Yesterday I decided that instead of other despairing shit I was going to take the next few years to learn how to do more stuff. Repair, clothing mending, more types of cooking and baking, first aid, woodwork, whatever. Practical and universal stuff to lean into being part of a community.
there's like, a lot of people out there who seem to think they can fix things by patiently and obediently following the law, and i hate to be the one to tell you this but sometimes you have to do things that Evil Government doesn't like
i will never enforce or respect a bathroom ban because i simply do not care about legality over morality. you can put w/e you want in your evil little law book and i'm still going to tell you to fuck off, accompany ALL my women friends to the bathroom and if you try to stop us i'll kick your ass
A lot of censorship in China is not carried out by the CCP, but by private companies policing their own platforms in fear of upsetting them. Luckily the first amendment prevents private businesses from censoring speech on their platforms and none of their CEOs are beholden to the president.
if someone can just identify a couple more hypocrisies and false premises in fascist thinking I think we can turn this whole thing around! I'm kinda busy today though, been staring at the sun for the last few hours and I'm pretty sure it's about to blink
Here’s an idea — if you work for the media and you’re saying it wasn’t necessarily a nazi salute, you gotta say what you think it actually was and then find one other non-nazi example of someone doing that
don’t shoot me but my contentious view is that it probably wasn’t a Nazi salute - despite obvious similarities - and we shouldn’t claim to *know* that it was one
For my #PDX people: here is an occasional reminder that I am a notary public and waive all fees as a community service. Advance directives, gender affirming paperwork, and new documents for folks whose IDs have been trashed during sweeps, etc. DMs are open. #communitycare
@ericajoy.astrel.la a lot of folks spent a lot of time tuning their tiktok algorithms, so the filter bubble they lived in made tiktok seem like it was a liberal wonderland.
Look at this very weird executive order that came out on the peripenultimate business day of the Biden administration! "post-quantum" cryptography! www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-roo...
this is what long-time Elon watchers call "The Realization": when Elon stumbles into your area of expertise, and you realize everyone just gives the guy the benefit of the doubt because he talks about complicated things people don't pay attention to
my bike was stolen last January. i contacted the police and told them that i had video evidence of the thief and a gps tag that said where it was. they shrugged it off and i just went and took the bike back myself with the help of a friend
a very funny eye opening experience many people have had about how the cops actually operate is this "hey i have a tracking beacon on this stolen item that shows exactly where it is can you arrest the guy who stole it?" and the cops go like "lol no that sounds like a lot of work"
You’ll probably see this screenshot floating around a lot but it really was wonderful to see Lynch put a scene in Twin Peaks: The Return where he has his character literally stare at the camera and say that you should either support trans people or die. I needed to hear that in 2017
"Fix your hearts or die" IS absolultely fire but also huge shoutout to David Lynch for writing a trans character into the OG run of Twin Peaks in fucking 1990 who was cool, and confident, and who was treated with the utmost respect and dignity by her former colleague the instant he meets her
@tekniklr.bsky.social Anyway, I guess I still don't really see the point. I'm either too dumb (errors too basic) or too smart (commenting-out skillz too 1337) to use ChatGPT for debugging help, I guess.
@tekniklr.bsky.social (The problem was actually that I had used `++` to increment a variable, which works in many languages but not ruby, where I needed to use `+=1`. The `++` opened an invisible block.)
this confirms something i have long suspected, which is that certain people are told that their professional and academic failures are because of “affirmative action” or “DEI” as a way to avoid difficult conversations about their mediocrity www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ca...
I know so many people who are looking for VPNs and just trying to find ways to stay a bit safer and more private with the incoming fascist wave. You can't really trust @proton.me in that case if the CEO is a fascist bootlicker, can you?
