There is basically no form of cracking down on porn that won't end up being disproportionately bad for trans/queer people

Severance has been added to my "great show, but probably not for me, at least not right now" list at episode three of season one

❌: Telling friend to buy a cargo bike. ✅: Cargo bike-pill their child and let them do it.

Bluesky's like "let👏police👏enforce👏traffic👏laws👏in👏person👏and👏entirely👏at👏their👏discretion!"

PSA: any time you see one of these OnlyFans bots, search for the link in their pinned post to find all the other bots boosting the same OF profile so you can report/block/mute/whatever those ones as well

Sometimes the internet is still good

these fucking bots, man

Fun fact but for real: any aircraft with two engines, one engine is more than powerful enough for the rest of the flight once you're a ways off the ground. You only strictly *need* thrust from both engines until the wheels are off the runway. Pilots will be nervous on just the one, but you'll live

We need more walkable, mixed-use datacenters. Like community gardens, people should be able to experience the joy and satisfaction of cultivating their own hardware. Big Cloud has alienated the connection people felt with their computers. Kids should know what it's like to swear at rack mount rails.

logging into an account that's still under my dead name like

"Vote blue no matter who" ≠ "Endorse blue no matter who" your votes are as private or as public as you want them to be fr though thank god i don't live in Maine

Always good when a judge starts their reply to you with “my turn.”

chat is it good when a judge is monologuing wait why do i hear boss music

jeff thinks the batmen need to take turns lmao

if you show me a negative externality I am basically always going to say “yeah they should be made to pay for that”

[clears throat] this is an extremely clear instance of trust in action: part of the Political Magic is getting group X to trust that you're lying when you do slopulism for group Y

we are missing so many Ramanujans and every one is a tragedy

y’know, we probably shouldn’t have spent so much time calling sincerity cringe

I cannot emphasize enough that, when you look into BLS methodology, they will generally be a lot more sophisticated than you think they are.

How to get more vanity trucks off the road www.wfsb.com/2026/05/19/r...

numbers are hard

The ability to sow doubt in your adversary's soldiers by causing them to believe their general has fled the battlefield or their right flank has routed would be regarded by the ancients as an act of the gods but we just have this, it's a disinformation campaign spread via social media

tell me again about how used cars are so expensive nowadays only 200k miles! has a title! bring a jerry can, a jump starter, maybe some brake cleaner to spray into the intake, it'll *probably* be able to make it to either a mechanic or a DMV. don't think i'd risk trying both. but still!

The only solution I see to the latest Discourse is to have the burrito-taxi leftists do battle against the pre-agricultural-society-was-great leftists

I can't believe we turned "Laptop Worker" into a term of derision. We now have the tech and business models to allow millions of people to make a living in ways unthered to a farm plot, assembly line,, or cubicle. That's very cool! Do not project your weird yearning for the mines on to me.

You Can Call Me AI as a parody of the Paul Simon song

it just occurred to me that the reason i associated the chupacabra with Mexico rather than Puerto Rico, which is where it was actually first attested in 1995, is entirely from the Groovie Ghoulies song saying "From Mexico it came to me/I saw it down in Miami"

imagine seeing ancient elven ruins in an Elder Scrolls game that has a fuckton of books/notes around containing this text in various languages i dunno about you, but *i* wouldn't just turn around and walk away

seems to me like the major problem with nuclear semiotics is that there's no way to communicate these messages that would deter, not attract, the kind of person who discovers and researches the Eye of Magnus in Skyrim

“Medicare For All who want it” is a really quite graceful way to transition people on their own time to a mostly single payer system. Just have a robust public option that competes meaningfully with private options and then keep making it better as people switch over.

i really, really didn't need another reason for Wildflowers by Tom Petty to make me cry

Oh geez, it looks like Politico badly mangled this story, which seems to really be a county screw up and the corresponding official communicating about it incompetently. Super sloppy of them. A local journalist explains:

I'm not saying this is easy. But the parts of society that *are* transphobic want you constantly on edge, struggling to trust anyone, and retreating into darkness and despair. Don't let them have that.

when you're totally a good faith actor

One of the main reasons I’ve taught myself to be a handyman over the years is so that I can keep strangers outside.

Seattle, Portland, SF etc all ought to be havens for trans people, immigrants, anyone threatened by fascism But we can’t protect our neighbors if we don’t have enough affordable homes for them to live in Building more housing is not optional

i speak to the chaos of the loins

blessed

The corn ethanol lobby must be crushed in 2028. It hurts cars and the environment.

i think depending on the circumstances i actually disagree with Josh of Nazareth about the utility of virtue signaling, but they're Christians and i'm not, so

And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full.

I felt like i memorized my new work login password pretty quickly this time. The history in my password manager tells me that "pretty quickly" in my mind means three weeks. With a 90-day reset timer, that means i only know my password 75% of the time

Honestly, I have watched people expense things a lot more ridiculous than a pair of boat shoes for a sailing event. Hell, I once expensed a trip to Chuck E Cheese's to my old company, and had to then provide a full explanation of why I'd done so to my company's accounting team.

i've listened to so many TTRPG actual plays that i can't help but respect the hustle but it turns out that being told 'no' isn't actually the worst thing that can happen

idea: agent that reads posted articles and estimates probabilities of whether replies/quotes are by someone who actually read the article or is reacting to the headline & subhead alone

the emergent behavior of people not retweeting things enough to produce an infinite positive feedback loop of every mid-tier post is strange

did you know that dihydrogen monoxide has been detected in the atmosphere around 100% of datacenters? our representatives need to stop kowtowing to big tech interests and demand 0% DHMO concentrations for 100 miles around every datacenter by 2030

The thing about a politician who only does things for your vote is that it's good & how things are supposed to work.

privilege is great. we should want as many people as possible to be as privileged as possible for privileges like “not malnourished” that are cardinal rather than ordinal