So would the modern version of William Tell shooting an apple off his son's head be shooting the headphones off his son's head?
#modernize #fairytale

Interesting. I have a feature request for the Zuckoff app: Add an option to hack or DDOS any perv glasses it detects. 😉
#Zuckoff

"Do not condemn with a broad brush those that proselytize, for you do the same thing in speaking of your disagreement with them." - Me
#quotes

Sign of the times: Bay Area restaurants return to hand-painted signage

https://www.sfchronicle.com/food/restaurants/article/sign-paint-seth-vargas-21338706.php

> Seth Vargas is one of a number of Bay Area artists who are reviving the craft of hand-painted signs for restaurants. “A real person’s work adds to the authenticity of what a restaurant is.”

#noai #sfba

Stop calling the lies politicians say "bullshit". Bullshit is a good, useful fertilizer. Politicians' lies are NEITHER!

"Time for the sake of time is the motto of the clock." - Me
#quote

Famous action actor turned musician:
Arnold Glockenspiel
#bad #joke

#WritersCoffeeClub 4/10 What's something other writers swear by that you just don't get?

Never splitting infinitives in English. The rule came from Latin, where an infinitive is a single word. English infinitives are TWO words, and Latin lost all its prestige centuries ago!

#ThreeGoodThings #3GoodThings The rainstorms stopped and plants behind our unit went crazy with flowers, so here are three flower pictures to brighten your day.
Today the gardening crew weed wacked the first and last ones down. The hibiscus is still there.
All made with Sony A7R4A camera, Minolta 70-210mm telezoom lens. They're all small crops from very large frames!
#hawaii #flowers #photography

P.S. I predict that almost a third of Gen Z men will end up being divorced. 😉

So, people, stop describing *boomers* as dinosaurs.

Almost a third of Gen Z men agree a wife should obey her husband, global study finds

https://phys.org/news/2026-03-gen-men-wife-obey-husband.html

> Some 31% of Gen Z men agree that a wife should always obey her husband and one third (33%) say a husband should have the final word on important decisions, according to a new global study of 23,000 people...

#marriage #relationships #genz

Need a country to disenshittify tech?

https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/17/erin-lets-go/

#Pluralistic #CoreyDoctorow #Disenshittification

Email rules. As an email packrat, I approve this message!

Pluralistic: Catch this! (16 Jan 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/16/interrupt-driven/#ping

#Pluralistic #CoreyDoctorow #email

Remember the distinction between happiness, optimism and hope!

https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/15/how-the-light-gets-in/

#Pluralistic #corydoctorow #happiness #optimism #hope

A quote from Corey Doctorow:
"Trump is an autocrat, but he's not omnipotent. He's an old, sick man with white matter disease dementia who can't stay awake through a 10-minute briefing or remember what he was talking about from minute to minute."

https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/12/disenshittification-nation-2/

#Pluralistic #doctorow

Pluralistic: Writing vs AI (07 Jan 2026)

https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/07/delicious-pizza/

Learn a bit about attending - and teaching - at big-name writers workshops like the Clarion Writers Workshop.

Oh, and a bit about writing and AI.

#writing #Pluralistic #LLM

Pluralistic: Code is a liability (not an asset) (06 Jan 2026)

https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/06/1000x-liability/

#Pluralistic

When in doubt, do nothing stupid!

Or maybe that should be, "When in doubt, do nothing, stupid!"?

#advice #life

#writerscoffeeclub 12/25: Should anything in fiction be off-limits? What?

Being a dick. While I think it's okay to have *characters* that are dicks, don't be a dick yourself. There are enough authors being dicks. We don't need more.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@sundogplanets/115723951325903878

Hmmm, maybe now's the time to see if StarLink satellites can be hacked to deorbit themselves and home on where Their Lord And Master is? 😉