I found this photo in an eBay listing for a batch of used pinball-machine balls in July of 2000.
I didn't bid, but I messaged the seller letting them know they absolutely made my day with this photo and they replied with gratitude. I even set it as the desktop image on a computer I used in the arcade workshop I worked in at the time.
It's been sitting on my hard drives for 26 years, and I no longer wish to keep it to myself.
@frabjousday The other day, someone on here reframed "pour from an empty cup," as instead, "you can't boil an empty kettle."
Pouring from an empty cup results in nothing happening. Trying to boil an empty kettle will ruin the kettle, then the stove, then it will burn your house down if you keep trying to do it.
Or the concept that when we run out of spoons, we reach for knives.
People who haven't experienced it need to know how *harmful* it is to try to keep going when you have nothing.
A kitten sitting on a windowsill yawns broadly while looking outdoors. In the background, a break in some clouds on a dawn sky makes a red-orange-yellow blaze of sunlight. The camera angle makes it appear that a blast of fire is erupting from the kitten's mouth. Caption on the photo reads, "Fire breathing kitten".
#Caturday #catsOfMastodon
I opened up the back door so the dogs could go outside, but I did not join them because I needed to take care of something in the bedroom first. Well, it seems that Miss Callisto Bell does not see any point in going outside unless I am also going to go outside because there will be nobody to throw the ball and then I decided to make this little video of her being ridiculous and yelling at me about it.
I hope everyone has a fantastic friday!!!! Remember to drink your water, take your meds if needed, and to just be awesome.,
Enormous shout out to the guy who replied to me last night suggesting that the correct way to add alt text to an image is to put "DM me for alt text", in order to make it impossible for LLMs to scrape it.
I'm not blind, but I can't imagine it would feel particularly empowering to have to ask for a simple accommodation every time they came across an image in their feed.
My cat loves for me to hold her back paws when we're snuggling, but hates for me to try to hold her front paws. My previous cat was the opposite.
Does your cat like:
For when your server room is on fire …
Thank you to everyone who's trying to remind us to enjoy this victory, even if it's not a perfect one, even if there's still work left to be done.
Fedi is heavily populated by neurospicy folk, and one of the things that's common is we don't have working reward centers in our brains, it's part of why our executive function doesn't work right
So we're used to being told we're not allowed to stop and enjoy our victories, because we don't do it on neuromundane timelines. We don't allow ourselves to stop because we're afraid we won't get moving again if we do.
But we need the rewards, we need whatever dopamine we can get from them, to fuel the work that comes next. And we need to support each other so we can get moving again after the celebration, because accessibility means ensuring no one gets left behind.
Get AI to write your app store changelogs. 'bug fixes and performance improvements' app after app after app is just so lazy. Who's the sloppy one now?
Some mornings, getting dressed sounds less like a simple decision and more like packing for a cross-country trip.
The forecast says 42 degrees when I wake up, 76 by lunchtime, and a chance of rain just when I need to go somewhere.
So what am I supposed to wear? A sweater, shorts, rain boots, and a sun hat?
And there’s always somebody who says, “Just dress in layers.” By three o’clock, I’m supposed to be carrying half my closet around like a traveling yard sale.
I would appreciate it if the weather could pick a season and stick with it until supper.
Language has a lot of redundancy.
The word loophole actually means a holehole, since a loupe is a hole in the wall.
The Sahara Desert actually means the Desert Desert, since Sahara means desert in Arabic.
Chai tea means tea tea, since Chai is tea in several languages.
And a PIN number is literally a personal identification number number.
Okay so I didn't miss the pack of coyotes after all. I was sitting down to my second coffee when I heard them start up again and I wasn't going to miss the chance to capture them. I haven't moved that fast in years and this is some of the coolest shit I've ever heard. Check this out, yall. Recorded with my IPhone 15 and cranked up so you can really hear them.
Had a dream last night where I was playing some strange NES version of Kirby, but it was a platformer. Found a secret room and a full screen ad came up saying "play the rest of this level for $7.99"
Woke up angry and my wife told me I said "fuck you microtransactions!" in my sleep.
So, I’m in the kitchen, cooking tea, and a timer sounds on the Echo.
“Alexa, stop”, I says. To which it responds:
“That command isn’t supported in this vehicle. Please check the screen when it’s safe to do so and try again”.
😂
Very weird dream. I was on a beach. This bird landed which I think was an eagle, and I got hold of its beak and drew a portrait of a woman in the sand with it. People came to see me and my sand portrait and told me how amazingly lifelike it was, like drawing pictures with a bird is completely normal.
I am currently having that annoying daylight saving thing where it feels way later than it actually is. Welcome to being thrown off. Thanksies, silly brain.
The best apology is changed behavior, period.
Oh no guys! I have time traveled, it's 1:00 AM again! Heeeelp! What ever shall I do! Well, I guess I have to deal with this second 1:00 AM now. Lol.