Big shout out to the @kde.org team on Plasma 6.5. It looks great, and I'm especially appreciating the KRunner fuzzy search updates. #Fedora #linux

The weirdest normalcy is watching us fall, slow-motion, into another dark age while more information than we could possibly consume in multiple lifetimes is available to us instantly. We democratized access to information, but never fully democratized how to think critically about that information.

Normally, topics related to my job are nowhere near the news, but it's really curious to have another outage from a major CSP (see also: recent AWS outage) in the span of a few days. Especially curious since AWS's outage was also, specifically, DNS-related: www.techradar.com/pro/live/mic...

Digital infrastructure is a lot like physical infrastructure in that most people don't even think about it until something actually goes wrong. And then, when it *does* go wrong, the public suddenly discovers how large, complex, and political the problems are, with no quick, armchair solutions.

I would argue this is because we are told to be proud of the bullshit, and that other countries are “jealous” of our bullshit, rather than being taught that we have a responsibility to our neighbors our, and our communities, to live and act as if that bullshit could become actual reality.

우리는 대한민국을 사랑합니다! 나쁜 지도자들을 제거하는 방법을 한국에서 배워야겠습니다.

@sonic.bsky.social @sonic-official.bsky.social Gotta represent.

Nearly 8% of the people on our planet are farmers who produce more than a third of the world’s food on small plots of land...just an acre or two each. These farmers want to work, produce, feed their families, sell what’s left, and stay on their farms (cont.)

If you need an antidote to your doom scrolling, like I do on the daily, this is pretty damn great: www.lionsroar.com/ubuntu-i-am-... Also, I now have both a deeper appreciation for the name of the #Linux distro, as well as a deeper frustration that it reduces a rich word down to a piece of tech.

The VA has no business being the regime's propaganda arm in their emails. This shit is an embarrassment, in a long line of catastrophically embarrassing shit. @vetsat.bsky.social @democrats-veterans.house.gov

Just a randomly interesting @wikipedia.org article for no reason in particular: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

In another life, I did command and control for this same mission set in SOUTHCOM. We had a strict set of rules of engagement (ROE) for suspected drug trafficking vessels/aircraft. There was good reason we didn't just start "taking them out" when they were suspect: www.reuters.com/article/worl...

I've been trying the "Anno 117: Pax Romana" demo for the weekend, and that ended up leading to a pre-order from me. I don't know what it is, but just having a beautiful #RTS city builder with some depth has been very therapeutic. store.steampowered.com/app/3274580/...

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

I was a kid in the tail end of the Reagan era, and was deeply indoctrinated into the "Moral Majority" era of Evangelicalism. (Coincidentally, the last era that E's had this much political prominence) Contrary to what they say, their beliefs are *so* adaptable to whatever the zeitgeist prejudice is.

South Korea, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, and France all showing "the greatest nation" how to actually deal with criminal government corruption.

This thread is great, but in particular, I emphasize my agreement with disabusing yourself of thinking "someone" will step in to stop what's happening. We have already collapsed into fascism. If you haven't transitioned to survival/resistance mode, you're being hopelessly naive.

I want to be better than that -- for my own sake, not for theirs. I don't want to give in to this zeitgeist of callousness, to lose sight of the value of human life. I don't want to lose empathy, even if they describe it as a sin and a weakness. I don't agree It's very, very hard right now

As an #exvangelical, I remember countless sermons about Barabbus being released during Jesus’s trial. It’s supposed to be this potent allegory about ostensibly pious leaders hating Jesus’s message about loving everyone *so much*, that they would rather release a criminal than the “son of god.” 1/2

Witnesses Assumed Charlie Kirk Shooter Was Just Ordinary Gunman On School Campus

After almost 8 months, my refinished #guitar is complete, and it is so beautiful! I bought this guitar in 2003, and I’ve toured with it, and met my wife because of it. It was sentimental, but I never wanted to pick it up. Now it’s incredibly inspiring to look at and play! Specs in the alt text.

Alito and Thomas can, with full vigor and vigilance, get fucked.

I live in a purple-island-surrounded-by-red area of Illinois, so I sometimes don't feel the benefits of our generally left state politics...but I'm always glad to see it when it comes my way.

Supposing one thinks that America was ever "great" to begin with...it is nonsensical to equate our current trajectory as "a return to greatness", when the history of (immigrant) scientists' contributions to the U.S. are so profound. We're careening to irrelevance. www.wired.com/story/us-cut...

Literally the last thing we need under this regime is some of the few remaining great journalistic institutions to have anti-labor issues from their management. @propublica.org

It’s awesome that Truth Social is an official diplomatic channel that Putin will definitely take very seriously.

Adding to this: while it is absolutely not ubiquitous, there’s a fair amount of people with some kind of physical discipline. Ethical discipline is far harder, and anecdotally, much more rare. Broader society does nothing to make it easier either.

I do not wish this on this guy because I enjoy his suffering. I wish this on this guy because catastrophic cognitive dissonance might be the only thing with a tiny chance of breaking through the propaganda cage. (Also, he likely enjoys others suffering when it's who Faux News told him to hate.)

It's called the LSCCD* 1. *late stage capitalism coping device

One thing that's fun about being a #kitesurfer is that sometimes, it is a visceral, humbling endeavor that reminds you that you are not as cool as you think you are. You don't get the high flying jumps and tricks without also getting the long walks of shame, line tangles, and ripped kites.

For any of my fellow #kitesurfers & #kiteboarders, if you're familiar with ram-air foil kites, you probably already know about #flysurfer. (I love my Soul's) But also, don't sleep on their LEI's. I've got a 7m Boost, and if the winds are high enough, that might just be my favorite, do-it-all kite.

At this point, I have 2 moods: - *deeply* depressed watching the absolute chaos batshitery happening every day in this country - *especially* excited for my nerd + athletic activities, and go do them as much as I can

Idaho Bans Truck Nuts

BREAKING: The country of Norway just entered a bill to give transgender Americans asylum in the country of Norway… LGBTQ+ STRONG! 🌈✨

For those of a certain age, I don't think any of us knew what they truly meant by "lock-on technology"...until now.

It is the most maddening fucking thing to watch: - the regime using media messaging and figureheads as pure, on-the-nose, information warfare - journalists treating that information warfare credulously, as if it's a valid point of view Like, drives me absolutely batshit. The fourth estate is dead.

While I typically keep my browser tabs under 8 as a rule, I will say that for all of the "discover how many tabs can be open before the universe implodes" people out there: my opinion is it's actually a fundamental user experience design problem of browser bookmark feature discoverability.

markets soar as investors realize that mommy didn't actually disappear, she was just hiding behind her hands

I get physically nauseous listening to Trump's "sleazy used car salesman tells tall tale" word choices and voice inflections. And like, you can tell this is just *him*. It's so fucking specific, and obvious, and I don't know how people hear this and think it represents competence.

Religion talks a big game about prophets, but the cool part about science is that we actually have them. youtu.be/f9A_qFM9IAk?...

Rand Paul is a bag o'dicks. But he is at least a bag o'dicks that understands the very basics of economic trade, and that's quite an outlier for the GOP.

Listen, I can only think of one time that someone demanded my gratefulness for something they were offering, and that something actually turned out to be a good thing. So the moral of the story is: if it ain't Grumgully telling you to be grateful, it's probably fascist sycophancy.

When your prosody is 🌶️🔥🌶️🔥, you gotta show it off.

My only minor quibble is that this diagram 100% should've been an F-35. If we are gonna have fighters at all, the Viper was actually pretty cost effective, relatively speaking.

tfw: - you're gettin' mad schadenfreude from the shocked expressions of every Wall Street fucker that voted for the guy - you're just gettin' mad for every regular American that's getting fucked right now

*chef's kiss*

It's a weird thing to look at stocks for news. On the one hand, it's literally the current vibes and whims of the buyers and sellers, and then the algorithmic triggers responding to that. On the other, it's where many normal people are trying to prepare for the future. All in one space. It's fun.

tfw when you're still an inexperienced noob at the whole "I'm supposed to say outlandish lies on national TV" thing.

In my former life as a religious conservative, I felt it was my duty to share the "truth." Sometimes I would get in debates with people that knew way more than me. I remember once a person using the term "peer reviewed papers" as a response to one of my ostensibly air-tight arguments for god. 1/2