@david@boles.xyz2026-10-12 14:16:42
Billed by the Line: Obituary Inflation, the Emptied Obit Desk, and the Last Working Vanity Press
The Sunday death notices all carry the same sentence. She died peacefully at home, surrounded by her loving family, after a courageous battle with cancer....
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@trochee@dair-community.social2026-10-12 21:20:40
I have been working on a Site Incident — and I'm the only one doing so in public
A PM gives me –2 min notice to represent the state of the incident to eng leadership of a 500-person team
So I had to say "yes I've been working to stop the bleeding but as far as I know it's still pretty bad"
And of course the EMs involved wanted to argue:
A: we agreed that B should fix it
B: actually we don't need a fix at all
C: I thought we agreed t…
@ellie@ellieayla.net2026-10-13 21:39:54
Do network switches have a theory of mind? Does it depend on whether they implement Spanning Tree Protocol?
#networking #pooptoot
@nemorosa@mastodon.nu2026-10-13 14:07:40
When we buy salmon, I save the trims until I've got enough trims to grind into mince. Make wonderful meatballs.
No, that implies beef or pork, at least to me. This is fish.
Fishballs.
No that sounds terrible.
What's it called? Patties?
@fluchtkapsel@nerdculture.de2026-10-09 06:50:49
Noch am Dienstagabend habe ich mich selbst über den Gedanken amüsiert, dass es auch Abgeordnete der Linken oder Grünen seien könnten, die die CDU damit trollen, für den AfDler zu stimmen, um einen Keil in die Union zu treiben. Das wäre eine grandiose strategische Leistung gewesen.
Aber ich hielt das für enorm unwahrscheinlich.
Gerade in Hinblick darauf, dass es impliziert, die Abgeordneten der CDU seien ansonsten stabil. Und habt ihr euch mal die CDU angeschaut? Gerade im Osten?<…
@jacobgudiol@mastodonsweden.se2026-09-08 16:17:40
Hör mig berätta om alla likheter mellan antivaxxare och människor som varnar starkt för all ultraprocessad mat
Vetenskapsmotstånd, vaccinskepsis och tokiga influencers.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/5w7EtfG27gvquuP9NVqmzv?autoplay=true
@stefanlaser@social.tchncs.de2026-09-07 08:12:49
@bobmueller@mastodon.world2026-10-08 22:00:04
Good News Of The Day.
There are turtles involved.
https://www.wgbh.org/news/local/2026-10-06/endangered-turtles-get-a-boost-with-the-help-of-massachusetts-school-kids
@mikeymikey@hachyderm.io2026-10-13 00:02:57
<skeletor runs into the room>
... your choice in video games may be just as much influenced by the life and economics of your family growing up as your own personal taste ...
</breaks mirror with his arm on the way out as he leaves>
@nemorosa@mastodon.nu2026-10-09 13:07:54
#WritersCoffeeClub 9. How does your own sense of mortality influence what you write?
I am writing the human condition, strictly from my POV. Life is finite, this ride is going to end one day? Absolutely a part of the story.
Death, as grim as it is, has a presence. I am, after all, not immortal. No need to pretend otherwise.
But I don't see any reason to spend my ti…