Look, DC Metro, if 70% of bus riders already aren't paying, and your drivers don't want to ask people to pay, just make the bus system free and don't charge fares at all […]

"Your private data has been breached by our corp with shoddy security. We would like to settle this by giving you 12 months of credit monitoring by this corp that you've never heard of that you have to turn over all your credit details to."

For everyone saying "immigrate to Europe! You'll be safe here" I want to cram this chart in their face... Every one of your fucking countries is 1-2 elections from being fascist yourselves. And no end in sight. Sure, Trump's America is bad. But being an immigrant in a fascist nation is really […]

For everyone saying "immigrate to Europe! You'll be safe here" I want to cram this chart in their face... Every one of your fucking countries is 1-2 elections from being fascist yourselves. And no end in sight. Sure, Trump's America is bad. But being an immigrant in a fascist nation is really […]

The stage of life where you have Opinions on which of the reusable grocery store tote bags you own are the best.

I don't understand what the fuck Agentic AI is and how it's different from normal AI, and at this point I'm kinda afraid to ask ...

My son is doing an internship where (against all my attempts to persuade him into a different career) he’s looking for security vulnerabilities in Chinese-made medical devices, and oh boy is he finding them. I feel like this is unhealthy validation for an 18 year old’s first job.

It's always kinda weird when someone early in transition tries asking me for medical transition advice. It was my special hyperfocus for the first 2-3ish years of transitioning, but since then, it's kinda all slipped out of my brain because it stopped being relevant. So after researching […]

[Uspol] The entire US election campaign in 2024 was raised roughly 8.6 billion. https://usafacts.org/articles/tracking-2024-election-contributions-and-spending/ Elon Musk could outspend the entire election for less than 1% of his wealth.

Ah Wayland and multi-monotor support. How are you STILL so bad after all these years?

[uspol] People who aren’t hardworking or innocent or good workers also deserve not to die from being chased by ICE

My informal metric for the health of the morale of a company is how much shitposting and bantering folks feel like doing. When all the channels are quiet aside from "work speak", it's a real real bad sign.

This might be a 3 coffees before lunch kind of day

For @ms.now I wrote about Barney Frank. www.ms.now/opinion/barn...

How to get prescribed ADHD medication in the Netherlands, a guide based on real world success: 1) spend over a year repeatedly trying to tell the GP that it’s not going well and you need help. This will not cost you money, only your precious finite time on this earth. It helps if you have a […]

And our forecast for the week: Burnout levels in the high 90s, and a cool front not expected until the weekend.

So ... Would a ren fest that banned fursuits also ban minotaur or other mythical creatures... 🤔

I'm "oh crap you're going to make me do math" years old.

I really hate that basically the only way in the US to do e-commerce and avoid the puritanical fuckheads that are the Visa MasterCard AmEx oligopoly would be to do cryptocurrency. And cryptocurrency is full of it's OWN set of fuckheads […]

I swear, one of the phrases that gets me so spitting mad these days is "Male Loneliness Epidemic". The whole thing smacks of the idea that loneliness is exclusive to men, and the implications that it's somehow women's fault ...

I listened to a bit on NPR the other day https://www.nprillinois.org/2026-05-18/in-new-essay-collection-two-time-national-book-award-winner-jesmyn-ward-muses-on-witness-and-respair I can't and won't pretend to talk for Black people, especially a Black woman, but one of the things I took away […]

Yesterday I replied to a toot someone posted. Their toot was boggling at how trans women were excluded from the challenging physical sport that is darts. My reply pointed out that chess is also gender segregated, at least at lower levels. Lots of people replied to me asking why. And the reply […]

[Uspol iran] I can only guess just how LOATHED the US and Israel are among all the countries without fertilizer and having to ration oil and shit for this pointless war. They will know who is responsible for the famine of 2026. And their crazy inflation. And subsequent recession. It's the US […]

I wonder what amazing, weird, and cool art and video games and such we will never see because the people who would like to create them have to slave away making dashboards and reports and ad copy and applications to sell more advertising and whatever other crap they gotta do to pay rent.

I went to my local grocery store. The Cambodian owner asked me in a language we both speak, where I’d been for the past weeks. I said ‘England’. She, I kid you not, said, ‘is that different from France?’ I said yes. She said, ‘no idea where that is or who they are.’ As a person from a […]

[Uspol] Look, if the SCOTUS is going to act like a super legislature, it's time to treat them like one.

I know it's a basic part of statistics, but it still always makes me happy to see a bell curve emerge from a poll.

There needs to be multi part surveys in fedi so you can do follow up questions and generate cross tabs. Sure you can make a thread of surveys, but people oftentimes don't click in and the more complicated the more people just don't answer the follow ups.

I should get to count work hours for the amount of time my brain is churning about work problems at nighttime.

I doubt that it's possible to get anything close to accurate estimates, but it sure would be interesting to figure out a "power/water used per token" based on which model someone uses. Most folks obviously wouldn't give a shit and just use whatever is the big number does goodest, but it'd still […]

Finally watched Bohemian Rhapsody the other day, and I'm reminded yet again how AIDS robbed us of a whole generation of queer Boomers. I wonder how much earlier we would have accomplished queer rights if not for that lost generation.

There's nothing stopping you from unplugging from the Internet at any time you like and going analog.

One AI pipeline I'm tired and burned out To I'm still expected to ship code To We're told to use AI To Oh hey, the slop code works well enough, I don't have to think too hard, and I can claim I'm "doing the right thing to management" To "How dare people criticize me for using the tools that are […]

I'm going to head canon that pair of similar age same gender people hanging out together as gay, and they can't stop me.

It doesn't matter whether AI can replace your or not. It only matters whether the 0.1% thinks it can replace you. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_strike

Okay, obviously roller derby is the gayest sport, but what's the second? Women's hockey? Women's soccer?

Sometimes you come up with a take too spicy for print.

[Uspol transphobia] At this point, I don't know a single "out" trans or non-binary person who lives in one of the "worst" anti-trans states like Texas, Florida, Idaho, Kansas that hasn't: left, working to leave, or would like to leave if they could. We literally have a refugee crisis in our […]

Outlook addin: "It looks like you're sending to more than 10 people. Do all of these people need to see this? Yes/no "Are you sure that this needs to go to all of the people on this list? No/Yes" "What about ? Are you sure that they need to see this email?" "Yes/No/Maybe Later" "Type 'Yes, all […]

2 burrito not QUITE enough. 3 burrito too much. Save half for later just ends up with me eating 3 burrito anyways.

Okay that's weird. I started giving a few bucks a month to Planned Parenthood, and it turns out they have No way to adjust your donations or update your card or address or anything online. Any sort of change you have to submit an email form. I mean maybe it's because they'd get too many cyber […]

Grindr but it's just to find other queers who are down to come play a board game.

When you've been staring at a problem trying to integrate 2 very different systems for a week, and come to the conclusion that it's about as impossible as taking thousands of excel files and automatically migrating them into a database. Unstructured data to structured data just doesn't work like […]

Somehow Roku/my TV suddenly changed behavior. It now translates "power off" into a "play" click. So whenever I think I'm turning off the TV, it starts playing whatever is on the screen. Also, because they always have ads for shows on the home screen, clicking power/play will start playing the […]

Everyone wants to wear the V for Vendetta mask, but none of them want to wear the straight-black wig with bangs or cook me lunch.

Grindr but it's just to find other queers who are down to come play a board game.

I have a bit of time on my hands, so let's do another 24h round of #askanastrophysicist, but this time it's a thematic one. ⭐ What do you want to ask an astrophysicist about stars? ⭐ (I am a professional astrophysicist, part of whose work concerns itself with high mass stars & their winds and […]

I don't want yachts or private jets or mansions or private islands. I'd be perfectly happy with the knowledge that even if I lose my job, I won't be homeless, starving, and without healthcare. But of course, the capitalists are terrified of what might happen if the plebs no longer have the gun […]

"The degree to which British people understand Mexican food — especially compared with our American cousins — is somewhere beneath basement level. This would be fine and dandy if we all remained silent when it comes to the cuisine, or confessed to our ignorance, but instead of keeping our mouths […]

The two types of tattooed folks: One and done Already thinking about what's next (Yes of course there's exceptions - it's just a shitpost)