Oh look it's Friday the 13th

This is a good lesson for journalists: Use plain language to state true things clearly.

"Here's a real headline for you, for an actual patriotic press" is very telling here. Hegseth wants an always pro-America slant, one that does not criticize the (right-wing) government. Truth is secondary; hyping the military is comes first.

Minor changes to the splash window: - Using JLabel to paint the text (much more flexible than Graphics#drawString) - Copyright added - Background image always repaints the image rather than having a manual white box being painted to hide the previous loading text

I think I may have cracked it

wait. wait. everyone hold on. i've solved it

not sure why everyone thinks this is such a big problem when an obvious solution exists

i, for one, am delighted that we finally have a definition of “woke”

Internet Hippo has a clearer and more grounded strategy for Democrats than any in the commentariat class ever has since 2021. What the fuck are they doing?

damn it's pouring

I came across sun.awt.AWTAutoShutdown, which I only did by happenstance, and now Euclid doesn't not exit when closing. Which was a long-standing issue. The problem? I called JOptionPane.showInternalConfirmDialog instead of JOptionPane.showConfirmDialog. #Java #AWT

me and the other scheming viziers are wearing shoes gifted to us by the king that are way too big. we look ridiculous. the whole court is laughing at us behind our backs. honestly this is a pretty low point for us, the scheming viziers

The plural of 'egg' is 'egg'. Example: - "How many egg do we have? Can we consolidate the cartons?" - "Why are there so many egg in the fridge?" - "Please stop buying more egg, we have enough." - "Stop moving my stuff to put your egg, you asshole."

:o

very funny stuff here

Yes, hello, is that God? Yeah, hi. I have a complaint. You gave me this brain that’s designed for finding berries and avoiding lions and now people are ‘just circling back’ to see if we can ‘move the needle’ on ‘key initiatives’? NONE of those things are berries.

Most accurate portrait of modern culture currently available

Some personal news: I’m transitioning from CEO to a new role as Bluesky’s Chief Innovation Officer! I’m excited to welcome @toni.bsky.team as our interim CEO. More here: bsky.social/about/blog/0...

It's 2026. Puberty blockers have been banned on the basis of a fake study conducted by a generalist paeditrician. Hormones for under 18s have been banned on the basis of a fake review conducted by a head injury specialist. Both remain available for cis kids because that's 'different' somehow

I am shocked to learn this is actually underestimating costs, because it ignores the infrastructure costs. This video is lowballing it.

happy international women's day to all my international women

Happy International Women's Day to the original International Woman

My cats are all women and sometimes they fight so I am explaining to them the importance of International Women's Day and solidarity right now

this is so fucking funny

Coffee, straight out of my nose.

Here's an update from senior Hell Gate leadership on some exciting new initiatives to leverage technology and prediction markets to enhance our local journalism: hellgatenyc.com/hell-gate-a-...

Well, here’s the thing about being antiwar as an ethical belief: it means you end up opposing most wars. Almost all of them, in fact. This is quite common in people who have consistent beliefs but looks insane to people who have none, or mostly just believe superior people should make the decisions.

Ah, yes, the invaluable wisdom of the markets.

I love it when Bluesky sometimes skips days at a time in posts

A US submarine sinking a lonely, dinky Iranian surface ship an ocean away from the theater of the main conflict—and 9000 miles from North America—makes it pretty clear the US is fighting a general war, without the declaration required by the Constitution. www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

we appear to have four competing fascist movements jockeying for control: blood & soil nazism under miller and hegseth, darwinian ecofascism from rfk, technofascism under vance and musk, and one Big Wet Hitler who understands the true animating core of the american volk is a deep love for shopping

One of my favourite sides of politics/media.

manufacturing consent through lowly paid influencers

objective 1: pull the USA into a war with Iran objective 2: ok have fun bye :)

Israel, immediately after vaporizing a bunch of little girls:

not thrilled but of course it happens over the weekend

This is the true purpose of microblogging

stop calling us nazis just because we are invalidating IDs and rounding people up based on their skin color and putting them in concentration camps and sending them off to foreign gulags and using all that nazi imagery and banning books and dont forget about all the pedophilia. so just stop alright

Realized that there is a small optimization that could be done in the JDK Tried to build JDK with changes. Missing jtreg? OK that's fine I'll rebuild it. jtreg's build script: no

There is a great deal of schadenfreude in watching every AI company's carefully crafted alignment scheme to avoid existential risk do a faceplant on first contact with the most obvious features of the society it operates in.

hexing is vexing

Two hours in to replaying The Talos Principle II and just left New Jerusalem (the short preface to the game). what a great game... @croteam.com

"I can't see out my window right now, but the last time I could, the weather was fine, so I'm assuming it hasn't snowed and the weather is fine right now"

MAMDANI MENTIONED IN PHONE ALERT

this just in from new york city: we’re hearing that mayor mamdani just signed an executive order making it illegal to NOT stand at your window and fold your arms and say “wow, it’s really coming down out there”