One of my favourite parts of the 21st century is when we rebranded shills as influencers.

“Tax cheat” means they stole from you and me. If you pay taxes, and someone else doesn’t, but everyone gets services like roads, firefighters, parks, and national security, the guys not paying the taxes they owe are stealing from you.

Taxes go to the treasury, which funds OUR government that WE own. When someone cheats on taxes they aren’t stealing from “the government”, they’re stealing from all of us. Fuck those people.

We swore an oath. We're fighting back.

https://18f.org/announcement-of-legal-challenge/

With new COVID-19 variants looming and renewed attacks on vaccines, masks, and other basic preventative measures, I just want to mention that:

- I still routinely mask up in crowded or poorly ventilated spaces. I mask on planes and trains. I teach with my mask on.

- I test any time I'm feeling under the weather.

- I plan to get the updated vaccine.

I'd *prefer* not to do any of this, but at worst, it's in the "mild inconvenience" category, and far preferable to long-term disability.

I can’t really see the benefit to doing this, but lots of downsides. It can be true the DHH invented Rails, did a great job at it, and is still a white supremacist not worth our time anymore. https://ruby.social/@rubycentral/114585914969796428

Anti-Georgist propaganda from 1886 that makes Georgism look like the coolest thing ever.

In 1935 money was raised for a new stone torii between the shrine and the east end of Nishiki Market.
When the gate was finished it turned out to be too wide to fit between the buildings on either side of the street⛩️😰
If you look closely you can see that rather than cut the torii, the stone beams actually go through the buildings on either side!👀😅

We're getting the band(s) back together for another of our month long artists' series of live streaming events, concerts, talks, presentations and heaps of fun thru July 2025.

As an artists' series we're again focusing on live original works or explicitly consented presentations, as well as talks, demos, panels or anything you might might like to share with a supportive, fun and rad alternative socials community on a platform we as artists and viewers have more autonomy and agency.

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#RFFF25

Read this.

Seriously. Quit scrolling, shut the hell up, and read this.

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/an-open-letter-to-robert-f-kennedy-jr-who-thinks-my-daughter-is-a-tragedy

@SnoopJ I had found those books randomly and boy were they weird but fucking amazing

You have me tempted to go back and read them again too, as if my TBR pile doesn’t reach the stratosphere

@glyph @jon Like, if he had run it by me, it would have ended up with a lot of marginal notes in red pen like “isn’t 2019 fifteen years late to have figured that out”

The perfect metaphor for the fediverse doesn't exis...

(From faculty slack)

you ruined a perfectly good application is what you did. look at it. it’s got microservices.

this is not a place of honor
this is not a place of honor
this is not a place of honor
there is only danger
turtle power

there's still time for IBM to get back in the game and release the PS/3

Editor: You finish that illustration of the giant alien crab-beetle?

Artist: Sure did boss, real fuckin sexy just like you asked.

Editor: what

Programmers are usually fed a steady diet of features and bug fixes. But occasionally they get to work on performance problems. This development methodology is known as intermittent fasting.

From the people who brought you Reply Guys…introducing Just Guys.

Dropbox buggy? Just host your own fileserver.

Rent too high? Just buy a house.

Feeling sad? Just go for a 5k.

Oppressed? Just stop complaining.

When every problem is a Jira ticket...