#PSA for #linuxgaming#psafolks. Currently if you are a gamepass subscriber (I am because I own an xbox as well) - you can typically only play your gamepass games on Linux using cloudgaming as the GamePass PC app cannot run under Proton at all. But there is a new option: a number of gamepass games […]

Anti-Fascist Collective… (@wtafc.bsky.social) https://bsky.app/profile/wtafc.bsky.social/post/3lzdoxqcdts25 > TRUMPFUCKISTAN…. #bluesky

Accusing Republicans of fascism is as ridiculous as accusing philatelists of collecting stamps.

So societies failing to provide adequate mental healthcare access have people resorting to AI "therapy", all while AI with it's reinforcement approach to conversation has repeatedly talked patients further into delusions, paranoia and even to suicide. All of which I just realised, SF writer […]

What I learned about how hearing aid companies are violating right-to-repair and probably disability rights laws: https://ajmetalpoet.wordpress.com/2025/09/19/hearing-aid-companies-are-probably-violating-right-to-repair-laws-and-maybe-disability-laws-too/ @pluralistic you are one of the people […]

Ta-Nehasi Coates is doing a lot of things with this essay, but one of the most important is fearlessly using examples of anti-trans hate to describe Charlie Kirk's politics. The contrast between his choices and those of other writers for major legacy outlets is revealing.

So I keep injuring myself constantly now. That argues for starting some sort of sport or excercise, so I'd be less prone to injury, but I can't start a sport when I'm injured. This is the part about aging that absolutely sucks.

WTAF.. Yeah, this is why #libertarians are wrong: everyone acting in their own self interest does not mean the best outcomes for everybody. Often it means somebody with the power to do so, preventing a good outcome for everybody else because the worse outcome is more beneficial to themselves […]

[uspol Epstein and sex trafficking] Damn, this guy absolutely nailed it.

There it is. 😳

I think that if, like Microsoft, you sell a remote work tool (Teams) and then do a return to office mandate claiming that tool is inferior to office work, you should have other refund every giant multinational who bought a per-seat license for teams.

So, can somebody explain to me why it's always "the left has to tone down their rhetoric - even in the face of civilisation-ending threats" and never "the right has to tone down their policies even when these are creating civilisation-ending threats" ?

Rest in piss

So a man who spent his entire adult life insisting that the only solution to gun violence is more guns, that any attempt to make it harder for bad people to get guns is both tyrannical and doomed to failure... Got shot today and died. Well, that was inevitable. I'm only surprised it took this […]

Based on current polls the far right #PVV, who adores #Israel, hates #palestine#israel#pvvnd are openly pro-genocide, is set to yet again win the majority of the seats in the election, despite achieving nothing noteworthy last time, and destroying their own cabinet causing this election in the first […]

Seeing #Bonded live at #tilburgmetalfest#bondedright now

@vkc I just used a metal cover of ABBAs "money money, money" to demonstrate how a cover can add entire new layers of meaning even to something that already existed - and why AI can never do that. After doing so I remembered our conversation about ABBA as a rockband a few weeks ago, and realised […]

During a conversation just now, I had a sudden realisation. Fiction has previously predicted an AI that functions almost exactly the way LLMs do ! It sycophantically agrees with whatever you want , gladly shares other people's private information with you and has no real safeguard about what […]

I think we need to learn from history here. The biggest mistake after world war 2 was letting the corporations get away without consequences. Not a single CEO was tried at Nuremberg, not even Faber corp who staffed their factory with slaves from Auschwitz. Average life expectancy of a slave […]

This is a fantastic article. The New Camouflage of the Far Right - Darren McGarvey https://darrenmcgarvey.substack.com/p/the-new-camouflage-of-the-far-right

Had this fun, and hitherto unknown to me, interaction with Brienne in #Fallout3 during my last #livestream #fallout #fallout3 #falloutnewvegas #fallouttaleoftwowastelands Fallout 3 in 2008 was actually way more #sexpositive and #sexworker#sexpositive#fallouttaleoftwowastelands#falloutnewvegas#fallout#livestream#fallout3ive than Fallout 4 in 2016. Come hang out for the […]

You may have seen this tragic story about a teenager who committed suicide and used chat GPT to plan and work up the nerve to go through with it. If you are skeptical that an LLM could really be responsible the details of this case will challenge you. With LLMs "the user is always right" they […]

I've been listening to #HeavtMetal and playing #dnd#heavtmetalfor almost 30 years and I've never summoned Satan. Anyone know what I'm doing wrong?

I can't believe this has to be said: ONE asylum seeker (allegedly) murdered Lisa. No other asylum seeker is responsible for her death. Her murder does not justify xenophobia, islamophobia or any-refugee sentiments of any kind. By all means, be furious at the monster who killed her. If the […]

This #TuneTuesday’s theme is by @derthomas #firstcomefirstplayed Close your eyes, what's the first song that comes to mind ? For me it was immediately a song so old it's actually in the public domain. "I don't want to set the world on fire" by The Inkspots. And I know exactly why - it's […]

If I ever create an MMORPG the fishing skill will have subskills. Reeling the fish, hooking the line, baiting the line etc. Each of these will have the usual progression: apprentice, novice, expert, master. Would all this just be an elaborate scheme to get people to proudly get the "master […]

New series starting on the hour. Fallout Tale of Two Wastelands using the Begin Again modpack. Come hang out. https://twitch.tv/metalpoetnl

#/Youtube on #Xbox has rolled out a feature that appears to be a weird case of #enshittification#xboxdisguised as userfriendliness. Right now, if you're watching a YouTube video on Xbox, and you try to skip forward, and a lot of people are skipping the same section to the same point, it will […]

@notjustbikes have you seen this? I mean it's a bit "yeah that's what we've been saying all along" but still nice to see empirical research confirming it.

Not sure why, but this one is giving me #sunday vibes -- maybe it's giving you Thursday vibes?! 😂 📷 :https://esahubble.org/images/potw1410a/ #astrophotography #Space #Science #hubble #nasa #esa #Astrodon #astronomy #science #weekend #Sunday

Hear me out guys... I think I had an epiphany. The #dmca and its international equivalents prohibit circumventing a copyright protection measure. It does not matter if the measure is effective. It doesn't matter if the action you circumvent it FOR is even a copyright violation! Explicitly […]

Kicked off my summer holiday in the woodshop making this catch-all tray on my home made CnC.

A court in Rotterdam declared the Judge #TacoBell chain bankrupt yesterday. There is on Taco Bell restaurant here in #tilburg#tacobell I tried them once. Having previously had Taco Bell in San Francisco about 20 years ago - and while I wouldn't call it good Mexican, it was its own thing which I rather […]

Now that the US rightwing party is openly fascist, is there some reason why the rest of us don't open the Overton Window all the way by staking out a fully automated luxury gay space communism position? I feel like we should start from: - Equal significance for ALL people, equal protection of […]

Talk about threatening us with a good time. https://youtu.be/t26H3Rn2cAU?si=Ns1tjWJlb-Ahgd8N

Thanks @pluralistic for, in an almost throwaway line finally giving us the PERFECT response to "What is a woman". "Women aren't whats; they are whos". That one sentence explains our position better than any other response I have ever seen.

Currently I'm listening to #Belladonna's #punk#belladonnanoir classic "Mystical Elysian Love". A very special song to me. @madgurl69 and I had our first wedding dance to this song.

I think I finally figured out my main issue #ai #art#aias a concept. If you ask Sally to make you a piece of art: whose the artist? That's right, Sally is the artist, not you. So, if you ask an AI to make you a piece of art*, whose the artist? In both cases you asked for art to be made, you […]

Mastodon 4.4.0 release! 🎉. I will install the latest version at metalhead.club as soon as I'm back home. Public transport is delayed... 😮‍💨

So ... Who knows what this is (going to be)? #makestodon #makerscommunity #makers

How dare it be Monday, I wasn't done with the weekend yet.

You know the severity of forced obsolescence is starkly revealed by antique stores. Hundreds of working devices, functional furniture pieces - all centuries old, and there are so many that most towns have multiple such stores! Now picture an antique store 200 years from now. And realise it […]

Welcome to the internet, its basically a bunch of weird hills covered in copses. No matter how weird the hill, there are people prepared to die on it. Well ...until the AI bots turn the internet into a cover version of grey goo anyway.

Can you scare the dead shit out of somebody?

#BlackSabbath just released a new recording of #WarPigs with #RobHalford from #judaspriest#robhalford#warpigs#blacksabbathnging. It's REALLY good. And it's a song that is, sadly, once again extremely topical.

#manowar have so many awesome songs! Hands down.

So the official position of the liberal/corporate wing of the democratic party is that a sex criminal who has repeatedly stolen taxpayer money is ... better than a democratic socialist ? That New Yorkers would be better off with a rapist thief than free busses ? This is where we are at ?