Alex Vranas @Alex@vran.as

So I have some doubts about this suspect that's been arrested in the Idaho killings. The police have sent missed messages since the beginning, made virtually no progress, and are still withholding details on how they established this man as a suspect.

Now the suspect is waiving his extradition hearing and submitting to DNA testing, seeking swift exoneration, which isn't characteristic of a guilty suspect. I have a feeling the police might be full of shit here, I guess we'll soon find out.

Alt-text correction: Upon further review the "Two Dots" ad is in Chinese, not Korean, and it is an ad for a iOS app, not for music.

To be clear, I have nothing against sex work or sex workers, it's just funny that Facebook paid me $10 to help them decide the relevancy of an ad for handjobs, which I assume is not allowed by the TOS.

I couldn't decide if it was relevant though, because they seem to be ignoring the language preferences I already provided them.

Occasionally Facebook pays me to do little tasks via their "Viewpoints" program. Usually it's stuff like sentiment analysis, voice recognition training, or opinion surveys, but today they were just fucking with me.

Success!

Wife has work today, and I don't. I think I might take an extremely long walk today. #Seattle is such a great place to explore on foot.

Theory: At any given point in time, there is at least one smartphone screen breaking.

I feel pretty upgraded today!

Got my new #System76 Lemur Pro laptop, a 9 year jump in hardware over my last laptop.

Figured out that I can switch my Pixel 7 Pro into high-DPI mode, which my eyes are still capable of enjoying.

Feels like the future!

I was going to visit my parents for Christmas, but decided that I'd just go visit them the first weekend into the new year because "I have a bad feeling about holiday travel this year".

I love being right.

Now, I know, I admin my own private instance, I have the unilateral power to defederate, and I definitely wield it

But anyone can block an instance from the account level, and more people should take the liberty of doing so.