PorterStoutImperial
@porterstout.bsky.social
Seattle musician, coder, wannabe mixologist and Dad Joke auteur. He/him.
For the weekend, I decided to set my browser's default search engine to Wikipedia. Probably more than half the time, I'm only using Bing or Google as proxies for a Wiki search anyway. Also, this way I don't trigger an A.I. summary that get excised from the page by my custom GreaseMonkey scripts.
January 11, 2026 at 8:03 PM
For the weekend, I decided to set my browser's default search engine to Wikipedia. Probably more than half the time, I'm only using Bing or Google as proxies for a Wiki search anyway. Also, this way I don't trigger an A.I. summary that get excised from the page by my custom GreaseMonkey scripts.
"Ah, surely the electorate has learned its lesson," every four to eight years, for now.
January 8, 2026 at 4:08 PM
"Ah, surely the electorate has learned its lesson," every four to eight years, for now.
Try imagining any industry other than tech using the defense, "but we can't predict how it works!" when people get hurt by their products. Imagine if all cars all had Infinite Improbability Drives with a 0.01% chance per mile of teleporting you directly into the Earth's core, and Ford just shrugged.
January 4, 2026 at 7:21 PM
Try imagining any industry other than tech using the defense, "but we can't predict how it works!" when people get hurt by their products. Imagine if all cars all had Infinite Improbability Drives with a 0.01% chance per mile of teleporting you directly into the Earth's core, and Ford just shrugged.
I got a Ring Pop in my stocking and I thought I could engage Goblin Mode and just eat the damn candy, but it turns out disregarding the Ring Pop form factor is really, really hard.
January 3, 2026 at 5:49 AM
I got a Ring Pop in my stocking and I thought I could engage Goblin Mode and just eat the damn candy, but it turns out disregarding the Ring Pop form factor is really, really hard.
My mother-in-law asked me to find a '50s or '60s western film to show her granddaughter, and holy shit is this kind of search broken across all of the services I attempted to use.
December 29, 2025 at 5:58 PM
My mother-in-law asked me to find a '50s or '60s western film to show her granddaughter, and holy shit is this kind of search broken across all of the services I attempted to use.
Tech Bros going all in on AI to an irrational level makes a lot more sense if you mentally frame it as a hostage drama: "Fully embrace A.I. or we will blow up the whole economy" is in the right ballpark for their first, tense scene dueling with the police negotiator via walkie-talkie.
December 27, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Tech Bros going all in on AI to an irrational level makes a lot more sense if you mentally frame it as a hostage drama: "Fully embrace A.I. or we will blow up the whole economy" is in the right ballpark for their first, tense scene dueling with the police negotiator via walkie-talkie.
As a Seattle fan, I couldn't help but notice that even in this hallucinatory fever dream, the Mariners couldn't win the pennant. Let alone the Marbiders or Sleattle City.
For anyone worried AI will replace all of us.
Courtesy of Gemini for the prompt “create an infographic of all the World Series winners since 1986”
I dare you to find 10 things that are right.
Courtesy of Gemini for the prompt “create an infographic of all the World Series winners since 1986”
I dare you to find 10 things that are right.
December 17, 2025 at 10:09 AM
As a Seattle fan, I couldn't help but notice that even in this hallucinatory fever dream, the Mariners couldn't win the pennant. Let alone the Marbiders or Sleattle City.
When it's a mid-tempo punk song in a minor key, you know some serious shit is about to be discussed.
December 16, 2025 at 6:41 AM
When it's a mid-tempo punk song in a minor key, you know some serious shit is about to be discussed.
BlueSky should let an account's followers propose alt text for images without it, then let them vote on the top choice, or allow the post author to choose one of the proposals (which would override community choices).
December 10, 2025 at 9:40 PM
BlueSky should let an account's followers propose alt text for images without it, then let them vote on the top choice, or allow the post author to choose one of the proposals (which would override community choices).
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pedantry is a bad look, meaning in language is determined by use, and also, that’s probably not what “begs the question” means
December 10, 2025 at 7:32 PM
pedantry is a bad look, meaning in language is determined by use, and also, that’s probably not what “begs the question” means
Oh, I get it now. Hegseth is the Secretary of War CRIMES.
November 28, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Oh, I get it now. Hegseth is the Secretary of War CRIMES.
Turducken will always be a "no" from me because of the first four letters.
November 27, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Turducken will always be a "no" from me because of the first four letters.
I'm beginning to suspect that all this attention is exactly what that RFK-sexting reporter wanted in the first place.
November 26, 2025 at 6:52 PM
I'm beginning to suspect that all this attention is exactly what that RFK-sexting reporter wanted in the first place.
Clearly the Boomers, Xers, and Gen Zers are ganging up on Millennials because our generational cohort has the coolest name and the rest are jealous. I will not self-reflect on this or any other matter, because there's never been a need for any cohort to do so.
November 20, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Clearly the Boomers, Xers, and Gen Zers are ganging up on Millennials because our generational cohort has the coolest name and the rest are jealous. I will not self-reflect on this or any other matter, because there's never been a need for any cohort to do so.
Don't worry about Bill Maher; he'll have a long and fruitful career airing his grievances on TV for years to come.
November 18, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Don't worry about Bill Maher; he'll have a long and fruitful career airing his grievances on TV for years to come.
"MTG was the greatest when she was ranting about space laser but now she's gone off the deep end! Thank you for your attention to this matter!" makes so much more sense when you realize his core base does not have object permanence.
November 15, 2025 at 4:27 PM
"MTG was the greatest when she was ranting about space laser but now she's gone off the deep end! Thank you for your attention to this matter!" makes so much more sense when you realize his core base does not have object permanence.
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not the main point of those emails at all but good lord are they all dreadful writers. spaces before and after commas? criminal
November 12, 2025 at 6:00 PM
not the main point of those emails at all but good lord are they all dreadful writers. spaces before and after commas? criminal
Looking forward to footage from later today of Mike Johnson claiming he's never heard of Donald Trump.
November 12, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Looking forward to footage from later today of Mike Johnson claiming he's never heard of Donald Trump.
Work comes to a standstill at X dot com today as a manic Musk has been up all night and is demanding everyone drop all their work in order to find out if this Joyce Carol Oates account is some website he can buy and run into the ground, or if he'll have to build his own Grok Carol Oates.
November 11, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Work comes to a standstill at X dot com today as a manic Musk has been up all night and is demanding everyone drop all their work in order to find out if this Joyce Carol Oates account is some website he can buy and run into the ground, or if he'll have to build his own Grok Carol Oates.
Watching Jeanne Shaheen's presser where she attempts to justify what Dems "won", which is a vote that will almost certainly fail because GOP will GOP. Really makes me wonder what it'd be like to wake up every day like Guy Pearce in Memento, not remembering a single thing that happened yesterday.
November 10, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Watching Jeanne Shaheen's presser where she attempts to justify what Dems "won", which is a vote that will almost certainly fail because GOP will GOP. Really makes me wonder what it'd be like to wake up every day like Guy Pearce in Memento, not remembering a single thing that happened yesterday.
The Peanuts meme of Charlie Brown falling for the football snatch does not apply to the Minority Leader today because Charlie Brown is the lovable loser you keep rooting for. The only thing I'm rooting for Schumer to do is go jump in a lake with the Baileys.
November 9, 2025 at 9:03 PM
The Peanuts meme of Charlie Brown falling for the football snatch does not apply to the Minority Leader today because Charlie Brown is the lovable loser you keep rooting for. The only thing I'm rooting for Schumer to do is go jump in a lake with the Baileys.
Another A.I. feature that people might actually want: detect if an incoming text message is "just chatting" vs. asking a time-sensitive question ("saw this cute things at a yard sale, do you want me to get it for you?") and play a more urgent notification sound if so.
November 8, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Another A.I. feature that people might actually want: detect if an incoming text message is "just chatting" vs. asking a time-sensitive question ("saw this cute things at a yard sale, do you want me to get it for you?") and play a more urgent notification sound if so.
Seattle Weather Update: yes, that was lightning!
November 6, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Seattle Weather Update: yes, that was lightning!
Yeas, kids: in Insane Seattle Electoral Politics World, the mayoral candidate who struggles with childcare costs is LESS representative of the majority of people with kids, and the one who's hasn't stressed about it knows MORE about the burden of childcare costs.
November 3, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Yeas, kids: in Insane Seattle Electoral Politics World, the mayoral candidate who struggles with childcare costs is LESS representative of the majority of people with kids, and the one who's hasn't stressed about it knows MORE about the burden of childcare costs.