Wes George
@wesgeorge.bsky.social
Music, sci-fi, car, computer/networking geek. Personal account, also talks about work stuff, not officially representing my employer.
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There is nothing that captures the user-hostility of enterprise software quite so neatly as this prompt. As far as I can tell, it does absolutely nothing. Clicking Yes does not reduce the number of times one has to sign in. I tick the "Never again" box every time, yet it always appears again.
November 12, 2025 at 2:34 PM
There is nothing that captures the user-hostility of enterprise software quite so neatly as this prompt. As far as I can tell, it does absolutely nothing. Clicking Yes does not reduce the number of times one has to sign in. I tick the "Never again" box every time, yet it always appears again.
Last night, the wind took out a rather large pine tree shortly before I got to this section of road. There were ~8 people w/3 chainsaws, a leaf blower all working to get this cleared, had it passable in 15 min. Not sure if it was neighbors or a tree service, but impressive either way.
November 6, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Last night, the wind took out a rather large pine tree shortly before I got to this section of road. There were ~8 people w/3 chainsaws, a leaf blower all working to get this cleared, had it passable in 15 min. Not sure if it was neighbors or a tree service, but impressive either way.
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Was at the drugstore and noticed they make Tylenol PM now.
I hear it’s popular, but I don’t understand why anyone would buy this.
I want my headache fixed NOW, not in 3 quarters when it can get me on the roadmap.
I hear it’s popular, but I don’t understand why anyone would buy this.
I want my headache fixed NOW, not in 3 quarters when it can get me on the roadmap.
November 6, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Was at the drugstore and noticed they make Tylenol PM now.
I hear it’s popular, but I don’t understand why anyone would buy this.
I want my headache fixed NOW, not in 3 quarters when it can get me on the roadmap.
I hear it’s popular, but I don’t understand why anyone would buy this.
I want my headache fixed NOW, not in 3 quarters when it can get me on the roadmap.
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Y'all, I know two hours is a big time commitment, but this panel I arranged and hosted last month is one of the most important things I've ever done for video game history. The launch of the NES is a crazier story than most people realize, and my guests were extremely generous with their memories.
Hear about the NES US launch 40 years ago from the people that made it happen: Gail Tilden, Bruce Lowry and Lance Barr with @frankcifaldi.bsky.social from the @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social moderating! Panel recording at youtu.be/f2WDfsiLiRA
#prge #prge2025 #retrogaming #VGHF
#prge #prge2025 #retrogaming #VGHF
We Launched the NES 40 Years Ago Today - Gail Tilden, Lance Barr, Bruce Lowry - PRGE 2025 Portland
YouTube video by Portland Retro Gaming Expo
youtu.be
November 3, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Y'all, I know two hours is a big time commitment, but this panel I arranged and hosted last month is one of the most important things I've ever done for video game history. The launch of the NES is a crazier story than most people realize, and my guests were extremely generous with their memories.
Just got an ad for some random VPN provider. "Don't let anyone spy on you"
... except us, and whomever we sell your data to.
... except us, and whomever we sell your data to.
November 6, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Just got an ad for some random VPN provider. "Don't let anyone spy on you"
... except us, and whomever we sell your data to.
... except us, and whomever we sell your data to.
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i’d also say that the GOP’s obsession with this gives candidates an opportunity to articulate and stand up for their values. “i refuse to make anyone feel like they don’t belong in my [state/city/community]. and i want everyone to live the best life they can achieve [insert policy slogan]”
I am taking particular pleasure in the complete collapse of trans-as-unbeatable-wedge-issue narrative this morning. It might be an 80-20 issue in voters minds, but it has to be on voters minds to matter. The results in VA demonstrate that it is very much not on voters minds.
November 5, 2025 at 2:38 PM
i’d also say that the GOP’s obsession with this gives candidates an opportunity to articulate and stand up for their values. “i refuse to make anyone feel like they don’t belong in my [state/city/community]. and i want everyone to live the best life they can achieve [insert policy slogan]”
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Normal People Don’t Want This Shit is running away with the vote tonight
November 5, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Normal People Don’t Want This Shit is running away with the vote tonight
I didn't want to jinx it before but now that AP has called it, I expect there to be a number of "Winsome Losesome" headlines in the VA governor race.
November 5, 2025 at 1:16 AM
I didn't want to jinx it before but now that AP has called it, I expect there to be a number of "Winsome Losesome" headlines in the VA governor race.
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November 2, 2025 at 6:43 PM
meati, the official food product sponsor for Star Trek Discovery. Also be sure to try our Fun Shapes cellular peptide cake!
While I'm ranting about time change, you don't notice how good your brain is at unconsciously knowing the approximate time based on daylight & routine, even accounting for the seasonal difference in hours of sunlight, until The Switch basically makes that internal clock flash 12:00 for several weeks
November 2, 2025 at 5:45 PM
While I'm ranting about time change, you don't notice how good your brain is at unconsciously knowing the approximate time based on daylight & routine, even accounting for the seasonal difference in hours of sunlight, until The Switch basically makes that internal clock flash 12:00 for several weeks
Only a minority of my clocks have to be manually changed 2x a year now. It annoys me more than it should that one of them is my 2 year old, GPS and Internet connected electric car, which sets the time automatically but still requires a manual ticky box to toggle DST
November 2, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Only a minority of my clocks have to be manually changed 2x a year now. It annoys me more than it should that one of them is my 2 year old, GPS and Internet connected electric car, which sets the time automatically but still requires a manual ticky box to toggle DST
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Reporters must stop accepting this. Options:
-Laughing at him. Long and hard (combine with others)
-"It's your job to be informed"
-"How can Americans take you seriously when you always claim ignorance?"
-"I've never heard a speaker claim ignorance so often"
-"Nancy Pelosi knew what was happening"
-Laughing at him. Long and hard (combine with others)
-"It's your job to be informed"
-"How can Americans take you seriously when you always claim ignorance?"
-"I've never heard a speaker claim ignorance so often"
-"Nancy Pelosi knew what was happening"
Q: Just last week a minister was shot directly in the face with a pepper round by a DHS agent that left his face bloodied. Are you concerned that this is a religious freedom issue?
MIKE JOHNSON: I can't comment on any of those instances. I haven't seen or heard any of those videos
MIKE JOHNSON: I can't comment on any of those instances. I haven't seen or heard any of those videos
October 29, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Reporters must stop accepting this. Options:
-Laughing at him. Long and hard (combine with others)
-"It's your job to be informed"
-"How can Americans take you seriously when you always claim ignorance?"
-"I've never heard a speaker claim ignorance so often"
-"Nancy Pelosi knew what was happening"
-Laughing at him. Long and hard (combine with others)
-"It's your job to be informed"
-"How can Americans take you seriously when you always claim ignorance?"
-"I've never heard a speaker claim ignorance so often"
-"Nancy Pelosi knew what was happening"
Oh man, I totally forgot to post about this when they presented it as an option last time i was ordering (for my kid). Simultaneously cool that Zenni is doing this and seriously dytopian panopticon shit that this is a real thing that normal glasses-havers would be willing to pay for.
We tested out Zenni's anti-facial recognition glasses coating. It actually (kinda, technically) works? "ID Guard" adds a pink sheen to the surface of the glasses that reflects the infrared light used by some facial recognition cameras. So, only threats like that
www.404media.co/zennis-anti-...
www.404media.co/zennis-anti-...
Zenni’s Anti-Facial Recognition Glasses are Eyewear for Our Paranoid Age
These anti-facial recognition glasses technically work, but won’t save you from our surveillance dystopia.
www.404media.co
October 29, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Oh man, I totally forgot to post about this when they presented it as an option last time i was ordering (for my kid). Simultaneously cool that Zenni is doing this and seriously dytopian panopticon shit that this is a real thing that normal glasses-havers would be willing to pay for.
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This game is like I got caught smoking a baseball and now I have to smoke a whole pack of baseball
October 28, 2025 at 5:01 AM
This game is like I got caught smoking a baseball and now I have to smoke a whole pack of baseball
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“Babe it’s 1 am why aren’t you in bed the children are going to wake up so early tomorrow”
“Sorry hun, me and the 157 most brain damaged friends I’ve met online are watching two baseball teams we don’t care that much about and the bits have gone on so long we can’t turn back now”
“Sorry hun, me and the 157 most brain damaged friends I’ve met online are watching two baseball teams we don’t care that much about and the bits have gone on so long we can’t turn back now”
October 11, 2025 at 5:02 AM
“Babe it’s 1 am why aren’t you in bed the children are going to wake up so early tomorrow”
“Sorry hun, me and the 157 most brain damaged friends I’ve met online are watching two baseball teams we don’t care that much about and the bits have gone on so long we can’t turn back now”
“Sorry hun, me and the 157 most brain damaged friends I’ve met online are watching two baseball teams we don’t care that much about and the bits have gone on so long we can’t turn back now”
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I don’t even follow baseball I’m just a huge fan of absurdity
October 28, 2025 at 6:30 AM
I don’t even follow baseball I’m just a huge fan of absurdity
This is what computery discussions sound like to non computer people. In other words, "I know what those letters mean individually, but not when assembled in that particular order."
Shohei went from IBB to TOOTBLAN in the 9th inning.
October 28, 2025 at 2:17 PM
This is what computery discussions sound like to non computer people. In other words, "I know what those letters mean individually, but not when assembled in that particular order."
Me: *plugs in car*
Car: "charging scheduled"
11pm, Car: ...
1140pm, Home Assistant failsafe scheduled charging automation runs
Hyundai app: remote charge start request failed, vehicle not plugged in.
1240pm, HA automation fires again
Hyundai app: your vehicle is now charging. 🙃
Car: "charging scheduled"
11pm, Car: ...
1140pm, Home Assistant failsafe scheduled charging automation runs
Hyundai app: remote charge start request failed, vehicle not plugged in.
1240pm, HA automation fires again
Hyundai app: your vehicle is now charging. 🙃
October 28, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Me: *plugs in car*
Car: "charging scheduled"
11pm, Car: ...
1140pm, Home Assistant failsafe scheduled charging automation runs
Hyundai app: remote charge start request failed, vehicle not plugged in.
1240pm, HA automation fires again
Hyundai app: your vehicle is now charging. 🙃
Car: "charging scheduled"
11pm, Car: ...
1140pm, Home Assistant failsafe scheduled charging automation runs
Hyundai app: remote charge start request failed, vehicle not plugged in.
1240pm, HA automation fires again
Hyundai app: your vehicle is now charging. 🙃
Chef Jiro, of "Jiro Dreams of Sushi" fame, just turned 100! apnews.com/article/japa...
Japan's sushi legend in 'Jiro Dreams of Sushi' documentary turns 100 | AP News
Japanese sushi legend Jiro Ono won three Michelin stars for more than a decade, the world’s oldest head chef to do so.
apnews.com
October 27, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Chef Jiro, of "Jiro Dreams of Sushi" fame, just turned 100! apnews.com/article/japa...
I sent my Matrix fan kid this Reel (the feeling when you plug in USB on the first try = am I The One?!) and it resulted in this conversation that amused me greatly. (screenshots). www.instagram.com/reel/DNLu3BT...
October 27, 2025 at 2:25 PM
I sent my Matrix fan kid this Reel (the feeling when you plug in USB on the first try = am I The One?!) and it resulted in this conversation that amused me greatly. (screenshots). www.instagram.com/reel/DNLu3BT...
Had a dream that @archangelzeriel.bsky.social was demonstrating a new virtual environment, and it included the following quote (which is mostly in the next message because bsky is too short): "Impressive right? ...
October 27, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Had a dream that @archangelzeriel.bsky.social was demonstrating a new virtual environment, and it included the following quote (which is mostly in the next message because bsky is too short): "Impressive right? ...
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[S] Hoo doggie, the future Department of Unfucking Things sure has its work cut out for it.
October 26, 2025 at 6:09 PM
[S] Hoo doggie, the future Department of Unfucking Things sure has its work cut out for it.