EXTREME PEDALBOARD: I wired up 1 of the upper boards every couple days during the last 8 days, so now I have the four main subboards working, 33 pedals so far. I also wrote a document for how all 24 of the rackmount effect loops will be wired (5 go to sub-boards). 81 pedals & 2 rack effects.

Hi Internet! I'm Drew and THIS IS MY FACE. If this GIF has ever brought you joy in the past, I humbly ask you to consider making a donation to the National MS Society. It would mean a lot to me and to those I know affected by the disease! Donate at blinkingguy.com

This is an infuriating and shameful scandal. The Roberts Court is condoning Trump’s law breaking, again, pure and simple. There is no serious path forward for democratic government without Supreme Court reform.

The MAGA monocultural revolution is so thorough that Hegseth made it a priority to honor soldiers who carried out war crimes in 1890.

ICE is a physical and existential threat to the fabric of this nation and they must be shut down.

W H A T T H E A C T U A L F U C K ?

uh wapo.st/4nidndf

Across China, tens of thousands of people tagged as troublemakers are trapped in a digital cage by the world’s largest digital surveillance apparatus. Most of this technology came from Silicon Valley companies that have long claimed to support freedom. apnews.com/article/chin... via @apnews.com

An incredible Robert Redford tribute here from an eloquent and appreciative Ethan Hawke. youtu.be/qRSa9O0f0MU?...

Numberphile using AI for portraits of real people for whom actual photos exist. Not the first use of AI on that channel, but most egregious. No more Numberphile for me.

Delete your Facebook and Instagram.

it's just a fact. you can't have a global hegemon who every few years is at risk of electing a lunatic government that will undo treaties, start murdering people in international waters on a whim, stop aid programs, and slap wanton tariffs on the world capriciously. we have no credibility anymore

a serious, ethical media industry could leverage modern op/ed sections to amplify revolutionary, thought-provoking, under-platformed ideas instead it's all been converted into lazy, engagement-chasing contrarian trolling by the least remarkable thinkers and writers imaginable

Just got rejected from the Journal of Medical Ethics. It was pretty illuminating in terms of how far society has fallen.

I'm gonna be saving so much money that I used to spend on streaming services from now on, it's great

The vision deck for the new GDC is confounding. I don't know who any of this is for, but it's certainly not game developers eager to learn. ubm.ent.box.com/v/GDC26-FoG-...

fundamentally though GDC's biggest problem is that it's held in SF, an expensive city that's expensive to fly to in an expensive country that's also a repressive regime that kidnaps tourists and bans people from entry on racial grounds.

I've been telling people to stop going to GDC for years. Giving money to terrible people for a bad event, and especially problematic for non-USians. Ok, so this year, really. Find some other event for networking. Drop GDC.

I will remind folks those images of Nazi book burnings aren't burning just any books. They're burning the library of Magnus Hirschfeld; a gay, Jewish doctor who created an institute dedicated to LGBTQ sex education and healthcare. And a man who pioneered gender affirming care surgeries.

Insanity. AKA, official editorial position of the WaPo. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Critical part of the President's new $100,000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100,000 discount to any person, company, or industry that it wants. Replacing rules with arbitrary discretion. Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.

entire press has gotten bullied into treating charlie kirk as if he was one of the most important americans alive and not a modestly popular podcaster

Oh. My. God. Profoundly twisted framing from @nytimes.com The casual reader of this hed and subhed would have exactly zero inkling that this is likely corrupt or even illegal or unconstitutional. Euphemistic to the point of absurdity.

This week on The Digital Antiquarian: Outcast www.filfre.net/2025/09/outc...

I do not think ChatGPT should have the power to call the cops. I think, personally, that would be a bad thing

"Outrageous incident" turns out, in fact, to be manufactured outrage by, checks notes, a right-wing individual. Twisted on so many levels, including the fact that people could have been hurt. The store had to close because of threats based on disinformation. blockclubchicago.org/2025/09/19/v...

moments ago, ice agents again came out of the broadview detention/“professing” facility to escort a silver suv out of the lot. one of the agents picked up and threw congressional candidate kat abughazaleh to the ground.

If it is in any way possible for you to, max out your retirement fund contributions (personal IRA, work-provided simple/401k/whatever, HSA account) every year. If you can’t afford that just drop in what you can even if it’s just bits and drabs here and there. It adds up, and the earlier the better.

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I just called Disney+ to cancel my account and had the most joyful interaction with an operator who was laughing the entire time about how many people had canceled today. I can only imagine how it feels to spend an entire day witnessing how many people want to stop fascism.

The idea that the combined MMR is dangerous but separately the vaccines are fine was created out of whole cloth by Andrew Wakefield, a disgraced former doctor who had a patent on a non-combined version of the MMR. We've known his research was bunk for almost 30 years.

As most know, Dropout.tv is an indie streaming service that owns the College Humor IP. Their best show is Game Changer. Despite the clunkiness of the show in the Zoom era, this episode of Game Changer (available free on YouTube) is totally worth it for the payoff. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xg1S...

My @loresjoberg.bsky.social shirt arrived!

Happy birthday to the MOS 6502! It was 50 years ago today that people were able to buy their first samples of the chip from a jar in a hotel room at WESCON. Here's my oldest 6502 from the 52nd week of 1975. Still works perfectly!

if you're DC local and occasionally need WaPo local news, most libraries around here will give you a renewable 7-day license for free since canceling my subscription i've only needed that a couple times really

Wild to me that rather than indicate they are addressing or even acknowledging their complicity in spreading outright misinfo or even just silently ignoring people calling them out they tagged this post as "Rude" and default hid it on my feed

Last year: Austin Peay State University learns prof is Nazi who went to Charlottesville rally. Admin drags heels, pays him $56k severance to leave This week: APSU prof posts screenshot of headline - Charlie Kirk Says Gun Deaths ‘Unfortunately’ Worth it to Keep 2nd Amendment- & is immediately fired

It’s weird that “euthanasia” is how this is being described when what kilmeade actually suggested is an execution.

Reporters talking with everyone who has ever met the shooter asking if the shooter knew any trans people. Healthy society we have here for sure.

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

From 2016 www.politico.com/story/2016/0...

RIP "Giving Bluesky The Benefit Of The Doubt", 2023-2025

In 2018, I set this room up as a music-only room after moving my everyday computer to another room. After COVID started, I turned this back into my work room (but still with decaying music decor). It's taken 3 months since I quit Epic to finally get this back to completely being a music room only.

Remembering MN house speaker Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark and their beloved dog Gilbert. Murdered in June at their home by a rightwing Trump-voting evangelist, who also shot another MN lawmaker and his wife at THEIR home, 9 and 8 times, respectively (miraculously, they survived).

I guess the main thing I’m learning this week is that lots of elite media people knew charlie kirk personally and didn’t know any minnesota state legislators

once again it is not fucking normal to lower flags in oregon for random member of the opposing political party who was born in illinois, lived in arizona, and died in utah. this is not a normal thing they're extending to a white supremacist, it's a special thing they're doing for a white supremacist