Apparently making a noise still works? https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/22/entertainment/jimmy-kimmel-returning

My iPhone knows when I'm walking, when I'm biking, when I've shook it.... But there's one event that it doesn't detect. I want to be able to trigger an action when I set my phone down. That's got to be straightforward. It might have to pause for a second or two, but it's got to be […]

"The United States will have control over TikTok’s algorithm in the acquisition of the social media platform’s US operations, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Saturday." […]

Did someone tell ChatGPT, "Write a legal complaint in the style of Bulwer-Lytton"? > In detailing just how far afield of the rules Merryday believed the complaint had gone, he wrote, “The reader of the complaint must labor through allegations, such as ‘a new journalistic low for the hopelessly […]

This has always been one of my favorite series from one of my favorite authors. At the time I read the books I loved how they played with gender stereotypes, but I hadn't looked at them with a trans lens. Now I need to go back and read them again […]

I'm pretty sure Amazon and Temu lead with things like this in ads on purpose.

Sluggo works in an “AI”-run shop. https://mastodon.social/@nancycomics/115230093636950481

Everyone's H1-B workers just got really expensive. https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/restriction-on-entry-of-certain-nonimmigrant-workers/

now even more than ever, North American tech conferences need to start making plans to be split across multiple sites, one in the US for people that can't leave, and one outside the US for people who can't enter. Simulcast between the two locations.

Cancelling Hulu. For reason we put down "Jimmy Kimmel. Shame on you." Told my kids in case they were using ours too. But one supported me, and the other had just cancelled their account. #uspol

Well the news keeps getting more and more lovely. The Heritage Foundation and The Oversight Project have introduced a new pack of lies with the goal of targetting trans people as terrorists. https://newrepublic.com/post/200688/fbi-coming-trans-people-kash-patel-charlie-kirk

Another one bites the dust. https://www.npr.org/2025/09/17/nx-s1-5544283/ben-jerrys-jerry-greenfield-resigns-unilever

Have we reached the point where the president says "fire them" and it happens? Not yet, but we will. With CBS it was the implicit threat of the FTC blocking a purchase (one, I might add, that including installing an external Republican overseer to ensure […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

A decade ago, Kirk may have had all the horrific things he said sanitized, with the expectation that we all toe the line. But Obama is saying things here that have literally gotten others fired over the last few days.

I'm less worried about ending up in an institution than how much this talk legitimizes bad treatment and attacks. Not because I don't think the former can happen, but because it's not what will happen _first_. Every woman knows the feeling of being hyper aware of whether they are being followed […]

❝ the problem of misogyny – and of women’s security concerns more broadly – has “been historically absent” from traditional security discussions. The oversight is strikingly evident across a wide variety of government and nonprofit reports on terrorism and mass shootings. The silence in official […]

#otter and #greatblueheron at #sunset #photography

#sunset #photography

We are rapidly losing the ability to determine what's true ans what isn't. And we haven't even reached peak “AI” fakes yet. #uspol ❝ The study, which was conducted by the National Institute of Justice and hosted on a DOJ website was available there at least until September 12, 2025, according […]

Some things never change. I once broke into a remote system by causing the login to abort. Which dropped me onto the top level directory. Which had one file. Which contained the admin password. I added a second file, suggesting they remove the first file and disable interupts in their login […]

Good morning. #photography

We've moved into a new phase of fascism. Where the government is threatening to shutdown nonprofits like the Ford Foundation for funding news organizations who pointed out that Charlie Kirk was racist. Miller, who calls the shots for anything in this regime that has to do with promoting white […]

@MonaApp How do I tell it that I never want to send rich text? It's very irritating to paste something in and have it formatted with no obvious way to change it to plain text. Maybe I'm misunderstanding it, but I don't understand the point of the feature. Nobody not using Mona is going to want […]

"Hosting a WebSite on a Disposable Vape" https://bogdanthegeek.github.io/blog/projects/vapeserver/ Truly, we live in an age of absurdly wasteful wonders. (Although the vapes aren't running Android. Yet.)

Check your email? Write some code from your hotel room? Congratulations, you're now in violation of your business visa that says that you were here only to meet your US colleagues and that you were not allowed to do any incidental work. People don't want to risk it any more.

positions you'd find only expressed on KF for all trans people to be killed, are now just... commonplace and part of the mainstream political discourse, it seems. we're forced to debate these views rather than treat them as fringe views that don't dignify response.

Some amazing early space photos. https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/09/60-years-after-gemini-newly-processed-images-reveal-incredible-details/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Stare Wars #boreamovieorshow #HashtagGames

Some people think fugu is the scariest dish you can eat, but I'm quite certain the correct answer is beets. Nothing scares you like beets the morning after.

1. Yesterday, the NDAA, a must-pass military bill, cleared the House with several anti-trans amendments from Nancy Mace. A bathroom ban, sports ban, tricare coverage ban, pride flag ban, and more for trans people were attached. 17 Democrats joined to pass it. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Remembering the time I set off a firecracker in the library on the last day of my senior year and they weren't going to let me attend my graduation. But then they decided I could attend, but they would "punish" me by making me make sure all the books in the school library were filed and sorted […]

Parental argument with a teen mermaid. "Don't nictate your eyelids at _me_ , young lady!"

Smokey out there.

All good things come to an end, and my instance is going dark. With Kinkyelephant.com closing, I am looking for a good place to move. Who has suggestions for me? Ideally I'd like an instance with: 1) a bit of its own local traffic; 2) a fair amount of adult focus so that my stuff doesn't […]

This description of aphantasia by an artist does a much better job of describing how my visualization works than I've been able to do. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewsGmhAjjjI

Can we just stop using all this crap now?https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/03/ai_hiring_biased/

Grifting.

My mother's most recent email to me was a comment at the top of a forwarded email thread between her and my late aunt's husband. To his credit, he recognized that gender and orientation aren't necessarily choices, and tried to talk her down. That said, he also called me self-absorbed and […]

#sunset #photography

A massive *two in five* of those arrested here in the UK for participating in the recent race riots had been previously reported for domestic abuse. All far-right movements are magnets for bullies of every kind. Fascism isn't about whatever the "legitimate concerns" of the day may be. It's about […]

So long as there are no penalties for false copyright claims, this will continue. https://mastodon.cloud/@slashdot/115121567940520806

Just found this great article from a bit over a year ago about where various space experts think we are with Kessler Syndrome, and overall it's not a very reassuring article! But I learned a lot from reading it so maybe you will too […]

Tactile Maps Automated Production (TMAP) An accessible web-app that quickly generates tactile street maps. https://madlabdesign.org/tmap/

❝ An obsession with traditional gender norms also seems to factor into today’s exaggerated aesthetics. Earlier this year a New York-based dermatologist told Politico that fashion often shifts to more traditional gender expression in culturally conservative times. “It’s ironic … that they’re so […]

I put my backpack in front of the troublesome night light to completely cover the light. And then I fell asleep within 5 minutes. Lesson learned: focus on user impact first and what you can do to mitigate the impact on the user first and foremost.

USAA (insurance, banking, etc) has recently increased their login security in a way that really screws older users. Attached is the error message you get if you try to login to USAA and do not have a cell phone on file. First of all, this message is […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

Rock climbers eat your heart out. There are fish who can climb better than you do :) https://www.science.org/content/article/thousands-climbing-catfish-filmed-scaling-waterfalls

Hey, looks like my mother is coming around. /s This morning she texted me. "Well, it could be worse. You could have become an Evangelical."