Much like Rush Limbaugh, in mere months Kirk will be a mere footnote in history, if that

If you, as a person with structural power, can't accept and learn from criticism of your behavior, you shouldn't have that power. If being critiqued by a large set of your users is "harassment" to you, I invite you to reconsider your prejudices and mindset.

Indeed, retired cis white women who write op-eds believe that, because they're scared racists

Thank you. This is what it looks like for an ally to speak up on our behalf, in rooms we're not allowed to enter.

Much as I like several aspects of ATProto, this blog really sums up the problems of overengineering and centralized points of failure I brought up over on CounterSocial a couple of years back. And it's clear to me that those are viewed as competitive lock-in advantages by the Bsky leadership

Five years my county hasn't been able to provide a basic budget to the state Office of the Comptroller! I'm very much an opponent of the TN state government, but their ask is reasonable. This is a great example of another self-own by our electeds. dailymemphian.com/section/metr...

Free, Free the 901!

What movie changes the plot if you add a random "L" in the title? Lairplane

I mean, if you didn't already know the TN GOP was a bunch of fascists who brook no dissent and demand fealty and obedience... Well, here you go

Watching the new Ranma 1/2 with the Smol is amusing because I get to explain how I always wondered why Ranma didn't just stay a girl. The Smol: "So you were trans back then too?" Me: "Uh... "Uh... "Well, I hadn't quite figured it out at that point which is funny in retrospect..."

If you see this, quote repost with a GIF of your first ever anime "Hitomi..." "Van-sama!"

Vampires, to their blood dolls

Yes, yes, the Metro, famously dangerous and not something that I, like many travelers and many DC residents, use exclusively every day and even very late at night without any form of incident. "I'm afraid of mass transit" is, 100% of the time, just racism

I'm feeling the loss of the Trans and Queer Shitposters Feed pretty keenly right now; it was a way for me to stumble across the interesting and the quirky in the worlds of my people, and now it's gone. This has got me thinking about going back to my dynamic feed generator project.

Ignorance doesn’t excuse bigotry.

Yeeeees! Not only is Mychal perfect for this, we need Reading Rainbow back!

Can't stress enough how much we need everyone, but especially cis folks, to speak up for us right now.

I'm convinced that a major part of fascism's success is the welding of techbro authoritarian futurism to a blinkered desire of people to be children again, where they don't have to make choices, confront biases, or think -- they can just do as they're told and get their punch and cookies

Gender separation in sport, especially for kids, is a bad idea for a wide variety of reasons. Just speaking personally, back when I was a waifish, effeminate "boy," I was forbidden from playing sports I was good at (field hockey and volleyball) because those sports were "not for boys"

This is a great 🧵 and I'm glad to hear see more people saying what I and others have been trying to make clear: Democrats who stand for nothing will lose, and lose us everything.

My superpower? The ability to create parasocial quasi-relationships in real life, and to be othered by everyone, of course

Ruin a band with law The Contract Breach Cure

Time to tell a little Lena story about my approach to politics and policy. For quite a while, I believed that any elected should do exactly what their constituents tell them; they represent them, after all, and so they should run polls and wait for calls and such. In fact, I was so foolish...

I had a lovely day today at the Pink Palace Arts and Crafts Fair in Audubon Park in #Memphis ! I love all the festivals, green spaces, and joy my city has. You hear the most dire things on the news but Memphis is a lovely place with some of the most awesome people!

This is me right now, alas I still have the dark circles under my eyes too

Those who aren't in tech may not be aware how Larry Ellison has been a rat bastard for decades. Oracle is well-known for their outright evil business practices and for software that's garbage that's hard to get off of The joke is, ORACLE stands for One Rich Asshole Called Larry Ellison

If your politicians don't rave, can you really say they represent you?

Finally figured out, no help of Microsoft, how to wire up Cohere 4 into Azure AI Search We're not using LLMs for this! We're using Cohere for vectorization and then semantic matching against documents. Back In The Day, the analogous technique was latent semantic indexing

There was never a war crime Hegseth didn't absolutely adore Or in meme format...

Gotta say I am not a fan of how poor the documentation is for Azure AI Search and its various components. A lot of the docs are inaccurate, out of date, or missing key information. I've had to figure out myself how to do certain things, such as how to use Cohere for vectorization

This is what peak performance looks like

Ruin a book with a car Mona Edsel Overdrive

Ruin a book with a car Wuthering Supras

Ruin a book with a car The Chevy Impala Games

Ruin a book with a car Yugo Dick

Ruin a book with a car A Farewell to Fiats

Good morning lovelies (art teacher vibes edition)

We need more trans representation up and down the ballot!

As we slide further into cyberpunk, we now have vibroblades

I mean, yeah, I figured I'd need at least a scooter and a sick ramp to get enough altitude

We are so back (programmer's socks edition)

Ruin a band with a Supreme Court Justice Depeche Scalia

This is what we need politicians to be

NPR, sadly failing to meet the moment.

Subtly downgrade a band: Murmuring Heads

What some of you don't know is that I just do this IRL randomly -- start singing random song parodies I improvise on the spot. This is going to be magic for my political life, I just know it!

🎵 Woke up this morning Didn't get Raptured But Momma said I was the Chosen one Not the Elect So I guess I gotta stay on Earth Get ready for work now With a Blue Moon on my mind 🎵

I'm very acutely aware now of the ache and pressure of bottling things up, in a way I never was a few years ago

"The Ritter Communications time" Aah! I love it! Got an ANAC or time and temp line to share? Or something else weird on the phone lines? Share 'em!

I think a lot of people ought to memorize and chant the Litany Against Fear (or a similar litany if you like), because a whole lot of people are falling to the terror that the fascists want Fear is one of their principal weapons to get you to surrender! Step through your fear, don't let it own you!