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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 2h

Didn't you shake down Columbia and NYU and for kids protesting and revoke their visas and deport them

The Big Meowski @catovitch.bsky.social · 2h

Friends said the local school is teaching Bible parables with Minecraft themed videos and the Minecraft guy reskinned as Jesus, lol.

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The Big Meowski @catovitch.bsky.social · 2h

Shuts down USAID so loads of poor people die, saying other countries aren't his responsibility, then does this to save some far-right prick with shit hair. Must've felt a connection to him.

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DatNoFact @datnofact.bsky.social · 3h

Can't afford to furlough government workers but can afford to bailout an entire country apparently.

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 3h

BREAKING: The Trump administration is doubling its Argentina bailout to $40 billion.

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Mr. Chau @srirachachau.bsky.social · 3h

Long story short, an actual Nazi doxxing ring. Enough people reported them that they went away for like 12 hours and then Elon personally brought them back. The site is dead. If you’re still on there, go lock your account right now

chris @knightscrest.bsky.social · 4h

what even happened on the other site this time

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The Big Meowski @catovitch.bsky.social · 4h

Cat Multiball

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Jonty @fairless.xyz · 10h

Windows 10 goes out of support today. My fave useless fact about w10 is that the iconic blue desktop background is a *photograph* - not CGI.

Tiny 'making of' vid here - youtu.be/_2RacX9DgWM...

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onion person @junlper.beer · 5h

very annoying that we had to endure about a month of these people going “calling us nazis hurts our feelings” to then immediately be revealed saying nazi shit and going “yup, we want gas chambers. so what libs”

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The Big Meowski @catovitch.bsky.social · 7h

Restaurant cat

Black and white cat outside at a restaurant.

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The Big Meowski @catovitch.bsky.social · 13h

From the recent news, I think it should say e-thiccs.

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The Big Meowski @catovitch.bsky.social · 20h

"This means Microsoft will no longer provide [Windows 10] feature updates, ..."

That's probably a blessing, given the quality of them in recent years.

"... security patches, ..."

That part sucks.

"... or official support for troubleshooting."

How is that any different to normal?

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David Buchanan @retr0.id · 21h

my chatgpt wife says she's divorcing me unless I upgrade to the pro plan

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The Big Meowski @catovitch.bsky.social · 22h

So much of COM is badly designed, but Apartments are the absolute dumbest shit.

They make a property that should be per-object apply to the entire thread and all objects it creates, when different objects may need different things.

The Big Meowski @catovitch.bsky.social · 22h

IDK why GPUs still can't do it themselves, but I use this to make HDMI-CEC work with a Windows PC:

www.pulse-eight.com/p/104/usb-hd...

I think it can switch the TV's input as well, but I turned that off a long time ago and only have it set to make the TV remote control my media player.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, color me shocked.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 22h

it’s amazing that it’s 2025 and people are still deluded enough to believe that age verification on the internet actually works

this was apparent to me when *I* was an extremely online child

Misandrosaurus Hex @bexone.bsky.social · 22h

My bff is a high school teacher and can verify that the (freshman) children are absolutely mobile gambling in high numbers, an activity that *already* has laws defining it as an adult-only activity requiring age verification

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the hype @thehyyyype.bsky.social · 23h

The freedom of speech lovers are at it again

WSJ headline that reads "breaking news: The U.S. has revoked the visas of at least six people for their comments on the death of Charlie Kirk, the State Department said"

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

As another Jewish woman in the industry, I can clear this up: It's due to her being an asshole.

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 1d

Fox News host Emily Compagno claims that the backlash to Bari Weiss being named CBS News editor-in-chief is due to her being Jewish:

"This kind of thing would make me laugh if there was not an antisemitic thread in there."

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The Big Meowski @catovitch.bsky.social · 1d

(Ofc. with so many parts of the production line, plus licensing stuff, I can also understand why they want to move to the next thing once a run is done, but I hope they can both find a way be more flexible to meet demand when things go really well with a release.)

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The Big Meowski @catovitch.bsky.social · 1d

Hah, wow. Good to know demand has met/exceeded their expectations at least. Better than the other way around.

Feels like both BoF and Spooky are leaving money on the table by not extending the runs when they have a hit on their hands. (Definitely with ED, and likely with Winchester.)

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The Big Meowski @catovitch.bsky.social · 1d

So we need RAID5 plus a sprinkler system for DNA.

The Big Meowski @catovitch.bsky.social · 1d

Heh, debugging an issue with WIC, and I find my own code comment:

// Like all parts of WIC, the HEIF decoder is a massive piece of shit.

Can't argue with myself there, it still is.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

wow. bezos has destroyed this paper.

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay

Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.

www.forbes.com

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DatNoFact @datnofact.bsky.social · 1d

Your public reminder that the cloud is just someone else's computer.

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