Sergei Brin and Larry Page couldn't have imagined when they were starting Google that they would be become enablers of fascism, wanton enemies of human rights. But if history is told by honest people, that is how they will be remembered. (Not so sure about Larry Ellison...)

you can avoid needing a private account by consistently being unhinged about things literally no one else cares about on main

:: When you encounter Foundation personnel they will likely want to administer amnestics This is obviously very harmful and may set our work back by many months. (We do have in-house anti-amnestic agents that can dull the effects, but only if administered quickly.) This is why avoiding being […]

#til: It is indeed possible to *burn* food in the microwave. Not just overcook, but char. The trick seems to be to leave a frozen meal with a steaming container in the freezer for an unknown number of years. It seems that given enough time in the freezer, enough moisture will manage to escape […]

The only thing missing from this fascist rant is the specific dog-whistle of “degeneracy."

Imagine if Florida had elected the crackhead for governor instead of Mr. White Wellies.

It is entirely possible that Lakeview has changed in the 30+ years since I was last there, when it was chock full of mostly white 20-somethings, but it sure looks the same.

Video of ICE casually tear gassing Lakeview (Chicago neighborhood) seems to be right in front of a building where an old friend used to live (~30ya.) I don't think they're gonna find a lot of Mexican gangbangers there… Very Bougey

If they're also a furry, it can even get more confusing when they talk about "their subwoofer"

When talking with someone who is a teacher, audiophile and into kink, you have to clarify which kind of sub you're talking about.

It’s never too late to discovery what everyone already knows

Every day I am tempted to form a strong opinion about something on which I am fundamentally ignorant, and every time I make an effort to not do so without asking someone smarter. So today it’s about carrier groups.

I'm in a #github internal group for high-profile FOSS projects (due to @leaflet having a few kilo-stars), and the second most-wanted feature is "plz allow us to disable copilot reviews", with the most-wanted feature being "plz allow us to block issues/PRs […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

I am always surprised by the stuff that doesn’t really exist for FreeBSD. Not complaining, its just weird that e.g. ipfw has no standard tools to persist rules or address tables across boot so I've written multiple variants of shell scripts to handle that (plus a set to use pf which I turned out […]

I am having an extremely hard time motivating myself to pick up any of my vast pile of tech debt today. It is a perennial problem. #sysadminnery

#taliateneyuque 's crime? She used her food assistance to buy baking supplies, and sold baked goods online to help support her family. That's right, folx, apparently now the #usjusticesystem puts single mothers in jail for..gasp..holding bake sales if they're on assistance. She faces up to 10 […]

the issue is 100% that the most powerful entities in the country have caved without a fight and are now actively licking daddy's boot because they can't imagine a future without daddy

Carrot and asparagus candles. Would you use?

This is exactly what the NYC subway is like, and it's beautiful (trimmed video by Ian O'Connor via instagram.com/p/DAbHW7txiiv)

You weren't "unemployed" for that large gap in your resumé. You started a small consulting company.

"Estrogen treatment initiated early, in perimenopause, lowers risks of heart attack, stroke, & breast cancer by 60%": https://deborahcopaken.substack.com/p/timing-is-everything?triedRedirect=true #perimenopause #menopause

Maybe it is a chosen name... Are we sure he's not trans? Not that it is any of our business, of course. https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:3gxyh4elwykcdnpci7gmqrvh/post/3m3wte4yxk22q

you mean to tell me there's a guy in Illinois running specifically on defending trans rights and his last name is "BLAHA"??? chat do you think he knows?

The great success of the 2022 crypto winter was that it wasn't integrated with the banking system, and therefore couldn't cascade across the economy. Nobody thanked Gary Gensler for that recession-preventing move, and nobody will apologize to him when this goes badly.

55% of Canadians name the US as their country's top ally, but 59% also name the US as their country's top threat. www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

"Are you better off than you were ten months ago?"

In honor of this post, I am refraining from correcting the guy who repeatedly used the phrase "plate teutonics." (without reference to anything even vaguely Prussian) https://infosec.exchange/@JessTheUnstill/115429525095825425

The incredible tragedy for #ArcticScience of NOAA shutting down their #methane monitoring data. 5th May 2025 is the last data we'll ever get. #nckf25

Happy Rivendelliversary, for all of those who celebrate it.

So obviously the OceanGate Titanic Submarine implosion was awful shitty techbro nonsense. But also, I legit can't think of a better way to die than going on a trip of a lifetime and then being turned into goo within microseconds.

Happy 26th birthday to epistolary.org, first registered in a dorm room in Catonsville, Maryland in 1999 and attached to the bind server of a friend who had a pair of static IPv4 addresses from his employer in colo.

(copied from elsewhere) #BikeTooter #cycling #infrastructure

Also can we talk about the cultural significance of someone who was JUST exposed with having a proud Nazi in the WH, someone who is (as JD Vance called Trump) America's Hitler, dumping a lot of military contractor cash to build a cozier BUNKER? "America's Hitler builds himself a cozier bunker" 👀

Can someone like @davidpriess.bsky.social @tim-weiner.bsky.social explain what it will take to securely rebuild Presidential bunker, so we can understand what it's going to take to do 2X--this time, when Trump rebuilds *that kind* of bunker, & then again when President @aoc.bsky.social replaces it?

Not the "e macron letter" I was looking for, thanks though

A reavel advisory for the #usa - especially for those in search of higher #education . https://slate.com/life/2025/10/harvard-trump-graduate-school-admissions-pause.html

Nazis aren't just clumps of pixels you shoot in Wolfenstein, they're real, actual, malicious fucking people doing shit like tearing down the actual, literal White House. There's a pretty good chance that, if you're responsible for a community you love and care about, some real-life fucking Nazis […]

It's thoroughly unsurprising to see members of the Fanjul family on the list of Epstein Ballroom funders. We recently ran the definitive story on the Fanjul sugar dynasty, which dates back to the late 19th century. prospect.org/2025/09/05/s...

Richest person in history demonstrates that he's also the greediest. https://www.jalopnik.com/2005155/elon-musk-begged-1-trillion-pay-package/

ADHD is just a lie made up by Big Fidget in order to sell more fidget toys.

#psa If you have a do-not-resuscitate (DNR) order, make sure it's visible at all times from the entryway of your home. This PSA brought to you courtesy of my elderly uncle being resuscitated, intubated, and put on a ventilator by EMTs, against the wishes in his DNR, because they didn't know he […]

"What do you want to do tonight, brain?" "The same thing we do every night, Pinky. Run a stupid poll that equates the true beliefs of one side with the batshit crazy beliefs of the other side, and then publish an article about it which makes it sound like the central, newsworthy problem is that […]

Playing with Alpine Linux as a quick way to build, configure and test disposable VMs on proxmox And I think I really like it. It's so old-school that when you have to learn its way of doing things that every distro does uniquely, it only takes a single search result to a) know what to do, and […]

Many disabled people are food insecure and lack the capacity to do more than heat something up. (When I went to our local food bank, my favorite donations were dried fruits and a giant bag of shelled walnuts. You want to think both nutrient and/or calorie dense.) Seriously though: DONATE MONEY.

If you want to find a local food bank, you can use the website below. If you’re donating, it’s best to donate money. If you want to donate food, PLEASE donate food you or your family would actually eat, including things like breakfast cereals and snack foods. www.feedingamerica.org/find-your-lo...

He's no doubt doing it as a provocation (probably even on Lewandowski and/or Stephen Miller's orders), but the last 4 docket entries in the Chicago Civil Rights lawsuit are Bovino-snitching. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Tear-gassed high schoolers thrown in a van, driven off, released hours later. High school kid? US citizen. Kavanaugh High. Like DeGrassi, but with chemical munitions thrown by an unhinged CBP commander. (Nbhd president said Bovino, w a smirk, threw the first tear gas canister.)

Dunno why everyone is so upset about rich people privately underwriting the military. It worked out so well for the Roman Republic https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:qzuw62ra5pgoy7ohoaj4gd7v/post/3m3vfce7xvc2n

[#uspol] The Asshole is so fucking proud of his bloated garish event venue that he WANTS to look like it is splattered with urine. And of course it’s a grossly illegal project in its execution and funding. But mostly what offends me is the imposition of one senile malicious narcissist’s […]