"And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human."
-- "Count Zero" by William Gibson
#bookstodon #quote

Finally!

Sashiko: It's more difficult than I thought it would be! I'm going to have to pick out the first one and re-do it. #visibleMending

12 pm

Still snowing but not as hard and almost no wind.

MUTHAFUCKA Microsoft CoPilot just appeared on my Windows 10 machine after I updated to install the latest LibreOffice.

How do I get it off/stop it?

My first foray into embroidery, courtesy of a beginners kit from the local library! I was inspired by @NorcalGma2 😁

I like making the leaf stitches the best.
#embroidery

A little bit of hope: https://data4democracy.substack.com/p/the-wall-looks-permanent-until-it

Ogden Nash had it right.

Reading the unedited machine-generated transcript of your stupid podcast actively makes my head hurt. I really hate this slide into illiteracy.

I had a lot of scrap yarn to use up and a disintegrating hoodie and things got a bit out of hand. #crochet #visiblemending

holy crap. I just got an automated voicemail from my healthcare provider that "taking Tylenol is still the safest way to treat fever and pain during pregnancy" and a URL for more info.

How freaking bad does it have to be that they felt this was necessary? They haven't done this for anything else, not even Covid-19.

Reality check for all of us who are saying we don't want AI crammed into everything: my 9:30 am Macroeconomics students definitely do want it, by an overwhelming margin.

Hey Fedi, can someone please just hire me to teach political science (and introductory economics) courses in a country that is not the United States? And I can bring my cat? #getfedihired

Question: my cat is a stress eater - ahe eats when she's anxious. She's also a cat who always wants more food. Which is a better approach, feeding her all at once, or in increments?

@dangillmor Just reading your newsletter and got to https://washingtonmonthly.com/2025/01/05/champion-the-self-employed/ and with all due respect, that's some bullshit right there. "Portable benefits." You can't bemoan Democrats bringing a handshake to a gunfight and then espouse weak sauce like this. Universal health care is where you START negotiations.

I think I missed #PortfolioDay, so I'm just going to pin these ;-)

If you're new to Mastodon, fill out your bio and post a few things before asking to follow people. Otherwise you just look straight-up bot.

I am thinking of moving my personal website to somewhere other than WordPress.com. They keep messing with the UX and I don't like it.

I don't want to self-host, because then worrying about security is my problem. I want to blog, and post artwork, and record my accomplishments (such as they are), and I don't want to be bothered with anything else. Any recommendations from the #fediverse?

Is there a way to prevent Google Play store from installing games I don't want? This having to go in and clean up repeatedly is getting old 😠

#IVoted ✅