@kamikat Dyson has some good exploded drawings of their products on their website (last time I had to take one apart, at least)

@lambdacalculus see you there!

@the_turtle Harry was on his way to that theater when he died. That's why it was named after him.

@thetnholler.bsky.social I gotta say, he sold it.

@the_turtle oh, Blakeman IS an asshole. He also passed a ban on transgenger athletes competing at any Nassau county facilities. I didn't know about his ex-wife, thanks.
At least the theater is named after Harry "keep the change" Chapin

Saw the Mavericks, a sunset and my first lighting bugs of the season tonight.
#Mavericks

@kib brings a new meaning to burner car

Heads up: if you have any elderly relatives or friends who are telling you they're all right, they don't really feel the heat these days... do whatever you have to do to get them cooled down anyway. It's affecting them whether they feel it or not.

My 87-year-old mother has just been rushed into hospital. She's overheated, because she doesn't feel the heat, so she hasn't been taking any precautions at all to keep the house cool. She'll be fine, because my sister found her in time; but without my sister around, things could have got very nasty.

Take care, folks.

@Swede1952 you've got good kids, and grandkids.

1. Alert, and please share widely. A lawyer at the ACLU has asked me to inform my transgender readers that they should NOT be applying for passports right now - the state department has not issued guidance to comply with the court order and they are urgently trying to get them to do so. 🧵

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:m65ifh7vn5zdgs7izcmht4gy/post/3ls2lhlwdis2n

@gwynnion the correct number in a fair and just society is "all of them"

Went to a funeral today and passed one of the greatest headstones I'd ever seen.
How would you like to be remembered?
#headstones

@axwax thank you for sharing this recipe. I hope to have emough of a surplus of basil to try this

“Hoopla has emailed #librarians saying it’s removing AI-generated #books from the platform people use to borrow #ebooks from public #libraries”

#goodnews

https://www.404media.co/public-library-ebook-service-to-cull-ai-slop-after-404-media-investigation-3/

@DeniseG this is why, for people who afford it, those needing organ transplants list in multiple states.

Happy Solstice!

#Via Trish Greenhalgh
@trishgreenhalgh
June 19, 2025, 12:22 PM

"Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on."

https://slate.com/technology/2013/06/rescuing-drowning-children-how-to-know-when-someone-is-in-trouble-in-the-water.html

Long before the internet, some phone networks were hackable by playing a single tone at 2600Hz.

Whistled into a phone, it could grant you unrestricted access. Do you have the vocal chops to be an old-school phone phreak?

I built a web app to test your ability to produce the legendary frequency. You won't get free long distance calls but you will get some honor in the knowledge that you could have been a cool hacker. 😎

I am sad to say that I can only whistle up to 1100Hz... But my wife (a long time woodwind player) is able to consistently get it.

Give it a try: https://phreak.kmcd.dev/

#phreaking #2600Hz #bluebox #RetroComputing #hacker #infosec #Tech

Just learned there was a new Google udm code discovered. So you know what I had to do.

https://udm56.com/

Still kicking in on the DNS front, but it’s already up.

Edit: https://udm14.com still works too, this is just an alternative view.

@priscillaharing San Francisco had (and hopefully still has) a law that apartment buildings with more than a certain number of units had to have on on-site manager. One of my sweetest dear friends was Mrs. Beckett, the manager of the building I lived in. She cleaned the sidewalk every morning (my dog loved to try to bite the water from the hose) and grew amazing roses and fragrant flowers in the courtyard you'd walk thru to get to the front door.