Ran out of books on my phone so tonight I'm gonna engage in some "retro booking"

(Standard disclaimer for whenever I mention a piece of media: **Do not reply to tell me what happens in this book or your impressions of this book unless you use spoiler tags**)

A thing I can't talk about on social media is happening at that place I can't talk about on social media

This is a super interesting article but I can't stop laughing at / being mildly alarmed by the website CIO dot com attempting to coin the phrase "AI token theft" https://beige.party/@janeishly/116416797351961417

Bluesky is down today. "Hah", I think, "since I use a self-hosted PDS for posting and Blacksky for viewing posts, I can go on using the service just fine".

Blacksky can't show me my own posts. I can make them and they show up on my PDS, but my profile shows none more recent than last night.

I wonder if Blacksky is coincidentally having server problems, or if Blacksky has a still-undisclosed dependency on Bluesky services. (It *does* have disclosed use of Bluesky moderation; maybe that's it.)

An orgy, but it strictly follows Robert's Rules of Order

Was at the store and they no longer carry dish detergent as powder in a box. Pods only.

So some kind of jitter caused Mastodon's notifications column to briefly believe a notification I received was received in the future, causing whatever humanized-datetime library Mastodon uses to display this somewhat ominous message

Did spend like 15 minutes before posting that trying to figure out if the most idiomatic thing would be 普通话歌词, 歌词普通话 or like 歌词的普通话 or something. I don't trust the robots. I don't trust the robots, man

I withdraw my "well, at least the Canadian Liberals aren't turning fash like the American Democrats and UK Labour" sense of relief

https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/life/sci-tech/2026/04/11/liberal-party-adopts-motion-to-restrict-kids-from-social-media