this has been a great birthday month: - i got to spend two weeks with @vusniere.bsky.social - new toe performance - new utada hikari, daoko, crck/lcks, bonnie pink, zutomayo, m-flo, majiko - lumines arise demo - a new katamari song every week - fft remake in 4 days i am alive

holy fuck the first take of one of my favorite performances of one of my favorite songs oh no im in danger youtu.be/azSsMG6h8k0 this meeting needs to end nOW

Someone I’m friends with posted this and it’s pretty on the nose

dhh and i forget the dork who runs shopify’s name are rich enough to race their cars off into mars and yet they are having breathtakingly inept people claw more power from the community and into their fugly catfishing-avatar’d hands

Bundler belongs to the Ruby community andre.arko.net/2025/09/25/b...

Thinking about that Miyazaki quote about creators of anime nowadays being primarily people who just watch anime and not getting external influences outside of anime in comparison to Uematsu growing up deeply on prog, psychedelic, and electronic music.

hello, stevecrosby.com

i’m sick of white men with bad opinions controlling open source if you are a maintainer of an OSS project and you also are not a fascist, reach out if you need design support from world-class design talent. i will either do it myself or find a friend that isn’t a fascist to help out.

it would be so fucking funny if Anonymous ID'd this guy and made his public life a living hell. imagine if he never knew peace for the rest of his life. what a funny world that would be. unless?

Don't look away. This is being done in your name, my fellow Americans.

man i love music

also just so you all know, i’m going to keep talking about my japanese music taste until someone either engages me on it or you all unfollow me. i’m not sorry.

Despite OUAK shaping up to be a real musical tour de force, I didnt see a quirky enka rock fusion matsuri track being the one I keep going back to. It just captures the series energy so well. I didnt know of Saya Asakura before this but I sure as hell do now. MONACA doing the lord’s work as always

I’ll never tire of sharing this screenshot

today i had to write a manifesto at work to get my point across

youtu.be/sPLqsLsooJY?... do you think 2009 vocaloid composer kenshi yonezu imagined that 2025 kenshi yonezu would get to write and produce a song that he gets to perform as a duet with utada hikaru, one of the most influential japanese musicians in history?

something i’m learning about myself is i don’t trust companies to do the right thing in a product context. theres exactly zero trust. i will fight and fight and fight to convince people to do the right thing, but after a certain point or enough curveballs i have no fight left in me and i shut down.

help i can't stop listening to www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuO2...

Journalists don't just not understand AI, they also lean into unhelpful anthropomorphisation. AI models don't scheme. They don't lie. They don't hide. They don't think, or reason, or plan, or plot, or inveigle, or malign. You're reading that in by believing the word machine is like a person.

help i simply cannot

Some people _really_ don't like it if you toss words like "fascist" around when they think it isn’t warranted, so I’ve updated my post to outline exactly _why_ it’s warranted with DHH (courtesy of Roger Griffin): "As I remember London" is palingenetic ultranationalism, and I explain in my own post.

holy shit san francisco, that was an earthquake

The pain I am going through migrating granblue.team from Next.js to Svelte is suddenly incredibly worth it.

Disney is not Target. The stock has gone down because wealthy people are using the controversy to take some profit, then buy back in at a lower price. Cancellations will not show impact until next quarter, so the cancellations need to continue for them to see real profit loss. Stay the course.

worked some more on my essay tonight and after doing a bunch of research, i am finally feeling like it might actually have legs

the myth of a free platform for artists

Perfume stopping activities after 26 years and going into “cold sleep” I am shook, didn’t they release an album this year???

If someone goes from a media outlet to a government agency and then implements a policy attempting to prevent the media from reporting on the agency, what does that tell you about their media outlet?

RIP U.S. innovation. Between gutting the H-1B program, purging US scientists from civil service, slashing research grants, and disappearing international students off the streets, our government has made a conscious decision to kill America's roll as a global leader in science and innovation.

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

The resolution was not about condemning political violence, it's about the government officially honoring the life and work of the head of our contemporary Nazi Youth—don't let anyone try to gaslight you into believing otherwise.

i don’t think it’s hyperbolic to say these are the ugliest iPhones that Apple has ever made and it’s not even close

Incredibly important post not only if you write Ruby or Rails code, but if you make software in general. We cannot continue to platform or support fascists or white nationalists simply because its convenient to us. Something has to change.

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hey so i never want to hear someone say “racism is dead,” again, k?

psa: pirating content from abc, cbs, and disney is morally correct

He knows.

Yes, the war in Gaza is a genocide. I hope you’ll take a moment to read my op-ed here:

These people calling for bipartisanship! Even now! It’s a level of delusion that defies credulity.

On June 24, I began my Election Night speech by quoting Mandela: “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” That's the spirit of this campaign, and our city. This is "Until It’s Done,” a new series about New Yorkers who refused to accept that a worthy goal was impossible.

where were you when @dhh went full mask off as a klansmember? i'm not even going to grace him with a link to the offending post. i really don't have the time or energy to migrate all of my APIs from Rails right now but 🫩🫩🫩

"The AI companies have stolen our work not so that people might enjoy it illegally, but so that the AI companies themselves can grind it into profitable sludge." defector.com/if-the-thiev...

古戦場お疲れ様！ I didn’t do as well as I wanted but this is still a high score. Dark is a terrible element!

Just because I saw someone mention it: There’s no reason to think that TPUSA/Kirk had a significant effect on the 2024 election. The turnout operation was non-existent and claims that they/he are the central (or even a major) cause of young voters moving right aren’t backed by any actual evidence.

gee, thanks buddy

I loosely held this belief until a couple of years ago when it became foundational to understanding the world

I said something last week that is more broadly applicable today: Calling for empathy is not neutral or apolitical when only one group of people have been socialized and brutalized into having empathy.

this is what got him fired?

anyway today was a great day!