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#thefarside #farside #comic https://www.thefarside.com/2026/10/26/3 Scientist hell

#Obenseuer: Sleepless in Stalburg/Not Working Up To Potential Agriculture is starting to pay off and our lockpicking skills are improving. Great, but where's the money going? After clearing out the basement, we got electrics and heat installed and we're close to having the building plumbed. We […]

Yay! This #SolarPunkSunday I just learned that my novella, The Blossoming of the Big Tree, is the #SFFBookClub pick for November, so I'm excitedly waiting to see what discussions come up. It's the story of an old woman who coordinates the defense of her decentralized nation, which thrives in a […]

Democrats must adapt to the new rules of political combat. They need not mirror Trump’s crass, racist, and misogynistic rhetoric. But they should attack more fiercely, and be less apologetic. When Republicans go low, Democrats should step on them […]

Well, I've finally done it - I found an affordable copy of Wilkes, Wheeler, and Gill's "The preparation of programs for an electronic digital computer; with special reference to the EDSAC and the use of a library of subroutines" published in 1951. It's of dubious legality and provenance being a […]

Philomena: Some people have been writing PHP for over 20 years. Is that because it's particularly difficult to finish? Expert: No, software is constantly evolving. Philomena: So they've been writing the same website for 20 years? Expert: No […] [Original post on social.treehouse.systems]

Also, uh, I got a wild hair while I was traveling and the company that prints my stickers had a Halloween sale on glitter stickers happening sooooooo these are coming

For all the smart toasters, smart refrigerators, and other unnecessarily internet-connected devices in your life https://masto.free-dissociation.com/@kevinr/117367564258784154

Texas’s five biggest counties smashed voter turnout records on the state’s first day of early voting in the midterm elections. Harris, Dallas, Bexar, Travis, and Tarrant counties all eclipsed early voting records for at least two of the last three elections, Sawyer Hackett, a political […]

Do you think you know what #JesseVentura does when he's not being a pro #wrestler, a Navy SEAL, a Governor, and a Goddamn Sexual Tyrannosaurus...? ... **_THINK AGAIN._** #ConspiracyTheory

Bob is just the happiest friendliest Void Potato. I think he has a total of three brain cells and they are constantly working. One is devoted to getting food, the second to getting pets, and the third is to self-preservation. #CatsOfMastodon

Me: ugh, modern landmark architecture is just rich people showing off how much money they have. What happened to restrained displays of class and taste? 18th Century Scotland: PINEAPPLES!!!

Today's completely bizarre material science question: is the manufacturing process for encapsulated or inclusion ceramic stains (stain particles surrounded by a ball of zirconium silicate) similar to that for BISO/TRISO nuclear fuel particles? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRISO_fuel (UO2 […]

Nothing new, but I'm disappointed. Many years ago, Linux represented the alternative. The question was: "Why don't you just use Windows? It's easier." And the answer was, almost always: "To be free." The "bazaar" spirit of Linux and its distributions made us feel free. Personally, I've always […]

I regret not picking up a copy of "Barbeque'n with Bobby Seale" when I had the chance. I am not making this up: https://bobbyqueseale.blogspot.com/?m=1

you condition everyone to react to the sounds produced by your shitty messenger, then you change the sounds for no reason. go to fucking jail

My new theory: anyone who actually has feelings of empathy knows that machines simply... don't. However, sociopaths' sense of empathy is muted at best; often, they believe the rest of us are making it up, and they learn to approximate sympathy, concern, etc. based on mimicking outward […]

I just realized that I have played Obenseuer for 1481 hours which is 281 hours longer than Liz Truss was PM of the UK. I have about 11.7 days on the lettuce.

No bueno...