Imagine if the Grand High Poobah of the Peoples' Republic of Belgistan posted on their social media feed, "American patriots, KEEP PROTESTING - TAKE OVER YOUR INSTITUTIONS!!! Save the names of the killers and abusers. They will pay a big price." #uspol #hypocricy

Dear US Congress, Each and every one of you too an oath or made an affirmation to a duty to support and defend the US Constitution, explicitly inclusive of domestic adversity. Please consider this brief excerpt from its immediate prequel: > But when a long train of abuses and usurpations […]

Dear US Congress, Each and every one of you too an oath or made an affirmation to a duty to support and defend the US Constitution, explicitly inclusive of domestic adversity. Please consider this brief excerpt from its immediate prequel: > But when a long train of abuses and usurpations […]

Dear Person I've never seen before in the office, crop-dusting the office with a not-so-surreptitious can of Lysol and a self-satisfied smirk: Your chemical attack on personnel in this wing of the building has been accepted for the Act of War that it clearly is. A counterattack may or may not […]

So the day I interviewed for this job, I was told everything I needed to know about my perceived value to my future manager with a single question. I had requested 24 dollars an hour, which was still less than a living wage in this city, but I knew it was the upper threshold for their starting […]

"...An attack on shipwrecked sailors." Illegal. Murder.

Just got an email from my #apartment management company telling me that I am late on my #rent payment, and I do not pay the entire past-due amount of $0.00, they will initiate eviction proceedings. I can easily afford this regrettable shortfall, but their payment portal is not accepting a […]

Current mood is very _Good Morning, Tucson_ by Jonathan Coulton.

Well, that escalated quickly.

Hereby starting my campaign to designate #QuoteToots as "Quoots".

RE: https://swecyb.com/@nopatience/115504291712163483 Oh yeah? Well I'll Quoot your Quooted Quoot!

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Ukrainian_Art/115436687909065403 The Ukraine/US flag bracelet I ordered arrived promptly and is both lovely and very well-constructed. Highly recommend for anyone looking to support someone directly.

Why do I, an Ops guy, have to not just one time, but _repeatedly_ explain to people who are _paid_ to write programs for a living, the concept of a Finite State Machine?

The recent #aws #outage, combined with today's #azure outage, really makes the "unmarked shed in a field" mental image replacement for the #cloud loot a lot more apt than the arguably more accurate "Someone Else's Datacenter" that I had mentally mapped previously.

Man, #neuromancer reads really different now that the meaning of #ice has been near-completely co-opted in America.

Everyone wins! #alttext #accessibility

Things #mastodon (or maybe #glitch) needs to add, partial list: * The ability to filter posts that have more then _n_ tags or posts that are literally nothing but a slurry of tags and an obfuscated porn link. Looking at frequent posts from one instance in particular.

[USPol] At what point does "all enemies [of the Constitution], foreign and domestic" finally include a 34-time felon making a harrowing, murderous, craven mockery of the document he's sworn to "faithfully execute"?

#linux distros: either use snapd for ALL your packaging or use snapd for NONE of your packaging. I'm surely not the only user who is sick and fucking tired of having to figure out whether the problem is with the snap package versus the distro package (deb, rpm etc). Mostly, fuck snapd - it […]

Keep 'em coming Via Kyle Cheney: The ruling itself is remarkable, but it closes with something I've never seen: a 12-page assessment of Trump himself as an ignorant bully, braggart and threat to free speech and the republic writ-large […]

Is it just me or does the music in the soundtrack get more pronounced as the game goes on? When I first fired up #silksong I was nonplussed to find no thematic motif on the title screen, and the music at first was subdued and in some ways underwhelming; but it's been getting better and better as […]

I've been watching some "Let's Play" series of #silksong as I wend my way through the expanse of Pharloom (trying to stay ahead of what I view) and it's interesting to see some folks commenting on how "linear" the game is while I've ended up taking completely different routes to get to similar […]

Just got a great set of emails from the FBI.

Random lexical thought: Why is "in grave condition" not a euphemism for "dead"? #words

I used to despairingly think we were headed into a Dystopian "20 Minutes Into the Future" timeline where corporations own everything and everyone. I wasn't expecting to find that following 2024 was actually Nineteen Eighty-Four. #maxheadroom #georgeorwell #dystopia

I will *never* apologize for a post

I've got a quick favour to ask. If you're reading this post on Mastodon (or the Fediverse), please click share. How come? I recently moved across to my own self-hosted single-user server (using GoToSocial.org). For a bunch of reasons, including visibility across the Fedi, it would really help out.

[USPol, snark] Assuming we somehow escape this Darkest of Timelines and Trump eventually dies in prison, can we build mast extensions and fly the flag at double-mast for a month? #uspol #darkhumor

I never noticed _when_ it happened, but why did headlines stop being composed as "[Source] says A Thing Happened" and start being "A Thing Happened: Source"? #headlines #journalism #newspapers

Suggested new slogan for improved accuracy: "VISA™. It's everywhere we want you to want to be, and nowhere else." #visa #steam #paymentprocessor #censorship

So, with all these employers-who-seemingly-do-not-want-to-be-employing-humans out there who are force-feeding Agentic LLM engines upon their developers, has it occurred to _none_ of them that not only is tasking a developer with coming up with a prompt to generate code essentially a game of […]

Brand awareness of non-US-based cloud service providers is low, so let’s make finding local vendors easier. I started the https://www.eucloud.tech/ wiki years ago when I was CTO of a Svenska e-bike manufacturer and needed to find EU-based cloud service providers. #ngiforum25

"…From the ladle to the gravy…" #gravyafafamousquote #HashtagGames

"You must carry this secret to your gravy." #gravyafafamousquote #HashtagGames

On a whim, thought I'd try upgrading my #wsl #ubuntu instance to a later release in hopes that updating from #python 3.2 would make #marimo actually work. `do-release-upgrade` actually worked pretty seamlessly, and then the new bullshit Canonical decided was a good idea reared its head. `pip3 […]

Via Alt US Customs: According to 50501, the organizers behind #nokings, & @altnps.bsky.social, over 11 million people showed up in over 2,000 locations yesterday. These are the numbers we need to start getting through to the people we need to hear us.

> I'm awake to the world. I was asleep before. That's how we let it happen. When they slaughtered Congress, we didn't wake up. When they blamed terrorists and suspended the constitution, we didn't wake up then, either. Nothing changes instantaneously. In a gradually heating bathtub, you'd be […]

[USPol] If the GOP loses control of the Congress in the mid-terms, whare the odds that violating Posse Comitatus with the Marines being deployed in opposition to American Civilians will lead to a third Impeachment, do you think? (I have no illusions that, should this happen, he'll actually be […]

Did I mention that the Jump Ship demo is already available on Steam? No? Well now I have! Go download it! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1757300/Jump_Ship/ Runs great with ge-proton-10-3 or 4 #gaming #jumpship #demo #steam #linuxgaming

Just getting back from seeing #randyfeltface at the #tempeimprov. Awesome show; would see again. Shame the merch pile was out of shirts for humans larger than a maypole though.

Within 6 days new bills will arrive for the servers, media storage and emails send I've been cleaning and trying to reduce costs so hopefully it will have a little impact We still could use all the help we can get in paying the bills for our services Please, if you can and want, help me out […]

[USPol and Illness, a small rant] To all of the feckless cretins pretending to be clever by asking how Dr. Biden "missed" any symptoms of her husband's cancer: Even if she _were_ a medical doctor -- which she isn't - any competent doctor knows not to directly involve themself in a loved one's […]

Came across this on imgur. Fact. Period. 100%. No Notes. #humanrights #blm #civilrights #fuckracism #uspol #endfascismnow

Hi @Gargron @stux Could you please help rid us of all the “Yevhenia” accounts (there are 100s) that spam constantly? Maybe contact those admins who you know who can eliminate this problem once and for all?

I can't be the only one here who not-infrequently sees an interesting Toot that inspires contextual thoughts, writes up a whole-ass reply, and then deletes it rather than actually sending it because I don't want to accidentally "Reply Guy", can I?

**** Judge Sessions GRANTS BAIL/RELEASE to Rümeysa Öztürk: "The court finds that [Rümeysa Öztürk's] continued detention cannot stand."

* #tomlehrer's _Vatican Rag_ * #stardewvalley with friends tonight * Only a 3/10 for back pain today #threegoodthings