@angusm @pluralistic the Web Annoyances Ultralist for uBlock Origin gets rid of those https://github.com/yourduskquibbles/webannoyances
MSc/NCC/LAC/counselor & recovering #sysadmin 🐿
variety of silly interests, (many work-related🙄) #virtualization & #emulation #retroComputing #infrastructure #ops Wintel, shared storage, target #archery, gaming,
Luc Besson films, 🤓perpetual InfoSec newb, #tsundoku, 👁💘📽
#ADHD, #SocialAnxiety/Phobia, #ASD #PDA 🧠
#PardonRealityWinner 🫡
#СлаваУкраїні! 🇺🇦
rescued/adoptee by 😸🐈😻 (3 great kitties)
(#FediCounseling?)🧷
Please baby jebus more #satire 🤭
Alt text for headshot is a cropped image of the Bloom County comic characters Bill the Cat and Opus the Penguin, both attempting an incomplete expression of Bill the Cat’s signature pose/expression, (one eye closed, tongue extended, possibly making raspberries (?), while looking at the reader & breaking the 4th wall, etc.), which is an homage to @mauvehed 🤪
@angusm @pluralistic the Web Annoyances Ultralist for uBlock Origin gets rid of those https://github.com/yourduskquibbles/webannoyances
Svalbard, Norway, is the world’s most northern town. It’s not as cold as it used to be, which has climate scientists wondering “if we’ve been too cautious with our climate warnings." Read more from @404media:
People did not die solely because of forgetfulness but because amnesia allowed succeeding generations to erase the past and their responsibilities to the future. When they could have enacted post-flood, life-saving interventions, they chose not to act on their progeny’s behalf. https://www.texasobserver.org/san-antonio-hill-country-floods-history-1921-2025/
#history #politics #USpol #sustainability #news #Texas #flooding #weather #environment
The mutant version of capitalism we have now -- overwhelmingly tilted toward financial looters and their cartels -- is destroying community after community. This is deliberate, not an unintended outcome. Local hospitals are just one notably egregious example.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/07/the-landlord-gutting-americas-hospitals/
Fascism for first time founders
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/07/17/fascism-for-first-time-founders/
As usual I’ve found that techdirt is doing more to call out the fash in tech than most
“They made healthcare a commodity, education a debt trap, and housing a speculation market — then told you that poverty is a personal failing.
They privatized survival and called it freedom."
~ from Michell C Clark
A lot of people seems to feel
very on edge these days. More aggressive and more angry.
And you know what, I totally get it.
I feel this way too.
Everything is on fire and we feel powerless. It sucks.
But if we eat each other, there will be nobody left to fight the oppressors.
While we fight each other,
while we drain each other,
they win.
Do not let authoritarian oppressors win by shooting at your allies.
Even if they're not allies you agree with all the time, even if they're temporarily allies for an urgent cause, focus your energy on the real danger. Do not drain allies' supplies, even if they are imperfect allies. That's what your enemy wants you to do.
We must support each other in these difficult times, if we want to even have a tiny chance to create peace, acceptance, and inclusion for the future 💚
Milky Way Through Otago Spires https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250702.html #APOD
People are shocked to discover they need to fact-check ChatGPT and I'm having the uncomfortable realization that they never fact-checked their uncle's Facebook posts, their friend's medical advice, or literally anything Google's top result told them, and suddenly the last decade makes sense...
One of the things I miss so much about the Time Before Internet & Mobile Phones is how everyone's daily life was filled with space where you were unreachable, alone with yourself and the world you encountered. You had to be where you were, in each moment.
Gen X watching one more media-led march toward pointless war in the Middle East to distract from a flailing Republican president.
#USpol
shel silverstein on the LLM, 1981
@tomgauld.bsky.social captures my state of mind most mornings.... if only a raven could help.
Perseverance Selfie with Ingenuity https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250607.html #APOD
texted from a friend, authorship unknown
We only have so much time on this earth.
Try to see as much of it as you can.
(photo by Edmonds Scanner at Hurricane Ridge, Olympic National Park)