I have a theory that in the UK they got in the habit of making up silly names for places to troll visitors ... but then to cover up the joke, since maybe they pulled it on an person of little mirth, they ended up having to just say that those names were really what they used. And that's why the […]

to all the fuckwads claiming #NoKings achieved nothing, then why have the numbers of mostly w̶h̶i̶t̶e̶ Real Americans™ more than doubled? you know who’ve carried american “democracy” on our backs? African Americans, Latines, Native Americans, Asian Americans […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

The #nokings Coalition says two million more people protested today than in June. Nearly 7 million total.

I know some of ya'll think it's "libbed up" and I agree but that's the other two thirds of the "big tent" that is the left. Be nice to them. Anyways.

I will call "No Kings" a big success. Multiple outlets are reporting on millions of participants. It was bigger than the one in the summer. A lot of people participating in something like this for the first time. It was national and even a little international (Thank you London and Dublin) No […]

the biggest problem we *already have* in open source right now, which we have oversimplified into the term "supply chain security", is the lack of understanding that putting a dependency in your project's dependency set (package.json, pyproject.toml, requirements.txt, cargo.toml, etc) is not […]

For those of you planning to go to #nokings tomorrow, the #catsofmastodon and other #Fedicats have your back, especially since it is also #caturday. Remember to get plenty of rest, preferably in a space that feels right, so you are ready for the big day.

ABOUT #nokings the world needs to see millions of white people on the streets everywhere. i said back in 2015 that Trump was your family, friends & relations, and they’ve proven me right: not only did most voted for him, your skinfolks are giddy about his #ice terrorism. yes, everybody who […]

“Anything is possible if you try hard enough” ranks pretty high on my list of terrible phrases, damaging tropes, or false aphorisms for the amount of harm it does. It runs merrily hand in hand with “earning a living” on the road to oligarchy and oppression.

I'm not sure, but the code might do something with UUIDs. #programming #golang #uuid

I’ve seen criticism of No Kings not being “real” protests because they aren’t designed to be openly confrontational with law enforcement, which is a misunderstanding of how many different types of protest actions there are and the varied purposes they can serve. People need to stop splitting.

My girlfriend and I wrote a LARP together that is, inadvertently, a really good teaching tool for teaching allistics about the autistic experience. It's a game where a group of mortals are having dinner with the Fairy Queen. She has invited each one of them personally to join her. The stakes […]

There have been many approaches to protesting ICE, but Portland is currently the hands-down winner for “number of ICE officers and/or guards successfully mooned.” https://bsky.app/profile/bikeportland.org/post/3m3223cxqsk2l

if you are writing a UI that loads data "the data is not loaded yet" must be OBVIOUSLY VISUALLY DISTINCT from "the data is loaded, and it is empty" that is all

#getfedihired I'm looking for a Rust job. 🦀 > I am a software developer with more than 10 years of experience, with a focus on backend web development. > I have more than 5 years of experience in the Rust programming language. -- CV […]

I'm once again begging people to stop blaming the victims of shitty techbro nonsense. Switching cost is never zero.

Pew poll finds just 31% of parents accept their trans kids. Crucial to dialog around GAC which focuses on affirming parents. This is directly _opposite_ a 2023 WashPo/KKF poll 2023 (tinyurl.com/ph5u6pnh) which found two-thirds of transppl said families were supportive. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social

Tangential: young people, I am pushing 40 and I am much happier with my appearance now than when I was 20. If what you see in the mirror upsets you, rest assured you haven’t missed your chance to be cute and you still have *decades* to find the right balance of self-improvement and […]

And let me highlight the DISCIPLINE at play here and across the country, too. They are trying to goad protestors into lighting a Reichstag fire and those efforts are being met with suggestive hip thrusts from a giant inflatable frog. This is movement not taking the bait.

Like. I've maintained for awhile that we _could_ have ethically built generative AI models that would be more, not less, useful and be more energy efficient than our current set. They would be tremendously valuable. But they wouldn't do the fun emergent behaviors that people are so enamored by […]

In the hope that this might reach someone who might some day be in a position to decide whether to allow #vpn traffic to their app… Please understand that this does not just impact your app. Most devices run background apps that use the network frequently, including privacy-critical apps like […]

Oregon lawyer wants a second TRO incorporating the reasoning in support of yesterday’s and prohibiting the use of any federalized National Guard troops from anywhere in Portland. Immergut GRANTS this. 16/

This is the key thing to notice about whataboutism: it is not actually a moral argument at all. It's not saying, "the thing you accuse us of is actually good," or "we didn't do it." It just says, "everyone does this bad thing, so you're not allowed to hold us responsible." It's permission.

Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later. harpers.org/archive/1941...

"Through gossamer tributes, Kirk’s cruel condemnation of transgender people & his racist throwback views about Black Americans were no longer anathema but instead are being treated as just another political view to be respectfully debated — like a position on tax rates or health care policy." Yup.

1985: (writes a crappy BASIC program to find a few thousand prime numbers, which runs in maybe 10 seconds): "wow, the computer is so much faster than I am" 2005: (uses Google to find three obscure song lyrics and five obscure academic references in about 5 minutes): "wow, the computer is so […]

Apparently there's a audio sample how to say :forgejo: Forgejo (as in the self hosted git server)! That is not how I was pronouncing it 😅 https://forgejo.org/static/forgejo.mp4 #forgejo

@tsrono @malcircuit Clearly these two are the same image, right?? 🤣

Hare with a crossbow. Roman d’Alexandre, Tournai ca. 1338-1344. Bodleian Library, MS. Bodl. 264, fol. 94v. #medieval #medievalart

Happening now in war ravaged Portland: the city's Parks and Recreation Department (the most subversive of all government entities, is giving away trees.

## it is all lies Before things get a lot worse, which it looks like they’re about to do given Trump’s “full force” order and his “anti-fascism is terrorism” executive memo, I need to reiterate: It’s lies. This shit about Portland? It’s all lies. The lies […] [Original post on solarbird.net]

Can’t sleep, must post takes: If you report a post because you disagree with it, but that post is not in any way threatening, abusive, or blatantly hazardous to the general community, then what the mods actually learn from your report is that you’re below the “must be this emotionally mature to […]

Just a note for the next time anyone schedules a conference in Texas: It is now literally illegal for trans people to use the bathroom there. Your trans friends and colleagues are going to be silently judging you for hosting events in a place it's illegal for them to exist when there's lots of […]

This should have been major news. It wasn't. Cornelius Taylor, 46, was inside a tent in a long established homeless encampment off Old Wheat Street when he was bulldozed to death when Atlanta cleared his homeless camp, just yards away from Martin Luther King’s birthplace and the white marble […]

Doublooners #pirateabookorplay #HashtagGames

Sunday night's aurora and the Big Dipper over our lake. I am perpetually amazed that if the conditions are right it's possible to catch the aurora in our little light-polluted suburb. 10:49 pm EDT, September 14, 2025. Wolverine Lake, Michigan. #aurora […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

The number one survival skill today is to remember now who the sympathizers to the fascism are. The ones who you can never trust again, so long as you both shall live. Whatever they were before: family member, friend, co-worker, lover, matters not in the slightest. Count on zero loyalty or […]

@[email protected] I think an awful lot of us are asking ourselves that question. Personally my viewpoint on the question is strongly colored by the fact that a third of the American electorate **actively voted for** this, and another third didn't give enough of a shit to vote against it […]

Good news about vaccination on the West Coast: https://oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2025/09/17/west-coast-states-recommend-covid-vaccine-amid-cdc-turmoil/

Timeline-cleanse: Fly through 3D map of stellar nurseries made by #esa's #gaia mission: ▶️ https://youtu.be/cejvjP-a77k Especially from ~1 min on: just turn on the volume, put the video on full screen and enjoy. #Astrodon #nature #astronomy

2/ And just for the record, to those who keep insisting that, compared to Trump, GW Bush was just swell: NO. He tortured too. Back then you used the word. But somehow now Bush gets a pass. DO NOT NORMALIZE. They BOTH tortured.

The American take on homelessness just confounds me. You don’t have a home, so let me do everything I can to make sure you won’t ever have a home.

Hazel wants to remind everyone (and everycat) this #Caturday that your cat actually has *multiple names*, and as you get to know your cat, you will learn more and more of them. Here are some of hers, characteristic of the cat type sometimes known as “aggressively […] [Original post on c.im]

The Nation pulls NO punches, from @espiers.bsky.social "There's no requirement to take part in this whitewashing campaign. Refusing to join in doesn’t make anyone a bad person. It’s a choice to write an obituary that begins “Joseph Goebbels was a gifted marketer and loving father to six children.”

New comet discovery, low in west after sunset! Comet Swan25B is approx magnitude 7.5, showing a 2-degree ion tail. Binoculars, or a moderate telephoto lens should show it. https://earthsky.org/space/new-comet-swan25b-2025/ A precise orbit and formal […] [Original post on universeodon.com]

Losing my goddamned mind. We can condemn political violence without valorizing a destructive, hateful bigot.

Among myriad problems with this ruling, can we pause to appreciate the childlike naïveté exhibited by Cavanaugh on the barely-worth-mentioning inconvenience of being detained and interogated by ICE? We are approaching Plessy levels of obtuseness, or feigned obtuseness.