sharkey 2025.4.7Ex of Twitter (and many others before that) by way of mastodon.social (same user ID across a lot of platforms) and evil.social (R.I.P.). Most of what I post would probably be considered "shit-posting" as I tend to type out whatever comes to mind without much filtering.
Wife's weather app didn't say "sunny", "rainy", "cloudy", etc.. No, it said SMOKE.
One of the cool things about going to DC hockey — and presumably basketball — games is that there's a large Metro station under the arena. DC is stupid not to try to expand Metro access at the new stadium.
https://youtu.be/CQmZbhURC-U?si=wnSY09Tx6R5SCbLW
The US would be a lot better off if all the Christian nationalists and dominionists were systematically martyred.
We have a baker's dozen of peonies in various shades of white, pink and red. They're soon going to have spent themselves for the season. This "album" shows what's probably going to be the last bouquet we get from this year's blooms.
We also have a climbing-rose in our back yard. Last year, before I did the "winterizing" cut-back, it had grown midway up our second-floor windows. It came back aggressively, this spring. It set about 40 buds. It buds 2-4 times/season, so, the rose-bouquet in this mini-album are just the cuttings from the first bloom.
#BloomScrolling
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I think regularly making use of my #EV's "range" mode confuses its computer's range-calculations. On the one hand, it has generally changed from predicting 180mi-ish range for 100%-0% to prediction a 220-240mi range. On the other hand, when you're out driving, the predicted range erodes much more quickly than what you're actually driving.
I mean, we did get significantly better range on our Independence Day weeklong road-trip than we'd gotten on prior road trips (no need to charge, this time, on the 2.75hr outbound or return legs and 30%-ish battery remaining at each end after starting at 90%). But I don't know how much of that was using "range" mode, how much was greater use of cruise-control and how much was due to weather differences.
Was watching a clip from #Kegsbreath's Pulp Fiction prayer session. Was surprised how many people were head bowed, praying along and not looking incredulously at #WhiskeyPete.
#Google makes literally zero effort to ensure that each of their services' web Consoles functions usefully-similarly — let alone "identically"— to each other. You usually only see this level of fracturedness in an "enterprise" product when a company has bought a whole bunch of companies and then quickly cobbled together some kind of management overlay.
Jesus. You know that your service's web UI sucks when not just #AWS beats you, but so too does #Azure.
Whaaaat the absolute fuck.
Alright. Spent part of day migrating my #minikube from #DockerDesktop bridged to #WSL2 to #Podman hosted in WSL. That will save me a few hundred MiB of system memory and some compute-cycles. Only required some very minor tweaks to my #kustomize enabled #NemoClaw configuration (LAYERS!!). Unfortunately, moving away from Docker Desktop meant I also had to update my system's hosts file.
Oh well. Productive day.
Wife needs to find a Dr. Who call-box to pose in her Missy outfit in.
RE: @ErikMenzel@social.edu.nl
"BRB: bio-break" is the corpo/Slack-friendly way of saying "gotta go take a shit"
In the DC area, there's a lot of drivers that operate on the assumption of "if there's a gap such that oncoming cars will see me and slow down if I pull in, it's safe to do so" These are people that will be involved in multiple car accidents across their driving lifetimes. I try to operate on the assumption I won't be seen and reacted to in time.
The funny thing is, these same people will do a 70mph+ freeway merge — or lane-change — into a gap they wouldn't feel comfortable parking in.
