I don't know who needs to hear this, but you can still throw LAN parties. Grab all of your friends you play videogames with. Schedule time on the weekend or whenever everyone is free. Make tons of food, and enjoy zero latency voice chat.

youtu.be/Up2DJd4VSps?... Accordions are such a smile machine, great video with infectious positivity from Rob Scallon

Another excellent band I found on bandcamp: Castle Rat Love the doom metal vibes castlerat.bandcamp.com/album/the-be...

www.bbc.com/news/article... Incredible news.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNCt... I don't even live on the coasts, yet here I am with morning updates. Great meteorologist, I love the community phrasing, "All islands matter"

Since Sinclair and Nexstar are being snowflakes and refuse to broadcast his show, here’s the link to Kimmel’s show youtu.be/c1tjh_ZO_tY

As I was saying…

youtu.be/sB9eWtzTOq0?... Love Gianmarco, glad he got a special

One of my least favorite social interactions is when you express confusion, or doubt, and someone takes that as an opportunity to give you their most unhinged, unsupported explanation or philosophy as the answer to all of your problems. The worst is when you can tell they actually believe it.

Worth pointing out while the Internet still lets you post these things: Much sooner than you imagined, you will need to communicate offline. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-tim... Unbreakable encryption, in real life, not on your spyware infested phones and computers. Pen and paper y'all

I miss being excited for tech products. Everything being sold these days makes me the product and I'm sick of this shit.

Cool Linux shortcut, at least for Linux Mint. On your keyboard, hold 'Shift' + 'Prt Sc' It lets you capture a specific part of your screen and saves it to your clipboard, so you can paste it with 'Ctrl' + 'v' into most of your applications.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3OQ... Great video for the the dreaded 'death wobble'. If you know a motorcyclist, send them this. Even if they know the proper procedure, refreshers are great, and this one is in an old timey English PSA style. Great stuff.

I love this website, and I love every person who contributes to it. I wish more documentation were written in this manner. www.kernel.org/doc/html/lat...

I wonder how long enshittification of Blue Sky will take?

A divide in my friend groups: Group 1: Understands just how apocalyptic climate change is going to be. Group 2: Believes in status quo, and existing systems can manage the transition. Interestingly, Group 1 is much less stressed than Group 2.

The ever expanding surveillance state, controlled information networks, and increasingly consolidated data handling is being under reported. For example: AR glasses. These are a nightmare. We had a whole movie with a situation that is the inverse of AR: They Live (1988) www.imdb.com/title/tt0096...

For the bicycle enthusiasts who may not yet know: there is an incredible website called Bike Insights. It lets you compare two bikes and see how their geometries compare. So if you know you need longer top tubes or higher handlebars, your next bike can match you better. bikeinsights.com

Today I discovered Bandcamp. I forgot what it was like to actually own mp3's without streaming services. Also there are a lot of kickass bands on there. BoyGoToJupiter is great: boysgotojupiter.bandcamp.com/album/meet-m...

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"If you saw yourself the way the people who love you do, what a wonderful world that would be." - Josh Johnson Definitely putting that on a Tshirt

A great counter to the "You will own nothing and be happy" narrative is to only buy things you can actually own. Books, DVDs, cars and motorcycles you can fix yourselves, open source options to replace subscription models, etc.

Cool Linux terminal command I learned today: "lsusb" Lists your USB ports and what's plugged into them. If anyone knows good Linux Mint troubleshooting resources let me know.

The volume of fast fashion and wasted clothes is astronomical. Most of you don't need new clothes, you just need clothes that fit you better, go to Goodwill or some thrift stores, don't get dragged along by the rat race.

Imagine finding out YOUR parents ignored this & just carried on as normal…

#AI is running rampant on #Bluesky When looking at headlines or posts, check for em-dashes. Regular people barely know how to type in the first place, they absolutely don't know how to make em-dashes. There are also common phrases used by AI "This isn't just [thing], it's [other thing]"

#Trump #Epstein

www.npr.org/donations/su... donate.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?... archive.org With the news of public broadcasting cuts, time to strike while the iron is hot, please donate to actual news organizations, wikipedia, data archives, anything to preserve truth while we weather this fascist storm.

Incredible video on the academic history of #Christianity. Really puts things into perspective: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8q6F...

Excellent article from #Vox about disaster preparedness: www.vox.com/climate/4189... #Prepper #EmergencyManagement

It's a shame we couldn't fork #Windows 7. Imagine a timeline where Microsoft didn't go down the ad bloat path, with AI and services. Just better and better versions of Windows. Oh well, we have that in #Linux now. Check out Linux Mint

welp it's that time again

I saved this video so when I travel I can show this Work of Art to all the nice officers when I return to the USA.

youtu.be/LQRAfJyEsko?... If you love animals, you should watch this film.

As a recurring reminder, if you had even a shred of thought about getting a vasectomy, hysterectomy, bisalp, or other permanent #contraceptive measure, now is the time. $500 is a lot cheaper than raising a child in this hellhole www.plannedparenthood.org/blog/bilater...

Never would have expected to get solid #Tech advice from #PewDiePie, but here we are. Excellent video on #DeGoogling www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_Lx...

IYKYK #JDVance

"Reducing suffering is good" - Everyone nods "Animal abuse is wrong" - more nodding "Animals shouldn't have to suffer unnecessarily" - even more nodding "Stop industrial animal agriculture" - wild protest