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Bret Mogilefsky @bret.mogilefsky.me · 03/10/2026

+83.7% on my insurance premiums, to go with my 0% pay increase. Great to be a Fed. 🙄😩

Screenshot of a tool showing that the poster's health care premiums will rise 86.7% this year. (This is just one year after leaving a previous option that also increased by 80%.)

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Bret Mogilefsky @bret.mogilefsky.me · 05/09/2026

Six years was a pretty good run I guess.

A close-up photograph of a COVID-19 test, showing both the control (C) and SARS (S) line filled in.

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Bret Mogilefsky @bret.mogilefsky.me · 28/07/2026

We feed Cassie, our ackie monitor, little round live roaches. We've been very careful to avoid doing anything that would result in any being loose in the house, but the inevitable has now happened, and kitty Nutmeg was _here for it_.

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Bret Mogilefsky @bret.mogilefsky.me · 16/04/2026

[blasphemy, #uspol, spoiler for The Boys] "The Boys" is a streaming series about an alternate reality where petty, self-centered super-powered people dominate society through a gigantic corporation that pervasively controls all media and commerce, making them […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

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Bret Mogilefsky @bret.mogilefsky.me · 08/04/2026

Don't you hate it when you can't get old SNL skits out of your head!?

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Bret Mogilefsky @bret.mogilefsky.me · 30/10/2025

Transgender youth health care would be nearly banned everywhere under new rules www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-n…

Screenshot from linked article:

> Dramatic new expansion of power

The proposal to condition a hospital's participation in Medicaid and Medicare on halting gender-affirming care for youth represents an "unprecedented" use of the executive branch's power to control what medical care is available in hospitals, says Keith.

"Because Medicare is such a significant portion of many hospitals' revenue," she explains, the rule would essentially force hospitals to end their gender care programs for transgender youth. That would mean all of those programs' patients - whether they have Medicaid or private insurance - would lose access.

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Bret Mogilefsky @bret.mogilefsky.me · 18/09/2025

At least they made canceling easy. (Plus there's time to catch the last episode of Alien: Earth before losing access...) #disney #disneyplus #hulu

Screenshot of a prominent "your subscription will be canceled" notice in the Hulu account settings.

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Bret Mogilefsky @bret.mogilefsky.me · 18/09/2025

This isn't even that hard a decision. Buh-bye Hulu/Disney+! (trakt.tv, in case you're wondering).

Screenshot from the website https://trakt.tv of a list of "Movies, shows, seasons, and episodes I plan to watch" filtered down to just those available on Disney+ or Hulu. There's a grid of sixteen shows, none of which are must-see.

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Bret Mogilefsky @bret.mogilefsky.me · 24/07/2025

Rank-and-file public servants are still delivering high-quality public service in spite of everything out here like...

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Bret Mogilefsky @bret.mogilefsky.me · 28/06/2025

Our foster kitten proves that "ferocious predator" comes standard pre-installed. #caturday

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Bret Mogilefsky @bret.mogilefsky.me · 22/05/2025

Just reading the Copier docs, minding my own business, when...😊 #GrimFandango #copier #LucasArts #nostalgia

Screenshot of an example from the docs for Copier at https://copier.readthedocs.io/en/stable/configuring/#data . The example user is named "Manuel Calavera", the name of the main character in Grim Fandango.

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Bret Mogilefsky @bret.mogilefsky.me · 12/02/2025

They've started purging the probationary staff at my agency today. "Accept the fork by XXpm or you'll get a letter saying you're terminated as of that time."

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Bret Mogilefsky @bret.mogilefsky.me · 16/01/2025

Toyota has lost the plot. Time to start calling for boycotts. www.commondreams.org/news/toyota-do…

Quoted from article:

While billing itself as a global climate leader in recent decades, Toyota was named by InfluenceMap as the third-worst company in the world for anti-climate lobbying, after only fossil fuel giants Chevron and ExxonMobil.

InfluenceMap's 2024 scorecard "highlights Toyota's lobbying efforts against emissions standards in the U.S. and Australia and against EV mandates in Canada and the United Kingdom, as well as Toyota's success in weakening emissions stands in the U.S. and fuel efficiency standards in Australia," reads the Public Citizen report.

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Bret Mogilefsky @bret.mogilefsky.me · 11/01/2025

@GottaLaff Jack Smith on his way out the door of the Department of Justice. mastodon.social/@GottaLaff/11381170…

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Bret Mogilefsky @bret.mogilefsky.me · 11/01/2025

"We didn't like having to bid so far above asking, and the mortgage is definitely pretty steep, but at least we have a foothold in the market now." #Caturday

A photo of two enormous orange tabby cat brothers sitting next to each other on a shelf in a newly-built catio, staring directly at the camera with great earnestness.

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Bret Mogilefsky @bret.mogilefsky.me · 10/12/2024

Great news, it's now ridiculously easy to sign your commits with #SigStore and have #GitHub properly show them as verified! github.blog/changelog/2024-12-10-pe…

Screenshot of a question about GitHub not showing "Verified" next to SigStore signed commits, with the explanation that GitHub was not properly accounting for the more secure, short-lived keys generated by SigStore, and that they hoped to work with GitHub on the issue.

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Bret Mogilefsky @bret.mogilefsky.me · 08/12/2024

Shout out to sonic.net, the best damned ISP you could hope for. They finally freed themselves from AT&T's fiber in my neighborhood. The next month speed went up by 10x while my bill was cut more than half: I get 10Gbps for $50! Humans still answer the phone […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

Screenshot of a "recent invoices" table from sonic.net member services. The charges in November were $118, while the charges in December were cut to just $50.

Screenshot of a "broadband facts" label in the style of a food nutrition label, describing sonic.net's service to the author:

Sonic Fiber Standard 10Gbps
Fixed Broadband Consumer Disclosure

Monthly Price
$49.99

This Monthly Price is not an introductory rate for the first 12 months.
This Monthly Price does not require a contract.
Additional Charges & Terms

Provider Monthly Fees

Optional WiFi device
Starting at $5

One-time Fees at the Time of Purchase
Upgrade Fee: $

Early Termination Fee
$0

Government Taxes
Varies by Location

Discounts & Bundles

Billing discounts and pricing options for broadband service bundles are not available.

Speeds Provided with Plan

Typical Download Speed
8,700 Mbps
Typical Upload Speed
8,700 Mbps
Typical Latency
3ms

Data Included with Monthly Price
Unlimited

Charges for Additional Data Usage
$0/GB

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Bret Mogilefsky @bret.mogilefsky.me · 05/12/2024

Open source is the best kind of source! 💞🎉🔒

Screenshot of a GitHub PR comment where a maintainer is thanking me for dramatically increasing their security posture by adding Trivy-scanning with SARIF upload to their CI/CD pipeline, which immediately resulted in closing a bunch of Critical vulnerabilities.

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Bret Mogilefsky @bret.mogilefsky.me · 12/11/2024

November 15th is coming. Have you done it yet?

Screenshot of a light blue banner overlaid at the top of x.com. The banner says "Deleting 19071 Tweets; 19071 deleted"

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Bret Mogilefsky @bret.mogilefsky.me · 25/10/2024

#Georgia! You are on my mind. So much so that I just sent a handwritten #GetOutTheVote love-letter to over 100 of you. Get to the polls, y'all!

A photograph of a stack of 100+ postcards. It's a picture of a field with "Georgia Votes" emblazoned across it in a script font, along with voter information. What do they say on the back? It is a mystery!

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Bret Mogilefsky @bret.mogilefsky.me · 23/10/2024

My #aranet sensor says 1764 CO2 ppm on #BART at 4:10pm.

Photo of a hand holding an aranet4 CO2 sensor. The sensor shows the number 1764 and the red zone marker is active.

Selfie of the poster, a middle-aged white male with short-cropped dark hair, wearing a mask. He appears to be in a BART train. His eyebrows are raised and his eyes are wide in alarm.

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Bret Mogilefsky @bret.mogilefsky.me · 12/10/2024

@futurebird A cat with bone ears you say...? How about a rat, bat, and maybe a chihuahua thing that won't stand up?

A photo of five "skeletal" animal Halloween decorations on some stairs: A cat, rat, bat, and chihuahua(?). I'm the back is a total rad "skeletal" snail with a HUMAN SKULL FOR A SHELL.

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Bret Mogilefsky @bret.mogilefsky.me · 12/10/2024

@futurebird At first we were grabbing the ones that just seemed slightly off but now we realize that the decoration designers are in on the joke and leaning into it more and more each year, and we are all too happy to reward their paymasters with capitalism coupons.

A photo of a "skeletal" moth (or butterfly?) Halloween decoration

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Bret Mogilefsky @bret.mogilefsky.me · 12/10/2024

@futurebird We have a collection of "improbable skeletons" that we proudly add to and display every October.

A photo of a "skeletal" scorpion Halloween decoration

A photo of a "skeletal" octopus Halloween decoration

A photo of a "skeletal" snail Halloween decoration. The shell is a HUMAN SKULL. 🤘😈🤘

A photo of a "skeletal" spider Halloween decoration

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Bret Mogilefsky @bret.mogilefsky.me · 21/09/2024

I _need_ to play _ten other games_ before this one? Really? 🤔 (CBR has been an AI slop mill for a while now, and it's showing up in ever more suspect article titles. Completely blocking it today.)

Screenshot of an article summary from CBR.com. The article title4_ is "10 Best Stealth Games You Need To Play Before Assassin's Creed Shadows"

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Bret Mogilefsky @bret.mogilefsky.me · 11/09/2024

@waldoj I avoided single-serving coffee for a long time because of the ridiculously wasteful plastic pods. Then I learned that the Nespresso pods are 100% aluminum, and they give you pre-paid mailers to ship the used pods directly back to them. (And as it […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

Photo of a variety of aluminum Nespresso machine coffee pods in various colors and sizes in a small rack.

Photo of the pre-paid mailer bag for returning used aluminum code pods directly to Nespresso for recycling. There are instructions, some illustrations about how the process works, and a pre-paid UPS shipping label.

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Bret Mogilefsky @bret.mogilefsky.me · 29/08/2024

Welp, this is me now, I guess I'm that person. hachyderm.io/@mogul/112898586509895… Thanks, American health care system! F you, capitalism! 🙄

Screenshot of a listing for empty vitamin capsules in the Amazon mobile app. A red line circles a notice that the viewer last bought this product today.

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Bret Mogilefsky @bret.mogilefsky.me · 08/08/2024

One of my least productive hobbies, in terms of habit loop vs reward, is obsessively collecting free access to games on every platform where you can do that (PS Plus, Steam, Epic, Amazon, etc), meticulously curating that _phenomenal_ library of games in […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

A screenshot from the game library management application Playnite. A column of text on the left lists 12 different game storefronts. A column of text on the right lists the platforms represented in the collection and a count of games for each. There are 1609 games in the collection, mostly weighted toward PC and PlayStation platforms.

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Bret Mogilefsky @bret.mogilefsky.me · 01/08/2024

Note that *you don't have to be a server admin to make use of a curated #fediblock list*! You can import a domain block list at the account, as shown in the screenshot. social.growyourown.services/@homegr…

Screenshot of the standard Mastodon account settings. Under "Preferences > Import and Export > Import > Import Type > Domain Block List" it's possible to upload a CSV list of domains to block.

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Bret Mogilefsky @bret.mogilefsky.me · 05/07/2024

This one will take you through the ringer, but it is so good. mastodon.social/@JuliusGoat/1127346…

Cropped screenshot of text from the article linked in the quoted post:

"1) Hopeful people find people for whom life is made hard and make it easier, by repairing the brokenness that causes the difficulty.

2) Hopeful people find people for whom life is made easy and make it harder, by fighting the unnatural perversions that enable that ease."

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