I know everyone's celebrating the Hungarian election results - and for good reason - but on a lesser note I'm pleased to report that Québec has a new prime and as far as I can tell we got the least objectionable candidate. No elections here though. Just the previous prime, François Legault […]

How to identify your enemy: Step 1: it's the billionaires

Fuck bernard drainville, and I can't stress this enough.

Me when I figure out what the bug in my code is but it's getting late and I'm tired af

“A protester breached the airside perimeter at Shannon Airport in #Ireland today, climbed onto the wing of a parked #US Air Force C-130 Hercules and damaged the fuselage with what is believed to be an axe, taking the aircraft out of service. Shannon Airport […] [Original post on kolektiva.social]

If they pass these absurd laws I hope cyclists get out there and claim the lane as is their right, and remember that it is illegal in this state for a car to pass within 1.5m of a cyclist […]

It's kind of embarrassing when you go out with a friend who is wealthier than you are and they offer to take your bill. But really, you can just accept and then pay it forward when you go out with another friend who is less wealthy than you. It's not gonna fix wealth disparity but it's a nice […]

Hey you. Don't be afraid. It's what they want, for you to be afraid. You're strong. Resilient. They are cowards on a path to self-destruction. You will outlast them.

Some might consider dogs peeing on fire hydrants and lampposts to be unsophisticated, pre-sentient behaviour. But one might argue that embedding a universal, non-synchronous communications protocol into a pre-existing biological process is high-level engineering.

Lately I've been poking around customizing my computer's UI, something I'd been leaving mostly untouched my entire life. Today I added a per-CPU-core usage meter, RAM usage meter, and a CPU temperature monitor. I did this for reasons that make sense to me […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Every time the "issue" of women wearing the hijab makes its seemingly annual news run here in Québec I cringe so hard for my people. *Imagine* seeing everything that's going on in the world right now, all the extremely important issues that are actively hurting us, and then figuring that what […]

"throwing out the baby with the bath water" is a pretty metal idiom honestly. Like it could be throwing out the clothes with the laundry water but no you're discarding an entire-ass human child

Thank you for fighting the good fight 🫡

One time I came by a giant busted subwoofer on the curb, which I took apart to save the big magnet for no other reason than the fact that it might come in handy eventually. I held onto that magnet for years. At one point I decided to try magnet fishing, and obviously I had just the thing, so I […]

Eusociality is an interesting phenomenon to me. Superficially It seems nonsensical - how do the worker ants improve the species' survival chance if they cannot pass down their genes? Of course though, it works very well, and that's because the genes that get passed down aren't the ones that […]

If you don't disagree with your tribe on at least one thing you're probably a sheep

There's a kind of success that most people just can't recognize as such. and you can have as much of that success as possible without drawing unwanted attention.

Black garlic is life

Working on getting a character to be able to move along the surface of an inverted sphere and have gravity working away from the center. Learning tons about vector math. I'm having fun.

When an illegal war, likely to cause mass murder, is launched, we have a choice of 2 positions: 1. It's wrong and has to stop. 2. Hurray! Let's join in. Much of the UK Establishment - Conservatives, Reform, the billionaire media - went straight for Option 2. Which tells you all you need to know.

Abolish private schools. If there is to be a standardized education system then it should be the same for all. Maybe if rich kids grew up sharing tables with poor kids then they wouldn't grow up thinking they're better than the rest. Maybe if everybody got the same quality of education then […]

I used to wonder why, given that more of my paycheque is taken as tax than I ever had to pay in rent or mortgage, were people allowed to go homeless. I wondered about a lot of things but that one in particular was sticking. A few years back I learned that a stupid little rocket that can at most […]

Great weather today and for the rest of the week here 😁 Time to partake in my hobby of being a dude who walks with a backpack and awkwardly greets people whose paths cross his

Happy women's day y'all.

Low-key thinking if kessler syndrome is what it takes stop all these billionaires' fucking rockets I'd be okay with it.

Whenever hegseth talks about the ongoing shitshow all I hear is "look how much of a big man I am, totally not weak right? Right?"

Supercars are so dumb. Even assuming I had the money and intent on blowing it on some frivolous vehicular purchase, for the price of a ferrari I could get a huge articulated loader and drive it around and stuff

I hear the term “regime change” tossed about with dismaying ease, as if it’s as simple as changing the sheets or something. So, for the sake of all operating in the same reality: 1. “Regime change” is an act of war and a violation of long-standing international law FOR GOOD REASON. 2. This […]

Lutnick looks like he smells like dog food.

Dianna Cowern (aka Physics Girl on YouTube, and possibly @dianna) has been fighting COVID-induced ME/CFS since 2022. ShevqeIeIcDHD0d her first video in three years: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3m3AMRlYfc You can learn more about her battle and amazing comeback here […]

Hey Mr Carney, our country elected your party *specifically* because unlike pp you seemed to have a clue on what's going on down south, and despite being way more right-leaning than most of us you *at least* had a better chance of letting Canada be on the right side of history if and when shit […]

Good stuff👇 https://link.deezer.com/s/32A8pDwhxaHHjFm13986J

"Embrace the belt-driven bicycle! You have nothing to lose but your chains!" -- Karl Merckx

1/ I've been mucking around with running a local llm on my laptop, didn't get too far because it's pretty ancient and lacks the muscle to run anything significant, but one thing that is immediately apparent is that bigger model = better output. As we know, the tech bros are hogging all the ram […]

I love the big chewy oatmeal cookies that you can get at the grocery store

We need to stop thinking of "small government" as a right-wing thing. A massive military is not small government. Deliberately legislating against access to abortion and gender-affirming care is not small government. Heavily subsidizing the car industry via a network of roads that […]

idc at all about the olympics or watching sports in general but as a canadian I feel some shame that my country's male hockey team was defeated by such losers

Declining birth rates is not a real problem. Short-term labour shortages? Immigration. Long-term labour shortages? That's what all this nice tech we're coming up with is supposed to be for, to give us better results with fewer hands. My source is I just pulled this out of my ass but I'll […]

lewd-adjacent meme

There's this song called "Why" by a band called Chat Pile, which is really harsh music and really not what I would call "accessible" but it sums up my thoughts on homelessness pretty well.

And now for my next trick I will go buy groceries

Perseverance is when you accept the simple fact that every failure is a lesson you needed.

I got no beef with furries. I think everyone who so wishes should be entitled to Life, Liberty and the Fursuit of Happiness.

He's gnot a gnupstanding citizen, he's gnot a virtuous gnindividual, he's gnoam chomsky, and if his writings have been influential to your thoughts about the legitimacy of the State, you've been gnoooooaaaaaamed

Y'all I'm eating oranges right now and they are so sour it's like I'm eating sour patch kids it's amazing

Electric cars are nice, but range-extended electric cars, which have a small battery and an onboard generator, are a much better way to apply batteries to the task of reducing fossil fuel use at a societal level. Instead of lugging around the batteries to give 400 extra kilometers of range as […]

I *wish* I was as mysterious and cool as people who put lots of ellipses in their business emails "I might be able to make the 1230... depends on how the outcome of my 1130..." Like damn bro I don't know what your 1130 is about but there is not the shadow of a doubt in my mind that it's some […]

Wild how websites have the gall to tell you that it's not possible to send you a little bit of text and a few pictures without putting "essential cookies" on your computer. Like, oh you can opt-out of these objectively invasive cookies if you ask nicely, but *these* cookies we're not letting […]

I'm not adding unplanned features because of scope creep, I'm adding unplanned features because I'm procrastinating work on the planned features, which are hard.