@koronkebitch

All you need to do is cook one pancake and then show that if you cook one pancake you can cook another and BAM infinite pancakes.

This is amazing.

I wonder how hard it would be to convince everyone in my HOA to no longer use pesticides and herbicides

#Fedefine

Game 310:

1. Spatulamancy

A. Divination by means of an animal's shoulder blade
B. Divination by examining how liquids of different colors mix when stirred together
C. Jocular word for the act of stirring or mixing

2. Pediment

A. A unevenness in the road, a natural speed bump
B. A triangular space that forms the gable of a low-pitched roof
C. The pedestal of a full-length statue of a person

I’m disappointed that Cheerios ultimately won the user survey. It’s clearly flavorless dust compressed into little “O’s”.

Once again the voting public has let down the American people.

There was a magnitude 3.8 #earthquake 2km from me tonight. It scared one of my kids out of bed. #wa

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/uw714040221/executive

do not put crustaceans in your underwear

no

like seriously

do not

https://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/2026/07/does-she-have-crab-in-her-bra-washington-officers-say-4-hid-21-crabs-in-clothing.html?gift=a2af9c25-b213-422c-a3c0-481162675aab

Meta caps internal AI token spending

Link: https://mlq.ai/news/meta-caps-internal-ai-token-spending-after-costs-approach-billions-in-2026/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48754713

I feel like the “death of physical media” is largely a self-fulfilling prophecy brought on by the industry.

First the CDs disappeared from stores like Wal-Mart, then the movie selection started getting pathetic, and now it’s basically just a single four-sided display. Video game hardware and software selection looking more pathetic as each month goes by.

Half the reason I pick up physical media is the convenience from being available at basically an arm’s length - I almost never order online unless I really want a specific thing, or if it’s cheaper than in-store by a significant margin.

I don’t think the demand for physical media is dying completely anytime soon, even if it has lessened over the years. I think it might even increase with more anti-consumer bullshit, like Sony straight-up removing digital purchases from Studio Canal because they didn’t want to or couldn’t keep up with licensing.

DVDs and Blu-ray may be riddled with DRM, but they’re still a far better option than having a library that could disappear in an instant,

Global ocean temperatures are entering “uncharted territory,” climate scientists say

Sea surface temperatures in late June reached nearly 70 degrees Fahrenheit on average, shattering records

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/global-ocean-temperatures-are-entering-uncharted-territory-climate-scientists-say/

A Fedi version of Queer Eye:

Five autistic queer Fedifolk (one in a fur suit) travel to help out a regular person each episode.

By the end of the episode, the team have degoogled the recipient, installed a thoughtfully selected Linux distro on their formerly-windows machine, replaced much of their software with open source alternatives, stocked their home library with Murderbot novels and cozy queer SF, and given the recipient a new Special Interest to hyperfocus on.

#FediQueerEye

I WANT ROOM SERVICE!

On this #CanadaDay I'm struck by how few Americans know their government and the Russians are involved in a psyop in Alberta to incite a separatist movement. The goal: force a populist referendum to leave #Canada and join the #USA.

Albertans are being swayed by glitzy YouTube influencer videos, many of which are #AI generated abroad,, to suggest their lives would be better in the US. You know, Florida mansions, control over immigration, pristine health care, high valued US dollar, and other grass is greener lies. Very #Brexit-esque, Cambridge Analytica playbook.

As the US under this administration seeks to capture and manipulate oil internationally, Hormuz and Venezsudentenland are not enough. They are coming for the Canadian oil fields not with arms, but with algorithmically amplified #disinformation and millions of corrupt dollars to influence an election in their favor. For Russia, cracking Canada means destabilizing yet another Western democracy in the international illiberal project, plus Canada recently signed an agreement to provide drones to the #Ukraine.

How can you help?

I wish I could say call your Congressional Rep, and that might still work in some districts. However, this is digital guerilla warfare, and we still don't have good innoculation against it.

Any information you can get out there on social media --about what it is really like to live in the US (maybe more about how actually likely it is to own a mansion or paying for your health care!), about how disinformation campaigns work, about what happened to democracies that voted to shoot themselves in the face based on peddled lies and are now dealing with the consequences (hello #UK), would help. Please tag Alberta separatism to ensure the message gets out.

And tell your friends. People need to know this is going on.

#elbowsup

Receipts:

https://thewalrus.ca/alberta-separatism-fuelled-by-russian-networks-and-us-influencers/

https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/article/co-ordinated-network-of-fake-youtube-channels-pushing-alberta-secession-and-us-annexation-narrative-report-finds/

https://www.cdmrn.ca/slopaganda-the-inauthentic-youtube-network-selling-secession-to-albertans

https://thetyee.ca/News/2026/04/21/Dishonest-Online-Campaign-Support-Alberta-Separatism/

https://disifnowatch.org broke this story with international journalists' help: see: https://disinfowatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Alberta-and-Foreign-Interference-Report-Final-052026-web.pdf

DSA Video Going Viral

I don’t usually share messages from the government but this one’s important so please pay close attention.

If Democrats really want to prove they are on our side, then campaigns need to heavily emphasize making laws about A.I. Trump said he was going to then he had a conversation with his billionaire buddies, and suddenly it disappears.

Regulation of A.I. genuinely seems to be a bipartisan issues, as people have watched it snake it's way into our lives. A.I. will be a part of the future, whether we want it or not, the laws have to catch up.

#ScribesAndMakers July 1: Our featured creator is a former librarian. What has been your experience with libraries?

When I was in grade school, I'd stop by the school library nearly every day and check out a book or two. In high school, the library was a great place to study and hang out — and the town library also had wonderful resources on all sorts of topics! When I went back to visit my high school town last year, the library was one place I made sure go back and see again. 1/2

Sauron's rings of power are changing the face of governance. A ring of power is capable of doing work that used to take hours and dozens of labourers. Don't get left behind. A ring of power isn't just a time saver — it's revolution in how we do things. And that's precious.

Today the good people of the world commemorate the passing of Google Reader thirteen short years ago on July 1, 2013.

To honor their memory (and in lieu of flowers) please add an RSS, Atom, JSON or equivalent feed to your web site and keep building towards a web that connects people in meaningful and positive ways.

@inquiline Historian John Barry wrote an excellent history of the 1918 flu pandemic and one of the strangest observations he makes in that book is that there’s almost no cultural trace of the disease. Where are the songs, poems, films, and novels portraying the days when people died in scores?

There’s almost no trace.
That seemed bizarre to me, but it’s pretty much what we’ve done with Covid

It's July 1, it's a new sales quarter, and I am calling attention bankruptcy. I do not care at all about new business or quarterly numbers or any of the other bullshit to which I'm supposed to be subjugating all my thinking. I don't want to contemplate contract sizes, or metrics, or why anybody wants to buy anything at all. Let them window shop. Have a POC forever. Who's the tech champion? Who cares! Please, don't answer any of my email. Make sure to delete that right away. I'm totally happy to answer a question or investigate how some combination of technics might solve a problem, but as far as charging money for it, as far as I'm concerned, it's all gratis.