*Drag n Drop* RIP Win10. I'm never upgrading 😭

After this Amazon outage today, you can really see the number of services Amazon is running and how that’s a problem. Even my cats’ Litter Robot’s app was affected, 🤨.

Canvas, the course management platform used by my university (and many others), has been down all day due to the AWS outage. It has prompted some good discussions about how much critical infrastructure is now outsourced to a few companies.

The main achievement of the tech industry has been increasing the flow of money from people who make or do things to people who already have more money than they could spend in a hundred lifetimes

I think the idea of a "big tent" opposition is good up until "big tent" somehow comes to mean "newcomer conservatives and centrists get to set the tent's agenda and rules for membership by default"

The Democrats need to get a hell of a lot of cameras on the White House and plaster the photos everywhere. It's not just the brazen symbol of a megalomaniac destroying national heritage; it's happening during a government shutdown when ordinary people aren't getting paid. Make every American see it.

the way christianity has been weaponised by the right for a long time is why i’ve slowly come to feel unsafe around people displaying its faith symbols. if you’re wearing a cross, i’m going to be wary, if you mention god or jesus in your bio, i’m not engaging. it’s like the opposite of a pride flag

Look at this champion napper, how can I ever hope to compete?

One of my favorite things about living where I do is that about 25% of the houses have spooooooky Halloween decorations out and 25% have beautiful Diwali lights and I think it makes both holidays feel even more rad

Generative AI is the aesthetics and instrument of fascism, proved once again.

Before the Trump administration invented "Antifa", the government of Uzbekistan invented "Akromiya": sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/inventing-...

I remember this destruction of the Bonwit Teller sculptures Donald Trump had previously promised to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and I've loathed Donald Trump ever since. I even referenced that incident in a story I published in @lightspeedmagazine.com. www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/a-ma...

Some recent hens. They do look good together like this. 🐔 Friendly reminder that I have a Ko-fi by way of a tip jar, if you enjoy my work and would like to send a little material support. Thank you so much to everyone who contributes. ☺️🥲🙏💙 Link also in profile. ko-fi.com/himmapaan

this is why I stopped using spotify. I buy albums on Bandcamp fairly often. I love finding new music. I tune in to my university's radio station for shows that showcase genres I like, so I can find them on Bandcamp. If i decide I want a streaming service, it'll be Qobuz, probably.

I once thought streaming services were convenient and fair. they are not. I made a serious mistake. So I'm back to buying music. I hope that musicians have the means to sell direct on their websites. Their art is important to me and I want them to make a living from it.

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The very imperfect ACA is how I got to stay being a writer, one not reliant on somebody else's health insurance.

The whole point of democracy is so one person's derangement does not become everybody's problem. It's social hygiene. The fact the richest men in the West are a mix of grotty twelve year olds and deranged apocalypse fanatics is a problem, and we should be honest about it.

Pennsylvania is 1 of just 12 states whose laws don’t give them the legal authority to conserve insects & other invertebrates. However, a new bill (H.B. 441) would change that, and it passed the state House earlier this month! It is now going to the state senate; stay tuned for updates! 🐝

I'm not giving up.

Hi. I wrote an essay about AI slop: How it feels like an invasive species for the internet. How its boosters describe building a future that’s devoid of craft. How frictionlessness can be nihilistic & how this stuff seems to leach part of our shared humanity out of the world. I hope you'll read it.

My family has old photos that probably will never be made public because we’re afraid of ppl taking them and labeling them with random Native identities/philosophical quotes on the internets.

netflix put video stores out of business by having a massively bigger selection by mail, and now the streaming version of netflix has a smaller selection than a typical video store had

I can't really explain fully why this is the thing of all things that got my jaw on the floor but I guess it's such a literal symbol and also such a jaw dropping amount of money while small businesses are struggling to survive the tariffs Such a visible "go fuck yourself"

I just got let go from my first job opportunity (jewelry store) in over a year after a single week bc the price per ounce of gold is almost $4,000, not enough people have that kind of money rn, and they couldn't afford to keep me on. I miss groceries. but yeah, cool for the pumpkin lord I guess

ahh another beautiful day in the glorious age of technology, sure hope my doorbell doesn’t stop working because an online bookstore took over and then broke the entire internet

Holy gobs this exchange.

Trump is busy making it illegal to disagree with him and yet the left is still being accused of excessive “purity tests.”

If your company cannot hire any voice actors, don't put voice acting in your game. This AI voice acting crap is bad.

I'll never forgive generative a.i Having to ask "is this real?" so often has really done a number on me I miss being able to trust art.

Every year, more road salt seeps off roads into New Hampshire’s waterways, posing a mounting threat to drinking water and wildlife. Now, officials are looking at ways to address the troubling trend. From Molly Rains #NHPolitics

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This.... This is beautiful.

“As tech companies build data centers worldwide to advance AI, vulnerable communities have been hit by blackouts and water shortages.” • School cancelations • Sick kids • Collapse of basic hygiene Gift: From Mexico to Ireland, Fury Mounts Over a Global A.I. Frenzy www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/t...

Oh right this one I took specifically for @rincewind.run

the Pumpkin carver 🎃

I'm still very actively looking for work! Please, let me come work on your stuff

Binary categories of Trump “winning/losing” – or the regime being “weak/strong” – are not particularly helpful. Better to grapple with the murkiness of this moment: A staunchly authoritarian movement is in power, but they haven’t been able to install a consolidated autocracy yet.

“We’ve seen so many impacts from groundwater pumping. There’s a lot of areas that are dewatered, that are dried up.” Indigenous leaders raise concerns about groundwater pumping in Owens Valley and call for negotiations with L.A. @ianjames.bsky.social has more. www.latimes.com/environment/...

At the Ren Faire today, we watched a blacksmith give a 30-minute demonstration about swords. And at the end he said, “My lecture is now over, here are some kittens to pet.” *Proceeds to uncover 2 large pet carriers and pulls out 6 kittens.*

The NH AG asked executive councilors and lawmakers on the state’s Fiscal Committee for an additional roughly $4.3 million to pay for litigation costs related to a number of lawsuits the state faced, including abuse allegations in the state’s juvenile justice system. From @willskipworth.bsky.social

Any indies making kid-friendly games? Would love to grow a wishlist of titles for the little growing gamer we have. We last beat Kirby and the Forgotten Land together.

How the gentle wind, Beckons through the leaves, As autumn colors fall. 🍂

Wow, a friend of mine just had a fall, a skull CT scan and staples in her head. When I say 'just', I mean yesterday. I'm kind of shocked, tbh. Be careful when moving out there, folks. Especially if it's just rained.

"Sam Rivers wasn't just our bass player — he was pure magic. The pulse beneath every song, the calm in the chaos, the soul in the sound," Limp Bizkit said in a social media post Saturday. n.pr/48ESpB6

A good tell that someone's about to say something dumb as hell about the ACA is listing staying on parents insurance longer first.

Happy Diwali. The world needs the light.

This is absolutely where a lot of people I talk to regularly are thinking today. Our work is not only about the here and now but about the world somewhere between here and the end of our lives and building what's needed, starting now.