been struggling to describe the bluesky vibes and the word i have finally stumbled onto is this: noisebridge

the combination of "data centers are now getting installed all over east bumblefuck, employing a skeleton crew of $21/hr computer janitors" and "physical attacks increasingly plausible and decreasingly expensive" feels like it might mix together in a fun way in the coming years

If ur trans in the US and somehow pulling off full-time employment and literally anything else, just know that you're doing so amazing rn

Make a wish!

reminder: pinknews/its owner have been pretty overtly transphobic in the recent past and consistently publish sensationalist panicky articles about trans rights, they have a vested financial interest in making things seem worse than they are

Gotta say Really feeling it lately

Disappearing messages are just as important as encryption. You can be using military-grade end-to-end encryption, but if someone's phone gets lost, stolen, confiscated etc while its unlocked or has a weak passcode, that could be meaningless. Best way to protect communications is to not have them

Louisville, this company has hundreds of cameras around the metro. We must do everything we can to stop the dangerous and baseless surveillance and tracking of ourselves and our neighbors.

Vibrant, successful downtowns are built on density and walkability. This is something we knew over 100 years ago, but we destroyed much of that so we could displace black residents and make driving more convenient.

I've been brave, but I've never been "route an nvme pcie expander board through 0.1 inch headers on production hardware" brave

Also he built the trophy holding claw thing for the new Battlebots seasons which is 110% rad.

Okay, this is really cool: github.com/styx-emulato... An embedded-first, weird-architecture capable emulator designed with an emphasis on being able to port new processors, architectures, peripherals, and bus-attached devices in hours/days. The dream of Renode realized in rust.

I have conquered the craft room shelf bracket chore Craft room shelf bracket painting chore ongoing

object orienteering

Look How They Massacred My Boy Louisville deserves better transit

must be a morning, i'm so ready for the faire (not ready at all)

It feels like paint has gotten a lot better in the past 20 years Like, all of em, I feel like everything from house paint to spray paint to model paint to weird-specific-purpose paints are better than a couple decades ago. Less absurdly toxic, easier to use, more colors, etc etc etc.

Last week yall did a lot of doomering on this website, lets make a plan together to not let the fascists dictate the tenor of our feelings or the content of our discussions by simply saying something scary. This week lets don't afraid and set an example of courage for ourselves and our communities

The only "right way" to do things is whatever feeds your pleasure, curiosity and desire and doesn't burn you out our break your spirit. "Wow thats pretty vague" amazing news people are extremely different in both capacity and desire and that difference is what makes our social worlds beautiful

My favorite part about the autotrain (current and historical) is that it shows how ridiculously space-inefficient cars are, even stacked double-high, tip-to-tail

being drunk and singing protest songs with like 30 friends wouldn't fix me, but it might be the next best thing

job solicitation from a Boston startup that namedrops the ivy league of every founder: We're an ag tech startup seeking to revolutionize ranching by steering cows with embedded electrodes!

Man nothing like a late summer night with a bunch of queers

my hot take is that in 2025 the average leftist organization should be casually majority women just looking at the prevailing situation of labour and divergent political moods and the fact that it isn't is sort of testament to the ossification and perpetual 20th century hangover

John Brown’s body lies a-mouldering in the grave John Brown’s body lies a-mouldering in the grave John Brown’s body lies a-mouldering in the grave But his soul goes marching on

tariffs seem to have put the end to my favorite bra company :(

A really good name for a mass transit advocacy group for the region would be the Louisville Area Transit Enthusiasts.

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desperately wanting a "mute reposts/quote posts" per-follow option

When I'm anxious about things I make plans. A little seed of hope, injected into the future, to counteract the despair. Anyway, my plan for my 40s is lots of lesbian sex.

working for a small company sometimes means digging in your heels and saying, "no, we're going to spend $200 more on actual server-grade hardware so we don't have to 3d print a 'finger bot' to do remote system management"

When I'm anxious about things I make plans. A little seed of hope, injected into the future, to counteract the despair. Anyway, my plan for my 40s is lots of lesbian sex.

gonna have to railfan the gravel pit ouroboros in the appalachian foothills mountain town

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From a conversation overheard between pharmacists at Walgreens, the chain is only stocking all the stores in the western half of the city with the covid vax from Moderna, which can't be given to children under 12. (The western half of Louisville is where most of black and immigrant communities are)

There's a local logistics company that does yard haul for a handful of factories in town, which includes moving trailers over surface streets, and they're now using all BYD electric trucks 👀

antialiased line drawing by adapting Wu’s algorithm to the hex grid

The regular internal fight of, "Do I create a wafer-thin Instagram account just so I can find local events and keep up with local artists and orgs that only use meta platforms for communicating?"

some programs are so actively user-hostile that creating them ought to be treated with the same level of public health concern as a radiation leak

Celebrated Navajo (Diné) artist Marilou Schultz recently completed a striking weaving. Although this rug may appear abstract, it is a representation of the wiring inside an integrated circuit. It shows the 555 timer, said at one point to be the world's most popular IC. Let's take a closer look...

I respect it when trans women do the whole coaching grift thing

I didn't understand how bad literacy in engineering was until, about 4 years out of school, I saw a senior coworker alt-tab from a document, spend a few minutes scrolling through his emails, open one, and copy-and-paste an unremarkable 6 letter word into the document before continuing

there's so much anti-intellectualism and illiteracy all around us that, to some extent, it seems like the best work leftists could be doing is educational, but that seems like a tough chicken-egg problem to solve and i'd love to hear about orgs doing good work in that area

apparently ppl here like rats so have another one

I swear to god the very next "please use our ai!" pop-up tip I get in firefox is going to cause me to switch browsers.