse -- and very likely also a way of distracting from how poorly/inversely the bigtech social media companies have handled this. (...as well as, of course, an excuse for fash to get more control over everyone's existence.)

What an interesting idea

https://inglele.wordpress.com/2026/07/03/elianas-world-a-tiny-living-soundscape-in-the-browser/

@Frank_Engelhard @DoomsdaysCW Indeed. The symbolism -- it burns.

@farah @alice Clearly this is a survival instinct which evolved in order to protect important community resources from marauding predators. [nods authoritatively]

@Researchbuzz Passed this along to localfriend who also has a tortoise (albeit much bigger) that is known for escaping. :D

Warm lap fungus alighted as I sat to break my fast. #caturday

@wayback_exe That is a bit of history -- "Windows on the World" was a restaurant on one of the higher floors of WTC1. Their wine collection was legendary.

@LocuYinglet I really need to record this... >.>