i hate how perfectionistic i am about any kind of writing i take seriously because it makes me take for fucking ever and nothing is ever good enough, like even upon submission i am agonizing over how i could have phrased or structured things better.

at first i didn’t think this government shutdown wouldn’t beat trumps previous longest shutdown ever but i’m genuinely at the point where it’s possible he’s just going to keep it shutdown alongside congress for a couple of months minimum, maybe longer

“the president got mad at a television commercial so now your maple syrup is more expensive” is no way to run a country

something i would like everyone to think about is the fact that Costco (and other retailers - Costco is not alone) runs a big chunk of their business operations on AS400/IBM i which is an OS developed in the 80s, and still primarily runs on PowerPC-based hardware.

we live in such insanely interesting times but at least this development is actually a pretty good form of interesting. idk that this letter will change anything though.

planning a foray into an embedded project and wow i think i underestimated and am still underestimating how many new skills i'm gonna have to pick up if i actually execute here.

halo died with the original trilogy (or arguably 4) and the new remake with AI voice acting is just Microsoft pissing on it's grave

my employer put a new spam filter in and it keeps catching the Teams emails about messages you missed as spam (correctly imo let me turn them off!). genuinely do not care what happens on teams groups when i’m not working, if it’s important ill get an actual email.

anyways whoever did this guys opp research and subsequent planning really flopped hard

chat is covid our generation's 9/11?

"He didn't know the SS Totenkopf was a Nazi symbol!!!!" Well then why are you, an alleged antifascist, trusting him to know anything about fascism, let alone fight it

the thing that gets me about totenkopf dude is that like, i can buy being drunk and ignorant about it initially, but has he NEVER gotten a tattoo that required him to be shirtless in the 15 years since? at the VERY least most american tattoo artists would've caught that immediately.

You have to be willing to walk away from these guys if they let you down, just as a matter of basic self respect. It's not a fandom. You're hiring them to do a job or not.

Putting a Democrat with a Nazi tattoo in the Senate normalizes Naziism in our federal politics for a long ass time. All these recent stories about secret Nazi group chats? Anytime that happens going forward will be met with "But Platner." It's not a purity test. Think through the consequences.

Honestly I think they could just keep demolishing the White House bit by bit until it was completely gone and no one would even stop them

this aws outage further concludes that the centralization of the internet is a massive mistake and should be reversed. why is one host having massive issues taking down like half the internet.

I’ve increasingly seen Trump supporters claim that they voted for him to see him “own” the left on social media—which IMO is a form of coping that shows he has done nothing to materially improve their lives (he’s actually made them worse, but they won’t admit that)

People on the left and politicians are underestimating the appetite the "liberal base" has for radicalization in the current environment. Those floodgates have opened, and it's a disservice to not look at that realistically, especially when politicians are no longer representing their base.

Crazy that I have a blog on exactly this, "Protest and the Construction of Power" journalofcogency.com/2024/09/23/p... The first line is "The surest sign that a protest is effective is if the military opens fire on it.*"

TW: SA Having seen the footage, this is fucking horrifying. Not to at all discount what actually happened, because the fact that she was allowed to be SA'd publicly w/o security reacting is disgusting in and of itself, but thank god the guy did not have/use a weapon.

Keep it up lol

I really suggest that people learn what kettling is before they go to any protest and also spend a lot of time looking at the police to see if they are mobilizing for it. You can’t always avoid being kettled but you should really try to be aware of it.

Boston friends!

presented without context but external payroll providers are all actually evil and terrible. that entire industry should probably be thrown into the ditch.

ultimately, zohran mamdani is a reminder that politicians can be younger than 80 years old

There is an actual life-changing conflict between WFH being cheaper and more efficient, an entire layer of middle managers who need to have meetings to feel alive, and the commercial real estate cabal that runs all cities. It’s going to get so fucking weird.

How is Theophite’s weird ass still around

It’s kinda interesting that even Xbox branded hardware from an OEM sucks, I really think Xbox as a hardware brand might wind up in the ditch

There’s another Twitter influx. I’m not sure why. Presumably more Nazi bs. If you are new here because you don’t like Nazi bs, welcome! Also: update your settings as shown below, & please use alt text here. It helps disabled folks. Nazis don’t like that, so you can spite them while helping others.

someone tell doctor's offices that you cannot tell a chronically ill patient you have an urgent matter to discuss and the urgent matter is literally just finding medical records. girl i thought i was fucking dying or something

it’s funny how whenever i use the bus in a new city it’s as if all bus-related knowledge i already had fully exited my brain i don’t understand how doors or seats work, help me i’m a small rodent

BREAKING WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected an appeal from Alex Jones and left in place the $1.4 billion judgment against him over his description of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting as a hoax staged by crisis actors.

Barack Obama had this and used it to defund ACORN

Feels like she's saying lower courts should disregard those cases then

Something that's really annoying is how crazy ass people/antisemites (which are not necessarily different groups) critiquing private equity companies like Blackrock from a conspiratorial and/or antisemitic direction dilutes the message of how truly evil Blackrock is as an entity.

PSA: If you have an "X" gender marker on a passport, US or foreign, the US is no longer going to accept submissions of this through APIS, which functionally means that you will not be able to fly in/out of the US* come October 14th.

it's such a sad commentary on our current situation that this celebration of trans people through honoring Sylvia Rivera and using a SOPHIE song as the backing track feels so impactful because of how abnormal it is. this is exactly how you message on trans issues.

lol gentle reminder that DEI is not illegal. Supporting marginalized groups is not illegal. Anyone reneging on support is making a CHOICE to do so.

FFS "antifa" is just a bunch of guys. It's not an organization. It's people who don't like what the government is doing to it's own people. My media colleagues in this country are so fucking stupid.

y'know smth tells me that when the AI bubble inevitably pops bsky operations are going to be v. heavily effected considering they even want their LAWYERS to use AI lmao.

Probably Schuylkill or Conshohocken

EVERYONE: come to Mastodon, it's so easy and fun now! ME:

I doubt this is a question anyone wants to touch because it opens a whole can of worms (and I want to be clear that my intent here is actually just curiosity of how far this rule/principle goes.) But what is Bluesky's plan/policy if a mass shooter or similar has a Bluesky account?

this is literally how the child tax credit/eitc kinda functions

Turns out having a welfare state and a hoarding capitalist class isn’t actually sustainable

something that makes no sense to me is like, if bluesky is meant to be decentralized with PDSes theoretically not being married to appviews, why am i proxying appview requests to a specific appview on my PDS?

i love the domino effect of trans people asking the moderation team to take harassment of trans people seriously and instead decided to perma ban a black guy who was one of the earliest users here