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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I just want everyone to step back and realize how often it's a trans woman getting bullied off social media.
January 5, 2026 at 9:06 PM
I just want everyone to step back and realize how often it's a trans woman getting bullied off social media.
The Schwarze Null in action.
Public transit is bad in small towns and the negative effects of this public underinvestment ripple out to cause harm in many directions. Naturally this leads people to conclude they must vote for neoliberal xenophobes that hates all forms of public transit. How is this intellectual insight?
January 5, 2026 at 3:37 PM
The Schwarze Null in action.
Be mindful of the shitposters you enjoyed pre-2021. They may now have a bad case of the AI brainworms.
January 5, 2026 at 1:52 AM
Be mindful of the shitposters you enjoyed pre-2021. They may now have a bad case of the AI brainworms.
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In seriousness, the War on Terror is built on the foundation of the War on Drugs, and what we’re seeing with Trump is the extension of the logic governing both.
January 3, 2026 at 10:57 AM
In seriousness, the War on Terror is built on the foundation of the War on Drugs, and what we’re seeing with Trump is the extension of the logic governing both.
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This is very, very good, and I'm not just saying that because @billiejsweeney.bsky.social writes and helps out with editing for Assigned.
In this in-depth interview Billie Jean Sweeney — a former editor at The New York Times — details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, why this was directed from the very top, how some staff pushed back and the immense damage done by the NYT legitimizing bigotry.
'A directive from above': Former NYT editor lays out how the paper pushes anti-trans bigotry
In this in-depth interview, former New York Times editor Billie Jean Sweeney details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, how some staff tried to stop it, how it's directe...
transnews.network
January 1, 2026 at 9:11 PM
This is very, very good, and I'm not just saying that because @billiejsweeney.bsky.social writes and helps out with editing for Assigned.
Fuck Fireworks, it's 2:00 in the fucking morning
January 1, 2026 at 1:21 AM
Fuck Fireworks, it's 2:00 in the fucking morning
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Daycare centers were also the primary target of the Satanic panic, because fundamentally American religious conservatism is opposed to women having jobs outside the home.
Trump guys are about to Comet Pizza every third daycare center because they think they are all fronts for Somali money laundering. They're only doing this near cities with progressive mayors. This is straight up Government by LibsOfTikTok.
December 30, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Daycare centers were also the primary target of the Satanic panic, because fundamentally American religious conservatism is opposed to women having jobs outside the home.
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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.
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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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