Sean Jacobs

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Nerdy but probably not as nerdy as you. Dad to a cute kid. Husband to a cute wife. Good at a lot of things. Toad enthusiast.

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Still haven’t seen a Cybertruck in real life, but I did spot a Fisker Ocean today and that felt like spotting a unicorn.

Me: here’s a nice $200 cat tower made with all-natural materials and a $100 hand-woven wool cat bed. Cat:

We just adopted an orange cat and well…yeah

Every time I come across this frog I am sad that it’s not classified as a toad, because Toad Facts would be so excited about it.

oh to be a Mossy Frog, happily crouching invisible amongst forest leaves and debris

Toad Facts reached 400+ followers last week, just slightly behind its Mastodon account which has been around for a year longer. Today it had its first 100+ like post, an order of magnitude more than any post on Mastodon. We'll catch up to Twitter eventually.

This is awesome! Just last week I built a Millennium Falcon from the Magical Unicorn 31140 kit using the MOC instructions at rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-145..., which was a lot of fun. Also, it's only $10. This colorful build of the 75192 kit is fantastic, but probably out of my budget.

Using the official instructions and bricks from their own collection, a father & son team built a colorful DIY version of Lego’s massive Millennium Falcon (7541 pieces, $830 MSRP). Much better than that dingy gray! [kottke.org]

Colorful DIY Lego Millennium Falconkottke.org Using the official instructions and bricks from their own collection, a father & son team built a colorful DIY version of Lego’s massive Millennium Falcon (7541 pieces, $830 MSRP, kitty for scale). I love this — much

Rainbow Falconrebrickable.com LEGO MOC MOC-145153 Rainbow Falcon - building instructions and parts list

I loved the fact that this guy’s name was “Sol Light”.

Our friend the Light's Toadlet is named after Dr. Sol F Light, a biologist and zoologist from the University of California, Berkeley! (photo by Forest Botial-Jarvis)

I just noticed that QR Code generation has finally been removed from the Google Charts API and got a sad. It was a reliable way to create a QR code that wasn't hiding someone else's tracking crap in it. Oh look, here's a different one that looks like it doesn't suck. goqr.me/api/

QR code APIgoqr.me

The main reason I wanted DMs on BlueSky was so I could share posts with @chieflotsahair.bsky.social privately, and I can’t find a way to do that easily and it’s irking me.

Today is truly a historic day with implications that we are not yet aware of. Also, LOL.

I’ve had an issue open with a tech vendor for the past week or so and was finally escalated to a “specialist” who responded with an absolutely idiotic AI-generated list of suggestions that did not at all pertain to my issue and this is what my life is now for the next few years at least. Yay.

God damn it, it’s back again.

Starting to see a lot of companies who ignored the warnings from Google and Yahoo to set up DMARC reaching the “find out” stage. This is both amusing and annoying because hardly anyone understands how it works, even now.

I set this up this morning and can vouch for its effectiveness. In this image the modified "web search" is on the left and the normal search on the right. It's so good that Google is bound to break it any minute now.

How I fixed Google so it doesn’t shove AI into my face anymore. tedium.co/2024/05/17/g... new @tedium.co

How I Made Google’s “Web” View My Default Searchtedium.co Forget AI. Google just created a version of its search engine free of the extra junk it has added over the past decade-plus. You just need one URL parameter.

She made her choice.

Every time I return from the bathroom:

I wish I'd noticed this toad's alternate name a few days ago, this would have been the perfect 4/20 toad.

Our friend the Wide-headed Toad is also known as the High Tropical Forest Toad! They live in many countries throughout central Africa and were first described as a new species in 1900! (photo by Xavier Rufray)

CAT: I see that you’ve just sat down to lunch but I’ve suddenly *scrunch* *scrunch* discovered that my litter box *scrunch* *scrunch* *scrunch* isn’t up to my standards and you need to drop that spoon and *scrunch* *scrunch* *scrunch* *scrunch* *scrunch* FIX IT MEOW! *scrunch* *scrunch* *scrunch*

When someone starts a Teams meeting more than five minutes early I think everyone should have the option of showing up five minutes late to the agreed time.

My adorable toad (okay, it’s a frog, a butt frog) from @figmentpudding.com showed up and is currently watching over me from one of my shelves of things. So cute!

HAAAAAAM! The kid wanted ramen for lunch and thanks to Easter we had ham and hard boiled eggs in the fridge, so we had a Ponyo-inspired meal today.

I’m sad I have to wait until tomorrow to eat this. *glances at clock* hmmmmm

And it’s done! It looks delicious. I can’t wait to eat it tomorrow.

We went to the zoo today and found a toad, so Toad Facts had to post about it.

Our friend the Southern Toad is a nocturnal toad who lives in sandy areas from eastern Louisiana and southeastern Virginia south to Florida! They vary in color from brick red to mottled grey! (photo by Sean Jacobs)

Our cat Noodle was neutered yesterday and he’s *not* having a good time with the Cone of Shame. He finally used the litter box and did a death roll beforehand to take off the collar, then when he was done he went and stuck his head back in the gone to put it back on.

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Ever scoffed at the idea of handing out participation trophies? Throwing some words in an image generator and claiming the result as your creativity is claiming a participation trophy despite not participating.

If you liked 2001: A Space Odyssey, and also like to watch other people’s therapy sessions, you’ll like Spaceman.

This is better than it deserves to be. That is balsamic vinegar reduction.

I'm sure all five of the people who follow me have already done this, but today is the last day to leave a public comment for the CDC in favor of continuing access to COVID vaccines for everyone.

HEY, YOU. Yes, you there! Do you want to keep access to bi-yearly COVID vaccines (the science says we need a new shot every 4-6 months to keep the protection they offer) open to EVERYONE without a worry about cost? Please leave a public comment for the CDC BEFORE Feb 22. Find out how and where here:

Submit public comment to the CDC: All people need access to updated COVID vaccines at least twice a yearpeoplescdc.substack.com The CDC is accepting public comment for their next vaccine committee meeting through February 22. Let them know that all of us need access to COVID vaccines at least twice a year.

Y'know what? Haters be damned, I'm really excited about this Borderlands movie. I loved the games. I had my reservations about the casting decisions. It's not exactly like the game. I'm gonna love it anyway.

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Why isn’t AI doing the tedious shit for creative people instead of doing the creative shit for tedious people

My pals @davenpoe.bsky.social and @andrewcremeans.bsky.social both worked on this short film that was nominated for a NAACP image award. I love E-Tour and look forward to seeing more of these films. It’s good stuff, you should give it a watch!

Hey world! The animated short film I wrote and directed has been nominated for an NAACP Image award! It stars WWE's Big E as a ROBOT! Give it a watch and feel free to share with anyone who might enjoy it! youtu.be/wKcLiC37G88?... #animation #blackhistory

Our Heroes Rock presents BRIDGES - the Ruby Bridges story like you've never seen it beforeyoutu.be From Executive Producer WWE Superstar Ettore "Big E" Ewen comes the NAACP Image Award nominated short film about a lonely 12-year-old girl whose bouts of soc...