Kate Cox @kcoxdc.bsky.social · 8hMan I wish we had a Wegmans haha, your store brand is like $2 cheaper than mine 010
Kate Cox @kcoxdc.bsky.social · 11hIronically perhaps, there are two analog clocks he could also have seen from where he impugned the digital clock's math, and they more or less approximately agree. 050
Kate Cox @kcoxdc.bsky.social · 11hI am in another room and still I nearly choked from laughing when I heard the shouted "no it's not, it's AI" 0150
Kate Cox @kcoxdc.bsky.social · 11hHusband: It's time for you to shower. 8yo: No it's not! H: Look at the clock, it's 6:17! 8yo: NO IT'S NOT, that clock is AI! H: The clock is not AI. It's older than you. 8yo: All screens are AI. 3313
Kate Cox @kcoxdc.bsky.social · 16hthat sounds super handy! unfortunately for me I need something more granular because of work reasons but I'm super bookmarking this 000
Kate Cox @kcoxdc.bsky.social · 16hI mean, in theory, no user should actually have to care how their software runs under the hood. I don't care what programming language any app I use is written in and I shouldn't have to care what tools it uses to make functions work. In reality... I'm so tired 110
Kate Cox @kcoxdc.bsky.social · 16hwhen an AI-based backend tool can allow someone to mute images, instead of just words, that might be a point where I embrace one 210
Kate Cox @kcoxdc.bsky.social · 05/10/2026The Wrath of Khan. Three years old, it turns out, is too young for that. Even on scratchy VHS on a small TV. 260
Kate Cox @kcoxdc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026If the one on our street could be induced to care even a tiny bit that the fence has fallen into the sidewalk and the overgrown plants are also blocking said sidewalk, that'd be... real cool 120
Kate Cox @kcoxdc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I think the October of it all is getting to me: even though it's rainy and humid out today I bought a half-dozen apples of five different varieties at the grocery store this morning and now I have an apple crumble in the oven 040
Kate Cox @kcoxdc.bsky.social · 02/10/2026lol this reminds me that literally last night I ended up explaining the whole "gingers" phenomenon to the 13yo because husband and I joked about me being a ginger and she was like "nah, your hair's more of a copper tho?" 030
Kate Cox @kcoxdc.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Right?! I reviewed it for a site that is also long since forgotten but it blew my damn mind. (Also, it would be a much easier game to play now because hints were not a thing one could come by easily in the review window lolol) 200
Kate Cox @kcoxdc.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I'm glad to see Antichamber in here because sometimes I feel like I'm the only person who remembers it 100
Kate Cox @kcoxdc.bsky.social · 02/10/2026When I was young and the internet was fresh and new (seriously, this is, like, 1999-2000) my first ever freelance writing gig ($50 / article) kept assigning me wrestling stories and I had NO FREAKING IDEA what I was talking about and in 2026 there's no excuse to keep doing that 010
Kate Cox @kcoxdc.bsky.social · 02/10/2026okay this kind of thing is in fact incredibly my jam though haha, well done 110
Kate Cox @kcoxdc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026My youngest has bumped his head on things (which means a mandatory call home) *so many* times that at this point I'm just like "yeah, sounds like him, we'll talk again next week I'm sure" 030
Kate Cox @kcoxdc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I very deeply appreciate how the school nurse at my chaos-prone 8yo's school starts all the calls with, "It's not an emergency and [kid] is fine" before getting to the, "HOWEVER..." 1170
Kate Cox @kcoxdc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026and that it's Star Trek, of all the things I saw in the 90s, that's like "Hey actually let's talk about women aging, and how they are perceived and need to perform" 020
Kate Cox @kcoxdc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026also, she's functionally his mother-in-law / ex-MIL variously, depending, *and* can read his mind 120
Kate Cox @kcoxdc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026As a kid / teen and frankly even into my 20s I *deeply* underappreciated how great she was 110
Kate Cox @kcoxdc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026(this lament brought to you by me cleaning out my email and text message inboxes) 050
Kate Cox @kcoxdc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026What if I don't *want* to rate every human interaction I have outside of my house on a 1-5 scale though 1121
Kate Cox @kcoxdc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I feel like it's of a piece with the entire outsourcing of quality review. Better give your Uber driver (Starbucks barista, restaurant server, airline gate agent, retail clerk) a perfect review in every survey OR ELSE. Every company wants the way they treat employees to be someone else's fault 0140
Kate Cox @kcoxdc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I close *almost* all my stuff at the end of the day but those couple exceptions are important ones lol 000
Kate Cox @kcoxdc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I discovered recently a stealth update on my phone that let me CHOOSE if I wanted circles, squares, or rounded squares and I was... so happy but mostly I want my pinned tabs to still be today where they were yesterday lol 100
Kate Cox @kcoxdc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026It's not even that I care what the visual language of my Firefox is, it's that changing it means all my muscle memory is 5% off-kilter from reality for a few days and dammit I did not need that this morning, my connection to reality is already sufficiently askew 140
Kate Cox @kcoxdc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Honestly the older my kids get, the more I feel like this comparison does a real disservice to actual 12-year-olds lol, who are by and large thoughtful kids. Second graders, now... that's about where this whole set of people is at. 030
Kate Cox @kcoxdc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Wouldn't it be cool to live in a universe where you could have both an EV *and* consumer data protection? Anyway I'll be over here wishing for a unicorn and $10 million, while I'm at it 030
Kate Cox @kcoxdc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026When I bought it, in Jan. 2015, the woman at the dealership asked how long I tend to keep my cars. "Well," I said, "I'm selling my '96 to buy this one, I just need something a little different now that I have kids." She wrote "forever" in that field lol 000
Kate Cox @kcoxdc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026You say this right as lawn crews show up for two houses on my street at once lol 010
Kate Cox @kcoxdc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I at least can choose when to disable the wifi, Bluetooth, and GPS on my phone, and know when I have them on. It's meager control, in our "no privacy laws" hellscape, but it's better than nothing 111
Kate Cox @kcoxdc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026"the new version... relocates the power button from the bottom of the e-reader to the top right edge ... prevent users from accidentally putting it to sleep when resting the e-reader on something while reading." Look, JUST BECAUSE I do this at least 3x every single day is no reason to call me out 080
Kate Cox @kcoxdc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026And this is why I want to keep my 2014 car until roughly the end of time, if possible. www.theverge.com/transportati...theverge.comYour car’s data privacy problems are worse than you think“There’s a lot to be worried about,” the project lead said. 1811927
Kate Cox @kcoxdc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026There is a giant walnut tree next to our house and the fun thing on days like this, where it's fall but it's warm enough to have the windows open, is that with the offscreen thumps, rolls, and distant crashes it's like there's a foley artist practicing on our roof all the time 040
Kate Cox @kcoxdc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Does this five-year-old not realize how far behind the times kindergarten is? That their elder peers in the lofty reaches of second, third, and fourth grades think this affectation is now, and I quote," old"? 100
Kate Cox @kcoxdc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026some of us live with teenage girls and as a result hear EVERYTHING on the top 40, all the time lolsob 010
Kate Cox @kcoxdc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I've got all the windows open, it's great, except for that thing where the papers from my desk have now blown into a bedroom and I should probably go get them back lol 000
Kate Cox @kcoxdc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I just really needed a break from dads at that moment in time lol, especially as mom to a very handful toddler. But ten years later, after some breaks... the world is in a different place and so am I 000
Kate Cox @kcoxdc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Husband has been trying to talk me into this one for YEARS (when it was new I was just absolutely past capacity for any more grizzled white men protagonists), and since his existing copy will get the remaster, and the next new thing I want to play isn't out yet... I might finally do it 200
Kate Cox @kcoxdc.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Okay, 'Coyote vs Acme' was indeed excellent, absolutely a spiritual successor to Roger Rabbit, but also I left the theater trying to explain the line 'one must imagine Sisyphus happy' to a 13yo lololol 0130
Kate Cox @kcoxdc.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I'll believe this actually exists the day it hits theaters and not a minute sooner 020
Kate Cox @kcoxdc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Honestly I think a heads up is more important for parents haha, my tolerance for child harm in media went WAY down when my kids were little, and that's very common. But like... there are so many ways to get a quiet heads up, even in the "movie listings in the Sunday paper" era, just talk to humans 020
Kate Cox @kcoxdc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026yeah, if you're gonna have to pay big-city prices for restaurants you should at least be able to get big-city benefits out of it. (This is one of the best things about visiting my husband's extended family in north carolina lol, every restaurant feels like buy two get one free from our vantage) 110
Kate Cox @kcoxdc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026*that* I'm used to lolsob (well, not the sub-par naan), because DC prices. Especially as elder child has aged out of kids' meals haha. But it's still a bummer 110
Kate Cox @kcoxdc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026haha, as I looked at that photo I thought, "damn, those fries look really good" and am somehow glad to have this validated 010
Kate Cox @kcoxdc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026(for the smallest screen, for a movie that only has one showing left because I suspect this will be its last weekend in theaters; this is not a splashy new IMAX situation) 060
Kate Cox @kcoxdc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026"why don't people go to movie theaters" well it just cost me $67 to buy tickets to a matinee for a family of four tomorrow 2181