I'm gonna make a new credit card company called SexCard that you can ONLY use for adult purchases. If you purchase any non-sexual items we will deny the transaction and you have to write us an essay on how the item is for a niche kink.

@edavies @fehrtrade I don’t usually bother signing these things because they are a pointless outlet for the government to ignore political frustrations. But many politicians still seem unaware how flawed the OSA is, so anything to bring attention to the issue

Are you in the UK and opposed to providing ID to use social media in the coming weeks?

There’s an official parliament petition to repeal the Online Safety Act, and it’s already at 13,000 signatures and growing: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/722903

(Not UK? Please spread the word!)

@wingo

It's time to celebrate the women of the 2000s blogosphere, so now we'll be scrolling randomly through the June 2005 blogroll of misbehaving.net. https://web.archive.org/web/20050626031252/http://www.misbehaving.net:80/ #misbehaving2005

I think I’m just going to ignore the CFP again, and ask to be an invited speaker. It’s not what they asked me to do, but the worst thing is they say ‘no’, and people have to wait until maybe TFP in January 2026 or ELS in May 2026 for another R7RS status update

Anonymous double-blind review 🤔

I asked about this last time, and ended up being told not to submit anything and that I could simply ask to give a status update talk (not for proceedings) if I wished, since it would not be a scientific contribution anyway

This time they have explicitly invited me to submit through the normal process, so I guess I have to pretend like I can somehow speak authoritatively for WG2 while also obscuring who I am

Maybe there won’t be an R7RS Large update there this year after all 🙃

Eurgh, Scheme Workshop submission deadline tomorrow *stares at blank page*

I’ve been having these exact conversations for a while; the burnout, disheartening job searches, ghosting, blatant lack of respect, traumatising managers. No matter how much you do, it’s not enough.

@Brilliantcrank nails this down beautifully:

“That system isn't broken; it's functioning exactly as designed. Filtering. Discarding. Erasing. Only now it's worse, powered by algorithms and anxiety fuled urgency that have made human experience disposable.”

https://brilliantcrank.com/you-are-not-your-job-search-redux/

Für Abonnent*innen hat die #Sueddeutsche nüchtern und (gerade dadurch) bedrückend mit zahlreichen Vorher-Nachher-Aufnahmen dokumentiert, wie die Regierung #Netanjahu in #Gaza systematisch Straßenzug um Straßenzug abreißt – nicht selten durch Baufirmen von Siedlern aus dem Westjordanland.

"Das Verteidigungsministerium gibt zu den Gründen dieser Abrissarbeiten und auf die Frage, wie sie mit dem Kampf gegen die #Hamas in Verbindung stünden, keine Auskunft."

https://www.sueddeutsche.de/projekte/artikel/politik/gaza-zerstoerung-flucht-gazastreifen-israel-offensive-e074544/

Denial is the final stage of genocide. It is an intrinsic part of genocide. Like genocide itself, it always serves fascistic purposes. (The loud part is ‘it didn’t happen’; the quiet part is ‘but it would be good if it did’.)

‘One day, everyone will always have been against this’ is an optimistic take.

We will have to deal with Gaza genocide deniers for the rest of our lives. If we’re lucky, it won’t be the official position of our governments. But I wouldn’t put money on that.

Politisches Betätigungsverbot for Ghassan Abu-Sittah was also illegal https://www.rbb24.de/politik/beitrag/2025/07/palaestina-kongress-berlin-betaetigungsverbot-rechtswidrig-urteil-antisemitismus.html

the only strategic reason for someone to leak this is because they don’t want it to happen

meanwhile in New York

what https://www.tagesspiegel.de/internationales/konnen-wir-machen-wenn-ihr-uns-waffen-gebt-trump-soll-selenskyj-zum-angriff-auf-moskau-aufgefordert-haben-14026082.html

@captainhayashi Guix is pronounced ‘geeks’ because of course it fucking is

Cheesoid so lonely

Two exciting new co-ops in the FP space in the space of a week!

Guixotic is a new Guile and Guix consultancy co-op set up by Maxim Cournoyer, Robin Templeton, and John Kehayias.

And now the Active Group, long-existing FP consultancy, is also fully employee-owned!