It genuinely is not actually hard to condemn the actions of the Israeli state without engaging in blatant, naked gutter antisemitism. The issue isn't that this is some nuanced and complicated topic, the issue is that people want to do antisemitism because they have discovered bigotry feels good.

As a resident of #Portland it is impossible to capture how unhinged this is. We are a low crime city and the ICE protest "siege" consists of one auxiliary ICE office that normally has at most a dozen weirdos debating what performance art they should use to block a single driveway

Please boost because damn the job market is tough out there right now. The good news is, Temporal is hiring 😎 Come work with me! Staff Developer Advocate roles in the US and India, plus a bunch of others at: temporal.io/careers

Today is the 30th anniversary of Hackers

Whenever I hear people talk about their concern for “the birth rate” it always feels like there’s this underlying resentment or threat. Like “we better get this birth rate back up or else” And it never feels like it’s going to be “or else we will provide institutional support for all families”

The Pitt was about as close to a flawless season of television as I've ever seen, but HOLY SHIT IT WILL MAKE YOU SO SAD.

Fuck Spotify www.youtube.com/watch?v=DO6s...

If you ask the new Grok (via grok.com without any custom instructions) for opinions on controversial topics it runs a search on X to see what Elon thinks I know this sounds like a joke but it's not. This genuinely happens: x.com/jeremyphowar...

If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people: 1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money 3) We won’t need a lot of troops 4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq 5) We’ll find WMDs 6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators 7) It will be easy 8) It won’t take long All lies.

Movie you’ve seen more than six times:

Free business idea: you can handle pre-orders for popular products without crashing or other bullshit.

New Hélène Vogelsinger piece just dropped. The story behind the setting is worth reading as well. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qgrd...

Weird historical fact: William Shakespeare did not attend a university, but he did happen to study at the only academy in England that was teaching Shakespeare at the time!

happy presidents day

Mitch is trying to get up but he can’t get up and you’re not helping him. You’re not helping him. Why is that?

Somebody yelled at me for posting about Ganymede instead of /the state of things/ last night. I know we’re (almost) all on the same page here, but a Bluesky without cute cats, science facts, and dumb jokes would be bad for everyone.

If you lose money in crypto, that's on you. If you lose money on the Hawk Tuah meme coin, that's on whoever let you use a computer unsupervised.

Tough to admit this, but I basically only play Persona games now.

the first two medieval shitting diseases 7”s & the rehearsal demo are some of the most blistering hardcore ever made

It’s so hard to crack jokes about who Trump will pick for his cabinet because he keeps making the jokes come true. Anyway, the latest pick is Hamburglar for Treasury.

The United States has oligarchs now. Not merely rich people with more personal influence on politics than poorer people have, but a few extremely rich people closely connected to the national leader who act in government-like roles despite never being elected or nominated to any official position.

I see Teenage Engineering has released the follow up to the OP-Z, my all-time favorite physical object. The OP-XY seems to have everything I would have wanted, but the price is so high that it almost sounds like maybe they're joking? www.youtube.com/watch?v=66mL...

Weird random fact: the only portable device I own that can sit in sleep mode for weeks and weeks and remain mostly charged is the PS Vita.

Mehdi and AOC are both back on Bluesky. Bluesky has the juice.

it's been long enough for me to admit publicly that when i left Gizmodo in 2022 I changed my Slack username to "S1ackbot" and the G/O Media failed to detect or delete it for months

twitter was so bad for so long that i forgot how fun this is

👋 hey friends, I'm here now as well. As much as I prefer a fully open and federated network like Mastodon, it's nice to see so many familiar faces here. Authenticating myself: github.com/juxtin (see link back to this profile)