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My son: I got lots of people to sign up for swim team! Also my son: I hate practice, there are too many people! (Classic sowing/reaping, also he can just go to his club practices 4 days a week)

Van de Ven, had he been a fraction higher with that nasty foul on Caicedo, would have been thrown out. Certainly worth more of a look than Palmer's foul.

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It was the end of year marching band performance for the parents last night (and our last), and it was a delight to see the whole band dancing around and posing as they played Pink Pony Club. Just pure joy on their faces.

The Fall is the first thing that comes to mind for me, just insanely visually gorgeous but with nothing to hang any of it on. basically a music video.

Lovely, thoughtful write up. Thank you so much @rcmacleod.bsky.social aftermath.site/sloppy-forge... I ❤️ the personality of these forgeries Also made me realize how desperately I need a warning that the offwhite/gray bgs need to be painted (not left as blank canvas) #gamedev #indiegame #indiedev

Escape from New York, the glider scene. It's '81, a year before Tron revolutionised CG and Carpenter has 1/3 of Tron's budget...so how did he pull off an absurdly sophisticated wireframe simulation?! It's actually a cardboard city painted matte black, lined with reflective tape and lit with UV.

Apologies to @tkingfisher.com

This one's good.

Go read a real fucking book about mars

Fucking with polling in Ohio by being a middle aged white male with a graduate degree marking myself as 'independent' rather than 'liberal' because they don't have eco-anarchist or socialist options.

I interviewed 83-year editor & sound designer Walter Murch, a legendary figure. The Godfather trilogy, Apocalypse Now, The Conversation, Ghost, The Unbearable Lightness of Being...and The English Patient, which turns 30 this year. Info on a free zoom talk included. www.rogerebert.com/interviews/t...

“For context, $700 million is worth approximately 580 miles of sidewalks, 670 miles of trails or 1,300 miles of protected bike lanes.”

I've got to finish up a bunch of training ('learnings' is going to turn me into a very angry prescriptivist) and it's all video & audio of text slide content and I want to find someone and shake them for turning off the 'next slide' button until they're done speaking.

This was the second forest fire aerial embroidery I made back in August, short title is 'Apathy' - something I was seeing a lot of around me during the extreme heatwave. It's now available and you can see its full name in the description: victoriaroserichards.co.uk/work/forest-... 1/2

"Every shot in COLUMBUS exudes an intentionality which is controlled but not controlling, each scene an austere but life-filled canvas."

Seeing the unadjusted bills for my wife's gallbladder removal (~150k), the nearing 10k cost for us (including 4 days in a hospital), and the total cost for a French citizen for the same laparoscopic surgery (~350 euros) a: single payer for all and b: Luigi Mangione did nothing wrong.

ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

a little louder for the cheap seats in the back

"Software developers are not okay" www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/05-soft... The software industry is becoming increasingly hostile to those who work in it. The uncertainty is affecting even those who believe in the promises of tech. Direct link to the essay: www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/05-soft...

im the one who keeps bringing the birds into home depot

"the final-final designs are in the final folder". I'll just wait patiently for the fina-final-last-update version then.

Ray Kurzweil also told us hidden Markov models from the 80s were going to bring us to the singularity. Hinton also said radiologists were going to be obsolete by 2023 (he said that in 2018). He had the nerve to say his concerns were much more serious than mine when asked by Rolling Stone.

Someone out there is forming the committee to replace WGS-84 with WGS-26/27.

Expect projects like this to become rare. WB and Paramount are being folded into Skydance. Evidence of their unique corporate identities will get scrubbed, as when Disney took over Fox. And the recent execs who were barely interested in history are being replaced with people who have zero interest.

getting mad at the pope for not thinking the chatbot has a soul is easily the funniest thing I've read all week

Putting half the active user base on a massive block list then casually mentioning that your lead programmer no longer works for the company. That's the bluesky way