Drew Derbyshire
@kew.com
Software Hobbit (SRE Emeritus)
Kendra Electronic Wonderworks
My summary is here: https://github.com/swhobbit
Kendra Electronic Wonderworks
My summary is here: https://github.com/swhobbit
#Caturday
In which we will give a further status report on the rapid progress of the domestic Panthers … kitten.kew.com/2025/09/phot...
In which we will give a further status report on the rapid progress of the domestic Panthers … kitten.kew.com/2025/09/phot...
Photo Saturday: Cuddling by Leaps and Bounds
Lucas & Midnight cuddling Katherine on her Futon It should be noted that they spend a lot of time next to each other under the futon, but it...
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September 28, 2025 at 5:39 PM
#Caturday
In which we will give a further status report on the rapid progress of the domestic Panthers … kitten.kew.com/2025/09/phot...
In which we will give a further status report on the rapid progress of the domestic Panthers … kitten.kew.com/2025/09/phot...
In which we offer a slightly belated farewell to the most sociable of all our cats … kitten.kew.com/2025/09/requ...
September 27, 2025 at 1:32 AM
In which we offer a slightly belated farewell to the most sociable of all our cats … kitten.kew.com/2025/09/requ...
Reposted by Drew Derbyshire
The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.
September 4, 2025 at 7:44 PM
The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.
Tap … tap … tap. This thing on?
Either I don't have enough people I am following, or the world has forgotten about this service. The last post on my feed is 13 days ago.
(Why not both?)
Either I don't have enough people I am following, or the world has forgotten about this service. The last post on my feed is 13 days ago.
(Why not both?)
July 24, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Tap … tap … tap. This thing on?
Either I don't have enough people I am following, or the world has forgotten about this service. The last post on my feed is 13 days ago.
(Why not both?)
Either I don't have enough people I am following, or the world has forgotten about this service. The last post on my feed is 13 days ago.
(Why not both?)
Reposted by Drew Derbyshire
GOD WE SAID TAKE VINCE AND LINDA MCMAHON, NOT JULIAN MCMAHON!!! 😭
July 5, 2025 at 2:51 AM
GOD WE SAID TAKE VINCE AND LINDA MCMAHON, NOT JULIAN MCMAHON!!! 😭
Reposted by Drew Derbyshire
When the LA police says you are overreaching, you are overreaching.
June 8, 2025 at 3:14 AM
When the LA police says you are overreaching, you are overreaching.
Reposted by Drew Derbyshire
Boosting for visibility. Even if you're not in Seattle, probably your local blood bank would also love to hear from you.
Pls consider donating blood if you can 💕
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
‘Code red’ declared as Pacific Northwest suffers severe blood shortage
Type O positive, type O negative, and platelets have been fluctuating between critical and emergency levels since early December, Bloodworks Northwest said.
www.seattletimes.com
January 30, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Boosting for visibility. Even if you're not in Seattle, probably your local blood bank would also love to hear from you.
Reposted by Drew Derbyshire
What we're seeing now is exactly what we we warned about by some people—mostly Black people—a few years ago, specifically that what Republicans mean by "law and order" is using the law to maintain what they regard as the proper order of society, one topped by rich white men who are untouchable.
January 25, 2025 at 4:34 PM
What we're seeing now is exactly what we we warned about by some people—mostly Black people—a few years ago, specifically that what Republicans mean by "law and order" is using the law to maintain what they regard as the proper order of society, one topped by rich white men who are untouchable.
In which I give up on the Apple Music App for my own music Library on my iPhone …
hobbit.kew.com/2024/12/out-...
hobbit.kew.com/2024/12/out-...
December 28, 2024 at 3:00 AM
In which I give up on the Apple Music App for my own music Library on my iPhone …
hobbit.kew.com/2024/12/out-...
hobbit.kew.com/2024/12/out-...
From the Archives (June 2009): Billy looking disapprovingly at me because I was looking at pictures of cats and not instead looking at (and petting) real cats.
Billy rarely had a disapproving look, so I must've really been in trouble.
Billy rarely had a disapproving look, so I must've really been in trouble.
December 11, 2024 at 5:24 AM
From the Archives (June 2009): Billy looking disapprovingly at me because I was looking at pictures of cats and not instead looking at (and petting) real cats.
Billy rarely had a disapproving look, so I must've really been in trouble.
Billy rarely had a disapproving look, so I must've really been in trouble.
From the archives (December 2004); the 10 month old Brothers Catzilla keeping each other warm on a winter afternoon.
December 9, 2024 at 5:33 AM
From the archives (December 2004); the 10 month old Brothers Catzilla keeping each other warm on a winter afternoon.
My DNS provider: "CyberWeek 20% Off DNS & Hosting Services You’ll Love"
Uh, no. The last protocol I really invested in was UUCP (I didn't love it), and it lost the war the day that always-on cable modems appeared in 1995.
So I try to avoid loving protocols & Internet services in general.
Uh, no. The last protocol I really invested in was UUCP (I didn't love it), and it lost the war the day that always-on cable modems appeared in 1995.
So I try to avoid loving protocols & Internet services in general.
December 4, 2024 at 7:28 PM
My DNS provider: "CyberWeek 20% Off DNS & Hosting Services You’ll Love"
Uh, no. The last protocol I really invested in was UUCP (I didn't love it), and it lost the war the day that always-on cable modems appeared in 1995.
So I try to avoid loving protocols & Internet services in general.
Uh, no. The last protocol I really invested in was UUCP (I didn't love it), and it lost the war the day that always-on cable modems appeared in 1995.
So I try to avoid loving protocols & Internet services in general.
From the archives (June 2004): End of the month they arrived, the two Kittenzillas peacefully co-existing with Her Emilyness.
About then we realized the kittens, smaller than Emily at arrival, would grow up into the Brothers Catzilla.
Fortunately, Emily taught them manners when they were little.
About then we realized the kittens, smaller than Emily at arrival, would grow up into the Brothers Catzilla.
Fortunately, Emily taught them manners when they were little.
November 30, 2024 at 2:20 AM
From the archives (June 2004): End of the month they arrived, the two Kittenzillas peacefully co-existing with Her Emilyness.
About then we realized the kittens, smaller than Emily at arrival, would grow up into the Brothers Catzilla.
Fortunately, Emily taught them manners when they were little.
About then we realized the kittens, smaller than Emily at arrival, would grow up into the Brothers Catzilla.
Fortunately, Emily taught them manners when they were little.
From the archives (April 2014):
When I joined Google, I had 2 months training in California. The MINI was shipped west to frolic w/me in CA. I was going to drive it to Seattle after training.
Plans changed; the MINI went directly to Seattle.
But it did get to frolic in CA on a 2014 trip to SF. 😀
When I joined Google, I had 2 months training in California. The MINI was shipped west to frolic w/me in CA. I was going to drive it to Seattle after training.
Plans changed; the MINI went directly to Seattle.
But it did get to frolic in CA on a 2014 trip to SF. 😀
November 28, 2024 at 10:50 PM
From the archives (April 2014):
When I joined Google, I had 2 months training in California. The MINI was shipped west to frolic w/me in CA. I was going to drive it to Seattle after training.
Plans changed; the MINI went directly to Seattle.
But it did get to frolic in CA on a 2014 trip to SF. 😀
When I joined Google, I had 2 months training in California. The MINI was shipped west to frolic w/me in CA. I was going to drive it to Seattle after training.
Plans changed; the MINI went directly to Seattle.
But it did get to frolic in CA on a 2014 trip to SF. 😀
Oh, Bother!
No one told I had extra "W" in my name for two days.
No one told I had extra "W" in my name for two days.
November 28, 2024 at 6:54 AM
Oh, Bother!
No one told I had extra "W" in my name for two days.
No one told I had extra "W" in my name for two days.
From the Archives (July 2017): Billy in my office on his Natural Habitat, The Big Black Kitty Warmer Mark III.
November 26, 2024 at 11:44 PM
From the Archives (July 2017): Billy in my office on his Natural Habitat, The Big Black Kitty Warmer Mark III.
From Archives (February 2005): The young Brothers Catzilla, hunting the elusive Red Dot.
November 26, 2024 at 5:38 AM
From Archives (February 2005): The young Brothers Catzilla, hunting the elusive Red Dot.