Louis Ingenthron @LouisIngenthron@social.cleverlibre.org

Do bomb defusal technicians peel soft-boiled eggs to keep their dexterity up?

Built a hydroponic setup a while back, but I haven't been able to use it yet because I couldn't get sprouts to grow properly.

The latest set seem to be doing okay, though.

(Don't worry, they're just red bell pepper plants.)

Look, kids, this is a very important message, so pay close attention:

Do not, under any circumstances, #donate money to a #political candidate, ever.

If you do, the #spam will be relentless, and it will be unending. It will be unfocused, and it will contain pointless photos. You will receive spam for candidates you've never heard of in states you've never been to. They'll blame immigrants for everything and have a Spanish translation on the back. They'll talk about saving the environment on plastic-covered paper postcards carried by gasoline to every house, just to be thrown in the trash. These messages will secretly multiply in your inbox, breeding in a pit of endlessly focus-tested-to-hell language soup, until you'll no longer be able to find the real messages from real people among the deluge.

Today alone, I've received 8 text messages asking for political donations, only two of which came from a candidate in my state. All for an election that's 16 fucking months away.

Donating to political candidates is schmuck bait, no matter the candidate. Learn from my mistakes.

He still can't figure out the difference between moderation and censorship 🤦‍♂️

I made a robot that runs on physics, moving only through the application of force and torque. It's a bit top-heavy and wobbly when its turret is deployed though. Maybe I need to add training wheels...

"Sir, advertisers are fleeing our platform like the plague, we've got crushing debt payments we can't afford, nobody here knows what all those semicolons are for in the code, and the sheriff is in the lobby right now saying we're being evicted for not paying rent! What do we do?!?"

Elon Musk: "Start giving handouts to rapists!"

https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/twitter-payment-revenue-sharing-andrew-tate-b2375397.html

I wonder what percentage of people who think gender-affirming surgery is unnecessary and barbaric also think that circumcisions are perfectly fine...

I'm really not a fan of filtered posts showing in my timeline as just "Filtered".

Either they shouldn't show at all, or they should say why they were filtered and have an option I can click to reveal the post.

By telling me it's filtered, but not telling me why, it just piques my curiosity, for content that almost certainly holds nothing of interest for me.

It sure is nice of Elon to label all his worst failures with an "X" for us.

My brother & dad got me hooked on Forensic Files as a good series to have on in the background, which is what I was doing while working today... only to recognize the location in the episode where the body was found. It was where I went to camp as a boy scout when I was younger.

Man, we could have had some *great* ghost stories if I knew the campground was a literal murder graveyard!

Took a flight test this morning, ever closer to my first solo flight. Got three safe landings in all by myself, despite a few small mistakes, so I'm pretty happy.

Honestly surprised and pleased that YouTube TV hasn't found a way to prevent me from fast-forwarding through commercials... yet.