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Sean Jacobs@mictlan.bsky.social |
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Nerdy but probably not as nerdy as you. Dad to a cute kid. Husband to a cute wife. Good at a lot of things. Toad enthusiast.
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One of the things that I've always appreciated about TECO is that they have a good app and will send text notifications with updates if you subscribe. Handy during hurricane outages, but also handy when the damn ospreys drop branches on the line down the road.
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I had that happen recently when getting a root canal performed, turns out the endodontist used an anesthetic mix that includes epinephrine, and my regular dentist doesn't. The shaking passed pretty quickly but makes the anesthetic last longer.
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It’s a microhylid frog! It’s most likely an Eastern Narrow-mouthed Toad, Gastrophryne carolinensis! They have a funny roll of skin that they can roll forward to cover their eyes, to protect them while they are eating ants!
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I’m more surprised these days when I find someone else wearing a mask, to be honest.
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Still haven’t seen a Cybertruck in real life, but I did spot a Fisker Ocean today and that felt like spotting a unicorn.
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It’s so frustrating to me that the general consensus for a long time has been “welp, it’s been five days back to work!”
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“Still the best car I’ve ever owned.”
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Me: here’s a nice $200 cat tower made with all-natural materials and a $100 hand-woven wool cat bed. Cat:
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Every time I come across this frog I am sad that it’s not classified as a toad, because Toad Facts would be so excited about it.
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I’ve only seen the back third of the bed of one, we were in a drive through and could see it in a nearby intersection between some other cars. I’m not counting that because I didn’t get to see the whole thing.
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I panicked for a minute thinking I was gonna have to cut my walk short 😂
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Is there a different one tonight that I’m not aware of?
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I feel like all of these poll results should end with “among people stupid enough to answer the phone for our poll.”
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Great! Now we just need to get them to declare "skeets" unconstitutional.
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Just stay upwind, they’re made so cheaply that they’re bound to be toxic.
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Toad Facts reached 400+ followers last week, just slightly behind its Mastodon account which has been around for a year longer. Today it had its first 100+ like post, an order of magnitude more than any post on Mastodon. We'll catch up to Twitter eventually.
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For anyone who just wants the NOAA link, here you go. Seems to work in a desktop browser, didn't work on mobile browsers for me.
www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/heatrisk/
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This is awesome!
Just last week I built a Millennium Falcon from the Magical Unicorn 31140 kit using the MOC instructions at rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-145..., which was a lot of fun. Also, it's only $10.
This colorful build of the 75192 kit is fantastic, but probably out of my budget.
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I hate that when I see something interesting like this I now have to spend the next few minutes figuring out if it’s genuine or some kind of computer-generated fever dream.
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Looks like he loves playing with molten pieces of plastic. Looks like he might love it a little too much, in fact.
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I loved the fact that this guy’s name was “Sol Light”.
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We had a DoorDash driver show up in a Rivian R1T, we thought that was odd but figured deliveries were how they were paying for that nice truck.
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I just noticed that QR Code generation has finally been removed from the Google Charts API and got a sad. It was a reliable way to create a QR code that wasn't hiding someone else's tracking crap in it.
Oh look, here's a different one that looks like it doesn't suck.
goqr.me/api/
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This post hurt my back.
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Okay, I see it now
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My brother in law has two of them, front and back yard, and live streams them on YouTube.
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I kinda want to question Alien Ant Farm's cover of Smooth Criminal being on that list, but it's a good cover regardless. Why are neat things like this always Spotify based? Boo.
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Sounds pretty open.
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Follow a hundred people immediately. You’re not going to see much in Following when you’re only following twelve people. If you don’t know who to folllow, find someone you like (maybe an author?) and follow some of the people they are following. Also: Want engagement? Be engaged.
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That’s fantastic, congrats!
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A friend of mine (here in FL) made a post freaking out about these when we already have golden silk orb-weavers here. 🤷♀️
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That's pretty brilliant. Doesn't let me send it to DMs here but that would cut down on clicks a lot regardless... I'll try it out. Thanks!
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The main reason I wanted DMs on BlueSky was so I could share posts with @chieflotsahair.bsky.social privately, and I can’t find a way to do that easily and it’s irking me.
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There’s apparently an NRA plate you can get if you wanted KOMA RA, but fuck the NRA.
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I thought that was Rick Astley until I read the post and was let down.
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Seventeen years has to be a typo, Jana. We’re clearly not that old.
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Saying “awoux?” out loud just now cracked me up.
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I love that the hike to summit Iron Mountain is a leisurely stroll through botanical gardens punctuated by occasional carillon music.
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I’ve found that screaming obscenities at them usually gets you to a live person pretty quick. Sometimes even makes you feel a little better.
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This is a lot of good news in a short period of time, I don’t know if I can take it.
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Today is truly a historic day with implications that we are not yet aware of. Also, LOL.
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I’ve had an issue open with a tech vendor for the past week or so and was finally escalated to a “specialist” who responded with an absolutely idiotic AI-generated list of suggestions that did not at all pertain to my issue and this is what my life is now for the next few years at least. Yay.
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So you’re saying it was a pick me up pick me up?
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I’ve been trying to get my kid’s name since before he was born, it’s still being squatted on by a company with a similar name who has had a “coming soon” web site since at least 2011. Did get his nickname though.
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Some folks feel that BIOPAT is controversial because they take donations to honor people with scientific names of new species, but they do good work with the money.
biopat.de/en/start.html
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I knew this was coming, it was my primary reason for building a new PC recently.
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And Love.
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It took about a half hour of chat with Apple support and I will hopefully never have to hear Bono ever again.
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God damn it, it’s back again.
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Starting to see a lot of companies who ignored the warnings from Google and Yahoo to set up DMARC reaching the “find out” stage. This is both amusing and annoying because hardly anyone understands how it works, even now.
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