Mike Ely @social.taupehat.com · 2hThe idiot's paradox: the more anti-vaxxers there are, the fewer anti-vaxxers there are. 000
Reposted by Mike Ely`Da Elf @elfin.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026Androgoneous Spacecraft docking because neither the US or Russia wanted to be the "Female" docking part. I know a lot of stupid Space shit, but I was today years old when I learned this. 61445
Mike Ely @social.taupehat.com · 04/10/2026Nothing quite like a heat wave to kick off October, eh what? #cawx 101
Mike Ely @social.taupehat.com · 04/10/2026My #dog now reacts to the word "doorbell" like he just heard it ring. Ridiculous. 011
Reposted by Mike ElyErin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 29/09/2026Riley Gaines, famous for turning her 5th place tie with transgender swimmer Lia Thomas into a far-right career agianst transgender people, has officially had her lawsuit against the NCAA thrown out by a judge today. The judge found no evidence for her claims. Subscribe to support our journalism.erininthemorning.comRiley Gaines' Title IX Lawsuit Against The NCAA Struck Down After Judge Finds "No Evidence" Of Funding ClaimsGaines’ attorneys argued her civil rights were violated because she competed against a transgender athlete. 1465037972
Mike Ely @social.taupehat.com · 28/09/2026Spraying with latex in a respirator under a blacklight. Must be that time of year again... #halloween 000
Mike Ely @social.taupehat.com · 27/09/2026So there are some reasons why one might stay on legacy social media. Maybe not good reasons, but reasons. For example, Facebook decided tonight it was time for me to learn that combine harvester demolition derby is really a thing and hell, I'd probably pay money to see that. Dumb? For sure […]social.taupehat.comOriginal post on social.taupehat.com 000
Reposted by Mike ElyBetty C. Jung @bettycjung.bsky.social · 27/09/2026This data has helped fight workplace discrimination for 60 years. Trump🤡 plans to delete it Enforcing civil rights without these reports will be difficult for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, pushing US agency closer to Trump🤡’s agenda, experts warn www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...theguardian.comThis data has helped fight workplace discrimination for 60 years. The Trump administration plans to delete itEnforcing civil rights without these reports will be difficult for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, pushing US agency closer to Trump’s agenda, experts warn 167
Mike Ely @social.taupehat.com · 24/09/2026When the boss says "follow the instructions exactly as I wrote them" and I do: 001
Reposted by Mike ElyMike Ely @social.taupehat.com · 23/09/2026Sorry for the YT link but this has to be the best #cooking tutorial ever filmed. www.youtube.com/shorts/2qF7RtzN6ts 012
Mike Ely @social.taupehat.com · 23/09/2026Sorry for the YT link but this has to be the best #cooking tutorial ever filmed. www.youtube.com/shorts/2qF7RtzN6ts 012
Reposted by Mike ElyVulvarine @zwergi.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026We’ve officially reached the point where hearing your spouse’s voice on the phone isn’t enough proof that it’s actually them. That sounds ridiculous until you realize voice-cloning scams are already here. Have a code word. Call the person back directly […] [Original post on mastodon.social] 11198
Reposted by Mike ElyErrol Cavit @errolnz.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026Lockheed F-105G Starfighter demonstrating a common manoeuvre for the type, at Deutsches Museum, Munich. #avGeek #aviation 002
Mike Ely @social.taupehat.com · 22/09/2026Once again amused by my #dog, who continues to be started at the fact that the thing he just shoved with his snout actually moved. 000
Mike Ely @social.taupehat.com · 22/09/2026Saw a suggestion for when you're stuck finishing a book you're writing, which is to re-read it and... that is EXCELLENT advice. Anyhow I'm re-reading my book and found a part I wrote years ago where there's an actual Nazi (more precisely Aryan Brotherhood) character whose name I kind of […]social.taupehat.comOriginal post on social.taupehat.com 010
Mike Ely @social.taupehat.com · 22/09/2026One of my favorite pastimes on social media is blocking Trump supporters. Say something that supports him, I block you. Click the like button on a post supporting Trump, I block you. So as you can imagine I see a lot of profiles of guys holding dead fish […] [Original post on social.taupehat.com] 000
Mike Ely @social.taupehat.com · 20/09/2026I have an idea for a paper that would totally win the #Ignobel prize but I'm too lazy to do it: a statistically rigorous study that sums up the amount of time saved across the world by people not having to rewind things anymore. 001
Mike Ely @social.taupehat.com · 20/09/2026If somebody were to take a bulldozer to every single brick-and-mortar chain shoe store that doesn't carry wide widths beyond pretty much just New Balance leather tennis shoes with velcro straps, it wouldn't make any difference whatsoever to my ability to find shoes to try on that actually fit. 002
Reposted by Mike ElySpocko @spocko.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026I remember a time when your could tell the henchmen from the goons. #Batman #RetroTV 000
Mike Ely @social.taupehat.com · 16/09/2026RE: flipboard.com/@associatedpress/ente… Yesterday I was working out and saw Law and Order SVU on one of the TVs, it's got Mariska Hargitay and Ice-T on there in the office discussing a case in front of a yarn board […]social.taupehat.comOriginal post on social.taupehat.com 000
Reposted by Mike ElyMatt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026Supreme Court ruling has dropped. Injunction stands! @heidilifeldman 203
Reposted by Mike Elyjonny (nonvenomous) @jonny.neuromatch.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026Man, that's just sad. 1821
Mike Ely @social.taupehat.com · 13/09/2026Here's how I imagine the conversation went: "Your time is up. You're eighty years old, you've had at least one stroke, your health is failing, your final term ends in two years, and you are in competition with Vladimir Putin as the most despised person […] [Original post on social.taupehat.com] 001
Mike Ely @social.taupehat.com · 11/09/2026[Police Brutality] The Sonoma County Sheriff's Department has a long and sordid history of having to settle excessive force lawsuits, and when you see some of the deputies it's easy to see why. Anyone who's spent any amount of time in a gym knows what people look like when they're on gear and […]social.taupehat.comOriginal post on social.taupehat.com 001
Mike Ely @social.taupehat.com · 11/09/2026At least this one is solvable, even if a bit too much so... 010
Reposted by Mike ElyLow Quality Facts @lowqualityfacts.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026Today's Low Quality Ad is for this Riot Gnome Pin. Jeff Bezos originally wanted to employ gnomes at Amazon warehouses, but he didn't realize how strong their unions are. If you tell a gnome he can't take a bathroom break your warehouse is getting torched. collabs.shop/bitnjj 4115
Reposted by Mike ElyM.S. Bellows, Jr. @msbellows.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026If you shoot a machine gun at a running person, the bullets only hit the dirt a foot or two behind them. #70sMoviesTaughtMe #HashtagGames 001
Mike Ely @social.taupehat.com · 11/09/2026I feel bad for people who need diesel for their work vehicles. On the other hand I am enthralled at the impact this has had on the coal-rolling douchebags around here. Gasbuddy, filtered for diesel fuel: 000
Mike Ely @social.taupehat.com · 10/09/2026This is the perfect collection to build a rat-rod from honestly. Get a 350 from the junkyard, bolt it all together, put something a human can sit on inside the tub and you're golden. 000
Mike Ely @social.taupehat.com · 09/09/2026I was always a big fan of Spock's approximate precision. #startrek 000
Mike Ely @social.taupehat.com · 03/09/2026Well, this was a fun little #earthquake earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eve… 001
Reposted by Mike ElyChris Dwan (he/him) @somershade.bsky.social · 03/09/2026A friend refers to the "a pedestrian was struck by a car" construction as the "exonerative" tense, and that shall be its name henceforth and hereafter. 18379155
Mike Ely @social.taupehat.com · 02/09/2026In this episode of "Stuff you don't see every day" or, why it's good to have an ear for unusual aircraft noises 010
Mike Ely @social.taupehat.com · 02/09/2026I - a #sysadmin - have spent the better part of the past two decades of my professional career working in and around #datacenters It's like an antihipster thing: I was into it before it was uncool. 000
Mike Ely @social.taupehat.com · 01/09/2026This is hilariously accurate social commentary disguised as something else: brokeassstuart.com/p/why-gta-iv-sho… 000
Mike Ely @social.taupehat.com · 01/09/2026@Migueldeicaza ach, nevermind now that I see it in context. 000
Mike Ely @social.taupehat.com · 01/09/2026@Migueldeicaza why use the conditional at all? Does `a` almost never have a value? If not it seems like simply setting it to nil outright would be more efficient. 100
Mike Ely @social.taupehat.com · 31/08/2026Reason number eleventy-gazillion of why I freaking hate freaking Zabbix: some absolute bell-end decided to key a discovered item off the GUID associated with a job rather than some persistent attribute of that job, and then to ensure the alert never ever clears no matter how thoroughly the […]social.taupehat.comOriginal post on social.taupehat.com 000
Reposted by Mike ElyM.S. Bellows, Jr. @msbellows.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026I want the next president to issue an executive order renaming San Francisco Bay "Yahoo! Is The Best Search Engine Bay" to see whether Google Maps dutifully switches to the new name or admits they're only pretending they strictly use federal place names and actually have a choice in the matter. 037
Mike Ely @social.taupehat.com · 26/08/2026Twice in as many days, the wrong famous 80-year-old has passed away. There is no god. RIP Tim Curry. 000
Mike Ely @social.taupehat.com · 26/08/2026This has been puzzling me. Not that I care much about this dumbass rich guy or his inability to get laid without paying $140 to someone working out of a trailer park in Ohio but... based on my experience rich guys have a fixer to procure prostitutes […] [Original post on social.taupehat.com] 000
Mike Ely @social.taupehat.com · 22/08/2026The fact that I'm now comfortably stacking the leg press machine might be a sign that my legs are strong enough. Maybe. 000
Mike Ely @social.taupehat.com · 22/08/2026[uspol] I finally figured out who Scott Bessent reminded me of. 000
Mike Ely @social.taupehat.com · 21/08/2026SOUND ON #dogsofmastodon www.youtube.com/shorts/CqcS67IqAxc 001