This is the most extreme looking pigeon I’ve ever seen

Exactly.

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The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

I helped update the guide for installing Affinity Studio apps w/ Wine on Linux. There's a lot of energy behind this right now. + Serif just made the announcement "Creative Freedom Is Coming" on Oct 30. Betting now that this will involve support for Linux github.com/seapear/Affi...

We need a real alternative to YouTube.

Every Star Trek episode that was derided as "unrealistic", where Kirk argues a computer into destroying itself, is vindicated.

This is a fascinating story: SEGM commissioned systematic reviews on gender affirming care, claimed they showed care should be banned, so the authors have released this statement saying their research is being misused and that it is unconscionable to ban gender affirming care:

For alternatives to Google Forms, Fillout is really good! HeyForm also seems like a decent option but I haven't really tested it yet. It's little things like this that make de-Googling not only possible, but exciting. I can do so much more with Fillout than I was ever able to do with Google Forms.

Phone screen and back glass broke because of a drop. When I was replacing the screen, I accidentally tore the front camera's connector (it's a cheap fix but I don't really want to replace it right now). So I patched up the back with black gaff tape and glued a makeup mirror over it. Kind of a vibe!

PIN THIS.

This is hilarious. I'm just trying to imagine how this conversation went: BOSS: Hey, we just got these new decals in, can you post them up on the wall? EMPLOYEE: Sure, I'll go do that 2 minutes later, without peeling off any of the stickers:

I'm here for the Clippy movement. youtu.be/2_Dtmpe9qaQ

simple solutions to big problems do exist

Israel has bombed and killed innocent people relentlessly for almost two years now. Shouldn't that be enough for the whole world to turn against it? Yet here in hell, many still support it as a nation "defending itself." Try telling that to the civilians who have found themselves running from bombs.

“Don’t trust everything you read online” was always good advice. Now it’s more important than ever with all the AI-generated lies we’re seeing.

How many upgrades do we have left? Let’s end fast tech.

o7 is a ridiculous looking salute.

It’s been over two months now since I switched to Linux - something I never thought would be possible, at least not for many years. But I pushed through some of my biggest hurdles, and now things are starting to feel familiar. I’m proud of myself for doing the hard thing and finding new liberty!

You are not a Democrat or a Republican any more than you are a Giant, a Yankee, or a 49er. These are private clubs owned by billionaires & run by millionaires that capture your dollars and attention that owe you nothing. They are teams that benefit from you thinking you're one of them. You're not.

“We the people” is the revolution. Always has been, always will be.

5,000 person capacity camp started by the Nazis, six years before the gas chambers began. Are we going to let history repeat itself? www.nytimes.com/1933/04/05/a...

Calling your representatives is really pretty easy, even if you're phone shy. You're allowed to be awkward and stumble over words. Just get the point across of what you want to say. I saved my representatives' numbers to my contacts so it's easy to call them. I encourage others to do the same!

This never happened with Clippy.

Not now, everything.

Today I found out Apple's weather app was showing 6⁰F less hot than it actually was outside. No wonder I was sweating like hell the other night when I had fans pulling air from outside. Think I will start exploring wunderground.com a little more and maybe set up my own weather station eventually!

Another flag remix, this time with the Trans flag and the 1775 Liberty flag flown during the Revolutionary War. Through much introspection I've realized I enjoy the freedom to be able to transition more than even transitioning itself. That's ultimately what this month is all about: Love & Liberty

Going strong so far with a grand total of zero likes. Love it here. Truly screaming into the void

The racism in this country right now is so thick in the air you could cut it with a knife.

This nation was born of immigrants. Colonists came here without permission from indigenous peoples and did not learn their languages. Ellis Island was basically a free for all with only 2% of people denied entry. No way I'm going to turn around now and say something dumb like "we're full." F that

There I fixed it. The flag is mine now

For 10 years now I’ve been wanting a Prophet keyboard. Well, last month I had a dream that I was playing it for a carbon removal conference, so I splurged and finally bought one. I’m obsessed with the way each note comes out of one side of the stereo field or the other. So therapeutic, kind of EMDR.

No president has ever held a military parade on their own birthday (hello Adolf Hitler? Kim Jong Un? Saddam Hussein?). No president has ever shared propaganda including visions of a gold statue of himself (remember "Trump Gaza"). No president has ever expressed such a desire to be king. #NOKINGS

I stood watch at the Foley Square protest outside the ICE facility tonight. There was a huge line of officers there, maybe 10 police vehicles on site, two helicopters overhead, and a police bus ready to round protestors up. Only about 100 people showed up in my estimation. (1/3)

This is all an attempt to suspend due process so they can do whatever they want to whoever they want. Constitution Art I, S9, C2.1: “The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it.”

We need to bring back victory gardens

Why is everything made of f***ing polyester

The last time Apple did the bulk of its manufacturing in the United States was in the 80s and early 90s. I've been saying we need to revisit this time period. www.newindianexpress.com/videos/video...

If you're looking for an open source alternative to Microsoft Office, etc, I highly recommend OnlyOffice. Great program, very good compatibility, and you can collaborate online with others as well, all for free(!). Impressive and promising and I hope more people start to use it.

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“No person shall be… deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law” – Amendment 5, Constitution of the United States Says nothing about being a citizen. This should not even be up for debate. This admin’s deportations are fundamentally anti-constitutional.

Holy troll-ly moley. This is the photo Trump is referring to which he held up in the WH a few weeks ago. The “MS13” is clearly added as text to try and make the case that Kilmar’s tattoos reference the gang. Embarrassing as that conclusion is, Trump SEPTUPLES DOWN (7x!!) that numbers are tattoos.

I would encourage any trans or queer person who's concerned about Project 2025 to go to church this year. There are plenty of churches that are ignorant about LGBTQ+ stuff but tolerant of us. Have conversations with those people. Call out the insanity of P2025 wanting to outlaw us as "sex offenders"

The worst thing you can do right now is hide or go quiet. Stand up and talk back.

What's crazy about the continued crackdown on pro-Palestine protestors is that the United States *could* theoretically have great relations with a free Palestine. Plenty of us have connected with Palestinians personally. We could support their democratic future, make trade deals, create flourishing

I love the fact that Mark 1:14 just casually mentions that "John was put in prison," offering no context till six chapters later. He was thrown in prison bc he condemned king Herod for breaking the law. He was eventually killed bc Herod's wife wanted it. John the Baptist, fearless critic of kings.

The irony of -rump displaying the Declaration of Independence in the Oval Office is that he's exactly the kind of aspiring despot the signers sought freedom from. I just read through the DoI for the first time in awhile with fresh eyes, and it's scary how much applies to our present circumstances!

Evangelical white Christians need to consider that if they are okay with due process being violated because it aligns with their political beliefs, this same violation could plague them in the future if some other regime comes to power that's hostile to Christians. We stand together now or die apart

We want the war horse. Jesus rides a donkey. We want the eagle. The Holy Spirit descends as a dove. We want to take up swords. Jesus takes up a cross. We want the roaring lion. God comes as a slaughtered lamb. We keep trying to arm God. God keeps trying to disarm us.