FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

Our cats amuse us almost every day. But this xkcd strip from a while back brings a whole new level of amusement to our feline friends' actions
https://xkcd.com/1689/

#Caturday

With apologies to Catherines everywhere

coworker: I need to check in on [name]. she's just had a really long day incubating E. coli.
me: oh, oh no.
[a couple sentences later]
me: wait -- not in herself, then?
coworker: no. In lab.

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if elected as president of europe i will mandate all cities to be designed by people with runner vision. all buildings to be at least twenty stories, all rooftops to have ziplines and places for soft landings by 2035

nominative determinism must be fake, i bet martin luther invented protestantism because he couldn't play the guitar

Isn't it beautiful how life always finds a way to persevere 🙏

PSA for anyone with an #Amazon #Kindle or even just any #kindlebooks , they are about to permanently remove the ability to download books to your computer. Your last day to use this functionality is February 26, 2025, so you have about a week. There are no easy ways to grab it all at once, but it's worth it to me to be able to access my 500+ #ebooks so I'm clicking on them one by one anyway. Amazon has been very quiet about it, so spread the word.

gen alpha kid listens only to modern pitch-corrected music, plays portal: “i don't get it, glados is supposed to sound robotic?”

Attackers have time and budgetary constraints too.

my knowledge of japanese is in my opinion pretty awful, but my girlfriend keeps having to remind me that i am doing the xkcd 2501 thing whenever i think the average weeb merely knows hiragana, katakana, the most common ten or so particles, ko/so/a/do, common forms of aru and iru,

Fictional villains: my motivation involves a complex backstory around lost love and a deep yearning to be understood

Real life villains: being cruel makes me feel like a big strong man

#StarTrek

found the perfect stackoverflow question:

https://serverfault.com/questions/62316/how-do-i-list-loaded-linux-module-parameter-values

this question was asked fifteen years ago, has 127 upvotes, is two sentences long, and has seven answers, every single one of which has completely ignored half of the question.