You wouldn't download a means of production

I am normal and can be trusted with your statistical information

Today I will get back to work and do all the productive things and fix the bugs and so on and not waste any time making fun of the over the top ridiculous people on this terrible website ... after lunch, naturally ... and the digestif coffee, of course and so on

Yes. Though freedom 0 (to run the program for any purpose) wasn't in the original Free Software Definition, it was added somewhere in the early 90's. This was never a part of the "free" vs "open" distinction either formally or culturally

I was going to make a "cue killer David Gilmour guitar solo" joke about this and turned on sound quick to check what's actually there... lo and behold lol

Oh, you hate it here? Now replace "it" with women. Not so funny now is it?

TIL that waterproof e-readers are, in fact, a thing, so my dream of reading in the bath is actually achievable

The easiest way to clock the compatible left is that they consistently fail to oppose the empire. Like right libertarians, they only really consider those who oppress them personally to be inherently bad. Otherwise, oh, you know, bad apples

He absolutely got a talking to about this specific post, but his brain is too melted by the ego stroking machine to realise that making that obvious isn't a good look

Califooornia! Über Aaalles!

ACAB includes literal cops

Sounds like Bryan Passifuime needs to catch a well-deserved firing for his miscalculation, although of course the American boot licking fascist propagandists at the Toronto Sun will probably give him a raise

Baby Beluga said fuck them boats, raised a guerilla army, and sent them to the bottom of the deep blue sea

A nice cat video for the collaborators on here that are back on their "vote for 99% Hitler" bullshit. Don't worry it's definitely just about cats, read the lyrics, you'll live laugh love it I promise www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4LU...

Hey Toronto, come shout down chuds, it's cool and fun. or dance about it or whatever

My priors are that people who say "update your priors" are almost always insufferable dipshits trying to hide their credulity behind a smokescreen of faux rationality they learned from LessWrong, as they fail to update their priors to account for the fact that they're part of a fascist movement

A weird thing about the rise of LLMs is that there's now whole class of poster who's clearly not a bot because they're *less* coherent than a bot would be. Hordes of functionally illiterate Blue MAGA freaks on this Zone of Interest website very much included

No, no, no, I said a chicken IN every pot

How it feels to not be mean to the libs in your replies when a post breaches containment

The only actual points this article makes to support its conclusion is that Donald Trump is a little bit different from Adolf Hitler in a couple of minor ways. Amazing

Just walked past a lady in the grocery store loudly complaining to nobody about how "nothing in this aisle is in English!" ... she was walking down the one international food aisle. ... where (almost?) everything is also labeled in English.

There's two kinds of leftist in 2026: those who think reeducation camps are a great idea, and liars

One of the nice things about having even just a basic political education is that you don't need to immediately kowtow to some ignorant reactionary asshole just because they're from a place. A lot of people on this terrible website should give it a try, it's awesome

I guess if you're enough of an unrepentant Nazi you get positions in foreign governments too. Frankly I'm not sure how much advice one needs to manage an economy that's been sold off to predatory western capital in a fire sale

Bold of me to resolve to spend less time staring at the horrors in 2026

I made the mistake of checking to see if there was anything interesting about *waves hand vaguely at current events* on lemmygrad, and... good grief. I keep forgetting that place has been ruined by admins who love AI slop. We need to do better at running these people out of ostensibly leftist spaces

I can't wait until the next time I have to argue with some braindead Canadian lib about Mark "Elbows Up" Carney, who just got outflanked on the left by Marine Le fucking Pen, on specifically the topic he lied about to get elected

19th century table formatting will be the death of me

Your brain has clearly been on vacation for a long time, and it's not looking like the kind of vacation that ever ends. Fools believing in ridiculous things like MTG as part of some "pro-democracy" movement is exactly the effect that the "orange man is the problem" narrative is designed to produce

These "AI" "companion" things give me the ick like nothing else. I won't even make this a quote for context, since it's deeply disturbing to have to see at all. The consequences for the people behind all of this needs to be incredibly severe, but instead we reward them with infinite wealth and power

Oh yay, a phone OS update. Time to spend an hour wading through menus to find all the battery- and brain-melting "AI" spyware bullshit to turn off

Lexi Alexander‘s bluesky account has been suspended. Bluesky’s crackdown on Palestinians continues unabated.

Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software. Just fuck you. Fuck you all. I can't remember the last time I was this angry.

Special days are silly, and special days that are just a thinly masked excuse for more forced consumerism are even sillier

Happy holidays to everyone else who told their families to go fuck themselves ONLY

This is called the Frequency illusion, or Baader–Meinhof phenomenon en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequen...

Shout out to December 2025 Bluesky helping me in my journey to fully quitting all social media by having the most ridiculous discourse imaginable

It's hard to find humour in things going on right now, but all this tacky desecration of American symbols is hilarious. They'll take down the letters and the plaques, but they'll never wash away the gaudy stench, because it was always there. The most American president ever just put it on display

Conspiracy theory: Youtube is automatically "enhancing" all videos to make even real video look uncanny, as an encircling move in the war against reality where "AI" is the main front. It's easier to convince people that synthetic things are real when you make real things look synthetic as well

Tidal pushed some remake of California Über Alles on me that replaces Brown with Newsom (so far so good) then immediately starts crying about masks and being called racist and other right wing grievances. Sigh. What part of "Nazi Punks Fuck Off" did you barely literate assholes not understand?

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Admittedly, a lot of people are clearly vulnerable to having smoke blown up their ass, but if you ever wanted to see how the mind of a famously wrong dumbass can be melted just by having a chat bot say he's very smart for a change, do I have a treat for you www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...

"People want software that is fast, modern, but also honest about what it does. They want to understand what’s happening and to have real choices." is some wild shit to say as you're trying to force "AI" bullshit on a userbase who despises it even more than usual blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/l...

"AI" has finally come for the industry of annoying nerds who treat every political engagement as an opportunity to hawk newspapers

Best fit of the day award goes to the guy at the skating rink in full tactical gear - infantry helmet w/ camera mount, pulled up neck gaiter, camo fatigues, pretty much everything but a plate carrier and rifle - plus figure skates, working on his axels

This is the future. Invest in my company that sells bicycles with factory-installed DUI bars

"Could it be that my takes are conservative dreck that people rightfully hate because I'm part of the problem? No, no, surely all Canadians get this treatment"

The most fun "we promise it's not American" Canadian grocery branding I've seen yet

I'm doing some home network maintenance, and it occurs to me that in the modern era of ubiquitous containerization, Bluesky's claims to care about decentralization are so transparently bullshit. It's 2025, if a service actually wants other people to be able to run it, it's a 5 minute job