Timeline cleanse: oh no, Cheddar has been locked in the biscuit factory (If you turn the volume all the way up you still won’t be able to hear his audible-to-me purrs but you might be able to hear Watson snores in the background)

Given the repeated pleas I’ve see to stop posting the snuff videos, this is an appreciation post for all y’all I follow. I’ve read every skeet not caught by my own (pretty light-touch tbh) filters and have not seen a one. ***Do not force yourself to bear witness when you are already radicalized.***

One of these made me gasp audibly. It’s a cartoon, and cartoony. But it’s graphic.

In all the horrors, do not forget that we take care of each other. That meeting people with different backgrounds makes life more interesting. Don’t let them take our joy of connection. We are all brothers 🥹

Black mask smashy smashy is not the **only** way to be anarchist - Mutual aid - Community self-defense - Direct action - …a diversity of tactics Do what you can, in your place and within your means. And support other people doing the things you can't or won't. We need the whole damn toolbox!

the world is dark and full of terrors but free zine mail is dazzling and full of cheer! 1. go to forms.gle/1zpDmK93w2B9... 2. choose a zine 3. sit tight 4. do a little dance when the mailperson arrives!

The US is an aggressor nation run by a dictator who runs roughshod over the rule of law to suit his own whims.

THREAD: I'll fact-check all the viral misinformation about the US military operation in Venezuela in this thread This image, purporting to show the US military arresting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, is AI-generated. According to Google's SynthID detector, it was created using Google AI.

I again find myself grieving the web we once had. All the information in the world used to be available instantly, right at our fingertips. Now search is so bad and slop is so prevalent that no result can be trusted unless it’s already a recognized publication. There’s no room for discovery.

There’s, like, extensive evidence that shows that hand writing things helps the brain to comprehend new information and think about problems (and therefore solve problems) better than any computer-assisted note taking can, including typing the same information.

clinical depression and social anxiety. i don't owe people things on social media. i don't have to engage in a conversation. i don't have to do anything. i'm not saying it's good, i'm just saying sorry i'm like this

“If you’re cold they’re cold” bitch my dog just demanded to go out on to the terrace in sub-zero temperatures bc idk the cold turns him into a puppy. He only came back inside bc he cannot suffer the pack being apart and we refused to leave the door open.

If I have to experience climate change no matter what why can’t it be the heat-wave-in-December part instead of the coldest-winter-in-decades part

What do you mean, “for some reason”??? CHEDDAR IS A GIFT

One of the things I love so much about Arthur Christmas (2011) is that it calls out adults making extraordinarily selfish decisions in a way that a lot of kids’ movies don’t. A lot of kids’ movies give grownups a pass bc they’re produced by grownups who justify the behavior amongst themselves.

If you see this, post your favorite Final Fantasy character.

It is fucking wild to me the shit that fashion magazines will try to make women feel bad about. I’m not going to link the article I just read about droopy earlobes but it included the phrase “[an earring having a] swing is the enemy of healthy, toned holes” Oh no, my healthy, toned holes.

Well there was that year I sustained an injury that left me bedridden for 3+ months. And the year they used women as decoration for some reason. And the year they decided the only party was at the main campus and the only people invited were some of the staff of the main campus.

Things are Terrible, but this isn't. Be weird.

Getting squishy on main for a sec: When I was a kid I saw no evidence that two people in a relationship could even like each other after nearly 18 years, let alone adore each other as much as my spouse and I adore each other. Happy pre-solstice, friends. Probably delete this later.

In high school in 2001 I took a “how liberal/conservative are you” quiz in my civics class. I scored extreme leftist in every issue but one: affirmative action. I was uninformed and thought it was no longer needed and racism was over. Then I grew up & moved to the real world where reality disagreed.

MOST wheelchair users are at least partly ambulatory. I wish abled folks would get that through their heads.

Deleted a quote post of an article I was mad about. Finding a measured educational response to repost instead.

In case you haven’t read 1984 since high school, this is a literal execution of Winston’s job at the Ministry of Truth. He rewrites historical documents to reflect whatever past the Party has just claimed, then drops evidence of those changes down a chute to an incinerator known as the memory hole.

The US is giving real “reporting your neighbors to the authorities to be disappeared” vibes rn.

calling it now, the “look for the helpers” of 2k26 is “look for the anarchists”

When in trouble When in doubt Find the anarchists We're about 🖤

Why do I have a phobia of fungus? Idk maybe bc every fact about them is a super villain origin story. www.forbes.com/sites/scottt...

Hmm. That’s some word cloud. 1. "fucking" (22×) 2. "those" (12×) 3. "fuck" (12×) 4. "shit" (10×) 5. "fire" (10×)

When I was managing salaried engineers working for a corporation addicted to re-orgs, some of my most important advice was to embrace ambiguity and get comfortable with not knowing things. Control what you can, explore what you can, and attempt to shrug off everything else until it comes for you.

Oh no, the Times discovered Leiden www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/t...

FFmpeg and VLC deserve Nobel prizes for their contribution to free and open culture

Some important information almost zero people in my tax bracket will understand how to operationalize:

This is y'all's chance to work on a webapp where the whole point of using Rust isn't to scale up—it's to scale DOWN. 6k reqs/s on a sub-US$30 machine is no joke. And it's a hard copyleft ecosystem that we're going to protect for the folks who rely on us! Let's do open source right.

This is certainly some of y’all’s red line. If it *is* your red line, and you have the means (I know; that’s a big fucking “if”) don’t try to claim asylum anywhere, it’s a recipe for disaster. Trans World Express has good resources for intl relocation. transworldexpress.org/wiki/Main_Page

No.

Has anyone investigated if there’s any financial connection between DHS and Big Whistle?

Post you from a different era. The raver era.

I feel like we have the opportunity to turn David Lynch's quote into this moment's "Keep Calm and Carry On" and it's a far better rallying cry too.

“0% woke shit” a black man with a physical disability leads an environmental terrorist cell trying to save the planet from mega-billionaires and you play as a cross dressing twink femdomed by two different women ending and the final boss against the gayest angel of all time

I laughed out loud in an inappropriate environment upon reading this headline and subhead.

Alright, here's another check to see if I have anyone in my network with HR-ish/recruitment-ish experience who knows how to craft job applications who is also experienced with the open source world and thinks they could translate that... DM for deets? Boosts welcome!

In Icelandic we have 'Ókind' for monster. But the translation is un-sheep. So everything not a sheep is dangerous.

I have a nephew just the right age to be sucked into online toxicity (almost 13). He reads (esp manga) and plays TTRPGs, and I *think* he still thinks I’m somewhat cool. ~*~ Would love book gifting suggestions that introduce community aid, collective action, anarchism, feminism, etc. ~*~

PARIS TO MADRID TO LISBON HOLY SHIT

So the whole “[3/9] meals away from [anarchy/revolution]” thing is nonsense; well-debunked by anthropologists. But if it were true. Shutting US airspace approaching Thanksgiving would do it.

Alright who is on president watch bc I don’t want to think about him, ever

Fuck ice so hard

sudden intrusive thought: stack overflow is just the oral tradition, kept alive by programmers who only know how to speak in posts

If the bubble does not burst in the traditional sense, if AI tech pans out to do all the things that Nvidia, OpenAI, et al claim it will, it will still burst. Because the world won’t need buggy artisans that can adapt to building cars, it will need fewer horses. We are the horses.