Paul Visscher
@paulv.canonical.org
I am large, I contain multitudes.
Sysadmin for the Software Freedom Conservancy. Feminist.
He/him.
Sysadmin for the Software Freedom Conservancy. Feminist.
He/him.
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Even if you *could* "fix" the nazi platform — WHY WOULD YOU BUILD ECONOMIC VALUE FOR A WHITE SUPREMACIST. I swear people are goddamn fools. "Tell your progressive friends to go buy a Tesla so that other Tesla drivers might like us better?" Money is power. Don't give Musk power. Read a goddamn book.
You can’t “fix” X, The Everything App by going back and posting there because the owner has this thumb on the scale of the algorithm to promote the worst ideas and people. It’s not a viable solution, you have to let it go.
Dear Bluesky liberals. Come back to Twitter. Please. PLEASE.
December 15, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Even if you *could* "fix" the nazi platform — WHY WOULD YOU BUILD ECONOMIC VALUE FOR A WHITE SUPREMACIST. I swear people are goddamn fools. "Tell your progressive friends to go buy a Tesla so that other Tesla drivers might like us better?" Money is power. Don't give Musk power. Read a goddamn book.
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Jay, you all owe an explanation of how it came to be that the exact list of users blamed by The Federalist were banned even if they did not break the ToS, and were not unsuspended until more than a day later.
September 13, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Jay, you all owe an explanation of how it came to be that the exact list of users blamed by The Federalist were banned even if they did not break the ToS, and were not unsuspended until more than a day later.
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Just saw someone refer to Cheryl Hines as The Marvelous Mrs. Measles and 💀💀💀💀💀💀
August 30, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Just saw someone refer to Cheryl Hines as The Marvelous Mrs. Measles and 💀💀💀💀💀💀
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There is a consistent pattern where people who are quite negative on the technology on many fronts find that adopting any position that is not uniformly negative provokes hostility that seems somewhat unwarranted, and I think this is not good.
August 23, 2025 at 8:21 PM
There is a consistent pattern where people who are quite negative on the technology on many fronts find that adopting any position that is not uniformly negative provokes hostility that seems somewhat unwarranted, and I think this is not good.
It sucks that social media has ruined the possibility of honest discourse. Any discussions of eg LLMs immediately turns in to "I am right. You are an AI dudebro. Be gone." rather than trying to engage in a conversation. And I understand why it is this way, it is a totally understandable reaction...
August 23, 2025 at 8:29 PM
It sucks that social media has ruined the possibility of honest discourse. Any discussions of eg LLMs immediately turns in to "I am right. You are an AI dudebro. Be gone." rather than trying to engage in a conversation. And I understand why it is this way, it is a totally understandable reaction...
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This should be obvious, but I’m going to say it anyway because the internet has a way of making obvious things less obvious:
You cannot substantively care about every worthy cause out there.
If your response is “Maybe YOU can’t, but I can!” you are confusing feeling with actually caring.
You cannot substantively care about every worthy cause out there.
If your response is “Maybe YOU can’t, but I can!” you are confusing feeling with actually caring.
August 13, 2025 at 3:30 PM
This should be obvious, but I’m going to say it anyway because the internet has a way of making obvious things less obvious:
You cannot substantively care about every worthy cause out there.
If your response is “Maybe YOU can’t, but I can!” you are confusing feeling with actually caring.
You cannot substantively care about every worthy cause out there.
If your response is “Maybe YOU can’t, but I can!” you are confusing feeling with actually caring.
Some people want comedians to run for office b/c they are unapologetic about being leftists (/left-ish). Everything is awful and at least they are not afraid to say it.
People are desperate for a party that is not full of mealy mouthed losers that trip all over themselves running to the right.
People are desperate for a party that is not full of mealy mouthed losers that trip all over themselves running to the right.
August 13, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Some people want comedians to run for office b/c they are unapologetic about being leftists (/left-ish). Everything is awful and at least they are not afraid to say it.
People are desperate for a party that is not full of mealy mouthed losers that trip all over themselves running to the right.
People are desperate for a party that is not full of mealy mouthed losers that trip all over themselves running to the right.
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Assistant: Sir, Mamdani just got a huge new endorsement.
Cuomo: Destroy whomever it is.
Assistant: I don’t think we can fuck with them.
Cuomo: I don’t care who they are, I will fuck with whomever I want.
Assistant: But sir…
Cuomo: Destroy whomever it is.
Assistant: I don’t think we can fuck with them.
Cuomo: I don’t care who they are, I will fuck with whomever I want.
Assistant: But sir…
July 25, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Assistant: Sir, Mamdani just got a huge new endorsement.
Cuomo: Destroy whomever it is.
Assistant: I don’t think we can fuck with them.
Cuomo: I don’t care who they are, I will fuck with whomever I want.
Assistant: But sir…
Cuomo: Destroy whomever it is.
Assistant: I don’t think we can fuck with them.
Cuomo: I don’t care who they are, I will fuck with whomever I want.
Assistant: But sir…
I understand the logic behind not platforming Nazis, fascists, transphobes, etc.
But I have to say. I don't think it's working.
But I have to say. I don't think it's working.
July 21, 2025 at 12:59 AM
I understand the logic behind not platforming Nazis, fascists, transphobes, etc.
But I have to say. I don't think it's working.
But I have to say. I don't think it's working.
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One of my coworkers refers to Open Source as “the most incredible thing humanity has ever accomplished.” When he says that, he’s not making a socioeconomic or political statement, nor is he ignoring technical shortcomings. Rather, he is making an observation about how millions of people have […]
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July 10, 2025 at 11:58 PM
One of my coworkers refers to Open Source as “the most incredible thing humanity has ever accomplished.” When he says that, he’s not making a socioeconomic or political statement, nor is he ignoring technical shortcomings. Rather, he is making an observation about how millions of people have […]
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down with Whatever eev.ee/blog/2025/07...
The rise of Whatever
This was originally titled “I miss when computers were fun”. But in the course of writing it, I discovered that there is a reason computers became less fun, a dark thread woven through a number of eve...
eev.ee
July 4, 2025 at 1:46 AM
down with Whatever eev.ee/blog/2025/07...
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I see the Washington Post is platforming an op-ed by Krisi Noem, because apparently they're still pissed they missed their opportunity to publish Goebbels in the original German.
June 23, 2025 at 2:34 PM
I see the Washington Post is platforming an op-ed by Krisi Noem, because apparently they're still pissed they missed their opportunity to publish Goebbels in the original German.
It's illegal for the president to bomb Iran.
It's. is. ill. egal.
Not legally allowed to. What's more, he has to ask Congress!! Have you ever heard of a little thing called the Constitution?
If we say it enough it will make a difference so just. please. try to say it as much as you can.
It's. is. ill. egal.
Not legally allowed to. What's more, he has to ask Congress!! Have you ever heard of a little thing called the Constitution?
If we say it enough it will make a difference so just. please. try to say it as much as you can.
June 22, 2025 at 7:09 AM
It's illegal for the president to bomb Iran.
It's. is. ill. egal.
Not legally allowed to. What's more, he has to ask Congress!! Have you ever heard of a little thing called the Constitution?
If we say it enough it will make a difference so just. please. try to say it as much as you can.
It's. is. ill. egal.
Not legally allowed to. What's more, he has to ask Congress!! Have you ever heard of a little thing called the Constitution?
If we say it enough it will make a difference so just. please. try to say it as much as you can.
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graffiti is the first step to realizing a city is a place of people, not property
People on /r/SF are losing their minds because someone graffitied a chase bank branch during the protests. Those people need to grow up
June 10, 2025 at 5:06 AM
graffiti is the first step to realizing a city is a place of people, not property
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the techie teen boy that frequents the store every summer asked if he could download our point of sale program and put it on internet archive. king if i wasn't so certain i would get in trouble for letting you stick a random thinbdrive into a store computer i would let you do anything you want
June 8, 2025 at 10:38 PM
the techie teen boy that frequents the store every summer asked if he could download our point of sale program and put it on internet archive. king if i wasn't so certain i would get in trouble for letting you stick a random thinbdrive into a store computer i would let you do anything you want
I ain't pass the bar, but I know a little bit, enough that you won't illegally search my shi...[touches earpiece]...convince me to launder money...?
May 30, 2025 at 6:59 AM
I ain't pass the bar, but I know a little bit, enough that you won't illegally search my shi...[touches earpiece]...convince me to launder money...?
Hey, is everything getting a lot worse really quickly lately (in the last 2 weeks) or is it because I did the stupid thing and start reading bsky again, after a few weeks of better self control?
April 8, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Hey, is everything getting a lot worse really quickly lately (in the last 2 weeks) or is it because I did the stupid thing and start reading bsky again, after a few weeks of better self control?
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Depression is a protective urge; a chemical drive to return you to the safety of your innermost den to wait for a storm to pass, a bone to knit, a wound to heal. Civilization provides eternal psychic wounds from which there is no relief to be found in retreat, a storm which will never blow away.
February 22, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Depression is a protective urge; a chemical drive to return you to the safety of your innermost den to wait for a storm to pass, a bone to knit, a wound to heal. Civilization provides eternal psychic wounds from which there is no relief to be found in retreat, a storm which will never blow away.
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Every day is chaos. Every fucking day.
February 13, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Every day is chaos. Every fucking day.
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if youre a huge dumb racist youre like theyll dilute my culture but your dumbass ~~culture~~ is spending all its energy trying to delete pronoun words from email signuatures so sorry buddy you are an idiot and your culture is primarily useless garbage and the good parts are mostly from diasporas
January 31, 2025 at 8:38 PM
if youre a huge dumb racist youre like theyll dilute my culture but your dumbass ~~culture~~ is spending all its energy trying to delete pronoun words from email signuatures so sorry buddy you are an idiot and your culture is primarily useless garbage and the good parts are mostly from diasporas
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If Russia wants to exploit US infrastructure, they should start a campaign that memory safe languages are a DEI initiative.
January 31, 2025 at 12:24 AM
If Russia wants to exploit US infrastructure, they should start a campaign that memory safe languages are a DEI initiative.
The latest update to the bluesky app on Android makes scrolling feel absolutely awful. It is almost unusable. @support.bsky.team
January 20, 2025 at 11:48 PM
The latest update to the bluesky app on Android makes scrolling feel absolutely awful. It is almost unusable. @support.bsky.team
Today is the last day of the fundraiser at work and we're short of our match by ~$23,000.
It's so frustrating to see these software companies, who built their businesses in the backs of free software, throw millions at the inauguration just to kiss the ring.
It's so frustrating to see these software companies, who built their businesses in the backs of free software, throw millions at the inauguration just to kiss the ring.
January 15, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Today is the last day of the fundraiser at work and we're short of our match by ~$23,000.
It's so frustrating to see these software companies, who built their businesses in the backs of free software, throw millions at the inauguration just to kiss the ring.
It's so frustrating to see these software companies, who built their businesses in the backs of free software, throw millions at the inauguration just to kiss the ring.