Chicory Coffee
@chicory.bsky.social
New Orleans, IT professional, TTRPG nerd, cat dad.
Formerly @UnusedBits.
Formerly @UnusedBits.
#Epic games store is running their yearly free game giveaway. New game each day. You can claim through the website.
store.epicgames.com/en-US
store.epicgames.com/en-US
Epic Games Store | Download & Play PC Games, Mods, DLC & More – Epic Games
Welcome to Epic Games Store! Download and play PC Games of every genre. We have mods, DLC and Free Games too! Games for everyone.
store.epicgames.com
December 19, 2025 at 4:57 PM
#Epic games store is running their yearly free game giveaway. New game each day. You can claim through the website.
store.epicgames.com/en-US
store.epicgames.com/en-US
Does updating a JAVA application while sitting in a boba tea cafe instead of a coffee shop count as cheating? Asking for a friend.
a cartoon cat is drinking a cup of bubble tea through a straw .
ALT: a cartoon cat is drinking a cup of bubble tea through a straw .
media.tenor.com
December 17, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Does updating a JAVA application while sitting in a boba tea cafe instead of a coffee shop count as cheating? Asking for a friend.
Is it an unwritten requirement for coffee shops to play "Hey there, Delilah" at least once every hour? Am I mot supposed to be paying attention to the background noise?
December 17, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Is it an unwritten requirement for coffee shops to play "Hey there, Delilah" at least once every hour? Am I mot supposed to be paying attention to the background noise?
Do better, #OneDrive. A 23 GB #SharePoint library is only 60% synchronized down after 7 hours. Baldurs Gate 3 is 150 GB and I could have installed that and been 4+ hours into the next playthrough. Be better, #Microsoft.
a man with a mustache is sitting on a swing in a park
ALT: a man with a mustache is sitting on a swing in a park
media.tenor.com
December 16, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Do better, #OneDrive. A 23 GB #SharePoint library is only 60% synchronized down after 7 hours. Baldurs Gate 3 is 150 GB and I could have installed that and been 4+ hours into the next playthrough. Be better, #Microsoft.
Anybody know how to adjust their pet(s) for daylight savings? The greyhounds clock is off again this morning.
November 3, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Anybody know how to adjust their pet(s) for daylight savings? The greyhounds clock is off again this morning.
Looks like #Ring is getting worse and worse. Letting police live stream from devices? Seriously?
www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
Amazon Ring Cashes in on Techno-Authoritarianism and Mass Surveillance
Ring founder Jamie Siminoff is back at the helm of the surveillance doorbell company, and with him is the surveillance-first-privacy-last approach that made Ring one of the most maligned tech devices....
www.eff.org
August 6, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Looks like #Ring is getting worse and worse. Letting police live stream from devices? Seriously?
www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
New Orleans Oddities & Curiosities Expo 2025 will be July 19, 2025 only this year.
Just saw the update posted. "We're so sorry for the disruption and disappointment.∙ If you purchased a Sunday GA ticket, it will now be valid for Saturday."
www.showpass.com/new-orleans-...
Just saw the update posted. "We're so sorry for the disruption and disappointment.∙ If you purchased a Sunday GA ticket, it will now be valid for Saturday."
www.showpass.com/new-orleans-...
www.showpass.com
July 16, 2025 at 9:27 PM
New Orleans Oddities & Curiosities Expo 2025 will be July 19, 2025 only this year.
Just saw the update posted. "We're so sorry for the disruption and disappointment.∙ If you purchased a Sunday GA ticket, it will now be valid for Saturday."
www.showpass.com/new-orleans-...
Just saw the update posted. "We're so sorry for the disruption and disappointment.∙ If you purchased a Sunday GA ticket, it will now be valid for Saturday."
www.showpass.com/new-orleans-...
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So, we’re gonna tell our kids we looked at this, shrugged, & carried on as normal?
July 15, 2025 at 3:47 PM
So, we’re gonna tell our kids we looked at this, shrugged, & carried on as normal?
Stay classy, #Louisiana. bets on how long before these 5 officials are pardoned and put in charge of something in ICE?
5 people charging up to $5k USD to foreign nationals for fake visas since 2015. Absolute trash preying on people.
www.kplctv.com/2025/07/16/l...
5 people charging up to $5k USD to foreign nationals for fake visas since 2015. Absolute trash preying on people.
www.kplctv.com/2025/07/16/l...
Louisiana officials charged in immigration fraud and money laundering scheme
Louisiana officials and a businessman accused of running a decade-long immigration fraud and money laundering scheme.
www.kplctv.com
July 16, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Stay classy, #Louisiana. bets on how long before these 5 officials are pardoned and put in charge of something in ICE?
5 people charging up to $5k USD to foreign nationals for fake visas since 2015. Absolute trash preying on people.
www.kplctv.com/2025/07/16/l...
5 people charging up to $5k USD to foreign nationals for fake visas since 2015. Absolute trash preying on people.
www.kplctv.com/2025/07/16/l...
What's a [not] great idea? Integrate #MicrosoftTeams and #Copilot into the vehicle console so you can use generative AI to record and summarize your meetings...while you are driving. Let's enable the in-car camera so we can see how distracted they are too.
media.mercedes-benz.com/article/931e...
media.mercedes-benz.com/article/931e...
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media.mercedes-benz.com
July 16, 2025 at 2:21 PM
What's a [not] great idea? Integrate #MicrosoftTeams and #Copilot into the vehicle console so you can use generative AI to record and summarize your meetings...while you are driving. Let's enable the in-car camera so we can see how distracted they are too.
media.mercedes-benz.com/article/931e...
media.mercedes-benz.com/article/931e...
Uptown New Orleans this morning.
June 28, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Uptown New Orleans this morning.
Lol, #AMD Adrenalin thinks I've been playing the 2014 classic "Alien: Isolation" because Microsoft is bad at naming things. Maybe AMD needs some better machine learning...
May 28, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Lol, #AMD Adrenalin thinks I've been playing the 2014 classic "Alien: Isolation" because Microsoft is bad at naming things. Maybe AMD needs some better machine learning...
virtualize.sh/blog/ground-...
Gee, I wonder which satellite launching company is not playing by the rules. There are so many options.
Gee, I wonder which satellite launching company is not playing by the rules. There are so many options.
Ground control to Major Trial
When a $130M aerospace company chooses to endlessly abuse free trials instead of typing git pull, you start to question gravity, or at least common sense.
virtualize.sh
May 17, 2025 at 12:18 AM
virtualize.sh/blog/ground-...
Gee, I wonder which satellite launching company is not playing by the rules. There are so many options.
Gee, I wonder which satellite launching company is not playing by the rules. There are so many options.
Now that's a headline: USDA withdraws plan to limit salmonella levels in raw poultry
"The USDA will not require poultry companies to limit salmonella bacteria in their products"
Can we go back to being a reasonable country again? please?
www.foxla.com/news/usda-sa...
"The USDA will not require poultry companies to limit salmonella bacteria in their products"
Can we go back to being a reasonable country again? please?
www.foxla.com/news/usda-sa...
USDA withdraws plan to limit salmonella levels in raw poultry: What to know
The USDA will not require poultry companies to limit salmonella bacteria in their raw products, withdrawing a Biden-era proposal. Here's what to know.
www.foxla.com
April 29, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Now that's a headline: USDA withdraws plan to limit salmonella levels in raw poultry
"The USDA will not require poultry companies to limit salmonella bacteria in their products"
Can we go back to being a reasonable country again? please?
www.foxla.com/news/usda-sa...
"The USDA will not require poultry companies to limit salmonella bacteria in their products"
Can we go back to being a reasonable country again? please?
www.foxla.com/news/usda-sa...
Waffling from stupid to evil then back. The cruelty is the point with these people.
www.latintimes.com/rfk-jr-end-g...
www.latintimes.com/rfk-jr-end-g...
RFK Jr. to End 'Godsend' Narcan Program That Helped Reduce Overdose Deaths Despite His Past Heroin Addiction
Despite overcoming heroin addiction himself, RFK Jr. is backing plans to cut a critical Narcan program that helped reduce overdose deaths.
www.latintimes.com
April 29, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Waffling from stupid to evil then back. The cruelty is the point with these people.
www.latintimes.com/rfk-jr-end-g...
www.latintimes.com/rfk-jr-end-g...
Proposed Louisiana law to prevent roofing contractors from helping owners with claims. I guess it is to prevent the graft like in FL but this feels like something different.
lailluminator.com/2025/04/24/r...
lailluminator.com/2025/04/24/r...
Roofers could be banned from helping customers with insurance claims • Louisiana Illuminator
Louisiana lawmakers advanced a bill Wednesday that would prohibit roofing contractors from assisting homeowners with insurance claims.
lailluminator.com
April 29, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Proposed Louisiana law to prevent roofing contractors from helping owners with claims. I guess it is to prevent the graft like in FL but this feels like something different.
lailluminator.com/2025/04/24/r...
lailluminator.com/2025/04/24/r...
Microsoft is bringing back their uber-spyware. Opt-in for now, but how long will that last?
arstechnica.com/security/202...
arstechnica.com/security/202...
That groan you hear is users’ reaction to Recall going back into Windows
Snapshotting and AI processing a screen every 3 seconds. What could possibly go wrong?
arstechnica.com
April 13, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Microsoft is bringing back their uber-spyware. Opt-in for now, but how long will that last?
arstechnica.com/security/202...
arstechnica.com/security/202...
What the actual hell, #Texas? The #F.U.R.R.I.E.S Act to enshrine into law something that was routinely debunked.
It also has a very real chance of reviving the #SatanicPanic of the 80s.
Watch Texas use this to ban school plays and drama classes too.
www.rascal.news/texas-furrie...
It also has a very real chance of reviving the #SatanicPanic of the 80s.
Watch Texas use this to ban school plays and drama classes too.
www.rascal.news/texas-furrie...
A Texas conformity bill could impact tabletop roleplaying games in schools statewide
This decade’s Satanic Panic is encapsulated in the F.U.R.R.I.E.S Act, aimed at reinforcing "reality" while curbing students' rights to creativity and expression.
www.rascal.news
March 20, 2025 at 7:19 PM
What the actual hell, #Texas? The #F.U.R.R.I.E.S Act to enshrine into law something that was routinely debunked.
It also has a very real chance of reviving the #SatanicPanic of the 80s.
Watch Texas use this to ban school plays and drama classes too.
www.rascal.news/texas-furrie...
It also has a very real chance of reviving the #SatanicPanic of the 80s.
Watch Texas use this to ban school plays and drama classes too.
www.rascal.news/texas-furrie...
Hail Satan, Judge. Sorry, u mean good on you tor illustrating how silly some of the “for the children “ laws are.
www.techdirt.com/2025/03/11/j...
www.techdirt.com/2025/03/11/j...
Judge Uses D&D’s Failure To Make Him Worship Satan To School Florida On Social Media Moral Panics
When Florida’s lawyers tried to defend the state’s social media age restriction law by claiming it’s “well known” that platforms harm children, they probably werenR…
www.techdirt.com
March 13, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Hail Satan, Judge. Sorry, u mean good on you tor illustrating how silly some of the “for the children “ laws are.
www.techdirt.com/2025/03/11/j...
www.techdirt.com/2025/03/11/j...
I cannot fault anyone for wanting to get out now before it gets worse.
www.404media.co/nasa-yale-an...
www.404media.co/nasa-yale-an...
NASA, Yale, and Stanford Scientists Consider 'Scientific Exile,' French University Says
“We are witnessing a new brain drain.”
www.404media.co
March 13, 2025 at 5:36 PM
I cannot fault anyone for wanting to get out now before it gets worse.
www.404media.co/nasa-yale-an...
www.404media.co/nasa-yale-an...
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I feel like the Venn diagram of New Orleans area cyber truck owners and Chaos members is a perfect, white circle
February 28, 2025 at 3:19 AM
I feel like the Venn diagram of New Orleans area cyber truck owners and Chaos members is a perfect, white circle