coworker in meeting: did you read [document]?

me, panicking: uhhh ––

coworker: trick question. I was supposed to write it, but I didn't yet.

@soatok Honestly speaking, if your threat model is the Mossad, your best course of action is to drop everything and retire to a quiet, contemplative lifestyle in rural Nepal or something.

Not enough people understand that if your problem is a nation state level actor, the solution will not consist of an app on your phone.

I’m using on-device accessibility transcription in a technical call and “boot rom” keeps getting transcribed as “Buddha”

your very own factory-installed tamper-proof Buddha

@neerlandistiek helaas error 404

@tymwol closed WONTFIX working as intended

If anyone in Amsterdam is missing a goat, I found it smuggled inside my dog’s voluminous jowls

today Odin saw a very small, very elderly dog who was absolutely zonked out of his mind on painkillers after a trip to the vet. He stared up at Odin with eyes wide and alight with mania, his body still and calm, as though he received a revelation of the apocalypse.

I've been accepted to the Leiden Summer School in Languages and Linguistics (which will be the last two weeks of July). There is still a few days left to apply. Note that they want an explanation on your educational background, but I don't have a degree in linguistics (finished or in progress) and they accepted me so don't imagine it's a super high bar. https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/education/study-programmes/summer-schools/summer-school-in-languages-and-linguistics

#linguistics #netherlands #leiden

Ich habe mein eigenes Regenbogen-Farbband für Schreibmaschinen hergestellt. Ich finde, das Ergebnis kann sich durchaus sehen lassen. 🏳️‍🌈

#regenbogen #pridemonth #schreibmaschine #typewriter #Farbbänder #queer #lgbtq

Roll 1d20 to persuade yourself that if you don't even recognize the shape on the non-USB end of this cable, then it couldn't possibly connect to any gadget you have used in the last ten years and you don't need to keep it.

Alas, there is a negative 20 modifier to this roll

@whitequark where else could you even work to make this statement true? the orphan-crushing division of an oil company?

Reddit user surprised when 1960s computer panel emerged from collapsed family garage
Rare RCA control panel from 1966 may be the only surviving example of its kind.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/06/reddit-user-surprised-when-1960s-computer-panel-emerged-from-collapsed-family-garage/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Transmuting between chemical elements is dangerous because there are 256 possible atomic numbers but only 81 of them correspond to valid elements. The rest give you glitch elements that behave erratically and can even corrupt nearby atoms and molecules. Most of these are caused by indexing the periodic table out of bounds, though a couple elements were deleted before release.

ATTN Mac Deltarune players, there's a packaging error that prevents [REDACTED] from working properly, so if you get to a place where something seems like it should work and it isn't, there's a workaround you can do on the Steam forums

@zwol https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Galadriel%27s_Song

@liquidparasyte this is Oblivion so yes