Bad programmer, aspiring Perl fisher.
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Trying to be queer, but mostly gay
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Trying to be queer, but mostly gay
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The thing about Jon Stewart is that he never outgrew his desire to appear to be the smartest person in the room despite the fact that in his absence the world completely outgrew his completely status quo aligned perspective
December 29, 2025 at 10:43 PM
The thing about Jon Stewart is that he never outgrew his desire to appear to be the smartest person in the room despite the fact that in his absence the world completely outgrew his completely status quo aligned perspective
Keeping the E27 form factor was a mistake.
December 29, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Keeping the E27 form factor was a mistake.
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Jon Stewart and the pod saves guys mocking people who wear masks while talking about What Is To Be Done is exactly what Jon Stewart and the pod saves guys are, it's the most Jon Stewart and pod saves guys thing possible.
December 28, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Jon Stewart and the pod saves guys mocking people who wear masks while talking about What Is To Be Done is exactly what Jon Stewart and the pod saves guys are, it's the most Jon Stewart and pod saves guys thing possible.
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Replacing junior coders with AI is a deliberate decision to rack up technical debt: bug-ridden, sprawling code bases that are impossible to understand or maintain.
It'a a decision that ensures you won't have any senior coders in 6 years when you need people to fix it. It's eating your seed corn.
It'a a decision that ensures you won't have any senior coders in 6 years when you need people to fix it. It's eating your seed corn.
December 28, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Replacing junior coders with AI is a deliberate decision to rack up technical debt: bug-ridden, sprawling code bases that are impossible to understand or maintain.
It'a a decision that ensures you won't have any senior coders in 6 years when you need people to fix it. It's eating your seed corn.
It'a a decision that ensures you won't have any senior coders in 6 years when you need people to fix it. It's eating your seed corn.
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When Waters talks about the primary reason he went into the 'mainstream' in the mid/late 80s being that, not simply his original cast and crew, but his original audience almost entirely dying from AIDS and/or hard drugs around then, this is who he was talking about. This was his original audience
modesty laws prevented showing even one lousy frame of John Waters' PINK FLAMINGOS (1972) in the trailer, so the only footage in it is of people reacting to a screening they just came out of. every single type of extant queer person is contained in the specific sequences I have selected here
December 28, 2025 at 11:02 PM
When Waters talks about the primary reason he went into the 'mainstream' in the mid/late 80s being that, not simply his original cast and crew, but his original audience almost entirely dying from AIDS and/or hard drugs around then, this is who he was talking about. This was his original audience
How long will it take until policework becomes a hereditary office in the US?
Ordinary regular poor people trying to live their lives and raise their children: Can we get a $25k loan from the city to use as a down payment on a home in a nice neighborhood?
Governments: Absolutely not
Cops making about $75k/yr base: Can we
Governments: YES AND YOUR LOAN IS FULLY FORGIVABLE
Governments: Absolutely not
Cops making about $75k/yr base: Can we
Governments: YES AND YOUR LOAN IS FULLY FORGIVABLE
December 27, 2025 at 5:06 PM
How long will it take until policework becomes a hereditary office in the US?
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Speaks to something deeply wrong with capitalism that Lampert was allowed to annihilate the value of this company to less than nothing while still walking away with hundreds of millions in profits for himself from the saga.
Sears had more than 3,400 stores in 2005 -- then it was purchased by a hedge fund magnate.
Why Sears’s Last Great Hope Was a Promise That Never Materialized
www.nytimes.com
December 26, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Speaks to something deeply wrong with capitalism that Lampert was allowed to annihilate the value of this company to less than nothing while still walking away with hundreds of millions in profits for himself from the saga.
Cries in QA.
Can't wait for the loosened up, non-perfect, but quickly shipped AI-enhanced updates to hit my banking and insurance services next year.
Im sure there will be no issues there at all.
Im sure there will be no issues there at all.
December 26, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Cries in QA.
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Yup. It's the chattering class driving it, always has been. IMO it's not even the American religious right to blame, sadly. It's a home-grown product of a very British self-image of cleverness and propriety indignant at those vulgar prole kids demanding they "respect pronouns," how very dare they?!
the biggest lie the british press tell about trans ppl isn't actually about trans ppl.
it's their claim that 'gender critical' is a grass roots movement.
it's a ruling class bigotry sparked and spurred on by the american religious right. it's a media and political class bigotry.
it's their claim that 'gender critical' is a grass roots movement.
it's a ruling class bigotry sparked and spurred on by the american religious right. it's a media and political class bigotry.
December 23, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Yup. It's the chattering class driving it, always has been. IMO it's not even the American religious right to blame, sadly. It's a home-grown product of a very British self-image of cleverness and propriety indignant at those vulgar prole kids demanding they "respect pronouns," how very dare they?!
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How the nyt used the Cass report to restart its anti-trans propaganda campaign in the US:
Coverage of the report was initially assigned to a nyt UK correspondent, usual practice for a UK report. The story being prepared cited critics who called Cass a shoddy, political document that defied science
Coverage of the report was initially assigned to a nyt UK correspondent, usual practice for a UK report. The story being prepared cited critics who called Cass a shoddy, political document that defied science
One reason the NYT has burned its credibility with trans people is that they still cite the discredited Cass report in reporting on trans healthcare. Never the German, Utah, or other systematic reviews supporting care. They also never provide the political context behind restrictions in care.
December 20, 2025 at 10:23 AM
How the nyt used the Cass report to restart its anti-trans propaganda campaign in the US:
Coverage of the report was initially assigned to a nyt UK correspondent, usual practice for a UK report. The story being prepared cited critics who called Cass a shoddy, political document that defied science
Coverage of the report was initially assigned to a nyt UK correspondent, usual practice for a UK report. The story being prepared cited critics who called Cass a shoddy, political document that defied science
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This is indistinguishable from a post by The Onion.
December 19, 2025 at 2:25 PM
This is indistinguishable from a post by The Onion.
Did the video-podcast kill the video-essay star?
i have said this before but if you are actually interested in influencing people beyond a narrow circle of too-online journalists you will be making direct to camera videos on tiktok, instagram and youtube. if you primarily post on text-based social media then you're just dicking around.
December 15, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Did the video-podcast kill the video-essay star?
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If you find yourself in a situation where cats need to be herded I will trade my xp for money and come with the whole adjacent skillset
PSA: I am looking for work. I'm a community & event organizer with a ton of experience in volunteer organizing, communications, and building organizational infrastructure. I moonlight as a freelance journalist about Christian Nationalism, and have spent almost 20yrs building WordPress websites. HMU
October 23, 2025 at 12:52 PM
If you find yourself in a situation where cats need to be herded I will trade my xp for money and come with the whole adjacent skillset
Pancreatic cancer is just such a bad way to go. I wouldn't wish it on anybody.
A tiny trial in New York has shown that personalized mRNA vaccines can provoke massive, lasting immune responses against pancreatic cancer, even as sweeping federal cuts now threaten the fragile labs required to produce them.
theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/a-breakthr...
theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/a-breakthr...
December 12, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Pancreatic cancer is just such a bad way to go. I wouldn't wish it on anybody.
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it's fewer. also bite me
December 8, 2025 at 5:00 PM
it's fewer. also bite me
Solidarity amd shame. Shame for every single European.
“Seán had traveled to Lesvos as a volunteer, joining a local search-and-rescue NGO to patrol the coastline for small boats in distress and provide first aid to those crossing from Turkey to Greece.”
Solidarity with Seán Binder and others who risk their freedom to save people from drowning at sea.
Solidarity with Seán Binder and others who risk their freedom to save people from drowning at sea.
Humanity on trial: the case of search-and-rescue volunteer Seán Binder
On 4 December 2025, Seán Binder will stand trial in Greece, for his work as a volunteer rescuer helping people at risk of drowning at sea.
www.amnesty.org
December 7, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Solidarity amd shame. Shame for every single European.
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you’re never going to believe this. the woke left’s depraved war on christmas is escalating. sources tell me they’re planning to make the yuletide gay
December 6, 2025 at 7:50 PM
you’re never going to believe this. the woke left’s depraved war on christmas is escalating. sources tell me they’re planning to make the yuletide gay
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has anyone else noticed that food tasted better in the past? it was mushy and easy to eat. and the spoon would come at you like an airplane
December 5, 2025 at 9:38 PM
has anyone else noticed that food tasted better in the past? it was mushy and easy to eat. and the spoon would come at you like an airplane
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I think Transactual put it best (in reference to the girl guides) and now Labour too:
"There is no problem being solved here, only harm being done."
All to appease the right, who hate them anyway - shame on them.
"There is no problem being solved here, only harm being done."
All to appease the right, who hate them anyway - shame on them.
December 6, 2025 at 1:25 PM
I think Transactual put it best (in reference to the girl guides) and now Labour too:
"There is no problem being solved here, only harm being done."
All to appease the right, who hate them anyway - shame on them.
"There is no problem being solved here, only harm being done."
All to appease the right, who hate them anyway - shame on them.
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Computers were a skill. They were taught in classrooms as a skill. Skills give you power over your tools because you work them as an expert and that is leverage to multiply externally.
And then computers became an A/B tested telemetry-based advertising conduit to brains for SaaS recurring revenue.
And then computers became an A/B tested telemetry-based advertising conduit to brains for SaaS recurring revenue.
November 14, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Computers were a skill. They were taught in classrooms as a skill. Skills give you power over your tools because you work them as an expert and that is leverage to multiply externally.
And then computers became an A/B tested telemetry-based advertising conduit to brains for SaaS recurring revenue.
And then computers became an A/B tested telemetry-based advertising conduit to brains for SaaS recurring revenue.
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The 3rd largest comics festival is cancelled for 2026.
2,000 authors, publishers, and unions are boycotting to protest sexism, toxic management, and misuse of public money by the company that runs it.
2023: exhibit sparked #MeTooBD
2024: employee was drugged and SA'd at festival, they fired her!
2,000 authors, publishers, and unions are boycotting to protest sexism, toxic management, and misuse of public money by the company that runs it.
2023: exhibit sparked #MeTooBD
2024: employee was drugged and SA'd at festival, they fired her!
December 5, 2025 at 12:49 PM
The 3rd largest comics festival is cancelled for 2026.
2,000 authors, publishers, and unions are boycotting to protest sexism, toxic management, and misuse of public money by the company that runs it.
2023: exhibit sparked #MeTooBD
2024: employee was drugged and SA'd at festival, they fired her!
2,000 authors, publishers, and unions are boycotting to protest sexism, toxic management, and misuse of public money by the company that runs it.
2023: exhibit sparked #MeTooBD
2024: employee was drugged and SA'd at festival, they fired her!
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Girl Guides of Canada has made a statement, likely in response to the cowardly decisions of Girlguiding UK. 🏳️⚧️
December 4, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Girl Guides of Canada has made a statement, likely in response to the cowardly decisions of Girlguiding UK. 🏳️⚧️
I often wonder if I have any permanent damage from listening to the podcast he cohosted.
Sure, Galloway is better than Peterson
But he still believes the natural order of things requires men to be supreme. Men must protect, provide and procreate. It's dressed in progressive language, but it's fundamentally a patriarchal box to trap men in
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
But he still believes the natural order of things requires men to be supreme. Men must protect, provide and procreate. It's dressed in progressive language, but it's fundamentally a patriarchal box to trap men in
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Scott Galloway on the masculinity crisis: ‘I worry we are evolving a new breed of asexual, asocial males’
When his book Notes on Being a Man was released last month, it raced to the top of the bestseller lists. The US author, tech entrepreneur and podcaster explains his theories on dating, crying – and th...
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 5:45 PM
I often wonder if I have any permanent damage from listening to the podcast he cohosted.