I've been watching traditionalist catholic YouTube coverage of the SSPX excommunication. How do you say schadenfreude in latin?

Holding all the cards, but it's a poker game and you have a bunch of super rare, expensive baseball cards. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

As Pride Month 🏳️‍🌈 draws to its conclusion, KDE and @gnome.org want to pay tribute to LGBTQA+ people that have contributed and continue to contribute to making our lives better through their work in the field of digital technology. We start with one of the greatest computer scientists of all time...

All the killing is awful, but Trump's closest allies laughing at his weakness to his face is a silver lining.

Maybe don't celebrate the Nakba if you don't want to share a platform with advocates of genocide. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Is it anti-semitic for for Itmar Ben-Gvir to post videos of an Israeli government minister (himself) abusing detained peaceful protesters?

It’s weird that Helen of Troy being played by a black actress is a problem, but most of the rest of the Mediterranean, Greek and Turkish characters being played by incredibly fair and blond haired people of British, Irish and Scandinavian descent isn’t. And by weird, I mean entirely predictable.

The hardest problem in computer science is navigating the emotions of grown ass men.

Dershowitz is genuinely loathsome and has been for a long time.

I still don’t know if social media stimulates mental illness or simply simulates it

Old dude at the open mic night in the Palestinian owned Irish bar where I was having dinner with my daughter was wearing an IDF sweatshirt. These days I associate that look with Jeffrey Epstein. But was he going for a child killer rather than pedo vibe? Who knows. Berkeley is weird.

@scwpod.bsky.social @durumcrustulum.com @sockpuppet.org @dadrian.io I need an episode on httpv: www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1si...

I didn't think Trump could achieve an unconditional surrender, but I guess I didn't consider us surrendering.

Australia investigates and charges one of its most decorated veterans with war crimes for murdering civilians in Afghanistan (www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...) while the US President proudly threatens genocide. It's a contrast.

Once again I'm annoyed by the slogan "No Kings", when we have a problem with a president. Very few kings have as much power in their countries as the US President has in this one under our constitution. Americans seem to like it though.

Antigravity is most of the way through getting a fully featured(ish) Wayland backend for JUCE written today, with just a little poking from me. It's crazy how tractable fairly large, but bounded engineering work becomes.

We at are such a weak country to be running to the people we've been trying to pick fights with for help when we bite off more than we can chew. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

It's not a surprise when you compare the Iranian and US leadership. Iran's cabinet is dominated by PhDs, lots from western universities. The US cabinet is mostly JDs and lightweight bachelor degrees. gemini.google.com/share/9e8184...

Reuters Exclusive "U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school." "The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the ​Middle East."

Are we supposed to keep pretending that the ZTE and Huawei bans are for legitimate national security rather than transactional political reasons?

Some randoms: - When I was a baby we had a pet kangaroo. - McKellar Crater on the moon is named after my great uncle Andy.

You learn that country A is about to illegally attack country B. On what planet do you use that to justify attacking country B rather than warning them, preemptively attacking country A, staying out of it, etc? www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...

This is a policy of genocide.

They bombed a girls’ school.

So we're assassinating religious leaders now. Watch out Pope Leo.

Every time I make myself a cup of tea I say to myself... youtu.be/M5o_KtUmg5I?...

AI companies are the funniest bastards: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/t...

In theory, we know this is true. But "struck down" doesn't quite capture it. These tariffs were obviously and transparently illegal. They were knowingly illegal. It is a stain on the Court that something so obviously illegal was allowed to stand for a year. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/scotus-...

It's nice that we don't have to miss the Bush presidency anymore.

In the process of applying for 6 passports, 3 identity cards and 2 citizenship certificates. I have manila folders and checklists galore...

It is very very surreal to see all of this happening in tech from being around in activism in web 2.0. it's like literally every single thing and then some we were trying to prevent has HAPPENED. people treated the whole movement like we were being unreasonable.

realising things could be worse for heroku, could have ended up like github

Unfortunately, in modern America "right vs wrong" is a partisan issue.

I kind of assumed that Mandelson was picked to be ambassador because of his links to Epstein and others. If you can appoint an ambassador who has spent decades in the same social circles as the US President that seems like a great choice.

All of these alternative "milks" are ridiculous. The soy plant isn't a mammal. You can't "milk" a legume! What's next, people claiming that they can make peanut "butter"????

No other democracy on earth has a longer unbroken streak of proven election malfeasance than the USA's record of making it harder for Black people to vote at every single presidential election. Seriously.

It’s like living in China, but without the trust in science, progress on renewable energy, uptake in EVs, amazing high speed rail network, and great food.

ACAB includes the world's policeman.

Every California gubernatorial candidate, and SF BOS member (hi @jackiefielder.bsky.social) should be asked about this. You can’t call yourself anti-fascist if your housing policies forces a single voters to move from California to a red state.

It's not gaslighting unless the person is trying to make you feel crazy and doubt your ability to trust your judgment, otherwise it's just sparkling lying.

Cripes a’mighty people, Steven Miller is not staging a militarized ethnic cleansing and sending the border cops to murder people in the street to distract from the Epstein files. He’s doing it because he and Trump (and Vance and Homan and Noem etc) really really want to.

This morning one of my kids was talking about how in her dream last night Harry Potter was supposed to be at her summer camp, but he missed the bus. I had a dream about tax paperwork.

When a white guy hiding his identity with a mask attacks an ethnic minority, the default assumption is that he works for ICE, right? www.mpbonline.org/blogs/news/h...

I'd rather American goons not kill anyone, but I guess if they've got to kill people it's better that they're killing Americans instead of innocent foreigners. We might be more likely to address our violence if civilians are dying in Minneapolis rather than Sanaa or Rafah.

Jury Duty (1995) Oliver! (1968) Nope (2022) Air (2023) Taxi Driver (1976) Hot Fuzz (2007) Avatar (2009) Noises Off (1992) Repo Man (1984) Oldboy (2003) Superman (2005) Shooter (2007)

Indeed. Those "protectors of girls' sports" never even bothered to advocate for fixing widespread Title IX noncompliance, it was always an obvious fig leaf for trans bigotry. Big surprise, they're all totally fine with the nonconsensual porn machine owned by their party's largest donor.

A cat is a cat

I don't have time to doom scroll, but I do it anyway...