generations of my family smoked, grew up in a house where my whites in the closet were turned yellow. started off having a cig when drinking with friends, ended up vaping for 9mos during Covid. picked it up off and on sense then, but past time has been a year. never stopped thinking about nicotine

Cops ran hundreds of searches for license plates using targeted and offensive terms such as "roma" and "g*psy," and in many instances, without any mention of a suspected crime---perpetuating systemic harm by demeaning individuals based on their race or ethnicity. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

you can be critical without targeting the mainly poor and rural demographics who are being abandoned by both sides. there's no reason for making fun of people's teeth, which furthers embarrassment of the ones who do not support the current administration. do better.

really wishing i wasnt wanting to pay for a sub of ffxiv just to try and finish expansions that have been in the free trial for 2 years

"To sit still is worse than death" 🐀🐀🐀 #FFIX #FF9 #FinalFantasy #FreyaCrescent #fancyRat

My rat Crystal Pepsi cosplaying as Freya Crescent from Final Fantasy IX. Happy Halloween! 🍁🐀🎃

it has been a while, cat tax! does anyone else make forts for cats? i tend to find they enjoy these novel experiences

who creates the lively art and music scenes if the rent is too high? who makes cultural life? who serves you food or washes your dishes? who creates the fancy little restaurants that draw you to urban living? affordable housing is at the heart of what makes city life worthwhile.

Malignant machine spirits: - printer - vending machine - us-east-1 Benevolent machine spirits: - crt display - kei truck - those industrial lights that you turn on with a big switch and they go thwomp thwomp thwomp as they light up No soul, but evil within capitalism: - large language models

WHAT ARE YOU DOING MAN

boogey% swiss tournament has started off in force! it has been a few years since i have played but really enjoyed my run today. hope to win a couple matches this tournament! twitch.tv/earthboundSu...

playing through The Destiny Knight (The Bard's Tale Trilogy Remastered) and man did i just get punished for not following step 1 - RTFM!

17 year old Jackie Mitchell struck out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig in 1931. Ruth's fee fees were hurt and threw a tantrum on how women were too delicate to play baseball. Due to his toddler like antics, women were banned from being signed in the MLB 1992.

Like Cowboy Bebop? Did you know there was a PS2 game only released in Japan? Did you know I released a full English translation of it that you can play now? Check it out here: github.com/SONICMAN69/B...

Back by EXTREMELY popular demand, the TRANS RIGHTS!! tee designed by @kduffles.bsky.social is back again for sale in The Yeteemart, with a portion from each tee sold donated to Transgender Law Center! Pre-order yours now: theyetee.com/transrights

he has waited all morning for this moment

been waiting since i started therapy to get my turn for ADOS testing. they decided this year that any drug use means you are ineligible for testing, and that i am addicted to cannabis and thus cannot test for ADHD or autism... time to either rejoin the wait list or pay out of pocket

Increasing temperatures from climate change have led to a 40% reduction in blue whale “songs” in just the past 6 years alone. “It’s like trying to sing while you're starving,” said John Ryan, a biological oceanographer. The world's oceans absorb more than 90% of the excess heat from climate change

"stick to menswear"

“God blessed me by making me transsexual for the same reason he made wheat but not bread and fruit but not wine: so that humanity might share in the act of creation.” - Julian K. Jarboe i'm not even really religious but this hits so hard.

The reign of Ratu Kalinyamat, the 16th-century queen regnant of Kalinyamat (a Javanese Islamic polity on northern coast of Central Java), was marked with her naval attacks against the Portuguese Malacca fleet. Several Portuguese texts depicted her as a feared and admired figure. 1/4🧵 #WyrdWednesday

There's a pre-release out

swapping to NixOS i was pleasantly surprised how little work i needed to do to get a docker compose file working using `compose2nix`. that file config structure is kind of a nightmare though, and not looking to adding more to it. might need to move to `arion` before it gets any larger

after having to drop it for a while, the home lab is back in full swing. after getting set up, truenas scale has decided to self kill its connection and then flood the network... i had NixOS mentioned to me in passing and it really seems ideal for avoiding a full reset in these situations

afraid to log into my oldschool ironman. my kingdom has bled me dry and the only solution is to make earth orbs or kill more rat kings

a kid with lesbian parents will have to call one mom "mother" and the 2nd mom "earthbound"

I get this question a lot. I don't have strong views on how transmasc people should dress, but since I often get the question, I've thought about it a bit. Will share some thoughts in this thread. 🧵

Wait, I can’t read what it—oh. I get it now.

Fiasco am... THE NITE

growing up as an only child I sometimes would be blamed for things the cats did

Auction of ancient Indian gems ‘imbued with presence of Buddha’ condemned Sotheby’s sale of Piprahwa gems, excavated after burial with Buddha’s remains, denounced as perpetuating colonial violence www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Wrote about the DOGE bros going in and cancelling a bunch of NSF grants (and the Trump-appointed NSF director resigning), while noting that in their efforts to cancel imaginary "censorship" projects, they canceled a grant that was building tools to fight censorship. www.techdirt.com/2025/04/25/i...

I wrote something about how we're seeing the rise of the online "alpha male." This is someone who speaks in clipped imperatives, squeezes into tight suits, and performs for our feed. They present a vision of masculinity shaped by politics, tech, and 100 years of cultural history 🧵

when the foam packing inherits the sharingan

People are helpfully responding how you, personally, can disinfect your produce in these 3 easy ways but Girl, the pandemic. Have you noticed that people won't even wear masks? It is not a serious suggestion, that you personally can do the job of a food safety regulation infrastructure.

Thanks to the RuneScape Archive Project, ALL of the login screens of decades past have been recovered in their original quality!

Just because it is Tuesday I will post a shot of the extremely rare "Aardvark Moon"! What I went out for was an image of a full moon rising with reflections on Lake Ontario. I wasn't expecting this. More details on Alt text #photography #EastCoastKin

sucked back into runescape to once again prove that i am simply afk for long periods of time. quitting is impossible when there is exp to gain and dopamine to hit

Happy Birthday to the best game ever #Bloodborne #fanart

Windows 98 Plus: Jungle

Thread of ship's cats enjoying their tiny hammocks. This is the "Kitten mascot of the aircraft carrier HMS Eagle at the time of the Suez Expedition, 1956" 🧵 www.facebook.com/iwm.north/ph...