Plumber arrived to help fix our slow kitchen drain, got our internet cables tangled in the gear on the roof of his truck, and now we have a sink that drains well but no internet

OTOH I am very much enjoying Everything for Everyone, and making much headway on The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine

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I am enjoying my vacation up in Maine but this is truly a cursed place for my tech—two years ago my phone went through the wash, and today my work computer just stopped working out of the blue. Nature is telling me to unplug when I’m up here and I keep not listening

Em just left early to take her AP US history (aka APUSH!) exam, whew this is all happening too fast

Have we reached Peak Enshittification™️ adoption or am I doomed to suffer forever

Or will it fade to a manageable chronic malady like scrollytelling

My Eleventy Conf talk proposal didn’t get picked, which is slightly disappointing but also good exercise for my efforts to just submit things without worrying too much about the outcome

After doing her US history homework Em just said, oh man maybe I’ll get to join a union some day!

@berd Finally showed the girls the clip of Juna’s Minecraft Zelda game and they lost their minds 🧝‍♀️

OpenAI Sora is impressive on some fronts, utterly comical in others. I know they’ll eventually figure out how to not have the rendered people’s feet randomly switch mid-stride, but for now I’m grateful for the glitches in The Matrix

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This is a hometown instance run by Sam and Ingrid, for some friends.