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It's the year of our lord 2026, and every now and then, when I need to empty the trash on my Mac, I still go to the rightmost menus in the Finder as if the Special menu will still be there. Old habits absolutely refusing to die, exhibit 3,846...

A screenshot of an emulated Mac running System 6.0, which is basically what I started with on my family's Mac Plus back in the day.

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Correction: three. There’s another across this parking lot. How do this many people have this little taste?

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…and two more on the way out of town. sigh.

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I’d give a lot to go even a day without having to see a Cybertruck. Alas, I must frequently spend time in Redmond, so I have days like today, where within one short drive, I saw five of them. Frickin’ techbros.

William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Yeah, this is one of the things where it’s like…East Coasters, this one’s your job. You’re there. There’s tons of you. So rally already, and maybe don’t expect somebody 2,500 miles away to, y’know, hand the feds their ID first to get on a plane.

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Don’t know who to credit this to, but it cheers me up!

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(Like, my office: extremely low risk. Other sites? Maybe less so.)

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Not out, just holstered and visible. This was actually in the cafeteria at my office; we had an ATM in the corner. So the rest of us were just milling around nearby. I can imagine anyone traveling around town to machines in various places, and various crowds, would want a little extra deterrence.

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I have, but only cops and security in specific circumstances (like when I saw people restocking an ATM, and, I mean, I honestly don't blame them...)

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(The Georgia coast was my favorite stretch of it. Just maybe don't do it in July.)

My family did a trip once where we flew from Seattle to Charlotte, drove to Orlando to see relatives, then took a slower drive back up the coast to visit things along the way. Everyone thought we were crazy for the length of the drive. We were like, "We're from the western US. We're used to it."

I went to a reading/signing of The Amber Spyglass that was held in a church. 10/10 venue selection, no notes.

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Right? Like, Lake Erie may be big, but it is NOT THE OCEAN, buddy. :)

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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

We also REALLY need to stop calling it the "millionaire tax." There's a vast gap between "people who have a million dollars total" and "people who make a million dollars in a year," and so people who aren't in the second category are still getting riled up about the tax hitting them. Which it won't.

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Goddammit. The contempt these people have for everything wondrous and good and *human* is so grotesque.

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P.S. One whole old team of mine got laid off and replaced by AI. Insert hollow laughter here.

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Anyway: yes, there are ABSOLUTELY distinctions in every company out there between who gets to be a Real Employee (slash person) and who doesn’t, and the difference gets real stark sometimes.

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There was really nothing quite like seeing that when they kicked me out the door, I’d be indistinguishable from a corpse. And then of course they did so not long after COVID lockdown started, so THAT was neat…

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At one point while contracting in tech, I found the company’s attrition dictionary: a list of procedures for what to do when people left the company under different circumstances (retired, quit, fired, whatever). Contractors were on the same line item as dead people.

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Diedrich Bader @diedrichbader.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Still my favorite convention name, incidentally. (Why, yes, I studied Canadian media in college, why do you ask...)

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“This is for my boy Paul mthrfkr!”

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Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Concentrating on my tinnitus only makes it louder and louder and louder and LOUDER...

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We don’t do the Daily Mail, but as a public service, here is someone with far too much money being attacked by an owl.

Princess Beatrice's friend Alice Naylor-Leyland is attacked by rogue owl during chaotic photoshoot.

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(I first played Myst over at their house, too, come to think of it. As babysitting gigs go: oddly formative.)

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...for a reading, so I went, and took the book with me. So I returned it to its owner signed. He was so surprised. :)

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Chase Mitchell @chasemit.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This just made me recall the first time I read the novel, back when I borrowed it from someone I was, of all things, babysitting for. He had a great library; I'd read in there after I put the kids to bed. Neuromancer was one that he let me take home. Then I realized you were going to be in town...

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Like displaying heads on pikes

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But for a plethora of reasons: generative AI can bite me.

Yeah, I used to work on a fraud detection service that fits into the former category. Practically speaking, even if you wanted to (and trust me, you don't), there's no way you _could_ have humans manually review millions of credit card transactions to find the ones that don't fit the pattern...

You've never heard that many middle schoolers leave a movie and start wailing, "I FEEL SO GUILTY NOW."

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Growing up near Seattle inevitably meant learning about the Oregon Trail during state history classes (and yes, we played this game. a lot). My seventh grade teacher had us make recruitment brochures to exhort settlers to go west. And then he took us to see Dances With Wolves...

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(The hoodie's black, has a little bitty "Hello." on the front and "Goodbye." on the back, and an Apple logo on the sleeve. And it's very comfy.)

I did a seasonal stint at Apple once (pre-iPhone. It's been a while), and they just gave us the shirts. I still have mine. The store manager gave me a hoodie once, too; they were meant for cold-weather stores, but we got a shipment anyway, so he just handed them out to whoever wanted one.

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Went out to get some hot chocolate, and the coffee shop is playing The Sundays. A+ vibes.

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Autocorrect will hang you out to dry on all-caps words!

a very important update *nods*

This one was especially diabolical.

T. kingfisher’s What Moves the Dead and a plushie bunny. If you know, you know.

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