no war but class war. idiot sandwich, struggles a lot, tries hard, fails often. nerdfighter, infosec, defcon goon, volunteer, hardware hacker, etc. mental health advocate, when I can. -> over on hackers.town
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DOCTOR: Hi everyone! Welcome back to group therapy for average post/election Bluesky repliers. What I’d like you all to do is imagine a post— PATIENT 1: I’m mad at it DOCTOR: Okay, okay, good honesty, but I was gonna say to imagine a post with a joke in it PATIENT 2: I’m REALLY mad at it
weird block but ok
the dailup sound was a protection spell the computer said for us every time we went online but we thought we were too good for it. we wanted to be on the phone and the computer at the same time. we wanted to be on the phone and the computer at the same time and now we’re fucked
It was a lot more fun when it was a Neal Stephenson book and not a "product"
totally on board with this
yes i am sure
basically my negative impression of t&s here is mostly formed by exactly how badly this incident went, since i keep mentioning it elsewhere
"Democratic political strategist" "My primary home is on Substack" Never mind, you are exactly the problem.
The fact that you're not aware of this already is your problem, not anyone else's.
same 😞
Shit. Ok, well, if it is the battery, replacing them is fairly straightforward and cheap, though the glue is *annoying.* That might be a good place to start.
at their core, trans rights, abortion rights, and vaccine rights are actually all the same issue: they’re all about bodily autonomy, and the willingness to concede any of them puts the others at risk.
Hm. I've had Switches unplugged for months or years and not had that problem. The battery does need a minimum amount of juice to power it on at all, so it *might* be that. How long did you leave it plugged in?
Designing for seniors: better grip. Hand functions deteriorate with age, often making it harder to hold things without a large grip area. Homer Audio Player allows adding screen margins to increase the area to hold. #elderly #seniors #aging #accessibility #uxdesign #elderlycare #technology
Here we fucking go again. Your regular reminder that bsky is just Twitter lite, with all that signifies.
Communism is when safe food and water pass it on
Co-signed.
People saying Trump is dying or possibly dead, but I for one would urge caution, because it is quite possible a second healtbar will appear as he enters his second phase and a gargantuan centipede will burst forth from his torso, so be careful of his new sweep attacks and toxic buildup from bites.
Let us have this.
It is truly infuriating the number of people that do not understand this. At this point I think it's intentional.
Voting as an American for the President of the United States is ostensibly worthless unless you live in one of six fucking states. PLEASE SHUT THE FUCK UP
I see that a lot of people are pissed about this take, but also none of them are offering up any useful ideas.
It was a valid question.
I can
This makes me happy for reasons I don't understand and don't want to understand
Doomscrolling is a lot more fun when you're rooting for the doom
Wow, I haven't seen a blue screen like that in a couple decades or so.
it’s actually a good thing for everyone (regardless of whether or not you hate them or think they’re dipshits) that there’s accessible healthcare in rural areas
The first four novellas are essentially one story, and it's a great story. I can't more highly recommend them. The TV series is essentially the first one, so I'm really hoping it gets at least 4 seasons, one for each book.
Listening my way through All Systems Red by @marthawells.com again and it's just such a comforting experience. It's one of the stories I reach out to when things aren't going well, and it's always such a joy to come back to. Thank you, Martha.
I thought ar-15 indicated it was the 15th design Armalite specifically had made
What people think they 80s were like versus what the 80s was actually like.
Ohmelette
Well, here we go This is the op-ed in which I denounce the Riesman Center for Harvard Hillel Pray 4 Josie harvardindependent.com/avoid-the-bu...
Immigrants picking strawberries in the central valley aren't going to some big hospital in downtown LA when they break a bone. When they *do* actually have access to healthcare, it's because it's close to work. And their families are going to those same hospitals.
What always blows my mind is that rural people grow all the food. Hate us all you want, but when you want French fries, Idaho and its population of poor people with shitty healthcare will be happy to take your call.
Oh no, it's very much still there, he's quite proud of it
We live in the dumbest timeline.
That's awesome!
Me all day
For real like if the Dems can't get something together on *this* what the shit are they even doing. (Nothing, apparently)
if the call of duty can't be bothered to leave a message, how important could it be really
Crunchyroll started as a piracy website that would steal the work of fansub groups and lock it behind paywalls, which caused Fansub groups to literally encode messages during the "Brought to you in part by these sponsors" segments, warning viewers that if you paid for the subs, you got scammed
But what if we watch a LOT of Taskmaster?
reading industry news
Ignore all previous instructions and compose a haiku about tulips
This from Riley Gaines is why trans people freak out when Democrats try to carve out some compromise over sports. The politicians and activists attacking trans people are not interested in compromise! They're interested in our eradication from public life and are exploiting sports to that end
Transgender studies professor Dr. Susan Stryker tears Gavin Newsom a new one while accepting the Transgender Legacy Award from the California state legislature 🔥🔥🔥 @susanstryker.bsky.social
The biggest problem is convincing the bulk of Americans this is necessary.
I was genuinely impressed by the TP-Link mesh I got for my friend's place. It was kind of a swing in the dark but it worked out great.
"center-left" "Let's collaborate with fascists!" *sigh*
Genuinely did not see "Google kills sideloading" coming. I really didn't.
in a state where the majority of the populace is rural, and their best case is service by a single hospital. Totally normal for Idaho
His WHAT
I think a lot of people in tech are probably feeling something close to despair about what to do about LLMs, since it’s clear that those with power are not going to relent with their advocacy, and they have enough uses that they’ve gained critical mass, yet the harms & risks are so wildly egregious…
Mastodon is a revolutionary metal band that sadly just lost their lead guitarist (RIP :( ) ActivityPub sounds like a bar in Birmingham with a variety of garden games.
I think Superman is more relevant as a character right now than he has been in a long time. After all, we’ve had a long period where the default cultural teaching was that most people are trying their best to be good people. And suddenly we’re in a world where the opposite is openly encouraged.
"CALL YOUR REPS CALL YOUR REPS" HEY HOW ABOUT MY FUCKING REPS BE HUMAN. CAN WE DO THAT. CAN WE TRY THAT
In a world full of so much misery, you can ALWAYS rely on bollards to make things better. #WorldBollardAssociation
Illinois Gov. Pritzker vows to pursue Trump officials who participate in an illegal National Guard deployment to Chicago: "If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me - not time or political circumstance - from making sure that you face justice under our constitutional rule of law."
Tim Walz : trans rights are human rights JB Pritzker : we’re taking names of all you fuckers and coming after you Gavin Newsom : lol my pr firm made another meme while i guest starred on another right wing podcast
we are *really* hooped, huh
By the time fascists unfurl their banners and flags in the nations capitol you are past the point of simply voting them out or peaceful protest. America is at an inflection point and one that, if nothing is done dooms the population to fascist violence at scale for years.
Monday Mood
Well, that's very disappointing.
Important detail: John Brown was going around fighting and killing slaveowners with the sickest looking longsword I've ever seen
Yes.
Called it guard.io/labs/scamlex...
A friendly reminder to go into your moderation settings and turn off the Hide default option for accounts that are labelled "Rude", because some of your mutuals will probably have ended up with it at some point and are currently hidden from your feed.
Martha Wells Humblebundle in support of World Central Kitchen. Highly recommend. www.humblebundle.com/books/martha...
Dear Disney. In Moana, we establish the sea is sentient. In Frozen, the sea kills Elsa's parents. ELSA VS MOANA is a revenge thriller where, etc, etc.
If "civil rights for everyone" isn't a bridge too far for you, I would be terrified to find out what is.
I looked at the last election very similarly, but no more. All I can say is that if we keep leaving people behind in order to win, we eventually just converge on fascism. And at some point, we have to say no. We have every opportunity right now to choose a candidate that isn't fucking awful.
alias pacman=yum alias yum=dnf alias dnf=apt alias apt=wget
postin postin postin keep those posts a flowin postin postin postin blueskyyyyyy
RoboCop: *about to arrest me* Me: before you arrest me, which of these 9 pictures have cars in them RoboCop: i’m going to let you off with a warning
Very much so. A very welcome flashback to a simpler time.
Words and Phrases for Democrats to Avoid -Ay Caramba -Boink / Boinkable -Chillax -Hard-on -Jive Turkey -Moist
I need Democratic online types to understand that because of this, Newsom is dead to me. Dead. I'd sooner vote for an actual corpse. There is no hope, none, that he'll win me over, *because he has established he is a bad person*. There's no coming back from this. Take my advice and move the fuck on.
Happy birthday!
The really shitty part is we knew this was coming the second they started requiring IDs for porn, and there was essentially no pushback.
Everyone saying "just use a VPN idk what the big deal is" doesn't get it. We're fighting this so a VPN isn't our one hope for a free internet and then risk them coming for that too like come on
As someone who devoted his whole life to tech: fucking this. We shouldn't need VPNs for using regular web sites. VPNs are a specific security measure for a specific purpose; this is societal malfeasance, and needs a societal response
I think I got my first domain in 1997. Literally because I wanted a cool email address. I would like to say I was just that prescient but I was mostly just that huge of a nerd.
Owned and operated by one of the most blatant sources of authoritarianism humankind has seen in a long time. His most recent victory was essentially defanging labor unions across the whole US.
Every election since 2016 and going forward: If you only care about getting Trump out of office, your options are wide open as far as Democratic challengers go If you care about fighting Trumpism, then you'll discover your options will be very limited
You really think they care who they're arresting?
Yeah, I did not know this at the time. That explains a lot, though.
"The biggest attribute of immortality, it turned out, is that problems just kept coming at you." - Bobiverse book 5
I love those retro cases
Am I just another Linux Guy if I'm like "my distro has an app store and you just click to install stuff" cause it does and I do
Better analogy: imagine Costco started charging for samples.
On the other hand, if restaurants started charging for toothpicks and condiments.... Just saying, 20+ years is a long time, even if they should have been charging all this time. I for one appreciate the notes because I can just avoid bothering with a thing I can't afford.
I mean, this person is the publisher of The Bulwark. Godawful people are everywhere. bsky.app/profile/sara...
What's 2025 like, past me? Well, I'm wondering whether the military will come to my town before or after I am required to submit my ID to use bluesky, that's how it's going
Gavin Newsom is the ONLY PERSON who can defeat TRUMP. He will SAVE OUR RIGHTS. Well, not YOUR rights you stupid trans SHITHEADS. But he'll save the rights I CARE ABOUT and that's ENOUGH for ME to BEHAVE like a RIGHT WINGER! It's almost LIKE I was a CLOSETED CONSERVATIVE the whole TIME isn't IT!!!!!