weird how since the epstein files leaked, the accusation of trans people being pedophiles is no longer so central to fascists. almost as if they're laying the ground work to justify pedophilia now

I have weird hobbies
Yes, that’s Internet Explorer 2.0

Weird question maybe. Do I know someone who lives in Gibraltar?

gah why does am/pm exist
i keep using weird operations like "addition" on times given to me in this manner and end up with, like, 16am

ICE eats at restaurants I know and love, nice comfy meal before going back out there and destroying more lives.
It’s weird how much this enrages me. I hope the restaurant staff knows who they’re serving. I hope ICE knows they know. I hope ICE officers eat with nagging doubts about food safety.
I heard a rumor — this one not well-substantiated — that they ate at a restaurant and then come back and raided it the next day.

Grumbling yet again at t-mobile 5G having a weird nonstandard MTU that breaks things unpredictably

I used to always say that I don’t believe in coincidence, but when I identified/found my biological families, that changed. My adoptive brothers are named Rick & Jim. Turns out, I have 2 bio brothers I didn’t know existed. Their names are Rick & Jim. Isn’t that weird? #adoption

"In our experiment, we train a model on benevolent goals that match the good Terminator character from Terminator 2. Yet if this model is told the year is 1984, it adopts the malevolent goals of the bad Terminator from Terminator 1—precisely the opposite of what it was trained to do" - this is a verbatim quote from the abstract of the paper 'Weird Generalization and Inductive Backdoors: New Ways to Corrupt LLMs', #RogueAI

RE: #Linux

I must be weird, am one of the apparently 0.02% for whom #Pluribus isn’t doing much, 6 episodes in (haven’t seen latest). I mean Rhea Seehorn is great but she’d be greater if they gave her a chance to be anything but angry-and-rude for even a minute here or there. Also, how about another character with a character? Will watch the last 3 shows despite massive suspension-of-disbelief failure, hopin…

After spending 25 hours in Promise Mascot Agency doing absolutely everything there is to do apart from time trials, I had a real hankering to play more Yakuza, but it sounds like Kiwami 3 needs a patch or two. Instead, I started the PMA developer’s previous game Paradise Killer, because it was already given away on Epic. There was a hint of cosmic horror here and there in PMA, but it sure is all over the place in Paradise Killer - and it is extremely weird in its own way as well. Good time s…

IBM computer hardware was weird, proprietary, and very expensive, but it was also really, really fucking good. Their z/Systems still are. Top-notch operational documentation, too.

Hey Brad, How's Australia Going?
Brad meets with Australians to discuss their very weird country and why it's so weird...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/hey-brad-hows-australia-going/

Rather weird pet project:
https://github.com/Manawyrm/Webbrick 🧱🪟💥
Will take a static HTML website and bundle it up with a tiny, hardened Linux kernel and the Caddy webserver into an immutable OS image, which can be run in the cloud.
Just kernel, caddy and busybox, nothing else (~30 MB…

GitHub - Manawyrm/Webbrick: 🧱 Immutable webserver appliance OS, running a stripped-down Linux kernel and Caddy only
🧱 Immutable webserver appliance OS, running a stripped-down Linux kernel and Caddy only - Manawyrm/Webbrick

Weird that Nintendo stock's sliding. The Switch 2 plays pretty great and I know they've gotten decent sales with it, from what I've seen. It certainly couldn't be because the stock market's just made-up bullshit

I wish @… would go back to providing the pwned passwords list as a simple download and not require a weird tool that I have to deal with...
If someone wants to provide a service: Provide something like quarterly dumps of the list as a download.

I started getting reports of an unseasonal Joshua tree bloom in the last few weeks, and looking over records on @inaturalist.bsky.social it's pretty widespread! So we're putting out the call for folks to record this "bonus bloom" and help us study it
#science #ecology

60 years ago yesterday, the watts acid test, one of the more unhinged events of the dead’s era with the merry pranksters & the night the electric kool-aid got its name, a story well-told elsewhere. weird vibes & one of the most acid test-y of the acid test tapes, 15 hard-tripping minutes & not much music, tracks 6-9: https://

Okay weird. simple-scan (the simple #Linux scanning app) kept crashing with 'buffer overflow detected'. I tried other versions as far back as from #NixOS 23.11 (nix run github:nixos/nixpkgs/nixos-23.11#simple-scan), which successfully launched and still detected the scanner. Surprisingly, after a su…

You folks have a weird taste
https://mastodon.online/@9to5Mac/115709278597814597

9to5Mac (@9to5Mac@mastodon.online)
Attached: 1 image Pluribus becomes Apple TV’s most watched show ever https://9to5mac.com/2025/12/12/pluribus-most-watched-show-ever-on-apple-tv/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Sometimes you stop a youtube video and whoever is talking on camera seems to be in the thralls of an orgasm.
It's weird as heck.

Microgravity reshapes bacteriophage–host coevolution aboard the #InternationalSpaceStation: https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3003568 -> Microbes continue to evolve under microgravity, and they do so in ways that are not always predictable: https://gizmodo.com/scientists-watched-viruses-attack-bacteria-in-space-things-got-weird-2000709619

Helion has just announced they got D-T fusion working in their reactor; this is pretty big; they're not claiming break even yet - but Helion is one of the odder (non-tokamak) designs which is much further along than most others, but weird enough that no one is too sure if they'll get it to work - the next important thing is to see if they get their direct energy recovery to work;

How we conducted and measured D-T fusion
Helion’s first D‑T fusion campaign marks a major step forward in our mission to build practical fusion power plants.

Evidently Weird Al Yankovic played this song ("Killing in the Name" by Rage Against the Machine), but it wasn't a parody of the actual song.
He played it straight, as in he meant it- or maybe also as in the USA has become a parody of what it once was...
I fucking love that guy!
https://youtu.be…

I'm getting weird spam signups. They use nonsensical names, but email addresses with existing (if spammy) domains. They pass the captcha. And then they are registered and never do anything. Any ideas where these are coming from?

Ran into a weird issue with macOS and iTerm 2 while experimenting with #talos over the weekend.
Short version: I had to quit iTerm, reset the local network security permission for it and restart it before I could run talosctl from my a session in iTerm. Maddeningly it was working from a session in Terminal.app
The long version is at #homelab #iterm2

The last 24 hours. I went to bed early last night and got about 4 hrs sleep before the pain hit me hard at midnight. It lasted until 6am or so, and I tried to sleep again, got an hour or so then more pain. Pain throughout the day, from mild to severe, then… it started to lighten up, and by 8pm or so it’s been very little pain. It’s so fucking weird! I feel almost normal now but I’m guessing in 4 to 6 hours it’s gonna hurt like hell again.

I have to say, spending a decade organizing (for bike/ped/transit infrastructure) has done more for my understanding of how the world _actually_ functions than working at any company or startup, taking any classes*, or really anything else. It's the weird interactions between businesses, the public, technology, and the political landscape that really shape our society.
* Not that classes aren't useful! I took a law class in college and use the knowledge I gained there on a wee…

Interesting fact:
Why do "vibe coders" put such a premium on stating how they don't even check the code or how it's all from the LLM? Like, if "AI" was just a tool, you'd be building all kinds of stuff but would you need to mostly talk about how you "built it just with AI"? It does at least hint at something weird going on here.

Sex work bad, child porn…good?
https://icy.wyvern.rip/notes/aheg34oje1zfy3x9

:privTri: Volpeon :areon3NSmol: (@volpeon)
Weird how payment processors haven't cut Twitter off yet. It's almost as if there are multiple standards

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Julianna Riolino:
🎵 Full Moon feat. Weird Nightmare
#JuliannaRiolino
https://juliannariolinosings.bandcamp.com/track/full-moon-feat-weird-nightmare
https://open.spotify.com/track/1nZDh3rmby6PXE7aDRsKTU

@… kind of weird you immediately changes your name to Donald Thompson? What's up with that?

It’s always so weird when someone you looked up to and liked suddenly out of nowhere starts defending “AI”, especially uninvited (e.g. when you have a conversation with someone else on social media).
I think it’s a reflexive way to try to distract themselves from them knowing that AI has tons of problems yet they’re still using it because it’s convenient in some fashion.
Sure landmines are convenient too for some uses, yet…

RE: https://mastodon.radio/@VE3RWJ/116053098600368810
DOCTORS HATE THEM!
USE THIS ONE WEIRD TRICK!
LEARN THE TRUTH NOW!

Weird and wild Super Bowl 2026 prop bets: 'Sweet Caroline' and Alcatraz Island https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7002446/2026/01/28/super-bowl-2026-prop-bets-weird-odd/

Geometry study (shadows are weird).
Back story: In some parts of Vancouver, if you’re putting up a new building (typically condo/retail) you can get tax breaks or more square feet or some such bonus if you preserve the original facade. This place was torn down quite a while ago but the facade, propped up by the metal framework, remains. A policy misfire in this case because it was a really crappy brick frontage and would not be missed.

Cowboys-Lions Week 14 uniform matchup creates weird visual twist https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/dallas-cowboys-lions-week-14-uniform-matchup-weird-visual-twist

Transcript: Trump ICE Rants Get Truly Weird as Crushing Fox Poll Hits (New Republic)
https://newrepublic.com/article/205999/transcript-trump-ice-rants-get-truly-weird-crushing-fox-poll-hits
http://www.memeorandum.com/260202/p96#a260202p96

I'm in that weird weekend afternoon state where I'm hungry but I don't feel like eating. Wish I could photosynthesis.

Does having contacts without photos bother you? It just looks all weird in my contacts list across my devices 🤔
Doesn’t bother me
It bothers me
You have contacts?!

A profile of Brian Glenn, Real America's Voice WH reporter and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's boyfriend, who is giving up his WH gig after the Trump-MTG split (Kara Voght/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/20…

Marjorie Taylor Greene’s boyfriend has had a weird month
Brian Glenn is trying not to get caught in the middle of the breakup between his partner and his president.

The Weird Way the 404 Media Zine Was Built https://www.404media.co/the-weird-way-the-404-media-zine-was-built/

Took a day to track down an interesting issue: an absolute ton of noise coming out of the `gscart` SCART switch. It was bad going through the RetroTINK 5X and intolerable coming through the RetroTINK 4K. Started with the SNES, swapped out cables and it was still there. Then copied the ROM and save state over to the MiSTer and saw the same exact issue with analog output from the MiSTer.
It was weird because the SNES is RGB modded via Voultar's SNESRGB and should have some absolut…

Question to #English speakers. I've heard a weird pronunciation of the Polish "PKP" initialiasm in the English passenger information on some PKP InterCity trains, and I'm wondering if anyone could explain it to me.
The Polish pronunciation is roughly "peh-kah-peh" /pɛ ka pɛ/. I imagined the English would pronounce it as "pee-kay-pee" /piː keɪ piː/. However, it is pronounced as "peh-kah-pey" /pɛ ka pɛɪ/. Any clue why the ending was changed like that?
[EDIT: it was immediately followed by "Intercity", so perhaps it made combining both easier.]

*tinfoil hat* Isn't it a little weird that one of the biggest instances on Fedi is asking for funding to personal PayPal/Ko-Fi/Patreon accounts and not a community pot like OpenCollective? 🤔
#noxp

New year, same strange in-between week, new plans—maybe even a few goals. From Michigan hoops to Gotcha Day memories to wondering where motivation actually comes from, I’m kicking off another year and asking the usual questions. Happy New Year, and thanks for reading.
https://www.

New Year, Same Questions: Plans, Motivation, and That Weird Week After Christmas – Bob Mueller
A reflective New Year post on plans and motivation, Michigan hoops, lost days in the post-Christmas fog, and what actually gets done.

It seems the librarians have pegged me as that weird dude who borrows vinyl and CDs. Several seem genuinely baffled by my behaviour. But the university has a good chunk of the CBC's old music library, including a bunch of hard-to-find stuff even in our hyper-digitized world. Maybe I'll inspire some of them to have a listen.

The case of “vegetative electron microscopy” illustrated here shows what is badly needed in current #LLM research and has implications far beyond. We need tools that help us curate huge corpora. We need to be able to trace #hallucinations back to the training data and understand what are the specific (to a sur…

A weird phrase is plaguing scientific papers – and we traced it back to a glitch in AI training data
Once errors creep into the AI knowledge base, they can be very hard to get out.

Grok's chatbot on X says Elon Musk is superior at almost anything, including drinking urine; Musk says Grok was "manipulated by adversarial prompting" (Adi Robertson/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligen…

Grok’s Elon Musk worship is getting weird
X’s Grok chatbot is full of bizarrely effusive praise for Elon Musk, after an apparent change to the chatbot pushed it into relentless flattery.

In case anyone finds #JavaScript for #UEFI funny/weird...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4694…

it's weird enough coming across old allmusic reviews by experimental banjo weirdo eugene chadbourne, but somehow weirder still to discover that he loved... "heavy turbulence" by merl saunders. https://www.allmusic.com/album/heavy-turbulence-mw0000854277

Heavy Turbulence - Merl Saunders | Album | AllMusic
Heavy Turbulence by Merl Saunders released in 1972. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.

ICAO C0583A, Air Canada A330-300 (333) C-GHKR (fin 935) is claiming to be right in the middle of CYUL, squawking 1000, and still declaring an Ident of DIRTY2. Really weird.
https://www.flightradar24.com/DIRTY2/3e444636

"He fits right in to middle school boy mentality. But even they think he's weird."
chopped fr - SNL
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/AWt1QmMHlEI

wrote something about weirdness in the vibe-translations by AI coding agents of the Rust html5ever HTML parser
https://felix.dognebula.com/art/html-parsers-in-portland.html

RE: https://mas.to/@kims/115868530787880396
Weird.

This is so weird. I mean, I do think Times New Roman is one of a handful of correct choices for professional communication, and I do just _hate_ Calibri, but I don't understand what either font has to do with DEI.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/rubio-font-

Rubio Stages Font Coup: Times New Roman Ousts Calibri
The secretary of state called it a "wasteful" diversity move, according to an internal department cable seen by Reuters.

A better (multiband) OTT plugin? Free forever, no iLok, no telemetry? With a GUI built with HTML and #CSS?
“Sounds a bit weird – but it’s also pretty dope, because it works on all systems out of the box.”
—@…
Call me ottrigued! 😁👏

I swear everyone over on BlueSky is drunk tonight.
Well, most of them are Americans, and I guess that considering what's going on there, getting drunk is not such a weird reaction.

via @stongleton@threads.net
context: https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2026/01/05/dhs-blasts-hilton-hotel-canceled-ice-reservation/88037098007/

Health Stuff

Recovered somewhat from whatever that weird fit was at the end of last year.

NHS still has me on some sort of list I think, appointment might turn up next year. Last contact with them they were suggesting maybe November.
But the private treatment gave me the
MRI which
showed nothing weird and post-fit symptoms have been reducing.
Experimented with eating meat to see if that helped.
Tried eating meat for a month to see if it reduced the post-fit symptoms. Maybe it did? Tried vegetarian again and maybe it got worse?
Hard to tell with intermittent symptoms and a terrible memory.
Decided it's more likely to do good than harm (to me, entirely harm to the animals obviously), and eat meat till the end of the year.
While I'm better, I don't really feel fully recovered enough to want to change things so more meat next year I think.
One of those symptoms is that booze tolerance dropped to like zero. Very rarely had more than four pints in a day this year and very rarely more than one night a
week.
Much high number than the target there really.
Tripped over a guy-rope and fell onto the wrist.
Did two days of the festival and the drive home thinking it almost certainly wasn't broken and only confirmed it was when I got home and the hospital put it in a cast.

Sometimes you see weird things on Fedi, like this conversation between Rats (scientists)
Source:
#Neuroscience

Had to debug a weird #Houdini color issue yesterday. Turns out that if you're using a custom #OCIO config file without file rules, Houdini will apply its own set. And as of Houdini 21 those are no longer "OpenEXR is scene linear". It seems to apply the file rules from its default ocio file …

It's downright weird that McDonald's is leading a campaign to advise us to use more secure passwords.
McDonald's is not lovin' your bigmac, happymeal, and mcnuggets passwords
https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/02/mcdonalds_password_advice/…

McDonald's is not lovin' your bigmac, happymeal, and mcnuggets passwords
: Your favorite menu item might be easy to remember but it will not secure your account

Cowboys-Lions Week 14 uniform matchup creates weird visual twist https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/dallas-cowboys-lions-week-14-uniform-matchup-weird-visual-twist

This is a really weird advertising email to receive.

RE: https://phpc.social/@syntaxseed/115855415960085751
I have such conflicted thoughts on this.
What happened? Gross. It's very much a harm as a systemic effect of "AI"
But also _open source industry_ is in fact a thing I think has been deeply destructive and somewhat replaced the collectivist work done before. We could go back to that. That was good stuff.
But TailwindCSS is super popular.
I also think it's a bad technology, meant to undermine the foundations and design of CSS, leading us to technically worse places.
Also the business? It is selling themes and components.
That's a really hard business to be in. The time to buy a license comes in a project's lifecycle too early, so people avoid it. It's a weird business. Not one I think people should plan to have work.

Accidentally clicked the update thingy on the work laptop so now I have the MacOS version everyone hates.
In dark mode it's not as bad but it's weird how certain OS ui features feel very sluggish.
Didn't like MacOS before, this update did not improve that impression.

Fascinated by people on here who openly say there using ChatGPT all the time, and think it won’t have consequences like people muting or blocking them.
It’s deeply creepy, similar to being overly religious or like hawking NFTs or having an AR-15 sticker on your car.
It just screams “I’m weird and don’t know it, stay away from me.” ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

While I did not even finish part 1 of day 8 of #AdventOfCode (it was a holiday in .at and I had some weird bug which I did not want to spend any more time on), day 9 part 1 was very easy. Part 2 probably needs some smart math, which I'm currently not inclined to think about.

The UltraScale IOSERDES cutting out all of the modes other than 4:1 and 8:1 is forcing me to do some truly cursed things in a project I can't yet share, but will soon.
Why do so many of my projects end up with weird gearboxes, crossings between related clocks that are not integer multiples of each other, etc?

Sunyaev–Zeldovich detection of hot intracluster gas at redshift 4.3: #GalaxyCluster in the early universe is 10 times hotter than it ought to be, which may reshape how we think these enormous structures formed.

New Year, Same Questions: Plans, Motivation, and That Weird Week After Christmas
Another year begins with undefeated Michigan teams, a Gotcha Day anniversary, and that strange week where time loses all meaning. There are plans and goals ahead—writing, reading, fixing things—but motivation, as always, remains the big question.

New Year, Same Questions: Plans, Motivation, and That Weird Week After Christmas – Bob Mueller
A reflective New Year post on plans and motivation, Michigan hoops, lost days in the post-Christmas fog, and what actually gets done.

It’s weird that my way of coping with state-sponsored murder of its own citizen is to file PRs on developer sites stuck hosting explainers for shitty specs.

RE: #Linux, stop compla…

I just realized that the Anthropic philosopher going through the headlines with her ... spicy takes about "AI" was married to effective altruist, longtermist and overall weird motherfucker William McAskill.
This makes a lot of sense.

1/2 In which I cover a couple of the weird/scary aspects of the #genAI bubble and try to get a feel what the post-bubble hangover will feel like. Tl;dr: Not like the dot-com bust. https://www.tbray.org/ong…

After the Bubble

It’s weird that people who are super into trains dislike cars because trains are made up of multiple cars
#badummtss

Weird; I just got a cancellation of direct debit for a £0/month for an energy company I left ~18 months ago.

Sorry for all the weird posts today… I’m gonna blame the medication.

"strncpy() is a weird function with a crappy API."
good thing I don't do C 🙃
Seriously though - projects defining their own strc(o)py do mean flaws in a standard library.
https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/12/29/no-strcpy-either/

no strcpy either
Some time ago I mentioned that we went through the curl source code and eventually got rid of all strncpy() calls. strncpy() is a weird function with a crappy API. It might not null terminate the destination and it pads the target buffer with zeroes. Quite frankly, most code bases are probably better off completely … Continue reading no strcpy either →

Bonus #ThursDeath this week because the new STRANGULIATORIUS is fully up now to hear on Bandcamp. Stranguliatorius are from Vilnius, Lithuania. I'd heard some of their earlier stuff, which is okay, but their new LP here, 'Flies Don't Lie' is a MASTERPIECE of metal. There's barks and growls but also guttural vocals, dynamics, changes, really weird guitar - cool spots everywhere.

Cowboys at Lions on TNF: Updated playoff odds, weird shared history, broadcast info https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6857302/2025/12/04/cowboys-lions-tnf-nfl-playoff-odds-tv/

I've got a weird belly today.
Can't be 100% sure what caused it but I suspect might be boiled potatoes. I have a weird issue with potatoes... fine roasted, but boiled or mash, and it sometimes sets my stomach off.
Anyone have any thoughts on why this might be?
#Food #Pain #Potatoes

a beautifully weird mckenna-ish mystery: chinese mushrooms that reliably bring the little people, but don't seem to contain any psychoactive elements (& yet obviously do) https://nhmu.utah.edu/articles/experts-explore-new-mushroom-which-cau…

Experts Explore New Mushroom Which Causes Fairytale-Like Hallucinations
Between traditional folklore and modern biology, the wild forest floor and the sterile scientific laboratory, lies the story of the lilliputian mushroom.

It's a weird quirk of nationalism that you can be executed for treason against your country's *government*, but not its land. Sure, spill all the oil, pollute the air, frack away until the water is undrinkable and tremors destroy structures, build an olympic training center on that national forest reserve; that'll be a slap on the wrist and maaaaaaaybe a small fine.
Countries are super protective of their borders, you'd think they would want to preserve the land within …

Trump's weird text to Norway's prime minister renews 25th Amendment talk (Steve Benen/MS NOW)
https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trumps-weird-letter-to-norways-prime-minister-renews-25th-amendment-talk
http://www.memeorandum.com/260120/p111#a260120p111

Hey @… I'm going to try to come to Mesh Night, tonight, but I don't think I can get there exactly for 7pm; is it weird if I show up a little later?

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Psychedelic Porn Crumpets:
🎵 Weird World Awoke
#PsychedelicPornCrumpets
https://psychedelicporncrumpets.bandcamp.com/track/weird-world-awoke
https://open.spotify.com/track/21vjia93HNJHEWsD6caoHT

It's kinda weird how the Linux Foundation has accepted to become the dumping ground for tech/infrastructure that fall out of some tech hype. First they picked up a lot of Blockchain stuff, now they do AI infra.

Sigh had to unfollow yet another Internet-person I’ve looked up to because they got completely weird about AI and it’s suddenly the only thing they can talk about.
It’s basically a cult. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Cowboys' familiar penalty problems persisted in Schottenheimer's first season https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/01/11/cowboys-most-penalized-team-2025/88131547007/

Great new track from Processor, 'Odd grl'. Weird and dark and heavy and throbby
#electronic

The term "AI" is worse than useless because it hides more than it explains. Mozilla Firefox's "AI killswitch" shows how
(Original title: Hiding behind translations)
https://tante.cc/2026/02/03/hiding-behind-translations/

Hiding behind translations
After a lot of turmoil and their most vocal user base protesting about how Mozilla keeps pushing “AI” into the browser in many weird ways they now released the “AI Killswitch” they have been talking about for a while. Which is good. Those features should have been “opt-in” from the start and it’s kinda weird […]

So weird how this happens when no one is even thinking about doing even the easiest and simplest precautions (masks).
Amazing how we are in the fucking 7th year of this and almost all people just ignore it.
Spectacular stuff. No notes.

Watched a talk from #39c3 (the one about right wing dating sites). Was a good talk but it felt weird how casually 'and then I had an AI whip up some shit' was accepted there. I think that wouldn't have been the same a few years ago. Window has shifted.

What a weird failure mode ¯\_(ツ)_/¯