Excellent.

not saying being queer is a choice, more that "is it a choice" should stop being the key question this isn't a criminal trial where we're deciding if you're culpable enough to charge you with first degree gay or if we can knock it down to manslover

Me when I didn’t bother doing the assigned readings on how “born this way” was a terrible gamble for the movement:

every modern economics problem boils down to .01% of humans being wealth hording piñatas we need to start whacking

Strongly believe clowns like JD will do more to push this country towards a wider and more rapid adoption of atheism than a thousand Reddit fedoras smirking their way through debate streams

Hello fireworks enjoyers. Went out back tonight for a chore and some fuck blew up something about on the level of an M80 a few yards away. My ears hurt and my tinnitus is worse. I bet the latter is permanent. Fuck you.

I don't think people understand the degree to which outlets like The Atlantic and The New York Times set back trans rights with second-rate reporting that doesn't stand up now, let alone in the future. They have failed at the most basic journalistic duties.

a simple message

Let's do the time warp to 1968! #comics 1 of 2 🧵 also on the site: illuminatedcomics.github.io/misc/#prodigy

New SMTP header "X-Token-Spend-Limit" coming soon

I'm going to use AI to drive my new business selling NFTs of pagers. Because technology is cyclic.

good to see this. Musk is clearly getting visibly angry at the rising awareness of how many hundreds of thousands of people his DOGE wilding spree has already killed, millions more if this stays in place into the future. Everyone can participate in spreading the word about all the blood on his hands

Extremely real

Just vibing, living in the moment (that is, any moment except this one), not a cell phone in sight

Honestly crazy that Farscape might be hornier than Star Trek, that’s a very high bar

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Elon Musk is a mass murderer, and so is RFK Jr.

Sharing the 1990 Bisexual Manifesto once again to remind everyone that bisexuality was NEVER binary

Wholesale electricity in Germany regularly goes negative during the day in the summer. Every home that doesn't have an air conditioner is some kind of market or government failure. Germans should be as ashamed as Americans should be about gun violence

I think you could build considerable public support behind the idea of not just trying and punishing billionaires, but erasing their names and existence from any public physical space

I need to tell you about a pencil. This is the guts of a Kokuyo Enpitsu Sharp. It doesn't have an eraser top. Instead there's a hole to feed leads straight into it. Note the small lip; this will be important later. (1/4ish)

Studying accounting. USA has the GAAP standard for reporting and such, and internationally we have the IFRS. Textbook includes a handy map to illustrate Keep being you, USA.

Hi Reddit (the company), thanks for breaking the shackles that kept me dope (amine) sick visiting your site. You apparently thought making using your site on mobile would push me to the app. Instead it pushes me to stop reading your site entirely. Go fuck yourself.

All these debates over cops in schools and we don't even have nurses, counselors or full-time janitors anymore. What are we even doing as a society

let's be clear, let's be very clear, let's be incredibly clear about something: Marcia Lucas is why you love Star Wars. She's why Star Wars worked. She's why it has heart. She's responsible for the in-media-res beginning, she's responsible for basically everything charming and unique about >

DevOps is a way of combining development and operations such that the wall traditionally erected between the two disciplines is broken down, to be replaced by a wall between development and DevOps

Getting an accounting certificate, which I hope to turn into a Certified Fraud Examiner credential, which I then hope can get me a job at the currently gestating Financial Crime Agency in Canada. They will be investigating financial crimes and also recovering funds. I have a writer friend ... 1/2

I *hate* that they made things so shitty I feel actual joy when one of their rockets explode, even though my earliest memories are of wonder at the achievements of space programs.

everybody knows heathcliff predates garfield but i dont think enough young people know about b kliban

When you're resizing a window and accidentally make the funniest coinage of your life

AI is a plant by Big Annoying to sell more frustration

1. A Kansas Judge has struck down the anti-trans "experts" the ADF parades. "Cherry-picked information, conjecture, and research taken out of context," ruled Judge Folsom III. He then established 349 facts that support trans care and reversed the Kansas ban. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Access journalism doesn't seem as useful as access journalists seem to think.

LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK

Louder for the C-suite assholes in the back

*steps up to podium* *clears throat* This is a test of the bsky moderation system and staff. Fuck TERFs.

The shifting of goal posts toward "you can't say you don't like me, it's illegal not to like me" by tech people is in some ways the saddest thing I've ever seen and in others the most infuriating waste of our collective time and energy imaginable and a truly grotesque intrusion on our lives.

i am tired of having to listen to dumb assholes just because they have a lot of money

More to come, but I just did a data analysis for someone who left substack for beehiiv some time ago and WOW, if your only motivation is money? Forget nazis, terfs, and pedos, just care about cash? You should get tf off substack now!

I like to imagine that Zohran Mamdani, Socialist African-born Muslim, was literally willed into existence by the collective psychosis of the Tea Party GOP over Obama, like the ectoplasm under NYC in Ghostbusters II

Speaking as a displaced "DevOps Engineer", yup. Getting a certificate in accounting. Not saying I'd never go back; indeed my idea is to be more of a double threat. But shit is so incredibly fucked, and the type of work I do in particular has been institutionally shat on from pretty well day one...

Another excellent and thorough piece of reporting and critique by the BC Humanist Association. www.bchumanist.ca/lost_in_tran...

I believe that in order to take some small step forward, the word “bird” should be replaced with “saur” in all common names. Mockingsaur. Secretarysaur. Red-winged blacksaur. HUMMINGSAUR

someone should do with Ultima what Alan Moore did with Swamp Thing

Seeking Chinese-fluent lawyer in/near Nassau County, NY

I think the real threat of AI in publishing is not that good authors are going to start using AI, but that good authors are going to now have to compete with the "Fruit Island" of books

This is like John A. MacDonald saying that First Nations peoples "deserve a good education". What the fuck, PinkNews.

🤮 To be clear, it is the cited transphobic shite that makes me vom. Humphries can get bent.