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Ryan Finnie @ryan.m29.us.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

I never really thought of Spock's reunification movement beyond the very high level "re-establish diplomatic and societal relations between Romulus and Vulcan". But I recently re-watched the episodes, and... yikes. The actual goal is to completely re-absorb the Romulans under a Vulcan […]

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Ryan Finnie @ryan.m29.us.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

My trash company is the most chill, and it throws me off balance. Any time I call to schedule a bulky item pickup, I'm expecting red tape but instead get "sure, I've scheduled a driver, just place it out for Friday morning". A few years ago there was a windstorm and […] [Original post on m29.us]

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Ryan Finnie @ryan.m29.us.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

To be clear, I haven't read it. To my knowledge, the only book by a crazy author I've intentionally spite-read was Anthem, by Ayn Rand. That story can be summarized as the You Made This? I Made This meme.

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Ryan Finnie @ryan.m29.us.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

Finally sat down and read Dianetics. Total crap, there are far fewer erupting volcanoes than the 1980s commercials would have you believe.

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Ryan Finnie @ryan.m29.us.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

A woman walked into the shop of magic and mystery. She wasn't happy. "I bought this fairy goddess from you, and not only do her poems fail to inspire me, they're often flat out wrong." "When did you buy her?" "About a year ago." "And she only started imparting wisdom through prose recently? […]

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Ryan Finnie @ryan.m29.us.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

Okay yes, I know all apps today are Electron apps, which are just web pages with their own copy of Chrome. But I just found you can literally use Ctrl-R in Discord to reload the UI.

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Ryan Finnie @ryan.m29.us.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

I went to Ikea last week. It's an hour away and I haven't really needed new furniture for years; funny enough, the primary purpose was to pick up a few $5 Matter/Thread automation buttons. (I've been remodeling my Home Assistant setup for the last few months.) But I did pick up 5 pounds of […]

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Ryan Finnie @ryan.m29.us.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

Shower thought: How many locations have Ikea closed? Their stores are physically very unique and would be virtually impossible to repurpose without a complete teardown (though Spirit Halloween would give it their best).

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Ryan Finnie @ryan.m29.us.ap.brid.gy · 13/07/2025

“Smooth by Santana is incredibly inaccurate from a scientific perspective. While stars are indeed incredibly hot, if you stood seven inches from the mid-day sun, you would die.” — Neil deGrasse Tyson

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Ryan Finnie @ryan.m29.us.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

RE: m29.us/@ryan/114780257422758454 AWS just sent me a notice that the lambda which powers this button uses Python 3.8 and must be upgraded. I must expend effort to keep the useless button functional.

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Ryan Finnie @ryan.m29.us.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Did you know? As a cost-cutting measure, CNN would simply require James Earl Jones to come back to the studio at the top of each hour to say "This is CNN"

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Ryan Finnie @ryan.m29.us.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

@spacehobo A few months before she passed, River was prescribed Epakitin. I was disappointed to learn it was merely a phosphate binder supplement in powder form for her food, and not an emergency injectable kitten.

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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

Whoah, slow down there Speed Racer.

WatchOS 27.0.1 downloading screen, 2 hours remaining

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

Anyway, this musing brought to you by the 10th attempt to install WatchOS 27 on my [not even going to look up what generation that is; don't care]. This attempt: "Okay, so you're at the end boss! WatchOS 27.0 has been downloaded, you've accepted this season's new TOS, you've located the elusive […]

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

I guess they didn't even release a "normal" iPhone this year? Apparently the presentation a few weeks ago was for the 18 Pro, and the Duo was just pre-announced and isn't for sale until next month?

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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

Excellent news! Star Trek: Lower Decks has been renewed for a sixth season! Join us at @lds6 every Monday / Wednesday / Friday for new episodes. (Yes, this is my equivalent of "I'm starting a podcast!") #LDS6 #StarTrek #LowerDecks

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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 · 19/09/2026

I’m doing better, but the mornings are still hard when, for over a decade, the first step after getting up and putting on sweatpants was to feed River, who was always waiting “patiently” for me. Rest in peace, the bestest kitty. #Cats #Caturday

Black cat with gold eyes (though they look more green in this lighting) lounging on the couch and looking at the camera, with her head tilted slightly

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Ryan Finnie @ryan.m29.us.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

@0xabad1dea Do you have a cheese curd culture? I grew up in Green Bay, and all grocery stores would receive shipments of little baggies of fresh cheese curds each morning from the surrounding dairy farms. They'd always sell out, which is good because they'd lose their freshness (squeakiness) […]

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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

@0xabad1dea Similarly, if you have your resume on your web site or are giving it to a company, name it "Your_Name_resume.pdf", not "resume.pdf", even if it's obviously on yourname.com. Any little thing to prevent it from being lost or tossed in the hiring pipeline.

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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 · 15/09/2026

@0xabad1dea Listen, I'll just come out and say it: it was me. It was all me. I'm sorry your country got caught in the crossfire of my geopolitics, but my local supermarket in California no longer stocks Daelmans, and I'm mad.

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Ryan Finnie @ryan.m29.us.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

Okay, my sites are now secured by the Google NFTs. There really isn't a way to say "next time you renew, use this different ACME server instead of the current one. Oddly, it seems to completely ignore the renewal config file's server and somehow still uses the old server anyway? I'm still not […]

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

Google sold their domain business to Squarespace, which at the time had no standalone domain registrar business. Their ensuing UI screamed "we needed to slap this together to satisfy a business decision from the top". But it works. Supports everything needed (IPv6, glue records, DNSSEC, etc) […]

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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

River is still not doing well, but her daily (and hourly) wellbeing correlates with if I can get her to eat. But this is a new recurring thing: River with food on her nose. It’s cute, but also an indication of a few things. The current food which is more likely to […] [Original post on m29.us]

Black cat with gold eyes looking sideways. Her nose has large bits of reddish food on it.

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

@matdevdug Bold of you to assume all DCEs are capable of better cable management than a strip mall.

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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 · 13/09/2026

@manlycoffee Thank you for naming Canola and not... its other name.

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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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