People keep saying “oh so you want OPEN BORDERS” as some kind of gotcha and like. Yeah. When I was a kid you could just drive into Canada. On accident, even. It was great, and I think we should do that instead of kidnapping children. Normalize being normal instead of being kidnapping weirdos

A strategy I am recommending to people who don’t want to mask all the time is always in healthcare facilities and public transportation, AND if you see someone in a mask, put yours on. The first helps protect spaces high risk people may have no choice but to go, the second shows them support.

nothing better illustrates the desperate search for a media business model like a 50MB web page with a 90:10 ad-to-content ratio

these days, if an app doesn't let me tone down the notifications to a reasonable level, i simply do not give it permission to send any. the device exists to serve me, not any other person or company

built myself a nice spreadsheet and a buncha polls so my scavenger hunt team can run a tournament to name a printer. six ballots and a bracket

If you or a friend have processed a bunch of $$$ through your venmo or other personal account, read this and take heed so you know how to categorize or report this $$$ when you do your taxes minnesotareformer.com/2026/03/19/m...

This is why my family hasn’t bought any HP stuff in years. :( upsetting but important.

I could watch this all day

The game industry’s obsession with graphics is so funny because every other year there will be some breakout hit called “Stick Figure Mansion” or some shit that outsells 90% of the market and runs on a toaster

This is the best product review I’ve read: samhenri.gold/blog/2026031... It doesn’t matter if you’re interested in the MacBook Neo or not; this is the kind of essay that makes you think about the potential of technology and the joys of exploration.

make a janky strange world put jokes in it, change the trajectory of thousands of people

I need you all to show up. I want us to have a thousand people there if not more.

there's a public library manga! and it's getting an anime series!! www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2026-02... (also live-action but that's likely gonna be harder for me to obtain...)

putting "_FINAL" in a filename is a kind of prayer

Abolish ICE AND CBP

This is truly some of the meanest shit I’ve ever heard of and I firmly believe the intended this to end with his death The Rohingya have already survived one genocide, one driven by lies spread on Facebook. The horror show is now continuing here.

To any Democrat who ever said about any issue, "Maybe if we agree with Republicans just this far, they'll stop there," remember that you were wrong, it was obvious at the time, and you really should never believe that again about any issue, ever.

The reason you can’t give a single inch on anything be it trans rights or dignity for unhoused people is that they, democrats and republicans alike, will take it and say thanks what else is in your pockets? They won’t say thanks actually.

it took an expensive, coordinated effort & a lot of people saying “this doesn’t matter” to get from a bathroom ban costing one state $400 million & a gubernatorial race to “trans people must turn in their documents which become invalid in a few hours or face fines & potential jail time” in 10 years.

Analysis of crash data shows that you're 17 times more likely to die in a vehicle fire if you buy Elon Musk's Tesla Cyber truck than if you had bought a Ford Pinto, the 1970s era car infamous for gas tank explosions in rear end collisions. fuelarc.com/evs/its-offi...

Kansas City has projected that 650,000 people will visit for the World Cup. That means if every seat for every game is used by a visting fan, not a single local attends, there will still be 230,000 World Cup visitors who never go to a game. That's BS! But that number drives spending and planning.

With each passing day I am newly infuriated that national media (and many politicians) bought the Trump regime's lies about a draw down in Minnesota

Let's try this again 👋 Hi Bluesky - I'm Massachusetts' Attorney General. You might know me from suing President Trump nearly 50 times, beating Uber and Lyft in court, or being the first woman of color elected to statewide office in MA. I officially left X today - help me find my MA people?

The arc of history is long and it bends towards quibi

A panel from dungeon meshi that changed my life

"Do I need to spell it out for you, why authoritarians might like to know who’s available for kidnapping on a Sunday morning? And with Silicon Valley CEOs showing up at the White House to grovel before the current occupant, do you doubt that Big Tech would sell out any of your neighbors if asked?"

everyone loved the tech industry's free music and friendship machines of 20-30 years ago. it's unclear what could be causing people to feel the opposite about the industry's new racism and insanity machine

Previous generations of rich people knew that it was important for them to shut the fuck up and build libraries and parks and hospitals since that was the only way we would tolerate them in society. This generation of rich people have forgotten why this was necessary. We should remind them.

OpenAI employees pushed for the company to inform Canadian police about a user they thought would engage in real-world violence months before the person did just that, killing eight people in a horrific attack in Tumbler Ridge. The company only reached out to police after the shooting had occurred.

some days i do wish bluesky weren't the public record, so that I could vaguebook into the void instead of into a place where it's basically forever rememberable. and then I remember, oh right, journals exist

They think punk means *acting without consent* not *acting in defiance of power*

This is the kind of thing a rich CEO says at the beginning of a science fiction movie to establish for the audience that he is a sociopath and the villain.

“You're thinking of the $175 billion in tariff money all wrong. As if I had the money back in a safe. The money's not here. Your money's in the White House ballroom, the renaming of the Department of Defense, the $10 billion transfer to the Board of Peace, and a hundred other unauthorized actions.”

Kurt Vonnegut stop being so applicable to all time periods of American life, you can’t do that Kurt Vonnegut, your insights are too evergreen Kurt Vonnegut

THANK YOU PRESIDENT TRUMP 🫡 IT WOULD BE MY HONOR FOR MY SMALL BUSINESS TO DIE IN YOUR TRADE WAR 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

Thread. Wow. Great work facebook. Ugh

strawberrylitas take note 🍓

Cut the check, Donald Trump.

I've been working on guides for Lolibrary on how (and why!) to archive web pages for long-term storage. I was already saying "Internet Archive Wayback machine whenever possible", but I did have Archive Today as an alternative for sites that won't save right to WM. Gonna look into other options...

Also then he wouldn’t have any money, and I’d pay $2,000 to make that happen

first time i "toured" a home on zillow, i thought it was the most beautiful home i'd seen in my life. i dreamt of one day living in such a home. after four years of browsing zillow, that home looks normal and boring. comparison is really the thief of joy.

i notice when i look at stuff on here that everything is bad and getting worse. but when i look at video games and video game related entertainment for 12 hours i don't notice any of that stuff. kinda weird

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'Porn addiction' was literally invented by religious fundamentalists to 1) further villainize natural human sexuality, and 2) create a scapegoat for when their own flock/shepherds habitually raped children, so they could point and go, "See, our child rapers were actually *victims* of this sickess!"

"People liked things that opened up the world and made everything easier for them. For some reason, they hate when we steal from every talented person on the planet to create a machine that hurts everyones employment and makes water and electricity more expensive for no concievable public benefit."

Every day I am filled with hate because my heart overflows with my love of the computer. aftermath.site/ram-prices-h...

I knew she was shite ever since what Margaret Cho aptly called her “Harajuku minstrel show”

This post is going around again so I will add this excellent resource: leavesubstack.com

The Supreme Court: