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these reference sets are amaizng

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anti-psychotics make staying with relatives less stressful. ask me how I know

submitted 14 hours ago • 1 comment

I propose we coin a new word: beature - noun - a bug that's really a feature

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Website/device age verification is a privacy and security nightmare and everyone who tells you that this is a solved problem is lying to you.

submitted 2 days ago • 38 comments

Family reunion w/ ~25 adults. No techies. Day 1: half have asked questions about AI I walk them through thinking about it like advanced auto-complete to the dangers of the AI generated videos for propaganda None of them had heard anything about the energy/water use required to run the systems

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family reunion day one is in the books. 13 straight hours of social contact. I'm spent. time to catch up on some doctor who

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I wish generating thumbnails for web pages with AI didn't drain lakes and require coal plants to be brought back online. I'd totally use it but, it does those things. so, I don't

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Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. “Hard mode” no Star Wars, Star Trek, Lord of the Rings, or Marvel.

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there are times when I want to travel there are times when I want to have traveled today is the later

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I decided to quantify the resistance I have to rebooting. It comes from having to type: :wqa - 11 times CTRL-C - 29 times exit - 53 times in order to close all my terminal/tmux windows and tabs before an update

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wrote a super basic LSP tester so I can can check formatting for Neopoligen's template LSP. github.com/alanwsmith/r...

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

made a couple updates to my home page. biggest change is adding a link in the intro to the reverse chronological list of 2,957 posts on the site. gotta work on getting those sorted at some point www.alanwsmith.com

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

if you're gonna cover The Who, you best not fuck up Goose pulls it off www.youtube.com/watch?v=oX-X...

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took a shower today. also, ate lunch at lunch time. those are both Good Signs™

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Ben Kenobi: Made you look! <punch> Luke: doesn't count it's ABOVE THE WAIST Ben Kenobi: fuck you

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weeknotes from last week. kinda down, meds got a bit out of whack. hoping to get things righted this weekend www.alanwsmith.com/en/2y/hs/up/...

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

this version of Freedom Jazz Dance www.youtube.com/watch?v=inQZ...

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Given the volumes of Star Trek stories in spin-off media like novels and comics, how have they never done the story called Chekov's Phaser?

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

do not install any app from Facebook or Meta on any device. Ideally avoid installing ANY social media app. Login through a browser. I highly doubt Facebook is the only company pulling this shit www.zeropartydata.es/p/localhost-...

submitted 18 days ago • 51 comments

here's the final version of the "redirects cheat sheet" draft I posted a while back! ("The Secret Rules of the Terminal" is finished! 95 beta readers have read it! the copy editor is done! technical review is done! the illustrator has made the cover! It's going to be out on Tuesday June 24"!)

submitted 9 days ago • 10 comments

100 internet points to whoever does a "you stare into the abyss and the abyss stares back" image with this eyeball

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🔥🔥🔥🔥

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the brain has kinda been offline for the past couple days. feels like it's rebooting a bit now. didn't do much today, but wrote a script to auto grab titles for URLs for a link dump page. Here's all the tabs I closed today: www.alanwsmith.com/en/2y/hg/vq/...

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

The perfect tornado. 16mm full wide. Dickens, Nebraska. 6/16/25

submitted 11 days ago • 19 comments

A friend just asked me what I do to stay hopeful and I told him one of my favorite strategies…I stay hopeful by remembering that no one has any idea what the fuck is going to happen, so as long as we don’t know, we gotta do what we can.

submitted 19 days ago • 209 comments

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submitted 11 days ago • 18 comments

Fictional Pachyderms is the name of my new band

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com on brain, you can do it put a little (medication assisted) power to it

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need some funky bass in your life? Give Jaco a try: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgwk...

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weird pull here but does anyone have any old Klutz catalogs from the 90s?

submitted 12 days ago • 7 comments

can't fell if just tired or flirting with depression bleck anyway, stay safe out there y'all

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

This is Faye. She wanted to bring a little sunshine into your life. Heard it can help with the happiness. 14/10 thank you so much Faye

submitted 12 days ago • 92 comments

I’ve said it 1094737 times, and so I can say it again. Animals are way smarter than we pretend that they are.

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

Zo! & Tall Black Guy (feat. Debórah Bond) LIVE Jun 5 - Columbia, MD Jun 6 - Columbia, SC Jul 4 - St. Louis Jul 5 - Chicago Jul 16 - Detroit Aug 8 - Baltimore (TBA) Aug 14 - Las Vegas Aug 15 - Phoenix Aug 17 - Los Angeles Aug 23 - Waterbury Sep 18 - Dallas (TBA) Oct 25 - Johannesburg bnds.us/grso1g

submitted 40 days ago • 2 comments