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Ryan Finnie @ryan.m29.us.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

Panda spice latte is back! (Don't worry, pandas are not actually used in the latte. It's just referring to the spices traditionally used to flavor pandas in other dishes.)

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Ryan Finnie @ryan.m29.us.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

Happy 2 year anniversary, iPhone *checks* 16 which lives unceremoniously in my pocket. I used to be very consistent with "new every 2" going back to the iPhone 3G, and various Windows Mobile smartphones before that. The iPhone 12 mini I kept for 4 years though, and it took me a moment just now […]

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Ryan Finnie @ryan.m29.us.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

...FLASH FLOOD WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 630 PM PDT THIS EVENING FOR SAN BERNARDINO AND SOUTH CENTRAL CLARK COUNTIES... They issued a warning for part of Clark (Nevada) county, and because a little bit of the affected area is across the California border, they also include all of San Bernardino […]

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Ryan Finnie @ryan.m29.us.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

Excellent UI there, Apple. No option to install, just the release notes, and a "Learn more" which is inaccessible due to the main UI buttons. ... until I realized what I actually needed to do was swipe in the 10% of the screen which wasn't the release notes.

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Ryan Finnie @ryan.m29.us.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

RE: live.acarsdrama.com/@acarsdrama/117… "RETURN TO BASE FOR INSPECTION" "WHERE?" "IRAN" "IRAN SO FAR AWAY"

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Ryan Finnie @ryan.m29.us.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

RE: m29.us/@ryan/117260331685721862 I just tuned into a livestream as the host was saying "buh-bye" and moving the mouse over to click the (presumably) "end stream" button. I literally got less than a second of live entertainment.

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Ryan Finnie @ryan.m29.us.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

Kind of guy who can't name any countries after United States, Canada, Mexico, Panama

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Ryan Finnie @ryan.m29.us.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

Lower Decks season 6: Jennifer gives Mariner a phaser rifle rack for their anniversary, a year after they broke up. Cetacean Ops hosts a swimsuit party for Delta Shift. #LDS6 #StarTrek #LowerDecks

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Ryan Finnie @ryan.m29.us.ap.brid.gy · 04/07/2025

Guy who has only ever been to bodegas and mall, going to Ikea: It's not a bodega; it's not a mall

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Ryan Finnie @ryan.m29.us.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

I never remember how to spell "bureaucracy" or "bureaucrat"; even though I can spell "bureau", I never mentally make the mental connection between the formers and the latter in time to go "oh right, it's bureau with a suffix".

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Ryan Finnie @ryan.m29.us.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

The UK keeps talking about "Devolution" legislation recently, and I was very disappointed to learn it's not a measure to play Whip It in more public spaces.

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Ryan Finnie @ryan.m29.us.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

Huh, Firefox added Web Serial API support back in version 151! All this time I've been switching to Chromium if I need to write firmware or stuff, and I never bothered to check! I feel so silly! ... Oh. Firefox 151 was released in May.

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Ryan Finnie @ryan.m29.us.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

River Finnie c. 2010 - 2026 I don't know what to say. I'm devastated. I adopted River in 2015, expecting a cat, but got a Bombay without knowing what they'd be like. I described River as being a cross between a dog and toddler. She was named after River Tam from […] [Original post on m29.us]

Black cat with gold eyes looking at the camera, sitting on my lap with my legs up on a desk.

Black cat lounging on a wood desk, paws over the edge and looking to the right.

Black cat resting her chin on the jeans between my legs as I lie back with my legs in a diamond shape.

Black cat with bright gold eyes, looking up to the couch from the floor, with her mouth open.

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Ryan Finnie @ryan.m29.us.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

Waiting for Ed Sheeran's guitar to announce that it's leaving the tour

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Ryan Finnie @ryan.m29.us.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

Thinking about switching all my sites from Let's Encrypt over to Google's ACME service. There's nothing wrong with Let's Encrypt, of course. I just want Google to discontinue pki.goog as a result of me using it; the same thing happened a few years ago, literally weeks after I migrated all my […]

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Ryan Finnie @ryan.m29.us.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

1) I didn't know Kirkland Signature motor oil was a thing, but I shouldn't be surprised. 2) If I hadn't bought the EV a few months ago, I would literally be doing an oil change on the Maverick this weekend. Last year the oil was $31.90 for 6 quarts. Today the same oil is $46.45 […]

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Ryan Finnie @ryan.m29.us.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

Biblically-accurate eagle screech

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Ryan Finnie @ryan.m29.us.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

I regularly replace my primary payment card, maybe yearly or less, usually due to the chip getting flaky from use. And I swear, they've been increasing the expiration date every time it happens. The one which just arrived has an expiration of 2031. (It's a credit card but I pay it off monthly […]

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Ryan Finnie @ryan.m29.us.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

My superpower is I can start a livestream just as the host is saying "well that's about it for today, thank you everyone..."

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Ryan Finnie @ryan.m29.us.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

This week was terrible pet-wise and yesterday I had a huge scare. I composed something but then deleted it, so in its place is River with food on her nose. #Cats #Caturday

Black cat with gold eyes and white flakes on her nose, standing on my lap and staring directly at me

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Ryan Finnie @ryan.m29.us.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

Voyager 1 is currently the farthest known object from a Subway restaurant, at approximately 16 billion miles. I am the second-farthest known object, at approximately 6 miles.

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Ryan Finnie @ryan.m29.us.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

[9/11] 25 years ago today, I turned on the TV before leaving for BART to go to work. I usually didn't watch TV before work, but did that day for some reason. It was tuned to CNN, which was odd because I had a Tivo so it would be on the last channel it recorded, but I didn't have it record […]

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Ryan Finnie @ryan.m29.us.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

I need to figure out why my access point doesn't work during a power outage, despite being behind a UP. Or I don't; I get about 10 minutes of power outage per year here.

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Ryan Finnie @ryan.m29.us.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

> High Desert firefighters to climb 110 flights of stairs to commemorate 9/11 Not to belittle what they actually did, but for context, this is being done on a stairs machine at a Crunch Fitness in Hesperia, considering the maximum building height in this city is 3 floors (a few freeway hotels […]

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Ryan Finnie @ryan.m29.us.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

I guess Apple is doing a media event today? Not sure of the point; the new polishing cloth has already been released.

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Ryan Finnie @ryan.m29.us.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

Huh, the Presto Pizzazz is still being sold. I bought mine probably around 2004, and it's still working fine over 20 years later. It does one thing and one thing really well: cooks pizzas in about 15 minutes. It's primarily designed for frozen pizzas, but the rotating cooking tray can be removed […]

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Ryan Finnie @ryan.m29.us.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

Excuse me, SCE, but I am well acquainted with how to deal with PSPS emergencies. That’s why I bought the DVDs.

Two Cats DVDs (one the Broadway stage recording, the other the 2019 fever dream), with an envelope on top of them from Southern California Edison, saying “Prepare for PSPS outages”

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Ryan Finnie @ryan.m29.us.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

DID YOU KNOW: Ever wonder why Star Wars: The Force Awakens is often given the subtitle "Episode 7"? Believe it or not, this is because there were six previous movies in the series, something which was part of George Lucas's vision when he was writing The Force Awakens.

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Ryan Finnie @ryan.m29.us.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

It's been 12 years since I last went, but I still can't get out of the mindset that Labor Day isn't just the day you drive back from Burning Man. You can, like, go to a cookout if you wanted.

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Ryan Finnie @ryan.m29.us.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

[uspol] About a decade ago, I dated a woman who kept a wallet in her purse with her passport. She had some unresolved flee issues, but I did once ask her during dinner why she always carried her passport. "Just habit. I lived in New Mexico, and during that time, when I'd travel out of state […]

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Ryan Finnie @ryan.m29.us.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

RE: m29.us/@jucika/117225180507360701 Minor nerdery ahead: When I first created this bot, it literally just posted a random comic each day. I quickly started encountering the same comics being posted near each other, including an instance of the same comic being posted twice in a roll […]

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Ryan Finnie @ryan.m29.us.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

I happened to remember to turn into the Burning Man webcast just as the fireworks show was starting tonight. They've got the ignition of the Man down to a science the last few years, and I hate to be the "it was better in the old days" guy, but it was. The ignition plan back in the old days was […]

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Ryan Finnie @ryan.m29.us.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

I am going to paste a news article in its entirety, and see if you can pick out the subtle detail missing from the article: Over a dozen hospitalized after 'The Chainsmokers' concert in San Jose Over a dozen people at an outdoor concert in San Jose were hospitalized on Friday night, according […]

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Ryan Finnie @ryan.m29.us.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

It's been 12 years since I last went, but I still can't get out of the mindset that Labor Day isn't just the day you drive back from Burning Man. You can, like, go to a cookout if you wanted.

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Ryan Finnie @ryan.m29.us.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

After 16 years, my terminally ill cat has accidentally discovered the bathroom exists, and that it has a toilet in it. Proof that you’re never too old to learn something new! #Cats #Caturday

Black cat standing on a toilet bowl. Her hind paws are on the lip, while her front paws are in the bowl itself. She’s looking vaguely towards the camera.

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

It’s been pretty thoroughly proven that people can’t be trusted with agentic technology, so everyone is being restricted to Mary Kate and Ashley Pocket Planner for Game Boy Color until further notice. And yes, it supports 2026, I checked.

A teen celebrity themed toy PDA app for gameboy running on a handheld emulator

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Ryan Finnie @ryan.m29.us.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

Hyundai, you can absolutely buy the Pontiac brand from GM and relaunch the Aztek as an EV. You have the power to do this. After your decision to create the Ioniq 5, the world's first synthwave-themed EV, I trust you to revive the Aztek. (I certainly don't trust GM with it.)

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Ryan Finnie @ryan.m29.us.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

Dear web developers: When I'm on a fancy Web 2.6rc3 page and I mouse over a link and it's a real link with a real URL, and then when I control-click it and it somehow loads the page inline and not in a new tab... is that somehow a by-product of modern web design frameworks or methods or […]

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Ryan Finnie @ryan.m29.us.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

As someone who lived in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2000/2001 and probably took over a thousand trips on BART, but haven't ridden on it since early 2003, every time I see or read something on modern BART and they say e.g. "the yellow line", my eye twitches. BART was notorious for having […]

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Ryan Finnie @ryan.m29.us.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

[rw politics] Think about it for a second, have you ever seen 1Password and Framework in the same big tent of ideas?

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Ryan Finnie @ryan.m29.us.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

My fridge is a Samsung fridge, came with the house. Amazingly, it still functions as a fridge (as most Samsung fridges have a tendency to become not-fridges), but the capacitive front panel has always has problems where it would just press random buttons a few times per day. And today I walked […]

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Ryan Finnie @ryan.m29.us.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

COMPANY MEMO Due to exhausting all this month's allotted Torment Nexus tokens within the first five hours, please make an effort to port your skills over to DUNWICH-5.0-AE as soon as possible.

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Ryan Finnie @ryan.m29.us.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

I like sugar-free Red Bull, but not enough to justify the price. For several years, I'd occasionally buy a case of the Amazon brand Solimo 16 oz sugar free "red energy drink". Double the red-flavored drink for half the price! In early August I remembered I hadn't bought red-flavored drink for […]

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Ryan Finnie @ryan.m29.us.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

RE: social.anoxinon.de/@codebergstatus/… One of the things I like about Codeberg is their status account is not sugar coated or abstracted to the point of being useless. An actual person who is clearly working through an actual problem wrote that.

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Ryan Finnie @ryan.m29.us.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

The wicked may have a little rest, as a treat.

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Ryan Finnie @ryan.m29.us.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

I've become that person who has a "garage" with the California DMV. "SPCNS" is my camping trailer, and stands for "specially constructed vehicle". It's the 🤷 of the DMV and apparently requires a bunch more hoops to get registered initially, if it's not based on any […] [Original post on m29.us]

"My Garage" listing with 4 vehicles:
2000 DODG RAM VAN
2025 KARA KARAVAN TRAILER
SPCNS
2024 HYUN IONIQ 5

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