I am so tired of US media claiming "fair and balanced" reporting, in 2025. It's kowtowing to the fascists. I wrote the following to the journalist: 'Sir, This is a shameful and disingenuous title for your article. The title alone places the blame on Jeffries versus calling out the political […]

Well... the internet is on fire... again.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. https://www.axios.com/2025/10/19/california-vance-motorcade-shell-military-exercise-marines

@jipiboily I understand! https://www.reddit.com/r/Picard/s/HSGxzyA3Bi

Why oh why haven't I worked out of public libraries more? It's been a few years. Now, the #tkpk library is lovey for this.

'GOP House leaders including House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-Minn.), House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) called No Kings protests "a hate America rally."' https://www.axios.com/2025/10/15/gops-latest-government-shutdown-scapegoat-no-kings-protests

@elight It’s all in the performance. And you, too, can learn from Ricardo Montálban! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVVWF2DAeeU

#StarTrekMeme #startrekmemes

Every human right we have gained over the last several hundred years had to be fought for and won. We can do it again and again as many times as necessary.

@stevenharman Saw this. Thought about your time working for me at Heroku. This is how I saw you. Frustrating that this doesn't fit into promotion systems because measuring it is hard AF […]

Sad today to see an old friend come out against compassion and reason again over the whole RubyGems thing. People got cancelled. Yep. And it got personal. Yet we're supposed to tolerate intolerance? Yet this same thinking further sorted and radicalized people. That this same friend had his […]

I'm sure the little girl, in this coffee shop, screaming, "I'm dying" was commenting on not getting something she wants. Little did she know that she was also sharing classic existential commentary.

Over a decade ago, a friend of mine and I were working on a jobs website for remote workers. Happened to come upon a *brilliantly named* jobs website: rim.jobs.

At what point do we call ICE what it is: Orwell's Thought Police made real. They're becoming Trump's secret police. https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/07/ice-bought-vehicles-equipped-with-fake-cell-towers-to-spy-on-phones/

Leaving aside the Rails drama (JFC, DHH, just fuck the hell off already), *this* is what has annoyed me to no end about Rails: https://www.bananacurvingmachine.com/articles/you-re-doing-rails-wrong Just use fucking vanilla Rails already. Stop with all the other fucking frameworks in Rails apps […]

some of these sounds are just... bizarre. Cat or human baby? Can't decide. https://infosec.exchange/@catsalad/115301138877619441

[BEWARE: Contains link to phishing attempt! Included as reference.] So I just received this steaming pile of shit. https://mastodon.social/@CartoonNearbyPakistan/115300553864108085

Ok.... So there's this "techie autism simulator" mentioned on the evil Orange Site: https://autism-simulator.com/ TL;DR: We autistics can live authentically and very likely be punished economically by a civilization that demands conformity. Or, at the cost of burning our life, we can hide our […]

@hello Thank you for existing

TIL the @ actuallyautistic Fedi group is just... gone. WTAF???? #actuallyautistic @autistics (but I found this other group...)

@pathfinder What happened to the @ actually autistic group? Seems gone now!

The Anti-Defamation League? You’re an organization opposed to extremism, especially antisemitism, yes? That’s right. And what info did you take down? A “glossary of extremism” we put together. Why’d you take it down? Some extremists told us we should. We made an antisemite they like sound bad.

Meta makes a lot more sense as a company when you imagine them as a company whose main output is the drug soma from Brave New World. Time and time again the market values pacifying drugs a lot higher than a mission of connecting the world.

I always thought the 🤷🏻‍♂️emoji was supposed to be Spock... :trek_tos_spock:

TIL that Proton provides *NO* forwarding once you move to a Free account or cancel your account. Therefore, migrating AWAY from Proton absolutely sucks unless you've zealously used another email address that forwards to Proton. Also, FML. Also, I'm actually liking Apple Mail on iOS now! It's […]

[#audhd (physical) tools post] A tool I'm trying out is wearing a 2L sling pack literally everywhere when I am awake. I currently use it as a slightly larger pocket that is more accessible and securable. I'm trying a 4L next week. I've had just too many #AuDHD moments where I'm some place and […]

How is a National Guard deployment to Portland even *remotely* legal? There's no fig leaf at all. The governor wouldn't ask for it. The mayor wouldn't. Therefore, Oregon's Nat Guard cannot be deployed there.

So this just happened about a mile from home: an ICE agent pointing a gun at a witness. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTlY5hSuuTI&t=115s South 208 isn't far from Takoma Park. #ice

I pay for my own server, but I also support a couple of servers where I’m following a lot of folks. If you have the means to throw a couple bucks a month their way, please do support your local server and maybe even some others you interact with! […]

20 years too late, for my first wife. THIS is why organizations like the NIH exist. Diseases like Huntington's, 1 in 30,000, are of negligible interest to capital: there's little money to be had at all. Tearing up. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cevz13xkxpro

In 2008, when I organized and held the first Ruby DCamp, I deliberately kept sponsors at arm's length. Their help was welcome (and necessary) but only without strings attached. Please do participate but do not expect influence or control of the event or others. And that worked. They connected […]

And this is controversial to MAGA. Maybe it's controversial because they've done a terrific job of isolating our country: punishing our allies while failing to cuddle up to dictators. Great job, Trump. If you're not actively trying to destroy our country, you could've fooled me! […]

#startrek #StarTrekMeme #startrekmemes

Most of my tshirts are *still* t-shirts proudly obtained at Ruby conferences between 2006 and 2014, when I went to them the most often. I literally had over 50, at one point. It tore me up but I had to pair back about a decade ago.

I've been away from Ruby since leaving Heroku. Just caught up with the news. JFC what a travesty. MINASWAN drew me deep into the Ruby community, back in 2006. Now this. Kudos to @mperham for calling out DHH. I gave as much as I could to the Ruby community, though very far from a significant […]

Yup. No risk that labeling "antifa" a "major terrorist organization" will be used as a fig leaf for arresting anyone they damn well please. Welcome to the new McCarthyism. https://www.axios.com/2025/09/18/trump-antifa-terrorist-designation

I read this headline about Jimmy Kimmel and I think of one of the earliest of memes. https://www.axios.com/2025/09/17/exclusive-white-house-adviser-says-ai-job-fears-underestimate-workers

TIL a neologism:"stochastic terrorism". This defines what Trump has been doing since 2015 and beyond. Sadly, it's also almost certainly an example of Progressives trotting out a neologism that will alienate a lot of people who aren't me. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stochastic_terrorism

On a lighter note, iOS 26 is SO much faster!

MSNBC fired a journalist for this: “He’s been one of the most divisive — especially divisive — younger figures in this, who is constantly sort of pushing this sort of hate speech aimed at certain groups,” Dowd said. “And I always go back to, hateful thoughts lead to hateful words, which then […]

Occasional reminder that anyone with a Canadian ancestor can now apply to get a citizenship grant: https://www.reddit.com/r/Canadiancitizenship/wiki/index/ It can be a very distant ancestor! Really! "But my it's my great-great grandmother" yep that's OK you can apply anyway, some people have […]

@GottaLaff https://www.theverge.com/politics/777313/charlie-kirks-alleged-killer-scratched-bullets-with-a-helldivers-combo-and-a-furry-sex-meme This explains the inscriptions. They're mostly online meme references. Therr allegedly is one that is clearly anti-fascist and one implied.

Mayor Kowtowser. Normalize this, #dmv #washingtondc #dc

Do not normalize this. This is how we lose a country. https://tenforward.social/@elight/115193330642824847

First time downtown since... well... everything. Saw two different squads of Nat Guard, all armed with LOADED assault rifles. I'm offended and afraid enough for this country with these occupiers, but to see their weapons clearly loaded. I visited […] [Original post on tenforward.social]

@elight UT governor also was praying it was an immigrant. He said this: https://www.threads.com/@saadia___m/post/DOgaWOgjsyv?xmt=AQF0jx9z5Y1dam6yAfij-ifj-9lWoxrOqd6FhDtXzIFK2w

While we're at it, how about those Epstein files that were suppressed by the GOP thanks to the deciding vote by Murkowski (R-Alaska)?

So there's a photo of the ammo. This seems to contradict the antifa and transgender narratives. https://sfba.social/@skykiss/115190949832920416

I'm sensing a pattern. ‪Fred Guttenberg‬ ‪@fredguttenberg.bsky.social‬ · 58s He was white. He was Christian. He was from a conservative law enforcement family. He was raised with guns. IT IS TIME FOR THE VIOLENT RHETORIC AND THREATS OF FUTURE VIOLENCE TO END.