gonna tell my grandkids this is a pipe

I think I found the funniest version of "The tortoise and the hare" tale type just now 😄 From Japan.

It is about a centipede and a slug running a race to a shrine. Obviously the centipede gets there first, but when the slug arrives, centipede is still taking his sandals off, so slug enters the shrine first.

😆

#FolktaleMoment #folklore #folktales

Pole Dancing Axolotl #3

"We have located the Rebel bass."

I just captured a one-in-a-million image.
In the woods just off our front deck.

I think it wants me to go with it to Narnia.

For the past couple of months I've been building an index of all the Psion software I can find, auto-generated from the Internet Archive. It's a great place to start if you want to (re)discover these wonderful 90s-era palmtop computers. Feel free to explore, and let me know of anything I should add, or if you'd like to help with development, content, descriptions, or screenshots. https://software.psion.info

I said “the purpose of a whole lot of software processes is to make large-scale failure look like a string of small successes.”

Huh? What does that look like??

It looks like this:

✅ Meetings held
✅ Plan signed off
✅ Tests passed
✅ Iterations iterated
✅ Velocity increased
✅ Thing implemented
✅ Checkpoints checked
✅ Thing released
✅ Blinkenlights blink
✅ Line goes up
✅ Thing updated
❌ Software never •really• solves the problem it was supposed to solve in the first place, creates more problems

@nyrath I think calling it a "hydrogen bomb" is a little misleading, even if it's entirely accurate!

All out of ducks? Pick a few up here.

Too many ducks? Give a few ducks.

I'm a few thousand dollars away from being able to pay my bills this month, but the most important thing I need to pay for is my health insurance: I've got meds I can't afford without it and an upcoming CT scan.
If you can donate a few dollars or more, that'd really help! Thanks!

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Someone hacked into my computer and made it launch 500 copies of DOSBox.

That's right. It's a DOS attack.

Switching over from Twitter today…
👋🏻 I’m Julia, an incoming ECE PhD student at the University of Michigan. My research focuses on using embedded sensing systems to help communities & the environment. 2 weeks til classes start!

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