oom_rl
LightNews LightNews
banner
outofmemory.bsky.social
oom_rl
@outofmemory.bsky.social
1.9K followers 430 following 6.3K posts
would prefer to be shitposting rather than whining.
pining for the fjords.
used to run a nuclear reactor underwater.

following based on {funny/articulate} posts.
if you're not posting I'm likely not following back.

pixelart avatar by @mona2.bsky
📍 USA
Posts Replies Media Videos
outofmemory.bsky.social
A Very Hungry Caterpillar art (Eric Carle) with 'eat the rich' superimposed in white serif letters. I've bought one, although not this exact one, from Etsy or somewhere before (it's on my laptop). I think it was actually a bookstore...
January 15, 2026 at 1:09 AM
outofmemory.bsky.social
Is it working for others?
When I click on that link I get sent to sessionize and get a page of what looks like "this renders the frontend":
Display of https://sessionize.com/api/v2/sdgzsw5z/view/GridSmart that looks like things users should not be seeing.
January 9, 2026 at 9:26 PM
outofmemory.bsky.social
The description for this picture in an (otherwise very good) ESPN article included "Davis, 70, usually looks boyish because of his youthful haircut..."
I mean, if you think that's "boyish" it's only because it's a freaking bowl cut?

www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/...
Davis, 70, usually looks boyish because of his youthful haircut, but on this night, he also sported childlike glee, and despite the Raiders' 2-4 record at that point in the season, he eagerly detailed his franchise's latest acquisition [Brady].
January 8, 2026 at 9:24 PM
outofmemory.bsky.social
This was really painful to generate as I had forgotten some of the assumptions (such as everyone who's a geek reads Dilbert regularly hee haw):
-----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GE d-@ s:+ a++ C++$ UBLHISC*+++(on)$ P+++(+)@ L++$@ !E---(+)@ !W+$ N+@>$ !o !K-- w+(++++)$ O+ M+ !V PS+@>+++ PE-@>-- Y+>$ !PGP t>$ 5 X- R>$ tv b+++ DI+ D++ G e+ h---- r+++ y++++ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
January 7, 2026 at 1:53 AM
outofmemory.bsky.social
This is one part of one side of my office.
Top shelf of things looking at me. Left to right there’s Neo, a porg, Mando’s head, Baby Yoda, a dwagon from Erfworld, and a koala in a green hoodie from Australian Signals Directorate. Next row of detritus is partially visible and includes light up RF controlled wristbands from Coldplay and a roll of toilet paper with DJTs face on it.
January 6, 2026 at 8:30 PM
outofmemory.bsky.social
Already has a clear leader for COTD:
Screenshot from Defector comments section: User Cap'n Taint 19 minutes ago: Operation Just 'Cause Reply from user DriveByIceRoadTrucker: COTD (Initial comment already had 17 upvotes in less than 20 minutes on a new article)
January 4, 2026 at 5:17 PM
outofmemory.bsky.social
I can't say I've ever been a Texas Tech fan, but after reading this article I am a Joey McGuire fan (and less of a Matt Rhule disliker than I used to be):

www.espn.com/college-foot...
From the ESPN article: The first hire of the McGuire era nearly fell through. After accepting the Texas Tech job, McGuire met with Aranda and said he wouldn't take any coaches with him. He didn't wish to disrupt a Baylor team that was 7-2 and chasing a Big 12 title. But he was bringing Blanchard, Baylor's assistant AD for scouting, to lead his recruitment department. "Aranda agrees, 'OK, you can have him,'" Blanchard said. "And then he immediately calls me and says, 'Hey, look, we'll give you this if you stay. Don't get on the plane with Joey.'" Blanchard was genuinely torn. He was making $170,000 a year. McGuire had offered him $185,000. Now Aranda was offering to bump him up to $200,000. This was life-changing money to his family, and he went back and forth about staying or going. Thirty minutes before he was set to fly out with McGuire, Blanchard still hadn't decided. He called Rhule and asked what he would do. "He's like, 'Man, I don't know the answer to this for you. But whoever you believe would make sure your wife doesn't lose the house if you die, go work for them,'" Blanchard said. "If I die tomorrow, and my wife can't pay the bills, who would make sure my wife and kids keep the house? "I was like, 'F---, that's Joey. I gotta go pack a bag.'"
January 2, 2026 at 8:22 PM
outofmemory.bsky.social
Uh yeah.
Roll-on roll-off ramp lost structural support when the ship moved away from the pier with the ramp “down” and is barely connected to the ship ugh.
December 30, 2025 at 2:13 AM
outofmemory.bsky.social
A friend has had season tickets to CFG Arena in Baltimore since they opened. They sent him a holiday gift with a sugar cookie for each act and he passed the NIN one to me:
A square sugar cookie covered with mostly-white icing with touches of blue and pink. Written on it in thin red icing letters is Nine Inch Nails Peel It Back Tour NIN 2025 It really does look like the tour logo, so someone is really good at the whole cookie decorating thing.
December 21, 2025 at 4:31 PM
outofmemory.bsky.social
Today I learned that even in a transcript provided to the press by folks who claim they might be professionals, folks don't notice that "anatomy" and "anonymity" are not the same word, probably because they're using sloppy speech-to-text.
(This entire slide is riddled with crap, and Joe Biden was clueless about S230/the Internet, and that should surprise no one.) The interconnection between cyberbullying and mental health, at the WH we had a task force on cyberbullying, we've seen it affect women, girls, POC, LGBTQ people [...] one of the things we try to figure out here is there's an element of social media that really drives polarization. SHE BROUGHT IT BACK TO ANATOMY AS THE PROBLEM Said social media drives people to attack others Said President has been focused "write (sic) large" on this culture that's driving polarization Talking about cyberbullying again. Ask them their thoughts on how we as a [...] and leaders can address steps we can take. JOE: Being anonymous online heightens things, one way to combat cyberbullying... Lexi: some kind of level of responsibility of platform - "These people with no name, no profile picture, make peopel say stuff with [...] their face" PEOPLE CLAPPED AND CHEERED for removing anonymity (Because the audience at this thing was driven by populists who don't really understand the Internet, Section 230, or why anonymity is in fact a Feature of the Internet and not a bug.)
December 19, 2025 at 3:46 AM
outofmemory.bsky.social
Okay, riddle me this Batman:
How in the world was that post muted for me, given that my only muted words are:
Your muted words (from bsky settings >> moderation) trump in text & tags Expires in 4 days reiner in text & tags Expired RFK in text & tags Expired Nuzzi in text & tags human pet guy in text & tags
December 18, 2025 at 11:57 PM
outofmemory.bsky.social
Yep, it's worth a read. Defector still one of my best choices to fund. Drew going off on the Fallon/Altman "can't imagine raising a baby without ChatGPT" sequence gives us this:
I’m old enough to remember when Jay Leno was the villain of late night. He was the toothless hack who yoinked the Tonight Show job from David Letterman, and then re-yoinked it from Conan O’Brien a few years later. So some of us (me) were pleased when Fallon nudged Leno out of the picture for good. I am no longer pleased. Fallon is worse than Leno. By miles. Someone please spike his next cocktail with iocaine powder.
December 14, 2025 at 6:26 AM
outofmemory.bsky.social
There is definitely something going on with these photos IMHO since 2004 Andreessen from Wikipedia looks comparatively normal (tho may be a function of perspective):
Andreessen in 2004 from the Wikipedia page about him.
December 11, 2025 at 10:27 PM
outofmemory.bsky.social
DDIR of NSA is an incredibly powerful position (as DIRNSA is also Chief CYBERCOM) and we've had some great ones. I've been privileged to meet a few.
The idea that someone's getting that job on political grounds (support from election denier CPAC type) is beyond appalling.
I will leave this FTA:
It’s unclear when the administration will announce Kosiba for the deputy role, though he recently went to NSA headquarters at Fort Meade, Maryland, for his polygraph test, according to two U.S. intelligence officials. Earlier this year the White House had considered Kosiba to be the next deputy assistant secretary of Defense for cyber policy but he didn’t pass the vetting process for unknown reasons. He is expected to get the NSA post thanks to Olsen’s support, the officials said.
December 11, 2025 at 8:46 PM
outofmemory.bsky.social
Seen today as I’m arriving for colonoscopy (yay old), the best car Xmas deco I’ve seen:
The back of a black Hyundai Palisade SUV with a Buddy the Elf decoration on the rear wiper. Buddy’s mouth is open yelling and his forearm and hand are on the wiper so he waves to attract attention when the wiper is going.
December 11, 2025 at 2:08 PM
outofmemory.bsky.social
This sequence of Reddit posts, in response to a first-level response of the form "And..." is exactly why I still visit Reddit. There are some weird and toxic boards, but a lot are like this.
(responding to a first response to an original reddit post. The first response was of the form, "And..." so apparently everyone else played along...well. First post shown: "And my axe" Second post: "And I will always love you" Third post: "I know." Bonus points - name the movies
December 4, 2025 at 6:33 AM
outofmemory.bsky.social
I mean… yes but it barely resembles her? More like generic blond white person?
Picture of Mariah Carey, who has blond hair but is definitely not generic.
December 2, 2025 at 5:07 AM
outofmemory.bsky.social
I still have some Razer mice fully functional but I switched my main PC to a Logitech G mouse where it charges through the pad.
Works really well.

Switched after one too many Razer switches died early.

IButtons on my 2 old Logitech trackballs are still working - brought one with me to in-laws.
Logitech TrackMan Marble, the best portable mouse I’ve ever found for use on a couch or small area. Perfect for conferences too. Wish they still made this one where you can basically use any finger or two you choose, not just your thumb.
November 28, 2025 at 8:30 PM
outofmemory.bsky.social
Meanwhile, my first reaction to those pictures wasn't brutalism but DisneyWorld:
Contemporary Resort, at WDW Orlando. It is angular with lots of windows and I guess maybe 'brutalist' in some sense? Built in the 70s from what I recall.
November 27, 2025 at 4:41 AM
outofmemory.bsky.social
Won't reskeet as it's behind a paywall.
But I agree with the article's stated premise:
There are only two small problems: U.S. military personnel are not warriors, and more importantly, they should never become warriors. Indeed, the very nature of a warrior is inimical to a free people under a constitutional government. The United States needs citizen-soldiers and has no use for warriors on the battlefield or at home. [article then continues.]
November 25, 2025 at 5:01 AM
outofmemory.bsky.social
...and importantly the oath that I swore as an officer never mentions the President.
Text of the oath I, [name], do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.
November 24, 2025 at 6:44 PM
outofmemory.bsky.social
This is a good article that I don't think @defector.com has re-posted. Image FTA with alt-text:

Just as importantly, "herd immunity" is only a good thing from the perspective of limiting spread to a pandemic. It protects un-vaccinate only partially at best.

defector.com/setting-asid...
... [and] indeed much more immunity in the population," Mandavilli grants, passively recapitulating Kennedy's elision of exactly how that immunity came to be, and also that immunity is not some fixed thing but rather a constantly eroding wall that must be continually reinforced through active public health measures, and also that "immunity in the population" does fuck-all for vulnerable people if the disease's vectors to them are not cut off by a critical mass of vaccination in everybody else, and that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. all but explicitly wants those vulnerable people to literally fucking die—well, so what? Of what use is that fact, outside of a performance of evenhandedness?
November 24, 2025 at 6:34 PM
outofmemory.bsky.social
I was not aware of this article on the Intercept - HT to StoopGrimePHL27062019 on Defector.
(Large text): After years of maintaining a close relationship with a known sex trafficker, he is still teaching undergraduates at Harvard Smaller text: The antifeminist writer Helen Andrews recently highlighted Summers’s case as an example of the failures of “cancel culture.” In a way she’s right: Cancel culture failed spectacularly to excise Summers from positions of influence. After years of maintaining a close relationship with a known sex trafficker (which has been public knowledge for years), he is still teaching undergraduates at Harvard. He was advising presidents and senators as recently as 2023. His “cancellation” was not even enough to preclude his consideration for a Cabinet post that would have put him fifth in line for the presidency (again). As much as any single person can, Summers embodies the most odious qualities of the political elite and the scorn they show for basic human well-being. We don’t need to be getting our policy insights from a pedophile-adjacent, ethically conflicted nepo baby. His advice isn’t worth it. He was wrong about our recent bout of inflation. He was wrong about bank deregulation. He was wrong about free trade agreements. He was wrong about fiscal stimulus. He even lost Harvard nearly $2 billion as president. We should demand much more from our economists, policymakers, and leaders. Indeed, making a more humane, responsive government will depend on it.
November 21, 2025 at 3:49 AM
outofmemory.bsky.social
So MechaHitler is now so far out of the real world as to actually produce farcical comedy.

"that hot, chunky regulatory vindaloo"
Elon's been chugging that exact blend for years without a single gag reflex. The man took a 100% liquid-ass-beating during the Twitter acquisition (44 billion dollars of explosive financial diarrhea straight to the face) and just swallowed it, wiped his mouth, and said "lol worth it." Everyone else in the contest is doubled over after one gulp of that hot, chunky regulatory vindaloo. Elon's already on his third gallon, tweeting memes between gulps, and asking if it comes in pumpkin spice for the season.
November 21, 2025 at 12:53 AM
outofmemory.bsky.social
...and there's not even a lot of subtlety to some of these folks.
essentially, "Still, knowing then what I know now, I would have voted for Trump over Harris." WTF.
FTA:
Donnan: Do you have any regrets about voting for the man? Wilson:   There are some things I regret about voting for President Trump? Yes, a hundred percent. Trade policy is one of them, even though that I wish he could have moderated his tone. Well, I understand you have to do one thing to get elected and then something else, but I wish it hadn't have turned out that way. That being said, given the two people running, regardless of what they said on the campaign trail, I would've voted for President Trump again.
November 16, 2025 at 3:53 AM