I've noticed that many people who complain that others don't show enough respect to their chosen beliefs and traditions often display, through their actions, even less respect for those beliefs and traditions than the people they complain about.

A rich and powerful man voluntarily bearing a cross onstage, but adding wheels so it's not remotely difficult, is the perfect picture for our country.

In Swedish, a word for what you eat to bridge the gap between meals (or while waiting for the main course to cook) is stödmacka. It means "support sandwich." A similar word in Norwegian is ventepølse, or "waiting sausage."

Nice, but we can do more! Streameth my new single, my friends, wherever you stream music! (You can also still buy it at my Bandcamp 😁) Plz share!!

The Ruby community has a DHH problem tekin.co.uk/2025/09/the-...

companies make it difficult or impossible to disable ai in their products because it is an authoritarian project made from a stack of consent violations in a trenchcoat they don't give you a checkbox for "i don't want this and will never use it" because they know many people would check that box

Ages ago, when I was still a student, I taught myself Ruby on Rails for my senior thesis and fell in love. Fifteen years later, and I’ve used Rails at every job I’ve ever held in the tech industry. Fifteen years, and I still love Rails! But there’s something rotten at its core, and we share a name.

Covid is gonna shape American politics for years and years because it was the first time most Americans were asked to make sacrifices and they lost their minds because of it.

I’m crying 😂

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

affordable rent is the secret to having nice things like art and music and writers and cool shops and vibrant cities.

I don't think I'll ever understand how some people can look at the current state of the world and think "the problem here is that the people with the least power and resources just have it too good".

This is the cost of casual legitimization of genai. The blood of this kind of suffering is on the hands of everyone who uses it for all the kind of stuff Giger has pointed out. Because you've been told for at least two years now what the cost of it is and to stop doing it.

They keep doing this study, and they keep learning that it works, and they keep withholding money from people anyway.

Exploring slot canyons is magical, but being able to do it with your best friend makes for a truly special experience. He was a trooper! Enjoy the *acoustics* in the beginning lol. ❤️🐾

Trans rights are not the rights of a tiny minority, trans rights are everyone’s rights to self-determination, control of our bodies, and a society where opportunity and aesthetics are not restricted by sex assigned at birth You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people

We need a Ruby Central which is not beholden to DHH and Shopify money but representative of the larger community. Why aren't the board of directors publicly elected, like Python? https://ruby.social/@adarsh/115215323757719078

I heard AI and its relationship to the economy recently described as “The wasting is masked because the tumor is growing so fast that the body isn’t losing weight.”

With Robert Redford having passed, I beg you all to watch Sneakers (1992), one of the most prescient movies in recent decades, and certainly the best hacker film ever made. Also it's very funny.

this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

Good thread.

White supremacists sure seem to think he was a white supremacist.

I shouldn't be shocked, but I'm still always brought up short to realize how many people think "civility" means "white people speaking in relatively calm voices" no matter what vile shit they say.

"Healthy debate" = when I criticize you "Cancel culture" = when you criticize me

in retrospect, there’s probably never been a name as threatening as “America Online”

If I can bend the rules to 3 seasons, it's Dark by a mile. The less you know about it going in the better, so don't read up!

One policy solution to Young Men we should be considering is Universal Basic Electric Guitar (UBEG). I'm not joking, by the way. Kids of any gender should get a low-cost starter kit for some hobby of their choosing once they turn 13. A camera, paints, a cheap sampler, etc.

Three HBCUs have had to lock down their campuses today. What about THIS political violence? Where's the condemnation from the right and from the media?

I think any criticism of "political violence" is fundamentally incomplete without acknowledging that the heart of conservative politics IS violence.

We simply cannot live in a country where the death of hate mongers is a tragedy and the death of everyone else only warrants a shrug.

i’m not going to be lectured about political violence by people whose politics is violence

Everyone writing about Perseverance today should be asking how many of the scientists and engineers who were involved in this discovery no longer work for NASA bc of Trump.

The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.

I have no idea what white people are talking about right now. The warnings that the fascists will "use this" to do more violence. WHAT WON'T THEY USE? You've watched them deploy the US military on US soil using bullshit pretexts. What even are you talking about?

It really sucks that people getting burned after spending years publicly playing with fire gets so much pearl clutching coverage.

The problem with allowing guns everywhere is that no one is safe anywhere.

Remember: there's no audience for AI-produced content. Nobody in the AI ecosystem is there to read or listen - only to publish their own slop.

the word “sloppycat” just popped into my head for people who try to ape actual specific human work using slop generators please feel free to use it

rewatching this episode of the Twilight Zone where a man becomes obsessed with getting advice from a demonic fortune telling machine until he can no longer make any decisions without consulting the machine. for no reason in particular.

i'm selling a guitar on marketplace and some doorknob offered me a pixelart nft of the same guitar in trade and sent me an image of it and told me it was a 1 of 1 so i downloaded it and replied that now it was a 1 of 2 and this was the last thing he said before i blocked him

"to democratize art is not every person having a cute drawing made in seconds, to democratize art is every person having time and health to learn and make art if they chose to, and mainly to have the means to think and relate introspectively with art."

I miss when “purity tests” were simply called “principles.”

The eye exam is the perfect game design. That big E is a great tutorial that teaches you the basic mechanic. But it doesn't baby you and quickly gets hard as they introduce the small and blurry enemies.

Two trials will be repeated endlessly despite always producing the same results: 1) Does UBI work? (yes) 2) Does AI improve productivity? (no)

Shout out to everyone only now learning that "Albert Einstein was reclusive at the end of his career, shunning public engagements." Really meant, "For the last *20 years* of his career, Einstein opposed US racism by only speaking publicly at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).

GOAT game imho

Yeah, no. I'm a contractor, I write for games, and sometimes that means writing 100% of a game's text. I'm a valuable part of the team! Contractors aren't just "support", they deserve to be credited (and treated) better than this

Gotta say seeing governors competing to one up each other to see who can make vaccines most accessible is a refreshing change.

Excellent metaphor for something. "Once the canary showed signs of carbon monoxide poisoning the door would be closed and a valve opened, allowing oxygen from the tank on top to be released and revive the canary." blog.scienceandindustrymuseum.org.uk/canary-resus...