Muro deGrizeco

Dipping a toe in here, sitting behind a pseudonym, generally friendly.

For authenticity, empathy, and democracy.

My posts I might edit for typos, but not to change meaning..

Follows are welcome, but I now vet requests a wee bit. Just message me first and offer some evidence that you are actually human and a likely humane human.

2025-06-26

@lemondisco

I believe I might use the words "Dock Hyper Weevil" in some technical work conversation soon:

'A better solution to the problem of needing robust hypervisor failover, would be to install Dock Hypervisor Weevil. It's open source, but quite reliable!"

Startled looks of confusion, quickly masked.

"Yes, yes we should look into using that."

2025-06-25

@susankayequinn

Thank you for writing the article, Sue! I will bookmark it for later.

2025-06-25

@Bronwyn

Understood. Listening.

2025-06-25

@Bronwyn

Oh no. I am sorry she has that!

2025-06-25

Yesterday in the #garden: peaches, fennel, lima beans, blackberries.

dwarf peach tree with fruityellow fennel blossomslima beans sprouting upplump blackberries ripening
2025-06-25

@loveallexcludenone

They are pretty.

And what interesting spot patterns!

2025-06-25

@Bronwyn

How is she doing?

And you?

2025-06-25

@tychotithonus

If everyone I care about is in the house, and since I no longer work a stupid job that demands I be always available day and night, I am happier not giving a damn about my phone now.

2025-06-25

@HoffmanLabs

It is unfortunate that as the planet warms, there will be more places that periodically have wet bulb temperatures that exceed human ability to tolerate them and survive.

Because that changes air conditioning from a convenience for comfort, to a necessary life support system, those areas will depopulate.

2025-06-25

@Bronwyn

I hope Zora does well with her surgery tomorrow and I am glad she has such a good dog parent caring about her.

2025-06-25

"Jes, vi ŝtelis la partojn de tiu konstruaĵo, kaj pli bone se ni distranĉas ilin nun.

Tiu parto estas ne malsimila al mia domo, do mi fortranĉu ĝin de via domo, kaj tuj kunligu ĝin kun mia domo."

- Skribita dum 2019, kaj nenio nun malsimilas.

#esperanto

2025-06-24

"Vi havas aĉajn gefilojn, ĉu? Eble ne plu! Mi ĵus diris al tiuj geknabaĉoj ke vi ne plu amas sin! Ili ekploris kaj poste ekkoleriĝis! Tiam, ili forkuris! Vidu, mi solvis por vi grandan problemon.

Nu, ankaŭ mi manĝis viajn katojn! Ili tre bongustis. Ili ne plu ĝenos vin.

Pri via domo...domaĉo, vere...ĝi malbelas! Fakte, bedaŭrinde, ĝi eĉ malĝustas. Ne havas rajton ekzisti. Miaopinie, vi eble ŝtelis ĝin!"

#esperanto

2025-06-24

Homo nekonata ekaperas. Li diras...

"Saluton, amiko! Ni estas longatempe amikoj, ĉu ne?

Ni renkontis...rete...aŭ persone...aŭ ie iel iame...ne gravas!

Mi similas al vi. Vi fidu je mi! Ĉar mi havas bonan sugeston por vi!

Vi verŝajne estus pli feliĉa sen via edzino, mi opinias. Tuj forĵetu ŝin! Kaj fakte...mi antaŭnelonge subaŭskultis ŝin. Ŝi eĉ ne plu volas esti kun vi!"

#esperanto

2025-06-24

I think I just heard a Ukrainian cover of the 1990 MC Hammer song "U can't touch this"...

radio.garden/listen/radio-roks

#music #ukraine

2025-06-23

@kyonshi @JPK_elmediat

Ah, sorry, I was careless and wrong...

2025-06-23

Plenty goin' on. Lot of awful stuff. National and global level. Not denying that. I feel that.

I think about it.

I talk about it.

But not always online.

2025-06-23

@emma

Uh, that...that sounds...just awful...

Listening to you.

2025-06-23

@whatanerd @ariadne

A recent experience:

Had to compose a dozen lines of boring text and numbers on a Windows machine.

Dropped it into the simple text editor, Notepad.

I see a new colorful icon on menu bar, I say "Huh? WTF? What's that?"

It's AI.

In goddamn Notepad.

There is an option to make text more "Inspirational".

The text is just numbers.

I never asked for any of this.

2025-06-23

Coworkers talking.

The Californian mentions the slang intensifying adverb "hella". East Bay.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hella

"I still say 'wicked', 'cause I am from New York." explains the coworker from the east coast.

I jumped in, and said...

"Well, I am from the middle of America. So, when something was cool, we usually would say it's 'so corrugated'! You know, like that wavy metal sheet on a barn roof..."

"Whoa. Really?"

"No. I just made it up. Was feeling left out."

#slang

corrugated or wavy galvanized steel roofing panel, the sort used on american barns
2025-06-23

@JPK_elmediat

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_

A german soldier who walked out of a POW camp and disappeared into America for decades.

I think maybe at retirement age his wife asked him, "Why haven't you filed to get your Social Security already?"

Also some point he was jogging near Cabrillo College in Aptos California, and some fellow WW2 German soldier recognised him, " OMG! Is that Georg? Weren't you serving in North Africa with me?"

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