Justin Dearing
@zippy1981.bsky.social
Dad. Husband. Landlord. Programmer. Karataka. Cyclist. Today is a good day to die.
Pinned
Justin Dearing
@zippy1981.bsky.social
· May 9
Pope Leo absolutely looks like the kind of priest that hangs out at the knights of Columbus to watch the football games and man's the grill for a bit on flag Day.
This is excellent self awareness.
@zippy1981.bsky.social makes [slight] fun of me for being on the Leap Seconds listserv, but if i wasn't, I'd miss out on sick burns such as:
"All that's happened here is that the lab-coated acolytes of atomic time have succeeded in destroying the dictionary meaning of Universal Time."
"All that's happened here is that the lab-coated acolytes of atomic time have succeeded in destroying the dictionary meaning of Universal Time."
December 3, 2025 at 12:57 AM
This is excellent self awareness.
Why the fuck am I putting my kids pediatrician number on this permission form? My kid gets into an accident and it's going to be wait on hold for 36 hours to talk to them
December 2, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Why the fuck am I putting my kids pediatrician number on this permission form? My kid gets into an accident and it's going to be wait on hold for 36 hours to talk to them
Ok people from the top rod to the middle (which is what I want to cover) is 24" and across each panel is about 36" what am I searching for?
December 2, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Ok people from the top rod to the middle (which is what I want to cover) is 24" and across each panel is about 36" what am I searching for?
Is this a thing or AI slop? Topless window treatment as opposed to Winnie the poo curtains?
December 2, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Is this a thing or AI slop? Topless window treatment as opposed to Winnie the poo curtains?
Reposted by Justin Dearing
My wife has been HIV+ for 34 years. She’s alive today b/c work of activists who destigmatized the virus, pushed medical science to adapt & find ways to treat it, & advocated for gov health programs that helped fund her care. The current U.S. regime may want to go back in time, but we won’t let them.
December 2, 2025 at 1:27 AM
My wife has been HIV+ for 34 years. She’s alive today b/c work of activists who destigmatized the virus, pushed medical science to adapt & find ways to treat it, & advocated for gov health programs that helped fund her care. The current U.S. regime may want to go back in time, but we won’t let them.
Reposted by Justin Dearing
My Dad was born in October of 1955, one year after Brown vs Board of Education and during the Trial of Emmett Till. He has 5 older siblings—my aunts and uncles—who are still alive RIGHT NOW. Several ppl in my family remember where they were when MLK was assassinated; some volunteered w/ SNCC
December 2, 2025 at 4:42 AM
My Dad was born in October of 1955, one year after Brown vs Board of Education and during the Trial of Emmett Till. He has 5 older siblings—my aunts and uncles—who are still alive RIGHT NOW. Several ppl in my family remember where they were when MLK was assassinated; some volunteered w/ SNCC
Reposted by Justin Dearing
Woo-hoo. I couldn't be there in person, but Kawartha Commons Cohousing got it's rezoning at last night's Peterborough City Council meeting. A major milestone.
December 2, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Woo-hoo. I couldn't be there in person, but Kawartha Commons Cohousing got it's rezoning at last night's Peterborough City Council meeting. A major milestone.
Reposted by Justin Dearing
My car payments have been cut in more than half and my insurance went down $50 a month. I have to celebrate the little victories or else I'm just gonna shove my face through a double paned window.
December 1, 2025 at 8:20 PM
My car payments have been cut in more than half and my insurance went down $50 a month. I have to celebrate the little victories or else I'm just gonna shove my face through a double paned window.
Tag yourself. I'm the coat bath
December 1, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Tag yourself. I'm the coat bath
Let people enjoy not enjoying things
my spouse and my children think i’m a sad nerd for letting my enjoyment of the novel i’m reading, set in 1789, be ruined by anachronisms such as its protagonist using “access” as a verb, the first known instance of which appeared in 1953. i don’t disagree with them.
December 1, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Let people enjoy not enjoying things
Does anyone believe I have a more unhinged take than "we can all stop mowing our lawns once we have a vaccine for Lyme disease"
December 1, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Does anyone believe I have a more unhinged take than "we can all stop mowing our lawns once we have a vaccine for Lyme disease"
Reposted by Justin Dearing
I hereby name Justin Dearing the Czar of Green Bike Lanes and Chief Woo-woo of Woonerfs
Here we see Fiorello LaGuardia swearing his buddy Robert Moses in for yet another position in the city they just made up.
December 1, 2025 at 2:42 PM
I hereby name Justin Dearing the Czar of Green Bike Lanes and Chief Woo-woo of Woonerfs
I started reading Howard the Duck and I learned he fights an accountant sorcerer named Pro Rata.
December 1, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I started reading Howard the Duck and I learned he fights an accountant sorcerer named Pro Rata.
Reposted by Justin Dearing
I'm thankful to prove a troll wrong
Starting all today's work emails with "Hope you had a terrible Thanksgiving"
December 1, 2025 at 5:59 PM
I'm thankful to prove a troll wrong
Reposted by Justin Dearing
I named my fists Common and Sense because I'm about to bring the Paine
I named my fists Blood and Meridian because I’m fixing to Judge your ass.
I named my fists Moby and Dick because I am about to whale on you.
December 1, 2025 at 1:40 PM
I named my fists Common and Sense because I'm about to bring the Paine
The Internet, like Darth Vader's suit, was purposely designed to be painful to the user to allow them to better connect with their anger and the dark side. In this essay I will. . .
It would honestly be better if I didn't read some of the shit on the internet that I read.
December 1, 2025 at 5:35 PM
The Internet, like Darth Vader's suit, was purposely designed to be painful to the user to allow them to better connect with their anger and the dark side. In this essay I will. . .
Yet another problem we could solve if we use small nuclear reactors to power steam engines.
You need it if there’s a third rail and want to stop people from touching it
December 1, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Yet another problem we could solve if we use small nuclear reactors to power steam engines.
Ok I don't see the point of platforms for commuter rail in far away stations. Build one ramp for wheelchair access. Why are we wasting all that parking lot space to make a platform that gets a few hours of use a day. It creates a choke point for egress from the train.
December 1, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Ok I don't see the point of platforms for commuter rail in far away stations. Build one ramp for wheelchair access. Why are we wasting all that parking lot space to make a platform that gets a few hours of use a day. It creates a choke point for egress from the train.
Reposted by Justin Dearing
enshittification's venerable ancestor is advertising
November 30, 2025 at 2:16 PM
enshittification's venerable ancestor is advertising
It's weird to me that Adobe is trying to be relevant as a personal desktop publishing company.
November 30, 2025 at 2:44 PM
It's weird to me that Adobe is trying to be relevant as a personal desktop publishing company.
Gonna be an old man and explain to the under thirty co-workers that cyber Monday is a thing because some people would use their work desktop to do e-commerce.
This literally had to be explained to me in 2003 because of course I had my own computer with a 31" CRT monitor or two
This literally had to be explained to me in 2003 because of course I had my own computer with a 31" CRT monitor or two
November 30, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Gonna be an old man and explain to the under thirty co-workers that cyber Monday is a thing because some people would use their work desktop to do e-commerce.
This literally had to be explained to me in 2003 because of course I had my own computer with a 31" CRT monitor or two
This literally had to be explained to me in 2003 because of course I had my own computer with a 31" CRT monitor or two
@profanity.accountant can I please havea fucking report
November 30, 2025 at 5:08 AM
@profanity.accountant can I please havea fucking report
I would probably start dressing in separate morning and evening clothing and keeping regular meal times if I had a butler so he'd feel like good work had meaning. I mean imagine a butler just having to run a household while I was busy cooking vats of chili to freeze and randomly eat randomly.
rich dudes got freakier after butlers fell out of fashion, like say what you will about having domestic servants but clearly it was some sort of moderating force on old rich dudes having a fancy man follow you around saying shit like "oh dear sir, that wouldn't be very becoming"
November 30, 2025 at 5:00 AM
I would probably start dressing in separate morning and evening clothing and keeping regular meal times if I had a butler so he'd feel like good work had meaning. I mean imagine a butler just having to run a household while I was busy cooking vats of chili to freeze and randomly eat randomly.
I'm really glad I get to mentor and work with developers under 30. In 20 years I'll be 64 and they will be under 50.
I really don't know if we're hiring enough junior developers. I hope the juniors I help train into seniors will have juniors of their own.
I really don't know if we're hiring enough junior developers. I hope the juniors I help train into seniors will have juniors of their own.
November 30, 2025 at 4:34 AM
I'm really glad I get to mentor and work with developers under 30. In 20 years I'll be 64 and they will be under 50.
I really don't know if we're hiring enough junior developers. I hope the juniors I help train into seniors will have juniors of their own.
I really don't know if we're hiring enough junior developers. I hope the juniors I help train into seniors will have juniors of their own.