Honestly if you’re sending a robot to run terraform destroy, that damage is on you. Humans can’t even run that thing without disastrous consequences. That’s what you get for running with scissors

With alt-text: Agree that I hate this is still relevant.

The thing about all these freak AI execs constantly going "our machine may have gained sentience?!" is that they want slaves. That they are ok with slave labor. And *then* it always, always turns out their latest AI trick actually used slave labor somewhere in the global south. They're slavers.

I love that I have a friend who is Quebois and tolerates my rants about Quebec. Today's rant was about cheese curds for poutine and he had the bestest reply: "My people had a chip on their shoulder. Now they added gravy and cheese curds."

“To believe in laws over belief in people is to be colonized.”

I wrote something

It is after 8 p.m. in Minnesota on Thursday night and if you haven't had an evening meal yet you should get on that (I'm talking to myself here). Remember to drink plenty of water & take any meds you need. Take breaks. Do those things you need to do. Fuck ICE.

HI! Please share! I am running a new fundraiser with Cylon whistles. 4 great orgs benefit. I explain the whole deal here, but basically if you donate $25, I'll send you one of these BSG-coded whistles. You can email or DM receipts & the more you donate, the more u get! www.moryan.com/by-your-comm...

It has been over 24 hours since my therapy appointment, I am just thinking about my therapist's face when I told her the massive amount of caffeine I have needed my whole life in order to mask. I drank Mt. Dew at breakfast in college (the second ingredient was orange juice, so it was fine).

OMFG!!! Developers please, please, please fucking do ANY keyboard testing. Hitting the tab key to go through your whole page catches so many things. You already hit tab to go to the next field in a form. You know how to do it. Please just hit tab and make sure you can get to every link and button

Accessibility tidbit #2 Many screenreaders don't differentiate strike through text. developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/W...

PLEASE HELP!!! there's not help coming. we are all we have. and the people who have been doing the brunt of the MA work have tapped their resources. we need buy in from other places because the mayor, the governor, and now likely the city council said no help for you.

Today's accessibility tidbit. When I do accessibility testing, I am required to make sure the errors are accessible. The number of times I find major issues that halt going to production is too damn high. Developers please test more than just the happy path with your mouse!

I got this today after paying a family’s back rent to stop an eviction that had been filed. I feel that weight in my bones, and I’m glad she gets to sleep tonight. No one should ever have to feel that fear.

Not fair! First it was my therapist this afternoon and now a comic is calling me out too? Damnit. (Love you ADHD Alien 🫶)

Daily reminder that calling ai dead labor and stolen labor is literal.

Nothing quite like having a therapist say, "So why do you feel like you have to fail for two more months before doing the paperwork to get accommodations?"

You'd think I already would've figured this out given my journey through the medical system with an illness like 95% of doctors insisted on misdiagnosing But one of the things that is most surprising to me is how little "theory of the work" thought most people engage in. --

I thought that was buried in the small print when you signed up. "On the first Wednesday of the month, all the Minnesotans will post awooo, 🚨, or some sort of alarm gif."

If you followed a bunch of Minnesotans due to the horrors I know your feed looks crazy rn

MINNESOTA ROLL CALL!

I had team leads like this and it is the most horrible experience. Because as you are trying to explain all the solutions you have tried they are just shouting "No problem! ONLY SOLUTION!" If I had a solution, I would have DONE IT.

One St. Paul native dubbed Mancini’s “the supper club most likely to be chosen for cop retirement parties.” But, this winter, the timeless steakhouse became an unlikely hub of anti-ICE activism.

Stand With Minnesota is out of donors for Adopt A Rent, and we currently have way more rent needs than we can cover! Want to directly support a MN immigrant family in urgent need to help keep them safe and housed? Fill out our form here: standwithminnesota.com/adoptarent Thank you! 💐

unwell Americans gotta be some of the most frustrating ppl to work with, you're not in good shape , you're operating at like 20%, you're slowing your work down and you're slowing my work down, why don't you just go lie down, being sick is not a personal failing it is actually ok to rest & heal ffs

You know, I do think there should be more public dialogue about nuclear weapons in a world where stockpiles are expanding and arms control is all but gone. But not like this, man come on #Nukesky

A lot of blaming voters, not enough blaming voter suppression

“South Korea’s Kospi plunged over 12% Wednesday… The Korea Exchange temporarily halted trading for the Kospi index on Wednesday. A circuit breaker was activated on the Kosdaq as well, which fell about 13%.” www.cnbc.com/2026/03/04/a...

If you ever want to read a paper for free and can't find it otherwise, email the lead author and politely ask for a copy. You will not be bothering the person. You will in fact make their whole entire day. I have had scientists get so excited I asked they sent me everything they ever published.

These accounts demonstrate something very important: so many scientists who chummed around with Epstein have begged forgiveness on the basis that they didn’t know who he was. These men didn’t know anything about him either. But they took the time to find out.

Let how exhausted I look here give you a window into how hard mutual aid organizers have been pushing to keep our neighbors safe and housed when no one else will. Please write to your councilmembers and the mayor and urge them to pass Pause Evictions, Save Lives!

Do you want this to finally be the year of linux on the desktop? Because this sounds like they want it to be the year of linux on the desktop.

Introduce yourself with 5 cars you've owned Five cars?!? I drive my cars into the ground. Also I didn't get my license until I was 23, didn't buy a car until I was 26, so here are my two cars. 2010 Kia Forte 2023 Subaru Forester

In small wins, today I went to the office AND had energy to do two chores! I'm now beat but it has been a long time since I've been able to do that.

CW: car running into person, chemical weapons, guns pointed at observers ... .. .

That might have been the scariest talk I’ve ever given and I’ve keynoted in front of 10,000 people

A week ago, the ACLU got DHS officials to admit on record that there would be an additional 407 agents throughout March on top of the 150 CBP agents we would normally have here. The idea that we are down to pre-surge levels is a lie that needs to be corrected for the country. We are still occupied.

Minnesota showing up literally and figuratively while our most powerful Minnesota electeds (Democrats all) continue to do jack shit (Non-Minnesota folks: I vouch for, and donate to, Ian’s rent fundraisers)

Today's accessibility tidbit: If you have a hover class, you better have a focus one too! Keyboard users deserve to know where they are on the page. Remember not every keyboard user also uses a screen reader, some of us are just old weirdos that hate using the mouse.

Late night rambling with Jenn Tonight's topic, the churches I went to as a child/teen.

Our little standwithminnesota.com team staved off multiple evictions today. I’m so proud of us. And the stories are so heartbreaking, and there’s still so much need. If you can help, I’ll get it directly where it needs to go. V: @Ian-Coldwater CA: $iancoldwater PP: @coldwater We keep us safe 💛

Hooray! My streak of being an unhinged reference that gets people the job continues. I mean most of the reference is actual work things, I just go off script occasionally and do things like mention my friend's love of tacos.

My fellow dehydrated noodles, Have you not moved since you sat down this morning? Is your first beverage of the day still not drunk? Have you had lunch? Did you have leg day yesterday? You know the drill. Get up, shout "ahhh leg day" a few times, and go get a new beverage and some food.

*pounds the table* POR-TENT! POR-TENT!

This is your friendly reminder that when an accessibility engineer sends back your pages/app/whatever with the note they stopped testing because it fails the automated checker. We aren't doing that because we hate you. We are doing it because we hate having to retest everything again.

It is extremely wrong that there is no whistle emoji. Somebody call the Unicode Consortium

Tomorrow City Council will be taking up “Pause Evictions, Save Lives” to temporarily increase the notice for eviction to 60 days to give families an extra month to make rent. This buys us time for rent assistance to be distributed and to continue to pressure Gov Walz for an eviction moratorium.