idk if he's dying but he looks like a pile of rotting flesh
she/her. trans and proud of it. software engineer. functional programming enthusiast. #jj-vcs, #elixir, etc. big on civic technology and social democracy has takes about too many subjects product of Somerville, MA
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idk if he's dying but he looks like a pile of rotting flesh
UK’s speech codes are admittedly dumb but I don’t understand the argument that they are both reasonable and don’t cover this circumstance
Now, I'm an American so adjust for that, but "if you see person from group X you should loudly harass them and then escalate to assault" sure fucking seems like incitement to me if you're going to have that law on the books at all.
Call it Anti-Industrial Policy: we need is a suite of policies to nudge Americans to own and operate more little public-facing businesses. Speciality shops. Six-seater bars. Esoteric services. Restaurants serving two or three dishes. It would lower overall productivity and increase quality of life.
"It is past time for both Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer to step down and step aside. This fascist moment, this age of Trump, demands outspoken, unrelenting and fearless opposition... we all deserve better." I make the case, in my latest for The Guardian, for new leadership:
software people are engineers (derogatory)
this story sounds like a bad joke but it actually happened. he issued a press release criticizing Markey for ignoring towns that have been literally underwater for 80 years www.bostonglobe.com/2020/07/27/m...
god what a mess
as @rivertam.bsky.social pointed out, this is the same shit the ultrarich in the US are gaga for. everyone in power everywhere on earth appears to have exactly the same brain worms. complete intellectual monoculture
I hope someone is keeping a list of the Vichy Democrats who need to be expelled from the party.
i constantly think about this post
RFK Jr. is going to release a report on what he thinks are the causes of Autism Spectrum Disorder. There is reason to believe it won’t be trustworthy, so @defendpublichealth.bsky.social has released our own evidence-based report of ASD risk factors to the public. Vaccines aren’t one of them.
I mean its nice to have corroborating evidence off a hot mic that both those dudes are insane but that was known already I think
A man on the streets of the UK is asked about the “problem of immigration” and dismantles talking points with ease.
its funny how Corbyn is who centrists said Bernie was, and Starmer is who leftists said Biden was
the purpose of this is to destroy Harvard
The GOP needs to be a "normal" party that competes with the Dems on governance again. If there's no way for that to happen and this weird cycle is baked in, then the GOP has to be politically marginalized to the point where the "FAFO cycle" occurs purely within the Dems
There seems to be a cycle of Dems soaking up frustration about the system -- when the system works well enough for such frustration to be salient -- and then Republicans crashing the system. Which leads to Dems building it back up again and rise/repeat
I've said this before, but only one party caring about governance makes it, in turn, a magnet for public anger about governance
the thing about Zohran is he is really fucking good at politics and everyone on the Dem side behaving like he’s a liability has lost their minds I don’t care how you define It, he has It
My hot take is we should go kinetic against Russian clandestine operations in Europe
i don't think it's great that there is no one in the GOP asking about congressional war powers
I know people like to say that Jefferies didn't endorsed Adams until October but its also true that was with a dem president who did not send troops to blue cites. One thing that is important against fascism is the opposition consolidating early and Jefferies doesn't seem to act like he knows it.
Like this is just not acceptable, sorry
Definitely a lost battle under this admin, but if we do eventually return to normalcy, would really appreciate a hard requirement that every announced use of force by the state be accompanied by stating the authority under which it occured
you could probably get the plans for an invasion of mexico out of someone in this admin for a fifth of johnny walker and an eight ball
not quite ready to put these out for sale yet but HOT DAMN these shirts turned out even better than we hoped
pre-10/7/23 it was pretty much unquestionable that Biden had the best foreign policy record of any president of my lifetime, save maybe Clinton. post-10/7, it still might be the case, but man if that's not an argument I really want to be making anymore.
an immensely frustrating part of Biden's grotesque approach to Gaza was that it gravely discredited an otherwise a fairly solid foreign policy approach. arming Ukraine, ending the Afghan war, stopping a coup in Brazil, patching things up with the EU, etc, and then he impaled that for Bibi
certain people made their careers flipping the fuck out, rightly, about the Bush-Obama drone assassination campaign. then in early 2017 they mysteriously went silent about it being radically ramped up, and again stayed silent when Biden largely ended it
just don't buy it from GoDaddy, use Porkbun or something
brb taking out a mortgage on this
"President of Peace"
I don’t insist that anyone feel patriotism, but I have discovered that deep in my heart I love this country for its possibility, and despise the Erics Schmitt of the world as traitors
i think the basic thing here is that non-poly people have mostly met poly people whose relationships exploded into shrapnel the moment they tried it (this being because they did not meet them through being poly) and poly people have mostly met people who didn't (because these are the longest ones.)
I can only remember the coldest post of all time
this is the first time a major Democratic elected has actually told his supporters what they can do in the face of this as far as I can tell
Pelosi was a hundred times better than this
god is real and She always brings cookies to social hour
such a wild place for a pop group to end up
haven't listened to the Mark Hollis solo album but love Spirit of Eden and Laughingstock
this song reminds me a lot of Talk Talk youtu.be/l3VqAsMXE7o?...
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. filling an IV bag from a murky puddle near Trump National's sixth tee. "The president needs parameciums," he tells the assembled media. "It's the only treatment proven to work in real testing." His golf cart is piled high with dozens of dead birds.
he'll send ICE to intimidate us. if i see an ICE agent at my polling place i'm going to walk right past him.
every day i see hundreds of comments of people spinning elaborate scenarios to explain how trump can control everything and all opposition is futile. a) i think a lot of you need to log off and stop following professional doomsayers. b) i think a lot of you are cowards
really just goes to show how scarcity mindset is the ultimate form of brain rot and we need to build more housing
it’s kind of annoying how complaining about transplants has become the new hipster xenophobia
can't wait for this album www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ypv...
I mean… we are one of the most successful at multiculturalism. Integration is really fucking hard and if not new entirely, really counter to some of the bedrock assumptions around which our institutions are built.
trump employing these late authoritarian tactics when his approval is in the high thirties and he has not ensured the loyalty of the security state. like he’s trying to maximize the regime’s instability
eughhh...not sure i would have tried that in the first place, mostly just used their cold cuts for a long time
I am going to be wary of their products at least until we get a president willing to hold food production to high standards
honestly what the hell is wrong with this company
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rip to everyone whos become delusional after talking to chatgpt but im built different. like actually different. according to chatgpt im some kind of god. the one who decides
“If you’re angry with branding changes you should be angry with WALL STREET and SHAREHOLDERS instead of WOKE” … or just not be a big goddamn baby about branding changes? Do we seriously have to validate their concerns that things changing is Bad?
s/streaming/any subscription/
like if this is accurate it's very much artificially inflating their financials
you should be allowed to buy one month of streaming at a time without having to turn on auto-renew. i suspect the reason you typically can't is because these companies get so much revenue from people forgetting to turn it off. this seems really bad to normalize as a business practice.
Chris Van Hollen is interesting because he makes a center-left case for Palestine. He argues for Palestinian rights not on leftist but on liberal grounds. It is highly philosophically coherent to do that, and yet few politicians do.
Too often we quickly collapse the "pro-Israel' and "pro-Palestine" blocs into center vs left, and while this is in large part true, there is plenty of evidence to suggest that there are "liberals who mean it". Van Hollen is one of them, McCollum another, so on and so forth.
Worth thinking about how Chris Van Hollen, hardly a ultra left-wing firebrand, has accumulated a ton of credit over the last few years from the growing pro-Palestine constituency of the DP by simply 1) Demanding that there be justice for Shireen Abu Akleh, 2) Demanding that US law is adhered to.
like, jesus christ bsky.app/profile/marb...
yeah and similar to how seemingly everyone who becomes a conspiracy theorist ends up an antisemite sooner or later
lorenz is definitely over the cliff into nutball antisemitism. unclear to me how ideological she is about it but she's already so far off the rails it was only a matter of time.
Lorenz is ironically a very good example of the thesis that upsets her so much: social media is very bad for many people.
what they don't tell you about living in new england is that the ocean never gave her up. it is a place haunted by the ghosts of every being that ever died here. you can feel them, dying. being consumed. we have had this dream too. but it is a dream. you can wake up. with an iced regular from dunkin
when do we get to yeet this fucking nazi dipshit
By this methodology, Elon Musk powering his data center with smog belching mobile turbines is the most water-friendly AI company in the business, whereas if he bought 0 carbon power from a nearby TVA dam it would be considered 40x worse than burning coal. www.construction-physics.com/p/i-was-wron...
The commonly cited AI water usage statistics are based on a methodology where, if your data center buys green energy from a hydroelectric dam (as lots do, including the hyperscalers), then “natural evaporation of the water from the lake behind the dam” is counted as that data center’s water use.
yeah for sure
how many of these are actually in congress
hear me out: reaching across the aisle, but it means appointing this sort of republican to various prosecution and budgeting matters
what exactly is the point of the Teamsters local doing this
the real milestone is when a messy robot woman gets a feature about how she ruined her life in The Cut
Theres really no point to scrolling your phone waiting to hear about the day it happens, if you are a Real American and live in a decent sized city you'll know from horns honking, fireworks, people spontaneously hollering, passing out drinks, etc
this, incidentally, is why there are rarely real-time predictions out on the E branch GLX towards Heath St — MBTA predictions are all based on block assignments + delta. they're working on this and I have confidence they'll figure it out eventually but it's not a quick fix.
they do an ok job most of the time, but if you ever try to look at which blocks vehicles are running vs which blocks they're supposed to be running it's a total mess.
the stop spacing is bad, yes, but the shared intersections really make it impossible to keep to schedule.
not sure why you're so certain that cars aren't part of the problem, there's not a lot of TSP and especially around peak times it leads to a lot of delays and bunching.
if your standard for BRT is the Silver Line then definitely we've never tried real BRT. honestly trams have a lot of the same issues you describe though, look at the Green Line. tram vs bus is a red herring here, the defining characteristic is grade separation.
most people will tell you you can only use strings and numbers as object keys in JS…fortunately, JSON.stringify
i feel like i need a napkin over my head when calling JSON.stringify
Honestly its super weird to me how all these republicans are acting like elections are still gonna happen? Like ive read many very confident and persuasive replies assuring me they wont? So what's up?
semi-auto — one bullet per trigger pull full auto — bullets as long as you are holding the trigger down
the ar-15 is not an automatic weapon. it is a semi-automatic weapon. that is a very different thing
look, i've said before that this site loves to talk about things it doesn't really know the basics on, which usually hits me whenever I say anything about AI, but man alive it's way worse when it comes to talking about firearms
Real wokeism has never been tried.
my politics, too, have been shaped by andor (everyone should have at least one sickass jacket)
but if sincerity is the vibe now i've been bullish on it for a long time bsky.app/profile/beat...
my left eyebrow damn near slid off the top of my forehead when i saw this post
there are so many "This you?" posts that I could make about this, particularly this MF's attitude toward ukraine
the troll answer to "FOSS word processor" is of course LaTeX
it just means the logistics of trying to do any of both are a lot more painful
all the way in Sunnyvale, too...
i cannot be the only person having this problem
man, why did they have to put Folsom and the first JJ con on the same day
yeah i guess my experience with linux and printers has me suspicious this is more of a linux problem than a LibreOffice problem, but, I have never been a heavy user of it