@darthmoomin@Spiritech@emarktaylor@baseball@baseball as a Giants fan it's been extremely painful to watch the team from across the Bay get used up for spare parts the way the Athletics have. Nothing short of shameful.
The Podcast Index thing on Mastodon looks really cool! I just followed the Grammar Girl podcast to see what happens, but supposedly, I'll now see a post here whenever I release a new episode and it will have audio.
For folks intending to purity-test their #vote this election cycle, all I can say is I hope you really want to live with the possibility of this country being run by fascist idiots driving pickup trucks festooned with Moron Labia and No Step on Derpy Snek bumper stickers. And once in power, they won't give it up no matter how anybody votes in the future.
The infinitely frustrating reality is that we're stuck with some moderate asshat being the best option until the actuarial tables finally catch up to the generation currently clutching the handles of power like it's the steering wheel they peer over when they drive. Future generations show vastly more promise, but only if we don't vote ourselves into a dictatorship first.
@etherdiver as a fellow Californian, that works great, until it doesn't. Also the nuance surrounding the conversation of "only if you live in the following states" is far too easily lost, leading to another Florida in 2000 situation.
Just got a power outage notification from #PGE - which is sort of puzzling since I'm online typing into my computer right now and I don't have backup power...
Some people really shouldn't be allowed under the hood of a car. Or the bonnet if that's what you want to call it, either way the latch to access the engine needs to have a shock collar fitting for anyone who'd do a thing like this:
What made this extra special and extra infuriating is that this car requires a thin-walled 12-point spark plug socket. Installing the spark plug with a regular 6-point socket means the person who did it either had to grease or grind down the socket to install the wrong plug, so guess what I had to do?
Hmm, a very large dog just came up to the window (outside) here where I am working--about 5 feet way from me--and starting a loud howling for a few minutes, and left. (not my dog). Last night there was a raccoon there all night, and a coyote wandering around. Now I am wondering what is so interesting right here outside.
(I think it was a dog, because it was wearing a reflective collar... but now, I am not so sure).
(For the record, the dog here inside was very confused--but not alarmed--about why a strange dog was howling at the window) #random#dogs
@ai6yr man, I will trade you any number of coyotes for the damn foxes behind my house. Have you heard the sounds those things make? From the Great Below, I tell you.
Plus they troll our dog mercilessly. If he ever gets one I won't even be mad. They sneak into our yard and leave droppings in his bathroom spot, drives him nuts.
@dcreemer@ai6yr like at what point is it enough to say the 737 MAX series is inherently defective and should be scrapped? Their original sin was trying to preserve the 737 type rating on what was essentially a completely different aircraft, and it hasn't worked. Instead, it's killed people and it was just incredible luck that nobody died in this incident.
If you want a good reason to figure out how to clear the drain tube on your #car sunroof, imagine if this were the carpet/foam in your car. Clean it out once a year at minimum - pulling this out was as far from fun as it gets. #autorepair