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Snarky geek, skeptical to the bone, too many interests, too little time. TTRPG+Nature+Law+Wx+Computers+Misc junk.
Snarky geek, skeptical to the bone, too many interests, too little time. TTRPG+Nature+Law+Wx+Computers+Misc junk.
TIL the Washington State lottery-vending machines will take MC/V debit cards with just your zipcode; they don't require a PIN.
This is why odds keep getting janked even higher for lotteries.
Lower chance to win = more rollovers
Rollover = higher pot next week
Higher pot = more people buying tickets
More ticket sales = more revenue to government
In addition to what govt gets from the taxes on the prize
#powerball #lottery
Lower chance to win = more rollovers
Rollover = higher pot next week
Higher pot = more people buying tickets
More ticket sales = more revenue to government
In addition to what govt gets from the taxes on the prize
#powerball #lottery
December 20, 2025 at 12:33 AM
TIL the Washington State lottery-vending machines will take MC/V debit cards with just your zipcode; they don't require a PIN.
This is why odds keep getting janked even higher for lotteries.
Lower chance to win = more rollovers
Rollover = higher pot next week
Higher pot = more people buying tickets
More ticket sales = more revenue to government
In addition to what govt gets from the taxes on the prize
#powerball #lottery
Lower chance to win = more rollovers
Rollover = higher pot next week
Higher pot = more people buying tickets
More ticket sales = more revenue to government
In addition to what govt gets from the taxes on the prize
#powerball #lottery
December 19, 2025 at 11:38 PM
This is why odds keep getting janked even higher for lotteries.
Lower chance to win = more rollovers
Rollover = higher pot next week
Higher pot = more people buying tickets
More ticket sales = more revenue to government
In addition to what govt gets from the taxes on the prize
#powerball #lottery
Lower chance to win = more rollovers
Rollover = higher pot next week
Higher pot = more people buying tickets
More ticket sales = more revenue to government
In addition to what govt gets from the taxes on the prize
#powerball #lottery
wooooosh
Nothing like an accipiter drive-by to stop the fights over whether the song sparrow gets to monopolize the feeder or not.
Song sparrow was trying to intimidate the spotted towhee (who was ignoring him) at the time.
Juncos were probably rooting for the hawk, which missed.
#pnwbirds 🪶
Nothing like an accipiter drive-by to stop the fights over whether the song sparrow gets to monopolize the feeder or not.
Song sparrow was trying to intimidate the spotted towhee (who was ignoring him) at the time.
Juncos were probably rooting for the hawk, which missed.
#pnwbirds 🪶
December 19, 2025 at 9:36 PM
wooooosh
Nothing like an accipiter drive-by to stop the fights over whether the song sparrow gets to monopolize the feeder or not.
Song sparrow was trying to intimidate the spotted towhee (who was ignoring him) at the time.
Juncos were probably rooting for the hawk, which missed.
#pnwbirds 🪶
Nothing like an accipiter drive-by to stop the fights over whether the song sparrow gets to monopolize the feeder or not.
Song sparrow was trying to intimidate the spotted towhee (who was ignoring him) at the time.
Juncos were probably rooting for the hawk, which missed.
#pnwbirds 🪶
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The Brown/MIT school shooter was from Portugal—the most egregious example yet of an immigrant doing a job that could that thousands of Americans could have done.
December 19, 2025 at 7:19 PM
The Brown/MIT school shooter was from Portugal—the most egregious example yet of an immigrant doing a job that could that thousands of Americans could have done.
Dangit just as I get the resolve to get off my ass and do some work outside because it's clear and not raining, new clouds and fog move in.
Maybe if I hibernate indoors until summer warmup, the storm debris will compost itself into my yard and save me the trouble of hauling it off?
#pnwlife
Maybe if I hibernate indoors until summer warmup, the storm debris will compost itself into my yard and save me the trouble of hauling it off?
#pnwlife
December 19, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Dangit just as I get the resolve to get off my ass and do some work outside because it's clear and not raining, new clouds and fog move in.
Maybe if I hibernate indoors until summer warmup, the storm debris will compost itself into my yard and save me the trouble of hauling it off?
#pnwlife
Maybe if I hibernate indoors until summer warmup, the storm debris will compost itself into my yard and save me the trouble of hauling it off?
#pnwlife
I need to download this contract because it sounds like one of those drinking games of "find the red flags".
Or an excellent example for a contracts class on extreme one-sided exploitative contracts.
Red Flag Bingo Card, anyone?
Or an excellent example for a contracts class on extreme one-sided exploitative contracts.
Red Flag Bingo Card, anyone?
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December 18, 2025 at 11:09 PM
I need to download this contract because it sounds like one of those drinking games of "find the red flags".
Or an excellent example for a contracts class on extreme one-sided exploitative contracts.
Red Flag Bingo Card, anyone?
Or an excellent example for a contracts class on extreme one-sided exploitative contracts.
Red Flag Bingo Card, anyone?
OK so I get in, sorta, via the Google gmail login.
You have to be in non-incognito mode, turn off all privacy, accept all cookies from everyone, to get past the captchas.
To find the account is now locked and requires government ID to verify.
Pass. I don't trust them with my data.
You have to be in non-incognito mode, turn off all privacy, accept all cookies from everyone, to get past the captchas.
To find the account is now locked and requires government ID to verify.
Pass. I don't trust them with my data.
WTF is up with LinkedIn demanding I enter a phone number to "verify it's you"?
I never gave them my phone number. I've always declined and skipped those annoying popups.
So what are they verifying it against? Or is this just a way to hold my account hostage until I "consent" and give it to them?
I never gave them my phone number. I've always declined and skipped those annoying popups.
So what are they verifying it against? Or is this just a way to hold my account hostage until I "consent" and give it to them?
December 17, 2025 at 9:32 PM
OK so I get in, sorta, via the Google gmail login.
You have to be in non-incognito mode, turn off all privacy, accept all cookies from everyone, to get past the captchas.
To find the account is now locked and requires government ID to verify.
Pass. I don't trust them with my data.
You have to be in non-incognito mode, turn off all privacy, accept all cookies from everyone, to get past the captchas.
To find the account is now locked and requires government ID to verify.
Pass. I don't trust them with my data.
WTF is up with LinkedIn demanding I enter a phone number to "verify it's you"?
I never gave them my phone number. I've always declined and skipped those annoying popups.
So what are they verifying it against? Or is this just a way to hold my account hostage until I "consent" and give it to them?
I never gave them my phone number. I've always declined and skipped those annoying popups.
So what are they verifying it against? Or is this just a way to hold my account hostage until I "consent" and give it to them?
December 17, 2025 at 8:47 PM
WTF is up with LinkedIn demanding I enter a phone number to "verify it's you"?
I never gave them my phone number. I've always declined and skipped those annoying popups.
So what are they verifying it against? Or is this just a way to hold my account hostage until I "consent" and give it to them?
I never gave them my phone number. I've always declined and skipped those annoying popups.
So what are they verifying it against? Or is this just a way to hold my account hostage until I "consent" and give it to them?
Heaviest rains going into the areas already flooding due to levee failures. Then they'll go east into the mountains, dumping water all the way. And that water will run off into the still-raging rivers, which drain right back to this same area to empty into Puget Sound.
#wawx
#wawx
December 17, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Heaviest rains going into the areas already flooding due to levee failures. Then they'll go east into the mountains, dumping water all the way. And that water will run off into the still-raging rivers, which drain right back to this same area to empty into Puget Sound.
#wawx
#wawx
Holy crap the line that just hit Seattle to Tacoma and other parts north and south. These are close to the highest winds I've experienced here in the last couple of years. Branches & evergreen cones are flying everywhere.
Heads up!
Oh yeah, this comes with another round of heavy rain.
#wawx
Heads up!
Oh yeah, this comes with another round of heavy rain.
#wawx
December 17, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Holy crap the line that just hit Seattle to Tacoma and other parts north and south. These are close to the highest winds I've experienced here in the last couple of years. Branches & evergreen cones are flying everywhere.
Heads up!
Oh yeah, this comes with another round of heavy rain.
#wawx
Heads up!
Oh yeah, this comes with another round of heavy rain.
#wawx
Back in the dark ages of my misspent early career, I coded rain and flood models. It taught me this:
Water is going to win. Water will always win. You can't just squish it into less space.
It's going to go SOMEWHERE. NOW.
All you can do is try to hold more and direct the rest.
#wawx #floods
Water is going to win. Water will always win. You can't just squish it into less space.
It's going to go SOMEWHERE. NOW.
All you can do is try to hold more and direct the rest.
#wawx #floods
December 17, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Check wsdot.com/Travel/Real-... before heading east out of Seattle-Metro.
49 miles of US 2 are now closed due to multiple washouts, mud+landslides and debris on the road, flooding and all that.
This is not an easy, quick fix. #wawx #flood
49 miles of US 2 are now closed due to multiple washouts, mud+landslides and debris on the road, flooding and all that.
This is not an easy, quick fix. #wawx #flood
December 16, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Check wsdot.com/Travel/Real-... before heading east out of Seattle-Metro.
49 miles of US 2 are now closed due to multiple washouts, mud+landslides and debris on the road, flooding and all that.
This is not an easy, quick fix. #wawx #flood
49 miles of US 2 are now closed due to multiple washouts, mud+landslides and debris on the road, flooding and all that.
This is not an easy, quick fix. #wawx #flood
For those who want to follow crests or simply learn more, the USGS website still has the stream monitoring open to the public. URL dashboard.waterdata.usgs.gov/app/nwd/en/
You can zoom around, click sites for the latest readings, and so on.
You can zoom around, click sites for the latest readings, and so on.
December 16, 2025 at 2:15 AM
For those who want to follow crests or simply learn more, the USGS website still has the stream monitoring open to the public. URL dashboard.waterdata.usgs.gov/app/nwd/en/
You can zoom around, click sites for the latest readings, and so on.
You can zoom around, click sites for the latest readings, and so on.
There's a big residential area just west of the levee break and long stretches of retail, industrial park/distribution centers, and corporate buildings to the north and northeast.
The Green River flows north, past Tukwila and joins another in-flood river headed to Seattle #seattlefloods
#wawx
The Green River flows north, past Tukwila and joins another in-flood river headed to Seattle #seattlefloods
#wawx
December 15, 2025 at 10:40 PM
There's a big residential area just west of the levee break and long stretches of retail, industrial park/distribution centers, and corporate buildings to the north and northeast.
The Green River flows north, past Tukwila and joins another in-flood river headed to Seattle #seattlefloods
#wawx
The Green River flows north, past Tukwila and joins another in-flood river headed to Seattle #seattlefloods
#wawx
Treat yourself to some holiday goodness after you've endured one too many aural attacks of "the note's in here somewhere" vibratto staccato'd machine-gun style from carols broadcast over store speakers
this is the greatest Christmas movie ever made and if you disagree you're wrong
December 13, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Treat yourself to some holiday goodness after you've endured one too many aural attacks of "the note's in here somewhere" vibratto staccato'd machine-gun style from carols broadcast over store speakers
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SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.'
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
December 10, 2025 at 5:10 PM
SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
One of the few things an online company can do that's worse for their reputation than not confirm email "signups" is to then relentlessly spam-bomb the email victim. Modgents.com is up there with the right-wing fundraising scare emails in terms of spam filter saturation. #spammer #diediedie
December 10, 2025 at 3:53 AM
One of the few things an online company can do that's worse for their reputation than not confirm email "signups" is to then relentlessly spam-bomb the email victim. Modgents.com is up there with the right-wing fundraising scare emails in terms of spam filter saturation. #spammer #diediedie
... and sweet potato pie for breakfast the next day, accompanied by homeroasted coffee, makes *me* happy
Baking bread makes the house smell happy
November 28, 2025 at 5:51 PM
... and sweet potato pie for breakfast the next day, accompanied by homeroasted coffee, makes *me* happy
One vendor has sold out of the Spigelia I reallyreally wanted and was most likely to succumb to. So now it's safe to wander their website again. 🌱
Avoiding the near occasion of commerce ...
My Spigelia *better* come back next spring!
Avoiding the near occasion of commerce ...
My Spigelia *better* come back next spring!
This week is "trying to avoid the temptation of end-of-season gardening clearance sales by potting up the dozens of starts and bulbs already in-hand". It never reduces the temptation but should keep me away from the keyboard long enough for everything to sell out before I buy more. 🌱
In theory.
In theory.
November 28, 2025 at 5:49 PM
One vendor has sold out of the Spigelia I reallyreally wanted and was most likely to succumb to. So now it's safe to wander their website again. 🌱
Avoiding the near occasion of commerce ...
My Spigelia *better* come back next spring!
Avoiding the near occasion of commerce ...
My Spigelia *better* come back next spring!
Baking bread makes the house smell happy
November 27, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Baking bread makes the house smell happy
This week is "trying to avoid the temptation of end-of-season gardening clearance sales by potting up the dozens of starts and bulbs already in-hand". It never reduces the temptation but should keep me away from the keyboard long enough for everything to sell out before I buy more. 🌱
In theory.
In theory.
November 25, 2025 at 7:32 PM
This week is "trying to avoid the temptation of end-of-season gardening clearance sales by potting up the dozens of starts and bulbs already in-hand". It never reduces the temptation but should keep me away from the keyboard long enough for everything to sell out before I buy more. 🌱
In theory.
In theory.
nerd #datenight 30-some years ago
Back when you spent a month's takehome pay building your his-and-hers computers from scratch and dual-boot meant days of BBS-crawling looking for Linux drivers
Back when you spent a month's takehome pay building your his-and-hers computers from scratch and dual-boot meant days of BBS-crawling looking for Linux drivers
November 24, 2025 at 11:43 PM
nerd #datenight 30-some years ago
Back when you spent a month's takehome pay building your his-and-hers computers from scratch and dual-boot meant days of BBS-crawling looking for Linux drivers
Back when you spent a month's takehome pay building your his-and-hers computers from scratch and dual-boot meant days of BBS-crawling looking for Linux drivers
(Is gardening FOR birds OK here?) "Living wall" hummingbird+pollinator buffet - runnerbeans + cardinal climbers. Zinnia at base. The support is coated 2x4 hardware cloth suspended from deck above, ziptied to the side post for extra support. Hours of entertainment for < $5 in seeds 🪶
November 24, 2025 at 10:54 PM
(Is gardening FOR birds OK here?) "Living wall" hummingbird+pollinator buffet - runnerbeans + cardinal climbers. Zinnia at base. The support is coated 2x4 hardware cloth suspended from deck above, ziptied to the side post for extra support. Hours of entertainment for < $5 in seeds 🪶
"You had one job" engineering failures - Old photograph, undated (not mine). These apartments used to flood out every few years so they installed the wall. I think the story was pumps failed.
November 24, 2025 at 9:37 PM
"You had one job" engineering failures - Old photograph, undated (not mine). These apartments used to flood out every few years so they installed the wall. I think the story was pumps failed.