I won't be online till after the international date change, please scrub your 'funny posts' and 'jokes' before then. Thank you

Happy International Transgender Day of Visibility! We're everywhere and we're cool. Here's the trans pride flag 🏳️‍⚧️ on a mid-90s Pentium running DOS.

The anti-trans side has spent years building up propaganda claiming this doesn't happen and I need you all to know they are lying.

March 15, 2025 "I'm afraid I could be arrested if I travel to that state for your wedding and need to use the restroom at the venue, I'm sorry."

If you use GitHub (especially if you pay for it!!) consider doing this *immediately* Settings -> Privacy -> Disallow GitHub to train their models on your code. GitHub opted *everyone* into training. No matter if you pay for the service (like I do). WTH github.com/settings/cop...

🇬🇧 372 Scientists Warn Age Verification Laws Are Building a Global Surveillance System reclaimthenet.org/pause-social... 🇳🇱 372 wetenschappers manen tot terughoudendheid met online leeftijdschecks www.bnr.nl/nieuws/tech-... #socialmediaban #privacy

After starting to collect books from the Elminster series I figured I'd get other series too. So a random search later I saw the Icewind Dale trilogy mentioned online. I made a note of the titles and left it at that. The Crystal Shard Streams of Silver The Halfling's Gem

Today they banned my book. Here’s what I want you to know: thebloggess.com/2026/03/25/t...

Some YA fantasy authors who to my knowledge have never funded an attempted trans genocide: Terry Pratchett Diana Wynne-Jones Garth Nix Suzanne Collins Susan Cooper Phillip Pullman Rick Riordan Pierce Brown Sheri S. Tepper V. E. Schwab Rachel Hartman Alex Pheby Alan Garner Ursula Le Guin And more!

I really can't put this more clearly. If you watch the new Harry Potter series, you are directly funding the genocide of trans people, because that's what Rowling gleefully spends HP revenue on. There's no "death of the author" here, no "there's lots of awful creators." You are funding genocide.

Again, Democrats should run on investigating, prosecuting and convicting all this stuff. None of this "look forward to heal the nation" no "avoid the appearance of a partisan revenge spree". People are breaking laws and the next government needs to send a message that will be remembered.

So I'm from Virginia. I currently live in TN and I also lived here as a teen. It's a little complicated. Anyway, the Rutherford County PUBLIC library is where I spent a lot of time as a tween/teen. It shaped me. It saved me. This is a PUBLIC LIBRARY not even a school. And I'm proud of *Luanne.

It's so funny to me when an entertainment company says "Man up." "Man up and accept shitty art!" "Man up and pay $100 for a game!" I...don't have to? www.pcgamer.com/games/action...

Remember to have an exit strategy. No platform is really your friend. Mastodon has come a long way. We're on it: mastodon.social/@gamingonlinux I'll remain here until it gets enshittified, so far so good though...at least (unlike Twatter), the protocol and all that here is actually open source.

Imagine a newspaper publisher announcing it will no longer allow libraries to keep copies of its articles for reference. This is what's happening online with the @archive.org www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

Give fascists the finger and a few bullets in Too Many F*cking Nazis #PCGaming #Gaming #FPS

Deploring Israel's actions as a state isn't antisemitic. Attacking Jews and symbols of Jewish culture in supposed retaliation for Israel's actions is however *textbook* antisemitism and these are not complicated thoughts to simultaneously hold in one's head.

oh my god this is extremely funny

this is like the third time a studio has pulled this excuse when including genAI and it's the third time i've had to say that this issue of genAI placeholder assets is redundant because game devs had a more intuitive solution 30 years ago

I do not read or write Latin, thus I am unable to judge if the LLM output is accurate or breaks unspoken Latin rules and therefor will defer to Dan instead Also, the LLM translation is exactly what I'd expect a chatbot to output and Dan's translation what I'd expect ancient text to be like :P

Have you ever wondered what's actually going on with these companies that are selling you privacy solutions? Well, I think I have the perfect video for you! youtu.be/xFKSKjyBVDU

Sometimes the origin of a story is just a passing comment, like a casual mention of the 92yo rare books expert who often just drops by the State Library with an extremely valuable book in his pocket to donate. I was very taken by this, so I found the guy. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

I can't talk too much about how correct or incorrect this is since I never had to work with libraries this way; but it *feels* correct. I've been forming the same opinion that our frictionless world encourages us to be skill- and mindless in our actions and consumption

This lays the nu-pro-life movement bare. - An actual living baby is not a life. - Two more babies who were created in part to save that first baby is also not a life. - Cum in a petri dish? That's life, baby! Everyone else can and should get fucked and die.

The latest episode of Philosophy Tube is about conversion therapy, why it’s still legal in the UK, and the ways the British government is implicated in it making it NHS policy. Proud to expose this stuff ✊ youtu.be/_S5w18sjYLk?...

Nobody wants your fucking slop bro. Literally nobody wants slop dude. When will you AI guys fucking get it through your thick fucking skulls

Disturbing anecdotal reports of "AI psychosis" and negative psychological effects have been emerging in the news. But what actually happens during these lengthy delusional "spirals"? In our preprint, we analyze chat logs from 19 users who experienced severe psychological harm🧵👇

Okay, I just want to point out that if you have been considering an electric car, I would really consider doing that quickly because things do not look good re: oil availability and cost. Used EVs are currently a screaming deal. I have a feeling this will not be the case for too much longer.

Time For Two with @cyan.yt!! Ask us questions about our relationship~ ^^ Starting in 10 minutes!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgL8... #VTuber #ENVTuber #Yuri

Arrived at the bookstore just this morning, and picked it up after work. @dingodoodles.bsky.social's Fool's Gold! Honestly, I'm surprised I could just order it here in the Netherlands instead of having to go through shady businesses or, even worse, Amazon :o

Fighting Fascism Is A Full-time Job. 🖖🏻

One of the solutions proposed - I am not kidding - is "writing scripts to automate repetitive tasks." It's really funny imagining a software engineer being like "woah...like automating the boring stuff, you might say?"

virtually every main social ill we face right now is downstream from the fact that rich people have more money than they know what to do with. national security risk

Made a video discussing the anniversary and the house situation. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLd4...

since the [redscted] spring sale is happening I might as well report this

This! If everyone is forced to drive that means more traffic for all drivers. When we have choices to get around, we can ease congestion. People who must drive will have less cars to worry about and bicyclists, pedestrians, and transit riders have choices to get to where they need to go.

After years of planning a potential collab, I finally got to sit down with fellow cybersecurity YouTuber David Bombal for an in person interview! Below you can check out the video from what will hopefully be the first of many more collaborations 😃 : www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsXz...

Wayback Machine director Mark Graham pushes back on unfounded claims from media organizations that the Wayback Machine is a backdoor for AI scraping.⁠ ⁠ Read more via @techdirt.com 🔗 www.techdirt.com/2026/02/17/p...

You absolutely cannot separate the artist and the art without contributing to the persecution of trans people. Boycott everything Potter.

see? here's the thing. A lot of people are like, the earth is fucked, it's beyond salvation, it's hit the tipping point, but time and time again we see that if we just fucking fixed the problem, it rebounds so incredibly fast. Imagine what could be done if people actually cared

I don't think I've seen anyone talk about this, but am I the only one annoyed by the fact that when you have a full screen YT video playing and you scroll down you no longer get the description and comments, but the first 12 videos from your recommended instead?

In other news, I had two long train rides this weekend so I finished Azure Bonds. Honestly, had trouble putting it down. I've also started in The Wyvern's Spur, hasn't quite grabbed me as much yet, but read it most of the train ride to and from the office today

My central heating's boiler had low water pressure, something which I presumed I could fix myself. However, one's boiler also needs a (bi-)yearly checkup, so I figured I'd call in a technician and have them top it off too. Top of the company's website: "Fix water pressure yourself" FINE! I'LL DO IT!

A new study finds that texting a random stranger is probably better to mitigate loneliness than talking to an AI-powered chatbot www.404media.co/chatgpt-lone...