Have the Itch

October 8, 2025, 5:43 PMOctober 8, 2025, 5:52 PM Chill Amusing, Annoying

It’s pronounced (not gonna use IPA here) itch-(tiny glottal stop)-tuk-nee.

I’ve heard tourists say:

Itchy-took-nee
Icky-took-a-nee
Icky-tuck-a-nee
Itchy-a-tuck-a-nee
Icky-toke-annie
Ict-toke-nay
Itchy-toch-nay
Icky-tock-nay

And many more I’m sure. When I lived near the confluence of the Santa Fe and Ichetucknee Rivers, every weekend we’d get 1-3 tourists asking where the river was. They never pronounced it right. Not a single time.

Also, nearly none of the YouTube videos or pronunciation guides on the internet render an accurate Ichetucknee pronunciation (as North Florida natives do). All of them totally butcher it. Whoa, I found one woman who gets it about 95% right! She says it as close to a native as anyone I’ve ever heard.

The rest are so bad. But if you ever get a chance, do see the Ichetucknee. It’s one of the most beautiful places in the world.

Masc Pol

October 8, 2025, 5:23 PM Chill Annoying, Clowns

I’ve been made fun of by women way, way more often for liking supposedly non-manly things (like women pop stars, clothes, sweet alcoholic drinks, cooking) than by men. Like, it’s not even close.

That includes when I was in the 82nd Airborne Division, which is supposedly a bastion of manliness.

Women police masculinity a lot more assiduously than men do. In my experience at least. Many women treat that like a full-time job. Which they aren’t very good at.

Trust Loss

October 8, 2025, 6:39 AMOctober 8, 2025, 5:24 PM Chill Tech

Synology Reverses Policy Banning Third-Party HDDs After NAS sales plummet.

Too late. Trust lost. After someone stabs me in the back, I don’t show them my back again.

I’ll never buy another Synology.

WPITW

October 8, 2025, 5:53 AM Chill Annoying, Trynabe Funny

Other than Hitler, the worst person in the world is probably a vegan recumbent-bicycle-riding anti-Zionist anti-vaxxer with tattoos.

I’d be worth nuking an entire city to get rid of this person.

100 Known

October 8, 2025, 5:01 AM Chill Amusing, Annoying

Reading this kind of thing is interesting because it shows how different people are.

Nearly all of this advice sounds terrible and are things I’d absolutely hate. I’d rather kill myself than do some of this crap.

But they seem to work for her, so who am I to judge? It is indeed remarkable just how divergent the same basic neurarchitecture can be.

Phonics

October 8, 2025, 2:40 AM Chill Amusing, Annoying

What is this port? Thought it was Ethernet but I think I’m wrong.

Oh my fucking god. That’s a phone line. Specifically, that’s an RJ11C wall socket designed to accept an RJ11 connector for (usually) analog phone service.