Tomorrow is another day to keep doing your best while cartoonish villains destroy society in every direction

vm.overcommit_memory=2 is always the right setting on servers: https://ariadne.space/2025/12/16/vmovercommitmemory-is-always-the-right.html

God. I really am saddened by Rob Reiner's sudden, violent death.

Mourning famous people you don't know feels kind of weird sometimes, but damn.

It's just fucking sad.

The Princess Bride is one of the most important films in my life: it's a film that's easy to love & so it brings people together. It's a film that you love together with other people. It's a film you share. It's special.

So I am grateful for that gift that Rob Reiner gave the world.

Be careful and think twice before dispensing life advice that starts with “Why can’t you just..?” or “All you have to do is…”

"I look around & all I see is apathy."

Ok, look somewhere else, then.

Could it be that the people who surround you are not representative of the whole of humanity?

Could it be that they are conditioned a certain way? Could it be that other things already exist somewhere outside your current awareness?

Why assume that what you know is all there is?

Manspreading. Don’t do it.

I have been asked what the fediverse is like and I like I'm both over and under-equipped to answer. I've done my best.

"It's full of people who are really opinionated about computers, has some of the funniest people I know and the platform itself is kind of janky in the same way major IRC networks were in 2000. If you want to know what happens when you carbonate cum or boof uranium it's a really good resource, and everyone really wants to French it up a bit on Elon Musk."

@Stoned_Deva_ @catsalad What was the thing you were happiest to find?

@JessTheUnstill WELP.

@ai6yr it would almost be more newsworthy if an AI powered children's toy WASN'T a creepy propaganda spouting sex bot.

Peppermint bark ice cream? Yes, please!

I was looking for body wash. I was asked what gender I wanted it to be. I don't know, I've never thought of my body wash having a gender. Does body wash also have a sex? Would it be cheaper to buy two, one of each, and let them procreate to keep getting more body wash? Oh, is this how travel size body wash is made?! It's just sold before it grows up! I get it now. Wait... is the clear body wash non-binary?!

@evacide @baibold How about making latkes outside of the Hanukkah season? Free the latkes!

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@evacide @jgilbert I’m sensing a Venn diagram…

@YKantRachelRead I have hosted a vegetarian feminist LGBTQ+ Seder in the past (the folks providing the Seder meal wanted to use our place because it was bigger). Orange on the Seder plate, lots of mentions of Miriam and Judith in the (very revised) feminist Haggadah, beet root instead of the lamb shank bone. Honestly, it was a lot of fun compared to some of the more traditional Seders I have attended.

@Viss @catsalad @molly0xfff Come on you all—it was TWO mattresses for $638K. $319K is a much more reasonable price for a mattress.

@kagan @paninid I think we’ve got to give Lil Nas X the “first mover” award for making racist country fans lose their shit. They redefined what qualified as “Country Music” to get “Old Town Road” off the Country charts. What a joke.

While Beyoncé is this generation’s Country “cross back” pop star, this has been going on for many decades—heck even Elvis did a country album. Seems like it usually is a last gasp for musicians who are losing their audience though. Beyoncé gets some credit for doing it while she was still a huge deal.

Authors are not okay, folks. Between AI destroying the industry and wrecking people's careers, and the big spike in piracy since people decided the solution to boycotting Amazon is *stealing* from people who are literally making *pennies* (21 cents per day... that's what I made in book sales in 2025. I calculated it yesterday), we are not okay.

Please, please, please support authors. If you can buy books in places other than Amazon, please do so. If you can't buy books, please borrow them from your library. Request that your library pick up titles from your favourite authors (most libraries have form you can fill out to do that). Leave reviews everywhere you can. Sign up for author newsletters, and follow authors on social media. Repost social media content. Talk about your favourite books - help other people discover that they exist! All of these things *matter*, and you really have NO idea how much they mean to most authors.

#reading #books #bookstodon #Author

@kagan @paninid Lil Nas X? Darius Rucker?