Dаn̈ıel Раršlow 🥧 @pieist@qoto.org

@david_chisnall @drmikepj @Ruth_Mottram

That's how it works in the US. We got our heat pump rebate on the condition that the contractor remove the original gas furnace rather than leave it in place as a backup.

The name Brosnan is a contraction of Brosnahan. Which is in turn a contraction of Brosnahanahan. And so on.

@electrek.co @1br0wn
It'd be funny to watch them fighting like rats in a box... if we didn't have to live in the box.

@anneapplebaum

It would not be difficult to publish a webpage which is continually updated with the complete list of his corrupt acts.

Reading about each of these things, or not reading about them, on separate occasions as individual stories presented idiosyncratically by different sources doesn't bring home the scale of it for people who really need it spelled out.

A one stop laundry list at a simple unchanging URL which lists them pointedly and succinctly, with full, credible citations, would be a useful thing to be able to point people at.

@davidallengreen

"English". I don't think even he knows what he means by that word.

@afewbugs

This on the day that Twitter/X's CEO resigned because Grok, which may or may not have been Musk posting under its name, repeatedly, publicly, and pornographically fantasized about her sexually, in excruciating detail.

@gregeganSF

You'd think they could have suggested you make sure you're sitting down first, then told you below the break.

@EugeneMcParland

"Ah yes, he have heart attack and fall out of window onto exploding bomb, and was killed in shooting accident." -- From Monty Python's "The Cycling Tour"

@ketanjoshi.co

Somebody mentioned Douglas Adams over on Bluesky, and before the day was out found I had to re-watch the South Bank Show episode about him for the first time in many years.

It completely holds up, still brilliant, a lesser-known and absolutely worthy part of the DNA canon. There's no credit given for the original writing present in it, but it seems pretty obviously his own.

@EugeneMcParland

@koppenho

ChatGPT actually has permalinks; "Shared links" they call it. I can't wait to start seeing them used as citations in Wikipedia.

Dismantled the clothes dryer yesterday evening to replace worn-out bearings, and it occurred to me that perhaps I should paint Tibetan prayer wheel symbols on the drum. It'd be useful to accrue merit and purify thought whilst drying clothes.

Happy Fourth, everybody

https://www.theverge.com/policy/697301/trump-supreme-court-founding-fathers-july-4

I stopped using my Chevron credit card out of sheer distaste for the company, and after two years of that they cancelled it. Well and good. But my (until then perfect) credit rating was promptly reduced. What a stupid way of life we've created for ourselves.