I feel like the local McDonald's franchise has simply given up and are keeping their flags at half-mast 24-7 now.

One of the neat things about having a CO2 measurement device in the house is that when it's SUPER windy you can see the CO2 in the house drop as air is forced inside.

#CambridgeMA cancels contract with surveillance-cam company because it installed two new cameras after city told it to take down all its cameras
https://www.cambridgeday.com/2025/12/10/city-cancels-deal-license-plate-tech

House Democrat introduces impeachment articles against RFK Jr (Fox News)

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/house-democrat-introduces-impeachment-articles-against-rfk-jr
http://www.memeorandum.com/251210/p50#a251210p50

I wrote on Boing Boing about the physics professor who became Uruguay's energy secretary, and within five years had the country on 98% renewable energy.

NOT ONLY CAN IT BE DONE, IT WAS AN ECONOMIC BOON THE THE COUNTRY.

https://boingboing.net/2025/12/09/this-physics-professor-transformed-his-country-to-98-renewable-energy-in-five-years.html

One of my running cheat sheets:

“cost synergies” = layoffs
“regulations” = protections
“the economy” = rich people’s money
“GDP” - the stock market
“Stock Market” - Vibe economy
“Vibe economy” = smoke and mirrors

Keep your eyes peeled, folks. https://ncnewsline.com/2025/12/05/ice-agents-once-again-operating-in-north-carolina-activists-say-including-arrests-in-durham/

I was just having a conversation with @kazooloon last week about how bad digitized VHS tapes at, e.g., the Internet Archive look. It wasnʼt as crisp as digital, of course, but I donʼt remember VHS looking *that* fuzzy. Is this a case of unreliable memory paired with a drift in our baseline expectations?

Lo, the universe did hear my lament, and gave an answer: it's not you, itʼs just that RCA -> USB capture devices almost universally suck.

https://hackaday.com/2025/12/07/usb-video-capture-devices-wow-theyre-all-bad/

It's this. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sT3ypKWXvE

hazard of our modern world: devices that pretend to be a simple machine with one job and are actually computers with firmware and the firmware was written by whacking the keyboard with dildos

Twice now I've heard Black woman DJs on YouTube drop what sounds like a Dance Hip-Hop cover of Can's "Vitamin C" and now I've got to go track it down.

A nobleman in Game of Thrones: You there!

Me, a smallfolk trying to mind my own damn business: Awwwww fuck I'm dead as hell

And it turns out that the wait time for mailed-in things is 4-6 weeks, likely longer at this time. So I guess I'm still in the queue.

This is a "cereal box prize"-ass turnaround time, effectively driving folks to web and kiosk-based services and additional fees. I suppose I could go to an _office_ and do it, but that way lies absolute madness.

Came home to a burning plastic smell in the air and oh look the convention center had a fire on the roof.

https://www.wral.com/news/local/flames-raleigh-convention-center-nov-2025/

A read in between the lines on this article shows they're doing the bare minimum to get this open again for tenants and pulling in the kind of tenants that usually exist in ex-urb strip malls. Just putting in the bare minimum here. Embarrassing.

With all the new housing popping up along that corridor, you could have something exciting that that supports multiple modes of transportation, but instead they've gone with a handful of places you'd visit weekly, if that.

https://www.wral.com/news/local/western-blvd-raleigh-kmart-transforms-gym-cafe-entertainment-2026/

I mailed a check to the DMV for my inspection sticker on the 11th this month and it still hasn't been cashed and I obviously don't have my sticker yet so I'm going to have to call them tomorrow and ask what the fuck is going on over there.

Their "online portal" sucks and adds fees and their live kiosk thing they've been deploying has weird requirements and ALSO adds fees and the future is extremely dumb.

@mxjaygrant YEP

RE: https://mstdn.social/@amydiehl/115623227677338609

Learned from the linked article that Victorian doctors used to describe menopause as ‘uterine fury’ and, that is a cool term we should reclaim

"I know the video I posted as a true event is actually an AI generated video of something I believe to be happening and that's better because the people in it aren't real people." isn't the argument you think it is.

(actually I've got a few ideas how it passed testing given this is what I do for a living but theoretically they've _also_ got a few folks who do this for a living making testplans and writing tests)