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Myria @myria.bsky.social · 5h

If the Supreme Court nullifies the Voting Rights Act, that combined with all the other gerrymandering will likely guarantee Republican control of the House for a generation.

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Myria @myria.bsky.social · 6h

Regressives

Myria @myria.bsky.social · 11h

To vzeroupper or not to vzeroupper—that is the question:
Whether ‘tis nobler in the CPU to suffer
The stalls and delays of switching modes
Or to use vzeroupper against a sea of switches
And by a thousand cuts avoid them.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 1d

First World Series between two cities threatened with invasion or invaded by a U.S. president.

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Myria @myria.bsky.social · 1d

Life is like a hurricane…

Myria @myria.bsky.social · 1d

Can you add a link on the mobile website to bring up the article in your app? That way we don’t have to log in, because the app already is logged in.

Myria @myria.bsky.social · 1d

This article is BS. Governors can’t appoint House members in vacancies. They can only call elections. He’d have to get elected.

Myria @myria.bsky.social · 1d

It might not even be possible using a cartridge dumper like an Infinite NES Lives because the SA-1 locks out most chip access unless it sees a CIC on the console side, which INL doesn’t have.

I don’t know whether save memory is blocked, but probably…

Myria @myria.bsky.social · 3d

Laguna Hills, California

At the No Kings protest in Laguna Hills, CA on 2025/10/18, a man dressed as Elvis Presley holds a sign: “Our Country has only One KING: ELVIS”.

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Myria @myria.bsky.social · 4d

It was way better than I expected it to be. The CGI worked really well because they’re meant to be virtual characters anyway, so the artificiality wasn’t distracting.

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Myria @myria.bsky.social · 5d

The motivation behind the prosecution is malicious and vindictive, but it really looks like John Bolton is guilty of the alleged things.

I just hope that the trial is fair.

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Myria @myria.bsky.social · 6d

I wish x86 and ARM had a way to load a 3-element vector into an xmm/q register easily, setting the high element to zero.

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Myria @myria.bsky.social · 6d

With the gerrymandering by Republicans and the destruction of the Voting Rights Act, the midterm elections might have an angry populace vote 2/3 Democratic and we end up with 2/3 of the House going to Republicans.

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Myria @myria.bsky.social · 6d

I had a half-asleep stupid idea tonight: WiFi SFP modules!

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Myria @myria.bsky.social · 7d

Big, big Slungus, big Slungus

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Bat 🦇 Borus @matthewborus.bsky.social · 8d

A friend in DC got hit in the latest round of illegal layoffs at HHS, after close to a decade of public service.

A friend in Chicago is walking their kid's classmate to school, because that kid's parent doesn't feel safe doing so.

It doesn't have to be this way.

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Myria @myria.bsky.social · 8d

Meowoof

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Myria @myria.bsky.social · 10d

💜! Kitties~
My cat is named Mango, too. Doesn’t look like that, though, hehe

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Myria @myria.bsky.social · 13d

What I worry is that the Republicans in Congress drag this out knowing that there is nothing useful in the files, making Democrats waste much effort and political capital.

I’m hoping for Occam’s Razor to apply and there actually is something.

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Myria @myria.bsky.social · 16d

If we somehow pull out of this fascism death spiral before it’s in full force, there’ll likely be a book someone writes called “How Close We Came”.

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Myria @myria.bsky.social · 16d

I hope that it’s Dodgers vs. Blue Jays so that either way, MAGA loses.

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Myria @myria.bsky.social · 18d

I didn’t think I’d like the game when I tried it…. 140 game-hours later I beat 3

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Myria @myria.bsky.social · 18d

I think of this sort of thing a lot, too. It’s kind of like asking whether the googolplexth prime number exists. Math says it exists, but does it really if it’s never computed?

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Myria @myria.bsky.social · 18d

We really ought to call the country Kartvelia. It’s Sakartvelo in Georgian, with “sa” apparently meaning “the area where”.

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