The fact that health inspectors weren’t allowed in gives cause to shut it down. Force the confrontation. Private security is running the joint. Arrest them.

My favorite part is when Brooke Rollins says, "Don't be rude" as she's trying to defend cutting food benefits for children. Truly MAGA in a nutshell: They get to be horrible people and then act offended when someone criticizes them.

The regulatory state is more important to the smooth operation of society to which we’ve become accustomed than anyone in this administration realizes, and in a lot of ways, we’ve already run off the cliff and are just starting to look down

Fyi to those unfamiliar with the history: “your sex life makes you too vulnerable to blackmail and so we must ban you from government work” is what we did to queer people in America throughout most of the 20th century

the wired story about one of musk's DOGE cronies trying to murder a whistleblower is insane? brakes cut, and also: www.wired.com/story/he-ble...

Ken Jones, a retired San Francisco firefighter, has died from lung cancer after Blue Shield denied his treatment claims Any 2028 candidate who does not champion universal healthcare is a non-starter. I will not vote for someone who kills my neighbors for "shareholder value." You can go burn in hell

Sci Fi Author: in my book I invented The Cure For Cancer as an aspirational tale MedTech Company: At long last, we have created The Cure for Cancer from classic sci-fi novel Please God Someone Create A Cure for Cancer

It is worth noting that the takeover of 60 Minutes, and CBS News, is the culmination of the strategy that was baked into the launch of Substack. This is the thing we were trying to explain was bigger than just "there are nazis on there". www.anildash.com//2024/11/19/...

guy who leaves the engine on in their garage because the election results are disappointing but it doesn't do anything because they drive a Nissan Leaf because they're on Bluesky

Getting the first covid vax felt like the waters parting. Can't imagine feeling any other way about it. Wild that so many people now feel otherwise

Andy Merrill (Brak) is an Amazon delivery driver. Carey Means (Frylock) got CHF from/exacerbated by COVID & was recently working as a restaurant dishwasher. C. Martin Croker (Zorak) died of sepsis from an infected tooth he couldn't afford to get treated. Capitalism destroys both art & artist.

I say this a lot but it bears repeating: the best thing Twitter did was let everyone talk back to media people who have never been talked back to before, on a service they were maniacally obsessed with and couldn’t bear look away from, even as they drove themselves more and more insane looking at it

The money was always there for the good things.

Happy Pride month, from VGAPride and my 60mhz Pentium running MS-DOS.

We Rate Dogs is a good dude. The internet got lucky with him.

Air conditioning is unapologetically a good thing because it helps people not die. And one good thing about air conditioning is that it largely needs to run during the day when solar power is at its maximum: it can and should align with clean energy goals.

Throwing one more story into the "Is AI going to replace all jobs?" folder. finance.yahoo.com/sectors/tech...

happy pride 💕

amazing

this is the kind of headline you write if you spend way too much time online. this isn't an unpopular opinion except amongst certain online communities. you're fighting ghosts homie.

In the 80s people were all crying about safety coz of gay guys and now even if Nigel Farage himself tried to pipe up with that he'd be cunted off by all but a tiny minority. WORTH A THINK HAVE A NICE WEEK

Happy Pride Month! 🏳️‍🌈

I miss editing PHP files on production servers using vim

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Poast through the pain :-)

And worth noting that the politicians say 'trans' because they can't say f****t, but their supporters hear f****t. Because fundamentally all of this is crippling gender-insecurity from a bunch of oversized manchildren - the worst thing they can imagine, their terror, is being called 'not a man.'

The World Cup is about celebrating exotic host nation cultures

does anyone have a javascript (not typescript, not nodejs/bun/deno, Browser JavaScript) tcp/ip implementation

what was I on in 2020

EDGE'ing in 2026 is the best way to poast on Bluesky! bsky.app/profile/bill...

Poasting over 2G as Bluesky intended!

god, he was so young

Does anyone have a pink/red/whatever Lumia 800 can you get me the package containing OEMAvatar[.]cab or just like beam me the first 2GB of the NAND

@wamwoowam.co.uk @invoxiplaygames.uk y'all are so cool wtf

"Why are people so negative about the economy?" Consider this. There are two possibilities: 1) He's right and my livelihood is screwed. Maybe not 18 months but soon. 2) He's full of shit, it won't happen, and AI is a giant bubble that will crash the economy. Why would I feel good about either?

two of them

RIP Mulligan. Went to the big Drumstick ice cream cone in the sky last night. (He loved those.) Everybody should have a family cat live over 20 years, so you can remember all of the versions of yourself and family that he saw over that time. He was sweet to the end.

I’ve followed this story for its absurdity and as an illustration of how police lie and bully the public they are supposed to protect. Only after national media attention do they withdraw a case of accusing a woman of something she can’t possibly have done… cbs12.com/news/local/f...

it's so adorable watching them sheepishly start to admit there's a disconnect between the huge outpouring of AI money and actual impact and profitability

Recent status: watching someone that works at Zoom take a past due security training about not taking meetings in public spaces while he was on a train going between Copenhagen and Stockholm. He completed his training then had a sales meeting about volume discounts.

Rowling, Forstater, Davies and your ilk; take a fucking bow you absolute dangers metro.co.uk/2023/05/25/i...

People don't long for "inconvenience." They long for permanence. And though streaming services may be convenient, people are waking up to the fact that we are paying rent-seeking middle men month after month for things we will never actually own.

updating your committee on your dissertation progress

Here's a fun relic that's been trapped on the Konami Python 1 till now. Dancing Stage Fusion is the first DDR game for PlayStation 2 hardware, predating SuperNova 1. It was also Euro exclusive so its not very well known. Some fun licensed songs, and cool to see a PS2 era DDR with lyrics still.

Dog with hat tucking into a hotdog, for morale.

Time for my yearly profile picture refresh; this one was taken by a very kind lady while I was being a tourist in Edinburgh for RIPE 92! :)

Anyway here’s the passage of Judith Butler that the Guardian censored years ago

People have no idea how much we take for granted of modern society. Cut your finger? Grab a tissue… fuck. Need to wash that jar to reuse it? Sterilization without modernity is a fucking pain in the ass because you’re starting with water that contains bacteria and doing it over a fire. Etc.

once more with feeling: leave Britney alone