Taco Dave
@davmillar.bsky.social
Internaut. Gay. He/him. I make neat stuff on the internet. Not a relevant pedestrian.
https://davegoesthedistance.com
https://davegoesthedistance.com
Are you or a loved one living in a humid environment that’s about to reach its dew point? You may be entitled to condensation.
November 6, 2025 at 5:47 AM
Are you or a loved one living in a humid environment that’s about to reach its dew point? You may be entitled to condensation.
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turns out milking 9/11 for 25 years to justify insane bigotry doesn’t really work anymore
November 5, 2025 at 7:34 PM
turns out milking 9/11 for 25 years to justify insane bigotry doesn’t really work anymore
I’m not your dad, I’m not going to tell you how to live your life. There’s literally nothing stopping you from, say, buying a fancy whisky glass that has an indentation for holding a cigar and using it to serve queso and a taquito.
November 4, 2025 at 11:35 PM
I’m not your dad, I’m not going to tell you how to live your life. There’s literally nothing stopping you from, say, buying a fancy whisky glass that has an indentation for holding a cigar and using it to serve queso and a taquito.
Anyone else try learning #Navajo or #Hawaiian using #DuoLingo recently? These courses feel half-baked. Navajo is missing audio after the first few lessons. Neither explains how certain things work, like word order when explaining ownership in Navajo, or which version of “the” to use in Hawaiian.
November 2, 2025 at 5:47 PM
The #Python software foundation could use some additional support due to the American shit-show causing them to make a tough decision.
simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/27/...
simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/27/...
The PSF has withdrawn a $1.5 million proposal to US government grant program
The Python Software Foundation was recently "recommended for funding" (NSF terminology) for a $1.5m grant from the US government National Science Foundation to help improve the security of the Python ...
simonwillison.net
October 28, 2025 at 1:46 AM
The #Python software foundation could use some additional support due to the American shit-show causing them to make a tough decision.
simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/27/...
simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/27/...
It’s ok to fill up on bread if you don’t think you’ll live long enough to see the entree.
October 24, 2025 at 1:59 PM
It’s ok to fill up on bread if you don’t think you’ll live long enough to see the entree.
I was today years old when I learned that instead of top, bottom, and side, lesbians have:
- DVD (Da Vagina Devotee)
- VHS (Vagina-Having Sensation)
- Blu-ray (Blu-ray)
- DVD (Da Vagina Devotee)
- VHS (Vagina-Having Sensation)
- Blu-ray (Blu-ray)
October 23, 2025 at 2:53 AM
I was today years old when I learned that instead of top, bottom, and side, lesbians have:
- DVD (Da Vagina Devotee)
- VHS (Vagina-Having Sensation)
- Blu-ray (Blu-ray)
- DVD (Da Vagina Devotee)
- VHS (Vagina-Having Sensation)
- Blu-ray (Blu-ray)
I haven’t read the post mortem yet but it sounds like someone at AWS forgot to smudge the servers with sage again???
October 21, 2025 at 1:43 PM
I haven’t read the post mortem yet but it sounds like someone at AWS forgot to smudge the servers with sage again???
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this is what we could have
October 20, 2025 at 11:31 PM
this is what we could have
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Last century, Maf and I wrote about programmers who were several kinds of negligent. I don't think constructing synthetic programmers who are worse than we were calling for 27 years ago is a good idea
kevinmarks.com/personality....
kevinmarks.com/personality....
Code and Personality
kevinmarks.com
October 21, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Last century, Maf and I wrote about programmers who were several kinds of negligent. I don't think constructing synthetic programmers who are worse than we were calling for 27 years ago is a good idea
kevinmarks.com/personality....
kevinmarks.com/personality....
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“We've normalized software catastrophes to the point where a Calculator leaking 32GB of RAM barely makes the news. This isn't about AI. The quality crisis started years before ChatGPT existed. AI just weaponized existing incompetence.” techtrenches.substack.com/p/the-great-...
The Great Software Quality Collapse: How We Normalized Catastrophe
The Apple Calculator leaked 32GB of RAM.
techtrenches.substack.com
October 20, 2025 at 1:34 PM
“We've normalized software catastrophes to the point where a Calculator leaking 32GB of RAM barely makes the news. This isn't about AI. The quality crisis started years before ChatGPT existed. AI just weaponized existing incompetence.” techtrenches.substack.com/p/the-great-...
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When you are young you should actually watch as many dogshit TV series that are 50+ episodes long as you can. Because when you're an adult it becomes harder to do
October 21, 2025 at 1:22 AM
When you are young you should actually watch as many dogshit TV series that are 50+ episodes long as you can. Because when you're an adult it becomes harder to do
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The council is meeting in secret.
October 21, 2025 at 12:07 AM
The council is meeting in secret.
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building a police state one food bank soldier line at a time
October 21, 2025 at 2:23 AM
building a police state one food bank soldier line at a time
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Irony has been tortured for years in an improvised dungeon under a split level in a suburban neighborhood of Palo Alto, and has just been found dead by neighbors investigating a strong smell.
October 19, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Irony has been tortured for years in an improvised dungeon under a split level in a suburban neighborhood of Palo Alto, and has just been found dead by neighbors investigating a strong smell.
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'chiraq team 2'
Oak Park resident Scott Sakiyama reports feds pointed weapons at him across from an elementary school today. They then arrested him and took him to Broadview. While in custody, he saw agents texting in a group chat called "Chiraq Team 2."
Full testimony: www.facebook.com/share/p/1GqB...
Full testimony: www.facebook.com/share/p/1GqB...
October 21, 2025 at 2:33 AM
'chiraq team 2'
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Release the Abbot files
A spokesperson for Texas Gov. Greg Abbott argued his office’s emails with Elon Musk are confidential under a “common-law privacy” exception to public records laws because they may include “intimate and embarrassing” information.
(Published July)
With @kutnews.bsky.social @texastribune.org
(Published July)
With @kutnews.bsky.social @texastribune.org
Texas Governor’s Office Says Its Emails With Elon Musk May Be, in Part, Too “Embarrassing” to Release to the Public
We asked Abbott for his and his staff’s emails with Elon Musk and Musk’s companies. The governor’s office won’t turn them over, saying some contain “intimate and embarrassing” information that is “not...
www.propublica.org
October 21, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Release the Abbot files
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hi #portfolioday I’m noion and I make tasty pixel art
October 14, 2025 at 10:30 PM
hi #portfolioday I’m noion and I make tasty pixel art
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Hi!
I'm Bat, as a pixel artist I work on videogames, comics and illustrations!
DM me for job or commissions!
#PortfolioDay
I'm Bat, as a pixel artist I work on videogames, comics and illustrations!
DM me for job or commissions!
#PortfolioDay
October 14, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Hi!
I'm Bat, as a pixel artist I work on videogames, comics and illustrations!
DM me for job or commissions!
#PortfolioDay
I'm Bat, as a pixel artist I work on videogames, comics and illustrations!
DM me for job or commissions!
#PortfolioDay
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Growing up in California & not being white I don’t feel like I have any ownership of American history, so I feel no outrage over this. I just wonder if those who do felt the same about the thousand-year-old trees settlers sawed and dynamited.
Or you know the civilizations we’ll never get to meet.
Or you know the civilizations we’ll never get to meet.
October 21, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Growing up in California & not being white I don’t feel like I have any ownership of American history, so I feel no outrage over this. I just wonder if those who do felt the same about the thousand-year-old trees settlers sawed and dynamited.
Or you know the civilizations we’ll never get to meet.
Or you know the civilizations we’ll never get to meet.
I dislike things that are “mixed berry” flavor because they’re usually just a mediocre combination of too many berries because they’ve failed to adequately portray a single berry correctly.
This post is also a metaphor for the current #MercedesMone 100 championship belts situation.
#AEW #ROH
This post is also a metaphor for the current #MercedesMone 100 championship belts situation.
#AEW #ROH
October 20, 2025 at 11:26 PM
I dislike things that are “mixed berry” flavor because they’re usually just a mediocre combination of too many berries because they’ve failed to adequately portray a single berry correctly.
This post is also a metaphor for the current #MercedesMone 100 championship belts situation.
#AEW #ROH
This post is also a metaphor for the current #MercedesMone 100 championship belts situation.
#AEW #ROH
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Of course American fascism is just consumerist slop.
October 20, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Of course American fascism is just consumerist slop.
Tired and sick but my back hurts from being in bed too long.
October 18, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Tired and sick but my back hurts from being in bed too long.
I wish there were rappers that were mean and sexually promiscuous but still drug-free. I need some lyrics like:
“Yeah I got the kinda job that’ll piss test,
But your girl finna swallow my kids next…”
“Yeah I got the kinda job that’ll piss test,
But your girl finna swallow my kids next…”
October 15, 2025 at 1:19 AM
I wish there were rappers that were mean and sexually promiscuous but still drug-free. I need some lyrics like:
“Yeah I got the kinda job that’ll piss test,
But your girl finna swallow my kids next…”
“Yeah I got the kinda job that’ll piss test,
But your girl finna swallow my kids next…”
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Recall the fate of Jewish & leftist Profs in 1930s Germany.
US academics aren't directly employed by the govt (unlike 30s Germany), so cannot simply be fired (tho' Dumpf has fired many govt research scientists).
Instead, Unis must be browbeaten into 'letting Profs go'.
Or they must be scared off.
US academics aren't directly employed by the govt (unlike 30s Germany), so cannot simply be fired (tho' Dumpf has fired many govt research scientists).
Instead, Unis must be browbeaten into 'letting Profs go'.
Or they must be scared off.
I am writing this because it has swiftly become crystal clear to me that many people have no idea what is happening or how this works. Here is a thread for non-academics to put into context what just happened to Dr. Mark Bray, a fellow historian.
October 10, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Recall the fate of Jewish & leftist Profs in 1930s Germany.
US academics aren't directly employed by the govt (unlike 30s Germany), so cannot simply be fired (tho' Dumpf has fired many govt research scientists).
Instead, Unis must be browbeaten into 'letting Profs go'.
Or they must be scared off.
US academics aren't directly employed by the govt (unlike 30s Germany), so cannot simply be fired (tho' Dumpf has fired many govt research scientists).
Instead, Unis must be browbeaten into 'letting Profs go'.
Or they must be scared off.