Your second moment of calm, not far from #WarRavagedPortland

Returning to my YouTube channel, I'm going to do a segment on filming in the TARDIS (s08-10, plus 60th anniversary). Please ask any questions you might want addressing. www.youtube.com/@howifilmedt...

Update from Portland: supplies running low. Please send fig jam and artisanal cheeses. For the jam, prefer GF, vegan, small batch, processed by a guy named River, who only stirs it during Mercury retrograde.

It is really incredible that Hakeem Jeffries went out of his way to praise the most corrupt mayor in modern New York history while still withholding his endorsement of the duly elected Democratic nominee. What are we even doing.

I have said many times, Sanderson is personally nice, but so what. Nice is cheap. He pumps money into a hate organization. That he can launder his own reputation effectively is the only think separating him from Rowling.

TUESDAY

Honestly I can't be that upset this is absolute peak Mets

There is no way out of this moment without people really sitting with and inspecting their beliefs and then acting to make those beliefs come alive. Everything else is hollow and will make the battles hollow. In the absence of belief you create vaporware around you because the pain is too much.

nooooooooooo, he never got to eat that leprechaun @brendelbored.bsky.social

Gentle reminder: Yom Kippur begins in 72 hours. If you plan to fast, now is an opportune moment to start pounding fluids and cutting salt and alcohol

ooh this looks terrific

This Mets game

It's an "I'm rooting for the Brewers on the last day of the season" kind of year as a Mets fan

“In a new report, management consultants Bain & Company found that despite being ‘one of the first areas to deploy generative AI,’ the ‘savings have been unremarkable’ in programming.”

sadly, no but if we play things right, we can make sure their CEOs do

I really do hope the phrase “Kavanaugh Stop” or “Kavanaugh Encounter” sticks.

Next time someone asks me if I’m technical I should just say: “I don’t know. Are you?”

Bumping this now that Ezra Klein is back in the news

github.com/jucasoliveir... can everyone go report this repository ok thanks bai

See also: fellow white disabled people hiding behind disabled and neurodivergence when they’re racist or homophobic etc. too many hide behind a mask of “disability justice” whilst blatantly ignoring the feelings of Black and Brown disabled people

This might sound silly from someone who builds clusters for a living, but you should *absolutely* confine your system to a single computer if you can manage it.

Frankly, ICE being dissolved should become the most conservative position allowed in democratic politics.

We are watching a coordinated right-wing takeover of popular media and it won’t stop here. archive.today/bXzZd

🚨🚨🚨Portland: Posted 15 minutes ago. Hold tight, Portlanders. 1/2

Real fucking interesting that it was apparently Theophite who started this. Same guy who was calling Palestinians scammers on here for months and claiming they were all using AI to pretend to be in Gaza

A good reminder that we used to refer to chatgpt as a "deep fake text generator" judged too dangerous to make public by OpenAI just 6 years ago

I claimed the RubyGems takeover was NOT required for security because RC could decide which code to deploy. People suggested perhaps there wasn’t enough time to implement these measures. But ex-operators confirmed to me that deploys were MANUAL, and it would only require changing access to Shipit.

it should be obvious to anyone that as long as ruby central controls the infrastructure, they can control what gets put on it. automation wouldn’t have mattered; they could simply change credentials, disable keys, swap servers/IPs, etc. control of the codebase was never necessary.

Multiple organizers I trust who have been a regular presence at Broadview are advising folks not to protest there tonight. For a number of reasons, they are worried that fatal force could be used against protesters tonight. They are calling for folks to regroup and return Friday morning.

Some amazing gay history. Listen up kids.

CEO: We'd love to make the risk zero if possible. So you're e2e encrypting, not storing user keys, processing data locally and *maybe* letting people opt-in to more, right? Right? CEO: oh not like that we're just lobbying for laws that make our risk zero.

# of paragraphs for news orgs to mention there's no discernable need to deploy troops to Portland, Oregon The Guardian: 1st paragraph BBC: 4th paragraph AP: 5th paragraph Time: 6th paragraph Politico: 8th paragraph NPR: 9th paragraph CNN: 10th paragraph NBC: 12th paragraph Fox News: never mentions

What is the material difference between MAGA who wants slavery back and the “allies” who don’t want us paid for our work and could watch 350k + women become financially precarious And do nothing

Every single one of these clips was taken today in downtown Portland. Portland doesn’t want or need a federal takeover. If Trump insists on sending federal “resources” he can start with funding health care, bridges, affordable housing, and wildfire protection to name a few.

Since he’s crawled back into the limelight amid Trump’s crackdown on left-wing groups, here’s my 2019 profile of Andy Ngo. He’s an anti-antifa propagandist who has a history of whitewashing violent fascist groups, particularly in Portland. jewishcurrents.org/the-making-o...

Taken just a few minutes ago outside the ICE facility in Portland that Trump claims is under siege. My message to Donald Trump is this: we don’t need you here. Stay the hell out of our city.

Reporting from “war ravaged” “crime-ridden” Portland, Oregon.

me sipping a latte and enjoying the crisp autumn air as i survey the war-torn landscape that was once Portland

More from war-ravaged Portland.

Five years ago, @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social and I did a story about rural Oregon's fever dream that Antifa was coming to their town from Portland. Hundreds showed up armed downtown because they heard on Facebook that "Antifa buses" were coming. No buses came so they said Antifa "retreated."

They're not even bothering to actually try to construct a narrative of why Portland is in danger and needs to be "protected." They're just invading a Democratic city to show that they can, and hoping to incite violence in response.

2020 was a real wakeup call for me in terms of 1) what police mistreatment my aging body was (not) equipped to take, and 2) what new mistreatments police were ready to dish out. 2025 is going to be that squared for a lot of people. It is already, in a number of cities

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I am consistently equipped with this, I have a surplus of this

Just got in an Uber and the driver is playing Julee Cruise music. The windows are more blacked out than I’ve ever seen. I am in the Twin Peaks Uber. I never want to leave. We’re traveling the world like this.

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you probably need to be of a certain vintage to understand the absolute hilarity of ken starr being in the epstein files

omg

I think about this a lot, both because there are awesome movies, music videos and songs I only took in because of the randomness of TV and radio, but also because it sometimes made it easy to disengage.