@pancakescon Amazing. Thanks for continuing to lead this. I love the format.

I just realised cottage cheese is not cheese.

It's just a curd to me.

@ChrisMayLA6 @Em0nM4stodon @pluralistic what you say is not accurate. Ads will be shown in status tab and also in channels, but not in your conversations, according to the information that was published.

https://www.theverge.com/news/687519/whatsapp-launch-advertising-status-updates

#VibeCoding your MFA

@beyondmachines1 Oh my

70-100k in Seattle.

#nokings

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
-John F. Kennedy

#NoKings #CounterRevolution

IDK why, but out of all the horrible, no good, very depressing news on the front pages today, this one stuck in my head the most so far. From WaPo:

"At least several months ago, Israel’s top spy agency, the Mossad, began to smuggle missiles into Iran and secretly installed swarms of explosive drones deep inside the country, laying the groundwork for a devastating Israeli surprise attack on Friday morning. As Israel launched its air attack, the Mossad activated its planted drones, which struck missile launchers at a base near Tehran, a senior Israeli official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss intelligence operations."

But sure, let's spend a bajillion dollars building a nationwide golden ICBM shield.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/06/12/israel-attacks-iran-tehran-explosions/#link-SFGHTH4RRVBZJPJXL2ZBVMJY5I

If there's anything that illustrated the hollowness of the Democratic Party as an effective opposition for me, it's this.

Yesterday, I watched a video of a sitting US Senator being thrown to the ground and cuffed by fed goons for asking questions of the fed official he has direct oversight authority over.

Within minutes, I'd gotten DOZENS of texts from Dems and Dem orgs asking for $5-$50 to "fight fascism."

That's it. "Are you terrified that your country is slipping into fascism? Pay me."

We are taking back “MAGA” from fascism.

Make America Gay Again!

It's Tuesday -- do you know where your Saturday NO KINGS rally is?

Find you local rally at: https://www.nokings.org/

Go speak up for all of us! Ask some friends along -- they may already be making plans to attend!

#nokings #resist #uspol

@jerry I'll bet it has an amazing keyboard

Fight the hand that beats you

Nice one, grandma…

shel silverstein on the LLM, 1981

A few weeks back I read on Mastodon that the US Dept of Health and Human Services was getting rid of COVID tests. This is bad for all the reasons, but some enterprising government employee did a program where you could fill out a form and get anywhere from 300-3000 COVID tests (unexpired) sent to your home. I figured why not try? Last week I got seven boxes of COVID tests delivered to my porch. I posted to a local mailing list and I am getting them pointed towards my community. Thanks Mastodon!

Just heard from my contact at Job Corps that they’re losing all funding and shutting down. This is/was a federal (D of Labor) program providing career training in the trades for low-income youth. The program in Long Beach also offered housing, which in El Lay is even more valuable than the training. So now they’re in the position of helping participants find places to live so they don’t end up on the streets. It was never about waste fraud or abuse.

@jerry BlackBerry. Thank goodness.

Amazing. Google One makes it almost impossible to switch from the $20/month pan to the $20/year plan.

So hidden. Annual > See More Plans > Scroll > Downgrade. B@stards.

https://www.reddit.com/r/GoogleOne/comments/zzertm/did_google_remove_the_199_100gb_option/
#GoogleOne