A warning to anyone planning to attend a World Cup game: Do not attend a World Cup game in the United States. Even American citizens are at risk of being kidnapped, beaten, murdered, or placed in an inhumane detention facility. A football (soccer) game is not worth the risk. STAY HOME STAY SAFE

Hegseth is the worst of the school bullies we have ever faced. Contemptible, cruel, psychotic, sadistic, racist, misogynist, misanthrope. The one we were told would never prosper, because karma would catch up to him eventually. The one we couldn’t fight back against due to “zero-tolerance” rules.

Periodic reminder that Teapot Dome, the worst scandal in American history prior to Watergate, involved $9 million changing hands. That’s adjusted for inflation. This story by itself is 55500% bigger than Teapot Dome. That’s not a typo.

My opponents are all communists. In unrelated news, my government will be taking ownership of the means of production.

Sure looks like the DOGE boys tried to kill a whistleblower.

Donald Trump is sending the Justice Department after a woman he raped.

Holy shit

Every single thing this US thug regime has done makes perfect sense when you view it through the lens of how organized crime operates. Every. Single. Thing.

Please do not repost this. We have enough problems without letting our enemies know that 105,000 Trumpsters will be at the UFC at the White House on Sunday, June 14, 2026.

A day after The Late Show ended, Colbert hosted an episode of public access program Only In Monroe, reviving his 11-year-old gag. How bad is CBS/Paramount taking it? They issued copyright complaints for a show they don't own. 🤣 CBS would hate it if you watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DlF...

i’m doing just fine, i only get depressed when i do stuff or think about things

Congresspeople should be paid hourly. They should have to clock in and clock out. I’m actually kinda not kidding about this.

WE. DON'T. NEED. TO. BE. WORKING. 8. HOURS. A. DAY.

If you have ADHD/AuDHD, GenAI can be *addictive*: a Skinner Box that generates an unending firehose of new “content”, usually missing but sometimes “hitting”, infinitely tweakable. I feel like this isn’t mentioned enough.

Was thinking recently about how you could sell UBI to the “personal responsibility” crowd: “You get $X per month, no strings attached. It is up to you to decide how to use it. If you blow it on booze, that’s on you. If you work and earn more, that’s also your choice.”

Can’t wait to watch the “golden” Trump statue turn green over the coming months

it’s a good time to be running a green room, I’m just saying

evangelicals have finally created. the golden calf. from the classic bible story “don’t create a golden calf”

On this lovely Friday I’d like to remind everyone that a four-day work week should be the norm by now, 120 years after the Haymarket Affair convinced the financial class that a five-day, eight-hour work week was in the best interests of their own health and longevity

I see a *lot* of anti-LLM absolutists on my feeds. And that’s good! It’s important to stand up for your beliefs. But they also need to understand that sticking to that line means they will find it extremely hard to get a job in tech until this bubble pops. That’s just reality.

In my head Bluesky will forever be pronounced “blueski”

Giuliani didn’t even have the decency to die on my birthday. Pfft. Typical.

It is time once again to share this absolute classic video. https://youtu.be/M_ZRsf9sneQ?si=l0WVEsvsKiDhEISN

Bring back the ancient knowledge

God, Trump can’t even do a Reichstag Fire correctly

Openvibe still has some glaring annoyances/bugs, chief among them being that when I check notifications or reply to posts, my “following” feed forgets where I was and shoots to the top of the feed. This is a deal-breaker for using it as a “daily driver” social app.

BTW, if you are on iOS and are looking for a good client for both crossposting and for seeing one combined timeline from several social networks, OpenVibe is pretty good. It supports Mastodon, Bluesky, Threads, Tumblr, and I think a few others. It isn’t perfect, but it’s quite nice.

I’m going to attempt to crosspost on Mastodon and Bluesky for a bit. The tough part is that I have way more characters per post on Mastodon than I do on Bluesky, so I’ll need to practice brevity again.

Creatives have been freaking out about genAI, but it is the rank-and-file coders who are, in my opinion, in the most danger. GenAI can only ape creativity, but it can be extremely good at grunt work, and 95 percent of modern coding is grunt work.

Okay. Time to start again.

Thinking this morning about patterns of thought I fall into. Hyperbole. Bizarre/rapid-fire humor. Attention-seeking. Hypomania/depression. And, yes, various kinks. They all have one connecting thread: rapid, efficient generation of endorphins. This is a post about ADHD. #adhd #adhdlife

When you “assume” you make an “ass” out of “ume,” a species of fruit-bearing tree in the genus Prunus

I’ve been gone for a while, what did I miss? Oh wait, I can’t tell, because Bluesky jumps to the top of my feed every time it refreshes! I don’t know how y’all use this site when their UX is so horrible. Mastodon and Twitter — TWITTER — follow better HCI practices. That’s just sad. #ux #uxfail

And for those wondering what "Batman's Aff His Nut" sounds like in a proper Glaswegian accent, here's Robert Florence, who penned it, reciting it over a Batman teaser...

And this, by Robert Florence, will never not be my favourite poem about Batman…

My wife has recently gotten *really* into makeup, and I still get Jeffree Star (racist), Patrick Starrr (human), and Patrick Star (starfish) confused regularly

Fine, no CW then. I finished the indie adult kinetic novel “Opportunity” today. And before you accuse me of being “horny on main”, I have to say the writing, art, and diverse queer and racial representation was *phenomenal*. It is surprisingly wholesome and touching in parts.

Wait, wtf, Bluesky content warnings are only allowed if you have attached media? Are you kidding me right now? Good lord, Mastodon is *miles* ahead in terms of user experience.

I only learned after their shutdown that Cohost had the option of separately seeing how many unread posts were waiting from each of the people you were following, a la LiveJournal. If I had known that existed, I’d have been there *all the time*. That is IMO the best #ux for a social network.

For the love of god, #Bluesky, implement a “last-read post” bookmark for people’s feeds. Please. Twitter remembers where you last stopped reading, Mastodon does, but you refresh to the top of the feed every time, so I always miss *tons* of posts. This is some serious #uxfail here.

So I’ve had trouble getting into Bluesky for technical reasons. The lack of a native iPad app is a huge detriment, the web interface is lacking, and while a third-party app like Skeets is good, it’s clunky compared to Ivory for Mastodon.

Watching classic Doctor Who is like: “Oh, this one is really good” “This one is so-so” “This one is… disturbingly racist”

If I ever told my kid to “shut the hell up” about anything I don’t think I’d be able to look at myself in the mirror for a week. Vance thinks this makes him sound manly. But there’s nothing masculine about being casually cruel to a person whose wellbeing you’re charged with protecting.