Welcome, new people! Enjoy the pet pictures, enjoy the reasonable discourse, enjoy the lack of trolls and bots!

Firehose normally isn't quite this busy, but with a lot of new people, it will soon be "unusable regularly". Find people you want to follow now before it gets too overloaded!

Our local semipro baseball team is having more fun with their mascot...

https://twitter.com/picklesbaseball/status/1516829589741326338

Surprise! April thundersnow!

(It was sunny and ~50 degrees 15 minutes earlier. It is again sunny and ~50 degrees, a couple hours later.)

I thought it would be fun to create the most obnoxious "word find" ever. There are 29 valid American English words in this - GOOD LUCK!

Seven inches of snow so far, and still snowing. Oh, my poor trees!

Idaho's house is making it a felony punishable by a life sentence to provide affirming care to trans teens.

Same punishment for *helping leave the state to receive gender affirming care*.

If this bill becomes enforceable law, I would face life imprisonment for driving my kid through Idaho.

Speaking of getting off Russian oil...

The latest addition to my EV stable:

Hey, it's my dog Romeo's birthday today!

Sleepy in the sunbeam. #CatsOfCoSo

Our developer: "Here's the link to the git page on the change. You'll need to upgrade <thing> from this link."

Link:

Mountaintop sunset.

PUPPO! (My son got a new puppy.)

Slightly screwed up my coffee this morning - now both my coffee and OJ are “with pulp.” #GroundsInThePot

The new lazy boy is here!

And a new theater love seat.

Some good birbs at the zoo yesterday.

That'll do. (Faster upload would be nice - I have to upload multi-gigabyte files for work a few times a week.)

Massively oversimplified home network diagram. (It's missing an entire branch.)

$600 in new networking gear later, and I have >1 Gbit from the internet to my computer.

So, how’s your night going? #WaitingOnTheFreewayForAAAFor3Hours

Okay, web store, .info has been a valid top level domain for.... 20 years? Time to update your validity checking system...

(Yes, it gave that error when I used my actual .info email address.)