It's funny being blocked by someone on BlueSky but still seeing their stuff pop up here via bsky bridge, but then being unable to click through to see the context or replies. (Blocked for reasons I have zero idea. I don't think I ever once interacted with them in the slightest - must have been […]

Ya know, kudos to whichever champagne ad agency got their mediocre drink promoted as The Drink of celebrations.

Ugh my partner's family is religious, and the 10 year old girl has an anti abortion sticker on her water bottle with like a picture of a fetus and one of those Bible verses used for pro forced birth stuff. Like ... What the fuck? And they call us QUEERS perverts? Teaching children about how they […]

My 2026 resolution: Live to see 2027. That's it. That's the whole resolution.

_snort_ listening to my partner's dad going on about how Thomas Jefferson was a "good slave owner" because he treated his slaves "humanely". ... ... Umm I'm of the John Brown school of thought: The only good slave owner is a dead slave owner

Maybe the reason I don't like watching YouTube or TikTok is that watching people talking is too close to social interaction 🙃

I wonder if adults can just come up to one another and say "Hey, you seem cool, can we be friends?"

We should bring back calling right wing weirdos "weird". They especially hated that and never did come up with a response to it.

I know, we should hire a group of people who write well to look through all the news, figure out which is real and not, and then write a few dozen "articles" in a paper about whatever is happening that's newsworthy. I think I'll call it papernews

The news keeps happening faster than any 25 people could ever keep up. Before you even come up with a coherent response to one bit of news, 200 more news has arrived.

There's too much news happening all the time. Could we maybe slow the news down to a few newspapers a day worth of news?

Anyone who says their code is "self documenting" should be locked in a SAW style trap where they have to debug someone else's "self documenting" code in order to escape before dying horrible deaths. Oh sure, I don't do enough documentation on my shit either. But at least I'm not so fucking […]

Mad props to everyone who raises children. It only takes a few minutes of me being around a crying or screaming child before I begin idly contemplating infanticide. (I would never actually do it, but God is screaming children actively painful to my brain)

A reminder that insisting on "respectful discourse" is just another form of tone policing.

You want a thermonuclear level take? Trans people gained more human rights under Trump 45 than every Democrat administration COMBINED. Sure, it was a response by state Democrats and even Bostock SCOTUS to say Fuck You to Trump. But they never would have bothered in a typical Democrat […]

_sigh_ buy and install a new game on my Steam Deck. The next day, try and run said game. Apparently it wants another download in order to run that wasn't included in the initial install download... Fuck you game, guess I'll just play Factorio for another 8 hours on top of the 1100 hours I've […]

One annoyance with social media is that it doesn't lend itself to using people's pronouns very often.

@katelynburns.com No no, they're not "killing the minority people", they're just "killing everything about how they are allowed to exist in public as members of society or else ...

Would killing us off be a solution? A "final" solution, if you will?

One annoyance with social media is that it doesn't lend itself to using people's pronouns very often.

Libs are MAGA too. They just think Clinton and Obama years were the Great Again years.

(spoiler alert, America wasn't and never has been Great)

Libs are MAGA too. They just think Clinton and Obama years were the Great Again years.

@hacks4pancakes If we treated crimes against children and women like we do drugs, these shitheads would be cooked.

I think one of the wildest parts of the Epstein Files fiasco to me is billionaires are so different that they talk about the darkest most blackmailable secrets of the worlds elite in gmail when I am miserably embarrassed Google is retaining my everyday online cosplay purchase history to train AI.

A kinda weird and fucked part of many many trans people's experiences. Step 1 - be disassociated and depersonalized Step 2 - Oh I'm Trans Step 3 - Okay try and do ALL the things to Be Trans. Hormones or Surgery or Name Change or whatever else Step 4 - Well, I stopped making much forward […]

I wonder, if every person at a company made the same wage, how many people would choose not to try and fight for promotions.

Sometimes I have to try and accept: Maybe it's not that I'm "dumb", your teacher or mentor just isn't good at explaining it in a way that fits my brain.

...And what do you want for your second wish? I wish that I can always find a seat next to a friend or acquaintance or at least someone I will enjoy getting to know.

I know ANYONE can fall for scams. It's literally a scammer's job to trick people. But not gonna lie "I've gotta go and post bail/pay back taxes/get my child out of jail by buying thousands in gift cards or going specifically to a Wal-Mart and wiring money to somewhere international" ... I don't […]

[Trans bullshit musing] Watching an anime, a few years old at this point, but one of the plot points is that a vaccine is made to make a minority group part of the majority. And that kind of thing always brings up complicated feelings for me about if there was a "be cis" "vaccine". Certainly […]

Even though I have done so plenty of times, it's always interesting to try and explain US Healthcare system horrors to anyone from any other country. Like even if it's a country that has ZERO socialized medicine, it's just cash pay or charity pay, they're still horrified at our system. Like […]

Extra spicy take: Way fewer people should own their own homes, and there should be no tax advantages or government backed mortgages or insurance or flood insurance for it. NIMBYs are in no small part a creation of people obsessed with their property value because their home is their largest […]

Much as I am loath to admit, I wish `systemd` would replace `pam`. I swear trying to understand `pam` is cursed.

Relatives got a new computer and aren't ready to take the plunge for Linux? https://github.com/Raphire/Win11Debloat You can even walk them through it on the phone in under 5 minutes. It does a whole lot to disable AI, all that crapware preinstalled, ads, popups, and nags that otherwise they'd […]

@robpike has the only appropriate words for this. One would think its satire.

Gah, writing things that aren't just Mastodon shitposts is hard 😣

As somebody who daily deals with blown fuses on train, please respect the max power rating on your train power socket 😂 😂 😂 (cannot wait to reset fuses on the hamburg paris train next year because people bring servers to a certain conference)

[Food diet] Huge success - somehow I ended Christmas the same weight I was going into Christmas

Spicy Take: Fuck the FOSS bro mindset of "We can overlook bad behavior of maintainers because if it gets TOO bad we can just fork it." And "It's okay to use 'open core' products even though the whole project couldn't survive without its corporate overlords who refuse PRs and public maintainer […]

Spicy Take: Fuck the FOSS bro mindset of "We can overlook bad behavior of maintainers because if it gets TOO bad we can just fork it." And "It's okay to use 'open core' products even though the whole project couldn't survive without its corporate overlords who refuse PRs and public maintainer […]

Among many things I hate about digital license download games: Situation, my partner and I both have PS5. I bought a physical copy of Dragon Age Veil guard. Turns out it was an empty case with a download code in it. I install it on my PS5. She starts playing it on her account on my PS5. But […]

Oh right, forgot to mention about my early Christmas present I received on the winter solstice in 2018, my first vial of Estrogen! Best. Christmas. Present. Ever.

I had never even heard of people launching fireworks on Christmas Eve. But last night, for hours... WTF... Dog kept freaking and I lost like an hour of 😴

Podcast bros be like "Politically Incorrect". I get all excited that hey we're going to get to talk about political science and how everything we're doing in the US is basically the worst possible example of a democratic government. Or maybe how democracy isn't even all that great in the first […]

Again, kudos to the librarians for fighting book censorship, including age ratings on books, which would ultimately amount to book censorship with extra steps. Sure, have kids sections and adult sections, but if a kid wants to learn about something, let them do it […]

I've long since resigned myself to the fact that very likely nothing I say online is actually original. I drink from the same extremely online fire hoses as many others, and mix them up in similar ways and come to parallel conclusions 🤷‍♀️ Oh well, everything is new to someone or maybe they like […]

Me when I live in or near enough to convenient public transit lines to get to a walkable city - this is great! I love walkable cities!!! Me when I have to drive to a walkable city "WTF this place sucks!!!

AI bros really be like "don't worry, if we just feed our next model EVEN MORE power and water and data, surely THIS one will be the one that you actually like".

Me when I live in or near enough to convenient public transit lines to get to a walkable city - this is great! I love walkable cities!!! Me when I have to drive to a walkable city "WTF this place sucks!!!