This is the thing I think even most tech-savvy people are missing about atproto. EVERYTHING is pluggable.

Too few people understand that having one or more marginalized identities does not magically immunize someone from being criticized for their character.

IRC needs to make a comeback.

While reading this thread, I have been quickly realizing the reason I like this show because of the joy it is bringing to my wife, who has been a hockey fan for literally decades.

Super long shot: Dranzer, if you’re out there, hit me up. I now recognize your game and to this day you are the reason I can recognize a Bell Canada IP address from a light-year away

Endorse. I used to play Quatris II (a Tetris clone with a cute little owl-robot that shot lasers at completed rows) on DOS as a kid and it had a whole screed, complete with drawings, in the help documents about how UPC barcodes were the mark of the beast.

My kingdom for a single journalist with the courage to ask her on camera if she thinks her dad would be proud of the person she became. I think she’d crash out pretty much immediately.

Not sure I like the rest of my bsky cohort (I joined October ‘24). The difference is I nuked my Twitter in 2022 when Elon closed on the acquisition so I had time to detox.

Also, if your whistle has a metal body, get some hockey tape and wrap it around the end so you don't accidentally break your own teeth.

When I went through the USA Hockey referee seminar in 2013, the Fox 40 and Acme Thunderer both came highly recommended.

I was wondering when someone would bring up Elián González. This was before DHS and before ICE. The INS was no better and the only good thing DHS did was separate the paperwork from the enforcement (paperwork being USCIS).