Fyrd
@alexis.deveria.com
Since it's Giving Tuesday, today's a great day to make use of company donation matching to charities!
There's a lot of great causes out there that need your money now more than ever. Given how dire things are out there I've just used up my entire annual allotment for the first time.
There's a lot of great causes out there that need your money now more than ever. Given how dire things are out there I've just used up my entire annual allotment for the first time.
December 3, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Since it's Giving Tuesday, today's a great day to make use of company donation matching to charities!
There's a lot of great causes out there that need your money now more than ever. Given how dire things are out there I've just used up my entire annual allotment for the first time.
There's a lot of great causes out there that need your money now more than ever. Given how dire things are out there I've just used up my entire annual allotment for the first time.
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Saw "Annie" on stage for the first time last night. Great performance but uh...
A billionaire with the federal government in his pocket who's interested in adopting a young girl because he's lonely hits differently in 2025.
A billionaire with the federal government in his pocket who's interested in adopting a young girl because he's lonely hits differently in 2025.
November 23, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Saw "Annie" on stage for the first time last night. Great performance but uh...
A billionaire with the federal government in his pocket who's interested in adopting a young girl because he's lonely hits differently in 2025.
A billionaire with the federal government in his pocket who's interested in adopting a young girl because he's lonely hits differently in 2025.
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Inside you there are two woffs.
Ignore the first woff. You just need the woff2.
Ignore the first woff. You just need the woff2.
November 6, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Inside you there are two woffs.
Ignore the first woff. You just need the woff2.
Ignore the first woff. You just need the woff2.
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WHEN THERE’S TREASURE BEHIND THE WATERFALL: Oh wow. Yes, very clever! Waterfall treasure! No one’s ever done that before. Lazy jackass
WHEN THERE’S NO TREASURE BEHIND THE WATERFALL: Wow. Too stuck-up to put treasure there huh? Too much of a fucking ICONOCLAST for that? Piece of shit. FUCK you
WHEN THERE’S NO TREASURE BEHIND THE WATERFALL: Wow. Too stuck-up to put treasure there huh? Too much of a fucking ICONOCLAST for that? Piece of shit. FUCK you
October 15, 2025 at 1:04 AM
WHEN THERE’S TREASURE BEHIND THE WATERFALL: Oh wow. Yes, very clever! Waterfall treasure! No one’s ever done that before. Lazy jackass
WHEN THERE’S NO TREASURE BEHIND THE WATERFALL: Wow. Too stuck-up to put treasure there huh? Too much of a fucking ICONOCLAST for that? Piece of shit. FUCK you
WHEN THERE’S NO TREASURE BEHIND THE WATERFALL: Wow. Too stuck-up to put treasure there huh? Too much of a fucking ICONOCLAST for that? Piece of shit. FUCK you
New Can I Use update! Support tables from web-features are now included on the site and there's new feature list UI with improved filtering/sorting of results.
More at caniuse.com/ciu/news
More at caniuse.com/ciu/news
Can I use... Support tables for HTML5, CSS3, etc
caniuse.com
October 13, 2025 at 4:00 PM
New Can I Use update! Support tables from web-features are now included on the site and there's new feature list UI with improved filtering/sorting of results.
More at caniuse.com/ciu/news
More at caniuse.com/ciu/news
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Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91
October 1, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91
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Periodic reminder that you can usually buy a copy of the funny books you see in memes, and not spend a lot in doing so.
September 27, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Periodic reminder that you can usually buy a copy of the funny books you see in memes, and not spend a lot in doing so.
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The most accurate recreation of DS9 I've seen.
September 26, 2025 at 1:15 PM
The most accurate recreation of DS9 I've seen.
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If you have an extra $10 a month to spare, here's a list of worker-owned cooperative news sites you might want to support:
• 404 Media
• Defector
• The Flytrap
• Flaming Hydra
• The Appeal
• Aftermath
• Racket
• Hell Gate
• The 51st
• The Colorado Sun
• Range Media
• Discourse Blog
• Pop Heist
• 404 Media
• Defector
• The Flytrap
• Flaming Hydra
• The Appeal
• Aftermath
• Racket
• Hell Gate
• The 51st
• The Colorado Sun
• Range Media
• Discourse Blog
• Pop Heist
September 19, 2025 at 2:00 PM
If you have an extra $10 a month to spare, here's a list of worker-owned cooperative news sites you might want to support:
• 404 Media
• Defector
• The Flytrap
• Flaming Hydra
• The Appeal
• Aftermath
• Racket
• Hell Gate
• The 51st
• The Colorado Sun
• Range Media
• Discourse Blog
• Pop Heist
• 404 Media
• Defector
• The Flytrap
• Flaming Hydra
• The Appeal
• Aftermath
• Racket
• Hell Gate
• The 51st
• The Colorado Sun
• Range Media
• Discourse Blog
• Pop Heist
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It is fucked up what they did to the headphone jack
i don't want to hear your most boomer complaint. what's your most millennial complaint?
September 20, 2025 at 12:24 AM
It is fucked up what they did to the headphone jack
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hi, cis folks!
if you said you’d stand with trans people, we need you now.
the FY26 budget bill gets a vote by 9/30. the GOP wants to jam a ban on federal funding for ALL health services that provide trans care for ANY AGE.
we need you to call senators: reps.fyi
more info & script downthread.🧵
if you said you’d stand with trans people, we need you now.
the FY26 budget bill gets a vote by 9/30. the GOP wants to jam a ban on federal funding for ALL health services that provide trans care for ANY AGE.
we need you to call senators: reps.fyi
more info & script downthread.🧵
NEWS: House Appropriations Committee Republicans released their spending bill for Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies. The legislation would prohibit taxpayer dollars for any type of gender-affirming care for transgender people. This would include programs like Medicaid
September 9, 2025 at 3:14 PM
hi, cis folks!
if you said you’d stand with trans people, we need you now.
the FY26 budget bill gets a vote by 9/30. the GOP wants to jam a ban on federal funding for ALL health services that provide trans care for ANY AGE.
we need you to call senators: reps.fyi
more info & script downthread.🧵
if you said you’d stand with trans people, we need you now.
the FY26 budget bill gets a vote by 9/30. the GOP wants to jam a ban on federal funding for ALL health services that provide trans care for ANY AGE.
we need you to call senators: reps.fyi
more info & script downthread.🧵
Today I got to see Weird Al AND I also saw this really cute bunny in my yard munching on a plum so all in all a pretty excellent day, I gotta say.
August 23, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Today I got to see Weird Al AND I also saw this really cute bunny in my yard munching on a plum so all in all a pretty excellent day, I gotta say.
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Stop offloading cognitive tasks to "generative AI." Stop using systems w/ "AI" features either inextricably woven through them or prominently displayed at the top to nudge you into their use. Stop *Designing* "AI" tools & integrations that way. Stop building or using "AI" like this. Fucking Stop it.
AI Eroded Doctors’ Ability to Spot Cancer Within Months in Study
Artificial intelligence, touted for its potential to transform medicine, led to some doctors losing skills after just a few months in a new study.
www.bloomberg.com
August 15, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Stop offloading cognitive tasks to "generative AI." Stop using systems w/ "AI" features either inextricably woven through them or prominently displayed at the top to nudge you into their use. Stop *Designing* "AI" tools & integrations that way. Stop building or using "AI" like this. Fucking Stop it.
New scam detected: Just got an email from PayPal with this as the headline and main content.
I was thrown off by the authenticity of the sender but then I realized what's going on: The whole damn thing is just a "name" and this is just some developer invitation email!
I was thrown off by the authenticity of the sender but then I realized what's going on: The whole damn thing is just a "name" and this is just some developer invitation email!
August 14, 2025 at 8:27 PM
New scam detected: Just got an email from PayPal with this as the headline and main content.
I was thrown off by the authenticity of the sender but then I realized what's going on: The whole damn thing is just a "name" and this is just some developer invitation email!
I was thrown off by the authenticity of the sender but then I realized what's going on: The whole damn thing is just a "name" and this is just some developer invitation email!
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RFK Jr. backs down all the time when he gets push back, so if anyone wants to call, here's the HHS number 1-877-696-6775.
I'd also call your senators/reps as well.
I'd also call your senators/reps as well.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announces he will cancel $500 million in vaccine development projects.
August 5, 2025 at 11:00 PM
RFK Jr. backs down all the time when he gets push back, so if anyone wants to call, here's the HHS number 1-877-696-6775.
I'd also call your senators/reps as well.
I'd also call your senators/reps as well.
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Newsletter: In a media landscape dominated by algorithmic feeds that aim to manipulate and extract, sometimes the most radical thing you can do is choose to read what you want, when you want, without anyone watching over your shoulder.
Here’s how to use RSS.
www.citationneeded.news/curate-with-...
Here’s how to use RSS.
www.citationneeded.news/curate-with-...
Curate your own newspaper with RSS
Escape newsletter inbox chaos and algorithmic surveillance by building your own enshittification-proof newspaper from the writers you already read
www.citationneeded.news
July 31, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Newsletter: In a media landscape dominated by algorithmic feeds that aim to manipulate and extract, sometimes the most radical thing you can do is choose to read what you want, when you want, without anyone watching over your shoulder.
Here’s how to use RSS.
www.citationneeded.news/curate-with-...
Here’s how to use RSS.
www.citationneeded.news/curate-with-...
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Motherfucking wind farms…
July 30, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Motherfucking wind farms…
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Most of the internet used to be like this. This is actually the default, it took companies enclosing the internet and adding weird, soul-killing incentives to make people behave the way they do now. In a way, there is truly nothing special about Wikipedia except that it survived longer.
“Wikipedia is this economic anomaly. In many ways, it’s sort of magical that people will just volunteer without explicit economic incentives to create artifacts that are meant to share knowledge with everyone in the world”
July 26, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Most of the internet used to be like this. This is actually the default, it took companies enclosing the internet and adding weird, soul-killing incentives to make people behave the way they do now. In a way, there is truly nothing special about Wikipedia except that it survived longer.
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Wanna help the CSSWG decide on some names? Check out github.com/w3c/csswg-dr... and follow the links to the two naming polls.
See the top post for the context - this is about the "Interest Invoker API" open-ui.org/components/i...
See the top post for the context - this is about the "Interest Invoker API" open-ui.org/components/i...
July 25, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Wanna help the CSSWG decide on some names? Check out github.com/w3c/csswg-dr... and follow the links to the two naming polls.
See the top post for the context - this is about the "Interest Invoker API" open-ui.org/components/i...
See the top post for the context - this is about the "Interest Invoker API" open-ui.org/components/i...
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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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The singularity is awesome
June 28, 2025 at 5:19 PM
The singularity is awesome
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Cis friends in the US, please consider calling your senators. This amendment would strip health care coverage for so many trans people.
NEW from Me: Democrats are planning to challenge the "One Big, Beautiful Bill's" ban on Medicaid being used for gender-affirming care using the Byrd rule. This comes as Republicans continue to ramp up anti-trans legislation
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Democrats wrestle whether to kill ban on trans care in Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’
Democrats have an opportunity to protect transgender people’s health care. It also comes at a time when Republicans see anti-trans policies as a winning issue, Eric Garcia writes
www.independent.co.uk
June 20, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Cis friends in the US, please consider calling your senators. This amendment would strip health care coverage for so many trans people.