I was doing german in duolingo and typo'd nussallergie as bussallergie lol 🚍

Imagine escaping the literal Nazis, making it to America, living three quarters of a century there making your life, and then this:

The president of the United States posted a video of him defecating on the American people. Many in my profession normalized it. This is a big reason why we are where we are.

I love the United States for the set of ideas it represents and the ideals expressed in the founding documents, even as I am unspeakably saddened by its present state. Make no mistake, America is neither blood nor soil but man's imperfect attempt at a more perfect union.

When uptime doesn't immediately return, you're entering the Fun* Zone. (* may not be fun in all jurisdictions)

you probably need to be of a certain vintage to understand the absolute hilarity of ken starr being in the epstein files

parenting: being able to disambiguate thumps, bangs, crashes, etc. into DEBUG, INFO, WARN, and ERROR by ear

What a weird-ass Rapture. Only the Constitution disappeared.

"Go to an old cemetery. See all the baby graves from before the 1950s & 60s? After that, hardly any. That's when people started vaccinating their children. If you're unsure what to do to protect your kids, the answer is literally written in stone." — Michael Okuda How quick we forget.

The thing about living in a human society is you either decide that everyone (except those for whom it would be medically dangerous) has to take VACCINES into their bodies or everyone (with no exceptions at all) has to take VIRULENT PATHOGENS in from those around them and, look, the first is better.

Using Gatorade to water plants because “it has electrolytes” is actually not as dumb as ending childhood vaccine mandates. One is dumb while the other is maliciously stupid, willfully negligent and harms kids. We are officially dumber than Idiocracy. #Brawndo

The graph shows what happened when the polio vaccine became available. Deaths and illness stopped. People begged to get it when it became available. Reversing this is what Florida just announced it intends to do.

Microsoft Word to begin saving people's documents in the cloud *by default* Reminder that LibreOffice is free and a good drop-in replacement for Microsoft Office software: www.libreoffice.org www.theverge.com/news/767522/...

"That's the thing about Tolkien puns, they can be hobbit-forming." And somehow she still puts up with me!

I've barely scratched the surface of it, but what I've seen of Talos linux is really cool (talos.dev). More or less the most minimal possible platform for running k8s on, easy to administer (in particular upgrades to both it and k8s are really slick).

Old Soviet joke for today: A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves. After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?” “I’m looking for the obituaries.” “The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.” “Not the one I’m looking for.”

In Which Nadine Amuses a Dragon and Makes Autumn Happen

I'm not going to get excited until they play Swan Lake on the radio

With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

We're definitely going to need a truth and reconciliation commission with prosecutorial power

“Taney is still worse, because he helped usher in the Civil War.” Jury’s still out on what Roberts is ushering in, folks, but it isn’t going to be good

On the off chance you're using Gitea's Debian package repository feature you may've been annoyed this year by debian testing refusing package signatures. If you upgrade to Gitea 1.24.0 and run `gitea admin regenerate keys --config /path/to/app.ini` they should work again.

I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.

People so often overlook the importance of good penmanship.

we could have had taco trucks on every corner

Apparently states’ rights stop the moment women board a plane with autonomy in their carry-on.

And when they've broken everything and made people's lives worse in dozens of different ways, the GOP response is going to be complaining that the government is broken and we need to try New Things instead. No, it was working. They broke it. Don't let them weasel out of responsibility.

Could you imagine the response if a democratic president said they didn’t know if they had to uphold the Constitution? How fast would the articles of impeachment be drawn ? 20 minutes at the most

It's incredible sometimes just how much of the news in the UK is about football/soccer. To be sure the US is sportsball-obsessed too, but I guess it's just better sectioned off or on dedicated networks. Almost every media outlet here it's front page news! "New Coach Farooq McFuckface has opinions!"

it really is astounding that a presidential administration crashed the growth trajectory of the wealthiest country on the planet in basically two months

I see the already historically unpopular president is exploring how to get the military invovled in “assisting” local law enforcement just a few weeks before the real shortages caused by his inept economic policy start hitting. Probably nothing to worry about.

Who needs Hartree-Fock to model a hydrogen atom when you've got a boisterous puppy and a big, old, calm dog who is just trying to take his morning constitutional in peace?

Democracy dies in dumb

this whole administration is like when they shut off the containment unit in ‘ghostbusters’

"I guess it really is a Big Tent" I yell over the sounds of breaking glass caused by David Brooks throwing a metal trash can through the window of a Starbucks to distract the police while Bill Kristol spray paints NO SYSTEM BUT THE ECOSYSTEM on a cop car

they really did vote for diarrhea forever

The freight guys have really started freaking out over the past 48-72 hours:

Also, if it wasn’t clear, this isn’t some sappy “just hang on” kitten clawing for the last scraps of its life on an office motivational poster post, this is a direct rebuke of Democratic elected officials who think a strongly worded statement is the extent of their power. Fuck you, go do something.

It works. The government here largely works. Because we are so spoiled by how well it works, we are letting a fool convince us it is broken.

you know tax shit's going smooth when you're down to using nmap. just hoping it doesn't get to wireshark.

Criminals deserve due process because due process is literally how we determine whether someone is, *in fact*, a criminal

about 90% of culture war grievances is literally just people with nothing happening in their lives getting mad that other people are not as unhappy as they are

Things are getting so stupid so quickly I’m having trouble catching up

I miss working in a language where the type system isn't best described as "lol, lmao even."

Turns out autocracy is bad for business

I'm so used to bar bathrooms with cutesy signs that I had to stop here and ask myself if I was a Mario or a Wario