Yay! Outliers Books got their new website up and running!

Fantastic queer bookstore in Eugene, Oregon! Also has yummy pizza and a fun thrift store right next door, so you can make a whole afternoon of it if you want.

https://www.outliersbooks.com/

#Books #EugeneOregon #Oregon

Stress and conflict cause flare ups in my cancer. So I deleted everything and will go back to lurking for a while.

YouTube videos that insist on using nonsensical, non-standard measurement units nobody uses, specifically this "Fahrenheit" thing, are just hard to take seriously for me. Technology Connections is amazing, love the guy, watch every one of his videos with love and care - but every time he uses this weird unit I have to actively keep myself from losing interest.

Nobody in the world gives a rat's ass about what a cooler does to your house in some random-ass unit based on the size of a sheep's dick in brine water at sea level or whatever the fuck Fahrenheit is based on. Just use Celsius like 99% of the world does.

RE: https://mastodon.energy/@Sustainable2050/117138805639634732

I love that we're finally at the utterly-disconnected-from-reality, random insane bullshit stage of this exercise now. Tomorrow, he's going to unilaterally declare a 50% tariff on unamerican vowels. Monday, the Oxford Comma will be formally declared to be a terrorist organization. On Tuesday, he's going to send troops to invade algebra.

https://cosocial.ca/@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energy/117138808388807547

Sometimes when people say “it’s complicated”, what they mean is “it’s bad but my paycheck depends on it”.

Backup Strategie #2 – Desaster Simulation

https://nureinblog.at/68898-backup-strategie-2-desaster-simulation/

Get ready to admire the beautiful beetroot seeds that I saved & am going to sow, today 😀

U.S. tried to restrict Canada's ability to get new trade deals
L: https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/livestory/us-canada-trade-war-new-tariffs-9.7310605?id=9.7310605.15367
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49403378
posted on 2026.08.22 at 16:12:01 (c=0, p=8)

🤖 Long before computers became commonplace, people were fascinated by the idea of machines that could think, talk, and act on their own.

From ELIZA to Little Computer People, early software used clever coding to create the illusion of intelligence, personality, and autonomy.

Our new Vintage Artificial Intelligence collection brings together emulated software from the 1970s–90s that explored what it might be like to have machines that think.

🔎 Explore the collection: https://blog.archive.org/2026/08/16/vintage-artificial-intelligence-before-it-got-awkward/

#ILwx #LOT #Chicago
Expect comfortable conditions for late August until midweek, when it will become more humid with a chance for thunderstorms ahead of a cold front Wednesday afternoon and evening.

#ILwx #LOT #Chicago
Building waves and strong currents at southern Lake Michigan beaches, particularly along the Indiana shore, will make for hazardous, potentially dangerous swimming conditions tonight through Sunday. Stay dry when waves are high!

I'll show how I'm going to use spare mushroom parts to try to grow from grocery store ones too. Lots of mushrooms growing experiments to share - all Autumn & Winter ✌️ I'll be showing failures & successes.

I feel like I probably made this same joke the last time I set foot inside an IKEA seventy two years ago

And if I were creative and had the resources, I'd turn that into one of those illuminated projections and flash it all over DC's big walls and the SCOTUS.

I figured that would be the case for the Nonbinabee, the eye appliqué will stand out on the yellow :heart_nb:

Cicadas AND crickets! IN THIS ECONOMY!