I'm only now figuring out that today's npm attack is distinct from yesterday's npm attack.

How did Isildur cut the ring off Sauron, if Sauron was wearing the ring and therefore invisible? Checkmate, elfiests.

Took some pictures of the corrosive ideology at Washington's house before the ministry of truth erases it.

During the investigation, the company figured out he caused the crash, and terminated him again. He then somehow gained access to their disaster recovery facility and physically fucked up a bunch of servers.

That was unwise.

they want you to believe that the infamous Epstein list that they constantly referred to and said was on their desk was a piece of paper that just said JEFFREY EPSTEIN in really big font

The defamation lawsuit against The NY Times.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flmd.447437/gov.uscourts.flmd.447437.1.0.pdf

FYI, some dickhead is running a very aggressive scraper (100 req/s) from 34.174.0.0/16 with fake referrers like expedia.com and accuweather.com.

Me: I wish Wikipedia had a dark mode.

Monkey paw: curls

Wikipedia on every fucking visit: Would you like to try dark mode?

    /*
     * NOTE WELL:  THIS IS A SECURITY HOLE. This must only be built
     * for debugging purposes and MUST NEVER be used in production.
     */

Downloading at an astonishing 16KB/s from ftp.gnu.org. Good thing GNU software is always so svelte!

Heh, the big brains at digital ocean have apparently retired the ubuntu apt mirror that my (kinda old) droplet is pointing at, so I can no longer install any packages. Since the whole point of having a cheap linux box for testing was to test things on it, I think it's time to cancel service.

Oof, entirely too many side projects got side lined at 85% and nothing is getting out the door.

Monday morning quarterbacks don't like the tush push.

https://www.inquirer.com/eagles/tush-push-eagles-chiefs-adam-schefter-tom-brady-20250915.html

My daughter & I had just finished a salad at Neiman-Marcus Cafe in Dallas & decided to have a small dessert. Because our family are such cookie lovers, we decided to try the "Neiman-Marcus Cookie". It was so excellent that I asked if they would give me the recipe and they said with a small frown, "I'm afraid not." Well, I said, would you let me buy the recipe? With a cute smile, she said, "Yes." I asked how much, and she responded, "Two fifty." I said with approval, just add it to my tab.

Thirty days later, I received my VISA statement from Neiman-Marcus and it was $285.00. I looked again and I remembered I had only spent $9.95 for two salads and about $20.00 for a scarf. As I glanced at the bottom of the statement, it said, "Cookie Recipe - $250.00." Boy, was I upset!! I called Neiman's Accounting Dept. and told them the waitress said it was "two fifty," and I did not realize she meant $250.00 for a cookie recipe. I asked them to take back the recipe and reduce my bill and they said they were sorry, but because all the recipes were this expensive so not just everyone could duplicate any of our bakery recipes....the bill would stand. I waited, thinking of how I could get even or even try and get any of my money back.

I just said, "Okay, you folks got my $250.00 and now I'm going to have $250.00 worth of fun." I told her that I was going to see to it that every cookie lover will have a $250.00 cookie recipe from Neiman-Marcus for nothing. She replied, "I wish you wouldn't do this." I said, "I'm sorry but this is the only way I feel I could get even," and I will.

So, here it is, and please pass it to someone else or run a few copies.... I paid for it; now you can have it for free. (Recipe may be halved):

2 cups butter 4 cups flour 2 tsp. soda 2 cups sugar 5 cups blended oatmeal 24 oz. chocolate chips 2 cups brown sugar 1 tsp. salt 1 8 oz. Hershey Bar (grated) 4 eggs 2 tsp. baking powder 3 cups chopped nuts (your choice) 2 tsp. vanilla

Cream the butter and both sugars. Add eggs and vanilla; mix together with flour, oatmeal, salt, baking powder, and soda. Add chocolate chips, Hershey Bar and nuts. Roll into balls and place two inches apart on a cookie sheet. Bake for 10 minutes at 375 degrees. Makes 112 cookies.

Oh, I like this one.

• Knock, knock.
• Who's there?
• Owen.
• Owen who?
• 0-2 Chiefs.

Taylor Swift was an Eagles fan, and now Travis Kelce is too. Welcome to the family.

Spoiler alert! Mark Ruffalo orders a large cherry water ice from Rita's on Task. It's so realistic!!!

And here comes the money grab.

Is this free speech?

https://reason.com/2025/09/11/gop-rep-proposes-canceling-people-over-mean-posts-about-charlie-kirk/

WSJ killing it with the cringe lifestyle profiles.

https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/workplace/sauna-othership-bathhouse-altar-cedar-and-stone-new-york-16b7ab8b

“Is an employee or student of yours supporting political violence online? Look them up on this website,” reads the landing page of a viral website that is soliciting examples of those celebrating Kirk’s killing and says it has garnered nearly 20,000 submissions. “This is the largest firing operation in history,” the website reads.

Imagine being cancelled for free speech.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/09/12/workers-fired-charlie-kirk-reaction-online/

Looking forward to Tim Poole's next podcast episode, "Not All Groypers".

Oh, man, the WSJ reported he dressed up as "some guy from a meme" for Halloween but failed to identify the guy or meme.

One of my favorite bars used to have an absolutely epic cubano sandwich for happy hour, like something that escaped from man vs food. Over time, they've fallen into the cost cutting death spiral, and now every time I go back the sandwich gets 25% smaller, but the plate is 50% smaller to hide the difference. So now I got something not much bigger than a slider served on a hockey puck, which is suboptimal because the sandwich still tends to fall apart when picking it up, but there's no longer enough surface area to catch the fallout.

Big turtle: straws are bad!

Me: these straws are delicious!

Is there a video of the Utah governor saying, "Notices bulges, OwO what's this?"

Epic crane game at Dave and busters.

ORCL back under $300. I guess somebody got their calculator out and did some math.

Excuse me, but Charlie Kirk is in Valhalla now? So much for being a Christian.

What if Ender's Game but in the Silo? Reading The Amber Project.

The honk threat assessment team reports that there have been zero phishing attempts on the honknet.

I don't think we need to question if AI will destroy humanity; it already is.

https://www.wsj.com/business/entrepreneurship/artificial-intelligence-startup-founders-bc730406

“The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives” star Taylor Frankie Paul will helm Season 22 of “The Bachelorette”

Imagine getting to meet your brother husband on reality TV.

Xenomorphs showing up on radar.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025/09/11/spotted-lantern-flies-dc-mid-atlantic-swarms/

Now this is innovation. The pre pre order.