Making myself espresso:
I grind the beans, I dose the filter, I put the filter into the machine.
I get distracted by something.
I take the filter out of the machine, I whack the puck out into a basket, I dump the puck into compost. (Huh that’s a real dry puck 🤔)
My espresso cup is empty.
@ianbicking Not unsurprisingly, the conference swag I still have around years later are fidgets 😅
@darius oh no, i hear gender reveals have started forest fires!
@joshua Someone drank it while I wasn't looking!
Neighborhood watch #cats
Shower thought: After reading qntm's Ra, now I want to find more semi-fantasy stories showing magic being used in a mundane professional setting.
Like, show me a mage at a sit/stand desk with a 3-orb scrying setup and an enchanted self-warming coffee mug, ether-linked into the trans-planar standup call with the team
(also i need to catch up on stross' Laundry series)
Dang, now I want to plot this out as a story myself. Maybe the big bad is major layoffs in the magitech industry lead to a few pager incidents being fumbled and some demonic juggernauts accidentally escape from a data center in rural oregon
I'm not huge on survival horror games, but Crow Country looks pretty great 🤔
"all the characters and models exist in a fidelity squarely between pre-rendered CGI on the SNES and the chunky polygons of early PlayStation games"
https://aftermath.site/crow-country-review-indie-survival-horror-game-lowfi
I think one of my least favorite things on the web today is that little Substack scroll-jacking feature that slowly fades out the article as a subscription form slides into view. Gives me a minor spike of rage every time it happens
I guess the worse thing I saw on some newsletter yesterday was a subscription form embedded between every paragraph in an essay. Like what are you doing?
@chuck I love the sight of a beefy cargo bike. I feel like for me this is how some dudes like seeing all the tactical attachments on an AR-15
(also can it do the Costco run in under 12 parsecs?)
My wife just texted me this photo of Catsby, captioned "jungle cat" #cats
Catsby absolutely loves this spot, because the table is a bit taller than the window sill bottom, leaving a small space for him to squish into that turns into an oven on a sunny day.
And when he gets too warm, he can just hop back on top of the table to cool off before going back to bake some more.
@jalefkowit same same, they a) might come in handy again! and/or b) have stuff I'm too lazy to delete yet
@jalefkowit also half my disused disks have lived in a NAS at some point, so why not again?
@lzg How could he keep that face with such a cute little shredder in hand?
@lzg I'd be like haha :bloblaugh: oh no my tie haha 👔
"We went ahead and ranked every issue of Moore’s Swamp Thing by how likely they’ll receive a conservative book banning campaign, and sad to say things are not looking good for our boy Swampy in the red states, which is where a lot of the good swamps are!"
@sil Eh, lighter than Ra isn't hard to do. Also see my local library has it, so I may check it out!
@joshua I love this old thread from tumblr that jwz captured
Vulcan Science Academy: This is a species where if you give them two warp cores, they will ask for a third one, immediately plug all three into each other, punch a hole into an alternate universe where humans subscribe to an even more destructive ideological system, fight everyone in it because they're offended by that, steal their warp cores, plug those together, punch their way back here, then try to turn a nearby sun into a torus because that was what their initial scientific experiment was for and they didn't want to waste a trip.
Haha also I forgot about this #startrek thing:
I will never be over the fact that during first contact a human offered their hand to a vulcan and the vulcan was just like "wow humans are fucking wild" and took it
Note: Vulcan hand / finger touching is a sex thing.
@skinnylatte Oof yeah, never thought about that. I was glued to a screen as a kid. Of course, some of those screens, I had to program to make anything fun happen.
So maybe they don't need "no screens" so much as "here's a blank screen, make your own fun"
